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Washbasin theology

How are you going to use our gift?

John 13:1–10 NASB95

1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God, 4 got up from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself. 5 Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. 6 So He came to Simon Peter. He said to Him, “Lord, do You wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand hereafter.” 8 Peter said to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.” 9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.” 10 Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.”

Vs. 5, Jesus poured water into the washbasin and began to wash the disciples’

the key to be a great servant

The key to be the best Christian you will need to follow Jesus’ example.

Who is the greatest argument?

· The test or Humility

· We are born selfish

· We think of ourselves to much

· Humility is “not thinking of ourselves at all”

· We want the world to revolve around us.

Look at these Biblical examples the disciple asked Jesus

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Luke 22:24 NASB95

24 And there arose also a dispute among them as to which one of them was regarded to be greatest.

The disciples focused on themselves around the Last Super.

· Why did the disciple keep asking Jesus this question?

· Look at all that has been happened to Peter

· Peter walks on water

· Peter has taxes paid from the month of a fish

· Peter on the mount of transfiguration

· Matt18:1

· Why did the disciples ask Jesus who is the greatest in the kingdom?

· Maybe they were Jealous of all the good things happen to Peter.

· They even get their Mother involved

· the mother of the sons of Zebedee

Jesus is our example of true Humility

· Jesus served during the hardest times in his life.

· At the hardest time in his life.

· Jesus did not serve only in the good times.

· He was not a fair-weather servant

· Washing the disciple’s feet.

· How did he serve?

Wash Basin theology

The meaning of the wash Basin

Basin is used in two examples.

· Jesus takes the washbasin washes the disciple’s feet

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· Jesus takes a basin of water and washes other feet. Servant picture.

· Pilot served himself.

· Pilot takes the washbasin and washes his own hands. h

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Pilates example of selfish

He therefore took water and washed his hands in front of the crowd, symbolizing his desire to absolve himself from being involved in putting an innocent man to death (). But his words, I am innocent of this Man’s blood, did not make him innocent (). Such an act did not remove Pilate’s guilt from this travesty of justice.[1]

The washing of the hands as a gesture to indicate one’s innocence of an offense was a Jewish custom (; ; ),46 although Plummer finds it also in Virgil and Ovid (p. 391). Pilate apparently used it as something that would be comprehensible to those who saw it; in any case, his words are plain enough[2]

Two Theologies before us today.

· Serving others

· Serving oneself

We are all born selfish at the core.

· Selfish Test

If you think you are not selfish answer this question.

· Who do you see first in a group picture?

We all look at our self-first.

If we like the picture of our self, we give it a thumbs up.

If we don’t like the picture of our self, we call for a retake

To serve others will be a costly.

We become a bridge between God and man.

What is the bridge built for?

To me walk on or driven over.

That means we will get walked on.

This conflict is illustrated throughout the Bible. Cain was a religious man, yet he hated his brother and killed him (). The world does not persecute “religious people,” but it does persecute righteous people.[3]

Why Cain killed Abel is explained in : “Because his own works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.” The Pharisees and Jewish leaders were religious people, yet they crucified Christ and persecuted the early church[4]

Jesus warned His disciples, “for they will deliver you up to the councils, and they will scourge you in their synagogues” ()[5]

The key to serving others

· When we serve others, we are serving Jesus

25:44“Then they themselves also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see You hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not take care of You?’[6]

Question:

What if you are not feeling close to God currently?

If you don’t feel close to God what should you do?

Go serve people.

Go out and hug people.

Every time you hug people you are hugging Jesus.

Things to do Everyday

Five steps

1. value people

2. think of ways to add value to people

3. look for ways to add value to people

4. do things that value people

5. encourage others to add value others.

[1] Louis A. Barbieri, Jr., “Matthew,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 2 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 87.

46 “The irony of this allusion is that Pilate follows a ritual designed to dissociate Israel itself from the consequences of blood-guilt” (Green). Calvin asks, “How can he scrub off the stain of his crime with a few drops of water, when no expiation could have cleared it?” (III, p. 187).

Plummer A. Plummer, An Exegetical Commentary on the Gospel according to S. Matthew (London, 1910)

[2] Leon Morris, The Gospel according to Matthew, The Pillar New Testament Commentary (Grand Rapids, MI; Leicester, England: W.B. Eerdmans; Inter-Varsity Press, 1992), 706–707.

[3] Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary, vol. 2 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996), 424.

[4] Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary, vol. 2 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996), 424.

[5] Warren W. Wiersbe, The Bible Exposition Commentary, vol. 2 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1996), 424.

[6] New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), .