WEBVTT 00:00:04.899 --> 00:00:15.599 I got to say, the I feel like I've the Lord's calling me on the carpet a little bit, calling all of you to say something about faith. 00:00:15.733 --> 00:00:21.733 And then the song right after that says, Yeah, I want to be refined by fire man who prays for that? 00:00:21.798 --> 00:00:28.065 I don't want to pray for that because what'll happen, right? 00:00:28.065 --> 00:00:30.966 I got to pray about faith a little bit on that one some more. 00:00:30.966 --> 00:00:31.733 And I think about that. 00:00:31.733 --> 00:00:34.232 We might take that song out of the rotation. 00:00:34.232 --> 00:00:37.932 Okay. No. 00:00:37.999 --> 00:00:38.265 Yeah. 00:00:38.265 --> 00:00:41.265 No, we probably need it more. 00:00:41.399 --> 00:00:46.066 Some things we got to pray about faith and part of coming here. 00:00:46.066 --> 00:00:51.265 Sometimes it's coming by faith, you know, especially on Labor Day weekend, it appears, right? 00:00:51.365 --> 00:00:53.698 There are times we come by faith and we go, You know what? 00:00:53.698 --> 00:01:05.865 Maybe I'm not feelin it today, but I know I got to get close to others who are trying to pursue Christ because I can't do it on my own. 00:01:05.865 --> 00:01:07.899 We're going to see a powerful picture of that. 00:01:07.899 --> 00:01:11.933 And today's passage, you can't do it on your own. 00:01:12.033 --> 00:01:14.698 In fact, we're back in the Book of John continuing through John. 00:01:14.698 --> 00:01:23.198 We're in chapter 13, and I was reminded of an experience my family and I had when we first started serving as missionaries overseas. 00:01:23.266 --> 00:01:26.799 Our first assignment was to teach at a student conference. 00:01:26.865 --> 00:01:29.632 There were students coming from all over the South Pacific. 00:01:29.632 --> 00:01:32.233 There was a university in this country. 00:01:32.233 --> 00:01:35.632 The university of the South Pacific Pacific, aptly named. 00:01:35.632 --> 00:01:39.698 There's probably 20 different little island nations all throughout the South Pacific. 00:01:39.698 --> 00:01:45.399 Many you've never heard of, and a lot of them have come together for this student conference from Campus Crusade for Christ. 00:01:45.399 --> 00:02:11.233 So we had countries like Vanuatu, the Solomon Islands, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Samoa, Fiji, all these different countries sent students who wanted to spend their break growing as a Christian, focusing on their spiritual life and so I taught at this conference and at the end they had this really cool moment where all these different countries are coming from with all their different traditions. 00:02:11.498 --> 00:02:23.299 And so they each dressed up in their kind of traditional elaborate costumes, outfits, costumes, outfits, and then did some kind of traditional dance alongside of it. 00:02:23.299 --> 00:02:25.998 And they were all kind of showing off their country. 00:02:25.998 --> 00:02:29.799 In fact, I got an image of one of the countries I'm pretty sure this was Tonga. 00:02:29.866 --> 00:02:32.765 And you can see they have elaborate outfits. 00:02:32.765 --> 00:02:38.699 Most of those mats that are wrapped around them are made from coconut leaves or some regional grass from their area. 00:02:38.699 --> 00:02:44.366 And it's some tradition that's been passed down and they do this real elaborate dance. 00:02:44.466 --> 00:02:45.799 And this was amazing to watch. 00:02:45.799 --> 00:02:59.399 What a great introduction to this new environment to get exposed to all these beautiful traditions and these dances were well-crafted, well orchestrated, well right in the middle of one of these dances. 00:02:59.399 --> 00:03:01.733 And you know, their time together, they're coordinated. 00:03:01.733 --> 00:03:04.399 Everybody's dressed the same. 00:03:04.399 --> 00:03:17.165 One of the other girls from the audience gets up and walks right in the middle of them and starts just weaving through them, dancing around them, not following them, doing her own thing right in the middle of it all. 00:03:17.233 --> 00:03:20.966 And I looked around at me and I was just horrified. 00:03:21.066 --> 00:03:24.399 I thought, she is ruining this whole thing for them here. 00:03:24.399 --> 00:03:28.199 They have gone and put all this effort into this elaborate production. 00:03:28.265 --> 00:03:31.432 It's just taking all the attention on herself. 00:03:31.532 --> 00:03:32.799 And I was so embarrassed. 00:03:32.799 --> 00:03:36.598 I looked around at some of the leaders and I thought, when are they going to step up and say something? 00:03:36.598 --> 00:03:40.598 But apparently they were so embarrassed they did nothing. 00:03:40.665 --> 00:03:44.098 They sat completely still. 00:03:44.199 --> 00:03:46.399 So the whole thing finishes all the other dances. 00:03:46.399 --> 00:03:52.899 There was amazing night after I'd connect with the guy who coordinated it all and I was like, Man, this was an incredible night. 00:03:52.899 --> 00:03:56.866 What an introduction to the overseas ministry for our family. 00:03:56.866 --> 00:04:05.498 Like this could not have gone any better, except for that random lady who took it on herself and took over this whole dance, what was going on? 00:04:05.498 --> 00:04:10.032 And he looked at me as confused as you could be. 00:04:10.098 --> 00:04:12.366 And then he just started laughing. 00:04:12.366 --> 00:04:13.799 He just started laughing at me. 00:04:13.799 --> 00:04:15.133 Fijians love to laugh. 00:04:15.133 --> 00:04:17.098 He's just laughing and laughing. 00:04:17.098 --> 00:04:20.499 And now I'm feeling uncomfortable. 00:04:20.565 --> 00:04:23.565 And he says, John, she didn't ruin it. 00:04:23.766 --> 00:04:26.266 She made it even better. 00:04:26.266 --> 00:04:31.065 You know, they see that much like you might clap at something you agree with or shout at me. 00:04:31.065 --> 00:04:38.733 And that's she was bold enough to go up and join them to show how much she appreciated their act. 00:04:38.798 --> 00:04:43.865 And isn't it fascinating how we can see the exact same thing? 00:04:43.932 --> 00:04:48.065 And to one culture, it's horrifying. 