1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:13,360 Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church. 2 00:00:13,360 --> 00:00:18,800 Good morning, good morning. 3 00:00:18,800 --> 00:00:22,360 Listen, this has been a little while since we got together, right? 4 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:24,660 We were out last week because of the snow. 5 00:00:24,660 --> 00:00:27,200 So turn to somebody and say, Hey, I haven't seen you in a while. 6 00:00:27,200 --> 00:00:28,200 Just turn right now. 7 00:00:28,200 --> 00:00:32,000 Haven't seen you in a while, give them a high five, give them a smile. 8 00:00:32,000 --> 00:00:33,560 Say it's been so long. 9 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:34,560 It's been so long. 10 00:00:34,560 --> 00:00:36,560 All right, act like you mean it. 11 00:00:36,560 --> 00:00:39,520 Hey, it's good to be back at Life House. 12 00:00:39,520 --> 00:00:43,880 We were out for a little bit of vacation and it's good to be back home and spend time with 13 00:00:43,880 --> 00:00:44,880 you. 14 00:00:44,880 --> 00:00:45,880 Man, loved the worship this morning. 15 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:48,840 I heard you singing and worshiping God. 16 00:00:48,840 --> 00:00:50,200 My heart's full this morning. 17 00:00:50,200 --> 00:00:52,720 One, because Jesus is on the phone or on the throne. 18 00:00:52,720 --> 00:00:53,720 He's not on the phone. 19 00:00:53,720 --> 00:00:56,680 He might be a little later, but he's on the throne. 20 00:00:56,680 --> 00:00:59,840 Man, it might be a long day, church. 21 00:00:59,840 --> 00:01:05,000 He's on the throne and I have my three children, their spouses and my five grand babies all 22 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,480 in the house this morning. 23 00:01:06,480 --> 00:01:07,480 So yeah, come on. 24 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:09,960 So we're excited about that. 25 00:01:09,960 --> 00:01:12,120 That doesn't happen near as much as it used to. 26 00:01:12,120 --> 00:01:16,300 So we're pretty excited when that all goes down and it's good to have each one of you 27 00:01:16,300 --> 00:01:17,920 as well this morning. 28 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:19,680 So love it. 29 00:01:19,680 --> 00:01:23,000 But listen, Zig Ziglar, how many know who Zig Ziglar is? 30 00:01:23,000 --> 00:01:24,000 You ever hear him? 31 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:25,000 Good. 32 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:26,000 Some of you do, right? 33 00:01:26,000 --> 00:01:27,720 He's a very motivational speaker. 34 00:01:27,720 --> 00:01:33,760 He says this, it's your attitude more than your aptitude that will determine your altitude. 35 00:01:33,760 --> 00:01:34,760 Okay. 36 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:36,920 That's a lot of stuff there, right? 37 00:01:36,920 --> 00:01:38,360 It's your attitude. 38 00:01:38,360 --> 00:01:39,840 Come on, say attitude. 39 00:01:39,840 --> 00:01:40,840 Right. 40 00:01:40,840 --> 00:01:44,320 More than your aptitude that will determine your altitude. 41 00:01:44,320 --> 00:01:50,040 And Zig often said this because he liked to emphasize those he was speaking to the fact 42 00:01:50,040 --> 00:01:55,800 that it's really your attitude that helps you get to a personal place of achievement 43 00:01:55,800 --> 00:01:56,800 in your life. 44 00:01:56,800 --> 00:01:57,800 Right. 45 00:01:57,800 --> 00:02:01,240 He was essentially saying that attitude is more important than a lot of other things 46 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,520 in your life to get you where you want to go. 47 00:02:03,520 --> 00:02:09,400 How high you're going to fly in any area of your life, right, can largely depend on your 48 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:12,800 attitude about that area of your life. 49 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:17,600 More than aptitude, right, which is your natural ability to do something. 50 00:02:17,600 --> 00:02:19,840 It's your gifting of some kind. 51 00:02:19,840 --> 00:02:24,920 More than your education, right, your formal training, the acquired knowledge that you 52 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:31,600 brought into your mind, even more than opportunities that might be presented to you, right, on 53 00:02:31,600 --> 00:02:33,560 me, right, in any area of life. 54 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,680 It is our attitude that determines how high we fly. 55 00:02:36,680 --> 00:02:40,600 And a lot of times where you're going to land, it's your attitude. 56 00:02:40,600 --> 00:02:43,880 And this is certainly true of following Jesus. 57 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:46,800 It is certainly true about following Jesus. 58 00:02:46,800 --> 00:02:49,800 So turn to someone right now, tell them we're going to tell, turn to somebody right now, 59 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:52,760 get them, look at them squarely and say cop an attitude this morning. 60 00:02:52,760 --> 00:02:53,760 Just go ahead. 61 00:02:53,760 --> 00:02:54,760 Tell them cop an attitude. 62 00:02:54,760 --> 00:02:55,760 Cop an attitude, right? 63 00:02:55,760 --> 00:03:00,480 Now listen, it's going to be the right attitude, right, a righteous attitude. 64 00:03:00,480 --> 00:03:03,400 Some of you are like, I'll cop an attitude. 65 00:03:03,400 --> 00:03:08,880 A Jesus, give you a Jesus dude, all right, not just any old attitude. 66 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:15,680 But Jesus spoke and he really modeled that there's really just one and only one right 67 00:03:15,680 --> 00:03:20,040 attitude to pursue as people of God. 68 00:03:20,040 --> 00:03:24,520 If we're following Jesus, if we're following him, if he's our Lord and Savior, if he's 69 00:03:24,520 --> 00:03:30,880 the Lord of our life, if he's the one that's our all in all, right, our Redeemer, there's 70 00:03:30,880 --> 00:03:33,840 only one attitude that we should carry. 71 00:03:33,840 --> 00:03:38,640 So if you got your Bible this morning, I want you to go ahead and turn to John chapter 13 72 00:03:38,640 --> 00:03:40,440 and we're going to go start off at verse one. 73 00:03:40,440 --> 00:03:45,180 We're going to go down to verse 17 and I want you to get your Bibles out and I want you 74 00:03:45,180 --> 00:03:46,680 to get your notebooks out. 75 00:03:46,680 --> 00:03:48,120 I threw a curve ball to you, right? 