The Hebrew Servant

From: Young Christian: Volume 15, 1925

• 2 min. read • grade level: 6

“And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free. Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door or unto the door post: and his master shall bore his ear through with an awl; and he shall serve him forever.” (Exo. 21:5, 6⁵And if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free: ⁶Then his master shall bring him unto the judges; he shall also bring him to the door, or unto the door post; and his master shall bore his ear through with an aul; and he shall serve him for ever. (Exodus 21:5‑6)).

O, dear Christian reader, do you know this is one of the touching, beautiful ways in which, in type, God the Father is telling us about His Son, the perfect Hebrew Servant.

He, the perfect One, might have gone out free, but He loved His wife, the church. He loved the children that God had given to Him. He was taken to the cross. He was nailed to the door post, as it were, and risen from the dead, He is now a Servant forever!

Not only did He, the obedient One (Phil. 2:6, 7, 8⁶Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: ⁷But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: ⁸And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. (Philippians 2:6‑8)) go into death, the terrible death of the cross, to serve His Master by telling out His love there, but, risen and exalted, and on the throne in heaven, He is still serving, by “ever living to make intercession for us.” (Heb. 7:24, 25²⁴But this man, because he continueth ever, hath an unchangeable priesthood. ²⁵Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. (Hebrews 7:24‑25)).

But when we are with Him, and like Himself, as we shall be at His coming, His serving as our intercessor will be over, for we shall not need it there. He will still be a Servant (Luke 12:37³⁷Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them. (Luke 12:37)), for He will gird Himself, and make the watching ones, who, instead of settling down in this scene, watched for the coming of their Lord, to open to Him immediately.

“He will make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them!” and that forever.

Now let me pass on what I heard another answer to some questions, or questioners who were wanting to know what there was in the way of His service for the blessed serving ones, if all service above as High Priest, and Advocate, were coming to an end, not being any more needed?

The answer was that His service then will be the blessed service of making His own enjoy perfectly what they had only tasted feebly before—His own blessed Self! His own now fully-known love! His own blessed company! forever! What a service! and what a perfect Servant! Yes, “He will make them to sit down!” (to rest!) “to meat” (to feed!) “and will come forth and serve them.” And this service will never come to an end!

“Even so, come Lord Jesus!”

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