Page 109 - Christians Must Heed Jesus

Adnan Oktar
Harun Yahya

Jesus (pbuh) Is a Servant Who Lives
by a Profound Love of God

Our Lord says in the Gospel:
When God raised up His servant, He sent him [Jesus] first to you to bless
you by turning each of you from your wicked ways. (Acts of the Apostles,
3:26)

In a verse from the Koran God says:

The Messiah would never disdain to be a servant to God nor
would the angels near to Him. If any do disdain to worship Him,
and grow arrogant, He will in any case gather them all to Him.
(Koran, 4:172)

As passages from the Gospel and verses of the Koran make clear,
Jesus is a servant of God and as explicitly stated in this verse from the
Koran, he is a lovely human being who delights in being a servant of
God, who has submitted to Him and who is devoted to Him with a
deep passion. The duty of serving God, which he undertakes with a
profound love of Him, is unacceptable for some Christians. They mis-
interpret and deny the duty of service to God that he discharges with
love and great delight.
The great majority of those who deny, despite the passages from
the Gospel that we shall be examining in detail, that Jesus was created
merely as a servant have probably fallen into that error out of igno-
rance. They imagine, out of their love for Jesus, that if they were to ad-
mit that he was a "servant" he would in some way become less valu-

able and they would be lacking in the appropriate respect for him. Yet
the duty of service that Jesus discharged with love and enthusiasm, as
an act of worship, was actually a great blessing for him and takes noth-
ing away from his worth. On the contrary, service to God with such a
great love made Jesus many times more valuable, raised his station in

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