00:04:48.132 --> 00:04:53.266 And to another it's an act of praise and service. 00:04:53.333 --> 00:04:59.199 Something can be so foreign to us in one culture versus another. It's amazing. 00:04:59.199 --> 00:05:00.865 We see that all throughout the Bible. 00:05:00.865 --> 00:05:07.699 We're going to see that today as well in a very familiar story where Jesus washes the feet of the disciples. 00:05:07.699 --> 00:05:09.098 It's one you've probably heard. 00:05:09.098 --> 00:05:14.298 If you've read the Bible before, you've probably heard it a number of times, and it seems pretty straightforward. 00:05:14.298 --> 00:05:21.298 But what we're going to see, much like this situation we experience, there are layers of meaning going on here. 00:05:21.399 --> 00:05:26.798 Some of them are foreign to us coming from a different culture and a different time. 00:05:26.865 --> 00:05:31.165 In fact, I'm going to point out four layers of meaning, much like maybe a four layer cake. 00:05:31.165 --> 00:05:36.831 I hesitate to mention cake this close to lunch, but you understand four layers of meaning. 00:05:36.831 --> 00:05:43.999 We're going to unpack through here and try to get at what some of what go on is going on that we may not fully understand. 00:05:44.065 --> 00:05:46.266 So we're going to be in John, chapter 13. 00:05:46.266 --> 00:05:47.499 If you have a Bible turn there. 00:05:47.499 --> 00:05:50.899 If you don't, we have copies of the Bible out in the connection corner. 00:05:50.999 --> 00:05:51.966 Feel free to slip out. 00:05:51.966 --> 00:05:54.766 Grab those any time those tie into the page numbers on the screen. 00:05:54.766 --> 00:05:58.165 That's on page 846. 00:05:58.266 --> 00:06:00.899 And we're going to look at these four layers of meaning. 00:06:00.899 --> 00:06:10.098 But first, let's look at the first verse in John chapter 13, because there's a lot going on and just this one verse that sets up a number of different things. 00:06:10.165 --> 00:06:28.098 John Chapter 13, verse one Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his our had come to depart out of this world, to the other, to the father having loved his own, who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 00:06:28.199 --> 00:06:34.665 And that phrase to the end means completely, entirely all the way to death. 00:06:34.798 --> 00:06:40.298 They don't know what that means yet, but he sees it through to the end. 00:06:40.466 --> 00:06:48.466 Now, the important thing about this verse to point out, we are at a gigantic transition in the book of John. 00:06:48.531 --> 00:06:51.732 John can basically be broken into four parts. 00:06:51.798 --> 00:06:55.466 You have the first 18 verses of the first chapter, so a very small part. 00:06:55.565 --> 00:07:03.199 Then you have from verse 19 until the end of chapter 12, huge section that we just finished last week. 00:07:03.298 --> 00:07:10.499 We closed this big section of the book called The Book of Sons, where he's showing, Here's who I am, here's who I am, I'll heal this way. 00:07:10.632 --> 00:07:11.932 I'll raise Lazarus from the dead. 00:07:11.932 --> 00:07:16.399 All of this is pointing out, these signs are pointing out, Here's who I am. 00:07:16.499 --> 00:07:22.999 But then we saw in chapter 12, he said, okay, now I'm drawing away to focus on my disciples. 00:07:23.065 --> 00:07:38.266 And so in chapter 1314, 15, 16, 17, in fact, if you have a Bible with the words of Jesus in red, if you flip through the next four or five pages, you just see almost entirely read. 00:07:38.266 --> 00:07:47.565 This is one of the longest discourses fancy word for lecture or sermon that Jesus gives in Scripture. 00:07:47.632 --> 00:07:56.865 You know, you have the Sermon on the Mount, you have the Olivet Sermon, and then you have the farewell discourse or the upper room discourse. 00:07:56.932 --> 00:08:09.699 And this is as important for us to take note, because think about if you had one meal left with the people who you were closest to and you'd want to leave them with some important words. 00:08:09.766 --> 00:08:18.632 And he's going to take the next 4 to 5 chapters to leave them with some very important words up to his glorification. 00:08:18.699 --> 00:08:22.632 And this second half of John is often called the Book of Glory. 00:08:22.699 --> 00:08:26.132 We're really in just a day or two left of his life. 00:08:26.199 --> 00:08:34.798 Halfway through the book, we speed up and get to slowing down for just a day or two left for this gigantic transition. 00:08:34.966 --> 00:08:40.365 And here's what, he says, to set up the transition, go back at verse one before the feast of Passover. 00:08:40.365 --> 00:08:50.831 Jesus knew that as our had come to depart out of this world to the Father having loved his own, who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 00:08:50.899 --> 00:09:02.198 The two words there that I think create an interesting dynamic is the fact that he's going out of the world, but he's leaving his followers behind in the world. 00:09:02.265 --> 00:09:13.331 And he recognizes that is one of the really, let's say, challenges of the Christian life. 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:18.198 How do you live in the world but not be of the world? 00:09:18.198 --> 00:09:20.265 How do we do that? 00:09:20.265 --> 00:09:26.466 How am I how do I stay living in the world, which I'm called to do, but I don't become a part of the world? 00:09:26.466 --> 00:09:29.466 I recognize I'm created for another world. 00:09:29.466 --> 00:09:31.099 This is not my home. 00:09:31.099 --> 00:09:33.032 There's another place, but yet I'm called to be here. 00:09:33.032 --> 00:09:34.932 How do we wrestle with that and figure that out? 00:09:34.932 --> 00:09:38.298 That's not always easy and clear. 00:09:38.365 --> 00:09:39.666 It's a challenge for many of us. 00:09:39.666 --> 00:09:47.066 In fact, I mentioned a week or two ago the Amish, and you know, you may not be familiar with the Amish. 00:09:47.066 --> 00:09:51.666 It's a religious group that they tend to shun many modern conveniences. 00:09:51.666 --> 00:09:53.765 They drive horse and buggy. 