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So I'm hosting today and we're talking about serving a servant, having a servant's heart,
what it means to serve.
I think we just got to dive right into it.
First thing I thought of honestly is I was thinking the greatest among you will be servant,
you know, 2311 says that.
Because I was like, well, I'm like, okay, if the greatest among you will be serving.
And I think that kind of ties in with last week's episode of humble.
Oh yeah.
You have to humble yourself to serve others.
Because you can't have a prideful heart in doing that.
I think that that's really big.
By serving, by serving and really humbling yourself, you have that servant's heart and
to do all that, because you can't go in thinking, having that pridefulness and I'm amazing,
I'm going to help you.
Because then it's like people aren't able to receive.
Well, it's like being like an over-arrogant superhero of sorts, you know, like here I
am, I'm here to help you peasant.
Like you can't like, that's no way showing love.
Part of serving, showing God's love, I think is really huge.
Well, we're supposed to be Christ-like and you can see in Mark 10 45, it says for even
the son of man came not to be served, but to serve and to give his life as ransom for
many.
So if we are supposed to live Christ-like, we're supposed to be serving others.
So that's, yeah, this is a great topic.
Yeah.
Um, it is, I was feeling like, you know, after we did humbling, humble, I was like, well,
I think that's a really good one to do.
Um, I think, you know, I've got a couple of verses or signed up because I'm waiting and
I was thinking about it.
Um, the same way, let your light shine before others and may see your good deeds and glorify
your father in heaven.
After you five 16.
It's like, yeah, that serving people and doing good things.
I mean, you get heavenly treasure stored up too, which is another reason to do it, but
it has to be the content of your heart.
Yeah.
People, people in church like, oh yes, I'll go do this.
And they want to like, you know, a lot of people get caught up in like that.
Look at me.
Look, I do this for the church.
I, I do all this.
I'm such a good person.
Pat my back.
Like, and that's the wrong mindset and the wrong hearts.
I think, um, see that a lot.
There's always that one, you know, person's like, I don't hate 20% and I do this.
And you know, I think, you know, those people that really do serve and like spend their
time and give that, like, you know, the difference and it's genuine.
I think it's the key cause the serving God, you have to be genuine when you serve God,
you know, cause we have to seek the kingdom first and his righteousness.
Um, things that were given to you as well.
That's Matthew six 33.
Um, just, yeah, I think serving, you know, I think like the washing of the feet, you
know, like who'd you just did that for?
Yep.
I actually have like, no, some of that's you have, you have any notes on that?
Yeah.
And one of my many, many verses, um, you're, you're right though.
It's that, I mean, it doesn't say it just the one that Mark 10 45 that I said, even
in Matthew 20 28, it also refers to son of man did not come to serve to, but to serve.
So, um, the washing of feet was one of the stories that I, like you're saying that I
remember very well where he was saying, like, do you see, um, uh, it was John 13 section
of that in, I'm pretty sure it's in verse 12 where Jesus actually washed their feet
and put on his outer clothing.
He reclined and then he said to them, do you know what I've done for you?
You call me teacher and Lord and you are speaking rightly since this is what I am.
So if I, your Lord and teacher has washed your feet, you also ought to wash another's
like one another's feet.
And I have, uh, for I've given you an example that you should also do as I have done for
you, which we were called to follow Christ and do what he does.
And so he's showing that as a servant, like serving others, we are a servant to God and
we do what he commands us and what he shows us. And so we do it too.
So it's that, like you said, humbly understanding that we are at the mercy of the Lord and his
will and his plan.
And then knowing that us, we are not better or over others, but we're here to serve, to
show the serve that Jesus did for others as well through his sacrifices and through what
he wants us to do.
So I mean, at this point you can see like they were, they came back at him and I think
it's in verse 16 where he was like, Oh no, it was Jesus still in 16 where he's like,
I truly, I tell you a servant is not greater than his master.
And a messenger is not greater than the one who sent him.
So if you know these things, you're blessed if you do them.
So that's something really cool that you're, you were talking about.
It's just like, yeah, that, that is like, your pride is out the door at that point.
Like there's no such thing as pride.
You are before and knowing that you're serving others, even to the point to washing someone's
feet.
Yeah.
There's more context to why it's washing feet.
Like that was something like these guys wore sandals everywhere.
You know how stinky rank these feet were?
Like how often did they bathe?
How often did they wash their feet?
These people were walking for miles and not bathing as much as we do nowadays.
I could only imagine because honestly, Oh, coaching gymnastics for close to a decade
and you're barefoot, you know, for a good part of the day.
And I also, you know, never wearing shoes, period.
You know, whether I was that worker there, my feet, you know, they, you know, they were
pretty, uh, right at the end of the day.
And you know, and I, and I showered so, and I still showered and stopped, but I think
like, Oh my gosh, I could not imagine like how callous and how disgusting it must've
been like, Oh, right.
Like, you know, and then the wash somebody's feet, like that's not like the most cleanliness
thing, you know, especially not in those days, you know, picture, picture this, the, the
creator of everything, the one who created, who was an is and always will be the one who
designed everything to be exactly the way they wanted it to.
And the one who is there to save you comes in human form to show himself to us in a human
form and to save us from the penalty of death or penalty of sin, which is death and to save
us.
