How to Serve the Lord - Part 2
We serve God by serving men. Anyone too big to serve people cannot serve God. We work for God by working for men.
The commitment, loyalty and honour you have for men is exactly what you have for God. You can't serve God differently from how you serve men.
Matthew 25:40
[40]And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Get busy doing for men what you want to do for God and God will receive it as service done directly to him.
You can't go to heaven and do anything for God. If you want to do anything for Him just do it unto the brethren. The good done for the brethren is actually to Him.
When Saul was persecuting the brethren, Jesus appeared to him and asked him "why persecutest thou me?". Whatever we do to the brethren we are directly doing to Him. Paul persecuted Christians but Jesus said it's Him he is doing it to (Acts 9:4).
1 John 4:20
[20]If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?
Your love for the household of God is not different from your love for God. If you love the brethren then you love God and vice versa.
The acid test of our love for God is our love for the brethren. So singing love songs to God is nothing if you don't love the brethren.
The only time you sin against Christ directly is when you hurt another believer like you. That's how serious the matter is.
1 Corinthians 8:12
[12]But when ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ.
If hurting a believer is hurting Christ, it simply means serving a believer is serving Christ. As your service in the Church increases, that's how your service to God increases.
The local Church is where we serve people. Don't attend Church and watch how people serve. Find a place and serve there faithfully.
So the next time you say you're serving God, understand that it's men you're to serve. When you come early to Church so as to clean, arrange and make the hall comfortable for other brethren to enjoy the meeting, you're serving God.
Regular attendance to Church meetings is good but it's not serving God. Serving God is serving men in Church. You have to go beyond just attending and start doing something that benefits others.
See how David did God's will:
Acts 13:36
[36]For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
He did God's will by serving his generation. God's will is for you to serve the brethren. There's no greater service than giving yourself up to service to God's people.
As you give yourself in serving the brethren that's how others will also be serving you. We're to serve one another.
One thing God will never forget is your labour for the saints. Because it's advice done to Him. Its unrighteousness for Him to forget.
Hebrews 6:10
[10]For God is not unrighteous to forget your work and labour of love, which ye have shewed toward his name, in that ye have ministered to the saints, and do minister.
Ministering to the saints is showing love to the name of God. It is why you can't lose your reward doing it.
You must not be found idle in the house of God. Make time to serve there. Give your best and your all. Do it as though you're actually doing it directly to God because actually that's what you're doing.
For more get the book *How to Serve in the Local Church*
Kevin Ashwe
The School of the Local Church
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