You Can Face Your Worst Days if Your Attitude is Adjustable. Pastor Keith Smith shows us that when we are secure we can serve like Christ does. Presented March 24/25, 2012. Our podcast is available at http://www.apchurch.com/podcasts.

1. “You Can Get Through the Worst of Life if...
Your Attitude is Adjustable”

2. ✔ Etiquette, hygiene and comfort
✔ Humility and servanthood
✔ One spiritual bath, repeated cleansings
✔ Judas Iscariot –
you can be close but far away
✔ Being so secure in Christ’s love that
you serve others

3. “Jesus knew that the Father had put all things
under His power and that He had come from
God and was returning to God,
so he got up from the meal... wrapped the
towel around his waist... poured water into a
basin... began to wash his disciple’s feet...
drying them with a towel...”

4. “Jesus knew that the Father had put all things
under His power and that He had come from
God and was returning to God,
so he got up from the meal... wrapped the
towel around his waist... poured water into a
basin... began to wash his disciple’s feet...
drying them with a towel...”

5. “When he had finished washing their feet, he
put on his clothes and returned to his place.
‘Do you understand what I have done for you?’
he asked them.
‘You call me “Teacher” and “Lord,” and rightly
so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your
Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you
also should wash one another’s feet.”

6. “When he had finished washing their feet, he
put on his clothes and returned to his place.
‘Do you understand what I have done for you?’
he asked them.
‘You call me “Teacher” and “Lord,” and rightly
so, for that is what I am. Now that I, your
Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you
also should wash one another’s feet.”

7. ✔ Being so secure in Christ’s love
that you serve others

8. “A dispute also arose among them
as to which of them was considered
to be greatest.” - Luke 22:24

9. Compare ourselves to others so we feel
better about ourselves
Clamor for • position
• people’s affirmation
• possessions that impress
• performance

10. Overcompensating by
• competitiveness
• criticsm
• controlling
• appearance

11. because it steals or diminishes...
1. you knowing who you really are
2. what you could be or do for others
3. finding your identity in Christ

12. “As the Father has loved me, so have I loved
you. Now remain in my love...
If you keep my commands,
you will remain in my love...
My command is this:
Love each other as I have loved you.”
–John 15:9, 10a, 12

13. In Christ’s love, I am secure

14. Secure in Christ’s love,
I serve others what He serves me

15. Adjusting
our source of security