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Martin Luther wrote, \u201cA Christian man is a free lord over all things and subject to nobody.\u00a0 A Christian man is a ministering servant in all things and subject to everybody.\u201d<\/span>1<\/sup> It seems that great men have always had a sense of true servanthood.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe that great men ever wanted to be great; they wanted to be like Christ and were thrust into positions of spiritual leadership.\u00a0 The very desire to be great by today\u2019s definition, too often contradicts the Lord\u2019s admonition to be servant of all, which is the true greatness of the Christian faith.<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the most used and abused passages in the New Testament is 1 Corinthians 9:22, I am become all things to all men that I might by all means save some.<\/em> This is one of those seemingly pragmatic verses that allows us to do whatever was already in our mind to do.\u00a0 The justification, of course, would be that someone might get saved because of the way we did whatever it is we wanted to do.\u00a0 The wording of the verse allows it all.<\/p>\n

We should have read verse 19 before we got to verse 22.\u00a0 For though I be free from all men, yet have I made myself servant unto all, that I might gain the more.<\/em> What does this \u201cfreedom\u201d that Paul speaks of allow him to do and why does making himself a \u201cservant\u201d give him more ability to win people to Christ?\u00a0 Does this coincide with the usual pragmatic understanding of verse 22?\u00a0 These are questions of debate and difference today.\u00a0 Sometimes we have a sort of \u201ccensorship by success\u201d attitude; that is, only if your understanding of these verses has brought you \u201csuccess\u201d do you have a right to speak about their meaning!\u00a0 Of course, this is the pragmatism I am objecting to here.<\/p>\n

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How Are We Free?<\/h3>\n

There are few things that bind a person more than money and popularity.\u00a0 In 1787 a convention was convened for the purpose of forming the constitution for the new states.\u00a0 Benjamin Franklin was opposed to paying governmental representatives for obvious reasons.\u00a0 In an address titled \u201cThe Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy,\u201d Franklin spoke these words:<\/p>\n

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Sir, there are two passions which have a powerful influence in the affairs of men.\u00a0 These are ambition and avarice; the love of power and the love of money.\u00a0 Separately, each of these has great force in prompting men to action; but, when united in view of the same object, they have, in many minds, the most violent effects.\u00a0 Place before the eyes of such men a post of honor, that shall, at the same time, be a place of profit, and they will move heaven and earth to obtain it.2<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Apostle Paul was overtly concerned with these vices and made conscious effort to avoid the loss of effectiveness that would result by failure in these areas.<\/p>\n

1. Free from financial bonds<\/strong>.\u00a0 Money, of course, is not evil of itself but rather the love of money.\u00a0 Paul says in verse 11, If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?<\/em> It is right to pay the ministers of the gospel who have brought spiritual blessings to us.\u00a0 But Paul goes on to say, Nevertheless we have not used this power; but suffer all things, lest we should<\/em> hinder the gospel of Christ<\/em> (vs 12).\u00a0 To some (no doubt false apostles) the receiving of payment for spiritual service would cause one to be \u201cgreedy for money\u201d and thereby disqualify him for the ministry.\u00a0 But for Paul this was not a danger.\u00a0 Rather he wanted to be \u201cfree\u201d from the assumption (by him or them) that the preacher is indebted beyond the gospel truth itself to those who pay him.\u00a0 He must be free from such expectations.<\/p>\n

R.A. Torrey recalled his days working with D.L. Moody and wrote of the large amount of money that came to their evangelistic organization.\u00a0 He said of Moody, \u201cMillions of dollars passed into Mr. Moody\u2019s hands, but they passed through; they did not stick to his fingers.\u201d3<\/sup> Maclaren once wrote, \u201cBut this is always true\u2014that the people who do not make worldly good their first object are the people who can be most safely trusted with it, and who get most enjoyment out of it.\u201d4<\/sup> What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.<\/em><\/p>\n

2. Free from human bonds<\/strong>.\u00a0 In the same way that we may place ourselves under obligation to payment, we may place ourselves under obligation to applause.\u00a0 It is a temptation in our day to do what it takes for people to reward us with their presence and their approval.\u00a0 But in such a case we have placed ourselves in bondage to them as really as if they paid us to perform to their expectations.<\/p>\n

Dag Hammarskjold once commented,<\/p>\n

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Around a man who has been pushed into the limelight, a legend begins to grow as it does around a dead man.\u00a0 But a dead man is in no danger of yielding to the temptation to nourish his legend, or accept its picture as reality.\u00a0 I pity the man who falls in love with his image as it is drawn by public opinion during the honeymoon of publicity.5<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

In one of the most telling verses describing the false apostles, Paul again took great pains to avoid the pitfall of bondage to human applause, For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they, measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise <\/em>(2 Cor 10:12).\u00a0 For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth. <\/em>(18).\u00a0 Freedom from such comparisons was a prerequisite for Paul\u2019s approval before God!<\/p>\n

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How Are We Servants?<\/h3>\n

