Servant of the Lord (Christ’s Vision for the Church, Part 4)
“If I then, yourLord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.” John 13.14
Built by ministry
We have mentioned that the Lord Jesus is building His Church as a glorious temple and a holy nation unto the Lord. We’re not talking about buildings or denominations here, but of people, men and women redeemed by Jesus Christ and called together into local fellowships, where they labor to build the Church according to Jesus’ designs and plans.
Ultimate Threat
Ecclesiastes 8.8, 9
8No one has power over the spirit to retain the spirit,
And no one has power in the day of death.
There isno release from that war,
And wickedness will not deliver those who are given to it.
9All this I have seen, and applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.
The Starting-Point for a Disciplined Life
Foundations of a Worldview“And now, Israel, what does the LORDyour God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the LORDyour God with all your heart and with all your soul…” Deuteronomy 10.12
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 [2]
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are […]