1. Demas  (Colossians 4:14) Our dear friend Luke, the doctor, and Demas send greetings. (Philemon 1:23-24) Epaphras…sends you greetings. {24} And so do… Demas and Luke, my fellow workers.  (2 Timothy 4:10) for Demas, because he loved this world, has deserted me and has gone to Thessalonica.  (1 John 2:15-16) Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. {16} For everything in the world--the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does--comes not from the Father but from the world.

2. Relinquishing privileges  (Luke 2:52) And Jesus grew in wisdom and stature, and in favor with God and men.  (John 4:6) Jacob's well was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the sixth hour.  (Matthew 4:2) After fasting forty days and forty nights, he was hungry.

3. Our Identity = Servants of God/Christ  (Genesis 26:24) …for the sake of my servant Abraham."  (1 Kings 11:32) But for the sake of my servant David…  (Joshua 1:2) "Moses my servant is dead.  (Job 1:8) Have you considered my servant Job?  Jesus (Matthew 12:18) Here is my servant whom I have chosen…  (Romans 1:1) Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus…  (Colossians 4:12) Epaphras… a servant of Christ Jesus  (James 1:1) James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ  (2 Peter 1:1) Simon Peter, a servant and apostle of Jesus Christ  (Jude 1:1) Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