Serving Others. Luke22:14-30

Serving Others. Luke 22:14-30
Posted by MINISTER GLORIA DALE on March 22, 2013 at 7:44pm in SUNDAY SCHOOL MINISTRY
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Lesson: Luke 22: 14-30



Question’s ????:

1. Why is it important to serve others

2. What does it cost to be a servant

3. Do you want to be a servant

4. Are you willing to serve others

5. When you do serve, do you count it a privilege to be serving



Thought: Giving of yourself to help someone in need without wanting something back in return, or bragging about it.











The privilege of serving is to be like Christ

Privilege: a right or immunity granted as a peculiar benefit, advantage, or favor; a special advantage, immunity, permission, right, or benefit granted to or enjoyed by an individual, class, or caste

Serving: to work for / To be a servant to.

Luke: one of the chosen 12 disciples: a Physician, a painter, and a scholar. Luke was a native of the Hellenistic city of Antioch in Syria. He wrote the third Gospel which is the book of Luke and the book of Acts.

Luke depicts that Jesus to be the Servant of God, the greatest man in history, the perfect God Man whose genealogy that can be traced back to Adam, and for what Jesus taught, what he did, why he died, and rising from the dead. For this reason we ought to accept Jesus as our Lord.

This lesson is reflecting on how Jesus was the perfect servant to serve and to show us how we are to be servants to serve one another.

Passover: Hebrew word Pesach: means "to pass over."

The reason and purpose of the Passover:

Passover commemorates the liberation of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, as recorded in the book of Exodus. On Passover, Jews also celebrate the birth of the Jewish nation after being freed by God from captivity.

Jesus and his disciples were in Jerusalem where the disciples will have their last Passover supper with Jesus. Jesus was explaining to them that this would his last time having the Passover supper with them in the natural, because his time was drawing near for him to return to his kingdom with God. He told them that he will eat again with them when they join him in his kingdom. Jesus began to explain to them that many things were going to happen and how they should become great servants. The disciples begin to argue as to who would be the greatest servant among themselves. Jesus had to bring them back to order to explain that no one is greater than anyone else regardless of their status. Whether you are a king, governor, mayor, president, prince, etc., we all if we become humble can serve each other. No one is greater than anyone else. Jesus was telling them that they should not be like the people in the world, where leaders are honored because of their fancy titles. Those who are great are willing to serve at the lowest rank. The greatest in the kingdom are not those who are served, but those who serve others.

The role of a servant does not come easily to many, it is human nature to want to seek the privileged place of honor where we are to be waited on hand and foot. We desire the prestige to be important and to feel important with other’s to feel that we are above everyone else with them waiting on us. We do not want to be labeled as a waitress, bus boy, waiter, valet, cleaning man or lady, because that is beneath us to have those titles to wait on someone else.

For some of us to have become Christians, becoming a servant to serve others is so hard. Some Christians feel that once they come into the knowledge of Jesus, that they don’t have to do anything, everyone else (non-Christian’s) has to serve them because they have accepted Jesus as their Savior. When you accept Jesus as your Savior, you become a SERVANT. The greatest gift next to accepting Jesus is to be a servant to serve others.

Jesus gave the greatest examples of being a servant:

· He gave in the form of man to teach us

· He spoke the Word of life into us

· He loved us so much that he gave his life in death for us

· He came back to life so that we can have true life

· He intercedes for us to the Father (God)

The privilege to serve is to labor for God and there are three truths to serving:

1. Partaking of Christ ( the Lord’s Supper-where we are reminded of the cost of salvation , how Christ body was broken, and his blood was shed for our redemption. To have a true vital relationship with Christ.

2. The purpose of the true calling of God in Christ Jesus.

3. Those who walk and serve for God must exhibit a spirit of humility of humbleness.



“The heart of true love is being happy to serve”

Again: The greatest in the kingdom are not those who are served, but those who serve