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SERVANT LEADERSHIP BY Calvary Chapel Outreach Fellowship Lesson 1 Characteristics of a Servant By Chuck Smith Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa Brought to you by: The Blue Letter Bible Institute http://www.blbi.org A ministry of: The Blue Letter Bible http://www.blueletterbible.org
Servant Leadership – Lesson 1 Characteristics of a Servant by Chuck Smith I want to talk about the minister in this lesson. And then next, I want to talk to about the ministry. I am certain that the reason why all of us are here tonight is because deep down inside we want to be used of God. I want God to use my life for whatever ministry He might have for me. And in desiring God to use me, I want to be used to the ultimate. If I am going to be in the ministry, I want my ministry to achieve its ultimate for God. Years ago when I felt called of God to enter the ministry, I sought to study the lives of men who had been effective for God, in order that I might learn from them. I wanted to discover why they were effective for God because I wanted to be effective for God in my service to Him. And so, I studied the Book of Acts because to me it seemed that the church hit its peak in the first thirty years and has been going down ever since. In the first thirty years, the church reached the known world, at that time, with the gospel of Jesus Christ. It made a tremendous impact upon the world. The Pharisees (or the Sanhedrin) accused the disciples of filling Jerusalem with this man’s doctrine. They were so effective they had filled the whole city with the doctrine of Jesus Christ. Then, later on when they arrived in Berea, some people reported to the leaders of the city, “These men who have been turning the world upside down have come here” (cf. Acts 17:6). The early church was very effective. It was turning the world upside down. I think that there is a reason why the demise of the church came about. I do believe that the church began to substitute the abilities of the flesh for the enablings of the Spirit. When they started developing fancy structures, fancy programs, fancy schools; when they began to demand a certain amount of education, higher education, et cetera; when the men began to trust in their own trained abilities, then they ceased depending on the anointing and the guiding and the empowering of the Holy Spirit. And I think that, as we look at what God is doing today, we find that by far the most effective works are those that are just empowered by the Spirit. The church program church is dead. And all over the United States we get letters from people who say, “We love Jesus. We love the Word of God. But we cannot find a church where we can just learn the Word of God.” There is so much churchianity. And people are hungry for just the work of God’s Spirit. Let us turn to Acts 3 and we will see many of the characteristics of these men who were so mightily used of God. Now Peter and John went up together into the temple at the hour of prayer, being the ninth hour. (Acts 3:1) And here we have our first clue. They were men of prayer. The men whom God uses are men who are in contact with God, men who pray. You cannot do any true, effective work for God apart from prayer. Jesus told us that you cannot go in and just take the goods from a strong man. But you first go in and bind the strong man of the house and then you go in and take the spoil. (cf. Matthew 12:29; Mark 3:27). Now through prayer we are binding the strong man. We are binding the work of Satan. And then all that our Christian service should be is going in and taking the spoils. We have already won the victory in prayer. We have already fought the battle in the closet and there we have taken the victory, binding the strong man of the house. And then when we go out, we just go out to take the spoils. Prayer is, by far, the greatest outlet of spiritual power that we have. One of the mysteries of heaven will be why we did not pray more when God has given to us such a valuable tool for power. “For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal they are mighty in God for pulling down strongholds [of the enemy]” (2 Corinthians 10:4). And a lot of people are getting battered in the battle because they have not really fought the battle in the closet, in their prayer life. 1
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Let’s turn to the Ephesians 4:7-1
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Paul gives us the key: Servant Lead
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