Serve One Another | One Another | Week 2

Serve One AnotherOne Another • April 23, 2023Teacher: Dave Brown--Galatians 5:13 NIVYou, my bothers and sisters, were called to be free.  But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.How do we serve one another in love?1. Be led by the Spirit.2. Be humble.3. Be a team player.4. Be an advocate for others.1. Be led by the Spirit.Galatians 5:16 NIVSo I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.  For the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the flesh.2. Be humble.Philippians 2:1-8 NIVTherefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and of one mind. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others.In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death—even death on a cross!Rick WarrenHumility is not thinking less of yourself, but thinking of yourself less.C.S. LewisA really humble man will not be thinking about humility.  He will not be thinking about himself at all.  C.S. LewisIf anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step.  The first step is to realize that one is proud.  And a biggest step, too.  At least nothing whatever can be done before it.  If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.3. Be a team player.1 Corinthians 12:12-14 NIVJust as a body, though one, has many parts, but all its many parts form one body, so it is with Christ. For we were all baptized by one Spirit so as to form one body—whether Jews or Gentiles, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink. Even so the body is not made up of one part but of many.4. Be an advocate for others.Galatians 5:14For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.”Matthew 5:43-45 NIV“You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be children of your Father in heaven.