["Pomp and Circumstance"]
Good morning. We're in John chapter number 13. John chapter 13, and the Bible reads,
Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come, that he should depart out of this world unto
the Father, having loved his own which were in the world,
he loved them unto the end. And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him.
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands,
and that he was come from God and went to God, he riseth from supper and laid aside his garments, and took a towel and girded
himself. After that, he poureth out water,
he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.
Then cometh he to Simon Peter, and Peter saith unto him, Lord, does thou wash my feet?
Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter.
Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet.
Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.
Jesus saith unto him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet,
but is clean every wit, and ye are clean, but not all. For he knew who should betray him, therefore said he, ye are not all clean.
So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again,
he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me master and lord, and ye say well, for so I am.
If I then, your lord and master, have washed your feet,
ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example that you should do as I have done to you.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord,
neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If you know these things, happy are ye if you do them.
I speak not of you all. I know whom I have chosen, but that the scripture may be fulfilled.
He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.
Now I tell you before it come, that when it is come to pass, you may believe that I am he.
Verily, verily, I say unto you,
He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in spirit, and testified, and said, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, that one of you shall betray me.
Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.
Now there was leaning on Jesus' bosom one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him that he should ask, who it should be of whom he spake?
He then, lying on Jesus' breast, saith unto him, Lord, who is it?
Jesus answered,
He it is to whom I shall give a sop when I have dipped it. And when he had dipped the sop,
he gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon. And after the sop, Satan entered into him.
Then said Jesus unto him, That thou doest, do quickly.
Now no man at the table knew for what intent he spake unto him, for some of them thought,
because Judas had the bag, that Jesus said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast, or
that he should give something to the poor. He then, having received the sop, went immediately out, and it was night.
Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him.
If God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him in himself, and shall straightway glorify him.
Little children, yet a little while I am with you,
you shall seek me. And as I said unto the Jews, Whither I go, ye cannot come. So now I say to you,
A new commandment I give unto you, that ye love one another, as I have loved you, that ye also love one another.
By this shall all men know that you're my disciples, if ye have loved one to another.
Simon Peter said unto him, Lord whither goest thou?
Jesus answered him, Whither I go, thou canst not follow me now, but thou shalt follow me afterwards.
Peter said unto him, Lord, why cannot I follow thee now? I will lay down my life for thy sake.
Jesus answered him, Wilt thou lay down thy life for my sake?
Verily, verily, I say unto thee, The cock shall not crow, till thou hast denied me thrice.
Let's pray. Dear Lord God, I just thank you for this church and for our pastor.
I just ask that you would fill in with your Holy Spirit now, and please just
meet with us here now this morning, and bless the preaching. In Jesus' name we pray, amen.
Amen. Okay, we're in John chapter 13 this morning, and the title of my sermon
today is Jesus Washed Feet. Jesus Washed Feet, and of course we're looking
at John chapter 13, and the majority of the sermon I'm gonna spend explaining
what this is all about, what is the purpose of John chapter 13, and the
subject or concept of washing the disciples feet. But before I get into
that, I'm gonna get into a little bit of my introduction of how I was
inspired to come up with this sermon, and that is that there's a really stupid
Super Bowl commercial last Sunday, I don't watch football, I don't watch the
Super Bowl, some of you obviously know what I'm talking about because you do,
but you know there's a Super Bowl commercial that came out, and it was
sponsored by, I think, I don't remember the other company, but one of them was
Hobby Lobby unfortunately, but of course you know Hobby Lobby is not
necessarily a fundamental Baptist organization, but they do consider
themselves a Christian organization, and they came out with a commercial called
Jesus Didn't Hate, He Washed Feet, and essentially what the commercial was, if
you know what I'm talking about, it was a series of images, AI generated images,
they were placed on the screen, and what they were is basically a display
to people who were in obvious opposition culturally, politically,
religiously, and one of the parties was washing the feet of the other, okay, so
when you think about people who are in opposition culturally, or at least
that's what the narrative is telling us, you see that the police officer is
washing the feet of the black guy, you see that the white Republican is
washing the feet of the immigrant, okay, and quite frankly when you
look at all these images, and you see the washing of the feet, honestly those
images don't really bother me, okay, and the reason why it doesn't bother me
is because of the fact that I'm not politically driven, you know, I don't
really have a dog in that fight, it doesn't really bother me at all, it's
dumb to try to use the Bible to try to justify that, however the last image
is the one I have an issue with, and that is the minister, the Christian,
who's washing the feet of the sodomite, okay, and it concludes with that
image, and it says Jesus didn't teach hate, Jesus washed feet, he gets us, okay,
that's what it said, now why did they put out this commercial during the Super
Bowl, well it's obviously an attempt to blame Christianity for racism in our
country, hatred towards immigrants, police brutality, and pretty much every
cultural conflict in America, and quite frankly we're not responsible for
all that stuff, Christianity and the Bible is not responsible for that, now
we'll take credit for the fact that we are antagonistic and have
animosity towards sodomites, 100% because the Bible's against it, God is clearly
against sodomy, and for those of you who don't know what sodomy means, I mean
people who are gay, all right, that's like the modern term, this is a
Christian Church, this is a fundamental Baptist Church, this is a church where
we believe the Bible, and you know what, I'd be lying to you if I said
that Christianity and the Bible doesn't teach to hate sodomy, and yes, even
sodomites, and you know any church that tells you that that's not true,
they're lying to you, they're not telling you the truth, they're not showing you
their true colors, let me just show you the true colors, this is what we believe
is what the Bible teaches, okay, and so yeah, you know what, they were right
about that last slide as far as the opposition is concerned, but you know
what they're trying to do is make Christianity the antagonist by implying
that all these attitudes stem from Christian doctrine, so the hatred
towards the immigrant, the hatred towards the person of color, you know the
hatred towards someone who is in poverty, oh yeah, all that comes from the
white man's religion, you know, it comes from Christianity, and that's why
Christianity is doing it, so you know the people who are sponsoring this
commercial, they're implying, they're trying to teach us Christians, because
that video was for us Christians, you know, they're implying, oh Jesus didn't
