Luke 14:7-11 (ESV)
The Parable of the Wedding Feast
Now he told a parable to those who were invited, when he noticed how they chose the places of honor, saying to them, “When you are invited by someone to a wedding feast, do not sit down in a place of honor, lest someone more distinguished than you be invited by him, and he who invited you both will come and say to you, ‘Give your place to this person,’ and then you will begin with shame to take the lowest place. But when you are invited, go and sit in the lowest place, so that when your host comes he may say to you, ‘Friend, move up higher.’ Then you will be honored in the presence of all who sit at table with you. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Jesus came to build a Kingdom. Believers are invited to His Kingdom. But Christ’s Kingdom it is not like the kingdoms of the earth. In those kingdoms hierarchy matters. In Christ’s kingdom humility matters. In man’s kingdoms we are attempting to move up the ladder. In Christ’s kingdom we are higher when we are first lower. Those exalted in man’s kingdoms are those who flex and exert themselves into higher positions. In Christ’s Kingdom it is different. Those who are exalted are those who first a humble. Christ came in humility and in the form of a servant.
Philippians 2:7 (ESV)
but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.
If we want to have position in Christ’s kingdom we have to take on the form of Christ and become a servant to all.
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