76 00:03:48,120 --> 00:03:52,560 I usually just say get your Bibles out and you might say, well, why get both? 77 00:03:52,560 --> 00:03:54,120 Because listen, you need the Word of God. 78 00:03:54,120 --> 00:03:57,360 I don't know if you know it or not, but it's one of your two weapons that you have as a 79 00:03:57,360 --> 00:03:58,360 believer. 80 00:03:58,360 --> 00:04:01,960 It is the Word of God that is your weapon and it is the Holy Spirit that is your weapon, 81 00:04:01,960 --> 00:04:03,720 right, to go on the offense. 82 00:04:03,720 --> 00:04:07,680 And two, you get a notebook out because your memory is not all that good, right? 83 00:04:07,680 --> 00:04:09,200 Some of you are going to forget what I said. 84 00:04:09,200 --> 00:04:13,600 Listen, God will speak to you personally this morning and you'll forget what he said till 85 00:04:13,600 --> 00:04:15,000 you get out the door and get to lunch. 86 00:04:15,000 --> 00:04:16,480 So get a notepad out. 87 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:18,080 Maybe you write in the margins of your Bible. 88 00:04:18,080 --> 00:04:20,040 So while you're turning, I'm going to pray. 89 00:04:20,040 --> 00:04:21,480 Father, we thank you for this day. 90 00:04:21,480 --> 00:04:23,480 God, we pray, Lord, as we digest your Word. 91 00:04:23,480 --> 00:04:27,080 God, as we take it in, God, that you would move in our hearts and our minds. 92 00:04:27,080 --> 00:04:30,120 God, that you would, God, grow us up, that you would nourish us. 93 00:04:30,120 --> 00:04:34,720 God, that you would increase in us your Word, Lord, that it might bring fruit into the kingdom 94 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,840 and we'll give you praise and glory in Jesus' name. 95 00:04:37,840 --> 00:04:38,840 And everybody said together. 96 00:04:38,840 --> 00:04:39,840 Amen. 97 00:04:39,840 --> 00:04:40,840 Amen. 98 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:41,840 All right. 99 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:42,840 John chapter 13. 100 00:04:42,840 --> 00:04:45,080 So what's happening here in John chapter 13? 101 00:04:45,080 --> 00:04:48,100 What's taking place in this spot in scripture? 102 00:04:48,100 --> 00:04:52,920 And it's this, Jesus is with his 12 disciples, right? 103 00:04:52,920 --> 00:04:57,360 The men that he's been training for three years and they are kind of out to eat. 104 00:04:57,360 --> 00:04:58,980 How many are going to go out to eat afterwards? 105 00:04:58,980 --> 00:04:59,980 Just go ahead and raise your hand. 106 00:04:59,980 --> 00:05:00,980 All right. 107 00:05:00,980 --> 00:05:01,980 Some of you going out. 108 00:05:01,980 --> 00:05:02,980 All right. 109 00:05:02,980 --> 00:05:07,360 They're out to eat and they didn't go to Arby's and they didn't go to Chick-fil-A because 110 00:05:07,360 --> 00:05:09,440 Chick-fil-A is not open on Sunday. 111 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:10,840 They didn't go to McDonald's. 112 00:05:10,840 --> 00:05:12,720 They didn't go to any of those places. 113 00:05:12,720 --> 00:05:16,120 They were observing Passover. 114 00:05:16,120 --> 00:05:22,080 They had a room set aside and Passover is a Jewish traditional meal that is celebrated 115 00:05:22,080 --> 00:05:27,420 but has been celebrated by the Jews and you know, which were called the Israelites back 116 00:05:27,420 --> 00:05:30,000 in biblical times for millennium. 117 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:35,240 And this meal is a time to acknowledge that Jehovah God delivered them out of Egyptian 118 00:05:35,240 --> 00:05:40,940 slavery and they do this with great purpose and there's great meaning in it and they teach 119 00:05:40,940 --> 00:05:42,640 their children about it. 120 00:05:42,640 --> 00:05:48,240 But what the disciples don't realize is that this is going to be their last Passover meal 121 00:05:48,240 --> 00:05:49,520 together. 122 00:05:49,520 --> 00:05:50,740 They may realize it. 123 00:05:50,740 --> 00:05:53,480 They may begin to realize it while they're there. 124 00:05:53,480 --> 00:05:56,760 Jesus is soon to fulfill God's plan for his life. 125 00:05:56,760 --> 00:05:59,000 He's soon to go to a Roman cross. 126 00:05:59,000 --> 00:06:00,600 He will give up his life. 127 00:06:00,600 --> 00:06:02,200 He will die on a Roman cross. 128 00:06:02,200 --> 00:06:06,260 They will bury him and they'll put him in a tomb and how many know three days later 129 00:06:06,260 --> 00:06:07,640 it all changed, right? 130 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:10,680 They place him in the tomb and three days later he comes out of the tomb. 131 00:06:10,680 --> 00:06:16,840 He goes from death to life and because that weekend and Jesus raises up out of the grave 132 00:06:16,840 --> 00:06:22,160 and he spends a limited amount of time with people at that point, but he's seen by over 133 00:06:22,160 --> 00:06:23,640 500 different witnesses. 134 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:29,520 The word of God declares that and the disciples see him again and after this takes place over 135 00:06:29,520 --> 00:06:34,440 this short period of time, he ascends to the Father in heaven. 136 00:06:34,440 --> 00:06:40,720 But it's during this last meal together that Jesus teaches them everything they need to 137 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:44,880 know about copping a right kind of toot, right? 138 00:06:44,880 --> 00:06:47,080 Not having the right attitude. 139 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:52,760 So John 13, one says this, now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that 140 00:06:52,760 --> 00:06:57,280 his hour had come and he should depart from this world to the Father, having loved his 141 00:06:57,280 --> 00:07:00,480 own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 142 00:07:00,480 --> 00:07:05,760 It's talking about the disciples and those who Jesus poured into and supper being ended, 143 00:07:05,760 --> 00:07:10,640 the devil having already put in his heart into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's 144 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:12,280 son to betray him. 145 00:07:12,280 --> 00:07:17,120 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had to come 146 00:07:17,120 --> 00:07:25,360 from God and was going to God, rose from supper and laid aside his garments, took a towel 147 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:26,720 and girded himself. 