He washes, he like, he comes down in human form and the God of everything washes these
guys feet.
Like the concept of that is just so insane because it's like, if you were God and you
created everything, you come to earth and the people you created stink the high heaven
and you're like, yeah, I'm going to get down and get close to these people's feet where
that really stinks.
And then I'm going to wash it.
Like that's, that's such a serving, like a servant, like I'm here to serve you like this.
You don't understand what's, what's happening.
And it's cool because you even see it with, with Jesus.
He was like, in the end of verse 12, he literally is like, do you know what I've done for you?
Like, do you understand this?
Like you are calling me Lord of lords, King of Kings, teacher, the master.
You see what I done.
This is what I'm telling you to do.
And you are not greater than someone else.
Even if you know these things and abide by it, you will be blessed.
But that's intense.
That's an intense, that's an intense way to say that.
Just a little bit.
Yeah.
Just a little.
Yeah.
I think is it's, it was the ultimate, ultimate.
You know, it comes down, like you said, as man, I don't know, but he served us by going
upon the cross.
Just, I think is what, you know, the biggest way you can serve.
He could have served us at all.
You know, he served others by healing and by eating people.
You look at him like a Matthew and you know, it's five, I think.
He feeds a thousand, thousands of people.
He does it again.
He served people by teaching them and leading them toward God, then feeding them and healing
them, raising people from the dead.
He served his whole entire ministry.
His life was his whole ministry.
And then, you know, even in his death, he's still serving.
That the resurrection.
Yeah.
The resurrection because through the resurrection, through the salvation that we have through
Jesus, we are saved because he served us.
That's like, you mean the most, the biggest way he could by dying for us, for our sins.
Yeah.
I mean, the ultimate sacrifice, ultimate humbling of yourself, you could do is a die to yourself
and to your flesh.
Yeah, if you want to read the story of the where Jesus feeds five thousand because with
the five lows and two fish, that's Matthew 14, 13 to 21.
Good, good, good passage there.
Yeah.
I have a pulpit for this topic, but I'm going to let you do it.
Pull it up, man.
OK, I'll pull it up a little bit.
So if if you I love reading a lot of the New Testament, obviously, I love reading all of
it, but I've been reading First Peter, Second Peter and like that section, that area of
the Bible.
And recently I was actually reading First Peter for 10, which First Peter four was the
recent chapter about the verse in there is really important to what you're talking about
your topic.
First Peter four 10 says, as each has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good
stewards of God's very grace.
And if you don't know, the context here is First Peter four, one through eleven.
It's just urging Christians to take on Jesus attitude towards suffering.
It also says that we should see as expected part of fulfilling God's purpose for us on
earth and those willing to endure suffering for Christ, except the course of their lives
from from mind numbing sin, stuff like that.
And this is true when when those who still commit those sins, bad mouth them, etc.
So with this verse, you can see Peter continues describing how Christians should live in response
to the knowledge that the end of all things is near, which you can read in verse seven,
knowing that Christ could return at any time should affect our thinking.
And this is still true to today.
We, as Christians or believers, should not excessively invest ourselves in a world that
is passing away.
We should be not diverting ourselves with whatever pleasures we can find to indulge
in.
Instead, we should be managing our minds from effective or effective praying and love each
other deeply, including sharing our homes and food with other Christians in need or
other believers in need.
In this verse, Peter says that we should take a very different view from others in the world
about anything we might call ours.
First he implies that we must see whatever we have as a gift from God, everything, your
life, your money, your wealth, your house, your food, your everything is a gift from
God.
Period.
So after all, we have we have nothing which God has not given up to us.
And guess where that says that James one 17 had to bring in James.
But it's always James.
But second, we should see whatever we have been given as an opportunity to serve other
Christians or other believers or other people who need it.
In other words, we should not view anything which is ours as off limits for us in serving
others.
And that's that's I think that that's my pulpit.
Basically, it says that, you know, every good thing we have is ours only by God's grace
and intended to be used for his purposes and to fail to use God's gifts to us to serve
others is to fail to be a good steward.
And using everything we have to serve each other is part of fulfilling our purpose as
God set apart people.
That's my pulpit.
That is a good pulpit.
It's a good that's right on like, you know, it's right on the on the on the head of the
nail.
No, I just.
Yeah, I don't know why I keep thinking about serving and everything.
And now I think it's like it takes a good leader to serve.
True.
It takes, you know, it's it's it's not always a glamorous aim to serve.
I put it I think about it in sports wise.
Like I think of like basketball, I think of the point guard position and the ball they
serve, you know, they pass the ball, they get the assist, they serve it up.
You know, I that's what I think about.
I think, you know, there's a lot of things.
I think I always currently, you know, court court the Nate Courtney.
Yeah.
Gosh, things with sports, I think a lot.
I think like when I play basketball, I think of like when I play with my buddy, Jalen,
right?
He likes to dish me the ball inside.
You know, I'll dish it to him out.
Like if you serve one another, it also helps.
Maybe the load and it can bring.
You know, bring the best out of somebody to because that, you know, that whole pay it
forward.
Oh, like, oh, let me help serve somebody else and let me pay for this person ahead of me
behind me.