00:09:53.765 --> 00:09:57.131 Still, they don't use electricity, at least not the grid. 00:09:57.131 --> 00:10:05.331 They have a lot of different laws within their group to really limit their connection with this world. 00:10:05.432 --> 00:10:12.365 And, you know, I read this week a book for the first time I felt like was favorable toward them in that effort. 00:10:12.365 --> 00:10:20.066 Most of the time it's like, can you believe those backwards, legalistic morons who haven't caught up with the times? 00:10:20.066 --> 00:10:27.566 That's usually if it's not explicitly said that way, that's usually what the critique is thinking. 00:10:27.666 --> 00:10:36.099 But this guy said he said, You know, what we have to appreciate is what they're trying to do, whether you agree with how they do it or not. 00:10:36.131 --> 00:10:38.599 But they're not doing it perfectly. 00:10:38.698 --> 00:10:44.899 But let's try to understand what they're trying to do, which, by the way, is always a healthy thing do with someone you disagree with. 00:10:44.966 --> 00:10:49.966 I don't have to agree with you, but let me at least try to understand where you're coming from. 00:10:50.032 --> 00:10:56.899 Maybe that will allow me to be a little more gracious toward what what you're doing and not just be defensive or demanding. 00:10:56.999 --> 00:10:58.466 But he said, here's what is happening. 00:10:58.466 --> 00:11:09.298 It's not that the Amish hate technology, but it's that they love and want to protect community. 00:11:09.399 --> 00:11:16.099 And so the things they have said no to technology wise, they believe are things that will hinder the ultimate goal of community. 00:11:16.298 --> 00:11:18.131 And he gave one example. 00:11:18.131 --> 00:11:19.999 They don't own cars. 00:11:19.999 --> 00:11:28.899 In fact, I remember being at a gas station this is 20 years ago now, and pulling of the gas station in here pulls up a van and all these Amish fill out. 00:11:28.899 --> 00:11:33.399 And I'm like, Wait a second, you hypocrites. 00:11:33.465 --> 00:11:35.798 What are you doing? You don't own cars? 00:11:35.798 --> 00:11:38.032 No, we don't. 00:11:38.032 --> 00:11:40.631 But we can ride in them. 00:11:40.631 --> 00:11:49.198 But we can't own them because we've noticed when people own a car, they go off by themselves, separate themselves from community, which, by the way, does happen. 00:11:49.298 --> 00:11:49.599 Right. 00:11:49.599 --> 00:11:52.599 That's a brilliant observation. 00:11:52.731 --> 00:11:53.865 That clearly happens. 00:11:53.865 --> 00:11:57.465 And they've said it that it's detrimental to our community. 00:11:57.532 --> 00:11:58.764 So we're not going to own cars. 00:11:58.764 --> 00:12:03.798 We can go off in a group on a ride, but it's the ownership that creates the division. 00:12:03.798 --> 00:12:08.065 Now, again, whether you agree with that or not, I'm not trying to make a defense for that. 00:12:08.164 --> 00:12:14.599 But what they're trying to do is wrestle with that huge question we all have to wrestle with how do I live in this world but not be of this world? 00:12:14.599 --> 00:12:16.532 Recognize this world is not my home. 00:12:16.532 --> 00:12:22.298 How do I fight for the reality that I'm going back to the Father? 00:12:22.298 --> 00:12:27.798 That's what Jesus is saying here, to kick off the whole next lecture he's about to give them. 00:12:27.865 --> 00:12:36.764 And the beautiful part of how that sets up today's message, he is going to give this unbelievable example, practical example of what that means. 00:12:36.764 --> 00:12:39.631 You want to know what it means to live in this world, but not of this world. 00:12:39.631 --> 00:12:41.032 I'm going to show you. 00:12:41.032 --> 00:12:43.331 And this is what he's saying to the disciples right here. 00:12:43.331 --> 00:12:48.365 So let's look at what happens as we unpack these four layers of meaning. 00:12:48.432 --> 00:13:01.399 And the first layer is here in this first group of verses, verse two through five, John, chapter 13, verse two during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot. 00:13:01.465 --> 00:13:04.798 Simon Son, to betray him. 00:13:04.899 --> 00:13:16.298 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God and was going back to God, He rose from supper. 00:13:16.298 --> 00:13:22.599 He laid aside his outer garments and taking the towel, tied it around his waist. 00:13:22.599 --> 00:13:33.399 He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 00:13:33.399 --> 00:13:37.198 So the first layer of meaning we're going to look at here is the prior meaning. 00:13:37.198 --> 00:13:38.764 In fact, put those back up. 00:13:38.764 --> 00:13:40.599 I want you to see all four to begin with. 00:13:40.599 --> 00:13:41.798 You can capture those if you want. 00:13:41.798 --> 00:13:45.899 We have prior personal pattern and parallel. 00:13:45.999 --> 00:13:51.131 I worked really hard to find peace for all of those to help out with a note taking, but there's four layers of meaning. 00:13:51.131 --> 00:13:56.264 The prior meaning, the personal meeting, the pattern of the meeting, and then the parallel meaning. 00:13:54.065 --> 00:13:56.264 We're going to unpack each of those. 00:13:56.264 --> 00:14:04.999 First is the prior meaning, the historical meaning, the background, meaning when people saw someone washing feet, what did they think? 00:14:05.099 --> 00:14:07.532 Okay, for us, that's kind of awkward. 00:14:07.532 --> 00:14:12.631 If someone wanted to wash your feet, you'd be like, That's weird. Why? 00:14:12.631 --> 00:14:20.432 I mean, we wear nice comfy shoes, we wear socks wherever we walk is probably paved. 00:14:20.499 --> 00:14:25.465 And so our feet stay pretty clean, stay pretty mild, nice. 00:14:25.465 --> 00:14:34.164 They might look weird or something, but we don't we don't have feet usually that are how they would have been then. 00:14:34.264 --> 00:14:38.899 Most people, probably everyone, only had open toed shoes. 00:14:38.999 --> 00:14:41.798 They weren't allowed on the playground as a result. 