POWER OVER VS POWER UNDER

We see many examples throughout the Bible where wicked and evil men (and sometimes women such as Jezebel) were selfish, entitled, prideful, domineering, violent, and harsh. They modeled a "power over" authority. You can read one Biblical example HERE.  However, Jesus so beautifully modeled something entirely different.... power under servant leadership.

In Mark 10:42-45, Jesus responds to a request James and John make to sit on his right and left in Heaven by saying this...“You know that those who are regarded as rulers of the Gentiles LORD IT OVER THEM, and their high officials exercise authority OVER them. Not so with you. Instead, whoever wants to become great among you must be your SERVANT, and whoever wants to be first must be slave of all. For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to SERVE, and to GIVE his life as a ransom for many.”

John 13:12-17, "So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.  For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.  If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them."

Philippians 2: 5-8, "Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross."