WEBVTT 00:00:00.119 --> 00:00:01.987 I am so excited to be back with you. 00:00:01.987 --> 00:00:07.206 Hey, thanks to everyone who helped us celebrate our church's birthday last week. 00:00:07.206 --> 00:00:15.143 Last week we turned one year old and, by the way, yeah, yeah, I missed it, taylor, that's my bad, taylor was on it. 00:00:15.143 --> 00:00:16.641 I didn't know. 00:00:16.641 --> 00:00:19.443 We had so many great bakers at Harbor City Church. 00:00:19.443 --> 00:00:20.541 Did you guys see that, like? 00:00:20.541 --> 00:00:22.207 We had all these different types of cake? 00:00:22.207 --> 00:00:28.245 There were some Sarah cakes that were so good we didn't even want to cut them because they looked so beautiful. 00:00:28.245 --> 00:00:37.244 It was amazing, okay, and God could have led me to be a pastor at many different types of churches, but I praise God that he'd led me to be a church that likes to eat together. 00:00:37.244 --> 00:00:37.640 Amen. 00:00:37.640 --> 00:00:42.345 Anybody Speaking of eating our text today actually happens around a meal. 00:00:42.520 --> 00:00:45.225 If you will go ahead and turn in your Bibles to John, chapter 13. 00:00:45.225 --> 00:00:49.045 If you don't have a Bible, there is one right it should be in the seat in front of you. 00:00:49.045 --> 00:00:51.588 We're gonna be in John, chapter 13. 00:00:51.588 --> 00:01:01.529 If you're new to church, just start like going towards the back half of the Bible and then pass the books those names you don't recognize, and start when you get to areas like Matthew or Mark or Luke. 00:01:01.529 --> 00:01:06.590 You'll know you're close and then keep going until you get to this book called John. 00:01:06.590 --> 00:01:08.385 We are in the 13th chapter. 00:01:08.385 --> 00:01:10.867 So John, chapter 13,. 00:01:10.966 --> 00:01:17.789 Okay, hey, I wanna ask you a question as we begin this morning and I just want you to think about this. 00:01:17.789 --> 00:01:18.844 Don't answer out loud. 00:01:18.844 --> 00:01:20.686 I used to preach to middle school students. 00:01:20.686 --> 00:01:22.626 I always had to tell people don't answer out loud. 00:01:22.626 --> 00:01:26.664 Okay, I want you to think about the best service you've ever had in your life. 00:01:26.664 --> 00:01:33.686 All right, the best service you've ever had in your life Could be at like a restaurant, could be at your favorite coffee shop. 00:01:33.686 --> 00:01:35.346 It could have been at like a hotel you went to. 00:01:35.346 --> 00:01:38.429 It could have been on like a cruise or something I don't know. 00:01:38.429 --> 00:01:41.228 What is the best service you've ever had in your life? 00:01:41.228 --> 00:01:42.144 Just go and think about that. 00:01:42.144 --> 00:02:00.492 As I was thinking about that question in preparation for this sermon, best service I've ever had in my life is actually at the hospitality of one of my friends who invited us up to a house and took us out fishing and he spent the entire day like helping us know how to. 00:02:01.480 --> 00:02:08.048 We were up at the Chesapeake Bay, know how to fish for Striper, and he would bait the hooks. 00:02:08.048 --> 00:02:09.766 He would like put us on the spot. 00:02:09.766 --> 00:02:10.943 He was the captain of the boat. 00:02:10.943 --> 00:02:13.747 He made sure that we had everything that we needed. 00:02:13.747 --> 00:02:19.144 We were just catching fish after fish, after fish, because he was able to put us right on them, but he didn't get to fish. 00:02:19.144 --> 00:02:21.926 Like the entire day, the man loves the fish, but he didn't get to fish. 00:02:21.926 --> 00:02:22.542 But he was just. 00:02:22.542 --> 00:02:30.625 He was finding his enjoyment in our enjoyment of catching all these fish and then when we got back to the house again, we were staying at his house. 00:02:30.759 --> 00:02:40.686 We got back to his house, he we wanted to help him like clean up the boat and bring the fish in and we were gonna eat some of them and we did, but he like absolutely refused. 00:02:40.686 --> 00:02:41.342 He cleaned. 00:02:41.342 --> 00:02:44.225 He was very particular about the way he wanted to clean up. 00:02:44.225 --> 00:02:46.086 It was his dad's boat, cleaned it up. 00:02:46.086 --> 00:03:01.365 He spent hours just cleaning it up, hours preparing the fish, and he came in and made sure that we had everything we needed and it was just like it was like borderline, uncomfortable, like the amount of service that, again, one of my friends was like extending to us was just amazing. 00:03:01.365 --> 00:03:10.246 It was like over the top, it was radical service and I don't know if you've ever experienced anything like that, where you've been served and been honored so much by someone else. 00:03:10.400 --> 00:03:18.707 But we're gonna come to a place in John chapter 13 where the disciples of Jesus are going to experience that type of radical service. 00:03:18.707 --> 00:03:27.129 So I'm gonna begin in verse one and we're gonna actually spend the entire sermon walking through this chapter, john chapter 13. 00:03:27.129 --> 00:03:31.527 There are gonna be a few places along the way where we're gonna see something that is so noteworthy. 