teach hate, he washed feet because he gets us, and what they're insinuating is
that Jesus would approve of the abominations of this land, he would, he
wouldn't be fighting against them, he would not be trying to tell people to
change, and he would not be preaching against sin, and against people who are
involved in sodomy, and that which is filthy and disgusting, but obviously it's
completely wrong, they don't know what they're talking about, and let me just
point out a couple things by way of introduction, because most of the
sermon is not going to be about this, it's actually going to be about John
chapter 13, and what it actually teaches, but let me just go off on this
for just a bit, okay, first of all when they say Jesus didn't teach hate,
they have no idea what they're talking about, okay, because in the New
Testament Jesus literally said, you know, if any man come after me and hate not
father and mother, you know, why don't they mention that verse, yea his own life
also the Bible tells us, and those are the words of Jesus Christ, now here's
the thing is that virtually every teaching in the Bible can be associated
with Jesus Christ by mere proxy, why? Because of the fact that he is the
Word of God, therefore even if it didn't come straight out of his mouth
during his three and a half year ministry, it can still be associated with
Jesus because he is the Word of God, when he calls himself the Word of God he's
referring to everything that's in this book, so any single teaching against
reprobates and sodomites and fornication and murderers and
pedophiles and that which the Bible clearly condemns can be associated with
Jesus Christ, it's not like Jesus was just kind of doing his own thing and
he's teaching something completely different than what the Bible teaches
throughout the Word of God in the Old Testament, you know, Jesus, the Bible
says that Jesus, or Jesus himself said, I came not to destroy the law and the
prophets, okay, so he's not coming to discredit them, to contradict them, to
preach against them, and in fact he's in 100% agreement with the Old
Testament law because he's the one who inspired them to write that, he's the
one who sanctions those teachings, he is the Word of God, okay, and so we could
associate every teaching in the Bible to Jesus Christ simply by proxy, another
problem with this, if you can hold your place there in John chapter 13 and go
to go to Psalm 58 if you would, Psalm 58, we're gonna come back to John 13, so
Jesus didn't have a different view of the Old Testament, it's not like, you
know, oh man, now Jesus is on the scene, he's a nicer form of God, he's nicer
than his Heavenly Father, you know, and he's here to just completely contradict
Old Testament Levitical teachings of moral laws and what the Bible says
about corruption and rape and murder and sodomy and bestiality, he's not
coming to approve of those things, okay, he's in complete agreement with the Old
Testament says, but also folks let me just remind everyone here that the
media shouldn't be teaching you the Bible, first and foremost, you know, the
media doesn't know the Bible, they shouldn't be teaching you the Word of
God because they don't know the Word of God, okay, now here's the thing is
that when the media ever gives scripture or tries to teach the Bible,
aside from the fact that they always butcher it, they never really give
the whole entire scope of that teaching, okay, because I'm gonna give us
the entire scope of what the Bible actually teaches about the washing of
feet, but let's just take like what the entire Bible says about it, okay,
because here's the thing is that, you know, John chapter 13 is not the
only passage that teaches regarding foot washing, okay, and keep in mind
what's the message of that commercial, he gets us, right, that's what they said,
they said he gets us, as if like Jesus sides with them and not with us, okay,
because we don't get Jesus but he does get them, okay, now let me
give you, because we're still in the Bible, what the Bible also teaches
about foot washing, okay, this is still about foot washing here, look at
Psalm 58 verse 10, the righteous shall rejoice when he seeth the vengeance
and he shall wash his feet in the blood of the wicked, that's another teaching on foot
washing and what it's referred to is that one day God will strike vengeance on the enemies
of God and those who have persecuted the righteous and he's gonna allow the righteous,
this is obviously in the millennial reign, he's gonna allow the righteous to wash their feet in
the blood of the wicked, you say why would he do that, let me tell you why, because he gets us,
he gets us, he gets us, and you know that might bother you a little bit but if it does then you
need to believe the Bible and you're brainwashed by the media and you start reading the Word of
God and recognizing that God, he's not just a God of love folks, he's not just a God of
compassion and mercy, he's also a God of vengeance, he's a God of justice, he's a God
of righteousness, and there's a reason why he constantly has to tell his people vengeance
is mine, saith the Lord, I will repay, you know because people look at us like hey you know
we're supposed to be passive you know vengeance is mine, saith the Lord, I will repay, and I
agree with them but they seem to forget that he's saying vengeance is mine, meaning that
God is going to execute vengeance upon them, now why would he do that, because he knows
human nature, human nature has the desire to avenge themselves over the wickedness that's
been done unto them, the injustices that have taken place, things that we have no
control over, the evils of this world that we can do nothing about, and God is telling
us don't worry your day will come, for he will avenge the righteous and you will
wash your feet in the blood of the wicked, you know why isn't there a Super Bowl commercial
about Psalm 58, let's give a balanced view here, Psalm 58 is still about foot washing
folks and you're like well you know that's in the Old Testament you know and that doesn't
really count, well Jesus Christ quoted the book of Psalms multiple times and nowhere
in the New Testament does it say that the book of Psalms is negated in the New Testament
or the teachings or the doctrines and in fact the Bible specifically commands us to
sing the Psalms in church, so you know what you could actually make a song brother Eric
out of Psalm 58 and God would approve of it because nowhere in the Bible does it
say that we shouldn't and in fact it commands us to because it helps us to remember
that God is a God of justice and of vengeance, why?
Because he gets us, and so don't learn the Bible from the media, don't allow the
media and people who hate the Lord to try to dictate what your beliefs are, to try
to school you on Christianity, to try to school you on what the word of God says,
we're Christians, we have the mind of Christ, you know who has known the mind
of the Lord that he may instruct him but we have the mind of Christ the Bible says,
okay, and no unsaved person who has never read the Bible, they reject Jesus Christ,
a single one of them is never going to tell us in our church what the Bible says, okay,
why? Because at the end of the day we have the Spirit of God dwelling within us and the
Bible tells us that God says unto the wicked what is out to do to declare my statutes and
that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth seeing thou hatest instruction and
castest my words behind thee, so God is saying like who do you think you are trying
to quote my Bible, my word, when you actually hate the Bible and in fact you disregard
the word of God, you have no right to do that and so Christians need to stop making
apologies and obviously we don't know exactly who's behind the commercial or if there's
like a wicked person at Hobby Lobby who wanted to do it, it might be just some watered
down Christian who you know has been taught by the media and thinks they're doing a
good job and they just want to reach out but folks that's not the right way to do
it, you know compromising God's word is never an option when it comes to reaching
people with the word of God and teaching them this false doctrine, it's really nonsensical.
