Spring Harvest - day 4
A really great Bible study on feet washing!
John's recounts Jesus private meeting and teaching with the disciples. Jesus is preparing for life without him.
John 13:1 (NIV)
It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love.
The Passover had arrived. The commendation of setting of the Israelites free. Passover theme being about blood shed.
John 13:1 (NIV)
It was just before the Passover Feast....
Was this the same day as the Last Supper? Was it the same or a different night?
John 13:2 (NIV)
The evening meal was being served .....
Is is the beginning of the feast on Thursday night. One last meal together.
Why doesn't John mention the Last Supper?
John 13:1 (NIV)
It was just before the Passover Feast. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father.........
Jesus is saying that His hour has now come. We are coming to the end of the story. Jesus keeps His eyes on his Father.
John 13:1 (NIV)
.........Having loved his own who were in the world, he now showed them the full extent of his love.
John 13:2 (NIV)
The evening meal was being served, and the devil had already prompted Judas Iscariot, son of Simon, to betray Jesus.
It was already there in his mind to betray Jesus. The seed had already been sown and his heart was already hard.
Jesus was never deceived about who His followers were. Jesus was not defeated by Judas.
The disciples didn't expect to wash their own feet but didn't want to go first as they would be above the rest.
John 13:3 (NIV)
Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God;
Jesus doesn't serve because it is a good idea but because He came to serve.
John 13:4-5 (NIV)
so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. [5] After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples' feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
When Jesus took off his outer clothing He would have looked like a slave.
Nobody says anything until they get to Peter.
John 13:6-7 (NIV)
He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?" [7] Jesus replied, "You do not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand."
Peter did understand the foot washing foretelling the cross and the servant-ness of Peter at the start of the church.
John 13:8 (NIV)
"No," said Peter, "you shall never wash my feet." ......
This lacks all humility and is full or pride and this must be broken for him to be useful in the church.
John 13:8 (NIV)
Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with me."
We can do nothing to deserve God's love.
Peter still doesn't get it.
John 13:9 (NIV)
"Then, Lord," Simon Peter replied, "not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!"
People with unChristian character masking as a Christian. This will always be a strain on the church.
John 13:10 (NIV)
Jesus answered, "A person who has had a bath needs only to wash his feet; his whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you."
After the cross we only need ongoing repentance.
John 13:11 (NIV)
For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.
John 13:12 (NIV)
When he had finished washing their John 13:13-15 (NIV)
"You call me `Teacher' and `Lord,' and rightly so, for that is what I am. [14] Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. [15] I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. "Do you understand what I have done for you?" he asked them.
This Is the opposite to the feeling of the disciples, Jesus is saying you can't wash my feet and now you have to wash others.
We allow Jesus to serve us and then we serve others. We become slaves to others.
John 13:15-16 (NIV)
I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. [16] I tell you the truth, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.
We don't just think about it but need to do it.
John 13:17 (NIV)
Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
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