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Your Judas

Sooner or Later, Everyone Get's a Betrayer

The fire, the hammer and the file of a betrayal may result in some of God’s finest craftsmanship—if you keep your heart soft and your eye on him. If you are going through the pain of a betrayer’s wound right now, remember, you are walking where great people have walked before. Their greatness came because they didn’t allow betrayal to ruin them; they learned how to turn their pain into greater usefulness for the Lord.

The Journey: Matthew 26:19

From that time on, Judas began looking for an opportunity to betray Jesus.

Sorry to be the one to break the news to you, but everybody gets a Judas in life. At one point or another, you will bear the pain of someone you trusted thrusting the knife in your back. It is simply, and sadly, the awful reality of living in a broken world alongside fallen human beings.

The passionate Scottish patriot William Wallace experienced it when Earl Robert de Bruce betrayed him. Julius Caesar knew such treachery. Among the 60 conspirators who assassinated the Roman leader on March 15, 44 BC was Marcus Junius Brutus. Caesar not only trusted Brutus, he favored him as a son. According to Roman historians, Caesar first resisted his assassins, but when he saw Brutus among them with his dagger drawn, he gave up. He pulled the top part of his robe over his face, and uttered those heartrending words immortalized by Shakespeare, “Et tu Brutus”, or as the historians have recorded, “You, too, my child?”

Not even the brightest theological mind who ever lived—the Apostle Paul—or the most perfect human being—Jesus Christ—was spared. Michael Card wrote,

Only a friend can betray a friend, a stranger has nothing to gain
Only a friend comes close enough to ever cause so much pain.

So here’s the thing: Are you willing to consider the possibility that God has a far deeper work to do in you that can only come through the betrayer’s knife. Charles Spurgeon said,

I bear willing witness that I owe more to the fire, the hammer and the file than to anything else in the Lord’s workshop. I sometimes question whether I have ever learned anything except through the rod. When my schoolroom is darkened, I see the most.

The truth is, the fire, the hammer and the file of a betrayal may result in some of God’s finest craftsmanship—if you keep your heart soft and your eye on him. If you are going through the pain of a betrayer’s wound right now, remember, you are walking where great people have walked before. Their greatness came because they didn’t allow betrayal to ruin them; they learned how to turn their pain into greater usefulness for the Lord.

Jesus responded to Judas’ money-making treachery with obedient submission to God—and transformed the world. Perhaps God wants to use your pain to form you, and transform your world.

If you are going through the pain of betrayal, memorize and pray Psalm 55:16-17, 22, a song David penned in a time of betrayal:

But I call to God, and the LORD saves me. Evening, morning and noon I cry out in distress, and he hears my voice…Cast your cares on the LORD and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous fall.

A Simple Prayer To Be More Like Jesus:

God, I call to you: save me! My heart is broken over the pain of having someone I knew, someone I cared for, someone I have called “friend”, turn around and stab me in the back. This is too much to bear. But you, O Lord, know the pain of betrayal by one so close. Give me your strength, put your heart in mine, help me to love as you would if you were in my place. Turn this for my good and your glory.
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Hell For Real – And Forever – But So Is Heaven

Jesus Experienced Hell So We Wouldn’t Have To

Hell is an awful reality, and that is why we must to do everything we can to make it really hard for people to go there. Love requires that from us, since God’s love sent Jesus to give people every chance on this side of eternity to escape it. God’s love sent Jesus to experience hell for them so they could spend eternity with him. So push past your awkwardness in sharing the truth, and out of love, invite your loved ones into God’s saving love.

The Journey: Matthew 25:41

Then the King will turn to those on the left and say, ‘Away with you, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his demons.

Is hell for real…and forever? That has become a hot topic in evangelical circles in recent year (although it has been around for centuries). A certain well-known pastor of one of America’s so-called “mega-churches” came to the conclusion that possibly, just maybe, perhaps there is an escape clause in the whole “eternal” part of the doctrine of hell.

On what does he base this departure from orthodox theology? The love of God, of course. After all, how could a loving God actually send people to hell forever? The thought behind this is that God’s love will ultimately triumph over man’s sinfulness, and in the end (even after death), every human being will come to the faith Christians have expressed in this life that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior. At this point, I think it would be a helpful reminder to think about what John Hannah said on this matter: “No one who is ever in hell will be able to say to God, ‘You put me here,’ and no one who is in heaven will ever be able to say, ‘I put myself here.’”

