SERVANTS

By Rick Mathes

Luke 1:2 just as those who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and servants of the word have handed them down to us,

There was a breath taking moment when Paul passed the Kingdom on to timid Timothy. Servants of the Lord have been passing the baton form the Cross to this day: faith to faith, saint to saint, the message of salvation survives the generations.

Once you make Jesus your Lord, you become His bond-slave. When He gives a command, you obey. There are no committee meetings or arm wrestling matches. All He wants to hear from you is “Yes Sir!” Obedience is the only response to believing in Jesus. This is not a passing opportunity; it is an immanent requisite to be diligent and humble in His presence. Your reacting to His commandments speaks louder than your words. The hardest part is to be Christ with skin on. Put aside your obstinacy and pride for a moment. This take serious spiritual weight lifting.

The last step of a true Christian is to persevere. No matter what, the Word was entrusted to our care and we must not give up. WE must be the bearers of the good news, down to the last saint, down to the last moment when our Lord returns in glory.

It takes faithful servants. Let me rephrase that, it takes servants that are so full of faith that the gates of hell cannot prevail. Courageous saints of old are the shoulders that life the saints of today. Men of God who are unafraid of Caesar and the enemies of Christ because they know God is with us: what can man do against us?

Now is the time to really devote ourselves to the protection and preservation of the reformation truths as found in the Word of God. We must be uncompromising and without fear to stand above all the kingdoms of the world and declare Jesus is the Lord of His Word. That God has spoken to His own and they better listen carefully because the Lord is near and His Day will soon be upon us to account for our stewardship of the Word.