You know, I feel like that's something that culture sees it and like, oh, that's a nice
thing to do.
You know, anybody who doesn't, you know, certainly know God see that they're like, well, that's
that's really cool.
That's so nice that people would do that for us is going like, no, that's what we're called
to do.
I think necessarily we don't necessarily get we don't get.
I don't think that enough.
Like oh, yeah, I can do that later.
I think you like the ladies at church right now we're trying to move into our our our
old youth room.
Jason is the kids new youth room because it has to be fixed up because upstairs one.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
We're meeting in the old like meeting room because we because the windows have to get
fixed.
There's nails in the walls like the pastor's wife is in there like getting these nails
out of the wall.
Like fixing that like, you know, I'm not just to brag on her because like she's serving
her church.
She's serving like as her kids are part of that youth, like people that go out of their
way and to serve.
It's so cool because I'm like, I know that there's people like, you know, I should be
out there helping more and doing stuff, you know.
I've been a little busy with the whole, you know, wedding planning that had to go on and
be done and everything.
So I hope she understands that listening.
I for this and Chrissy, it's awesome.
We'll be getting there sometime soon because like there she sees, you know, I serve the
youth.
That's what I can do.
That's where I shine the most.
But other people serve in some other ways, whether it's through different ministries
and starts, but like little things that go behind the scenes that help people.
I think that's huge because those type of actions that speak louder.
You know, people have like, I know this one, one, one person, a friend who wanted to bless
like, uh, our family with a computer.
He went and used his own money to bless our family with the computer because we needed
wine.
I'm working at home and all that stuff.
It's not working.
And then winning got one.
It seems like that word.
It's like, it's not because you're like, oh yeah, it's all about me, but it's like, let
me help.
I think that's as a huge, just the biggest thing serving just it's the heart.
It just, it's all I can keep being.
What is the heart?
It's a matter of the heart.
I can keep saying it a lot because it is like, you can sit.
I sit there.
Like I think of like, you know, you can see the people on TV, the big, all my media pastors
and stuff like that.
Like, you know, like, oh, and you have to serve, you have to give, we need your money
donate and everything.
I'm going like, people, that's my biggest thing I have a problem with.
With churches that are like, have, have a little mini sermon.
You need to donate, you need to serve and give us your money.
I'm like, well, you know what?
Not everybody has money to give.
You know, some people, they might've had to use their whole paycheck to just to pay rent
and to survive.
They don't have the 10% to give.
That's the case.
They have their time.
They can give, they're able to serve in other ways.
And I've been told that by a pastor that will know the, you know, have to give percent.
I'm like, okay, what is it?
What about the mom that's got four kids?
No, that's doing on her own or something.
Like, like, no, that mom needs to be taken care of by the church.
She can donate by helping out, you know, with children's ministry.
Maybe she needs to help getting on her feet.
How are we to say that?
You're not doing it right.
If you can't give, everybody has that financial responsibility.
Our has that ability to, you know, if you are then good.
Serve your church, bless somebody.
You know, 10% of your time or, you know, whatever you have.
That's my personal belief.
I disagree with it.
That's cool.
I got stuff to back you up.
So if you don't know, if you go to our website, gospel truth project.com, you go to blogs,
there's one there.
It says tithing, tithing for the modern day Christian.
Now that blog, I highly recommend reading it because Dylan, you're, you're touching
on more of the tithing, giving your time back to God kind of thing.
And though how in depth that blog post is, I highly recommend going and reading that
and we will do an episode dedicated to tithing.
But I will, I will agree that there, there's a place to where in the Bible, it's really
consistent that we give with a cheerful heart.
Second Corinthians nine seven says that we give with a cheerful heart because God's a
cheerful giver.
Last 2035, it says that we, it's more to bless than to be blessed.
I think it's Luke six 38, which talks about for the measure you use, it will be measured
back to you like that kind of stuff.
And then other people, I've had this question before because of it.
They're like, Hey, so if, you know, I don't, I'm not cheerful about giving like then if
you're giving to just get praise from people, if you're giving to just receive the, Oh,
he's doing nice thing.
I will use a Bible insult and say you're a perverse and rebellious woman because that
is an insult from the Bible first Samuel.
But no, I also, sorry, don't mean to cut you off, but I was thinking about an ax.
I want to say it's around 10.
It might be nine or eight.
The husband and wife in the early church, like, did you give everything to us or called
the give everything and join the first church basically.
And they're like, that's what comes in.
We did, even though they took a good, you know, some of the money and they hit it and
they got struck him down dead.
His wife comes in like 10 minutes.
They're like, Hey, he's like, have you seen my husband is like, Hey, did you guys give
everything?
And she's like, of course she's stricken down dead too, right there.
Like people use that and like, yeah, you know, I'm talking about right.
Ax 12.
You're talking about 12.
I knew it was around 10.
Just tied on it like a couple of weeks ago.
I'm like, um, cause I think that says a lot too, but see it once again, like their heart
was no, we need to have a fallback.
They're not fully trusting God and serving.
Right for people to try to use that as a combatant to like what I'm saying.
I'm like, yes, I understand.
But like, see they were well wealthy and they were trying to keep some of their wealth.
Cause like, no, no, no.
Why would I, you know, I don't want to give all my money to God.
Cause what if something happens, this doesn't work out.
It's like, no, you have to give a hundred percent.
I think that's also like speaks in your relationship with Jesus.
You have to give your whole, you have to serve him fully with all of your heart, all of your
mind, all of your soul.
Because if you don't, like you're just, you're just half button it.
You just, you're not even trying.
It'll be hotter, be colder.
We spit out into the flames.
I mean, what exactly did I just go over?
I mean, that's part of it, right?
It's the whole idea that, that everything, your mentality is wrong.
Your mentality should be that everything given to you is from God.
And the crazy thing is, is that people don't understand when you accept Christ, you're
given the Holy Spirit and that's not the end of it.
The Holy Spirit changes you, transforms you.
Psalm Corinthians 5 17 says the old has passed away and behold the new has come.
And it's talking about if you as a Christian in Christ is a new creation.
You have Romans 12, 1 through 21, read that whole section.
It talks about that kind of stuff.
Romans 12 2, Psalms 51 10 says that I created me a new heart.
Hebrews 4 14.
Then there's verse at the verse at the verse that says that you are transformed with the
renewing of your mind and the renewing of your heart and your soul.
And that every single thing, like I said before, every single little thing that you have as
a, as everything you understand, change your mentality, that everything you have is a gift
from God.
And if you change that mentality, then it's really easy to give up stuff for God because
it's not yours.
Everything that is yours is his and acting like that changes everything.
Because when you start giving to God, it says he'll bless you for it and you start showing
it and letting that go.
It's blessings come back and it's true.
And I'm not going to sit here and brag.
I'm not going to share any of the stories that I have about the stuff because I rather
keep it quiet because it's worth keeping quiet.
But in the long run, I've seen it where I've given and I've, I've shared with people and
I've, I've done things that are using what I had or barely had to bless others because
God was calling me to do it.
And I've seen it come back.
And that's the cool thing is I've seen it come back and some things I'm still waiting
for a comeback and that's okay.
And his time in that mind.
And that is really important to understand a serving heart.
You live to serve.
You're not living to, to occasionally serve when you see fit.
It's not your life.
It's not your stuff.
It's not your, your wants, your desires.
It's God's that's sacrificing yourself for him to show him you have the ultimate love
for him and that you really are dedicated to who he is.
Another pulpit, my bad.
Good.
You know, Hey, those little pulpits, I think you're, you know what we need sometimes.
I'm just sitting here thinking, you know, like I forget when it was.
I, it was a couple of years back.
Um, I was at the, when I was at the, uh, the Samoan church, the full gospel Tabernacle
church.
I remember, you know, we're, Pastor J.R. was talking about serving and, and receiving
blessings too.
And it's like, you know, you at the, you know, if you want to receive a blessing from God,
ask for it, pray for it.
And if you follow him, you know, he, he'll bless you.
You ask, he may give you yes or no for him, you know, asking like, Hey, anybody here want
a blessing?
Nobody in the whole church raised their hand.
When like, nobody wants them.
I'm like, okay, raised my hand.
I shot it up and like, I'll take it.
If nobody wants it, I'll take it.
Like, I believe that he can do it.
You know, you have to have, you know, I serve him.
He wants to bless me.
He bless me.
And then next week at work, I got a hundred dollar tip.
I was like, thank you.
I was, I was fooling my stepping out and really ready to serve him.
And then, you know, I feel like, and you know, cause the thing is I actually talked to the
people at there where I was working for the birthday party that was working and talking
to them.
They're like, Oh yeah, I'm like, yeah, actually I, you know, I'm a pastor and like, you know,
I just, like, you're so good with kids and I said, well, that's my, I want to, you know,
that's where I'm called serve and do that.
Uh, you know, I, you know, Jesus, God is giving me the ability.
Like, Oh my gosh, you're a Christian that explains so much.
We're, you know, we love God, God fearing people.
They actually have him hit me late, pray for the food.
He's like, Oh my, this is the coolest party ever.
Okay, cool.
Like, you know, like you want your, the coach to pray for the food and stuff.
So I mean, so that just having the heart to serve and then God will bless you too.
That's the thing is that, you know, and, but it's in his time, so you can't expect it.
Like I want it right now.
There's mine right now.
Sometimes, you know, it's like, well, you have to wait, Jason.
Okay.
No.
As, um, this reminds me actually Galatians, uh, in Galatians five verse 13, Galatians
five 13, it says, um, for you were called to be free brothers and sisters only don't
use this freedom as an opportunity for flesh, but serve one another through love.
So the cool thing is, is that with Galatians five, uh, if you don't know, if you haven't
read it, the context for Galatians five, uh, context for Galatians five is actually verse
one through 15.
Um, if you haven't read it, I recommend reading it because it says it focuses on what those
in Christ should do with their freedom in Christ.
First we must guard it.
And then especially for those who would pressure us to follow the law instead, Paul was confident
for the Galatians would resist the one leading them in the wrong direction and, um, not to
waste our freedom in Christ to selfishly serve ourselves instead serve others in love.
So the, if you want to, I highly recommend reading that section because it's really important
to understand that we are freeing Christ and that freedom.
We understand what is, what we should do and what we shouldn't.