Now here's another thing that I want to say before I get into the actual sermon
itself, you know the concept of foot washing in the commercial, they're making it like
a political thing, a cultural thing and they're relating it to Jesus saying that Jesus
would wash people's feet but you know Jesus in the Bible only washed the feet of
his disciples though.
Do we have an example of Jesus washing the feet of the Pharisees?
How about Herod?
How about anybody who like gnashed at him with their teeth and persecuted him?
There's actually zero examples, if you really want to get specific about it, there
are no examples of anyone who is essentially in direct opposition to Jesus Christ where
Jesus said let me wash your feet and in fact there's more examples of people who
humbly came to Jesus and washed his feet, right?
People who were sinners, people who were in need of salvation, humbling themselves before
the God of the universe and washing his feet with their tears but yet we're supposed
to believe well you know we're supposed to submit and wash the feet of all of these
people who according to the media we hate them and look let me just say this I don't
hate immigrants there might be some Christians who do but they're not right with God if they
do because we're not supposed to hate immigrants and let me just say this I don't hate black
people either in fact I love black people why because I love Mexicans I love Chinese
people I love anybody of any type of skin color because at the end of the day we're
all part of the human race and you know what for God so loved the world okay and
so you know don't pin that stupid doctrine on me and on Christianity and on the Bible
claiming that that's what we teach or something like that okay and so and here's the thing
when you look at a commercial it's just like so what are you saying we should do
you know and another question is why isn't the immigrant washing the feet of the Republican?
Why isn't the black person washing the feet of the police officer?
You know why is it why is it only the conservatives who are washing the feet of the so-called
liberals of that of that commercial right it's not like a mix it's not like oh you
know you have the woman who attends Planned Parenthood who participates in Planned Parenthood
has gotten abortions washing the feet of the conservative who is against abortion no
it's actually the other way around you see what I'm saying so it's a bit hypocritical
to put out a commercial like that because what it's implying is that the conservatives
are the enemies the conservatives are the mean-spirited ones the conservatives are
the ones who have no love in their heart the conservatives are the ones who are pushing
this type of ideology of racism and hatred towards immigrants and all these things folks
that's not what the Bible teaches you know and if you find a Christian that believes
those things they're just not right with God they don't know the Bible they're not
right with God okay and look I know that there's churches out there that are like that
for sure there's churches and there's Christians out there who hate you know Palestinians
and they hate the Mexicans build the wall and all this stuff and you know they just
hate people in general but you know what you can't say you got that from the Bible
though okay and in fact they're giving Christianity a bad name because the Bible
doesn't teach that and so you know I didn't watch the Super Bowl because I was in church
but I heard about that commercial and I thought to myself like man this is like and I guarantee
there's a lot of Christians out there like man that's so true you know we're the problem
folks Christians are not the problem churches are not the problem we're the reason why God
hasn't judged this nation in fact we're the answer to all of society's ills the unfortunate
thing is that they're lumping us with these so-called right-wing extremists they
claim to be Christian but they're not really Christian are they because if you were to
talk to them individually and ask them what they believe about salvation they would
give you a completely wrong answer if you actually ask them what the Bible says on
a particular subject they wouldn't know what the Bible actually says they only use
particular Bible verses to promote and you know to promote their agenda they just look for a
particular verse that seems to have a political ideology mixed with it and that's it but they
don't know the Bible they don't love the Lord Jesus Christ let it be anathema you know
it's an apostate the Republican Party and the Conservative Party is an apostate
Christianity religion okay so anyways you know just let me just say he gets us and I the irony
about that particular commercial is that you know it finishes off with the sodomite and it says he
gets us and I thought to myself yeah he will get you he's gonna get you all right go back to
John chapter 13 and I know we got visitors today but you know what this is what the Bible says I
rather tell you the truth and at least you know what I believe right off the bat and you know
that you know I'm not gonna lie to you and try to just you know oh I don't want to offend
this person because I want them to stay in our church you know I want you to stay in
our church because you love the Bible and because you want the truth and so you know we
should want people around us that are real with us right not a bunch of fakes and
phonies insincere individuals and pastors and churches that are not willing to actually
tell you what the Bible well doesn't the Bible say this you know pastors like well
you know you gotta understand the cultural context me I'm just like yeah that's exactly
what it says yeah for sure and you believe that yes cuz I'm a bible-believing Christian
and you think that's right yes next question you know it's it's wild that people would
be astounded at the fact that Christians believe the Bible isn't that what we're supposed
to do but now we have a new generation of Christians who make excuses for the Bible
because they're so afraid of offending people but they need to be afraid as offending
God by being ashamed of his word and so I'm not ashamed of the Bible you bring any
Bible verse to me no matter how extreme and offensive it is I will embrace it with
open arms and say I believe it from head to toe every fiber my being believes it and
I preach it and I will not make any apologies for it because it's the law of the Lord
is perfect all right let's go on to the actual interpretation of John chapter 13 now that
I went off on that ramp now let me just say this by way of introduction of these
three points is that this is not an example of what we should be doing in church as far
as foot washing is concerned okay that's important because believe it or not there
are churches out there that will actually take this literally and they'll wash each
other's feet now number one you don't see this exemplified throughout the New Testament
or even in the book of Acts and number two I'm not gonna wash your feet because you know
I got corns and you know who knows what people got you know athlete's foot or whatever
this is symbolic of something else now it is a cultural context in John chapter 13
but how do we know that though we know that because of the fact that in the Middle East
people don't have you know Tesla's and origami looking Tesla cars and you know and and vehicles
and bikes and such they're walking everywhere right and they're wearing sandals you're in the
desert in the Middle East well if your main form of transportation is your feet well your
feet is gonna accumulate dirt and filth and so when you are visiting family friends you know
whoever may be it is it was customary to wash your guests feet because they got dirty feet
just a nice thing for them for people to do and so we don't have to do that now because obviously
we have shoes and we have socks or whatever and we're not walking everywhere so our feet
and our toes are not looking as far as we know I'm just gonna assume everyone here you know
they're not looking like disciples feet and toes you understand and in those days they
probably had some pretty ugly feet because again they're using it as a form of transportation to
get them everywhere they need to go it's in the Middle East and so it was very customary
culturally not just here but just in different places around the world to wash the feet as a
service to your guests when they would come over to your home that it was a customary thing
but Jesus is obviously using this customary act to illustrate a very important spiritual truth
here so let's talk about Jesus washing the feet of his disciples what does this signify
