The Son of Man Came to Serve
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By John Piper About Jesus Christ
The Son of Man Came to Serve
Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give His life a ransom for many.
Introduction: Christmas Is About . . .
Today and next Sunday I want to meditate with you on Mark 10:45. It is a very important Christmas text.
Christmas is about the coming of Christ into the world.
- It's about the Son of God, who existed eternally with the Father as "the radiance of his glory and the exact representation of his nature," taking on human nature and becoming a man (Hebrews 1:3).
- It's about the birth of a man by a virgin conceived miraculously (not sexually) by the Holy Spirit so that he is the Son of God, not the way you and I are sons of God, but in an utterly unique way (Luke 1:35).
- It's about the coming of a man named Jesus in whom "all the fullness of deity was pleased to dwell" (Colossians 2:9).
- It's about the coming of the "fullness of time" that had been prophesied by the prophets of old that
