TOPIC : UNDERSTANDING LOYALTY
(Special edition)
TEXT: 1 SAMUEL 26:7-25
2. LOYALTY OF PROTÉGÉ PROVOKES SUPERIORS TO EXTENDING PRIVILEGES
Superiors usually respond to the loyalty of their underlings.
Jesus' loyalty provoked his Father to heap upon him certain privileges.
a) HE RECOMMENDED JESUS TO BE HEARD.
God recommended Jesus to be heard in these words: This is my Son, whom I love; with him I am well pleased. Listen to him! - Matthew 17:5 NIV. For a Father to tell the whole world to listen to his son means his son has passed the test of loyalty.
God did not only tell the world to listen to him. Jesus actually became his last voice to a dying world. God, who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the fathers by the prophets, Has in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he has appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds - Hebrews 1:1-2.
If your superior is not recommending you or can't recommend you, then your loyalty to him is defective.
Jesus' loyalty was so remarkable that seeing Jesus became equivalent to seeing the Father. Jesus said unto him...he that has seen me has seen the Father - John 14:9.
The reason many superiors are still holding unto power instead of delegating is because of the questionable loyalty of those under them. Some of the people under them are like Absalom.
Absalom poisoned the minds of people against his own father.
Listen to Absalom: Absalom said moreover, Oh that I were made judge in the land, that every man which has any suit or cause might come unto me, and I would do him justice! - 2 Samuel 15:4. He foolishly felt that his sense of judgment was better than that of his father.
David was different. Even though Saul wanted to kill David, David's loyalty to him caused him to declare David king over Israel before he died. Look at what Saul said to David before his soldiers: And now, behold, I know well that you shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand - 1 Samuel 24:20.
The scripture also declared, Then Saul said to David, Blessed be you, my son David: you shall both do great things, and also shall still prevail. So David went on his way, and Saul returned to his place - 1 Samuel 26:25. It pays to be loyal no matter who your superior is.
Know this, your loyalty to your superior is the seed you sow for others to be loyal to you when you also become a superior
God bless you.
With the God I serve, nothing shall be impossible.
Your case is not bigger than God.
May you have a God filled day in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.
Your Victory is already guaranteed
It is well, do not give up, with God all things are possible
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For further reading, Deuteronomy 28,.
Colossians 1,2.
Pastor Obi Ejikeme
Senior Pastor
House of faith, Nigeria
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