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“Whosoever will be great among you, shall be your minister [servant]: and whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all. For even the Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give His life a ransom for many” (Mark 10:43-45).
Normally the person who is the greatest is the one who is served by others, and those who have the highest place in this world expect others to do things for them. However, the Lord Jesus said exactly the opposite to His disciples. Sometimes His disciples had discussions about who would be the greatest, and the Lord Jesus had to remind them that the greatest among them should be the one who served others.
Then the Lord Jesus used Himself as the example of this. Here He was in this world, the Son of God who became a man, and who took the most humble place. He had created this world, and we read in Hebrews 1:3 that He upholds “all things by the word of His power.” Yet He came into this world to serve, and will remain a servant for all eternity. He is our example, for He deserved to be served, yet voluntarily became a servant.
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