well number one washing the feet illustrates listen to this the process of sanctification
okay look at verse number six of chapter 13 it says here in verse number six then cometh
he to Simon Peter and Peter saith unto him Lord does thou wash my feet Jesus answered and
said unto him what I do thou knowest not now but thou shall know hereafter Peter saith unto him
thou shall never wash my feet Jesus answered him if I have if I wash thee not thou hast no
part with me now what's going on here Jesus is bowing himself he's girding himself to wash
the feet of his disciples his first disciple there that he's washed the feet of is Peter
and Peter is astounded that his Savior and Lord would take on such a humble position to
wash his feet so he's like you should never wash my feet basically implying like I should
be washing your feet right and Jesus responds by saying well if I don't wash your feet you
have no part with me and I'm explaining what he means by that particular phrase with there
now Peter's the type of guy that the pendulum always swings extremely in the opposite
direction so first he's like you should never wash my feet well you'll have no part with
me look at verse 9 Simon Peter saith unto him Lord not my feet only but also my hands in my head
so he's like you should never wash my feet well if you if I don't wash your feet you
don't have a part with me oh make sure you don't forget the hands and the head then
he's like wash everything okay look at verse 10 Jesus saith to him he that is washed
needeth not save to wash his feet but is clean every whit now what is this referring
to here well he's basically the the spiritual application that he's giving here is salvation
because when he says he that is washed he's referring to a person who has been saved that
is a symbolic nature there and he's saying that if a person is saved they don't need to keep
washing except for their feet and then he says but is clean every whit now what does that
phrase clean every whit mean well if you're washed according to what he's saying here every
nook and cranny has been cleansed basically okay and this is a great way to explain salvation
because when you're saved you're saved completely you're not just saved halfway you're not just saved
25% of the day you're not just saved today not tomorrow folks you're clean every whit when
you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ for salvation you don't have to add anything to
that to make up the difference so you can stay saved the bible says believe on the Lord Jesus
Christ and thou shalt be saved the bible tells us he that believeth on the sun hath everlasting
life he that believeth not the sun shall not see life but the wrath of God abideth on him
the bible always describes salvation as a finality right that you're saved meaning it happens
once and for all and in fact when the bible is illustrating one of the ways that the
bible illustrates salvation is by being born and in fact john chapter 3 says that you're born
again that's a great way to describe it because once you're physically born you're like you exist
now it's not like you don't exist now people are going to die but at one point they existed
right well the same thing with salvation is when you're born again it basically means you
are a child of God you are a son of God and you can't be unborn
and then get born again and then unborn and unborn again no you're clean every whit
and the reason is describing it as cleansing is because of the fact that when we get saved
Jesus Christ cleanses us he cleanses our sins completely totally okay now so what's the point
of washing the feet if we're clean every whit because if you look at the verse he says he
that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet in other words if you're cleansed the only
thing you have to wash is your feet but then it seems to contradict itself because it says
but you're clean every whit so why would i have to clean my feet if i'm already completely
clean well when it comes to salvation yes we're saved eternally but God actually expects for us
to wash our feet on a day-to-day basis now what does that mean well you think about it you know
from a spiritual perspective if we're saved from head to toe so to speak this body has to remain
in this world until we go home to be with the Lord and as we're in this world we're walking
through this world we are accumulating the filth and the sin of the world on a daily basis
you go to your high school you're accumulating filth not just from the teaching but maybe from
some of your friends some of the conversations that you're listening to you're with your family
who are they're not christian you might be accumulating some dirt and some filth you know
you're going to your job you're around certain people as you go folks this week you're going to
accumulate filth on your spiritual feet and so as christians what do we need to do we need
to cleanse our feet on a daily basis even though we're clean every whit he said well if i'm already
saved completely then what's the even the purpose of that why should i even bother
cleaning my feet i'll tell you why because God commands you to because it's the right thing
to do and yeah you know what if you choose never to clean your feet and never to get
sanctified and never clean up your life you're still clean every whit according to verse number
10 you're still saved you still have salvation but let me just say this you're gonna have
some ugly feet your feet are gonna be disgusting and you know what everyone's gonna know it
they're gonna stink you're gonna have athlete's foot you're gonna get gangrene right the
accumulation of sin in your life will give you gangrene and you know what ultimately your
feet are gonna be cut off so yeah you know what you have the choice of washing your feet
or not but you know what God commands us to be cleansed every single day every single week
because of the fact that as we walk in this world we're accumulating dirt we're accumulating sin and
therefore we need to be cleansed now go with if you would to second hold your place or go to
second corinthians chapter six if you would let me finish reading as you're going to second
corinthians from john chapter 13 it says he that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet
but it's clean every whit and he goes on to say and ye are clean but not all so this is proof
that he's referring to salvation and the feet washing of sanctification because he says you
guys are all clean but not all now who is the not all that he's referring to judas iscariot
because judas iscariot was not saved and so he's not saying like i know all 11 of you took
a bath but i know one of you didn't because i can smell you or something like that
that's not what he's saying he's just saying like i know that you guys are all justified but
there's one who's obviously not justified they're not cleansed and it says for he knew who should
betray him therefore said he he are not all clean we'll get into that later on in the
sermon let before you get into second corinthian six let me read to you from ephesians five
how are we cleansed as christians well the one of the ways that we're cleansed is by the
word of god like you don't know right now but i'm basically showering you right through the word
of god i'm cleansing you through the bible because the bible says in ephsians five and
verse 26 in context of marriage but it still applies it says that he might sanctify and
cleanse it with the washing of water by the word that he might present it to himself a
glorious church not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing that it should be holy and without
blemish you see god's will for your life is that you are cleansed on a day-to-day basis and you
and then you finish your life cleansed you understand what i'm saying obviously god wants
you to be saved but even after salvation he wants you to stay clean until you meet the
lord why because it's an honorable thing to do so that's why because even though when you
die and you go to heaven you're cleansed you're justified you are right in the eyes of god you
know it would please the lord if you attempt it to live a life that's pleasing unto him
while you're here on this earth you know what there's a lot of christians that don't care
about that but we should care about that though a lot of people just want to live whatever
life that they're living and just keep living in sin and disobeying god and not serving him
but you know our desire should be to serve god though he's been good to us our master is good
to us he's blessed our lives he's not only saved us from the flames of eternal damnation