00:03:31.527 --> 00:03:34.324 We're gonna stop in our tracks and spend a little bit of time there. 00:03:34.324 --> 00:03:35.663 Harbor City Church. 00:03:35.663 --> 00:03:36.366 Are you guys ready? 00:03:36.366 --> 00:03:39.787 Oh, hey, not today, let's go. 00:03:39.787 --> 00:03:41.826 I need you guys to give me a little more energy. 00:03:41.826 --> 00:03:42.502 You guys ready? 00:03:42.502 --> 00:03:43.163 Are you guys ready? 00:03:43.163 --> 00:03:44.860 All right, let's do this, all right. 00:03:44.860 --> 00:03:45.764 John chapter 13,. 00:03:45.764 --> 00:03:46.747 Beginning in verse one. 00:03:47.340 --> 00:03:55.870 Now, before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father listen to this man. 00:03:55.870 --> 00:03:57.526 We're not even a verse into this. 00:03:57.526 --> 00:04:01.564 Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 00:04:01.564 --> 00:04:02.824 This is why it takes me so long. 00:04:02.824 --> 00:04:09.765 The preach to a book of the Bible is because there are so many amazing things that this book is communicating to us. 00:04:09.765 --> 00:04:12.687 Having loved his own who were in the world. 00:04:12.687 --> 00:04:14.987 He loved them to the end. 00:04:14.987 --> 00:04:19.442 Jesus loved his own Now much. 00:04:19.641 --> 00:04:22.264 I was reading a commentator by the name of JC Ryle. 00:04:22.264 --> 00:04:22.927 He pointed this out. 00:04:22.927 --> 00:04:28.083 There's a lot of songs that we sing about Jesus' love towards sinners right, there's a lot of. 00:04:28.083 --> 00:04:34.088 Like you hear people like me, preachers preach about the love that God has for people who are far from him, those who are sinners, right? 00:04:34.088 --> 00:04:37.285 Don't we preach those sermons often, don't we sing those songs? 00:04:37.285 --> 00:04:38.584 Don't you hear a lot about that? 00:04:39.201 --> 00:04:43.228 This is a passage that is talking about God's love for his saints. 00:04:43.228 --> 00:04:45.406 Jesus' love for his saints. 00:04:45.406 --> 00:04:46.440 Do? 00:04:46.440 --> 00:04:47.444 Let me ask you this again? 00:04:47.444 --> 00:04:47.826 Don't answer. 00:04:47.826 --> 00:04:49.004 Do you belong to Jesus? 00:04:49.004 --> 00:04:56.069 Well then, know this Jesus loves you and he will love you to the end. 00:04:56.069 --> 00:05:00.144 By the word, that word end here is the word that the connotation is. 00:05:00.144 --> 00:05:02.142 This word tell us it's. 00:05:02.142 --> 00:05:06.209 When we talk about the end, it's not just the ending like the endpoint of a sequence. 00:05:06.209 --> 00:05:10.170 Rather, it means the purpose for which that thing exists. 00:05:10.170 --> 00:05:19.048 It's the tell us the teleological end, and that's what it's saying that Jesus loves his followers, he loves his disciples to the end. 00:05:19.240 --> 00:05:20.605 This is what JC Rowell says about this. 00:05:20.605 --> 00:05:21.026 This is good. 00:05:21.026 --> 00:05:26.586 Let no man be afraid of beginning with Christ if he desires to be saved. 00:05:26.586 --> 00:05:31.026 The chief of sinners may come to him with boldness and trust him for pardon with confidence. 00:05:31.026 --> 00:05:35.310 This loving savior is one who delights to receive sinners. 00:05:35.310 --> 00:05:36.404 Okay, that's the first part of the quote. 00:05:36.500 --> 00:05:39.079 Here's the second part, probably on the screen, you ready? 00:05:39.079 --> 00:05:47.608 Let no man be afraid of going on, in other words continuing in the relationship with Christ after he has once come to him and believed. 00:05:47.608 --> 00:05:57.908 Let him not fancy that Christ will cast him off because of failures and dismiss him into his former hopelessness on account of infirmities. 00:05:57.908 --> 00:06:02.365 Such thoughts are entirely unwarranted by anything in the scriptures. 00:06:02.365 --> 00:06:08.608 Jesus will never reject any servant because of feeble service and a weak performance. 00:06:08.608 --> 00:06:12.971 Those whom he receives, church, he always keeps. 00:06:12.971 --> 00:06:18.331 Those he loves at first, he loves at the last. 00:06:18.331 --> 00:06:21.326 Amen, somebody, amen, amen. 00:06:21.326 --> 00:06:24.403 All right, we can conclude our sermon now, and I'm just joking. 00:06:24.403 --> 00:06:28.970 This passage is just so incredibly rich. 00:06:29.740 --> 00:06:30.665 Jesus, check this out. 00:06:30.665 --> 00:06:31.524 Do you see what's happening? 00:06:31.524 --> 00:06:33.906 Jesus knew that his hour had come. 00:06:33.906 --> 00:06:38.807 The hour is used all throughout John's gospel to refer to the hour of his crucifixion. 00:06:38.807 --> 00:06:44.927 So Jesus knows that he is about to go to the cross and to give his life for the world. 00:06:44.927 --> 00:06:52.485 He knows that he is about to be crucified and yet what we're going to see him do is take the most unlikely. 00:06:52.485 --> 00:06:54.947 He's gonna begin the most unlikely thing imaginable. 00:06:54.947 --> 00:06:59.408 He's actually gonna use this occasion as an occasion to serve his disciples. 00:06:59.519 --> 00:07:05.605 Verse two during supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, simon's son, to betray him. 00:07:05.605 --> 00:07:08.507 By the way, I'll come back to that later. 