The general term for those who hold such the belief that hell is not really forever is “universalism.” Theologian J. I. Packer says this of universalism:

A universalist is someone who believes that every human being whom God has created or will create will finally come to enjoy the everlasting salvation into which Christians enter here and now…it appears as an extreme optimism of grace, or perhaps of nature, and sometimes, it seems, of both. But in itself it is a revisionist challenge to orthodoxy, whether Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, or Protestant evangelical; for the church has officially rated universalism a heresy ever since the second Council of Constantinople (the fifth ecumenical council, A.D. 553), when the doctrine of apokatastasis (the universal return to God and restoration of all souls) that Origen taught was anathematized.

According to Jesus, who knows more about heaven and hell than anyone, and according to other Scripture, hell is not a temporary place to pay for sins, it is a place of eternal hopelessness where sooner or later those that are there will realize there is no second chance. Leighton Ford said,

The fire, outer darkness, the thirst [of hell] depict spiritual separation from God, moral remorse, the consciousness that one deserves what he’s getting. Hell is disintegration—the eternal loss of being a real person. In hell the mathematician who lived for his science can’t add two and two. The concert pianist who worshipped himself through his art can’t play a simple scale. The man who lived for sex goes on in eternal lust, with nobody to exploit. The woman who made a god out of fashion has a thousand dresses but no mirror! Hell is eternal desire— eternally unfulfilled.

Hell is an awful reality, and that is why we must do everything we can to make it really hard for people to go there. Love requires that from us, and God’s love sent Jesus to give people every chance on this side of eternity to escape it. He, himself, paid the price to get you out of hell and into heaven!

The great preacher Henry Ironside told the story of pioneers who were making their way across the country to a place that had been opened up for homesteading. They traveled in covered wagons, and progress was very slow. One day they were horrified to see a long line of smoke in the west, stretching for miles across the prairie. It was evident that the dried grass was burning toward them rapidly. They faced certain death. But one man knew what do, and he set fire to the grass behind them, then had them move back on it once it had burned. As the flames roared on toward them, a little girl began to scream in terror, “Are you sure we’ll not all be burned up?” The man replied, “Child, the flames can’t reach us here, for we are standing where the fire has been!”

What a picture of being safe in Christ! The fires of God’s judgment burned themselves out on Jesus, and those who are in Christ are safe forever.

Hallelujah! We are standing where the fire has been.

Do you know someone who has not received eternal life by placing saving faith in Jesus Christ? What would God’s love have you to do for them? For starters, you can pray the following simple prayer.

A Simple Prayer To Be More Like Jesus:

God, far too many people in my life are bound for a Christless eternity. Would you help me to push past my awkwardness in sharing them the truth about the price Jesus paid to grant them eternal life? Overwhelm me in your love for them, the love that sent Jesus to experience hell for them so they could spend eternity with him. May my life mission be that people will have to push past me to get to hell.
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Risking Faith

There Is No Risk In Being Faithful

Just like the servants in the Parable of the Talents, you, too, have been given kingdom potential and kingdom opportunity. You have been given them according to your ability—not anyone else’s. You won’t be judged against either another’s potential or their actual production. Your only benchmark is your own faithfulness. As Charles Robinson pointed out, “The reward of being ‘faithful over a few things’ is just the same as being ‘faithful over many things’; for the emphasis falls upon the same word; it is the ‘faithful’ who will enter ‘into the joy of their Lord.’” It matters not if you have five, three or one talent potential. What matters is what you do with what you have been given.

The Journey: Matthew 25:15-18

Again, the Kingdom of Heaven can be illustrated by the story of a man going on a long trip. He called together his servants and entrusted his money to them while he was gone. He gave five bags of silver to one, two bags of silver to another, and one bag of silver to the last—dividing it in proportion to their abilities. He then left on his trip. … But the servant who received the one bag of silver dug a hole in the ground and hid the master’s money.

You probably know this Parable of the Talents well. The servants were given talents (a sum of money) each according to their ability, with the expectation that they would use these resources to produce something of benefit for the master.