00:14:41.798 --> 00:14:47.798 Sorry. Parents, but as a result you just step outside onto a dirt road. 00:14:47.999 --> 00:14:58.099 That's not only dirt, by the way, as the sheep pass by and leave behind many presents for you, they weren't just walking in dirt. 00:14:58.164 --> 00:15:07.331 All you do is walk across the street and no matter how clean your feet are, they are now something you don't want anywhere near you. 00:15:07.399 --> 00:15:16.631 And so there was an element culturally of your feet are going to be the dirtiest part of your body, the most unclean part of your body. 00:15:16.865 --> 00:15:24.465 There are going to be things on your feet that wouldn't be allowed in the temple that you shouldn't carry on you on the Sabbath. 00:15:24.532 --> 00:15:38.365 Now, we've seen, though, foot washing in some other places in Scripture already, even in the book of John, Do remember the most recent time someone washed someone's feet? 00:15:38.465 --> 00:15:58.264 Mary Jesus came to her home for dinner, and Mary, probably the distinguished host, takes her own hair and she does for him as far as we know, what no one else had done, no one else had taken the time to wash and sweep the disciples. 00:15:58.264 --> 00:15:59.899 She threatened. 00:15:59.999 --> 00:16:00.999 We would have heard about that. 00:16:00.999 --> 00:16:02.164 They would have written that in there. 00:16:02.164 --> 00:16:04.099 We'd know all about that. 00:16:04.099 --> 00:16:14.099 But Mary gets down, takes the most expensive things she has washes his feet and shows this is humble service and worship. 00:16:14.099 --> 00:16:20.164 She models to them what they should have been doing. 00:16:20.164 --> 00:16:26.465 There's the act of foot washing there already says I am a steaming this person at that level. 00:16:26.465 --> 00:16:28.831 The very few would. 00:16:28.831 --> 00:16:32.664 Part of it goes all the way back to Genesis Chapter 18. 00:16:32.764 --> 00:16:37.164 Abraham meets a group of three guys clearly knows they're divine. 00:16:37.164 --> 00:16:40.065 And he says to him, Come over here. 00:16:40.065 --> 00:16:46.231 And the first thing he says, Let me get some water for you to wash your feet. 00:16:46.331 --> 00:16:47.998 It was an act of hospitality. 00:16:47.998 --> 00:16:53.065 It was expected that would be one of the first things you would do for a weary traveler especially. 00:16:53.065 --> 00:16:55.697 It was a sign of respect. 00:16:55.764 --> 00:17:00.365 But notice with Abraham, he didn't wash their feet. 00:17:00.365 --> 00:17:03.831 Let me get you some water for you to wash your own feet. 00:17:03.932 --> 00:17:13.464 In fact, Jewish law prohibited at this time a man, a Jewish man, from being forced to wash another Jewish man's feet. 00:17:13.664 --> 00:17:15.464 That was for the Gentiles. 00:17:15.464 --> 00:17:20.832 Servants or the children are sorry to say, the women. 00:17:20.897 --> 00:17:22.865 Different times, different culture. 00:17:22.865 --> 00:17:24.432 But a Jewish man, you could not force him. 00:17:24.432 --> 00:17:26.597 That was against the law. 00:17:26.597 --> 00:17:31.132 That was too low for him. 00:17:31.231 --> 00:17:38.498 And so with all of this prior understanding, with all of this cultural background, we get into the personal layer. 00:17:38.565 --> 00:17:44.198 Jesus knows all this, but he's going to make it personal. 00:17:44.198 --> 00:17:47.964 It's not just foot washing as a concept. 00:17:48.065 --> 00:17:51.464 He's going to wash the individual personal feet of people. 00:17:51.531 --> 00:17:57.097 So look at this next set of verses and we can see how this personal layer comes out. 00:17:57.097 --> 00:17:59.298 Look at verse six. 00:17:59.397 --> 00:18:06.498 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, Lord, do you wash my feet? 00:18:06.498 --> 00:18:13.265 Jesus answered him what I am doing, You do not understand Now, but afterward you will understand. 00:18:13.332 --> 00:18:18.498 Peter said to him, You shall never wash my feet. 00:18:18.565 --> 00:18:25.664 Jesus answered him, If I do not wash you, you have no share with me. 00:18:25.731 --> 00:18:31.498 Simon Peter said to him, Lord, they are not my feet, only, but also my hands and my head. 00:18:31.597 --> 00:18:37.897 And Jesus said, The one who has bathed does not need to wash except for his feet, but is completely clean. 00:18:37.897 --> 00:18:39.932 And you are clean. 00:18:39.932 --> 00:18:44.464 But not every one of you, for he knew who was to betray him. 00:18:44.464 --> 00:18:47.464 That was why he said Not all of you are clean. 00:18:47.498 --> 00:18:58.964 So here we have this second layer of meaning, the personal layer where Jesus comes and begins to wash the feet of the disciples individually. 00:18:59.031 --> 00:19:02.632 And it's just interesting that none of them said anything before Peter. 00:19:02.798 --> 00:19:08.164 Maybe they felt like me at this ceremony where it's so awkward you don't know what to say. 00:19:08.265 --> 00:19:14.432 But Peter is the first one We know him is often the bold one and he's like, What are you doing? 00:19:14.432 --> 00:19:15.964 You think you're going to wash my feet? 00:19:15.964 --> 00:19:17.397 What are you doing? 00:19:17.397 --> 00:19:19.031 You'll never wash my feet. 00:19:19.031 --> 00:19:22.265 In fact, this is really emphatic in the original language. 00:19:22.265 --> 00:19:27.865 He says, you know, no, will not wash my feet, which in English is weird because that would mean you really will. 00:19:27.865 --> 00:19:29.332 The double negative means a positive. 00:19:29.332 --> 00:19:31.765 But then that's not what it myth. 00:19:31.765 --> 00:19:33.498 No, you will not. 00:19:33.498 --> 00:19:34.332 No way. 00:19:34.332 --> 00:19:37.798 Ever wash my feet. 00:19:37.897 --> 00:19:39.632 And I love how Peter is. 00:19:39.632 --> 00:19:46.231 Just like that changed because Jesus says you you don't understand what's going on here. 00:19:46.298 --> 00:19:48.897 If you won't allow me to wash your feet, you have no. 00:19:48.897 --> 00:19:53.597 In fact, the word he uses, you have no share with me. 00:19:53.698 --> 00:19:55.164 That word also is translated. 00:19:55.164 --> 00:19:57.065 You have no part with me. 00:19:57.065 --> 00:19:59.698 You have no inherent part of the inheritance you have. 00:19:59.698 --> 00:20:04.531 It's used to describe the part of your body, the member of your body. 00:20:04.531 --> 00:20:06.397 You have no membership with me. 00:20:06.397 --> 00:20:11.031 You understand, Peter, If you don't do this, you're out. 00:20:11.132 --> 00:20:14.498 And so Peter goes, Well, I'm all in whatever this means. 