And so that's kind of what the benefit to that freedom is.
So, yeah, no, that's good.
No little pulpit right there, but that's exactly what we need.
Um, yeah.
I mean, see, you go on those teams and tell them like, man, I don't know what to say right
now.
I'm like, um, uh, cause then, you know, somebody, you said Paul, they're like, oh, he got me
by venomous snake and lived like that is true.
It's, it's, it's crazy to start getting into like the miracles of the Bible and what it
talks about, which we'll, we will have to do an episode on miracles and, uh, that dibs
I call dibs on miracles.
I'm going to host that one.
I'm going to put it on your list.
You also volunteered.
You also volunteered the host the episode called Dylan sarcasm.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
I'm putting that on the calendar.
Oh, great.
Um, dang.
And honestly, it's, man, uh, but just thinking about serving man serving is like, I think
a lot of it too is like the, I just think, I think I'm passionate for it.
Like I think about like the missionary work I've gotten to do stuff like that.
That's not, not to be like, Oh, look at me, I've done this and I'm bragging about it,
but it's like, it's truly, if you have not had the opportunity to go serve somewhere
outside of your community, like saying it has to be a whole different country, um, really
get to go outside of your comfort zone.
You're like, okay, I have to rely on God.
You have to just serve, like this and just serve him is, and you, I know you, did you
have, you want the hope to do the Hopi tribe, right?
Oh yeah.
Multiple times.
So like, you know, it's going like the different language, different culture, you know, my
Spanish is my model.
It's, it's understand some, I know I'm being yelled at, you know, in order to me, I can
order up my food very well.
Order the food.
Anything me with your last name being Spanish and being Mexican, you'd be, I'd be a little
better at it, but it's okay.
It's fine.
Um, I can tell I'm pretty whitewashed.
Um, it was Jason.
So it's okay.
It's fine.
It's just the way we came.
It's all good.
Um, I think just to serve and have that opportunity to go out, go somewhere you're not comfortable
with.
Like it's huge because the serve there, it's just, you have to rely and you have to humble
yourself.
You have to be willing to be a servant and just listen to a God's calling you to serve.
Instead of just trying to make it your own call, you're really just, there were God's
saying to do, you just gotta go do it.
Yep.
Like, like we said, Matthew 20 verse 28, that section 25 to 28, but talks about how, you
know, your master, you're not over the master messenger is not over the message, like that
kind of stuff.
And verse 23, 11, Jesus reiterates that he reclaimed it in a very short verse so that
there's no mistakes about it.
He said, the greatest among you shall be your servant, which is awesome because people are
like, well, that's confusing because he's like, stop being confused.
This is what it is.
Like you are the live to serve.
It's not confusing.
Serve.
Oh, it's that one worship song.
To be served by you.
Uh, it's a worship song?
Come on, mister.
I play 35,000 instruments and know how to sing and all that.
Be served by you.
Oh my gosh.
It's gonna be a second in my head.
I think of it as soon as we're done recording and I'm going to be like, oh, that's what
it was.
Sir, like, uh, is it like we'll serve the Lord or no, to be served by you.
The be served by you and it goes, whoa, something like that.
What worship song does it have?
They break down like, yeah, every Curtis Chapman song ever imagined.
They always do that though thing with it, you know, they go like the hallelujah.
They're like, oh yeah.
Yeah.
Sorry.
You already just had to hear me sing a little bit.
That's rough.
Oh no.
What's this?
Oh, I see listeners just declined.
It's deadlining.
No.
Um, there's a reason I'm a youth pastor and not a worship pastor.
I, I, I was on the worship team for a long time and any worship song that says that,
so it's like worship songs are only supposed to be like to God, not, Hey, you did something
for me.
Forget that.
Like I hate that stuff because it's like worship means to glorify them and only them.
Like don't bring me into it.
Cause it's not about me.
This is about serving God.
Worship would be a really good one to do too.
I should have done that.
I'll change my calendar up a little bit.
I got some ideas.
It's never locked in this.
Be honest.
It's like, Oh, ideas.
It's a draft.
It's always a rough draft until we record the episode and it's like, yep, this is, here
it is.
Oh man.
Mark, uh, Mark nine.
I just remembered, uh, Mark chapter nine.
It's talk like it's about, if you haven't read it, it's, uh, it contains the account
of Jesus transfiguration and stuff like that.
Three disciples witness them.
So that's a good point because at verse, uh, 35, if I remember correctly, I'm pretty sure
you can always check me on that one.
Mark nine 35, it should say sitting down, Jesus called the 12 and said, anyone who wants
to be first must be the very last and the servant of all.
And obviously Jesus is, uh, if you don't know the first, that word first is from a Greek
root, uh, Greek root word, Protos.
Um, it means first and influence, honor, rank in everything.
So it means that the chief of the disciples servant is from the Greek root word, uh, diakonos,
um, which simply means one who acts on the desire of another, which is going back to
the humility of last year, last episode, not last year, last episode.
Um, so it's, it's something really important to understand is that when it's talking to
serve others, it's like they're, they're more important.
Like you're serving them in the sense that they, that that's more important.
