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Family Dinner
Family Dinner
Have you ever had those incredibly awkward family dinners? The ones where everyone is fighting, or someone gets in trouble and you just have to sit there and watch? It can be weird to watch.
At this time before Jesus was crucified, this is what he did. He had a dinner with his disciples
Then came the day of Unleavened Bread, on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed. So Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, “Go and prepare the Passover for us, that we may eat it.” They said to him, “Where will you have us prepare it?” He said to them, “Behold, when you have entered the city, a man carrying a jar of water will meet you. Follow him into the house that he enters and tell the master of the house, ‘The Teacher says to you, Where is the guest room, where I may eat the Passover with my disciples?’ And he will show you a large upper room furnished; prepare it there.” And they went and found it just as he had told them, and they prepared the Passover.
This meal was a special one though. This one was to remember what the Lord had done for the Israelites in Egypt.
The Israelites had to sacrifice a lamb and smear its blood on the door frame so that the angel would Passover and not kill the first born. This led to Pharaoh saying that the Israelites could leave.
So there is a big emphasis on what God has done. Whats even better is we see that Jesus then takes this moment to show what He is going to do.
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it 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 had come from God and was going back to God,
Jesus in this moment, knowing the significance of the meal, also knows the significance of what he is about to do. He decides to show them
What Jesus does next is try to show physically what He is about to do for them on the cross
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. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
Feet washing discussion
Deep sin discussion
Your sin is a big deal to God
Your sin is a big deal to God
But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. On account of these the wrath of God is coming.
For the wages of sin is death, but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Just like feet are the most nasty thing on a person, our sin is the most nasty awful thing in our souls.
This is why Jesus came. Because the reality is that there was nothing that we could do in order to save ourselves from our sin. There was nothing that we could do that was going to make our relationship right with God. There was nothing we could do.
We glance over this over and over because we hate to look at that “bad stuff” but the reality is that when we know it, it makes the gospel so much sweeter. And it makes us see that everyone is in need of the gospel as well.
When we see our sin, we see our need for Jesus
When we see our sin, we see our need for Jesus
I will bear the indignation of the Lord
because I have sinned against him,
until he pleads my cause
and executes judgment for me.
He will bring me out to the light;
I shall look upon his vindication.
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Because of our sin, we were deserving of God’s wrath, and when Micah was written, he knew that a savior was coming, but it was not there yet. In John, Jesus is here and when He is the one who declares that we are righteous and clean because of His blood. Because of His washing of our sin, because He stands before the Lord on our behalf and says “I paid for them. I have made them clean.”
This was the point of the washing of the feet. This was what He was doing on the cross. He gave the real physical example of what he was doing for us on the cross.
He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!”
Peter here then has the appropriate response to what happened. He knew who Jesus was, and when Jesus said “if I do not wash you, you have no share with me.” Peter answered how we all should. He answered by asking Jesus to wash all of him.
Are you asking Jesus to wash all of you? Are you still trying to hold little pieces of your life away from him. The little sins that you hold on to. We will come back to this thought.
The last thing we see as an implication for us is the way that Jesus did this. He humbled himself, and he served
Service in humility
Service in humility
Servant role of washing feet
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”
Jesus came to serve
Have this mind among yourselves, 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 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.
There is a big important for us. We should have the same attitude as Jesus.
Humility
Serving of others
Lords supper