00:20:14.498 --> 00:20:19.664 I don't get it, but I'm trusting you. 00:20:19.731 --> 00:20:28.498 Part of why this would have been so foreign to Peter, You know, we live in such an egalitarian society. 00:20:28.698 --> 00:20:32.597 We don't have clear social strata. 00:20:32.664 --> 00:20:39.531 Any one of us here, in theory, could be the president of the United States, right? 00:20:39.531 --> 00:20:45.964 I mean, that's a big jump, but it's there's nothing keeping you from it socially, per se. 00:20:46.031 --> 00:20:50.231 You could head a huge company CEO, you could be the governor. 00:20:50.231 --> 00:20:50.998 You could like. 00:20:50.998 --> 00:20:59.432 We just don't have those social classes where at that time they did, the Galilean fisherman knew he would never be the Roman emperor. 00:20:59.531 --> 00:21:04.198 He knew there was a vast difference between them and the average person knew. 00:21:04.198 --> 00:21:06.964 You stay in your class. 00:21:06.964 --> 00:21:19.365 And one of the worst things that could happen is someone who is the upper level, someone you esteem to come and put themselves at a level where they would do the most menial task that you could imagine. 00:21:19.365 --> 00:21:27.998 And Peter says, You you're not worthy of this, Lord, I don't follow that kind of Lord who would come down and do this that's that's below you. 00:21:27.998 --> 00:21:31.298 That's beneath you. 00:21:31.365 --> 00:21:41.231 I've tried to think of a way to communicate that just how horrific this would have been to them, because we don't have anything else like it in our culture. 00:21:41.231 --> 00:21:43.531 There's nothing else like this. 00:21:43.531 --> 00:21:44.531 And I've tried so hard. 00:21:44.531 --> 00:21:45.632 I've thought and thought and thought. 00:21:45.632 --> 00:21:47.231 I've listened to so many people talk about this. 00:21:47.231 --> 00:21:49.798 No one has given an example that I felt was good. 00:21:49.798 --> 00:21:51.132 So I've made this one up. 00:21:51.132 --> 00:21:53.464 We'll see if it works. 00:21:53.464 --> 00:21:57.998 So imagine that you get a call from the White House. 00:21:58.065 --> 00:22:03.964 President of the United States says, Hey, I want to come have dinner with you in your home with your family. 00:22:04.132 --> 00:22:07.964 Now, some of you go, I don't really want this president to come to my house. 00:22:07.964 --> 00:22:08.597 I get that. 00:22:08.597 --> 00:22:12.632 Okay, look, you pick whichever president you like. 00:22:12.731 --> 00:22:14.198 I'm not making a political comment. 00:22:14.198 --> 00:22:20.030 I'm just saying it should be someone that feels like an extreme honor to you. 00:22:20.097 --> 00:22:23.530 And so for now, you've got weeks to prepare, man. 00:22:23.530 --> 00:22:26.065 You're repainting every wall in the house. 00:22:26.065 --> 00:22:31.330 You're taken cooking classes, You're you're having the house re landscaped. 00:22:31.397 --> 00:22:32.931 You're you're working out more. 00:22:32.931 --> 00:22:36.498 I want to fit in that suit or that dress that I know I'll look better in. 00:22:36.631 --> 00:22:40.565 You're buying forks and spoons you didn't even know existed in learning how to use them. 00:22:40.565 --> 00:22:44.298 Like you're doing everything to prepare for this moment. 00:22:44.365 --> 00:22:50.897 And finally, the president shows up, walks in your house, sits down for dinner. 00:22:50.897 --> 00:22:51.765 Here you are. 00:22:51.765 --> 00:22:55.164 You and your spouse and your lovely three kids and a dog. 00:22:55.265 --> 00:22:57.565 Everyone's perfect. Everything is perfect. 00:22:57.565 --> 00:23:00.330 The meals perfect, everything's going great. 00:23:00.330 --> 00:23:13.397 All of a sudden, in the middle of the meal, you see this uncomfortable look on the face of the president and he says, Excuse me, Hate to ask, but can you point me to the bathroom? 00:23:13.498 --> 00:23:15.431 Oh, okay. 00:23:15.431 --> 00:23:17.030 You point him down the hall. 00:23:17.030 --> 00:23:21.830 He goes down the hall, second door on the left, no worries. 00:23:21.897 --> 00:23:24.330 And he's gone a few minutes and. 00:23:24.330 --> 00:23:27.698 Then you realize all of a sudden it hits you. 00:23:27.765 --> 00:23:37.464 Just an hour before he came, your teenage son had been in there and clogged the toilet right? 00:23:37.565 --> 00:23:38.897 And you're horrified. 00:23:38.897 --> 00:23:40.365 You can't believe it. 00:23:40.365 --> 00:23:48.530 And so you run to the bathroom and you get there and the doors open and he's got his jacket off and his sleeves are rolled up. 00:23:48.530 --> 00:23:53.530 And there he is with the plunger clean and your toilet. 00:23:53.597 --> 00:24:01.597 The highest man in the country is in your bathroom cleaning your toilet. 00:24:01.664 --> 00:24:05.030 You could not be more horrified. 00:24:05.097 --> 00:24:13.030 Now, that might make a great story that you'd love to share later, but in the moment, utterly horrified. 00:24:13.030 --> 00:24:15.464 What are you doing? 00:24:13.030 --> 00:24:15.464 I don't even want to do that. 00:24:15.464 --> 00:24:16.730 What are you doing? 00:24:16.730 --> 00:24:20.164 Doing that in my bathroom? 00:24:20.230 --> 00:24:24.565 This doesn't even begin to get at the horror Peter would have felt in this moment. 00:24:24.565 --> 00:24:27.565 What are you doing? 00:24:27.730 --> 00:24:32.330 And Jesus says, If I don't do this, you have no share. 00:24:32.397 --> 00:24:37.431 You have no part in me. 00:24:37.530 --> 00:24:39.565 And he doesn't understand what's going on. 00:24:39.565 --> 00:24:44.698 In fact, he explains to him, Look, I don't need to wash your whole body. 00:24:44.698 --> 00:24:48.097 Your whole body is clean, just your feet. 00:24:48.164 --> 00:24:55.631 If you had taken a shower in this culture baths right before you went out to meet a friend across the street, you're all clean. 00:24:55.698 --> 00:24:59.097 You just walk across the street and your feet are already wrecked. 