The first two did—and were rewarded handsomely; the third didn’t—and was rebuked harshly. In fact, the talent was taken from the latter and given to the first servant, since he had proven to the master that he could increase exponentially whatever was placed within his care.

Now I have no way to prove this theologically, but I have a strong suspicion about this third servant. I don’t think the master would have excoriated him if effort had at least preceded his failure. I think it was because he didn’t try that the master’s anger was unleashed upon him. He played it safe. He feared failing, so he didn’t risk anything. This one-talent servant simply took what he had been given, protected it, and turned it back over to the master in the same condition in which he had received it. And the master blew a gasket!

This gracious but just master had entrusted something special to the servant and the servant did nothing to expand it. Now here is a crucial part of this story: The master had given his servant the talent according to his ability (verse 15). In other words, the master knew, even though it was small, there was production potential in this servant. But the servant wasted it! He let a golden opportunity slip by, and paid a heavy price for effortlessness. He didn’t damage the talent; he didn’t lose it; he preserved it—thinking he was doing the master a favor. However, the master found that kind of fear-based, lazy-hearted stewardship odious and offensive.

You, too, have been given a talent—probably more: talents in the literal sense of the word, and talents in the sense of kingdom potential and kingdom opportunities. You have been given them according to your ability—not anyone else’s. You won’t be judged against either another’s potential or their actual production. Your only benchmark is your own faithfulness. As Charles Robinson pointed out,

The reward of being ‘faithful over a few things’ is just the same as being ‘faithful over many things’; for the emphasis falls upon the same word; it is the ‘faithful’ who will enter ‘into the joy of their Lord.’

It matters not if you have five, three or one talent potential. What matters is what you do with what you have been given. You have been given your talents with the expectation that you will leverage your abilities to increase those talents and enlarge the kingdom for the real Master’s sake.

The whole point of this story is this: Don’t waste your opportunities. Don’t let the possibility of failure paralyze you into inaction. If you do, the regret at the end of your faith journey won’t be that you tried and failed. It will be that you didn’t try.

Risk a little. Even if you fall flat on your face, the fact that your heart was pure and your motive was to increase your Master’s kingdom will bring you to the joyful place of hearing him say to you on that glorious day,

Well done, good and faithful servant; you have been faithful over a few things,
I will make you ruler over many things.
Enter into the joy of your lord.
(Matthew 25:23)

A Simple Prayer To Be More Like Jesus:

God, all that I have is on loan from you—talents, resources, skills, gifts and opportunities. Today, grant me the courage to increase them for your glory. May I know how great a good it is simply to please you which is all the reward I truly need and desire.
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Are You Ready?

Your Answer Awaits The Most Important Question Of All

The question of when and the details of how the end will come that so many people are focused on, though interesting, are not nearly as important as this one overriding issue: Are you watching, and are you ready? As John Frederick Boyes said, “It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.”

The Journey: Matthew 24:42-43

So you, too, must keep watch! For you don’t know what day your Lord is coming. Understand this: If a homeowner knew exactly when a burglar was coming, he would keep watch and not permit his house to be broken into. You also must be ready all the time, for the Son of Man will come when least expected.

Forty years ago, singer-songwriter Barry McGuire sang a song called, “Eve of Destruction.” Today, a lot of people think McGuire was dead on—that we are on the eve of destruction! Given conditions around the world, can Planet Earth as we know it continue much longer? Can the human race survive? Are we living in the end times?

Wars, rumors of war, global warming, the real possibility of pandemic, drug-resistant disease, hurricanes, tsunamis, earthquakes, the inexorable march toward a one-world government, the increase of evil, the rising tide of Islam, instability and unpredictability in the Middle East, escalating hostility toward Israel, increasing intolerance of Christianity, and the alarming surge of rage and violence that is being directed at believers!

Sounds like a nightly news program on CNN or Fox News, doesn’t it? Yet it is right off the pages of scripture. The fact is, 2,000 years ago Jesus predicted these very things that are happening today in Matthew 24 when he said, “So you also, when you see all these things, know that it is near—at the doors!” (v. 33)

For very good reason, interest in the end times is at an all-time high! Just look at the unbelievable success of the wildly popular “Left Behind” series—100 million copies sold. People want to know the future! And that’s not bad since we’re going to spend a long time there!

