John 13:12-20
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If you’ve been listening regularly, you know that we are currently studying in the Gospel of John. So, here’s Pastor J. Mark to lead us in our continuing study.
Have you ever watched someone working, and it looked so simple and so easy? Every move seemed to count, and the material was easily brought together. Then did you ever try to do what they were doing and found that when you tried it, it wasn’t so easy? Because you did not actually know how. That’s the reason. If you had been shown how, it would have been much easier.
Usually, there are instructions for any job that you might undertake. There are certain ways to do certain jobs. It’s often much better though if you have someone to show you how, more than just looking at instructions or trying to find and figure out your own way.
Now Jesus’ love to the disciples was to the uttermost. But to show the disciples what He meant, He washed their feet. He symbolized love. The washing was the symbol of His forgiving, cleansing love freely offered to them all.
Now, let’s see how this portion, John 13:12-20, will illustrate for us LOVE EXEMPLIFIED.
12. 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?
13. Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
14. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet.
15. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
16. 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.
17. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
18. 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.
19. Now I tell you before it come, that, when it is come to pass, ye may believe that I am he.
20. Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.
We must follow closely the TEACHINGS of Jesus to see how love is exemplified.
Jesus gave them The Comforting Supposition.
He said, “Do you know what I have done to you? You call me Master and Lord: and you say well; for so I am. He must have paused, then continued, “Since I am your Lord and Master, and I have washed your feet; you also ought to wash one another’s feet.”
That’s what I call a comforting supposition. You call me Master and Lord, and I have exemplified my love to you. So, you are to exemplify your love as I have done to you. I want you to catch the full impact of that word ought, as Jesus said it. “You ought also to wash one another’s feet. As I have done, so you ought to do.”
That is a powerful word, ought. Now don’t dilute it, my friend. Don’t dodge it! Just take it as Jesus gave it. “You call me Master and Lord: and you say well; f...
