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On the right motive, God-given tools, His leading and an understanding of the times.
Excerpt: What I have before me this year is the theme of “Service for the Lord.” It is a very difficult subject to take up, even with the Lord's help. Once again, we are going to try to cover a few things well, rather than make so many remarks that you go out saying, “I wonder what he really did say”? I am not really sure just how we are going to divide this up, but at least for this meeting I'd like to talk about something for the heart — the motive for service for the Lord.
Let's turn first of all to some verses in John 12:23: “And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come, that the Son of man should be glorified. Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit. He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal. If any man serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there shall also My servant be: if any man serve Me, him will My Father honor. Now is My soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save Me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour. Father, glorify Thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven, saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.”
Now a verse in 2 Corinthians 5:14: “For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, that if one died for all, then were all dead: And that He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them, and rose again.”
When we read these verses in John 12, it really touches our hearts, because here the Lord Jesus was right on the brink of going to the cross. He was telling them that He was that corn (or kernel) of wheat which was going to die. The corn of wheat, as you all know, you have to plant. You never get that kernel of wheat, or whatever it might be, back again, do you? No, it has to die. It has to disintegrate in the soil in order that a plant may grow, but how much more you get from the plant than you originally planted!