Bible Matters 454 Called to Serve

The preponderance of evidence testimony from the eight New Testament witnesses tells you that when you accept God as King and his promise of eternal life, then you are Called to Serve.  When you are Called to Serve then you are freed from the dead works of the devil, born again in the spirit, with a spirit that is alive following God’s gospel of Love in faith and works. 

James 2:26 – For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Twice, Jesus said that you must be born again.  

John 3:3,5-8 – Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.  The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.

You are born again and Called to Serve only God.  Eighty-seven times in the New Testament Jesus’s words says to follow.  Don’t worry about anyone else, but following the teachings that God sent thru Jesus.  Time after time, Jesus repeated this verse to Peter.  Finally, being fed up and feeling that Jesus was picking on him, Peter said what about this guy as John that was leaning on Jesus.  Jesus said, not to worry about him and you just follow me.   

John 21:20-22 – Then Peter, turning about, seeth the disciple whom Jesus loved following; which also leaned on his breast at supper, and said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee?  Peter seeing him saith to Jesus, Lord, and what shall this man do ?  Jesus saith unto him, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? follow thou me.

When you follow, Jesus you hear his voice.  You know the truth in his word from the mouth of the witnesses.

John 10:27 – My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:

When his followers asked what it took to be saved, Jesus said to serve and follow me!

Luke 18:22 –  Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

Luke 9:23 – And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

Follow the teachings of Christ and Being Called to Serve is not about lip service.  Lip service by saying you believe in God and walk with the devil.  You cannot serve God and money or the things of the devil at the same time.   You honor God with your works of Love.

Matthew 6:24 – No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Luke 16:13 – No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

Mark 7:6-9 – He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.  Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.  And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

My witness to the fifty churches found that they all honor God with their lips with no works of Love. 

Matthew 15:8-9 – This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Called to Serve is about doing works and serving others.  Serving your neighbor in a manner that is pleasing to God.  You know and are happy to do them.  These are the works that are pleasing to God.  These are not the works of religion.

John 13:14-17 – If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.  For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.  Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.  If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

The worship of sin and the continual memory there of and blood sacrifice is finished.  Fear God and turn from your sinful life.

Romans 3:10-19 – As it is written, There is none righteous, no, not one:  There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.  They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.  Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips:  Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: ] Their feet are swift to shed blood:  Destruction and misery are in their ways:  And the way of peace have they not known:  There is no fear of God before their eyes.  Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Matthew 7:26-27 – And every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand:  And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.

All that matters now is your faith and works that are pleasing to God. 

John 19:30 – When Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said, It is finished: and he bowed his head, and gave up the ghost.

1 Peter 3:10-12,15,17 – For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:  Let him eschew evil, and do good; let him seek peace, and ensue it.  For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.  But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear: For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

2 Peter 3:3-4,13-14 – Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.  Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.  Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

Hebrews 13:15 – By him therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to God continually, that is, the fruit of our lips giving thanks to his name.

Being Called to Serve, endure to the end follow God’s gospel of Love and God’s gift of everlasting life will be waiting. 

Matthew 10:22 – And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

Matthew 24:13 – But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Mark 13:13 – And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

John 6:27 – Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed.

John 5:34 – But I receive not testimony from man: but these things I say, that ye might be saved.

May your heart be stabilized by the truth in God’s word and your works of love, pleasing him.  May the world be saved by living God’s gospel of Love brought to the earth through the prophets. 

John 3:17 – For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

To God be the glory in all you do, Amen.