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The Determination To Serve

Oswald Chambers

The mainspring of Paul 's service is not love for men, but love for Jesus Christ. Paul's realization of how Jesus Christ had dealt with him is the secret of his determination to serve others.

So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.

So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.




The Determination To Serve

"The Son of Man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister." Matthew 20:28

Paul's idea of service is the same as Our Lord's: "I am among you as He that serveth;" "ourselves your servants for Jesus' sake."

We have the idea that a man cal ed to the ministry is cal ed to be a different kind of being from other men. According to Jesus Christ, he is cal ed to be the "door-mat" of other men; their spiritual leader, but never their superior. "I know how to be abased," says Paul.

This is Paul's idea of service - "I wil spend myself to the last ebb for you; you may give me praise or give me blame, it wil make no difference." So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ, I am his debtor to serve him until he does.


The mainspring of Paul's service is not love for men, but love for Jesus Christ. If we are devoted to the cause of humanity, we shal soon be crushed and broken-hearted, for we shal often meet with more ingratitude from men than we would from a dog; but if our motive is love to God, no ingratitude can hinder us from serving our fel ow men.

Paul's realization of how Jesus Christ had dealt with him is the secret of his determination to serve others. "I was before a perjurer, a blasphemer, an injurious person" - no matter how men may treat me, they wil never treat me with the spite and hatred with which I treated Jesus Christ.

When we realize that Jesus Christ has served us to the end of our meanness, our selfishness, and sin, nothing that we meet with from others can exhaust our determination to serve men for His sake.


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Oswald Chambers

Oswald Chambers (24 July 1874 – 15 November 1917) was an early twentieth-century Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement evangelist and teacher, best known for the devotional My Utmost for His Highest


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Vigilance on the Road: Protecting Our Holiness

Charles Spurgeon
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Treasures in the Mud: The Grace of Being Searched

Charles H. Spurgeon
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Fighting for the Truth and Love

John MacArthur
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Holy Hatred of Sin

John MacArthur
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Calm And Quiet

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