John 13
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As we go into this message today I want us to think about a close friend who is so generous kind and compassionate and is willing to give the shirt off their back.
Then I want you to think about that same person is getting ready to do a selfless act and one of those acts is to someone who is about to betray and hurt them, and they know it. But they show this kindness and compassion to them anyway, this is special kind of love.
How would you respond to that person who is about to betray you and sell you down the river for profit and gain?
Would you still show them kindness, compassion and love, would you still serve them?
This is who Jesus was and is, still serving and loving those who hurt and betray Him, and yet He never loses focus of His purpose and mission that He is and was here for. That is to love the unlovable and the very ones who have hurt Him or who are about too!
There is so much to unwrap here in this chapter and we can see it as gloom and doom, but truly we need to see it as the love story that is! Jesus endures everything because of His love for us.
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.
Jesus loved them to the very end!
Why is this so important for us to understand that Jesus has all His disciples there for a meal. He is going to wash their feet and at the same time it says that Satan has already put it into Judas’s heart to betray Jesus.
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, 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.
This is a battle for the heart and mind of every single person weather saved or not. Satan has no desire for us to come to know Jesus nor to serve Him. So yes it is a battle, a war, a fight to live for and to love Jesus.
Each and everyone of us has the choice to live for and serve Jesus, it is not an easy one, that is why it has taken some of us a long time to make that choice.
Jesus was in control because He knew what was about to happened To fulfill the plans and purposes of His Father.
So Jesus eats with them and then washes their feet this was done by a servant of the house!
He washes all of their feet even Judas and eventually Peters feet too!
Why do I say this because Peter tells Jesus He cant wash his feet, so Jesus says if I don’t wash your feet then you can’t have know part of me.
Jesus is showing us something here and that the master is not greater than the servant nor is the servant greater than the master. We are to serve and love all, we are to be humble. The act of washing the feet is another step of humility by Jesus.
Jesus said to him, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.” For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.” When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am.
Peter once he realizes the importance of the foot washing says then wash all of me. But Jesus if you have been bathed or washed then only your feet need to be cleaned, because that is what is dirty.
But Jesus goes on to say but not all of you are clean, that refers to Judas.
We need to know that there is no task to great of too low for us to do in the service of another. This is what Jesus wants us to learn you can be the preacher or you can be the one cleaning the toilets sometimes one and the same.
Jesus’ self-sacrificial love, as exemplified in washing their feet, was to be the mainstay of the way they conducted themselves when they became leaders in the church. Leadership without servanthood is against God’s will.
I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’
John, 1 John, 2 John, & 3 John Commentary
Jesus clarified that he was not speaking of “all” the disciples. He had “chosen” the Twelve, including Judas (6:70), but had been aware of his betrayer from the start. It is difficult to know why he allowed Judas to operate as he had; probably it was fulfillment of prophecy, as he went on to say, citing Psalm 41:9, “The one who eats my food has turned against me.”
Even my close friend in whom I trusted, who ate my bread, has lifted his heel against me.
After saying these things, Jesus was troubled in his spirit, and testified, “Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.”
So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, “Lord, who is it?” Jesus answered, “It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.” So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot. Then after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him. Jesus said to him, “What you are going to do, do quickly.”
It is also important for us to know that it says that Satan entered him Judas and Jesus then tells him what you do, do it quickly.
Judas was a disciple of Jesus and He was a close friend it says as well, but his blatant betray of Jesus, there was no turning back from.
I wouldn’t be expecting to se Judas in Heaven!
Jesus gives a new commandment and that is to love one another.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.
You have to love Peter gumption as he tells Jesus where You go I will go, You can’t go without me basically.
Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, where are you going?” Jesus answered him, “Where I am going you cannot follow me now, but you will follow afterward.” Peter said to him, “Lord, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you.” Jesus answered, “Will you lay down your life for me? Truly, truly, I say to you, the rooster will not crow till you have denied me three times.
Peter will be faced with the challenge of saying yes I am a follower of Jesus and that he is one of the disciples, but he will deny it.
This is when the rooster crows 3 times!
I life we will be faced with many challenges when it comes to admitting that we are followers of Jesus Christ. Some are easy for us to stand up too and others will be a lot harder as well. we have to determine that we will stand with Jesus through the thick and the thin in this life.
Now what about those question and the challenge of loving the very ones who stab us in the back.
Because that is what Jesus is asking us to do, the love those who hurt us and to pray for them.
