The sevenfold forms of service in this chapter have often been noticed. The first three characters of the Lord's labor seem to be especially emphasized in these verses, and the Lord Himself presented as the great Exemplar of His servant. He preeminently was faithful as soldier, athlete, or husbandman. The Apostle tells Timothy how to consider what he says in bidding him to call to mind Jesus Christ—David's seed—whose holy separation, obedience, and labor as man on earth, an obedience unto death, is attested by His resurrection. Avoiding or resisting every entangling alliance "with the affairs of this life," refusing every unlawful aid in His strife against sin, He was ever about His Father's business. He rendered to Caesar his things, rejected the praise of men and their desire to make Him a king. He refused the testimony of demons to His deity, or the temptations of their prince. He Himself, the first fruits to God, of His own labor, now, after first laboring, is a "partaker of the fruits."