148 00:07:26,720 --> 00:07:32,680 And after that, he poured water into a basin and he began to wash the disciples feet and 149 00:07:32,680 --> 00:07:37,440 to wipe them with the towel which with he had girded himself. 150 00:07:37,440 --> 00:07:43,120 This is the last meal for those that he's closest to, those he's trained, those he's 151 00:07:43,120 --> 00:07:48,200 entrusted, those who are going to carry the gospel message into all of the world, going 152 00:07:48,200 --> 00:07:53,380 into Asia and across that parts of the country in their own country. 153 00:07:53,380 --> 00:07:55,440 They're going to take it to the Jewish people. 154 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,200 They're going to take the message to the Gentile people. 155 00:07:58,200 --> 00:08:01,380 And Jesus is spending this last meal with them. 156 00:08:01,380 --> 00:08:07,480 And he begins to model the right attitude that all followers of Jesus Christ should 157 00:08:07,480 --> 00:08:08,880 possess, right? 158 00:08:08,880 --> 00:08:14,380 And it's the attitude of a servant, of a servant. 159 00:08:14,380 --> 00:08:20,040 My attitude at any given moment in my life and in my Christian walk should be that of 160 00:08:20,040 --> 00:08:21,540 a servant, right? 161 00:08:21,540 --> 00:08:24,300 Before supper, during supper and after supper. 162 00:08:24,300 --> 00:08:26,640 How many know that covers the whole deal, right? 163 00:08:26,640 --> 00:08:33,240 Anytime before supper, during supper or after supper, my attitude, my heart should be servant. 164 00:08:33,240 --> 00:08:36,960 My mindset should be servant, right? 165 00:08:36,960 --> 00:08:39,880 My actions should be servant. 166 00:08:39,880 --> 00:08:42,760 My demeanor should be that of a servant. 167 00:08:42,760 --> 00:08:44,320 I serve God. 168 00:08:44,320 --> 00:08:48,440 I serve you and I serve the world around me. 169 00:08:48,440 --> 00:08:49,720 It's all encompassing. 170 00:08:49,720 --> 00:08:51,480 My position, right? 171 00:08:51,480 --> 00:08:53,760 My toot should be this. 172 00:08:53,760 --> 00:08:55,940 Grab a towel. 173 00:08:55,940 --> 00:08:57,040 Grab a towel. 174 00:08:57,040 --> 00:08:59,040 Get ready to serve, right? 175 00:08:59,040 --> 00:09:02,400 And some of you might be thinking, well, there's a whole bunch of other toots I'd rather have, 176 00:09:02,400 --> 00:09:03,400 right? 177 00:09:03,400 --> 00:09:05,520 How many know you can have some other toots out there, right? 178 00:09:05,520 --> 00:09:06,800 But Jesus was showing them. 179 00:09:06,800 --> 00:09:08,160 He was modeling this. 180 00:09:08,160 --> 00:09:09,740 He didn't just talk about it. 181 00:09:09,740 --> 00:09:14,320 He gets down with 12 grown men and takes out a towel. 182 00:09:14,320 --> 00:09:18,680 He takes off his garment, his outer garment, and he gets a towel and he gets a basin of 183 00:09:18,680 --> 00:09:24,720 water and he begins to wash the disciples feet one by one. 184 00:09:24,720 --> 00:09:31,320 Man, he's called us to serve and we're not to do this, you know, in some kind of grudging 185 00:09:31,320 --> 00:09:32,320 manner. 186 00:09:32,320 --> 00:09:38,520 We're not supposed to do it out of compulsion or just a sheer expectation of some kind, 187 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:39,520 right? 188 00:09:39,520 --> 00:09:43,040 It's not supposed to be a religious thing that we engage in on occasion, right? 189 00:09:43,040 --> 00:09:46,200 Just so it all feels good and looks good. 190 00:09:46,200 --> 00:09:50,400 God's son said, serve, serve. 191 00:09:50,400 --> 00:09:52,720 And this is the son of God. 192 00:09:52,720 --> 00:09:56,320 This is Jesus getting down and washing the disciples feet. 193 00:09:56,320 --> 00:10:02,120 Jesus, who had the power to literally, he had the power to call legions of angels to 194 00:10:02,120 --> 00:10:05,320 come and deliver him from mankind at any point in time. 195 00:10:05,320 --> 00:10:06,520 And the father would have honored that. 196 00:10:06,520 --> 00:10:10,000 I don't know if you realize it or not, but when he was on the cross before he was on 197 00:10:10,000 --> 00:10:14,160 the cross and anytime in between, he could have called legions of angels, right? 198 00:10:14,160 --> 00:10:20,560 Jesus, who one day was out on the water and commanded the winds and the waves to stop. 199 00:10:20,560 --> 00:10:25,360 He spoke to nature and nature had to listen to his command, literally had to obey him 200 00:10:25,360 --> 00:10:27,320 in the moment it dropped out of his mouth. 201 00:10:27,320 --> 00:10:29,000 The words came out of his mouth. 202 00:10:29,000 --> 00:10:35,400 It had to obey this same Jesus who would walk up to those who were demon possessed and literally 203 00:10:35,400 --> 00:10:41,440 command demons to be quiet or remove themselves from the person and send them away. 204 00:10:41,440 --> 00:10:45,140 The Jesus who healed diseases with the word, right? 205 00:10:45,140 --> 00:10:49,360 Jesus who spoke and think and miracles took place. 206 00:10:49,360 --> 00:10:52,360 Jesus who turned water into wine with the word. 207 00:10:52,360 --> 00:11:01,240 He said, this is Jesus kneeling down to 12 other very flawed individuals and he's washing 208 00:11:01,240 --> 00:11:02,240 their feet. 209 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:07,000 And he said, guys, I'm about to leave. 210 00:11:07,000 --> 00:11:14,020 And this is the attitude you got to have 24 seven before, during and after supper. 211 00:11:14,020 --> 00:11:16,040 You got to have this attitude. 212 00:11:16,040 --> 00:11:17,500 It's serve. 213 00:11:17,500 --> 00:11:19,760 It's grab a towel, right? 214 00:11:19,760 --> 00:11:24,200 It's grab a towel, right? 215 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:25,280 And it's not this. 216 00:11:25,280 --> 00:11:26,760 It's not wait on me, right? 217 00:11:26,760 --> 00:11:29,560 It's not pander to my every need, right? 