“Avoid fast cars and ride a bike instead”
Jun 23, 2015
“Avoid fast cars and ride a bike instead”
Series – ‘Follow my Leader’
Today
‘Jesus models servanthood to His followers’
John12:12-19
A very large crowd spread their cloaks on the road, while others cut branches from the trees and spread them on the road. The crowds that
went ahead of him and those that followed shouted, "Hosanna to the Son of David!"
"Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!" "Hosanna in the highest!"
Matt 21:8-9
‘Jesus models servanthood to His followers’
To fulfil prophecy
Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout, Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your king comes to you, righteous and having salvation, gentle and
riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey
Zech 9:9
‘Why did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on a colt?
To demonstrate humility
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and
humble in heart
Matt 11:29
‘Why did Jesus ride into Jerusalem on a colt?
This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. O LORD, save us; O LORD, grant us success. Blessed is He who
comes in the name of the LORD
Ps 118:24-26
So the Pharisees said to one another, "See, this is getting us nowhere. Look how
the whole world has gone after Him!"
John 12:19
Develop a Christ like servant mind
Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus
Phil 2:5
Jesus is the true model of humility – Phil 2
Develop a Christ like servant motive
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit
Phil 2:3a
Jesus is the true model of humility – Phil 2
“True humility is not thinking less of yourself;
it is thinking of yourself less”
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Develop a Christ like humility
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 … he
humbled himself and became obedient to death - even death on a cross!
Phil 2:6-8
He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and
to walk humbly with your God
Micah 6:8
"Humility is powerful, for it is based on the sense of being absolutely dependent on the
grace of God ... Humility is not worried about ‘face’. It is prepared to own a fault, a mistake, make an apology, or make restitution if it has
wronged anyone."
Eric Liddell from ’The Disciplines of a Christian life’
3 groups of people?
1. ‘What’s in it for me?’
2. ‘I’m just here to enjoy myself’
3. ‘I’m just following the crowd’
“Humility is perfect quietness of heart. It is to expect nothing, to wonder at nothing that is done
to me … It is to be at rest when nobody praises me, and when I am blamed or despised. It is to
have a blessed home in the Lord, where I can go in and shut the door, and kneel to my Father in secret, and am at peace as in a deep sea of
calmness, when all around and above is trouble”
Andrew Murray