From heaven you came,Helpless babe,Entered our world,Your glory veiled;Not to be servedBut to serve,And give Your lifeThat we might live. This is our God,

The Servant King,He calls us nowTo follow Him,To bring our livesAs a daily offeringOf worship toThe Servant King.

There in the gardenOf tears,My heavy loadHe chose to bear;His heart with sorrowWas torn,‘Yet not My willBut Yours,’ He said This is our God,

The Servant King,He calls us nowTo follow Him,To bring our livesAs a daily offeringOf worship toThe Servant King.

Come see His handsAnd His feet,The scars that speakOf sacrifice;Hands that flung starsInto spaceTo cruel nailsSurrendered. This is our God,

The Servant King,He calls us nowTo follow Him,To bring our livesAs a daily offeringOf worship toThe Servant King.

So let us learnHow to serve,And in our livesEnthrone Him;Each other’s needsTo prefer,For it is ChristWe’re serving. This is our God,

The Servant King,He calls us nowTo follow Him,To bring our livesAs a daily offeringOf worship toThe Servant King.

Intimate Love

John 15:9-17

“As the father has loved me, so I have loved you.”

John 15:9-17 (NIV)

9 “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved you. Now remain in my love. 10 If you obey my commands, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commands and remain in his love. 11 I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. 12 My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no-one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command. 15 I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you. 16 You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. 17

This is my command: Love each other.

Intimate Love

• As the father has loved me, so have I loved you. – John 15:9

• I and the father are one. – John 10:30

• God is love– 1 John 4:8

Origin of Love

• I love Him because he first loved me – From 1 John 4:10-11

• NOT: – Ananias and Sapphira

• Acts 5

– As in Corinth • 1 Corinthians 11

• BUT:– God in our hearts

• 2 John 9

Which am I?

Which am I?

Which am I?

Sacrificial Love

• Obedience– Jesus died– Make the most of

every opportunity• Ephesians 5:16,

Colossians 4:5

• Eyes fixed on Jesus– Hebrews 12:2

Being Church

• Equals with each other

• Learning from Jesus

• Serving

• Praying

• BY CHOICE

Which Do I Want To

Be?

I want to walk with Jesus ChristAll the days I live of this life on earth;

To give to Him complete controlOf body and of soul.

Follow Him, follow Him, yield your life to Him,He has conquered death, He is King of kings;

Accept the joy which He gives to thoseWho yield their lives to Him.

I want to learn to speak to Him,To pray to Him, confess my sin;To open my life and let Him in,

For joy will then be mine:

I want to learn to speak of Him,My life must show that He lives in me;

My deeds, my thoughts, my words must speakAll of His love for me:

Follow Him, follow Him, yield your life to Him,He has conquered death, He is King of kings;

Accept the joy which He gives to thoseWho yield their lives to Him.

I want to learn to read His word,For this is how I know the wayTo live my life as pleases Him,

In holiness and joy:

O Holy Spirit of the Lord,Enter now into this heart of mine;Take full control of my selfish will,

And make me wholly Thine:

Follow Him, follow Him, yield your life to Him,He has conquered death, He is King of kings;

Accept the joy which He gives to thoseWho yield their lives to Him.

Copyright © 1964 C. Simmonds. CCLI 6525