It is the duty of Christians as to set forth the praise of God, so to be serviceable one to another. For this purpose in the Decalogue to the first table, which prescribes that duty which we owe to God, is added the second table, which declares the service that we owe one to another: and he that said, The first and great Commandment is this, Thou shalt love the Lord, etc. said also, The second is like to this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, etc. whereupon the Apostle declaring what those sacrifices be wherewith God is well pleased, joins these two together, to give thanks to God, and to do good to man.
NOTE: Service to God and service to man go hand in hand. We can't properly worship God without taking care of our duties to our fellow man, nor can we properly serve others when our work is not rooted in our worship of God.
The service which in the fear of God we perform one to another, is an evident and real demonstration of the respect we bear unto God. To God our goodness extends not. He is so high above us, so perfect and complete in himself, that neither can we give to him, nor he receive of us. But in his own stead he has placed our brother like to ourselves; to whom, as we may do hurt, so by our faithful service we may do much good: in doing whereof God is much honoured.
NOTE: Think "all that you've done for the least of these, you've done for me." We serve God by serving our brothers rightly.
This discovers their hypocrisy, who make great pretence of praising God, and yet are scornful, and disdainful to their brethren, and slothful to do any service to man: These men’s religion is vain. By this note did the Prophets in their time, and Christ and his Apostles in their time also, discover the hypocrisy of those among whom they lived: and so may we also in our times. For many there be, who frequently in their houses, and in the midst of the Congregation sing praise unto God, and perform other parts of Gods outward worship, but towards one another, are proud, stout, envious, unmerciful, unjust, slanderous, and very backward to do any good service. Surely, that outward service which they pretend to perform to God, does not so much wipe out the spot of prophaness, as their neglect of duty unto man brands their foreheads with the stamp of hypocrisy.
NOTE: You can't act like you serve God, and refuse to serve your brother. If you try, you are nothing more than a hypocrite.
For our parts, let us not upon pretext of one duty, though it may seem to be the weightier, think to shift off another; lest that fearful woe which Christ denounced against the Scribes and Pharisees fall upon our pates [heads]. As God is careful to instruct us how to carry ourselves both to his own Majesty, and also one to another, so let us in both approve ourselves to him: remembering what Christ said to the Pharisees, "These ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone." The same Lord that required praise to his own Majesty, enjoin mutual service one to another; the neglect of this, as well as of that, shows too light respect of his will and pleasure: What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
Takeaways
1) Our service to others is based in our worship of God. This means that everything God teaches is what instructs us about how to serve each other. There would not be a category of serving others that goes against what God has decreed to be good or pure.
2) You cannot say you worship God if you do not serve others in the way in which God has taught, and to the extent of the role that God has placed you (see §.1.).
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