218 00:11:29,560 --> 00:11:35,640 It's grab a towel and it's grab this kind of towel, not one of those cute towels you 219 00:11:35,640 --> 00:11:37,560 have in your bathroom, right? 220 00:11:37,560 --> 00:11:42,280 They're all pastel colors and monogrammed and nobody can wash their hands on, right? 221 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:43,280 It hangs over. 222 00:11:43,280 --> 00:11:44,280 How many of you got? 223 00:11:44,280 --> 00:11:45,520 You're all laughing because you got them in your bathroom. 224 00:11:45,520 --> 00:11:46,520 Don't touch those, right? 225 00:11:46,520 --> 00:11:48,160 Don't wash your hands on those. 226 00:11:48,160 --> 00:11:50,640 I thought that kind of towel he was talking about. 227 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:54,920 He said, grab a towel, grab one you can work with, man. 228 00:11:54,920 --> 00:12:01,240 Grab one you can wash feet with, one you can hang and wring it out and go at it again, 229 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:02,240 right? 230 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:03,480 Get a towel. 231 00:12:03,480 --> 00:12:08,640 It's your towel and wash feet, serve. 232 00:12:08,640 --> 00:12:12,760 And this isn't the first time that Jesus has this discussion with these grown men, these 233 00:12:12,760 --> 00:12:15,160 two, these disciples, these 12 disciples. 234 00:12:15,160 --> 00:12:17,680 And matter of fact, there's two disciples named James and John. 235 00:12:17,680 --> 00:12:19,000 Say James and John. 236 00:12:19,000 --> 00:12:20,840 Okay, James and John. 237 00:12:20,840 --> 00:12:23,200 And these two brothers were sitting there this day. 238 00:12:23,200 --> 00:12:24,600 All right. 239 00:12:24,600 --> 00:12:25,760 This is the Passover meal. 240 00:12:25,760 --> 00:12:31,360 They were part of the 12th and Jesus, he had a discussion with these two jokers one day. 241 00:12:31,360 --> 00:12:34,880 These two guys, they had the wrong attitude. 242 00:12:34,880 --> 00:12:39,800 They had it all messed up and it's recorded in Mark 10 and you go to verse 35 and it says 243 00:12:39,800 --> 00:12:43,480 this, then James and John, the sons of Zebedee. 244 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:46,920 Now you got to understand something about James and John before we go any further. 245 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:51,080 These are the only two people in scripture that Jesus gave them a nickname. 246 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:52,080 Isn't that cool? 247 00:12:52,080 --> 00:12:54,600 Jesus, shows Jesus had a little bit of sense of humor. 248 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:55,600 All right. 249 00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,280 He gave these guys nickname. 250 00:12:57,280 --> 00:12:58,520 Who knows what the nickname was? 251 00:12:58,520 --> 00:12:59,520 Anybody know what it is? 252 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:00,520 Say it out loud. 253 00:13:00,520 --> 00:13:01,520 Yeah, sons of thunder. 254 00:13:01,520 --> 00:13:02,520 Isn't that the coolest nickname ever? 255 00:13:02,520 --> 00:13:03,520 Sons of thunder. 256 00:13:03,520 --> 00:13:04,520 It looks like you're in a biker gang. 257 00:13:04,520 --> 00:13:09,360 It should be on the back of your jacket, right? 258 00:13:09,360 --> 00:13:10,360 Tattooed on your arm. 259 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:13,120 They were, they were, Jesus called them sons of thunder. 260 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:15,440 And he called them that because they had so much zeal. 261 00:13:15,440 --> 00:13:17,680 They had so much fire in them, right? 262 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:21,200 That they, Jesus literally nicknamed sons of thunder. 263 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:22,200 These two brothers. 264 00:13:22,200 --> 00:13:26,880 So it says then James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came to him saying, teacher, we want 265 00:13:26,880 --> 00:13:28,920 you to do for us whatever we ask. 266 00:13:28,920 --> 00:13:31,400 How many know that's not a good way to come in? 267 00:13:31,400 --> 00:13:33,480 That's not a good lead in statement, right? 268 00:13:33,480 --> 00:13:34,480 Full of humility. 269 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:35,480 Humility. 270 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:37,880 Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we ask. 271 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:39,520 And Jesus probably thought, well, here we go. 272 00:13:39,520 --> 00:13:41,860 You know, there's probably bells going off, ding, ding, ding. 273 00:13:41,860 --> 00:13:43,320 That attitude, right? 274 00:13:43,320 --> 00:13:46,120 And he's probably thinking this is going to be good, whatever's coming next. 275 00:13:46,120 --> 00:13:50,080 And Jesus, he said to them, what do you want me to do for you? 276 00:13:50,080 --> 00:13:54,000 And they said to him, grant us that we may sit one on the right hand and the other on 277 00:13:54,000 --> 00:13:55,900 your left in your glory. 278 00:13:55,900 --> 00:14:00,460 But Jesus said to them, you do not know what you are, what you ask. 279 00:14:00,460 --> 00:14:05,380 Are you able to drink the cup that I drink and be baptized with the baptism that I'm 280 00:14:05,380 --> 00:14:06,380 baptized with? 281 00:14:06,380 --> 00:14:08,340 And they said to him, we're able. 282 00:14:08,340 --> 00:14:12,260 So Jesus said to them, you will indeed drink the cup that I drink. 283 00:14:12,260 --> 00:14:15,960 And with the baptism that I'm baptized with, you will be baptized. 284 00:14:15,960 --> 00:14:19,520 See, James and John, they didn't know at this point in time. 285 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:23,660 And if you study church history, you'll find out that almost every one of those men that 286 00:14:23,660 --> 00:14:28,040 were sitting around that table, they'll be they would be murdered for their faith. 287 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:30,280 They would be killed for their faith. 