00:07:08.507 --> 00:07:20.000 Verse three 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, rose from supper Paul's. 00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:25.307 Make no mistake, jesus knew who he was. 00:07:25.307 --> 00:07:36.610 Jesus knew that he was the second person of the Trinity, that he had come from God and he was going back to God, and that his death was just a detail in him getting there. 00:07:36.610 --> 00:07:46.086 He knew, by the way, at this moment before not after the crucifixion at this moment, that the father had given all things into his hands. 00:07:46.086 --> 00:07:53.103 Now, I did a word study on this word all here, and do you know what this means, this word all in the Greek? 00:07:53.103 --> 00:07:53.725 Do you know what it means? 00:07:53.725 --> 00:07:55.403 It means all. 00:07:55.403 --> 00:08:01.540 The father had given all things into Jesus' hands, all right. 00:08:01.540 --> 00:08:02.002 So think about that. 00:08:02.002 --> 00:08:05.923 All things, everything, all things, all things have been given into Jesus' hands. 00:08:05.923 --> 00:08:08.146 That means Jesus had you know. 00:08:08.540 --> 00:08:14.163 Matthew 28, verse 18 says that Jesus says all authority in the heaven and earth has been given to me. 00:08:14.163 --> 00:08:28.108 Do you remember that when Jesus says that, he's saying that after his crucifixion and resurrection and we almost sometimes can incorrectly assume that Jesus had achieved something through his crucifixion and resurrection he had achieved all authority coming to him. 00:08:28.108 --> 00:08:29.605 But John is saying no, no, no. 00:08:29.605 --> 00:08:35.365 The father had already given all things into the hands of Jesus even before his crucifixion. 00:08:35.365 --> 00:08:42.008 Which means, which means that as Jesus is going to the cross, he is going willingly. 00:08:42.008 --> 00:08:53.629 When Jesus is going to the cross, he's not a victim, he's not being overpowered by Roman guards and being taken to a place where he does not will to go. 00:08:53.629 --> 00:08:58.667 Earlier in this gospel, jesus would say no man takes my life for me. 00:08:58.667 --> 00:09:03.086 I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it up again. 00:09:03.086 --> 00:09:06.028 This charge I have received from my father, john 10, 18. 00:09:06.028 --> 00:09:09.707 Jesus went to the cross willingly. 00:09:09.707 --> 00:09:10.711 You know what that means. 00:09:10.711 --> 00:09:17.365 At any second in the process of Jesus going to the cross, he could have said, he could have said a word or thought, a thought, and it didn't over. 00:09:17.365 --> 00:09:20.785 He could have ended it, the suffering could have ceased. 00:09:20.785 --> 00:09:36.057 Can you behold Jesus, who had been given all things and yet surrendered all things to the Father and is going and willingly submitting himself on behalf of his disciples, on behalf of the world? 00:09:37.316 --> 00:09:40.690 Man, I don't know about you, but have you ever, anybody in here, ever done any fasting? 00:09:40.690 --> 00:09:42.710 Anybody, anybody in the room? 00:09:42.710 --> 00:09:44.078 All right, some of you guys. 00:09:44.078 --> 00:09:44.985 Okay, all right. 00:09:44.985 --> 00:09:45.730 Have you ever done any fasting? 00:09:45.730 --> 00:09:52.616 And you're like, if you're around a place where you're just really, really hungry and you're like man, if there was food here I would eat in a second right. 00:09:52.616 --> 00:09:54.356 Anybody in the room? 00:09:54.356 --> 00:09:55.740 Okay, all right. 00:09:55.740 --> 00:09:56.508 Some of you feel that way. 00:09:56.508 --> 00:10:06.496 Like man, if I'm in a place and I'm fasting and there's food, the best way for me to succeed to fast is eliminate all the food around me and then I will not eat all the food around me and then I will have a successful fast right. 00:10:07.215 --> 00:10:07.821 What, jesus? 00:10:07.821 --> 00:10:16.730 What this is telling us about Jesus just marvel with me here is that there was never a point where he could not have had what he wanted to have, because all things have been given into his hand. 00:10:16.730 --> 00:10:27.581 Jesus, would actually say to the disciples later, you know, when Simon Peter takes up a sword and begins to fight to liberate Jesus, he says Simon, don't you know that I could call an allegiant of angels would be here? 00:10:27.581 --> 00:10:30.693 I think he says 12 legions of angels would be here to deliver me. 00:10:30.693 --> 00:10:35.860 In other words, jesus is going to the cross willingly. 00:10:35.860 --> 00:10:37.773 And so he rose. 00:10:37.773 --> 00:10:38.897 From supper, verse four. 00:10:38.897 --> 00:10:43.274 He laid aside his outer garments and taken a towel, tied it around his waist. 00:10:43.274 --> 00:10:49.493 All right, this is just astounding what's about to happen. 