When the Apostle says that I have made myself servant to all, that I might gain the more <\/em>(1 Cor 9:19), he is taking us beyond the earthly motivations to a higher one.\u00a0 Once Paul was free of the lower motivations of riches and status, he had access to the Christ-like motivation of servant (agape) love.\u00a0 This chiasm will be further elaborated in chapter 13 where love envieth not; vaunteth not itself; is not puffed up <\/em>(13:4).<\/p>\n

Agape love is an all-giving love.\u00a0 To take back payment (in any form) for its use, would no longer be service, but wages.\u00a0 But this giving of oneself completely and unselfishly is to align oneself with Christ and His followers, whether John the Baptist in his prison or the Apostle Paul in his.\u00a0 This is where the power comes from for witnessing and this is why Paul knew he would gain the more<\/em> by entering into such service.\u00a0 He says, And this I do for the gospel\u2019s sake, that I might be partaker thereof with you <\/em>(23).<\/p>\n

1. Servants that love the Lord<\/strong>.\u00a0 The first commandment is to love the Lord our God which naturally will be followed by service to Him.\u00a0 We cannot truly love Him and love the things of the world.\u00a0 To be in the gospel ministry for wages or applause is to settle for a powerless ministry.\u00a0 L.S. Chafer wrote,<\/p>\n

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Spirituality is not fained by service: it is unto service.\u00a0 When one is truly spiritual, all effort is diverted from self struggle to real service.\u00a0 Spirituality is a work of God for His child:\u00a0 service is a work of the child for his God, which can be accomplished only in the power of the indwelling Spirit.6<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Paul wrote to Timothy, as a young man susceptible to earthly motivations, Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs <\/em>(pragmateiais, literally \u201cpragmatisms\u201d) of this life; that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier <\/em>(2 Tim 2:3-4).\u00a0 It is the Lord we are striving to please, not humans who are blinded by their own nature.<\/p>\n

2. Servants that love the souls of men<\/strong>.\u00a0 The second commandment is to love those who do not (at least for the moment) love us.\u00a0 One of the hardest lessons for us to learn in parenting is that often we must do the hard thing with our children whether they understand or not.\u00a0 There is no more servile work on earth than for the faithful parent of an ungrateful child!\u00a0 Paul loved his own people to the point of wishing he could be cursed if it would bring them to salvation (of course he knew that only Christ could do that).\u00a0 But his only return on that love was constant persecution and hatred for reminding them that they were sinners.\u00a0 That is true servanthood!<\/p>\n

In a chapter titled \u201cThe Insane Necessity,\u201d G.K. Chesterton pointed out that for someone to follow us because we make them is not really following.\u00a0 But for someone to follow us even though we cannot make them, is the essence of true service.\u00a0 He wrote, \u201cSubmission to a weak man is discipline.\u00a0 Submission to a strong man is only servility.\u201d7<\/sup> We cannot make someone come to Christ, but the best way to persuade him to do so is to show our own submission to Christ in front of him.\u00a0 That is both to love the Lord supremely and to love our neighbor as ourselves!<\/p>\n

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And So . . .<\/h3>\n

What does it mean to be free from all men <\/em>and to be servant of all<\/em>?\u00a0 It means to be free from any motivation higher than true service.\u00a0 Self aggrandizement only weakens our gospel witness.\u00a0 Jesus said to Paul, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. <\/em>To which Paul responded, Most gladly therefore will I glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.<\/em> (2 Cor 12:9).<\/p>\n

Thomas a Kempis, centuries ago, wrote the Lord\u2019s response to his prayer as,<\/p>\n

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And yet, what great matter is it, if thou, who art but dust and nothing, subject thyself to a man for God\u2019s sake, when I, the Almighty and the Most High, who created all things out of nothing, humbly subjected myself to man for thy sake.\u201d8<\/sup><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now that would define all things to all men<\/em>!<\/p>\n

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Notes:<\/address>\n
1.\u00a0 Quoted by R.C.H. Lenski, First Corinthians<\/em> (Minneapolis:\u00a0 Augsburg Publishing House, 1963) 374.<\/address>\n
2. Benjamin Franklin, \u201cThe Dangers of a Salaried Bureaucracy\u201d Orations from Homer to McKinley<\/em>, Mayo Hazeltine, ed. (New York: Collier, 1902) 1850.<\/address>\n
3. R.A. Torrey, Why God Used D.L. Moody <\/em>(Murfreesboro: Sword of the Lord Publishers, nd) 20.<\/address>\n
4. Alexander Maclaren, Exposition of First Kings <\/em>(Grand Rapids:\u00a0 Eerdmans, 1959) 159.<\/address>\n
5. Quoted by Chuck Swindoll, The Grace Awakening <\/em> (Dallas:\u00a0 Word Publishing, 1996) 243.<\/address>\n
6. L.S. Chafer, He That Is Spiritual <\/em>(Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1972) 55.<\/address>\n
7. G.K. Chesterton, What\u2019s Wrong With The World <\/em>(San Francisco:\u00a0 Ignatius Press, 1994) 77.<\/address>\n
8. Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ <\/em>(Chicago:\u00a0 Moody Press, 1984) 157.<\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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