288 00:14:30,280 --> 00:14:32,160 They would suffer like Jesus did. 289 00:14:32,160 --> 00:14:35,800 And James and I don't think James and John really knew what Jesus was talking about there 290 00:14:35,800 --> 00:14:36,800 yet. 291 00:14:36,800 --> 00:14:40,940 They were having this conversation and he and Jesus goes on to say, but to sit on my 292 00:14:40,940 --> 00:14:48,360 right hand and on my left is not mine to give, but it is for those whom it is prepared. 293 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:52,580 These guys come in with a bold brazen request. 294 00:14:52,580 --> 00:14:57,520 Jesus, when you come into your kingdom, when you sit on your throne, we want to be on your 295 00:14:57,520 --> 00:14:59,980 right hand and we want to be on your left hand. 296 00:14:59,980 --> 00:15:03,200 Listen, they're sliding in when the other 10 aren't paying attention, right? 297 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:05,460 Ten other disciples that are like, we're just going to come and talk to him. 298 00:15:05,460 --> 00:15:06,460 We're going to get in. 299 00:15:06,460 --> 00:15:07,460 We're going to get in on the ground floor. 300 00:15:07,460 --> 00:15:09,640 We're going to get in before anybody else does. 301 00:15:09,640 --> 00:15:11,660 And we want to sit on the right hand or on the left. 302 00:15:11,660 --> 00:15:13,320 Those are places of power. 303 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:17,320 If you know anything about a kingdom and a king to be on the right hand and the left 304 00:15:17,320 --> 00:15:20,120 side of the king, that is a place of power. 305 00:15:20,120 --> 00:15:21,120 Right? 306 00:15:21,120 --> 00:15:23,760 And first 41 says this when the 10 heard it. 307 00:15:23,760 --> 00:15:25,780 Now the other 10 heard him talking, right? 308 00:15:25,780 --> 00:15:30,300 They began to be greatly displeased with James and John. 309 00:15:30,300 --> 00:15:33,040 James and John are positioning themselves, right? 310 00:15:33,040 --> 00:15:37,680 They hatched this little plan to squeeze in beside Jesus when he's into his kingdom, right? 311 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:42,360 To grab a place of power, to grab a place of position, to grab a place where, you know, 312 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:44,880 they're going to be a place of honor, right? 313 00:15:44,880 --> 00:15:49,160 And the rest hear it and they're getting ticked off because they all want to do the same thing. 314 00:15:49,160 --> 00:15:50,160 Right? 315 00:15:50,160 --> 00:15:51,160 They start to complain. 316 00:15:51,160 --> 00:15:52,160 They start to cop a dude. 317 00:15:52,160 --> 00:15:53,160 And it's right about that time. 318 00:15:53,160 --> 00:15:55,480 Jesus says, guys, it's time for a family meeting. 319 00:15:55,480 --> 00:15:59,840 How many know family meetings when you got straighten some things up, right? 320 00:15:59,840 --> 00:16:00,840 He says it's time for a meeting. 321 00:16:00,840 --> 00:16:05,920 And verse 42 says this, but Jesus called them to himself and he said to them, you know that 322 00:16:05,920 --> 00:16:10,800 those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them. 323 00:16:10,800 --> 00:16:11,800 Right? 324 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,280 And they're great ones exercise authority over them. 325 00:16:14,280 --> 00:16:17,680 He's telling them, you know, the rulers of the Gentiles, how they rule with authority 326 00:16:17,680 --> 00:16:20,720 and they crush and they persecute. 327 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:21,720 Right? 328 00:16:21,720 --> 00:16:27,040 And he says this in 43, yet it shall not be so among you, but whoever desires to become 329 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:30,960 great among you shall be your what? 330 00:16:30,960 --> 00:16:36,760 Servant and whoever of you desires to be first shall be slave of all for even the son of 331 00:16:36,760 --> 00:16:45,040 man did not come to be served, but to serve and give his life a ransom for many. 332 00:16:45,040 --> 00:16:52,400 Only one response, only one right attitude, only one right heart, only one right position. 333 00:16:52,400 --> 00:16:54,680 And it's that of a servant. 334 00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:56,280 It's grab the towel. 335 00:16:56,280 --> 00:16:57,280 Right? 336 00:16:57,280 --> 00:16:59,920 James and John, sons of thunder, it's servant. 337 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:00,920 Grab a towel. 338 00:17:00,920 --> 00:17:01,920 Right? 339 00:17:01,920 --> 00:17:03,480 Kippen Dixie, Penrod, it's a servant. 340 00:17:03,480 --> 00:17:04,480 Grab a towel. 341 00:17:04,480 --> 00:17:05,480 Right? 342 00:17:05,480 --> 00:17:08,480 Come on, say your name right now to yourself and say, grab a towel. 343 00:17:08,480 --> 00:17:09,480 Good. 344 00:17:09,480 --> 00:17:10,480 Thanks for talking to yourself. 345 00:17:10,480 --> 00:17:11,480 All right. 346 00:17:11,480 --> 00:17:12,940 Grab a towel. 347 00:17:12,940 --> 00:17:13,940 Grab a towel. 348 00:17:13,940 --> 00:17:16,160 Sir, get it in your spirit. 349 00:17:16,160 --> 00:17:17,680 Write it in your Bible right now. 350 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:19,800 Put it in your notebook if you have to. 351 00:17:19,800 --> 00:17:23,840 And I'm not a big proponent of I'm not telling you to go get tattoos, but if you've got to 352 00:17:23,840 --> 00:17:25,320 servant on you. 353 00:17:25,320 --> 00:17:26,320 Right? 354 00:17:26,320 --> 00:17:29,360 You got you need to know you need to be a servant. 355 00:17:29,360 --> 00:17:30,580 Grab a towel. 356 00:17:30,580 --> 00:17:33,560 Get on your knees and serve. 357 00:17:33,560 --> 00:17:35,360 And serve. 358 00:17:35,360 --> 00:17:36,680 Right? 359 00:17:36,680 --> 00:17:39,680 I can see Jesus going right up the line. 360 00:17:39,680 --> 00:17:41,920 I can see 12 men. 361 00:17:41,920 --> 00:17:42,920 Right? 362 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:44,080 Just kind of stunned him. 363 00:17:44,080 --> 00:17:46,840 He's kneeling down and he's washing their feet. 364 00:17:46,840 --> 00:17:49,360 He's kneeling before them. 365 00:17:49,360 --> 00:17:50,360 Cloak removed. 366 00:17:50,360 --> 00:17:51,360 Right? 367 00:17:51,360 --> 00:17:53,880 And just him in a towel in a basin of water. 368 00:17:53,880 --> 00:17:56,920 And I can imagine the humility that filled the room. 369 00:17:56,920 --> 00:17:57,920 Right? 