00:24:59.198 --> 00:25:04.330 You don't have to take another bath, just wash your feet. 00:25:04.330 --> 00:25:10.698 Many, in fact, the context here, the conclusion is there are two spiritual cleansings occurring. 00:25:10.698 --> 00:25:19.830 One is Jesus saying, You already know me, you're already clean at that level, you already follow me, you're already saved is how we might say it. 00:25:19.931 --> 00:25:23.931 But the reality is you will sin again. 00:25:24.030 --> 00:25:27.030 You will make your feet will get dirty. 00:25:27.198 --> 00:25:32.265 And I don't mean you go and get re saved that you never knew him. 00:25:32.265 --> 00:25:35.998 No. What we do is we confess first, John. 00:25:35.998 --> 00:25:40.798 One night, if we say we have no sin, we receive ourselves. 00:25:40.897 --> 00:25:41.897 The truth is not in us. 00:25:41.897 --> 00:25:50.065 But if we confess our sins, we as faithful and just to forgive us our sins, cleanse us from all and righteousness. 00:25:45.131 --> 00:25:50.065 Note that we're cleansed. 00:25:50.164 --> 00:25:51.765 So, Peter, you don't understand. 00:25:51.765 --> 00:25:53.030 It's not just knowing me. 00:25:53.030 --> 00:25:55.365 There's the ongoing daily confession of sin. 00:25:55.365 --> 00:25:56.131 Both are true. 00:25:56.131 --> 00:25:57.131 Both are in play. 00:25:57.131 --> 00:26:00.131 That's the personal layer here. 00:26:00.198 --> 00:26:02.597 We don't just say, Yeah, no, I accepted him. 00:26:02.597 --> 00:26:04.330 I'm good. 00:26:04.330 --> 00:26:06.565 I did that 23 years ago. 00:26:06.565 --> 00:26:09.330 I know him. I'm good now. 00:26:09.330 --> 00:26:12.265 Well, Daly you may know him. 00:26:12.265 --> 00:26:20.998 You may be secure in him, but there is the daily confession and walking with him and growth in him and knowing him on and on and on and on. 00:26:21.097 --> 00:26:24.298 So that's the personal layer. 00:26:24.397 --> 00:26:26.298 And now let's look at the next layer here. 00:26:26.298 --> 00:26:28.765 In this next set of verses. 00:26:28.765 --> 00:26:30.198 You'll never wash my feet. 00:26:30.198 --> 00:26:32.498 You'll have no share with me. 00:26:32.498 --> 00:26:34.597 Look at verse 12. 00:26:34.597 --> 00:26:35.865 I'm going to come in here in a minute. 00:26:35.865 --> 00:26:39.998 By the way, on the verse I skipped over about Not all of you are clean and his comment on Judas. 00:26:39.998 --> 00:26:40.998 We'll get to that. 00:26:40.998 --> 00:26:50.365 But first look at verse 12 when he had washed their feet and put on his outer garment, resumed his place, he said to them, Do you understand what I have done to you? 00:26:50.365 --> 00:26:52.498 You call me teacher. And Lord, you're right. 00:26:52.498 --> 00:26:53.830 I am. 00:26:53.830 --> 00:27:01.530 If I then your Lord and teacher have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. 00:27:01.631 --> 00:27:07.765 For I have given you an example of that you also should do just as I have done to you. 00:27:07.865 --> 00:27:16.998 Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor as a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 00:27:16.998 --> 00:27:21.530 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 00:27:21.597 --> 00:27:27.798 So the third layer of meaning here is the pattern of meaning. 00:27:27.798 --> 00:27:30.998 The pattern of meaning Jesus is setting for them. 00:27:30.998 --> 00:27:40.131 In fact, he says, I've given you an example in verse 15 that word examples also translated as pattern for you to follow. 00:27:40.131 --> 00:27:42.431 You're not greater than me. 00:27:42.431 --> 00:27:44.730 You call me Lord and master. 00:27:44.730 --> 00:27:47.698 You're not greater than me. 00:27:47.698 --> 00:27:50.698 And so you should not be above this either. 00:27:50.830 --> 00:27:54.397 If the Lord or master is willing to do this, I'm setting a pattern. 00:27:54.498 --> 00:27:56.763 An example for you. 00:27:56.763 --> 00:28:01.631 Some have seen this and thought that means much like communion. 00:28:01.631 --> 00:28:05.263 This is something for us to continue to do as a part of our worship service. 00:28:05.330 --> 00:28:13.064 But a big difference is you never see this repeated as an act of worship in Scripture or in the early church. 00:28:13.131 --> 00:28:21.131 The point here is, is the behavior pattern, the heart pattern that he's pointing toward, not the actual physical act of washing someone's feet. 00:28:21.364 --> 00:28:26.230 Because as we've already about, it means a whole lot different in our culture than it did then. 00:28:26.230 --> 00:28:30.298 The issue is, are you willing to serve others? 00:28:30.397 --> 00:28:37.830 Are you willing to do the thing that no one else will do, that everyone else is above? 00:28:37.931 --> 00:28:40.397 That is the pattern. 00:28:40.397 --> 00:28:46.631 Probably the most obvious part of this passage is that he's saying You want to know what it means to be great. 00:28:46.631 --> 00:28:51.530 You want to know what it means to be Lord and master. 00:28:51.631 --> 00:28:54.597 Here's what it means. 00:28:54.597 --> 00:29:11.431 And the crazy part is he's doing that at the same time that when they get together well, first of all, this is the middle of the meal and Jesus gets up to wash their feet. 00:29:11.530 --> 00:29:13.298 Why aren't their feet already washed? 00:29:13.298 --> 00:29:15.030 Why didn't they do it when they came in the house? 00:29:15.030 --> 00:29:16.631 Why didn't they wash one another's feet? 00:29:16.631 --> 00:29:18.931 Why didn't they even wash their own feet? 00:29:18.931 --> 00:29:21.931 They even felt they were above doing that for themselves. 00:29:22.097 --> 00:29:25.963 When they get together, they argue about who's greatest. 00:29:26.030 --> 00:29:27.498 I don't know, Peter, you seem pretty great. 00:29:27.498 --> 00:29:30.498 But I got to tell you, I'm pretty great, too. 00:29:30.564 --> 00:29:33.163 That's that's the gist of some of their conversations. 00:29:33.163 --> 00:29:35.530 I'm going to get my mom to vouch for me. 00:29:35.530 --> 00:29:41.663 She's going to go to Jesus and talk about how great I am, which is a strong strategy, by the way. 00:29:41.663 --> 00:29:44.298 So that's what they do. 00:29:44.298 --> 00:29:48.230 And Jesus says, You want to know what to do when you get together. 