servant

• few are duties for the lone s.

28:5.14These are the an­gels who fos­ter and pro­mote the team­work of all Or­von­ton. One of the most im­por­tant lessons to be learned dur­ing your mor­tal ca­reer is team­work. The spheres of per­fec­tion are manned by those who have mas­tered this art of work­ing with other be­ings. Few are the du­ties in the uni­verse for the lone ser­vant. The higher you as­cend, the more lonely you be­come when tem­porar­ily with­out the as­so­ci­a­tion of your fel­lows.

• parable of the slothful s.

165:2.2“On this night I have much to tell you, and since many of you are my dis­ci­ples and some of you my bit­ter en­e­mies, I will pre­sent my teach­ing in a para­ble, so that you may each take for your­self that which finds a re­cep­tion in your heart.

165:2.3“Tonight, here be­fore me are men who would be will­ing to die for me and for this gospel of the king­dom, and some of them will so of­fer them­selves in the years to come; and here also are some of you, slaves of tra­di­tion, who have fol­lowed me down from Je­ru­sa­lem, and who, with your dark­ened and de­luded lead­ers, seek to kill the Son of Man. The life which I now live in the flesh shall judge both of you, the true shep­herds and the false shep­herds. If the false shep­herd were blind, he would have no sin, but you claim that you see; you pro­fess to be teach­ers in Is­rael; there­fore does your sin re­main upon you.

• not greater than his master

179:3.8“Do you re­ally un­der­stand what I have done to you? You call me Mas­ter, and you say well, for so I am. If, then, the Mas­ter has washed your feet, why was it that you were un­will­ing to wash one an­other’s feet? What les­son should you learn from this para­ble in which the Mas­ter so will­ingly does that ser­vice which his breth­ren were un­will­ing to do for one an­other? Ver­ily, ver­ily, I say to you: A ser­vant is not greater than his mas­ter; nei­ther is one who is sent greater than he who sends him. You have seen the way of ser­vice in my life among you, and blessed are you who will have the gra­cious cour­age so to serve. But why are you so slow to learn that the se­cret of great­ness in the spir­i­tual king­dom is not like the meth­ods of power in the ma­te­rial world?

• not greater than his master

180:3.1The eleven had scarcely ceased their dis­cus­sions of the dis­course on the vine and the branches when the Mas­ter, in­di­cat­ing that he was de­sirous of speak­ing to them fur­ther and know­ing that his time was short, said: “When I have left you, be not dis­cour­aged by the en­mity of the world. Be not down­cast even when faint­hearted be­liev­ers turn against you and join hands with the en­e­mies of the king­dom. If the world shall hate you, you should re­call that it hated me even be­fore it hated you. If you were of this world, then would the world love its own, but be­cause you are not, the world re­fuses to love you. You are in this world, but your lives are not to be world­like. I have cho­sen you out of the world to rep­re­sent the spirit of an­other world even to this world from which you have been cho­sen. But al­ways re­mem­ber the words I have spo­ken to you: The ser­vant is not greater than his mas­ter. If they dare to per­se­cute me, they will also per­se­cute you. If my words of­fend the un­be­liev­ers, so also will your words of­fend the un­godly. And all of this will they do to you be­cause they be­lieve not in me nor in Him who sent me; so will you suf­fer many things for the sake of my gospel. But when you en­dure these tribu­la­tions, you should re­call that I also suf­fered be­fore you for the sake of this gospel of the heav­enly king­dom.