Sermon Tone Analysis

Notes:

Introduction:

Leadership: Footwashing= Cleaning gas station bathrooms

So much more to leadership then gross acts of kindness

Jesus’ New Beloved Community

vs. 1: “Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.”

These disciples were outsiders- part of the ‘world’.

The word ‘world’ appears 40x from chapter 13-17.

Why?

Because Jesus came into this world to snatch those he loved from the world!

Why?

To preserve for himself a community whom Jesus will love fully and completely to the end.

These disciples were outsiders- part of the ‘world’.

The word ‘world’ appears 40x from chapter 13-17.

Why?

Because Jesus came into this world to take back those he loved!

It’s a snatching out from the grips of ‘the world’ and preserving for himself a community whom Jesus will love fully and completely to the end.

To understand this significance, we need to go to the beginning of John’s Gospel:

v.10: [Jesus] was in the world, and though the world was made through him, the world did not recognize him.”

BIG UNIVERSAL PROBLEM

v.11: [Jesus] came to that which was his own, but his own did not receive him.

BIG LOCAL PROBLEM.

So it’s out of these two fundamental problems that Jesus brought people out from the world:

Full and Complete love

Called them

Followed him for 3 years

Taught them

Witnesses to healing and resurrection

vs. 1: “Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.”

And now here, as the hour for Jesus to die is at hand, Jesus now has a small tight community of believers he loves.

Jesus is preparing for his departure, and as he does so he creates a community.

Jesus would have been a really bad church planter:

Not financially stable

Only 12 uneducated, doubting, fickle, prideful, resentful group… But Jesus loves these he has grouped together and will love them to the end...

Epic Moment: World vs. New Messianic Community

Epic Moment:

The future church will be riding on these 12 in order for others to be called out from the world to belong to this community.

In fact, the word for ‘church’ means ‘ecclesia’- called out.

original: Not called out TO the world but called out FROM the world.

Jesus has accomplished a goal of gathering a solid core, and that solid core will be the beginning of the most unstoppable movement in human history!

Carson: Those so drawn out constitute a new entity, set over against the world: the world loves its ‘own’, Jesus loves his ‘own’ (15:19).

The object of the love of God in Christ, in these chapters, is therefore not the lost world, but the newly forming people of God, the disciples of the Messiah, the nascent church, the community of the elect.

Those so drawn out constitute a new entity, set over against the world: the world loves its ‘own’, Jesus loves his ‘own’ (15:19).

The object of the love of God in Christ, in these chapters, is therefore not the lost world, but the newly forming people of God, the disciples of the Messiah, the nascent church, the community of the elect.

Jesus had loved his own all along; he now showed them the full extent of his love.

Leadership Lesson #1: Love the Church

LOVE

vv.

2-10: Jesus Illustrates Love

2 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, 3 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,

So here are words that make Superman come across like an ant.

John presents this conflict between the devil and Judas as if it’s just like a little bit of bad static.

That side issue pales in comparison to the scale of Jesus power in verse 3!

Father had given all things into Jesus hands… that’s a lot

He had come from God and was going back to God… Come from God, back to God.

Out from verse 3, you’d think Jesus would stand and begin to glow like he did on the Mount of Transfiguration...

Instead...

2 During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, 3 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, 4 rose from supper.

He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.

5 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.

6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”

8 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.” 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” 10 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.” 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

4 rose from supper.

He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.

5 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.

And it’s within the context of Jesus preserving his beloved community and within the context of Jesus being the King over all things, Jesus does the most unexpected thing… He dresses up like a slave.

Superman- NOT like Clark Kent.

Superman becoming a janitor at the Daily Planet

Queen Elizabeth visiting us Sunday morning:

“It’s been so

Give her a chance to speak

“It’s been so lovely getting to know some of you wonderful Americans.

You are truly the full expression of southern hospitality.

Thank you...

And then she pulls out her fanny pack… “And if you will excuse me for just one moment.”

She pulls out a pair of rubber gloves, some Clorox, toilet bowl cleaner, a plunger, throws some rags over her shoulder....

“If you excuse me, I know how nice it is to have a clean bathroom… I’m just going to skip my 94 year-old self out of here to ensure that you all have spotless bathroom.

Queens don’t clean bathrooms.

Kings don’t wash feet.

It’s insulting, embarrassing.

Peter wants nothing of it!

6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.”

8 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.” 9 Simon Peter said to him, “Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!” 10 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.” 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”

Classical John move: Misunderstanding Passages

Misunderstanding Passages

WOMB: : Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old?

Can he enter a second time into his mother’s womb and be born?”

WATER: : The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I will not be thirsty or have to come here to draw water.”

WASH: :

v. 8: You shall never wash my feet.

Excuse me, Queen, you don’t need to wash our bathroom.

Actually, we’ll go to Buckingham Palace and clean yours before you clean ours.

v. 8a: You shall never wash my feet.

thank you.

We have servants who can wash our feet.

I can find a million others who can wash my feet.