but he's given us an abundant life you know he's worth our service and so it's for that reason
that god wants us to be cleansed by the washing of the water of the word so that at the end of
our lives we present ourselves glorious without spot and without wrinkle the fact that we
attempted to live a sanctified life but the point that i'm making there is that the word
of god cleanses you now here's the thing is that i'm kind of only using like a water hose
right now so to speak and i'm spraying you know the sermon is just like
you know and here's the thing not everyone's going to get it and you say who are the ones
that don't get it the ones who are thinking about lunch and you know the ones who are just
thinking about other things right now they're like everyone's just kind of straightening up
right now they're just you know you know whoever's not their mind's not in the sermon
they're not going to get cleansed but you know there's certain people that do get cleansed
because they're actually listening they're being not only hearers of the word but they're being
doers also so therefore it's important that you bathe daily what does that mean you actually
go home and read your bible okay and this is a church that emphasizes the importance of reading
the word of god every single day i hope you're keeping up with your bible reading
hey we're about to finish up february it's time to start catching up hey you still got some
more months to come along you can still finish the word of god in a year span if you pick it
up again today okay don't be these christians that you get discouraged because you fell behind
on your bible reading and you're just like oh man i guess 2025 will be my year or something
like that pick it back up again hey read the bible not devotionals read the bible listen to
it on audio uh you know stop spending so much time on social media and instagram and facebook
and tik tok and actually allocate some of that time to your bible reading and you will be able
to catch up and in fact you'll probably be able to finish early if you do so you say why should
i do that to cleanse you because the way we get cleansed on a day-to-day basis is by the
word of god okay and let me just say this is that reading the bible daily helps us just
to have the right mentality we easily strain our mentality don't we we strain our mentality
because we're in the world and you know depending on what you're listening to and what you're
watching you know the world is constantly trying to mold you into a brainless idiot that doesn't
know anything so you could just be controlled so we have to constantly like revisit the word
of god and read the bible and listen to the bible to have our minds renewed by the word of
god and cleanse you know we got to wash our feet constantly spiritually speaking because we're
accumulating dirt look at uh you're in second corinthians chapter six
look what it says in verse 14 so what's another way of being cleansed well according to the
bible is by living a separate life too it says in verse 14 but being not unequally
yoked together with unbelievers for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness
and what communion hath light with darkness and what concord hath christ with belial belial satan
or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel and what agreement at the temple
of god with idols this is why god is not in support of ecumenicism because we have no
fellowship there's no dealings there's no concord there in fact god finds it extremely
disrespectful when christianity compromises when a church compromises and begins to make excuses
for other religions that reject jesus christ hinduism buddhism and even sects of so-called
christianity that are apostate like the jehovah's witnesses mormons catholics and so forth god
says we have no agreement with them okay we're not trying to kumbaya with everyone and say
well you know we're all working our way to the same god no you're working your way to hell
is what you're doing if you don't believe on jesus christ and here's the here's the proof
he's saying there's no agreement like oh man that sounds so divisive well you know what jesus
said i came not to bring peace he says he didn't come to bring peace what did he come to bring
a sword right he came he came to divide people into pieces is what he's coming to do
he's like i came not to bring peace but a sword meaning that he's here to divide people
so while the the world is looking to kumbaya jesus is like i don't want to kumbaya with
anybody you know jesus is just like no i'm not trying to like agree with everyone you have to
agree with me that's what he's saying because he says i am the way the truth and life no man
cometh unto the father but by me he says verse 16 what agreement hath the temple of
god with idols for you are the temple of the living god as god had said i will dwell in
them and walk in them and i will be their god and they shall be my people wherefore come out
from among them referring to the unbelievers the unrighteous the darkness the crowd of belial
the infidel the the temple of idols he says wherefore come out from among them and be
separate saith the lord and touch not the unclean thing and i will receive you and he goes on to
say there and i will be a father unto you and he shall be my sons and daughters saith the lord
almighty so what is he saying there well you know what as christians we need to make sure
that we're distinctly different from everyone else because that's what god expects for us to be and
in fact he calls us a peculiar treasure okay and when christians begin to compromise
and try to fit in with other sects of religion because we don't want to offend but there that
religion is in complete contradiction to the bible then you're you're getting dirty okay
if you are fellowshipping with buddhists and hindus but you're not trying to win them to
christ you know eventually you're gonna get dirty and look if you if you have a buddhist
or a hindu as a friend we should want to win them because we love them we don't want them to
go to hell we want them to come to the saving knowledge of jesus christ but here's the problem
when you have fellowship with the world without the intent of winning them to christ they
actually end up influencing you you understand and you end up accumulating filth and dirt which
is why he says you know touch not the unclean thing what does that mean don't agree with them
don't fellowship with them you know don't just be the best friends with some pagan
religion if you're not trying to win them to christ look at chapter seven verse one having
therefore these promises dearly beloved let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the
flesh and spirit perfecting holiness in the fear of god what is this the process of sanctification
when you're justified brother geo come on up stand right here don't don't stand on the platform
because you're too tall when you're justified you're saved okay you have salvation nothing
can change that and thank god for that because we fall short all the time we sin every single day
we're not perfect there's none righteous no not one and so perfection is by the righteousness of
jesus christ geo saved right but then you know come over here uh christian christian stand in the
middle now but here's the thing is that god now wants you to be sanctified too though
he wants you to get cleaned up okay he wants you to clean up your life get rid of your
sinful habits get rid of you know the things that are contrary to the word of god he wants
you to be clean through the word so he's reading the bible daily he's going to church he's
getting rid of bad associations you know instead of going out on friday nights and drinking with
his buddies and smoking pot and fornicating around and just living a wicked life he stopped
doing that because he wants to actually please god what is he doing he's living a life of
sanctification now whether the christian does this or not he will always be justified though
because to him that worketh not but believeth on him to justify the ungodly his faith
discounted for righteousness but you know what let us go on into perfection though okay and
let's get sanctified can i get a witness okay let's get sanctified let's get cleaned up
let's start living a righteous life that's pleasing unto the lord so that number one he
doesn't judge us but number two so we can be blessed by god too and then ultimately john
come on up here you know ultimately you get glorified okay don't get all proud john all right
sometimes you got to use whatever illustration you got you know what i mean no illustration
is perfect no i'm just kidding so glorification is when we're in heaven
