Serving in the Spiritual Domain: I. Watchmen in love

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Our church serving is a labor of love. A labor of love is involved; loyalty is involved. Do you know what loyalty is? It is your mingling with Godโ€”a consecration. That perspective is the nature to define all of our serving. ๐‹๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ฐ๐š๐ค๐ž. ๐‹๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ก๐š๐ซ๐ฉ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ ๐š๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ž๐ฌ. ๐‹๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ซ๐ž๐š๐๐ฒ ๐ญ๐จ ๐ž๐ง๐ ๐š๐ ๐ž, ๐ž๐š๐œ๐ก ๐ญ๐ข๐ฆ๐ž, ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ง๐จ ๐Ÿ๐š๐ฎ๐ฅ๐ญ๐ฌ. ๐ˆ๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ. ๐‹๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฆ๐š๐ค๐ž๐ฌ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š ๐ช๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐ข๐ž๐ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐š๐ง๐ญ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐จ๐ซ๐.

Serving this church life requires a different level of sensitivity. Serving this church life requires loyaltyโ€”not just submission from this very loveโ€”and that loyalty is the sense of happiness and the sense of ownership. It is the sense of security that you are owned by someone and that you also are owning someone. Serving this church life requires continual fruit bearingโ€”a fruit of love that sustains you, that nurtures you, that keeps you productive. At the end of the day, the labor in love issues very distinct characteristics in your serving the church; none of these attributes can be used to assess your โ€œChristian deedsโ€ or be used to bind or be bound as a law in the church life. We are not trying to preach a moral life of transcending humanity. We are preaching this Christ crucified for sinful, wretched, remote and lost people. Before, we could never have thisโ€”yet now we own Him.

The church life has been here for many years, however, we often just skim the surface without gaining anything. We go in, we go out, and yet we donโ€™t gain anything. When we are not sensitive or tuned to those memorable encounters of spirituality or the spiritual things hiding in plain sight, then nothing will solidify us, anchor us or give us power. Do you want to serve the Lord, serve the church? ๐“๐ก๐ž ๐ซ๐ž๐ฐ๐š๐ซ๐ ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐จ๐ฐ๐ง ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ฌ๐ฉ๐ข๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ฅ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ, ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐š ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž. When people call you an elder, it doesnโ€™t mean you are an elder. It is only when the Lord says โ€œgoodโ€ that you are good. The Bible never says that when you are brought to the judgment of the Lord, there are such things as โ€œelders,โ€ โ€œfull-time workers,โ€ or โ€œdeacons.โ€ There is only the Bride, nothing else. Yet, for some reason, we have been taught that we should all regard ranking, hierarchy, and systems. We are conditioned to think that if we donโ€™t have those titles, then we are not serving the Lord. ๐“๐จ๐๐š๐ฒ, ๐ข๐Ÿ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ง๐จ๐ญ ๐ ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ง ๐š ๐ญ๐ข๐ญ๐ฅ๐ž ๐จ๐ซ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง, ๐œ๐š๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ž? ๐‚๐š๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ ๐›๐ž ๐ฅ๐ž๐ ๐›๐ฒ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ž๐ง๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐ฒ? Can you serve one another without a trace, yet impact people and bring them into that sphere of life, which is the essential realm for them to grow?

๐–๐ž ๐ง๐ž๐ž๐ ๐ญ๐ซ๐ฎ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ž๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ. These are the ones who are not sleepy. When the night comes, they are watchmen. They watch over Jerusalem, this household, and are vigilant when everyone else is distracted. Three times a day they face Jerusalem, their hearts on the testimony of the city. These are the ones who survive the fires. ๐‡๐จ๐ฐ ๐ซ๐จ๐ฆ๐š๐ง๐ญ๐ข๐œ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐š๐ซ๐ž; ๐ก๐จ๐ฐ ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฐ๐ž๐ซ๐Ÿ๐ฎ๐ฅ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ฎ๐ซ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฏ๐ž๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ซ๐จ๐ฎ๐ ๐ก ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฆ ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฐ๐จ๐ซ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฌ๐ข๐ญ๐ฎ๐š๐ญ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ. ๐“๐ก๐ž๐ฒ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐ฉ๐ž๐จ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ž ๐ข๐ง ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐œ๐ก๐ฎ๐ซ๐œ๐ก ๐ฅ๐ข๐Ÿ๐žโ€”๐ญ๐ก๐จ๐ฌ๐ž ๐ฐ๐ข๐ญ๐ก ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ. ๐–๐ก๐ž๐ง ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎโ€™๐ฏ๐ž ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฌ๐ญ ๐ฒ๐จ๐ฎ๐ซ ๐ž๐ง๐ž๐ซ๐ ๐ฒ, ๐ญ๐ก๐ž๐ฌ๐ž ๐จ๐ง๐ž๐ฌ ๐š๐ซ๐ž ๐ฌ๐ญ๐ข๐ฅ๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ญ๐š๐ฅ ๐š๐ง๐ ๐ฉ๐ซ๐ž๐ฌ๐ฌ๐ข๐ง๐  ๐จ๐ง. ๐€๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐š๐ญ ๐ข๐ฌ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐๐ข๐›๐ฅ๐ž: ๐š ๐ฅ๐ข๐ง๐ž๐š๐ ๐ž ๐จ๐Ÿ ๐ญ๐ก๐ž ๐‹๐จ๐ซ๐โ€™๐ฌ ๐ฐ๐š๐ญ๐œ๐ก๐ฆ๐ž๐ง ๐ข๐ง ๐ฅ๐จ๐ฏ๐ž.

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