370 00:17:57,920 --> 00:18:00,080 These guys are just the master of all. 371 00:18:00,080 --> 00:18:03,140 The Messiah is washing their feet. 372 00:18:03,140 --> 00:18:04,140 No pride. 373 00:18:04,140 --> 00:18:05,140 No arrogance. 374 00:18:05,140 --> 00:18:06,140 No, I'm the man. 375 00:18:06,140 --> 00:18:07,140 No, I'm I'm God. 376 00:18:07,140 --> 00:18:08,480 And you need to let none of that. 377 00:18:08,480 --> 00:18:10,820 He just goes up the line. 378 00:18:10,820 --> 00:18:15,160 And if you read through this portion of scripture and you can see him going with each one, even 379 00:18:15,160 --> 00:18:16,600 the sun's a thunder. 380 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:18,880 And then all of a sudden he comes to Peter. 381 00:18:18,880 --> 00:18:20,720 I love Peter. 382 00:18:20,720 --> 00:18:21,720 All right. 383 00:18:21,720 --> 00:18:23,320 Peter's awesome in scripture. 384 00:18:23,320 --> 00:18:24,720 Peter is super passionate. 385 00:18:24,720 --> 00:18:25,720 Right? 386 00:18:25,720 --> 00:18:29,600 He's kind of he kind of leaps before he thinks a lot of times. 387 00:18:29,600 --> 00:18:30,600 Right? 388 00:18:30,600 --> 00:18:31,600 Peter's the guy. 389 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:33,520 Peter was the guy that jumped out of the boat when Jesus was on the water and said, Lord, 390 00:18:33,520 --> 00:18:34,520 bid me to come. 391 00:18:34,520 --> 00:18:35,520 Nobody else did. 392 00:18:35,520 --> 00:18:36,920 Everybody's hunkered down in a boat. 393 00:18:36,920 --> 00:18:37,920 Peter gets out of the boat. 394 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:39,160 He's just that kind of guy. 395 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,600 So you know when Jesus gets to Peter, he's just not going to sit there hot, quietly and 396 00:18:42,600 --> 00:18:43,960 humbly and he doesn't. 397 00:18:43,960 --> 00:18:44,960 Right? 398 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:45,960 It says this. 399 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:46,960 Then he came to Simon Peter. 400 00:18:46,960 --> 00:18:48,240 He's washing feet. 401 00:18:48,240 --> 00:18:51,880 And Peter said to him, Lord, are you washing my feet? 402 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:56,720 And Jesus answered and said to him, what I'm doing, you do not understand now, but you 403 00:18:56,720 --> 00:18:58,840 will know after this. 404 00:18:58,840 --> 00:19:01,560 Peter said to him, you shall never wash my feet. 405 00:19:01,560 --> 00:19:02,560 He's talking to Jesus. 406 00:19:02,560 --> 00:19:05,400 Now, I don't think Peter was trying to be arrogant. 407 00:19:05,400 --> 00:19:06,400 I don't think he was trying. 408 00:19:06,400 --> 00:19:10,840 I think this was somehow Peter's way of being, you know, showing humility like Jesus, you're 409 00:19:10,840 --> 00:19:11,840 Messiah. 410 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:12,840 You're not going to wash my feet. 411 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:13,840 Right? 412 00:19:13,840 --> 00:19:18,160 And Jesus answered and said, if I do not wash you, you have no part with me. 413 00:19:18,160 --> 00:19:20,360 And I love Peter's response because this is so Peter. 414 00:19:20,360 --> 00:19:22,640 He isn't just humbly sit down and say, okay, Jesus. 415 00:19:22,640 --> 00:19:23,640 Right? 416 00:19:23,640 --> 00:19:27,240 Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but my hands and my head. 417 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:28,240 Right? 418 00:19:28,240 --> 00:19:30,640 He gets super emphatic, like wash everything, Jesus. 419 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:31,640 Right? 420 00:19:31,640 --> 00:19:36,840 Jesus said to him, he who bathes needs only to wash his feet. 421 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:38,800 But it's completely clean. 422 00:19:38,800 --> 00:19:41,240 And you are clean, but not all of you. 423 00:19:41,240 --> 00:19:43,360 For he knew who would betray him. 424 00:19:43,360 --> 00:19:46,280 Therefore he said, you are not all clean. 425 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:48,020 Jesus is going one by one. 426 00:19:48,020 --> 00:19:52,440 And Jesus talks about one that's not clean and he's talking about Judas. 427 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,440 Because Judas would be the disciple that would betray Jesus. 428 00:19:55,440 --> 00:19:59,740 He would sell out for 30 pieces of silver. 429 00:19:59,740 --> 00:20:03,080 And I could stop and preach here a while this morning because there's a lot of depth that 430 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:04,960 we could go into right here. 431 00:20:04,960 --> 00:20:08,100 And I don't really have time or I'm going to get off subject of where we're going. 432 00:20:08,100 --> 00:20:12,480 But I will say this, even when you're getting it right, even when you're serving, right, 433 00:20:12,480 --> 00:20:16,520 even when your attitude is right, even when you got a towel in your hand and you're humbly 434 00:20:16,520 --> 00:20:20,840 kneeling before others and you got a right to just to listen, understand that does not 435 00:20:20,840 --> 00:20:23,400 exempt you from a Judas in your life. 436 00:20:23,400 --> 00:20:27,280 That does not exempt you from a betrayer being somewhere amongst your ranks. 437 00:20:27,280 --> 00:20:28,280 Okay? 438 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:30,680 Understand that that's part of it when you're following Jesus. 439 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:32,440 Keep the right attitude. 440 00:20:32,440 --> 00:20:34,160 Keep the towel in your hand. 441 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:35,920 Don't get frustrated and walk away. 442 00:20:35,920 --> 00:20:36,920 Don't stop. 443 00:20:36,920 --> 00:20:39,560 You know, I'm just not serving anybody anymore. 444 00:20:39,560 --> 00:20:41,080 Don't do it. 445 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:44,240 Just keep following Jesus. 