History is hurtling toward a conclusion—one that God has already ordained and foretold in the Bible. It could be soon—it could be today, or tonight, or this week, or it could be another thousand years from now. But no matter when, as the Bible says, God is not slow in fulfilling his Word—Jesus is coming back!

So what are you to do in response to that? Jesus twice said, “Watch and be ready for my coming.” (Verses 42,44) Jesus didn’t talk about the future just to get a crowd or to fill his disciples’ brains with prophetic minutiae. His purpose wasn’t to get them so hyped and overly focused on the second coming that they dropped everything to wait for his return. It wasn’t to make them so heavenly minded they were no earthly good.

Here’s the deal: Jesus’ prophetic sermon wasn’t meant just to clue us in, but to clean us up! He said these things to provoke us to purity! The Apostle John, who knew a fair amount about the end times—he wrote a book to which all other prophetic books combined don’t hold a candle, the Revelations—spoke of our hope in Christ’s return this way:

This hope makes us keep ourselves holy, just as Christ is holy. (1 John 3:3, CEV)

So the question of when and the details of how the end will come that so many people are focused on, though interesting, are not nearly as important as this one overriding issue: Are you watching, and are you ready? As John Frederick Boyes said, “It is vain to be always looking toward the future and never acting toward it.”

A Simple Prayer To Be More Like Jesus:

God, I long for the appearing of your Son. I ask, that by the indwelling power of the Holy Spirit, that this longing will grow increasingly intense as the end nears. I want to be one who is found watching and ready when Jesus returns..
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Proof of Life

The Empty Tomb Still Can’t Be Explained Away

The resurrection of Jesus isn’t just a nice little sidebar to the Easter story, it is central and essential to authentic Christian faith. That is why skeptics, scoffers and Satanic forces have tried to explain it away for two thousand years. However, you and I can be confident that the resurrection is not just some myth perpetuated by fanatical followers, it is the truth. How do we know that? There is proof of life!

The Journey: Matthew 28:11-15

Some of the guards went into the city and told the leading priests what had happened. A meeting with the elders was called, and they decided to give the soldiers a large bribe. They told the soldiers, “You must say, ‘Jesus’ disciples came during the night while we were sleeping, and they stole his body.’ … So the guards accepted the bribe and said what they were told to say. Their story spread widely among the Jews, and they still tell it today.

The resurrection of Jesus isn’t just a nice little sidebar to the Easter story, it is central and essential to authentic Christian faith. That is why skeptics, scoffers and Satanic forces have tried to explain it away for two thousand years. However, you and I can be confident that the resurrection is not just some myth perpetuated by fanatical followers, it is the truth. How do we know that? There is proof of life!

To begin with, there is an amazing amount of physical proof. In Matthew’s resurrection account, the Jewish leaders went to great lengths to prevent a story about this dead Messiah magically rising from the grave, so they sealed the tomb and posted a guard unit. The initial evidence that a resurrection occurred was the broken seal, which, if tampered with, carried severe consequences under Roman law. So frightened by this broken seal and the empty tomb was the battle-hardened Roman guard unit that they deserted their post—an act punishable by death.

In Mark’s Gospel, the evidence shows the large stone over the tomb’s entrance had been moved. Mark 16 says the three women who came to anoint Jesus’ body were concerned about how the stone—typically weighing between three to four thousand pounds according to archaeologists—would got rolled back from the tomb. Some Bible scholars suggest that the wording of the Greek text in Mark indicates that this stone wasn’t just rolled to one side, it was literally picked up and carried away—amazing proof that something supernatural had happened.

In Luke’s account, yet another physical proof is the empty tomb itself. All anyone had to do to disprove this story was show a body in a tomb. Produce a dead body and the story dies.

Finally, in John’s Gospel, we find physical evidence of the grave-clothes, without a body in them. These were linen burial cloths, soaked with almost one hundred pounds of spices and myrrh, that were wrapped around the corpse. When this process was done the myrrh became like gum, making the clothes very hard to remove. A hastily removed body was not such an easy thing.

Not only was there physical evidence, there were visual proofs. In the accounts of five different writers, the risen Christ made thirteen separate appearances to a total of 557 witnesses who saw the risen Jesus with their own eyes. In I Corinthians 15:6, the Apostle Paul said most of the 500 plus eye-witnesses were still alive at the time of his writing who could verify what had happened.