So, um, I definitely feel I have failed on this and I, and I do fail on this occasionally
because you know, I, I, I sometimes think of myself very highly, which is an issue because
it's prideful and that gets in a way of humility and being able to serve others and, uh, do
things as if someone else's wants and desires and what they want to do is more important
than my own.
So you're saying you'd like humble yourself.
Yeah.
Going right back to last week's episode, I still didn't learn it.
Apparently there's little things I noticed that I do because of that.
I was like, man, I really need to work on this more, which obviously is good because
that that is showing, uh, like, uh, I saw a pastor, he said, the closer you get to God,
the more sinful your life looks.
And that was part of it.
It was just understanding that as I get closer to God, understanding him, the more I realized,
man, I really need to work on my, my crap and kind of get this together a little bit
better.
So, yeah, like, um, you need to do is it sounds like you need to go send episode one of season
two again and you need to, you know, either on Spotify, Apple, you know, whatever it is,
is it our podcast?
That's what they have.
Podcast Spotify, I heart radio, all that stuff.
Go listen to it again, Jason.
Oh, you were there for the recording because I was also there.
Um, but yeah, maybe.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, okay.
So I'll also hold myself on this and tune again.
Um, dude, we're, if anybody doesn't know we're on, if you, if you really have a hard time
listening to this podcast, we're on Apple, Spotify, Google podcasts, Amazon music, Pandora
tune in, I heart radio, Deezer, Samsung podcasts, you name it.
We're there.
So if you have a hard time listening here, wherever you're listening at, there's a plenty.
Oh, and YouTube forgot YouTube.
YouTube.
I was like, how could you forget the YouTube's and you get a little photo, the little I forgot
the YouTube's.
Yeah.
You get the photo of whatever, because like I said, season two, we have like the actual
like photo graphic for each episode now, which is a lot of work, but it's worth it.
So good.
Jason, Jason.
That's a great job.
You know, by serving me, serving God, you know, doing that.
Well, you, you, you serve God, but you also help do things where serves me in order to
do this.
And the team.
I, I, okay.
I know this is off topic, but just because I kind of wanted to share because it's really
cool.
Uh, and we said it before the most popular episode we had was what is the church?
It was the most popular episode.
Number one most popular episode now is the intro episode one, which means a lot of people
are actually starting to tune into what we've, they start from the beginning because it's
a podcast, right?
And then the second most popular just passed up the church episode, which is what is Bible
deconstruction that just passed up as the number two most watched or listened to in
general.
So, um, it's interesting to see which episodes are like reigned supreme for the longest time
and then how it changes.
And, um, yeah, it's, it's kind of crazy.
Episode one was like, we were just getting together, trying to figure out what we're
doing compared to what we do now.
It was in Mexico.
Like you were in Mexico years ago or something like that.
Like, yeah.
Did you record a podcast?
I'm like, dude, that's do it.
December 2nd, 2022.
And you're like, well, what are you doing?
I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, October, I be mute on accident and moody myself.
I'm like, yeah, I'm like, what are you free?
I'm like, well, I landed in Mexico around like three.
Yeah.
Now I became like an hour ahead of you.
There's like two hours ahead where we were, whatever.
Yeah.
I'll read the same time.
I was like, I forget, but I was like, sure.
Let's record.
I had like some earphones.
I just plugged into my phone and I'm like, okay, cool.
I'm like recorders for coordinate.
Yeah.
And, oh, and then I'm like, oh, just use my galaxy buds and keep recording with my earphones.
And I listened to season one over again.
I was like, oh gosh, no.
Anybody who's gone through.
Isn't one and listen to it.
I'm just saying like, God bless you because like microphone was not the greatest on my
end.
Hopefully the new microphone, it's better.
Oh yeah.
Talk about really having a servant's heart, a servant to listen to that with the mic.
Um, God provides.
So yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a kind of crazy.
I just thought that was interesting.
I was like our number one episode, it just got bumped down over this last week and oh,
I am wrong.
They just changed this too.
Whoa.
You're wrong.
No, the intro store number one, but prosperity gospel.
What is it?
Is number two now.
It just updated salvation.
What does it mean?
Is number three now number four is let's talk about sin.
And then we got number five is Bible deconstruction.
Nope.
Number five is theories, ideas and Christian ease.
Oh my,
Oh, somebody's like, I don't even remember some of them now, to be honest, like really
five episodes in them.
Like, oh, that's right.
How are we going to talk about that?
Yeah, because we're talking about our new, you know, season two, what we're going to
do.
Oh, we already talked about that.
Didn't we?
I'm like, Oh, like I need to actually look and plan.
So our least popular episode from season one was, uh, I mean outside of season finale,
cause it's been out the least, um, that is, oh shoot.
Does Jesus claim to be God?
Wow.
That's our least.
Which is kind of sad.
He does claim to be God.
He does.
You know what?
Try to make that, try to make that number one.
That's what we should try to shoot for.
I think, I think it might be so low on the list just because a lot of our listeners are
our true Christian followers, most of them, like majority of them are like church outreach,
et cetera.
So it's like, yeah, they'll look at that and be like, we know that he does.
Like what you guys need to do, what we're silly, what he's saying is you need to share
that with your non Christian friends.
They can hear two annoying dudes talk about, no, that's for all the Mormons out there,
the Muslims out there and the public witnesses out there.
