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ROMANS 1
1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God
OUR TRUE TITLE
I was once on a Ning group, filled with ministers of the gospel, and they all had titles. Some were called pastor, and some incredibly were called apostles, indeed some were senior and chief apostles, this was totally mind blowing to me and indeed it was so wrong.
We all like titles. It's nice to be given a title, however small it is. It makes us feel important, doesn't it?
If anyone deserved a title in the life of the New testament church it was Paul. He was the apostle to the Gentiles, but the first words to the Roman church, and to the church of Philippi and to his Brother in Christ Titus were these: Paul, a servant [or slave] of God/Jesus Christ.
He had every right to be called an apostle and in many other letters he calls himself an apostle, but he always remembered that he was a servant first and foremost.
If you are a pastor reading this and I know there are many, you are not Pastor... you are a servant.
That goes for all of us, we are first and foremost servants, or to put it into context, we are bond slaves of Christ.
The only title we should be crave and want to be known by, is this
Servant of Jesus Christ
Joseph parker says this
How does Paul describe himself? "A servant of Jesus Christ." Some titles we would take from men, because we are able to prove that they have no right to them; the title is larger than they are; they perish under a weight of ornamental nomenclature; when Paul announces himself as a servant of Jesus Christ, all who have studied his life up to this point, as we have done in this People"s Bible, will say, that is right: truer servant God never had; more willing slave never followed the chariot of the Cross: let Paul be crowned the prince of the servants of Jesus Christ. Paul would have called himself by a name which in English seems to be lower than servant; again and again Paul describes himself as "the slave of Jesus Christ," as who should say, I must always be under the chains of my Lord"s captivity, I disdain any liberty that does not hold me in sweet bondage and fealty to the Son of God; I want no freedom that is not centred in, and sanctified by his Cross.
We are God's servant's first and foremost. Let us finish with the words of our Saviour in Luke 17
9 Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? 10 So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants;[e] we have only done what was our duty.’”
KK
1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God
OUR TRUE TITLE
I was once on a Ning group, filled with ministers of the gospel, and they all had titles. Some were called pastor, and some incredibly were called apostles, indeed some were senior and chief apostles, this was totally mind blowing to me and indeed it was so wrong.
We all like titles. It's nice to be given a title, however small it is. It makes us feel important, doesn't it?
If anyone deserved a title in the life of the New testament church it was Paul. He was the apostle to the Gentiles, but the first words to the Roman church, and to the church of Philippi and to his Brother in Christ Titus were these: Paul, a servant [or slave] of God/Jesus Christ.
He had every right to be called an apostle and in many other letters he calls himself an apostle, but he always remembered that he was a servant first and foremost.
If you are a pastor reading this and I know there are many, you are not Pastor... you are a servant.
That goes for all of us, we are first and foremost servants, or to put it into context, we are bond slaves of Christ.
The only title we should be crave and want to be known by, is this
Servant of Jesus Christ
Joseph parker says this
How does Paul describe himself? "A servant of Jesus Christ." Some titles we would take from men, because we are able to prove that they have no right to them; the title is larger than they are; they perish under a weight of ornamental nomenclature; when Paul announces himself as a servant of Jesus Christ, all who have studied his life up to this point, as we have done in this People"s Bible, will say, that is right: truer servant God never had; more willing slave never followed the chariot of the Cross: let Paul be crowned the prince of the servants of Jesus Christ. Paul would have called himself by a name which in English seems to be lower than servant; again and again Paul describes himself as "the slave of Jesus Christ," as who should say, I must always be under the chains of my Lord"s captivity, I disdain any liberty that does not hold me in sweet bondage and fealty to the Son of God; I want no freedom that is not centred in, and sanctified by his Cross.
We are God's servant's first and foremost. Let us finish with the words of our Saviour in Luke 17
9 Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded? 10 So you also, when you have done all that you were commanded, say, ‘We are unworthy servants;[e] we have only done what was our duty.’”
KK