Save Us to Serve You

By Emmanuel Oghene

'Save Us to Serve You' is about the fact that Saviours of their fellow humans start off as the servant of their fellow men and end up as the masters of the same group of people. This means that they practice the principle of the way up is down and sowing soothing service to reap resounding service from your beneficiaries. Therefore, helpers help others earlier to help themselves later or givers get greater return. Jesus affirmed this when He said whoever wants to be the master over others must start with serving the wellbeing of the people. Jesus meant that people like to serve any individual who makes their wellbeing his highest priority.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris UK
• Release date: Dec 26, 2012
• ISBN: 9781479764969

Emmanuel Oghene

Rev Emmanuel Oghenebrorhie can be described as a Paper-pulpit Pastor and Bible Preacher by publication. He is divinely ordained to teach, preach and publish the Gospel of Christ Jesus and has been teaching and preaching since 1994. He began to publish in 2004 and presides over Emmanuel Oghenebrorhie Ministries, that encompasses several arms. He operates Christ Redemption Publications, based in Ibadan, Nigeria. He has been published by other publishers overseas. He makes the working word of God relevant to daily living, to prepare the saints for heaven. He hosts a monthly Bible Seminar every second Sunday at his Nigerian base, Ibadan. His audiences often comment that he gives a realistic interpretation to the word of God in a way they never heard or read previously and that he directs the word of God to where it matters in a man’s life when it matters most. He can be reached on [e-mail] or [e-mail] or 234-7037825522 or 234-8182022262 or 07055989850

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Copyright © 2012 by Rev Emmanuel Oghene.

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CONTENTS

Dedication

Introduction

1    Duress Demean or Demeaning Duress

2    Salvation Accompanying Polarity or the Politics of Salvation

3    Salvation Safety Belts

4    Conditioned Mutual Compromise

5    Sustaining Superiority Over Subordinate/Servants/Subjects

6    Saviour’s Rating

7    Saviour’s Source of Strength

8    Rewarding Requirements

9    Rewarding referral

Author’s Other Published Titles

DEDICATION

His Excellency, Senator Isiaka Ajumobi,

Governor, Oyo State, Federal Republic of Nigeria.

INTRODUCTION

We decided not to call this Saved to serve or The Saved serve the Saviour. It could have been ‘Salvation and Service’ in the sense of rescue and reciprocal reward or reciprocation too. The saviour deserves the service of the saved like the Gibeonites told Joshua they would serve them if spared as it was better to sacrifice service to stay alive than otherwise. Servants should be spared to continue to serve like an army officer approached Jesus to save his servant from dying so he could continue to enjoy the benefit of his meritorious service. The relationship between leaders and followers is supposed to be based on the pivot or pillar of reciprocal service which is reciprocal reward relationship. The Concept of Privilege (COP) is somewhat complicated in some respect. There is the creation, craving, claiming, consumption and extension/sharing of privilege for diverse reasons by diverse persons.

God has assigned a solution and the solution provider to every problem that any man would ever encounter while trudging through this world. In fact, in most cases, the solution is lurked in the very problem and the arrowhead of the solution is around the scene of the problem. Taking a hard look at the problem could reveal the assigned solution and its supplier or provider. This means that ASS is Assigned Solution Supplier, ISP is Important Solution Provider, Instant Solution Provider or Impressive Solution Provider or even Improvised Solution Provider.

Dan was making a career in one of the armed forces of his country when he died unexpectedly. Unfortunately, his wife never had any child for him before the tragic incident. The fact that she was a childless widow made Dan’s relatives come over to claim what they thought was his inheritance from his wife. They had believed that the car he drove around town as a member of the car-owner-users in the largest metropolitan city they lived in their country belonged to him. Fortunately for his wife, Demeris, Dan had the habit of keeping documents relating to their assets since he was an armed force personnel and knew the importance of documentation of one’s assets in case of any controversy. He was meticulous in keeping records that whenever they needed to make any reference, they promptly found them. Demeris’ siblings and concerned relatives had suspected that her late husband’s relatives might come for such things so they had talked in that direction during the time of commiserating with her.

Two weeks after the burial, Dan’s relatives came calling for the inventory of Dan’s assets. She sought their permission to get her relatives to be around for such meeting. They obliged and fixed three days after. When they met, someone from Dan’s family made a face-saving remark that they would like to see receipts for whatever they owned because they do not want to collect her personal properties in addition to that of their late brother. Fortunately for her, she had allowed him to buy most of their assets and he had been honest to write her name with his own handwriting on those she paid for. It was like he knew that this inglorious day would arise.

One of her relatives had taken all the receipts away to make five copies of each even before they came asking for sharing of assets so they could go away with those they could prove belonged to their brother. Unknown to the Dan’s family members, Demeris and her relatives had contracted Dan’s best friend amongst his colleagues at workplace and a lawyer to come over to witness the proceedings. They posed as members of Demeris relatives but contributed little or nothing. Their mission was to witness and serve as neutral observers. When they began to check the receipts, it became obvious that Demeris owned 80% of the assets, including the car. It became a problem for Dan’s relatives to claim his share because of the shame associated with it. Meanwhile, she insisted they must collect them since they came to claim his assets in their marriage. They reluctantly collected and left disappointed.

After a while, one of them thought that since she was the one funding the lifestyle of their late brother and he had always wished that he would get a rich lady to marry and bankroll his life, then, Demeris was the kind of woman he needed. Sometime later he returned to indicate his interest in marrying her. She asked him to give her time to think over it and he should understand that she could not remarry until after the one year mourning period of the death of her late husband. He agreed but promised to visit her at intervals to remind her of his interest. Few weeks after, another of Dan’s relatives came to her to say she must not accept to marry the very relative who came to her. She was disappointed that the first relative discussed such an issue with anyone. Meanwhile, the truth was that he never discussed with the relative who came to warn her. That relative thought through their experience with her over the sharing of their assets and remembered that she fits the kind of person the marriage seeking relative had always claimed he wanted for a wife. So, he believed that he would soon scheme to marry her knowing that she was willing to provide to support whoever she married.

When the marriage seeking relative visited again, she asked him why he discussed what they should keep secret with another relative. He said he never did and she said but your relative so and so came to say I should not accept to marry you. How did he know that you came to mention your intention for a relationship between us? You must have told him because I never did and we were alone the day you came to discuss it. My conclusion is that you are a man who cannot keep any secret and that is not my desirable kind of man. He was livid and angry at the same time. She concluded, even if I would marry any other person in your family, it can never be you, who cannot keep secret, so the discussion we had earlier about possible marriage is dead and better forgotten, for ever!

He left her place most demoralised and angry with the relative who had come to blow up his chance forever. He went