“In those days, there was no king in Israel; everyone did what was right in his own eyes.” Judges 21:25 The days of Ruth was still the time period when the Judges ruled. What do we know about this time period of the Judges? Read Judges 2:8-22. The cycle goes like this: disobedience, defeat, and distress, desperately crying out, deliverance, and peace back to disobedience. This is the sin cycle in the book of Judges. In Ruth 1:1, there is a famine in Bethlehem. According to Ruth 1:2-3, what does this family face in Moab? What do you fin in Ruth 1:4? Marriage to a Moabite was not allowed in…
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Serving One Another
Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another’s feet. John 13: 14 People hate having other people wash their feet. Women who get manicures probably wash their feet before they go to their appointment and make sure they have clean shoes to put on. At least that is me! This act of servanthood is a very humbling act of servanthood to one another. Let’s read John 13:1-17 together, It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the…
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How To Be A Servant Of God
Surely the Sovereign Lord does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets. Amos 3:7 Are you a servant of God? Do you know how to be a servant of God? Do you think that God tells you what He wants you to do and then leaves you to do it on your own? God does not leave you to do His will. He is right there with you the whole time. You are joining him in His work. Not the other way around. God used Moses to work through His plan. God was already at work around Moses. God pursued a continuing love relationship with Moses that…
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Servant Of God
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to death – even death on the cross. Philippians 2:5-8 The Bible shows many passages of Jesus being God’s servant. He came to serve to accomplish God’s purposes. In Matthew 20:26-28 it says, “whoever wants to become great must be your servant, and whoever wants to be first must be your slave –…
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Jesus Washes Disciples Feet Part 2
Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” Jesus said to him, ” The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not everyone of you. For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “not all of you are Clean.” When he had washed their outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. IF I then, your…
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Jesus Washes Disciples Feet
rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples feet and wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet? Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand now.” Peter said to him, “you shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” John 13:4-17 Washing one’s feet, to some is a disgusting…