Servants
“Jesus rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.”
Then if we go to the same gospel, John 21:13: “Jesus then came and took the bread and gave it to them, and likewise the fish.” When the Lord was standing on the shore of Lake Galilee and the disciples had been fishing all night but had caught nothing, the Lord told them, “Remember to throw the net on the other side of the boat.” Eventually, when they came to shore, he had already prepared bread and fish for them.
A servant’s heart is what God requires from His people and Jesus led by example. I looked up the word, 'minister' and 'minister of the Gospel'. What does the word, 'minister' literally mean? It means one word only - servant. If you are a minister of the Gospel, you are a servant of the people.
Do you know the Mighty Men phenomenon that is going right around the world, God’s Mighty Men? There has been a lot of criticism, "Where is the humility, where is the servant’s heart?"
"How can you call yourselves Mighty Men?"
But you know something folks? We are not mighty in ourselves but rather in and through the work that the Lord Jesus has done, in and through us.
I will never forget a late-night radio programme - once they were interviewing me many years ago. The very liberal disc-jockey on that late-night radio programme asked me a question. He was trying to discredit me. He said to me, “Do you assist your wife in the housework - for example, do you vacuum the house?”
And the answer was, “No”
He smiled and I heard him giggling, he thought he had caught me out. I said, “No, we actually do not own a vacuum cleaner, so I just use an ordinary brush, an ordinary broom...
Reinhardt Bonnke, who has since gone to be with the Lord Jesus Christ, was an incredible evangelist. I had the privilege of having lunch with him and spoke to him on the phone a couple of times, he ministered to millions of people. Someone was looking for him one night, after a long service - he had been preaching and praying for the sick.
They went behind the big tent and there was a caravan. They knocked on the door and who opened the door? Reinhardt Bonnke, with an apron on - he was cooking supper for his workers!
Let us lead by example. Let us be servants to our fellowmen.
Have a wonderful Sunday.