00:10:49.493 --> 00:11:09.159 All right, jesus Christ, second person of the Trinity, john, earlier in John's Gospel said in John, chapter one, the word of God that spoke the world into existence, this Jesus is taking aside his outer garments, he's taking a towel and ties it around his waist and he's about to begin to wash his disciples feet. 00:11:10.051 --> 00:11:26.581 Now this echoes another passage in Philippians two, five through 11 in the New Testament, where the apostle Paul, likely reflecting on this event, writes to the church at Philippi and says this have this mind among yourselves, which is yours, by the way, let's stop. 00:11:26.581 --> 00:11:29.339 I want you to hear this like this is God's word to you. 00:11:29.339 --> 00:11:34.205 All right, this wasn't just a letter written to the Philippians 2000 years ago. 00:11:34.205 --> 00:11:34.730 This is God's word to you. 00:11:34.730 --> 00:11:38.456 Listen to this, have this mind among yourselves. 00:11:38.456 --> 00:11:56.730 Harbor City church, which is yours, in Christ Jesus who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but he emptied himself by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men and being found in human form. 00:11:56.730 --> 00:12:04.177 He humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 00:12:04.177 --> 00:12:14.441 Can't you see this image in your mind that John is he's writing this to us in John 13, that the Lord of all creation is taking the posture of a servant. 00:12:14.441 --> 00:12:18.408 This was just making clear to the disciples. 00:12:18.469 --> 00:12:21.730 By the way, this posture of service was what Jesus was doing all the time. 00:12:21.730 --> 00:12:32.701 You know, this account that we just read in Philippians 2 tells us that Jesus humbled himself by simply becoming a man, that Jesus, as the Son of God, humbled himself to become a man. 00:12:32.701 --> 00:12:35.700 This is like you becoming a fiddler crab. 00:12:35.700 --> 00:12:37.616 Have you ever seen a fiddler crab on the beach? 00:12:37.616 --> 00:12:41.976 You go out on the beach and they pop out of the holes and they just run sideways really fast and they run away. 00:12:41.976 --> 00:12:44.730 Think about the difference between a human being. 00:12:44.730 --> 00:12:50.730 Think of a difference between you and a fiddler crab A whole lot more smart, a whole lot more attractive, right? 00:12:50.730 --> 00:12:52.730 A whole lot more like charismatic. 00:12:52.730 --> 00:12:55.690 There's a lot of differences between you and a fiddler crab, right. 00:12:55.690 --> 00:13:01.856 But how much more difference is there between Jesus, the Son of God, and a man? 00:13:01.856 --> 00:13:06.500 And yet Jesus became man. 00:13:06.500 --> 00:13:09.730 And so Jesus didn't just stop to become a man. 00:13:09.730 --> 00:13:17.676 As if that was not humbling enough, he then takes the posture as one of the lowest men, as a servant Verse 5,. 00:13:17.676 --> 00:13:25.600 Then he poured water into a basin and he began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him. 00:13:26.875 --> 00:13:32.402 Let me ask you a question what type of sewer systems did they have in the ancient Near East? 00:13:32.402 --> 00:13:34.517 None, that's right. 00:13:34.517 --> 00:13:36.956 What type of transportation did they use? 00:13:36.956 --> 00:13:41.884 Feet or animals, right? 00:13:41.884 --> 00:13:43.669 So think about this. 00:13:43.669 --> 00:13:46.499 He's in Jerusalem, it's a city, right? 00:13:46.499 --> 00:13:48.476 Lots of transportation, lots of animals. 00:13:48.476 --> 00:13:50.730 You've been to downtown Charleston behind the carriage tour. 00:13:50.730 --> 00:13:52.710 What's going to end up on the road? 00:13:52.710 --> 00:13:55.720 There's going to be manure on the road, right. 00:13:56.173 --> 00:14:15.179 And so you can imagine that these disciples, as they're walking through the city of Jerusalem not just the disciples, but anyone who walked their feet became incredibly dirty and incredibly filthy, and so when you would come into a house, it would be the role of the lowest servant in the house to wash the feet of those who entered. 00:14:15.179 --> 00:14:18.538 And don't you see a picture of that's what Jesus is doing here. 00:14:18.538 --> 00:14:23.258 He's not just serving the disciples, he's taking the lowest role possible in serving them. 00:14:23.258 --> 00:14:28.721 By the way, this is not the same as foot washing ceremonies today. 00:14:28.721 --> 00:14:30.479 I don't know if you've ever been. 00:14:30.479 --> 00:14:32.368 I'm going to offend somebody here, but here we go. 00:14:32.368 --> 00:14:34.196 Christian Schaefer, I'm too late. 00:14:34.196 --> 00:14:38.496 Have you ever been to a foot washing ceremony, especially people who are doing that at a wedding? 00:14:39.293 --> 00:15:05.717 So there's sometimes, in Christian circles at least, there will be an overzealous husband who decides that he is going to wash his bride-to-be's feet at the wedding, and so the bride-to-be knows that this is going to be her moment, that her feet are going to make it on the Instagram, and so she spends like three hours before the wedding getting her feet nice and pedicured and ready to go for that moment when her husband-to-be kneels down, takes a basin of water and begins to wash her feet. 00:15:05.717 --> 00:15:09.730 Her feet are already perfectly clean, but yet he's going to wash them anyway. 00:15:09.730 --> 00:15:14.027 By the way, if you are planning a wedding, I just got to say don't do that. 00:15:14.027 --> 00:15:14.730 It is awkward. 