So the Motive of a true servant is to put forth God's agenda.

Now note with me if you will : The Model of a servant: These are indicated in Joseph and in the people who sell out to Pharaoh, both in a leader and in a follower.

First I want to note the servant hood exhibited in a leader of people. In Titus we may note the qualities of a biblical leader. One thing we notice is that a leader needs to be just, righteous, observing divine laws equitable straight . Also keeping the commands of God. In some places this is translated as innocent, faultless, guiltless in one sense it is used of someone whose way of thinking, feeling, and acting is wholly conformed to the will of God, and who therefore needs no correction in the heart or life [only Christ] truly approved of or acceptable of God.

In a narrower sense, rendering to each his due and that in a judicial sense, passing just judgment on others, whether expressed in words or shown by the manner of dealing with them [Jesus example with Judas. No one knew after 3 years that he was the betrayer even though Jesus knew]

Then, hand in hand with that we need to see that A leader is not : not self-willed.

Do you know what a hedonist is? It is someone who seeks his or her own pleasure. That is a term that comes directly from the word translated “self willed” “self-pleasing,” “ arrogant.”

If I came here because of the money, the power, the status, any other reason than to teach God's word in God's way, then I better get out while the getting is good. It cannot be MY agenda that's pushed here, not even your agenda. Self will, my interests, the way I see things. has to be tempered by the revealing word of God.

I guess that really is put to the test by what happens when I am crossed. Or what happens when someone treats me badly or you badly. How do you respond? Is it in an arrogant “I'm right” way, or do I or do you honestly take a biblical second look.

So we see with Joseph he was: . Not self centered. Not self willed, Not lining his own pockets or fostering his own agenda.

Next thing we need to note a bout a true servant of the king is: He does not fleece the sheep (not give away i.e. not work not eat ,took live stock and fed it too)

Joseph was in a position here to gain Personal advantage. He could have made deals that would have built himself a marvelous future and stood his family in stead for generations to come. But instead all he did benefited the one He called king.

That's the way it is with a true servant/leader. He looks to the real master, the real sovereign. And Joseph looked past Pharaoh to the Almighty God. Joseph made deals but not for HIMSELF.

Another thought here, that attitude also extends to control of peoples wills. A true shepherd servant does Not demand obedience of the sheep to His Own self but to the high king.

Those are things you need to expect of your leadership and of your selves as well.

But lets look deeper in the attitudes of the people here and see what real servant hood entails as a basic attitude. Look at verse 23 ff Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, [here is] seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth [part] unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones. And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.

.A true servant understands that he or she does Not Have Ownership of him or her Self.

A Bondsman or Bond slave is one who gives himself up to another's will , those whose service is used by Christ in extending and advancing his cause among men. It carries the thought of one

devoted to another to the disregard of one's own interests .

1 Cor 6:19 What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost [which is] in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.