As amazing as the physical evidence and the eye-witness proof is, the most amazing evidence, however, is the transformational proof in the changed lives of Christ’s followers. What else could account for eleven cowardly disciples becoming bold proclaimers of the resurrection and ultimately giving their lives for this cause. What else could account for a brilliant Jewish scholar and anti-Christian fanatic named Paul being converted and becoming the most effective evangelist ever—and ultimately getting beheaded for his belief in the One whom he had formerly persecuted.

Time and space do not permit listing the many other proofs of the resurrection here, but Acts 1:3 says, “During the forty days after his crucifixion, Jesus appeared to these people many times with convincing proofs that he was actually alive.” When you consider the historical, verifiable evidence—convincing physical, visual and the transformational proof of the resurrection—you are forced to decide about Jesus: He is either the risen Lord, or this is the most incredible hoax ever foisted upon humanity. Either Christianity is a body of truth worthy of ordering your life by, or it ought to be swept into the dustbin of history.

Dr. William F. Albright, the famous Johns Hopkins archaeologist, said, “For a mere legend [or lie or the psychological fabrications of lunatics] about Christ…to have gained circulation and to have had the impact it had [in the 1st century], without one shred of basis in fact, is [unbelievable].”

Thomas Arnold, Professor of History Oxford and author of the three-volume History of Rome, wrote, “Thousands and tens of thousands have gone through the evidence which attests the resurrection of Christ, piece by piece, as carefully as ever a judge summed up on the most important case. I have myself done it many times over, not to persuade others, but to satisfy myself. I have been used for many years to study the history of other times, and to examine and weigh the evidence of those who have written about them, and I know of no fact in the history of mankind which is proved by better and fitter evidence and every kind.”

In other words, to deny the resurrection would be harder to swallow than the truth.

The Bible says if you choose to follow the One who is alive, you will experience resurrection power. Follow the proof and you will find the power. Accept the resurrection as truth, accept the Risen Christ as Savior and Lord, and you will experience true Easter power. As the Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 8:11,

And if the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead is living in you, he who raised Christ from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit, who lives in you.

A Simple Prayer To Be More Like Jesus:

God, I believe in my heart and confess with my mouth that you raised Jesus from the dead. Today I choose to live as a resurrection believer. Now, I pray, fill me with the same Spirit that raised Jesus so that the resurrection power can course through my being, bringing kingdom life into me.
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Is The End Near?

How You Can Know Fact From Fiction

Jesus didn’t talk about the future just to build a crowd or to fill his disciples’ brains with prophetic minutiae or to sell books. His purpose wasn’t to get them so hyped and overly focused on the second coming that they dropped everything to wait for his return. He always connected the future to the present, grounding prophetic truth in life application. That’s why he always challenged them with “watch and be ready for my coming.” Prophecy isn’t meant just to clue us in about tomorrow, but to clean us up today! If a so-called prophetic expert doesn’t provoke you to purity, walk away!

The Journey: Matthew 24:1-3

Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came up to him to call his attention to its buildings. “Do you see all these things?” he asked. “I tell you the truth, not one stone here will be left on another; every one will be thrown down.” As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to him privately. “Tell us,” they said, “when will this happen, and what will be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age?”

In other words, when is all of this going to end? Questions about the end of time have been around since the beginning of time. And those questions always betray an inner uncertainly people have about tomorrow, and their eternal future. That is why so-called prophetic books have always been popular, and to a large degree, speculative at best and misleading at worst.

So, since you and I are rightly curious about the end of time, just as Jesus’ original followers were, how can we tell speculative and spurious prophetic materials from those that are solidly biblical? Well, first and foremost, try reading what the Bible itself has to say about the future. Go to the one who is Master and Commander over tomorrow. You will be amazed at the confidence you gain simply listening to his take on the prophetic future.

And one of the things you will notice about Jesus’ prophetic teachings was that he always connected the future to the present. He always grounded prophetic truth in life application. That is a litmus test for the authenticity of prophecy. Twice in his prophetic sermon in Matthew 24, Jesus said, “Watch and be ready for my coming.” (Matt. 24:42,44)

Jesus didn’t talk about the future just to build a crowd or to fill his disciples’ brains with prophetic minutiae or to sell DVD sets. His purpose wasn’t to get them so hyped and overly focused on the second coming that they dropped everything to wait for his return. And so-called prophecy experts today should do no less. If they do, they are not representing Jesus very well.

Prophecy should never make us so heavenly minded we’re no earthly good. If it does, something is wrong! That’s one of the tests of authentic prophecy.

Another litmus test of authentic prophecy is its sanctifying work in our lives. The Apostle John, who wrote the most extensive prophetic work in the Bible, the Revelation, reminded us in his first epistle, “This hope makes us keep ourselves holy, just as Christ is holy.” (1 John 3:3, CEV) Prophecy isn’t meant just to clue us in about tomorrow, but to clean us up today! Authentic prophecy will provoke us to purity!

Yet another litmus test is if it produces an activistic faith. In other words, authentic prophetic interest makes us so heavenly minded we are more earthly good. In Luke 19:13, Jesus said, “Occupy—do business till I come.”

C.S. Lewis said, “If you read history you will find that the Christians who did the most for the present world were those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this.”

Here’s the unmistakable point of the prophetic: prophecy is given not only for predictive purposes, but to prepare and purify us for the future, and to make us proactive in the present while we wait for Christ’s return.

If you are looking for prophetic teaching that tickles your desires for the sensational, that places no demands upon your life right now, and that produces no changes in you today, then there are plenty end-time works in your local bookstore or on your favorite online video site to tickle your eschatological fancy. But if you want to know what God has revealed about his plans for tomorrow so that it will make a difference in how you live today, go to the Bible. And don’t come away from it until it produces a pure and proactive faith in you that is current.

A Simple Prayer To Be More Like Jesus:

God, you have promised an eternal future beyond imagination to me and to all those who long for your reign. We are getting closer to that reality every day. Make me ready—purify me and give me a proactive faith as I wait for your eternal reign.
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They Also Serve Who Lead

Jesus Demonstrated Greatness In Stooping To Serve

Oswald Chambers said, “True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing [people] to one’s service, but by giving up oneself in selfless service to them.” Our greatest leadership is whenever we practice authentic servant-leadership. Our greatest influence is whenever we serve from a Christ-centered heart of love. Our most bless-able posture before God is whenever we humble ourselves in selfless service to those God has placed within our reach.

The Journey: Matthew 23:11-12

The greatest among you will be your servant. For those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.

Oswald Chambers said, “True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by reducing [people] to one’s service, but by giving up oneself in selfless service to them.”

If that be true, then our greatest leadership is wherever we practice authentic servant-leadership. Our greatest influence occurs when we serve from a Christ-centered heart of love. And we are most bless-able before God when we humble ourselves in selfless service to those God has placed within our reach.

Do you want to be a great leader, have influence over people’s lives and be positioned for Divine favor? Develop your servant-leader quotient. The late Dr. Earnest J. Campbell, Senior Minister at the historic Riverside Church in New York City from 1968-1976, gave a powerful commencement address at Princeton Seminary in 1978, and the title of his message was, “They Also Serve Who Lead.”

That title is a sermon in itself. In his address, Campbell gave some characteristics of servant leaders that I have found personally challenging—and definitely worth emulating. Give some thought to these as you think about your own call to servanthood and influence:

  1. The servant-leader is willing to assume whatever role necessary.
  2. The servant-leader understands that there is no job beneath his dignity.
  3. The servant-leader is willing to pay whatever price for stability, peace, and health [in his home, business or church].
  4. The servant-leader measures his success not in how submissive people are to him, but in how much they respond to his Christ-like example.
  5. The servant-leader takes responsibility for and watches closely the spiritual, emotional, financial and physical well-being of those in his care.
  6. The servant-leader is never too busy to or too important for interruptions to meet whatever need people may have at the moment.
  7. The servant-leader is quick to forgive, slow to judge.
  8. The servant-leader is ridiculously generous.
  9. The servant-leader e is willing to pay a high price, whatever the cost, to obey God.
  10. The servant-leader willingly puts his life on the life for God, his family, and his people.

Something to really think about, isn’t it?

A Simple Prayer To Be More Like Jesus:

God, make me like your Son. He was servant of all. Make me a servant, too.