446 00:20:44,240 --> 00:20:48,440 Verse 12 says, so when he had washed their feet, taking his garment and sat down again, 447 00:20:48,440 --> 00:20:52,200 he said to them, do you know what I've done for you? 448 00:20:52,200 --> 00:20:56,060 You call me teacher and Lord and you say, well, for I so I am. 449 00:20:56,060 --> 00:21:01,000 If I then your Lord and teacher have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's 450 00:21:01,000 --> 00:21:05,400 feet for I have given you an example that you should do as I have done to you. 451 00:21:05,400 --> 00:21:10,240 Most assuredly I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master nor is he who 452 00:21:10,240 --> 00:21:13,200 is sent greater than he who sent him. 453 00:21:13,200 --> 00:21:14,880 You know these things. 454 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:20,120 Blessed are you if you do them. 455 00:21:20,120 --> 00:21:29,080 The only right attitude, the only right heart, the only right action is serve. 456 00:21:29,080 --> 00:21:30,080 It's serve. 457 00:21:30,080 --> 00:21:31,080 It's serve. 458 00:21:31,080 --> 00:21:32,560 It's be a servant. 459 00:21:32,560 --> 00:21:39,240 And the only right motivation to feed our attitude is that we get to do this. 460 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:41,240 All right? 461 00:21:41,240 --> 00:21:42,240 We get to do this. 462 00:21:42,240 --> 00:21:45,560 It's the only right motivation to serve. 463 00:21:45,560 --> 00:21:50,840 It's the only right motivation to feed my attitude is that I get to do this. 464 00:21:50,840 --> 00:21:55,040 It's the only right approach in coming to be a servant. 465 00:21:55,040 --> 00:21:56,540 Right? 466 00:21:56,540 --> 00:22:03,000 It's the idea that he allows me to serve, that he commissions me to serve, that he's 467 00:22:03,000 --> 00:22:09,940 asked me to serve, excuse me, that it's an honor to serve, that serving is the very minimal 468 00:22:09,940 --> 00:22:14,560 response for the very maximum sacrifice that he made. 469 00:22:14,560 --> 00:22:15,560 Amen? 470 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:16,560 It's true. 471 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:21,480 And that I am so grateful that I get to serve, that we get to do this. 472 00:22:21,480 --> 00:22:22,480 Say it. 473 00:22:22,480 --> 00:22:23,560 We get to do this. 474 00:22:23,560 --> 00:22:24,920 We get to do this. 475 00:22:24,920 --> 00:22:29,240 It's the only reasonable response to the sacrifice that Jesus made. 476 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:30,240 It's the only reasonable one. 477 00:22:30,240 --> 00:22:31,520 I get to do this. 478 00:22:31,520 --> 00:22:32,520 Right? 479 00:22:32,520 --> 00:22:38,880 Because beyond this, you know, to be beyond this, you're going to slide into pride and 480 00:22:38,880 --> 00:22:45,240 arrogance if you don't grab this in your heart, if this isn't your motivation behind serving, 481 00:22:45,240 --> 00:22:46,240 right? 482 00:22:46,240 --> 00:22:49,480 An attitude of I get to do this. 483 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:52,680 And you got to understand something about motivation in your life. 484 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,000 Your motivation will come from a source. 485 00:22:55,000 --> 00:22:56,680 And you know what that source is? 486 00:22:56,680 --> 00:23:00,840 The source of your motivation is what you're speaking to yourself. 487 00:23:00,840 --> 00:23:02,160 It really is. 488 00:23:02,160 --> 00:23:08,320 What I tell myself feeds the motivation which sets for my attitude, which manifests in all 489 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:09,320 kind of actions. 490 00:23:09,320 --> 00:23:10,320 Right? 491 00:23:10,320 --> 00:23:17,160 What I speak to my attitude, my toot is an end product of my self talk. 492 00:23:17,160 --> 00:23:19,320 It really is. 493 00:23:19,320 --> 00:23:22,680 And if you don't believe this, I want you to sit down this afternoon and have an in-depth 494 00:23:22,680 --> 00:23:25,920 conversation with a teenager about their parents. 495 00:23:25,920 --> 00:23:26,920 Okay? 496 00:23:26,920 --> 00:23:28,280 Sit a teenager down. 497 00:23:28,280 --> 00:23:29,280 Right? 498 00:23:29,280 --> 00:23:33,680 Anything, any teenager between the age of 13 and 16, sit them down, maybe 17, maybe 499 00:23:33,680 --> 00:23:34,880 even 18. 500 00:23:34,880 --> 00:23:35,880 Sit them down. 501 00:23:35,880 --> 00:23:36,880 Right? 502 00:23:36,880 --> 00:23:37,880 And I want you to have discussion. 503 00:23:37,880 --> 00:23:42,440 Find out if you get a teenager who sits down and they really get to be honest and they 504 00:23:42,440 --> 00:23:46,640 start to say that their parents are idiots. 505 00:23:46,640 --> 00:23:52,920 How many know that that kid's going to have, how many know that a toot is going to be constructed 506 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:53,920 from that child? 507 00:23:53,920 --> 00:23:54,920 Right? 508 00:23:54,920 --> 00:23:59,840 They're going to, what they're saying to themselves will begin to be the motivation that will construct 509 00:23:59,840 --> 00:24:02,280 an attitude of some kind. 510 00:24:02,280 --> 00:24:05,160 And how many know that will manifest in your home in some way? 511 00:24:05,160 --> 00:24:06,160 Right? 512 00:24:06,160 --> 00:24:07,160 It's true. 513 00:24:07,160 --> 00:24:10,560 How many know as a parent you're going to get the spirit of slap come over you? 514 00:24:10,560 --> 00:24:11,560 Right? 515 00:24:11,560 --> 00:24:13,400 In a half a second you have a spirit of slap. 516 00:24:13,400 --> 00:24:17,080 I didn't say you're going to slap them, but the spirit of slap will fall upon you. 517 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:18,080 Right? 518 00:24:18,080 --> 00:24:19,080 It's true. 519 00:24:19,080 --> 00:24:20,680 It's what you're speaking to yourself. 520 00:24:20,680 --> 00:24:25,120 You take that same teenager and they finally figure it out and they're like, well, my parents 521 00:24:25,120 --> 00:24:28,120 love me and they're doing this because they want the best for me. 522 00:24:28,120 --> 00:24:29,120 Right? 523 00:24:29,120 --> 00:24:30,120 And they're telling themselves that kind of thing. 524 00:24:30,120 --> 00:24:31,440 How many know the toot goes away? 525 00:24:31,440 --> 00:24:32,440 Right? 526 00:24:32,440 --> 00:24:33,440 And the spirit of slap leaves. 527 00:24:33,440 --> 00:24:34,440 Right? 