COMMENTS
If the consecration be to the Lord, then every sacrifice of our just rights and interests on behalf of ourselves as Christians, on behalf of husband or children, father or mother, neighbors or friends, brethren in Christ, is counted of the Lord as so much done to Him; whereas if the very same services were rendered from any other standpoint—by anyone unjustified, and not consecrated to the Lord, or merely done to the individuals and not as a sacrifice unto the Lord—these things would not count to us as His followers, as our sacrifices.
How eminently proper that the Son of Man, Adam's pre-eminent descendant, should come not to be ministered unto, but to minister; and how greatly superior therein is the Son of Man to the man Adam, in that the latter by serving self wrecked the hopes of the race, while Jesus by serving others worked out salvation for the entire race. He was as superior to the first Adam as unselfishness is superior to selfishness, and is our example, the following of which will make us fit for the Kingdom.
2 Cor. 8:9; Matt. 1:21; 4:23; 5:17; 9:13; 15:24; 18:11-14; 20:25-27; Mark 1:38; Luke 1:78; 4:18; 22:27; John 4:34; 10:10; 13:4-17; 18:37; Acts 10:38; Gal. 5:13; Heb. 2:9, 14, 15, 18.
