Sermon Tone Analysis

Good morning!

We are so glad that you have joined us today.

Today we worship God our Savior for His loving kindness .

(Grace)

We are not deserving of this grace, we cannot earn it through our own works or righteousness

God in HIS MERCY has washed us be pouring out HIS HOLY SPIRIT through Jesus Christ.

We experience this in baptism and celebrate it each time we meet together for communion.

In the moment we were baptized we became HIS CHILDREN and HEIRS TO ETERNAL LIFE.

Be Ready For Every Good Work

A Reminder of How to Live

Submissive to rulers and authorities

Be obedient

Speak evil of no one

Avoid quarreling

Be gentle

Show perfect courtesy toward all people

A Reminder of How We Once Lived

Foolish

Disobedient

Led Astray

Slaves to Passions and Pleasures

Passing our days in malice and envy

hated by others and hating one another

My prayer is that as a church we are a people who ready for good works… That’s what we are talking about this year, BEING LIVING WATER FOR CENTRAL FLORIDA!

Jesus redeemed us and purified us as His possession so that we might be zealous to continue His work!

This morning I would like to study out a well known passage together...

I hope we can pull some insight from the word pictures that are present.

OPEN YOUR BIBLES TO JOHN 13.

“to the end” here is not a measure of time, it’s a measure of extent

He loved them completely

John 13:2–4 (ESV)

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...

Jesus rose from the supper, the supper that was a memorial of His death… He rose from His death… This is an incredible picture of the resurrection.

We should pay attention to what the Lord does after resurrecting.

John 13:4–5 (ESV)

4 ....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.

He laid his garments aside and took up a towel and girded himself.

He took on the garb of his servant.

Do we understand what He was doing?

We know that this was more than just the act of physically washing their feet because in the next verse Jesus explains this to Peter.

Peter did not understand, obviously there’s a deeper meaning to the feet washing.

He rose from supper, took a towel and girded himself.

After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciple’s feet and to wipe them with the towel that he had girded around His waist.

Let’s think about this for a moment, the group had been walking the streets of Jerusalem and by the time they made it to the house, their feet were dusty.

The lowest slave of the house is the one that does the most menial task of washing your feet before entering.

As they approach the house they may have started to wonder, who’s going to wash the feet?

Peter may have thought, I know its not me, I was just with Jesus at the transfiguration… Thomas “doubted” that it was him.

While they were thinking this, Jesus, takes the basin and the towel and washes and wipes their feet.

What is the towel?

Washing the disciple’s feet was a form of preaching.

In the morning when you expose yourself to the Word of God, you are exposing yourself to the basin of water.

The water is what washes your feet, but afterwards, He dries them with the towel that was girded like a belt.

The greek word for towel is “lention”.

“Lention” means linen cloth and linen in the Bible is a picture of righteousness.

We need to wash ourselves in the water of the word

The applied Word is lived out as righteousness

Acts 3:19–20 (ESV)

19 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out, 20 that times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord...

If we decide not to expose ourselves to the water, we will become dusty.

Dust is the food of the devil

If we do not expose ourselves to the consistent cleansing from the Word of God, the devil will eat us alive.

We are like Peter, either too courageous or too cowardly.

“I’ll follow you to death”

“You will deny me three times”

“You shall never wash my feet”

“Not only my feet, but also my hands and my head”

Our goal is to walk in step with God, not ahead or behind

This is not the spiritual bath, that was at baptism

1 Peter 3:20–22 (ESV)

20 ....God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water.

21 Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, 22 who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.

We are saved/bathed at baptism, but we are constantly stepping in mud and we need to wash our feet in the Word, Wipe them with righteousness and then go and do the same to others!

Our teacher and Lord is sending us to pronounce His gospel to those around us

Jesus gave Himself on the cross so that we might be zealous for Him!