you know we're in millennial reign completely absent of sin just perfect okay but you will
never reach this during this time but we should do this as if we could though
you understand what i'm saying now here's the thing is that if this was never around and you
got saved everyone who saved will one day be glorified because that's the promise that god
gave unto you and so every single person who's justified will be like a light bulb here right
but the wattage really depends on the sanctification part so you might be just
a really dim light you understand but the goal is to live a life that's so pleasing unto the
lord that we're just like it's like when you turn up the the light on your iphone at night
you know what i mean you turn it just like whoa you know you just be blind people that's
the goal and so these are the three stages of a christian you understand and what jesus is talking
about when he's talking about washing the feet he's referring to the fact that we need to wash
our feet through the word of god by coming to church on a weekly basis reading the word
of god on a daily basis and keeping ourselves separate from the world so that we're not
touching the unclean thing we're not uh fellowshipping with unrighteousness we're not
becoming friends of the world we're actually in opposition to the world you understand good
thanks guys have a seat and so that's what he's referring to there now go back to john chapter
13 now let me give you one last way that you can be cleansed on a daily basis and that
is by confessing your sins daily the bible says if we confess our sins he is faithful and just
to cleanse us from our sins uh to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness
so it's important that we as christians are keeping short accounts with god
right that when we do wrong we get it right with the lord and we confess it unto the lord
and let the lord know you know i i've wronged you i want to get this right forgive me for
this and you can move on with your life with that keep short accounts with god and make
sure that you're confessing your sins uh regularly now let me see if i'm missing anything here
all right the next point here that i want to make so washing the feet when he begins to wash
the feet of his disciples he says you're clean every whip salvation 100 you have it you're
completely cleansed you know you're washed you're sanctified but you're justified in the
name of our lord jesus christ the bible says in first corinthians chapter six right he says
you're just completely clean because the blood of jesus christ is not an insufficient atonement
it is able to pay the totality of our offenses and clean us every whit okay but the example he's
giving here is that we need to make sure that we're washing the feet you know i don't want
to get nasty here but you know no toe jam in the feet amen that there's no ingrowns that
the feet are being taken care of you need like a spiritual manicure every once in a while
or is that a pedicure how do you know that that's interesting brother alex he's married
that's why all right yeah pedicure sorry you know you get a spiritual pedicure you're you're
taking care of your feet and by the way a great way to keep your feet clean listen to this
listen to me is by preaching the gospel too because the bible talks about having the
preparation of the gospel of having your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace
and in fact the bible says how beautiful are the feet of them to preach glad tidings
so god views the feet of them who uh in uh invest time and preach in the gospel to the lost
as having beautiful feet okay and so that's another way to cleanse your feet go to verse
12 of chapter 13 so the washing of the feet illustrates the process of sanctification
why are you here today because you're being sanctified you're seeking to just have reset
buttons and to fix maybe a certain way you're thinking maybe you're discouraged maybe you're
feeling depressed maybe you are feeling disillusioned maybe you're just feeling sinful
and worldly so it's good to just come to church because when you come to church you know
maybe you're feeling envious of the wicked right but when you come to church you understand their
and you realize what is the right way to think what is the proper way that we should uh be
thinking about just different things in our lives that is sanctification so you know what
people who just stay at home and watch church online they're not really being sanctified
you know and it's always funny it's just like why watch online and i read the bible
oh do you read hebrews 10 have you gotten to like hebrews 10 yet
where it says forsake not the assembling of ourselves together you know this is what this
is a prime example of when the bible says that they're hearers of the word uh and not doers and
that they deceive their own selves because who in their right mind would say that they're right
with god they're reading the bible i don't go to church i just read the bible at home
i listen to preaching but then they read hebrews 10 and they just don't do it and they
convince themselves that they're still right with god you see what i'm saying and so don't
minimize the importance of being in church because aside from the preaching of god's word
that sanctifies you you know also you have a church other christians that can exhort you
on a daily basis when you're not feeling a hundred percent and you don't really feel like
giving it your all you have a brother sister in christ kind of helping you to to get that
weight up amen you know one of the best things you can do when you're hitting the pr
under when you're squatting or deadlifting is having someone just screaming at you
saying you got it as long as they're telling the truth you know if you're not that thing's not
even coming off the ground like oh it's almost there you know it's like that's just a lie okay
that's what liberal churches do okay but like if you're really halfway there you're just
struggling you're grinding out and you have someone like push you got it it's done you know
it kind of like motivates you to get it up you know and that's how church is when you just
you're just like feeling down you don't feel as committed you need people just pushing you
said you got this you're already here you've obeyed the lord by coming to church reading
the bible we love you the church loves you let's go sowing let's spend time together we
need that okay that helps us to be sanctified look at verse 12 washing the feet also
illustrates in john chapter 13 being a servant it says in verse 12 so after he had washed their
feet and had taken his garments and was set down again he said unto them know you what i have done
for you ye call me master and lord and you say well for so i am if i then your lord and master
have washed your feet ye also ought to wash one another's feet for i have given you an example
that you should do as i have done to you verily verily i say to you the servant is not
greater than his lord neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him if you know these
things happy are ye if ye do them turn with me if you would to matthew chapter 20 hold your place
here in john chapter 13 now again this is not an instructional guide on how to perform
pedicures on your fellow brethren okay this is not because he's not saying like i did it to you
so you got to make sure you do it for someone else now how do we know that because they never
did this hereafter and if they did the bible didn't highlight it you understand what i'm saying
it's like when people want to say you know or when catholics say oh the lord's prayer that's
what we should be saying because the lord prayed that but you never find an example of anybody
quoting the lord's prayer thereafter it's never an example so obviously you know there's
another meaning behind it so when he says that he's done that unto them and he wants them to
do it to each other he's obviously referring to the acts of service humility lowliness the fact
that you would esteem others better than yourself because you know what's the most
lowly thing to do than to get on your knees and take off the shoe of a fellow brother so to
speak and you know it it's the foot i mean that's it's not necessarily the most comely part
of the body and then but you're watching it's a very humble type of thing to do
what the bible's teaching us here is humility okay and in order to be a servant you have to
be humble because prideful people can't serve prideful people only want to be served
whereas servants want to do the serving and they have that mind of humility to do so for
example you know you have in first timothy chapter five when addressing the widows
