“Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his master made ruler over his household, to give them food in due season? Blessed is that servant whom his master, when he comes, will find so doing. Assuredly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all his goods. “But if that evil servant says in his heart, ‘My master is delaying his coming,’ and begins to beat his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunkards, the master of that servant will come on a day when he is not looking for him and at an hour that he is not aware of, and will cut him in two and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” Matt. 24:45-51. Here we find two kinds of God’s servants: the faithful and wise servant and the evil servant. But can we actually consider the evil servant to be a servant of God? Yes, he himself says so: “My master is delaying his coming;” and Jesus says, “The master of that servant will come.” This establishes the irrefutable fact that among God’s servants there are faithful and unfaithful, good and evil, wise and foolish servants. Who then is that faithful and wise servant? It is he who does God’s will and not his own will. For just as Jesus said, “My food is to do the will of Him who sent Me, and to finish His work” (John 4:34), this also applies to the disciple: his food is to do Jesus’ will and not his own. “I am the living bread which came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is My flesh, which I shall give for the life of the world.” “For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed.” “As the living Father sent Me, and I live because of the Father, so he who feeds on Me will live because of Me.” John 6:51, 55, 57. The servants of God who bring souls into a relationship with Jesus so that they do God’s will— or as Jesus says here, that they eat of Him—give food. Their ministry results in life. Jesus consistently did God’s will, not only when it suited Him; therefore He was always a sacrifice. Dan. 12:11. “Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.” Rom. 8:9. The Spirit of Christ requires that you always do God’s will, and possessing this one Spirit affirms that you are fulfilling the desires of the Spirit. When a person consistently does God’s will, He eats Jesus’ flesh and drinks His blood, and this testifies to the fact that he possesses the Spirit of Christ. Who then is this evil servant? It is he who either does not want to acknowledge his own self-life, or if he does acknowledge it, does not want to deny it and do God’s will. We find such people mentioned in the letters to the churches in Revelation. “I know your works, that you have a name that you are alive, but you are dead.” Rev. 3:1. “Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you.” John 6:53. It is therefore not just desirable that we do God’s will, but it is absolutely necessary; otherwise we abide in death. He who loves God keeps His word, but he who does not love, abides in death. However, if the evil servant says in his heart, “My master is delaying his coming,” he does not say it with his mouth but in his heart. And so he thinks that his fellow servants are like this and like that, and instead of bearing and forgiving—doing God’s will—he beats his fellow servants. Then the evil that was previously hidden in his heart is revealed. And so he eats and drinks not of Jesus’ flesh and blood, but with the drunkards. They are the ones who do not live soberly in the Spirit, but who give themselves to soulish enjoyments and feelings. They will come to a terrible end.Andreas Nilsen