Your Chair

TOPIC: Submission

SCRIPTURE: "...lead me in the everlasting way." (Ps.139:24)

OBSERVATION: In spite of the fact that David was King, he still saw the need for submission. David was a great leader because he was first and foremost a great follower.

APPLICATION: Ask any musician his or her goal in life. What’s the reply going to be? Oh, I really want to be second-chair violin someday. Yeah, right. The hardest job in an orchestra is playing second fiddle. You're always overshadowed by the first fiddler, but without a second fiddler, there's no orchestra.

Let me ask you a question.

Are you willing to become a servant?

Phillipians 2:5-8 says, "Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death even death on a cross!"

Jesus played the ultimate second fiddle

Luke 4:1 says, Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit...was LED around by the Spirit

John 5:19&30 sheds even more light on our 2nd chair leader/follower
"Truly, truly, I say to you, the Son can do nothing of Himself, unless it is something He see the Father doing, for whatever the Father does, these things the Son also does in like manner." (v.19) Jesus goes on to say in verse 30 that, He "can do nothing on His own initiative...He seeks only the will of Him who sent Him."

Christian = means to be Christ like

Matthew 20:28 says that, "the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."


I’m called to be a servant


and


so are you.


PRAYER: Father God, it blows me away that Jesus truly lived a life of submission. Help me to submit to The Holy Spirit in the same way He did.