WIJD | Jesus Is Imparting Himself To Others” Sermon

Series: “WIJD” — Sermon #10 “Jesus Is Imparting Himself To Others”

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Pray for hearing … hands on ears … how is your hearing?   Its next Wednesday.  Misunderstanding.

Yucatan:— We don’t understand you.   Named a whole region based on misunderstanding.

We often misunderstand how leadership works in God’s Kingdom.

John Quincy Adams 

“If your actions inspire others to dream more to learn more to do more and become more then you are a leader.”

Jim Wallace (Australian Special Forces)

The real power of effective leadership is maximizing other people’s potential.

Albert Schweitzer 

Every person I know who has been truly happy has learned how to serve others.

Mark 10:32-45. “They were on the road, going up to Jerusalem, and Jesus was walking ahead of them; they were amazed, and those who followed were afraid. He took the twelve aside again …

and began to tell them what was to happen to him, saying, “Look, we are going up to Jerusalem, and the Son of Man will be handed over to the chief priests and the scribes, and they will condemn him to death;

then they will hand him over to the gentiles;  they will mock him and spit upon him and flog him and kill him, and after three days he will rise again.”

“James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came forward to him and said to him, ‘Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask of you.’ And he said to them, ‘What is it you want me to do for you?’

And they said to him, ‘Appoint us to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your glory.’  But Jesus said to them, ‘You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink or be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?’

They replied, ‘We are able.’ Then Jesus said to them, ‘The cup that I drink you will drink, and with the baptism with which I am baptized you will be baptized,  but to sit at my right hand or at my left is not mine to appoint, but it is for those for whom it has been prepared.

When the ten heard this, they began to be angry with James and John. So Jesus called them and said to them, ‘You know that among the gentiles those whom they recognize as their rulers lord it over them, and their great ones are tyrants over them.

But it is not so among you; instead, whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant,  and whoever wishes to be first among you must be slave of all.  For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.’

We are called to REIGN in life.  But our model of leadership is amplified service. Self giving love.

Slave (doulos) :—  one that is in a permanent relation of servitude to another, his will altogether swallowed up in the will of the other.

Martin Luther King Jr “But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s a new definition of greatness.  And this morning, the thing that I like about it: by giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.”

John 13:3-5  “Jesus knew that the Father had given him authority over everything and that he had come from God and would return to God.   … Then he began to wash the disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.”

J Karl Thomas (Leadership)

“I do.  — I do and you watch.  —  We do together.  —  You do I watch.   —  You do.” 

1. I will serve others joyfully.   2. You watch me serve others joyfully. 3. Join me and we will serve others joyfully.

4. You serve others joyfully I’ll watch.   5. You go and serve others joyfully.

First warning sign of drifting towards selfishness.  Your language changes from:  “I Get To.”  To   “I Got To.”

Jesus Is Calling Out His Successors.

Jesus Is Launching His Leadership Team For His Church. 

Jesus Is Securing The Success Of His Eternal Mission.

Jesus Is Imparting Himself To Others.

Selection: He Prayerfully Chose 

Luke 6:12-13 “…and continued all night in prayer to God. And when it was day, He called His disciples to Himself; and from them He chose twelve whom He also named apostles:”

Association:  Devoted His Time 

Mark 3:14 “Then He appointed twelve, that they might be with Him and that He might send them out to preach.”

Consecration: Left The Nets

Mark 1:17-18 “Then Jesus said to them, ‘Follow Me, and I will make you become fishers of men.’ They immediately left their nets and followed Him.”

Demonstration: His Example 

 Luke 11:1 “Now it came to pass, as He was praying in a certain place, when He ceased, that one of His disciples said to Him, “Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.”

Impartation: He Gave Himself 

Luke 9:1 “Then He called His twelve disciples together and gave them power and authority over all demons, and to cure diseases.”

Delegation: He Released Them 

Luke 9:16 “Then He took the five loaves and the two fish, … and gave them to the disciples to set before the multitude.” 

Luke 9:2 “He sent them to preach the kingdom of God and to heal the sick.”

Accountability: He Coaches

Mark 6:30 “Then the apostles gathered to Jesus and told Him all things, both what they had done and what they had taught.” 

Reproduction: His Expectation 

Matthew 28:19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations,…” 

Vs. 45 “For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve and to give his life a ransom for many.”

1 John 4:19 (NLT). “We love each other because he loved us first.”   Have you let Him love you?

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