That's what that episode's for.
Yeah.
Share it with somebody who maybe is, you know, questioning things too, but you know, we don't
need to keep plugging.
I don't know.
We're, yeah, we, I, sorry.
We took a little short window there.
He did talk about stuff and that's okay.
No, like just, you know, we think we just want to be, you know, it's a good little put
in here and I like a little thank you for giving up an hour of your time, whether it's,
you know, every week or every so often just to listen to us and support what we do serve
you and to be blessed is I'm not going to lie when we see people are viewing it, we're
like, Oh, I get a text right away from Jason.
Like, yo, check this out.
It really, we appreciate you guys so much.
If you guys are new to listening to it, thank you for giving us a shot.
Um, where have you been?
Appreciate it.
Like, you know, we're, we're doing this, we, we, we do this because we want to, we want
to, you know, serve people.
We want people to hear the good news and, you know, our tenders are never to offend
anybody just to vocalize our point.
Um, if it offends you, sorry.
Not even our point, not even our point.
It's, it's the Bible.
We're reading the Bible.
If we represent Christ and we are Christ like, no, it ain't my opinion.
No, it's God's.
We're just, we're just the figureheads are, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
Just the mouthpieces.
Yep.
Yeah.
I agree that.
Yeah.
I was just more like saying like when it comes to the Bible, it's like, we are not trying
to tell you, this is our opinion.
This is what this is.
We're taking topics and talking about these subjects that people might have questions
about taking those questions and saying, well, let's see what the Bible says about them.
Read the word.
And that's what we do.
Yeah.
What Jason said, um, what Dylan said, well, I mean, yeah, I just can't, you know, the,
the thing I was like, I'm not serving is, you know, women serve your husbands and, uh,
yeah, no, I'm just joking.
There's two.
We've talked about it before.
This boy, listen, more that goes into it.
It also says in women, uh, women, if your husband and men, if they don't like that,
I'm just joking.
No, it says that men, it's your wives.
Like God treats the church.
He serves us.
So you serve your wife as your wife serves you.
You serve each other as a team.
As a team.
Yes.
And I'm going to do a whole episode on relationships, my man, because it's really easy to be like
so many teachers out there nowadays are like, I'm the head of the house.
So I make decisions.
My wife has to suck it up.
And it's like, well, I mean, sure.
I'm only, I'm only a little bit into this marriage thing.
I'll tell you now.
That's not how it works.
I've been doing this for seven, eight years now, shoot.
I'm saying you should know how many years, Jason, 27, seven.
Yeah.
Seven years.
But it's, it's still, I had to think about it.
It's been what it's been a bit, but it still comes down to like, I'm not perfect.
And I know I'm not perfect.
I suck at a lot of times when it comes to my marriage and I fail.
And that's, that will happen.
And that just is me owning up to it in humility is saying like, I messed up because I did
not do what I needed to do.
But there, there's a really strong definition about roles of a man and a woman in a marriage
because of the same side of the coin.
And I said same side of the coin because you are one thing.
You are one.
It's then, and people like to say, say Bible says that I get to do whatever the frick I
want to my woman or I have to tell her what to do.
And it's like nowhere in the Bible does it say men command your woman.
And it doesn't.
And when the Bible talks about relationships, sorry, I'm not going to go on this tangent,
but long story short is do, we'll have to do, we'll have to do a whole episode on it
talking about it because it is a very crucial thing.
Relationships and marriage.
Yeah.
And serving each other.
Like because we're on the topic of serving, it's a serving, it's a mutual serve because
you're both one body.
Now that's not like two separate people trying to live life.
Like what the world says, marriage is biblical marriage is like you are united.
You are one.
There's no more.
If you and me, it's we, it's you guys are together as a unit.
So you guys don't keep stuff from each other.
You don't hold stuff back from each other.
And you definitely do not do stuff behind each other's backs.
You work together as one.
You have roles within that oneness to amplify and to make the unit work stronger, but you
serve each other.
So that's how I tie it into the serving and we'll have to do a whole episode on it because
I have really strong opinions about it on what the Bible says about it.
Because, you know, it's passion.
It's there and something that's important to both of us.
Yes.
Yeah.
I think we're ready to wrap it up, huh?
Yeah.
I mean, this is a little more final point.
The only if I if I have a final point, I'll say conclusion we see in the Bible without
a shadow of a doubt that Jesus came to serve and has called us to be like him.
Jesus wants us to serve others as if they are more important than us and that he will
bless us for it because not because we are required to, not because we are told to do
it, but because we are cheerfully doing it because we understand that what's ours is
not ours.
It's God's.
And if God tells you, hey, you're going to bless that person over there by giving them
this, you are excited to do it because it's so awesome to bless people.
It's such a good feeling to see someone light up and say, why the frick are you helping
me?
And you're like, because God's telling me to do this and I'm helping you.
Like, and to see that on people's face and like some of the stuff that I've I've done
in my life to do it.
And there were people there to witness it.
But I did it.
I tried to do discreetly, frick.
And that doesn't always work.
But I remember without going too much detail, like I went to we were hanging out downtown
and I remember long story short, there was someone that was homeless always in that situation.
In that area.
And they just had to sign up.
I read the sign and I wanted to contribute.