00:15:14.730 --> 00:15:16.730 I'm a pastor, I've done weddings. 00:15:16.730 --> 00:15:18.730 When I'm standing here, I'm like this is awkward. 00:15:18.730 --> 00:15:21.825 I know you, as you're watching the wedding happen. 00:15:21.825 --> 00:15:22.730 It's awkward to you too. 00:15:22.730 --> 00:15:24.386 This is not a picture of what is happening. 00:15:25.797 --> 00:15:31.620 When Jesus is washing the disciples' feet, jesus is not meeting an imaginary need. 00:15:31.620 --> 00:15:36.278 When he washes the disciples' feet, jesus is meeting a real need. 00:15:36.278 --> 00:15:39.057 And so Jesus is humbling himself. 00:15:39.057 --> 00:15:39.720 He's washing. 00:15:39.720 --> 00:15:41.996 It's like Thomas man, you've got an ingrown toenail here. 00:15:41.996 --> 00:15:45.467 Matthew, come on, man, you can do better than this, right? 00:15:45.467 --> 00:15:51.438 Jesus is meeting a real need by humbling himself and washing his disciples' feet. 00:15:52.211 --> 00:15:55.200 And then he comes verse 6, to Simon Peter. 00:15:55.200 --> 00:15:59.721 He came to Simon Peter and said to him Lord, do you wash my feet? 00:15:59.721 --> 00:16:01.365 It's like Captain Obvious. 00:16:01.365 --> 00:16:03.275 Yeah, duh, didn't you see him make his way around? 00:16:03.275 --> 00:16:04.735 Jesus answered him. 00:16:04.735 --> 00:16:05.700 What I am doing. 00:16:05.700 --> 00:16:10.403 You do not understand now, but afterward you will understand. 00:16:10.403 --> 00:16:11.730 That's Jesus for Peter. 00:16:11.730 --> 00:16:14.554 Just don't say anything else, peter. 00:16:14.554 --> 00:16:16.730 You often put your foot in your mouth. 00:16:16.730 --> 00:16:21.313 Please don't say anything, but doesn't stop Peter, peter, verse 8,. 00:16:21.394 --> 00:16:26.677 Peter said to him you shall never wash my feet, peter, if you follow him through the gospel. 00:16:26.677 --> 00:16:28.557 This is a man of extremes right? 00:16:28.557 --> 00:16:32.730 He's like you're washing my feet, you shall never wash my feet. 00:16:32.730 --> 00:16:35.339 And to be honest, don't we kind of resonate a little bit with Peter here? 00:16:35.339 --> 00:16:36.394 Aren't we like man? 00:16:36.394 --> 00:16:44.320 If we have spent any amount of time with Jesus and we consider ourselves Jesus' followers, we would consider Jesus our Lord or our master or teacher. 00:16:44.320 --> 00:16:49.730 And it ought not to be that the teacher or the Lord or the master would actually wash the follower. 00:16:49.730 --> 00:16:51.730 Rather, the follower should be washing the feet of the master. 00:16:51.730 --> 00:16:53.730 Don't we kind of resonate with Peter here? 00:16:53.730 --> 00:16:56.379 But listen to what Jesus says to him. 00:16:56.379 --> 00:17:01.341 If I do not wash you, you have no share with me. 00:17:01.341 --> 00:17:04.318 This leads me to my first major point here. 00:17:04.318 --> 00:17:09.442 If Jesus doesn't wash you, you have no share with Jesus. 00:17:09.442 --> 00:17:14.730 If Jesus doesn't wash you, you have no share with Jesus. 00:17:15.573 --> 00:17:17.619 Jesus is talking with Simon Peter here at two levels. 00:17:17.619 --> 00:17:20.730 First, he tells Peter if I don't wash you, you have no share with me. 00:17:20.730 --> 00:17:23.690 He's referring, by the way, to a double type of washing. 00:17:23.690 --> 00:17:30.580 He's not just talking about the washing of his feet, he's talking at least about the washing away of sin that only Jesus can do. 00:17:30.580 --> 00:17:35.690 The reason we know that is because the word share is another word, for that is the word portion. 00:17:35.690 --> 00:17:39.730 There's the language of belonging to Jesus that he's saying there. 00:17:40.551 --> 00:17:55.262 So Jesus is drawing on a theology that Jews had from the prophet Isaiah that went something like this All human beings sin and thus need to be made clean. 00:17:55.262 --> 00:18:01.301 Human beings who sin cannot wash themselves. 00:18:01.301 --> 00:18:06.690 The prophet Isaiah would say this that our righteousness is even like filthy rags. 00:18:06.690 --> 00:18:16.199 In other words, the very best things that we do would be, in God's eyes, like a polluted garment, and so we need one who is not sinful to wash us. 00:18:16.199 --> 00:18:17.682 Doesn't that kind of make sense? 00:18:17.682 --> 00:18:28.201 It's like you know, if you had like really poor vision and you eventually became blind, you would not go get eye surgery from another person who was blind. 00:18:28.201 --> 00:18:35.271 You would need someone who could see in order to perform effective surgery on you if you were blind. 00:18:35.271 --> 00:18:37.238 Or it's kind of like you parents in the room. 00:18:37.238 --> 00:18:48.542 If you have a kid who's out there playing in a mud puddle and then there's one of your other kids is out there playing with them, you can't ask kid A to wash kid B, because kid A has the same problem as kid B. 00:18:48.542 --> 00:18:55.538 If kid A is trying to wash kid B in the mud puddle, odds are kid B is just going to get even more dirty. 