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Serve Like Jesus

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Jesus said, “Whoever wishes to become great among you must be your servant…For the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve.” (Mark 10:43, 45) In worship a few weeks ago, we heard that, as God’s people, we are to be a blessing to the whole earth. The covenant God made with God’s people, beginning with Abraham and Sarah, is that the L ORD blesses us in order to bless others; all the families of the earth will be blessed by us (Genesis 12:1-3) . Through Jesus we have been grafted on to God’s people. So we are meant to be a blessing to all the people of the earth. Tom Long, a preaching professor in Atlanta, tells a story about the city where he lives that sounds like 1974 in Cedar Rapids when Interstate 380 was built. “A decision was made to build a new freeway into Atlanta…A swath of houses was condemned, and eventually a whole neighborhood was torn down to make way for the highway. For a short time, though, families were still living in those houses, homes that many of the