The Mandate for Kingdom Service VII by Pastor Emmanuel S. Olowokere. August 15, 2010.
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Today we’ll look at two more salient points on “The Mandate for Kingdom Service”. Before that a brief recap.
Everybody serves something or someone. One just might not know or be conscious of what that is. If one must serve anything, the wise decision is to serve God. You couldn’t go wrong with serving your Creator
As our Creator He made us to serve Him. One opens oneself up to replacement or recall otherwise. Or what do manufacturers do when their product is malfunctional? Recall, of course! And recall to us might mean returning to dust from which we were made!
Also, when we fail to serve Him, we risk depreciation. And there’s no telling how low one might get. You might hit zero-value and then go sub-zero. But if you keep serving, even in adversity and challenges, reward materializes. Zacharias is a good example. He kept at serving God even when he seemingly had justifiable reason otherwise (Luke 1:5-14).
The reason some may be reluctant to serve is because they believe God has not met their needs. But such forget they have the most important: Life. Once there’s life there’s no pegging one’s limit. Besides, reward may not come when one thinks it should but there’s always a pay day for those in God’s service. You keep serving and see whether He’s unfaithful.
First salient point: One way to look like God is to work for Him.
Gen 2:1-3
Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.
John 5:15-17
The man departed, and told the Jews that it was Jesus, which had made him whole. And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day.But Jesus answered them, My Father worketh hitherto, and I work
John 9:1-7
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
God works and so does His Son, Jesus. If you serve God, you exercise this characteristic just as Jesus did. When you keep working, you look like Him.
Second: When you work for God you will enjoy Divine Recognition. Philippians 4:2-3 and Romans 16:8-12 validate this.
Philippians 4:2-3
I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord. And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.
Rom 16:8-12
Greet Amplias my beloved in the Lord. Salute Urbane, our helper in Christ, and Stachys my beloved. Salute Apelles approved in Christ. Salute them which are of Aristobulus’ household. Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord. Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord. Salute the beloved Persis, which laboured much in the Lord.
Hebrews 12:28 shows that we need grace to serve God acceptably, as you go this week, may God release this grace unto you in Jesus name. Have a blessed week in His service.