00:29:48.330 --> 00:29:51.431 I'm going to show you what you do. 00:29:51.431 --> 00:29:52.897 You serve one another. 00:29:52.897 --> 00:29:54.830 That is the pattern. 00:29:54.830 --> 00:30:00.530 While they are arguing, he's saying, here's what it means to be the greatest. 00:30:00.631 --> 00:30:02.798 It takes a great person to serve others. 00:30:02.798 --> 00:30:04.730 Really. 00:30:04.730 --> 00:30:06.131 So that's the pattern of meeting. 00:30:06.131 --> 00:30:14.263 Now, that's the fourth layer, the parallel meaning let's look at this last layer, verse 18. 00:30:14.330 --> 00:30:16.498 I am not speaking of all of you. 00:30:16.498 --> 00:30:21.698 I know whom I have chosen, but the Scripture will be fulfilled. 00:30:21.698 --> 00:30:25.431 He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me. 00:30:25.498 --> 00:30:32.864 I'm telling you this now before it takes place, that when it does take place, you may believe that I am he truly, Truly. 00:30:32.864 --> 00:30:36.463 I say to you, Whoever receives the one I send receives me. 00:30:36.530 --> 00:30:39.564 Whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. 00:30:39.631 --> 00:30:49.864 So the thing about this story that's occurring in the background the entire time, it's not the obvious layer. 00:30:49.864 --> 00:30:52.564 I mean, the prior layer is not obvious either. 00:30:52.564 --> 00:31:00.564 The servant layer, that's that's obvious and somewhat the personal layer is as well in terms of he's dealing with people individually. 00:31:00.663 --> 00:31:03.397 But this parallel, this symbolic layer is occurring. 00:31:03.397 --> 00:31:21.897 What's happening in the background is that the whole time he's doing this, there's Judas in the same room and he's saying, One of you is with me, and while I am cleansing you individually, I'm going to clean this as a group. 00:31:21.897 --> 00:31:33.163 There is one among us who is not among us, which, by the way, is him saying they don't understand it yet. 00:31:33.364 --> 00:31:36.663 But I was in control even then. 00:31:36.730 --> 00:31:38.530 I knew what was happening. 00:31:38.530 --> 00:31:41.397 You look back and go, What was he thinking? 00:31:41.397 --> 00:31:44.830 He was still in control. 00:31:44.897 --> 00:31:52.564 Now, as I look at those four layers of meaning, I think there are some practical applications for us for quick ones that we're going to run through. 00:31:52.564 --> 00:32:03.431 When you think of the example Jesus set and understanding the background and also understanding the symbolism of what's occurring with Judas in the background, what does that mean for us? 00:32:03.498 --> 00:32:06.463 How do we live out being a servant? 00:32:06.463 --> 00:32:09.463 We're going to look at four ways real quick to be a servant. 00:32:09.564 --> 00:32:11.530 So four ways to be a servant. 00:32:11.530 --> 00:32:12.698 Here's number one. 00:32:12.698 --> 00:32:16.030 Go ahead and put number one up on the screen. 00:32:16.097 --> 00:32:20.798 Receive his service. 00:32:20.864 --> 00:32:23.364 That's the starting place. 00:32:23.364 --> 00:32:27.798 I've heard it said often that to be a great follower, you have to first learn. 00:32:27.864 --> 00:32:30.431 Sorry to be a great leader. 00:32:30.431 --> 00:32:34.530 You have to first learn to be a good follower. 00:32:34.631 --> 00:32:45.864 And Jesus here, said Peter, if you don't receive my simple act of service, you have no part with me. 00:32:45.963 --> 00:32:47.530 That's the starting place. 00:32:47.530 --> 00:32:52.663 What did the disciples do to receive Jesus as service? 00:32:52.730 --> 00:32:53.698 Nothing. 00:32:53.698 --> 00:32:58.931 All they had to do was sit there and be quiet and just let him wash their feet. 00:32:58.931 --> 00:33:09.230 If you think you're too good for Jesus to wash your feet, he says, you don't have any part with me because it's not about what you do. 00:33:09.298 --> 00:33:17.663 Second, don't confuse attendance with acceptance. 00:33:17.763 --> 00:33:18.998 Here's what I mean by that. 00:33:18.998 --> 00:33:21.663 Don't confuse attendance with acceptance. 00:33:21.730 --> 00:33:24.730 Who was in this room the entire time? 00:33:24.830 --> 00:33:26.763 Judas. 00:33:26.763 --> 00:33:30.364 Who was there at every sermon that Jesus gave? 00:33:30.431 --> 00:33:37.864 As far as we know, Judas, who saw all the miracles all along the way. 00:33:37.931 --> 00:33:40.530 Judas. 00:33:40.530 --> 00:33:43.730 And yet he was not part of them. 00:33:43.830 --> 00:33:53.497 Don't confuse attendance, meaning don't confuse outward activity with what's going on inside the heart. 00:33:53.564 --> 00:33:54.997 Please attend. 00:33:54.997 --> 00:33:57.997 Please be present. But don't confuse it. 00:33:58.096 --> 00:33:59.631 Please be baptized. 00:33:59.631 --> 00:34:01.096 But don't confuse it. 00:34:01.096 --> 00:34:02.730 Baptism doesn't save you. 00:34:02.730 --> 00:34:05.730 It's just an outward expression of what's going on in the heart. 00:34:05.730 --> 00:34:12.364 And Judas had confused those whatever reason he had already started to work with the devil. 00:34:12.431 --> 00:34:16.896 That's why in number three, the third application for us is so important. 00:34:16.963 --> 00:34:22.297 Deal with your heart. 00:34:22.364 --> 00:34:24.396 Deal with your heart. 00:34:24.396 --> 00:34:27.530 Wherever it is. 00:34:27.630 --> 00:34:32.364 I heard a guy say to me once, You know, we pray, Lord, give me a servant's heart. 00:34:32.364 --> 00:34:34.364 Help me to truly be a servant. 00:34:34.364 --> 00:34:37.996 He said, You want to know how you have a servant's heart? 00:34:38.063 --> 00:34:40.331 Some of you heard this before. 00:34:40.331 --> 00:34:46.864 It's how you respond when you're treated like one. 00:34:46.931 --> 00:34:52.764 I don't know about you, but if I'm treated like a servant, I don't immediately respond with gratitude. 00:34:52.931 --> 00:34:54.731 Who do you think I am? 00:34:54.731 --> 00:34:55.996 The president or something? 00:34:55.996 --> 00:34:57.896 I'm not cleaning your toilet. Right. 