JESUS WASHES FEET Another sign for Jesus disciples

JESUS WASHES FEET Another “sign” for Jesus’ disciples in John 13

A CONFUSING ACT JOHN 13: 1 -11 • The “hour” is heavy with significance. • Jesus performs the act of a slave. • Peter (and the rest) don’t get it. “Do you know what I have done for you? ” (13: 12)

AN ACT OF CLEANSING JOHN 13: 1 -11 [Jesus] got up from He rose from heaven, supper, and laid aside His glory; aside His garments; and taking the form and taking a towel, of a man, girded He girded Himself with humility. Then he poured out water into the basin His blood into the and began to wash cross and began to His disciples’ feet. wash away the sins (13: 4 -5) of those who trust in Him.

AN ACT OF CLEANSING JOHN 13: 1 -11 [Jesus] got up from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself. Then he poured water into the basin and began to wash His disciples’ feet. (13: 4 -5) “though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. ” (Philippians 2: 6 -8)

AN ACT OF CLEANSING JOHN 13: 1 -11 [Jesus] got up from “If I do not wash supper, and laid you, you have no aside His garments; part in me. ” (13: 8) and taking a towel, “He who has bathed He girded Himself. needs only to wash Then he poured his feet. ” (13: 10) water into the basin and began to wash “Not all of you are His disciples’ feet. clean. ” (13: 10 -11) (13: 4 -5)

THE MASTER TEACHER JOHN 13: 12 -17 • Jesus’ lowly service is a model for His disciples to imitate. • We cannot rise any higher than the imitation of His humility. “If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them. ” (13: 17)

IMITATING THE MASTER JOHN 13 [Jesus] got up from Laying aside my supper, and laid “high place” of aside His garments; position, status, and taking a towel, privilege, or being in He girded Himself. the right. Doing the things Then he poured that appear to be water into the basin and began to wash “beneath me” for the good of someone His disciples’ feet. else. (13: 4 -5)

THE UNWORTHY DISCIPLES JOHN 13: 18 -30, 36 -38 • Jesus washes the feet of His betrayer. • Jesus serves those who don’t get it. • Jesus is patient with those who deny Him. The failure of others never changes my calling to love, serve, and forgive.

A NEW COMMUNITY JOHN 13: 31 -35 • God and His Son receive eternal glory from Jesus’ sacrificial love. • Our imitation of His love toward each other distinguishes us from the rest of the world.

JESUS WASHES FEET “By this all people will know that you are my disciples. ”