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Good evening, guys.

Tonight we are going to be in .

So go ahead and open your copy of Scripture we have some bibles there in the back or scroll on to to join us.

Introduction

How many of you have gone on a mission trip?

How many of you have been on a trip where you did not have ready access to a shower?

This gritty feeling inevitably comes in these sorts of scenarios where there just seems to be a film over your whole body, where you feel like you could run your finger up your leg and see the marking of all the dirt and then you bare skin.

Sometimes those moments come where we haven’t been able to shower in a couple of days and if you’re like me you could run your fingers through your hair and it just stands on end, almost like you put hair gel in, only problem is you realize that’s just your own nasty self that made your hair do that.

I’m sure that some of you have hit that moment.

If any of you have travelled overseas by plane this moment comes somewhat frequently in those scenarios.

You have a 6 hour flight, a 2 hour layover, followed by another 5 hour flight and by day’s end, even if you’ve ended up somewhere exciting the only thing in the world that you want is a hot shower, to wash off the day, and just take that most satisfying sigh of relief after you're done.

We all desire to be clean… for the most part.

Many of you, boys mostly, probably one through some stage of life, where a parent or friend looked at you, sniffed a couple of times, and said, “boy, take a shower.”

Good evening, guys.

Tonight we are going to be in .

So go ahead and open your copy of Scripture we have some bibles there in the back or scroll on to to join us.

I have two little cousins, they’re twins, and I remember when they were real little they just absolutely loved playing in creek, getting muddy, and just being all boy.

Nowadays, I’ll go and visit them and it smells like someone set off an Axe body spray grenade on them.

Why?

Because they’re undoubtedly trying to impress some little girl and all of a sudden the need to be clean takes on a whole new importance to them.

You all might remember a similar stage in life, some of you may be in need of this intervention.

But it is almost a fundamental and basic instinct, this need to be cleaned.

And we turn every which way to find it don’t we?

At this point I don’t just mean water and soap clean, but fulfillment, satisfaction, rightness.

Well tonight we are going to unpack something truly wonderful and if you are here and you are a professing believer this is the greatest of encouragements, and if you are here and you know in your heart of hearts that Jesus is not the Lord of your life, come and hear this incredible news of hope.

How many of you have gone on a mission trip?

How many of you have been on a trip where you did not have ready access to a shower?

This gritty feeling inevitably comes in these sorts of scenarios where there just seems to be a film over your whole body, where you feel like you could run your finger up your leg and see the marking of all the dirt and then you bare skin.

Sometimes those moments come where we haven’t been able to shower in a couple of days and if you’re like me you could run your fingers through your hair and it just stands on end, almost like you put hair gel in, only problem is you realize that’s just your own nasty self that made your hair do that.

I’m sure that some of you have hit that moment.

If any of you have travelled overseas by plane this moment comes somewhat frequently in those scenarios.

You have a 6 hour flight, a 2 hour layover, followed by another 5 hour flight and by day’s end, even if you’ve ended up somewhere exciting the only thing in the world that you want is a hot shower, to wash off the day, and just take that most satisfying sigh of relief after you're done.

We all desire to be clean… for the most part.

Many of you, boys mostly, probably one through some stage of life, where a parent or friend looked at you, sniffed a couple of times, and said, “boy, take a shower.”

Pure and simple the central idea that I want you to walk away with tonight, no minced words, no cloudy meaning, I want you to know clearly that God offers us the cleansing that we need to be made right with him through the person and finished work of Jesus.

I have two little cousins, they’re twins, and I remember when they were real little they just absolutely loved playing in creek, getting muddy, and just being all boy.

Nowadays, I’ll go and visit them and it smells like someone set off an Axe body spray grenade on them.

Why?

Because they’re undoubtedly trying to impress some little girl and all of a sudden the need to be clean takes on a whole new importance to them.

You all might remember a similar stage in life, some of you may be in need of this intervention.

But it is almost a fundamental and basic instinct, this need to be cleaned.

And we turn every which way to find it don’t we?

At this point I don’t just mean water and soap clean, but fulfillment, satisfaction, rightness.

Well tonight we are going to unpack something truly wonderful and if you are here and you are a professing believer this is the greatest of encouragements, and if you are here and you know in your heart of hearts that Jesus is not the Lord of your life, come and hear this incredible news of hope.

And that is where we open up to this episode in , 

13 Before the Passover Festival, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world to the Father.

Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

2 Now when it was time for supper, the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas, Simon Iscariot’s son, to betray him.

3 Jesus knew that the Father had given everything into his hands, that he had come from God, and that he was going back to God.

4 So he got up from supper, laid aside his outer clothing, took a towel, and tied it around himself. 5 Next, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet and to dry them with the towel tied around him.