2. Providing Encouragement To Reflect on Our Own
Key Outcome of Series:
Providing Encouragement
To Reflect on Our Own
Spiritual Growth with Jesus!

3. How Much Am I Willing to Serve? Philippians 2: 7; John 13: 1 - 17
Rarely Frequently

4. How do We
Define the Word
Serve?

5. “Perform duties or services
for another person or
an organization”

6. What are examples of
service in our lives
or in our church?

7. Jesus Is The
Example of a Servant
Philippians 2: 7

8. “Rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature
Philippians 2: 7
“Rather, he made himself nothing
by taking the very nature
of a Servant,
being made in human likeness."

9. Jesus Calls Us
to Serve…
to Follow…
John 12:

10. 26 Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me. 27 Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name!”
John 12:

11. God’s Desire is to Take You from Where You Are
to Where He wants
You to Be!

12. You may Experience a Restlessness whereby You
Sense that there is Far More
You Should be
Learning… Experiencing…
Serving… to Glorify Jesus!

13. One of the most Humble Servant Stories of Jesus in the Bible!
John 13: 1 -17

14. 2 The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus. 3 Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4 so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5 After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
John 13: 2 - 5

15. 6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?” 7 Jesus replied, “You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand.” 8 “No,” said Peter, “you shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered, “Unless I wash you, you have no part with me.” 9 “Then, Lord,” Simon Peter replied, “not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!”
John 13: 6 - 9

16. Custom of His Day:
They paid as much attention to washing feet as we do to washing hands before a meal. If there was no host, hired servant or owner, as occurred on this night, then the first person in the room was responsible for making the provisions. That meant that the first one there would normally volunteer to do the customary thing- wash feet.
But not this crowd.

17. 12 When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. “Do you understand what I have done for you?” he asked them. 13 “You call me ‘Teacher’ and ‘Lord,’ and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14 Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet.
John 13:

18. Why did that happen? Why, didn’t someone, other than Jesus, jump to the task and grab the basin and the towel? Well, it happened because the Disciples had an Attitude problem: they were more concerned about Rights and Superiority than they were
SERVICE.

19. What motivated Jesus to act differently than we probably would
What motivated Jesus to act differently than we probably would? His Motivation was Compassion for Others.

20. Jesus was more concerned for His Disciples in this hour than He was for Himself. The One who was Neglected, the One who was Hurting, the One who had told them He was Facing Death, is the One who is taken for Granted. He does it Because of His Great LOVE for Them!

21. Having Loved His own who were in the world, he now showed them the Full Extent
of His Love.
John 13: 1

22. "The Lord of the Universe’s First Day was Spent in a Barn,
Max Lucado writes:
"The Lord of the Universe’s First Day was Spent in a Barn,
His Last was spent Bending Down Washing Feet."

23. You will Always be One Step
of OBEDIENCE Away from
the Next Truth
God wants You to
Experience about Him!

24. SO
WHAT?

25. as Jesus Leads Us to Follow?
AM I Open…
Am I Willing… to
SERVE Others,
as Jesus Leads Us to Follow?