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Luke 17:10
Excerpted from: Self-Government and Responsibility (Part Three)2. We have the wrong mindset regarding what we are before God.
There are two lessons here that God wants us to get out of this in regard to duty and responsibility. First, we should get it out of our minds that even keeping the Commandments perfectly will somehow put God in obligation to us. No, it does not. God owes us nothing. Everybody is required to keep the Commandments, converted or unconverted.
The second lesson was part of this mindset. It has to be mostly with understanding what a servant or a slave is. Jesus used the term doulos and that means a slave.
The definition: "A slave is one who is in a permanent relation of servitude to another, his will being altogether consumed in the will of the other." The relationship here is from us to God. We are His slaves. We are bought and paid for at the price of the blood of Jesus Christ. We owe God for our life. Since we are His slaves, He requires of us certain things. However, human nature does not want to be a slave in that way. It wants to fight against it all the time. But a slave has to have a mindset. That mindset is that his will belongs completely to somebody else, and that somebody else is God. Therefore the true servant's or the true slave's mind is so fixed on performing his duties that when other things occur, he does not look upon them as being setbacks. They are something simply that his owner has required, designed, or allowed. Therefore, he is to bear up under them and do the best he can with them.
That kind of a mindset does a great deal toward getting rid of any feelings of self-pity or being put upon, which would disrupt the carrying out of our responsibilities.
Luke 17:10
Excerpted from: Pure in HeartAnd during this pre-Passover time, we must actively examine our heart with God by our side and measure it solely against God's heart measure, His holy heart. The comparison of our heart against His creates a proper spiritual bankruptcy. It recognizes that we are nothing. We can do nothing of spiritual value without Jesus Christ's enabling Spirit. When we are poor in spirit, we know that we are unprofitable servants, even at the best of times, as we read in,
We know that we never even come close to doing everything God commands. Every single day, each of us falls short against the commandment to love God with all our heart, brethren.
Luke 17:9-10
Excerpted from: Producing FruitAnd then comes this instruction regarding doing our duty. Pick it up in verse 9.
We are going to begin to close the circle here on how to produce fruit, how to overcome, and how to get the leaven out. I think that it is interesting to begin here by noting that He did not call the servant sinful. He called him unprofitable. He was not producing anything.
Keeping the commandments is our duty. And, even if we do a very good job, we are only doing what is our duty to do! We could be compelled to do that. And, so, there is no thanks, you might say, for doing what everybody on earth is responsible before God for doing.
Luke 17:7-10
Excerpted from: Self-Government and Responsibility (Part Two)Notice the use of the word "duty"—it was imposed by God externally. God created us. God commanded the Law, and so duty came upon us externally and we are expected to do it.
The point of this story by Jesus is to put us in the right frame of mind regarding responsibility, and there are two points that He gets across here. Number one is that we should get it far from our minds that keeping the commands, even perfectly, will somehow put God in our debt, like He somehow owes us something. He does not owe us, when it is just our duty to do these things anyway. You see, it is our duty to keep the commands.
Luke 17:10
Excerpted from: God's 'Heart Measure'When we are poor in spirit, we know that we never come even close to doing everything God commands. Every single day we fall short in our heart, brethren. The poor in spirit know that we are unprofitable servants in the eyes of God.
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