00:18:55.538 --> 00:18:59.380 We need one who is not sinful to wash us. 00:19:00.111 --> 00:19:06.478 That's why, in Isaiah 118, god himself, speaking, would say this come now, let us settle the matter, says the Lord. 00:19:06.478 --> 00:19:07.641 Let us reason together. 00:19:07.641 --> 00:19:12.200 Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. 00:19:12.200 --> 00:19:15.655 How would God accomplish that? 00:19:15.655 --> 00:19:25.144 He would do that by sending a figure called the suffering servant that's portrayed in Isaiah 53. 00:19:25.144 --> 00:19:35.558 Isaiah 53, the entire chapter, portrays this Messiah figure that God was going to send to Israel, who was going to be called God's righteous servant. 00:19:35.558 --> 00:19:37.730 But he was going to be a servant who would suffer. 00:19:37.730 --> 00:19:40.178 That's why we call him the suffering servant. 00:19:40.178 --> 00:19:57.538 And so in Isaiah 5311, the prophet would say this by his knowledge, god speaking, shall the righteous one, my servant, make many to be accounted righteous, how, for he shall bear their iniquities. 00:19:57.538 --> 00:20:14.567 So, centuries before this passage, the prophet Isaiah had prophesied that there was one coming to Israel who would be a suffering servant and that through his work he would, many would be accounted righteous. 00:20:14.567 --> 00:20:15.368 Why? 00:20:15.368 --> 00:20:18.056 Because he himself would bear their iniquities. 00:20:18.056 --> 00:20:19.900 In other words, jesus, by taking that. 00:20:20.019 --> 00:20:26.644 This is again I know that we don't see this in our like 21st century mindset, but to a first century Jew. 00:20:26.644 --> 00:20:41.692 When Jesus took the title as I am the servant, their mind Immediately would have gone back to the prophecies from the prophet Isaiah, just like, just like when Jesus would claim that he was the lamb of God. 00:20:41.692 --> 00:20:52.108 So when, when Jesus is saying I am among you as one who serves, who will say this, sit here in a little bit, immediately, in the minds of the disciples they're like the suffering servant is not coming. 00:20:52.108 --> 00:20:54.814 He is here and he's washing my feet. 00:20:54.814 --> 00:21:00.440 Jesus would bear the sin of the world and he would bear that sin on the cross. 00:21:00.440 --> 00:21:03.006 Because Jesus paid for our sin. 00:21:03.006 --> 00:21:06.113 He is able to wash our sin away. 00:21:07.020 --> 00:21:12.800 By the way, I don't know if you know this, but this is one of the things that is pictured in baptism and Baptism. 00:21:12.800 --> 00:21:15.288 Baptism is pictured as a washing away. 00:21:15.288 --> 00:21:18.799 Now, baptism, the act of baptism, does not save you. 00:21:18.799 --> 00:21:19.844 Jesus saves you. 00:21:19.844 --> 00:21:23.055 The act of baptism does not wash your sins away. 00:21:23.055 --> 00:21:24.599 Jesus washes your sins away. 00:21:24.599 --> 00:21:37.913 But when you are baptized, you are, you are declaring to the world that, even as I have put my faith in Jesus Christ and his shed blood for me, so the blood of Jesus is washing away my sin. 00:21:37.913 --> 00:21:39.702 So I say to you again. 00:21:39.702 --> 00:21:43.813 If Jesus doesn't wash you, you have no share with Jesus. 00:21:43.813 --> 00:21:50.390 And I just have to stop and ask the question have you been washed by Jesus? 00:21:50.390 --> 00:21:53.980 Have you put your faith in your trust in Jesus? 00:21:53.980 --> 00:22:00.016 Have you believed that when he died and he rose again, that it counted for you? 00:22:00.016 --> 00:22:04.692 That would be how you are washed by Jesus. 00:22:04.692 --> 00:22:05.355 Let me keep going. 00:22:05.375 --> 00:22:06.779 I'm gonna go to my second point, actually still right here in the text. 00:22:06.779 --> 00:22:15.719 My second point here is one of the things that Jesus is teaching Peter is that you cannot serve others Until you have been served by Jesus. 00:22:15.719 --> 00:22:22.138 You cannot serve others until you have been served by Jesus. 00:22:22.138 --> 00:22:26.617 Okay, you say, oh, yeah, I can, like people, serve other people all the time. 00:22:26.617 --> 00:22:34.798 All right, that's because the service of Jesus is fundamentally different than any other type of service in the world. 00:22:34.817 --> 00:22:44.497 Okay, jesus, you know, when I go by Starbucks up here off Beast Ferry, put it in my order and they're like really nice to me hey, what's your name? 00:22:44.497 --> 00:22:45.019 I give them my name. 00:22:45.019 --> 00:22:46.606 I'm like, oh, they're excited to see me. 00:22:46.606 --> 00:22:51.305 And then I pull up to the window and the first thing they do is they stick this thing out and the first prompt screen is I'd like a tip, please? 00:22:51.305 --> 00:22:55.666 You know, in other words, the employees of Starbucks. 00:22:55.666 --> 00:22:59.500 Many of you work at Starbucks Great, I'm not picking on Starbucks here. 00:22:59.500 --> 00:23:02.185 But the employees of Starbucks serve. 00:23:02.185 --> 00:23:02.646 Why they serve? 00:23:02.646 --> 00:23:03.588 Because they want something in return. 