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The Humble King
This morning we are going to begin the new section of John.
John 13-17 is what many call either the Upper Room discourse or the Farewell discourse.
The second half of John’s gospel is like a whole different sermon series.
In chapters 1-12, John is building the case for Jesus’ Divinity.
He is building the case for Jesus as the Savior of the world.
He is focused on proving to the world that Jesus is who he says he is.
He does this through the focus on signs.
Water to wine, healing the officials son, walking on water, feeding the 5000,healing the lame man, healing the blind man, and raising Lazarus from the Dead.
John was laying out the case for people to believe in Jesus.
To trust that he is the Messiah, the son of God and through believing in him we may have eternal life.
chapters 1-12 cover Jesus’ earthly ministry.
3 years of Jesus proving and proclaiming to be the Son of God.
And then there is a shift, there is a change in the gospel.
And this shift is from the public ministry of Jesus to the private ministry of Jesus.
The rest of John encompasses the last hours of Jesus’ life.
In fact, the story we are going to look at this morning I am convinced happens on Thursday Evening, and Jesus is going to be crucified that next Friday.
So Jesus turns his attention away from the world.
He turns his attention away from the crowds.
He turns his attention away from the distractions of the world and focuses in on his disciples.
John as he is writing this gospel does this brilliantly.
For the first part of John’s gospel, he focuses in on Jesus being the light of the world.
Jesus being the only one in whom life is found.
In fact, Light and life are key words and themes in John 1-12.
And in the last half of the gospel, the focus turns to Jesus’ love for the disciples.
And that’s a big part of what we are going to look at this morning.
Love.
And to tell you how big a deal love is to this section, the word love is used some 61 times in total in John’s Gospel.
And here in these 5 chapters, 34 times the word love is used 34 times.
More than half of the uses of Love in John’s gospel is found in these five chapters.
Love is a big deal to Jesus.
Both his love for us and our love for others.
And we are going to see that played out in detail over the next several weeks.
This mornings scripture is familiar to many, if not most of us.
We are going to read about Jesus washing the feet of the disciples.
This is an interesting account that only takes place in John’s Gospel.
The other three gospel accounts don’t discuss or even hint at this event, but John uses this event to tell a similar story to those found in Matthew, Mark, and Luke.
Specifically, John wants us to see Judas’ betrayal of Jesus and the disciples struggle with God’s kingdom economics.
That the first will be last and the last will be first.
The story of the foot washing is one about Humility and service.
Jesus sets the example for his disciples.
He lays out what it means to be great in the Kingdom of God.
He demonstrates the depths that he will travel to show his love for his people.
And he expects the same thing from us.
And we can read and study this story and twist it into how we need to do better.
That in order to please God we need to be more humble
That we need to do more things.
We can turn it into a morality issue.
But what we need to see is that the reason Jesus challenges us to be humble like him is so that we operate from a position of gratitude.
We don’t serve for acceptance, but from acceptance.
We don’t serve to earn God’s grace, but b/c we are grateful for the grace we have recieved.
And as we will see in this scripture we can only serve God once we have been cleansed by Jesus.
And this cleansing only happens b/c of his great love for us.
A true understanding of the gospel leads to humble service.
It is a natural outflow from our heart to serve God b/c of what he has done.
So, as we read through and study God’s Word this morning we are going to look at 3 points.
Jesus’ Love v.1
Our need for Cleansing v. 2-11
Our Perfect Example v. 12-17
Jesus’ Love
These are some beautiful words from John about Jesus’ love for his disciples.
Remember these next 5 chapters are all about Jesus preparing his disciples for his departure.
That’s a very loving thing to do.
They had spent the last 3 years of their lives devoted to Jesus.
Following him around and listening to his teaching.
They gave up everything to follow Jesus and they are about to lose the one they had devoted their life to.
So Jesus sees fit to equip them for his departure.
The hour had come.
The alarm had sounded.
The bell had tolled.
This act of preparing them for his death is an amazing act of love.
We read in John 3:16, that Jesus loved the world.
We know that Jesus loves his creation.
But I want you to see something here.
The love Jesus demonstrated before his death wasn’t a love for the world, but a love for his own.
Jesus has a general love for his creation, but he has a specific love for those that belong to him.
Think about it this way.
My calling as a follower of Jesus is to love my neighbor as myself.
I am to love everyone I come into contact with.
However, I have a specific and particular love for my wife.
I love people, but my wife is my own.
So if you love Jesus, and belong to Jesus he has a particular love for you.
He died so that you could experience that love.
He sacrificed so that you could know love.
And if he loves you in this specific and particular way, notice what John says.
“He loved them to the end.”
There are no off ramps when it comes to Jesus’ love for his own.
He loves them to the end.
That is the end of his life he loved his disciples.
He loves us to the end of our lives.
And he will love us for all eternity.
If we belong to him.
If we are his own.
1 John 4.10 “10 Love consists in this: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.”
And I don’t know where each of you are when it comes to understanding this love of Jesus.
But I want you to know that Jesus loves you.
He cares about you.
He wants to be in a relationship with you.
He wants you to experience his particular love for you
Jesus shows us what love is and how he loves us by laying his life down.
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