and it talks about in verse 10 if she have washed strangers or the saint's feet it's
referring to the fact if she's served has she been a blessing to the people in the church
she would qualify for this okay that's what it's referring to look at matthew chapter 20
verse 25 here's another way of putting it this is but jesus called him unto him and said
ye know that the princes of the gentiles exercise dominion over them and they that are
great exercise authority upon them but it shall not be so among you but whosoever shall be
great among you let him be your minister and whosoever will be chief among you let him be your
servant even as the son of man came not to be ministered unto but to minister and to give
his life a ransom for many so he's saying you know in the world it's a dog eat dog type of
world where people in order to get on top will walk over people run over people lie and deceive
and be unethical and unjust in a lot of areas and he's saying why well because of the fact
that they want to exercise authority upon others it's important for them to have a position to
tell people what to do and to be the most important whereas the system that god has instituted
in order to be great because he's not condemning the desire to be great he's condemning the system
of the world that gets you to be great he's saying that if you're going to be great you
got to be a minister you got to be a servant you got to have that type of mentality and then
he gives himself as an example the fact that jesus christ who is the greatest he created the
universe he created the stars and the planets he created everything that exists is created by him
he is worthy of all admiration and acclamation and worship yet he came to serve you
he came to give his life a ransom for many and to serve you and in fact to this day in heaven
he's still serving us by advocating on our behalf and praying for us he is serving us
this is the attitude of the savior and he's saying this is the attitude that we should have
so if jesus christ who's the greatest of all can have that attitude how much more should we
have this attitude and we're not great at all like we're there's nothing special about us
you know income if we're to compare ourselves to jesus christ you know we're not all that and
i know this is a 90s phrase but we're not all that in a bag of chips if you don't know what
that means look it up and in the history books or whatever and you i guess you'll find out
what it means you know the bible tells us let nothing be done through strife or vainglory but in
lowliness of mind what does it mean to have lowliness of mind well think about like a lowly
a low mind lowliness of mind let each esteem other better than themselves it says let this
mind be in you which is also in christ jesus who the bible says uh it tells us let this
mind be in you which is also in christ jesus who being in the form of god thought it not
robbery to be equal with god but made himself of no reputation he took upon himself the form of
a servant was obedient unto death even the death of the cross it's basically telling us
like that's the kind of mentality that we should have is a life of sacrifice for others
so what is jesus trying to get across when he washed the feet of his disciples he's trying
to tell us like hey we should have the mentality that when we come to church where we
fellowship with the brethren that we want to serve the brethren that we would esteem them more than
ourselves and that's hard to do because everyone just kind of likes themselves
everyone just likes themselves so it requires you know supernatural virtue to esteem others
better than ourselves to think upon others and what how others would feel to think upon how
your service would affect others you know that's what he's referring to there okay the bible tells
us to mind not hide things but condescend to men of lowest state be not wise in your own
conceits and so the the subject that he's trying to get across here is the importance of
just being a servant you know what one of the greatest those of you who want to be pastors
you want to be a leader here's the best way to do it serve be a servant be a blessing
accumulate a reputation of someone who just loves people right loves people wants to serve people
has people's best interest in mind and not their own they don't mind their own things
but they mind the things of others how it's going to affect others what is their spiritual
well-being what is their physical well-being this is the mentality that he's getting across
here when you wash the feet of his disciples go to go back to john chapter 13 if you would
john chapter 13
now here's the last thing that really it illustrates and this is the new commandment
kind of goes along with the second point but look at verse 34 it says a new commandment give
i unto you that ye love one another as i have loved you and that ye should also love one
another by this shall all men know that you're my disciples if you have love one to another
now let me make something very clear regarding john chapter 13 the specific teaching of john
chapter 13 is to love the brothers the brethren now obviously the bible teaches us that we
should love lost people right of course it does we can point to various scriptures
that where god commands us to love lost people by giving them the gospel or just in general to
love your neighbor as yourself right but there's a reason why he says this is a new commandment
and the new commandment is that you love one another
and he says your brother now what is a brother in this context it's not referring to like a sibling
it's not a relative talk about a brother in christ someone who is saved when the bible
mentions a brother more often than not in the new testament it's referring to someone
who is a believer so you know those of you who are new here you might hear us saying hey
brother geo brother christian you know we don't really say like sister because that's i don't know
why we don't do that actually like i don't like sister kelly some of you do but you know in
general even the women will call the men brothers it's just like brother john brother
marcos and what it what it's referring to is the example that we see in the new testament
book of acts where when they would address christians christians addressing other christians
it would say brother saul it's referring to the fact that they're in christ okay and so what he's
trying to get across here is that there should be a special kind of love for christians amongst
other christians okay and think about it you know the bible commands us to love lost people
but there's a lot of times in the new testament where the bible commands us to have fervent love
one toward another though you know you know i want my kids to get along with the neighbors
i want them to be kind unto their neighbors kind play kindly with other children and be
nice to them but i want them to love each other fervently though you understand like i want my
sons to love each other i want my daughters to love each other i want them to have fervent love
one for another because that's their family you know they should have in other words and i don't
want to sound strange about this but i want them to favor their brothers more than other
people not at the exclusion of other people but i want them to favor each other because
they're family but in a more important sense this is basically what got to say like you
need to favor each other not at the exclusion of the lost but favor each other enough that
people know that you're my disciples you understand what i'm saying and another way of of of
illustrating or another way of describing this is unity in the church and think about it he
says by this shall all men know that ye are my disciples if ye have love one to another
you know the worst thing that the world can see in a church is disunity just people
backbiting each other they hate the pastor they hate each other it's just like why do you guys
even have a church then like why are you guys even going to that church you know and there are
churches out there that are like that right aren't there churches where people are just
constantly fighting each other in church they don't like the pastor they don't like the
pastor's wife you know they have someone's got beef with someone over there and they got
clicks and they're just constantly fighting with the leadership and there's all kinds of
criticisms that are taking place there it's weird it's kind of showing that they don't have love one
for another now again this is not at the exclusion of loving the world the people of the world
you know because we want to get them saved but there should be a special kind of love that we