00:23:03.588 --> 00:23:07.226 They want to be tipped, which is a great thing to do. 00:23:07.226 --> 00:23:08.130 I'm not picking on Starbucks here. 00:23:08.130 --> 00:23:11.323 I need to be tipped, which is fine. 00:23:11.323 --> 00:23:13.308 Hospitality industry, that's totally fine. 00:23:13.308 --> 00:23:14.531 We understand how that works. 00:23:15.122 --> 00:23:20.082 But the world will serve in order to get something else you ever had. 00:23:20.082 --> 00:23:23.672 Like a stranger come up and begin to serve you and you're like oh, why are you serving me? 00:23:23.672 --> 00:23:25.440 Like, why are you giving me this stuff? 00:23:25.440 --> 00:23:28.691 Are you gonna ask me for something in return here in a little bit? 00:23:28.691 --> 00:23:32.724 The world serves, but doesn't the world serve in a way in order that they may get something? 00:23:33.601 --> 00:23:35.267 Jesus serves in a completely different way. 00:23:35.267 --> 00:23:37.960 It's a one-way service. 00:23:37.960 --> 00:23:46.467 It's a service with no expectation of return, that when Jesus serves, he doesn't need you to do anything for Him. 00:23:46.467 --> 00:23:48.483 He is God. 00:23:48.483 --> 00:23:51.186 If he had a need, he would not tell you. 00:23:51.186 --> 00:23:56.325 There's nothing that you can do that can give to Jesus that which he needs. 00:23:56.325 --> 00:23:57.965 He is God in Himself. 00:23:57.965 --> 00:24:07.107 He has everything that is necessary for Him, and so that means when Jesus serves you, he's serving you in a one-way direction. 00:24:07.107 --> 00:24:08.945 He's serving you for you. 00:24:08.945 --> 00:24:10.846 He expects nothing in return. 00:24:10.846 --> 00:24:15.125 That's the type of service that Jesus is doing right here with His disciples. 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:17.426 And listen, and listen, and listen and listen. 00:24:17.426 --> 00:24:20.086 If you miss this, you're gonna miss the point of the entire sermon. 00:24:20.086 --> 00:24:30.407 If you do not first receive that service from Jesus, you will never be able to serve like Jesus. 00:24:30.407 --> 00:24:32.306 I mean, it's just true. 00:24:32.306 --> 00:24:33.441 Okay, let me. 00:24:33.441 --> 00:24:35.006 I got a quick illustration here. 00:24:35.006 --> 00:24:42.003 Okay, I wasn't gonna fill this up with water, decided not to, because new carpet Didn't wanna mess anything up. 00:24:43.782 --> 00:24:56.446 Imagine I have a pitcher and a cup, okay, imagine that I went to go serve you, okay, out here, and I say I'm your waiter and I'm pouring you some water, and I try to pour water into a cup, but lo and behold, there's nothing in my pitcher. 00:24:56.446 --> 00:25:00.227 I would be unable to give you water. 00:25:00.227 --> 00:25:00.669 Why? 00:25:00.669 --> 00:25:08.263 Because I didn't have water, right, okay, the principle there is we cannot give what we do not have. 00:25:08.263 --> 00:25:12.105 All right, we cannot give what we do not have. 00:25:12.105 --> 00:25:13.902 Okay, Can I tell you? 00:25:13.922 --> 00:25:29.221 What happens, particularly in the Christian world and Christian circles, is we try to give away that which we do not have, and this happens a lot of times because we think that, hey, as a good Christian, I'm supposed to serve other people and so I give and I give, and I give and I give until guess what I don't have. 00:25:29.221 --> 00:25:33.729 And then I continue to give, and give, and give, and give and guess what I still don't have. 00:25:33.729 --> 00:25:34.671 And so what happens? 00:25:34.671 --> 00:25:37.989 That begins to lead to burnout, doesn't it? 00:25:37.989 --> 00:25:46.707 Christians in the room, if you've been a part of a church for any length of time, have you ever been around somebody who has burned out from much serving? 00:25:46.707 --> 00:25:51.448 All right, I know no one wants to say amen, but that's a lot of our experiences. 00:25:51.448 --> 00:25:52.805 And have you been there yourself? 00:25:52.805 --> 00:25:56.125 Have you served and served and served until you have nothing left to give? 00:25:56.125 --> 00:26:00.722 And you still feel like, well, I'm supposed to continue serving, and so I'm trying to give even though I don't have. 00:26:00.722 --> 00:26:02.701 And all of a sudden I become what Become? 00:26:02.701 --> 00:26:06.346 A little bitter, I become a little angry at those I'm serving. 00:26:06.346 --> 00:26:10.606 I begin to look around and say why aren't other people helping the way that I'm helping? 00:26:10.606 --> 00:26:14.866 It's because I'm trying to give out of something that I don't have. 00:26:14.866 --> 00:26:34.140 This passage is going to change your life, if that's you Before you try to serve anyone else, you must first be served by Jesus, because you cannot give what you do not have. 00:26:34.140 --> 00:26:37.339 This will forever change your relationship to Jesus. 00:26:37.339 --> 00:26:40.873 I think about particularly in the area of prayer. 00:26:40.873 --> 00:26:46.038 Have you ever met someone who is so holy that they're like, yeah, when I pray, I just don't like to ask God for a lot of stuff. 00:26:46.038 --> 00:26:52.700 I just don't want him to think that I'm always there for something and so when I pray, I just like to praise God for his attributes. 