00:34:57.896 --> 00:34:59.831 Maybe he did. 00:34:59.831 --> 00:35:07.731 No, I'm not immediately so grateful for be treat and be treated like the very thing I was praying for. 00:35:07.831 --> 00:35:11.297 We've got to start by dealing with our own hearts. 00:35:11.364 --> 00:35:13.331 Lord, help me to have a humble heart. 00:35:13.331 --> 00:35:21.130 A service that is willing to do the pattern and follow the example that you set. 00:35:21.197 --> 00:35:32.630 And then lastly, number four, bless those who persecute you, bless those who persecute you. 00:35:32.630 --> 00:35:49.097 You know, probably the most confusing part of this whole story is that he wash the feet of Judas. 00:35:49.164 --> 00:35:52.831 Here's the guy he knows is about to betray him. 00:35:52.831 --> 00:35:55.731 And I'm reading this going, What are you doing, Lord? 00:35:55.731 --> 00:36:01.097 Okay, where's that Jesus we talked about in Revelation, Who has the eyes like flames of fire? 00:36:01.164 --> 00:36:05.063 This would be a good time to put those to use and just get rid of him. 00:36:05.063 --> 00:36:09.331 Eliminate that guy. 00:36:09.431 --> 00:36:13.630 Bless those who persecute you. 00:36:13.697 --> 00:36:20.496 Jesus modeled that ad at the extreme level. 00:36:20.563 --> 00:36:23.597 Now, I know there's a lot of nuances to that. 00:36:23.597 --> 00:36:26.597 Okay? 00:36:23.597 --> 00:36:26.597 I know that there are limits to that. 00:36:26.764 --> 00:36:28.797 But what is the heart attitude? 00:36:28.797 --> 00:36:31.197 I'm going to get mine. 00:36:28.797 --> 00:36:31.197 I'm going to get my revenge. 00:36:31.197 --> 00:36:33.396 That person will never wrong me again. 00:36:33.396 --> 00:36:36.530 They'll never be in my life. 00:36:36.597 --> 00:36:37.331 Or is it? 00:36:37.331 --> 00:36:41.264 Lord, how do I bless those who persecute me? 00:36:41.331 --> 00:36:42.496 Bless. 00:36:42.496 --> 00:36:44.563 Do not return evil with evil first, Peter. 00:36:44.563 --> 00:36:51.664 Three or we turn evil with good bless. 00:36:51.731 --> 00:36:58.231 Someone once asked Oprah Winfrey, who was probably the best, most well known talk show. 00:36:58.264 --> 00:37:05.197 She's still alive, but her talk show Midday was worse, not best, not one of the best known shows around at the time. 00:37:05.264 --> 00:37:08.264 They once asked her, of all the guests you've had. 00:37:08.496 --> 00:37:12.697 Who really stands out to you as most interesting? 00:37:12.764 --> 00:37:15.264 Someone most engaging her. 00:37:15.264 --> 00:37:26.996 And she said, you know, there's been a lot of people on here that you would recognize that are well known and a lot of them are good people, but they all come with their entourage who show up early, make sure everything's just right. 00:37:26.996 --> 00:37:32.396 The water temperatures just right, the right color eye candy is there, whatever. 00:37:32.496 --> 00:37:34.597 Make sure there's the lesser people. 00:37:34.597 --> 00:37:41.331 Don't come bother them and they probably show up late and they're fine as a guest. 00:37:41.431 --> 00:37:46.697 But there's one guy who stands out about all above all the others, she said. 00:37:46.764 --> 00:37:53.530 And this guy at the time was the biggest movie star possibly in the world. 00:37:53.530 --> 00:37:55.130 Definitely in the country. 00:37:55.130 --> 00:37:58.030 Jimmy Stewart, you may not have heard of him. 00:37:58.030 --> 00:38:03.496 He's from a ways back, but at the time he was the biggest thing around. 00:38:03.563 --> 00:38:10.463 And she said he showed up, showed up early by himself. 00:38:10.463 --> 00:38:12.797 No entourage. 00:38:12.797 --> 00:38:16.563 He didn't need his handlers keeping people away from him. 00:38:16.630 --> 00:38:21.630 Kind, humble, goes to makeup, compliments. 00:38:21.731 --> 00:38:26.030 Everyone he meets, sits quietly by himself. 00:38:26.130 --> 00:38:35.331 Here he is, the biggest star around and the most humble guy she could have encountered. 00:38:35.396 --> 00:38:40.364 It takes a great person to truly serve. 00:38:40.431 --> 00:38:52.530 And as great as Jimmy Stewart was in modeling that we have a greater example because he went to the ultimate point of service. 00:38:52.563 --> 00:39:01.396 In fact, Philippians two talked about do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind, regard one another as more important than yourselves. 00:39:01.563 --> 00:39:05.864 Don't merely look out for your own personal interests, but also for the interest of others. 00:39:05.864 --> 00:39:20.264 Have this attitude in yourself, which was also in Christ Jesus, who, although he existed in the form of God, took on the form of a slave being found in the image of man. 00:39:20.329 --> 00:39:30.864 And because he was found in the image of man, he became obedient, humbling himself to the point of death, even death on a cross. 00:39:30.864 --> 00:39:40.429 Therefore, God as a result, in response, highly exalted him, bestowing on him a name that is far above all other names. 00:39:40.429 --> 00:39:41.396 And what is that name? 00:39:41.396 --> 00:39:48.030 It is King of Kings and Lord of Lords to the glory of God, the Father. 00:39:48.030 --> 00:39:52.264 He is our model of service and He set that pattern for us. 00:39:52.329 --> 00:40:01.764 Let's pray God, We ask today that you would give us a heart of service. 00:40:01.864 --> 00:40:10.563 And as I said at the beginning, I pray that with a bit of hesitancy honestly, because I don't like being treated like a servant. 00:40:10.630 --> 00:40:12.963 But you modeled. 00:40:12.963 --> 00:40:20.030 I'll get down on my knees, I'll do the filthiest thing around that one else would do. 00:40:20.130 --> 00:40:21.896 Lord, help us to serve one another. 00:40:21.896 --> 00:40:34.864 Help this to be a church with a heart, a service that is flourishing because of how much are loving on one another and just loving and pouring out and loving. 00:40:34.864 --> 00:40:38.063 And I thank you for so many here who model that so well. 00:40:38.197 --> 00:40:41.463 We can and week out. 00:40:41.530 --> 00:40:49.597 God help us to go forward today thinking about your example, pouring our lives into others. 00:40:49.630 --> 00:40:51.697 Love you, Jesus. Amen.