have for the brethren though and there is an issue when christians have a tendency to get
along with unsafe people more than they get along with safe people because the bible actually
tells us here that by this shall all men know that you are my disciples you know you you'll
hear about churches it's just like you know i can tell there's a lot of love there because they
just they're very unified you know what i mean they have a lot of love one for another
what are they're saying those are like the disciples of jesus christ okay and so the the
practical application that we can get from that is that hey start loving on each other
okay show love one for another esteem one another and you know if you you think to yourself well
you know i just have all these friends out in the world and you know and they're not christians
or whatever well you gotta ask yourself like what do you have in common with them
right what is the common denominator that you have with the unsafe and in my opinion and i
think i have the bible to back it up is the fact that the purpose of our friendships with people
anywhere ultimately would be to win them to christ you're like well then how are we ever going
to just have friends if it's just you know if i'm just trying to win them well right here
like here i'm not trying to win anybody to christ because everyone's already saved
so i don't have to constantly check like hey you know i want to be your friend because
i'm trying to get you saved it's just like we actually get along because we're christians
and you'll find that the friends that you make within a church within christianity
it's very fulfilling because you have a lot of common ground i mean some people make friends
out in the world because they work at the same job right or they have the same hobby
interest or something like that but in christianity we have so many things that are in common
and and it the relationship is so much deeper in christianity because the most common
denominator is salvation through jesus christ and then even deeper than that is like we agree on
these doctrines we have the same uh world view we have the same biblical doctrines so then
anything on top of that is like a cherry on top you know if you both agree on christianity
and salvation and the bible and you both like to go to the gym oh man it's like a match made
in heaven you know it's just like oh that's even better or you both like to hike you know whatever
hike or run you know brother jose you know hey there's hikers in our church brother alex
you like to hike too see why aren't you guys loving each other you know it's like
yeah he likes to grill too you see just find yourself a new best friend
what i'm saying is this is that a lot of the associations that we have in church
are built on top of the most important foundational things that we believe which makes
our relationships deeper and i don't think i'm the only one to say this because i think it's true
with a lot of christians is that sometimes we'll say like i'm closer to people in my church and
sometimes even my own blood family because my blood family just doesn't like the bible sometimes
you know or they don't agree with me or something they don't want to hang out with me you know
you know they're just that's just how it is now luckily for some of us we have our blood family
in church like my mom is right there you know she comes every sunday and she listens to me
yell at her for an entire hour i'm getting her back for all those times no i'm just kidding
but she's there listening to the preaching and so now it's just like my mom and i aside from
the fact that we are relatives i'm her son she's my mother we have christ in common we have
church in common so now i would say my relationship with my mother is deeper than it
has ever been since the time that i was born up until i got saved because now we have christ
the most common denominator and the thing that really brought us together even more i've
spent more time with my mom now than i ever have because she comes to church and now she
like does her own now she's like sowing and she's going with like people and like she's
like not with me and stuff and she goes with the group she's like she tells me like i'm gonna
go sony with uh brother mori's team and we're gonna go out to eat and stuff all right fine i
guess you know no i love that i like that my mom is making friends in church you know what
i mean and in fact even though i'm like close to her in church we're there's a distance in
church i still feel even more close to her because of the fact that now she's serving my
christ which is also hers you see what i'm saying so there's a far more deeper relationship in
christianity and it's it's not like the shallow friendship you don't really find shallow
friendships in church shallow friendships are outside of church because you might have one
thing in common and that's it but at the end of the day the most the deepest relationships
you will ever experience is right here in church and let me just say this like the deepest
love sometimes that you ever experience is in church with other christians we're not talking
about romantic love or whatever i mean that could be the case you got something going on here you
know they found each other and all that but i'm just saying like just the love of a christian
for another christian you know i find myself thinking about the brethren and thinking about
our church members and how much i love them deeply and and i'm so thankful that i have them
in my life why because of christianity you know and so uh this is what he's teaching he's like
this is the new commandment i want you guys to love one another and and he's well for how long
well it says at the very beginning of the chapter that he loved them until the end
now obviously we know that he's still loving them so this is obviously referring to a practical
type of love because till the end meant till the day that he died and was crucified and so
um you know this is exactly what he's referring to here the importance of loving the brethren
favoring the you know the bible says as we therefore have opportunity let us do good
unto all men hold on a second though especially those of the household of faith though
just keep in mind that it says especially those of the household of faith and don't
twist my words i'm not saying at the exclusion of anybody else because we can do both
but there's a special love here amen and so you know don't wash each other's feet
you know don't start grabbing basins and start washing each other's feet and stink up the whole
auditorium or whatever you know obviously it's a spiritual application
that number one we should be going through the process of sanctification because we're clean
every whip but we need to wash our feet on a daily basis to cleanse us from all the filth of
this world but also that we should have a lowly mind that we should have a desire to serve one
another when we come to church or even outside of church right and then ultimately the desire
to obey listen to this that new commandment so don't ever just treat church as like oh i'm
just going to church because i got to get that out of the way you know i'm just here for the
preaching i'm here to learn i'm not here to do all that extra other stuff and uh sorry my friend
here's a new commandment for you that you love one another so get rid of that stoic
attitude you got going on there well you know i'm just i'm just here to win souls that's how
i express my love well the bible says you should love your brother and fervently have you done
that fervently that means like with passion right so part of the responsibilities that we
have as a christian is that when we come to church it's not just preaching it's not just
fellowship but to actually love one another yeah that's what the bible teaches amen and so
no he doesn't get you world he doesn't he didn't understand that commercial it made
no sense to him because that's what happens when the unsaved try to interpret the bible
let's pray father we thank you so much for your word and thank you for the example that we have
in john chapter 13 help us as your people to continue to be sanctified on a daily weekly
monthly and yearly basis throughout our lives lord that we would live a life that's pleasing
unto you and that we would have a mind of a servant lord to be lowly in mind to serve
others and esteem others better than ourselves and ultimately of course to continue to obey and
fulfill the the new commandment of loving each other lord and i pray that you bless us as we
go on our way we love you we thank you pray these things in jesus name amen