528 00:24:34,440 --> 00:24:35,680 It departs from you. 529 00:24:35,680 --> 00:24:36,680 It's true. 530 00:24:36,680 --> 00:24:39,600 It's what I'm telling myself every day. 531 00:24:39,600 --> 00:24:43,560 If you're going to work and you're on your drive to work or your commute and some of 532 00:24:43,560 --> 00:24:45,320 you that's just from your bedroom to your computer. 533 00:24:45,320 --> 00:24:46,320 Right? 534 00:24:46,320 --> 00:24:47,320 And you're walking that direction. 535 00:24:47,320 --> 00:24:48,320 You're thinking this is hideous. 536 00:24:48,320 --> 00:24:49,320 This is horrible. 537 00:24:49,320 --> 00:24:52,360 This is some kind of cosmic torture that I got ripped into. 538 00:24:52,360 --> 00:24:53,360 Right? 539 00:24:53,360 --> 00:24:54,540 Pulled into, sucked into. 540 00:24:54,540 --> 00:24:56,420 You start telling yourself that every day. 541 00:24:56,420 --> 00:24:59,680 How many know you're going to you are not going to get employee of the month. 542 00:24:59,680 --> 00:25:00,680 You are not. 543 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:01,680 All right. 544 00:25:01,680 --> 00:25:06,240 You're going to come in with it to what you're telling yourself is the motivation that feeds 545 00:25:06,240 --> 00:25:10,480 your attitude and it will manifest in your actions. 546 00:25:10,480 --> 00:25:11,480 It will. 547 00:25:11,480 --> 00:25:13,680 And it's the same thing with God. 548 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:18,560 What I'm telling myself, if I tell myself I get to serve, even if I get abused, even 549 00:25:18,560 --> 00:25:23,000 if I get talked about, even if I get smacked around a little bit, you know, and I'm talking 550 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:24,880 emotionally, not physically, right? 551 00:25:24,880 --> 00:25:25,880 Whatever it is. 552 00:25:25,880 --> 00:25:32,240 If I tell myself it's an honor to serve God, it's an amazing thing because it is because 553 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,080 we get to do this. 554 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:39,120 It changes your attitude and it will show up. 555 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:42,760 It will manifest itself in what you do. 556 00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:45,000 You want a quick measurement of your attitude. 557 00:25:45,000 --> 00:25:49,120 You want to get a quick way to figure out where your attitude is exactly. 558 00:25:49,120 --> 00:25:50,280 Here's how you do it. 559 00:25:50,280 --> 00:25:53,400 Just start to think about what your default response is to something. 560 00:25:53,400 --> 00:25:54,400 All right. 561 00:25:54,400 --> 00:25:57,840 Now I'm not talking about your plan response because everybody, some people respond, they 562 00:25:57,840 --> 00:26:01,360 get some time to think about it and you know what you do instead of just respond. 563 00:26:01,360 --> 00:26:04,040 You think about what's the right thing to do and what's the right thing to say. 564 00:26:04,040 --> 00:26:09,840 I'm saying whatever your default response is to something, it will declare, it will 565 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:13,360 speak out what your attitude is about something, right? 566 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:17,560 The default, what's your knee jerk reaction when somebody says something? 567 00:26:17,560 --> 00:26:21,560 When somebody, and you start to find out what you've been telling yourself, you'll start 568 00:26:21,560 --> 00:26:23,600 to find out where your attitude lays. 569 00:26:23,600 --> 00:26:26,520 You'll start to find out the motivation that's in your heart, right? 570 00:26:26,520 --> 00:26:32,680 It'll all start to come to the surface and you'll know. 571 00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:35,840 Is it servant or is it something else? 572 00:26:35,840 --> 00:26:39,920 Zach, if you and the worship team would come. 573 00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:46,000 What is my knee jerk reaction when somebody says something? 574 00:26:46,000 --> 00:26:51,200 Because I can assure you whatever that is, that's because what you're telling yourself, 575 00:26:51,200 --> 00:26:55,000 what you've been speaking to yourself and it's, and it'll manifest in a heartbeat when 576 00:26:55,000 --> 00:26:57,040 you don't have time to think about it, right? 577 00:26:57,040 --> 00:26:59,360 It's just an outflow of what's really there. 578 00:26:59,360 --> 00:27:02,000 Now we can all formulate a response, right? 579 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:05,880 And you might be saying, well, pastor, are you telling me that every time somebody asks 580 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:10,000 me to serve, I should serve, I should say yes? 581 00:27:10,000 --> 00:27:15,600 And my answer to that is yes, if it's the Lord asking, right? 582 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:17,520 If it's the Lord prompting you. 583 00:27:17,520 --> 00:27:22,560 And you're saying, listen, you can tell me no, you can tell somebody else no, but if 584 00:27:22,560 --> 00:27:26,760 the Lord's asking you to serve and he tells us to serve, if he's asking you to serve, 585 00:27:26,760 --> 00:27:28,960 you serve, right? 586 00:27:28,960 --> 00:27:30,640 And I'll go even a step further than that. 587 00:27:30,640 --> 00:27:33,960 If somebody's talking to you and they're asking you to serve and what they're saying sounds 588 00:27:33,960 --> 00:27:38,360 a whole lot like what Jesus is saying in your life to serve, you might want to pick up a 589 00:27:38,360 --> 00:27:40,440 towel, right? 590 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:42,240 Because you get to do this. 591 00:27:42,240 --> 00:27:44,360 You get to do this. 592 00:27:44,360 --> 00:27:46,040 We get to do, come on, say it with me. 593 00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:48,400 We get to do this. 594 00:27:48,400 --> 00:27:49,400 We get to do this. 595 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:50,400 Thank you for tuning in to this message from Lifehack.com. 596 00:27:50,400 --> 00:28:05,880 We pray that you were impacted powerfully by this message. 597 00:28:05,880 --> 00:28:10,000 If you have been personally affected by our ministry and you would like to partner with 598 00:28:10,000 --> 00:28:21,600 us as we love God, love people every day, visit our website at www.LifehouseCOG.com.