00:26:52.700 --> 00:26:58.894 Or I like to pray like sometimes I just confess my sin and how far short I fall from God, and that's most of my prayers. 00:26:58.894 --> 00:27:03.039 Or sometimes I like to thank God for the way that he blessed me, but I never ask him for anything. 00:27:03.039 --> 00:27:07.159 You ever met anybody like that, who's too holy to ask God for anything? 00:27:07.179 --> 00:27:10.482 Guess what, when you, a needy person, comes before a God who has no needs? 00:27:10.482 --> 00:27:18.039 There's only going to be one type of interchange there, and that is to receive from God. 00:27:18.039 --> 00:27:20.998 I'm going to free you, maybe, from a little bit of Christian guilt. 00:27:20.998 --> 00:27:22.855 Maybe you didn't even know that you were caring. 00:27:22.855 --> 00:27:28.940 When you go and pray before God, god himself, through his word, tells you to ask. 00:27:28.940 --> 00:27:30.038 He tells you to seek. 00:27:30.038 --> 00:27:31.194 He tells you to knock. 00:27:31.194 --> 00:27:33.398 He says ask and it will be given. 00:27:33.398 --> 00:27:36.098 Seeking, you will find knock and the door be opened. 00:27:36.098 --> 00:27:36.180 Why? 00:27:36.180 --> 00:27:38.579 Because he wants to give you something. 00:27:38.579 --> 00:27:43.880 He wants to be able to fill you up with something, so you will have something to give to other people. 00:27:43.880 --> 00:27:53.019 If we aren't in the habit of going to God, even in this area of prayer and bringing our needs to him, we will be serving on an empty cup. 00:27:53.019 --> 00:27:56.119 So I just got to ask you how's your prayer life going? 00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:59.284 How's your prayer life going Like? 00:27:59.304 --> 00:28:00.047 Let me back up a little bit. 00:28:00.047 --> 00:28:01.762 What needs do you have right now? 00:28:01.762 --> 00:28:02.422 What are your needs? 00:28:02.422 --> 00:28:04.148 What are your needs? 00:28:04.148 --> 00:28:08.490 What are the things that are like screaming at you like is it a need for provision? 00:28:08.490 --> 00:28:12.776 Maybe it's a need for financial provision. 00:28:12.776 --> 00:28:16.273 Have you asked God to provide for you financially? 00:28:16.273 --> 00:28:21.423 Maybe there's a decision coming up and you desperately need wisdom in how to make the decision. 00:28:21.789 --> 00:28:30.704 Maybe, and as some of you in the room, you're caring for aging parents and you're making decisions that are really important and sometimes you feel like you don't have the wisdom that you need to make that decision. 00:28:30.704 --> 00:28:32.904 Well, have you asked God for wisdom? 00:28:32.904 --> 00:28:39.891 Maybe some of you are having conflict with your boss and, as you're having conflict with your boss, you don't know the way forward. 00:28:39.891 --> 00:28:46.608 Have you asked God to give you what you need to be able to have either patience or understanding or just endurance? 00:28:46.608 --> 00:28:55.810 In that situation, do you ask and ask and ask and ask God that you might receive, so that you actually have something to give to others? 00:28:55.810 --> 00:28:59.372 This should change the way you pray. 00:29:00.265 --> 00:29:04.589 Listen, god is not like oh, here's my daughter again asking for something else. 00:29:04.589 --> 00:29:08.374 God, everything that is is God's. 00:29:08.374 --> 00:29:13.753 He doesn't just own the cattle on a thousand hills, he owns every single square inch of the cosmos. 00:29:13.753 --> 00:29:20.355 God can give in such a way that he is not at a deficit. 00:29:20.355 --> 00:29:24.289 He is not like your earthly parents, he's not like your friends, he's not like your roommates. 00:29:24.289 --> 00:29:29.633 He is God and that means when we pray, we can ask for whatever we need. 00:29:30.306 --> 00:29:33.167 And then, as we begin to ask for whatever we need, you know what happens? 00:29:33.167 --> 00:29:36.810 We begin to get history with God, where he begins to supply all our needs. 00:29:36.810 --> 00:29:39.553 I know I could just like ask for some testimonies. 00:29:39.553 --> 00:29:41.151 How has God met your need? 00:29:41.151 --> 00:29:47.388 And I know there are people in this room I know some of your stories who would stand up and begin to say God provided this way and this way and this way. 00:29:47.388 --> 00:29:50.090 Well, look, what if that became your story? 00:29:50.090 --> 00:29:52.128 What if you begin to ask? 00:29:52.128 --> 00:30:09.050 And then God actually is who God is and he begins to provide financially and for areas of wisdom, and he begins to help you have favor with your boss or your employer, or he begins to help you with your schoolwork, or he begins to help you make decisions, and then, all of a sudden, what's happening? 00:30:09.050 --> 00:30:18.016 You're being filled up a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more, a little bit more, and then you actually have something to give to other people. 00:30:18.567 --> 00:30:29.609 The reason the whole topic of the sermon is this topic of service, and the reason people don't like, especially in churches, this topic of service is because we feel like the church is ask and ask and ask and I have nothing left to give. 00:30:29.609 --> 00:30:43.232