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Today's chapter is Romans 8

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Romans 8. 14-18. As many as are led by the Spirit of God are children of God. As children of God we are His heirs. But we at the same time are servants of Jesus Christ on earth. That is. If we are in the Spirit and led, governed by the Spirit of God we are God's ambassadors on earth. We are God's representatives because. It is not we who live anymore but Jesus Christ in us. We can only be Christ's co-servants on earth if we have died to ourselves. We are powerless in ourselves because of sin. But by the power of Jesus Christ we also manage to live to God's pleasure by being in the Spirit and believing what we preach.

Romans 5.5. And hope does not disappoint because. The love of Jesus Christ has been poured out in our hearts. It is not in our own hope that we go to the people God in Jesus sends us to. It is in the hope of Jesus Christ in the hope of God that does not put to shame. Notice. It does not say that we are not put to shame by men. We are mocked, spat upon and shouted at just as Jesus was, so we are too. But we are never put to shame before God. It is God the Lord who is our whole strength and in Him we are able to do everything that He commands us to do. His work is that we are created for the good works of God, which God has predestined every Christian for.

We are, God stewards of the various talents and grace gifts that God has voluntarily given to each individual. But it is up to you and me whether we want to use those gifts on ourselves and our own lives or we want and do it, make ourselves available to God. God has given people their free will. We, serve Jesus Christ completely voluntarily, not out of compulsion but out of love for God the Lord because. He gave us His Son, and Jesus the Son voluntarily died and rose for our sins. He gave us everything. That is why someone has chosen to give Him everything back. That is why we voluntarily submit to the law of God's Word and let God be our employer. We cannot do otherwise. The love with which we were first loved lives in us by faith. By God's grace we are what we are. God's servants on earth.
If we were not to serve God while we are here, He could just as well say. When you are saved, born again, you will immediately leave the earth and not come to Heaven! The Son of Man did not come to be served. He came to save and rescue the lost. In exactly the same way, we are sent out by the power of Jesus to reconcile people with God by being witnesses for the Lord Jesus.
Think about it the next time you want to go to church. God's service is to serve God wholeheartedly, not just as something you do and are on Sundays. You are God's servant 24 hours a day.