And I did.
And I remember I was with a lot of friends at the time.
And so I went to the bathroom, but I didn't.
I went to the front line, ordered from food and gave it to them.
And I remember sitting there next to them and talking to them a little bit because I
was like, I'm not just I'm going to give you food, but I want to make sure you're OK.
And when I did, I remember walking away crying because it's such an intense thing to see
someone sit there and being blessed.
And you can feel like the Holy Spirit just like guiding you in it and just showing them
that love.
And I remember walking away with tears in my eyes and like, wow, God, thank you for
showing me this.
And at that time, I was really tight on money.
I did not have funds to do that, but I did it.
And it was it was it was just a whole new thing to like experience like the presence
of God so strongly and just like bless you.
And one of the friends I was with saw what I did, which I was trying to be discreet,
but they saw what I did and they actually ended up like crying.
They're like, oh, my gosh, I can't believe you did that.
I was like, it's not my stuff.
It's not my stuff.
God gave me everything I have.
So I give God everything back and he wanted me to do this, so I will because that's what
I'm called to do.
And that is how we live.
We live with the mindset that everything we have is God's.
We gave it to God.
And if you didn't, then you're not living correctly.
You're not aligned with him correctly.
Everything you have is his, not yours.
Your life, your wants, your stuff, your property, your everything is his.
If he wants you to use it, you use it because it's not yours.
And you live that life like that.
So if a conclusion is that we live life like Christ, it's not my stuff.
It's his.
I gave it to him.
Amen.
And amen.
That was very well said.
Gosh.
Yeah.
OK, this is pray.
I can't.
It was a conclusion for the conclusion.
Oh, I think, yeah, we'll just close it in prayer.
Can I pray?
Yeah, it's your episode, even though I took over a lot.
It's all good.
Typical Jason.
I love it.
Now, dear Lord, thank you for the opportunity, Lord, to do this podcast with my best friend.
I just pray that Lord, remember to have a servant's heart and to humble ourselves while
doing this.
And we do it, you know, for the the kingdom, Lord, that we continue to build kingdom of
Lord of God, that everybody who listens to this will be blessed, Lord, that somebody
receive a blessing out of this, Lord, and thank you for the opportunity, Lord, and for
all you do provide, Lord, for the great.
And you for serving us and all that you've done for us, whether it be something big or
something small.
Pray this in your name.
Amen.
Next week, I am in charge of the episode and we're going to be talking about we're going
to flow through what you just said and what I said before, and we're going to go right
into preaching and teaching.
I don't know much about that.
It'll be a fun topic then.
That's something you want to hear from a pastor, pastor.
I don't know what you're talking about.
Preaching teaching what?
You just open the Bible and tell the kids to read.
No, imagine.
Oh, my gosh.
I mean, that's good.
But like, yeah, we're going to go in depth because obviously I think this works out,
though, because we went from humility to serving and then to leading.
Now we're you know, it's like a cycle because you can't have the two without the next one.
Because yeah, you have to have be able to serve as a leader and humble yourself as a
leader to teach.
Okay, fun topic.
The week after that, Dylan sarcasm.
We'll see.
You'll make some merch for that.
We give me a little T shirt.
Can you imagine?
Wait, I totally going to make a shirt that says Dylan sarcasm.
Okay, I'll do it then.
With my GTP hat.
Dylan sarcasm dash not Dylan's.
Yes.
Yeah.
Let's just do those little plugs.
Those, you know, plugs we got to throw in.
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You can find all of our social media there.
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Ooh, tick tock website.
You said wrong.
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Yes.
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I guess we'll be on the project.
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We post blogs weekly and YouTube channels available there.
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So it's cheap to 499.
It's not bad.
I dropped the price tag.
Oh my gosh, you did it.
I did.
I dropped it to 499 a month and that will not change.
It will stay 499 or you can buy the year for 40 bucks.
Maybe that savings right there of like $20.
Yeah.
Because that way and 75% of all income comes, goes into a charity, which is childhood cancer
research.
So it's a good cause.
Definitely is.
If not, if you know, money's tight, we get it because we have, we have an outreach team.
If you want to jump in and help out, you can talk about serving.
You can serve with outreach.
It doesn't have to be financial.
You, you got, we'll take it.
Yeah.
If you want to be part of the outreach program, the outreach program basically just talks
to churches and says, Hey, we have a podcast that they want to get involved.
We love to have one of their ministers as a guest, et cetera.
Like let's talk about this.
We're really open to that kind of stuff.
But if you want to be part of the ministry team to outreach team for this, we, you get
a, you get a hat.
You also get a little cards as well, like business cards.
So that kind of stuff is what is going to make a difference in the long run to make
sure that we're spreading this ministry as best we can because it's all for glorifying
God, helping others understand God and what the Bible says more, make it easier to understand
is what I was trying to say and give it back to him with charities and stuff.
So yeah.
Yeah.
Everything helps.
Whether it's your prayers, outreach, money.
Um, that's all, you know, that's all we care about that, you know, give people opportunity
to serve.
Um, so we said a stress and if not, you know what, just hit the follow button on the things
so you can see what we post and you can still share it like that too.
See you on the next one.
You on the Pivoti flop.
Bye.
Good luck.