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Sunday, March 24th | Beau Bradberry

"Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him." — John 13:16

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Good morning.

If you have your Bible, and I hope you do, I want to invite you to join us in John.

Chapter 13 is where we're going to be.

I'm going to apologize ahead of time.

I have been taken over by the giant yellow cloud that Joel Berger referred to with there.

So probably drinking a little bit more water than normal and apologize if I got to keep clearing my throat and coughing a little bit.

This morning as we study God's word, we are starting our Easter series this week.

We'll be back together next week.

Excited about both of those services.

If you were up early this morning, right.

You notice it is a little cool.

So if you're planning on joining us for our early service next week, just prepare yourself.

It's going to be a little cool.

Joanne walked up this morning like prepared for an avalanche to come with snow.

So if that's you, you want to think through that.

If you're somebody that loves shorts like Glenn upstairs in the booth, right?

You might want to think about that too.

But we're going to be outside worshiping the Lord at the early service and then we'll join together at the 1015 service with a wonderful, wonderful breakfast.

We were talking last week, my family was just someone who hasn't been to church with us at Easter, and we were talking about everything and talked about this breakfast and they're like, man, I am excited to be a part to celebrate our risen savior and to have a little bit of bacon before we do so.

All right, so we're going to be excited to do that.

What we're going to do this year.

Berger and I a few months ago began this conversation of teaching through the Easter story and really felt like the spirit of the Lord was kind of drawing us to look at this and to teach this narrative maybe in a different way than we have.

Here's the part that kind of drew me right when you come to church, when you come to faith in Christ, when you go live your day.

So anywhere in between of what that looks like for you, you're wrestling with the realities of the world that you live in while knowing who Christ is.

And the beauty of that is when your faith in Jesus is so strong and so grounded, that in the midst of the chaos and the turmoil of what's going on, in the midst of the confusion, in the midst of the anxiety, in the midst of the concern, right?

Faith in Christ and who he is and what he's done and the reality of what that's set for us in our future, but also the reality of what that's set for us in our presence, just causes us to go, man, I'm with Christ, and I can walk through, I can face, I can endure, I can overcome, because I've got the power of Jesus Christ in me.

Right?

And when you look at the Easter story, one of the things, the beauty of what I love so much about this story is when you see the arrest of Jesus, the trial, the crucifixion, the death, the resurrection, you notice the reactions from those that are closest to Jesus.

Jesus had spoken very plainly about what he would face and what would happen and what they would encounter.

Just as you and I, we know the story, we know the truth.

But the reality for those closest to Jesus as they see his arrest, as they hear, some see his trial as some are there with him for his death, most aren't as they're hiding why his body is in the tomb.

And as they get news of his resurrection, all that he had spoken about, you notice the reaction from those that are close to him or some that show patterns of concern for Christ, some that show concern for themselves, some that show anger of how could this happen?

Some that show sadness.

How could he be taken away from us?

In some there's a sense of confusion and some there's a sense of disbelief.

How could this be in what happens next in the resurrection?

Who is this?

What is going on?

How is this even possible?

And so what I want us to do for this week, next week, and the week after these next three weeks, we're going to look in the days leading up to the events surrounding the death and the resurrection of Jesus, and we're going to look at three different conversations that Jesus has.

And in this moment, these moments that Jesus is happening, that he explains in great depth, like this is what has taken place and what we learn from this is the work of the cross and the power of the resurrection.

As Jesus has these conversations, what he's laying out is this is the work of what's going to be accomplished on this horrific cross.

What is going to be done to me is done with a purpose and a reason.

And here's the work that's being done.

And then three days later, there's just going to be this resurrection and the power that comes from the resurrection.

And so this morning in John 13, what we're going to look at are one of these first interactions on this passion week that we see in the life of Christ as Jesus washes the disciples feet.

Now, I was thinking about this this week for myself.

I've taught through Jesus washing the disciples feet numerous, numerous times.

And usually when I've taught through this, whether it's a youth pastor, or when I was a campus pastor, or when I was an associate pastor, or when I was a senior pastor, oftentimes when we look at Jesus washing the disciples'feet, we look largely at what Jesus did.

And that's important.

We're going to look at that this morning.

We look at his actions as he's gathered there in this room with those who were closest to him.

But we oftentimes don't put as much emphasis on what Jesus is saying to them.

Some powerful, powerful actions that Jesus does.

But equally and maybe more so, powerful.

Words of what Jesus says to them in these moments, so that they, and we can understand the power of the work that he does on the cross.

And then the work that he's going.

To call them to as well.

So let's start.

John Chapter 13, verse one says this now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

The first thing I want us to look at is this.

The loving work of Christ.

The cross is the best illustration that God gives us for his love for us.

He takes the gruesome work of what the world would seem of an execution.

And he says, this is my picture and my display for you.

Right.

John 316.

For God so loved the world that he sent his only son.

And in sending his son, the journey that Jesus never backed down from was the journey of what he would take to the cross.

The cross, the most brutal form of death in the roman world.

They say about the Roman Empire, what they were really good at.

They were really good at punishing people.

When you look at the population of Rome in the time of Christ and those who were Romans, it was a very, very small number, comparative to the places that they had taken over and that they had brought into the Roman Empire.

And so if you study history, a question that is asked is how could these individuals, small in number, overpower the armies that they would take over of the countries that they would take over?

And then once they overtook them, how would they keep them under the rule of what's there?

Because what they would do is they would take an area that was thousands upon thousands of people, and they would take about 100 soldiers, and those hundred soldiers would rule over them in a small government form.

Well, how could they do that?

Well, here's what they were really good at doing.

They were really, really good at punishing people.

And if you stepped out of line, what awaited you in that moment, right, was a punishment beyond what you could imagine.

And for the roman empire, the cross.

Was the epitome of the picture of the instrument of death that says, don't step out of rule, don't step out of order, don't step out of what we have for you.

Because what the cross would do would be to take you to a point of death, but allow your body to keep living so you just endure, endure and endure.

And God loves us so much that he gave his only son to die on the cross.

The picture of his love for us was powerful, powerful illustration of what's there.

And Jesus in verse one, saying that he had loved them to the end.

Does not mean that at this point, Jesus is like, my love for you is up.

The words there, he loved them to the end is the picture of saying.

That he had loved them to the fullest.

In the fullness of his love, all that he would teach is what's there, right?

The only thing that we can really look at when we look at the cross and look at it in the light of God's love for us.

Inequality is God's hatred for sin.

God's hatred for sin.

When we think about the work of the cross, it's the God loves us so much that he would send his son to die.

But God also hates sin so much that he would send his only son to die.

The Bible teaches that the payment demanded for sin is death.

Is death, and Jesus pays that for us.

God's love for us, then, is revealed to us, not in spite of his.

Hate for sin, but because of his hate for sin.

That God loves you.

And those sins that you become comfortable with, God hates them.

And as he loves you, as he pursues you, as he saves you, as he molds and works and shapes in you, is working out of you the sin that consumes you, folks, that's love.

The question for us is, do we.

Say that we love God?

Sure, I hope we do.

I hope we do.

But the question that we wrestle with is, do we hate sin?

Do we hate sin?

What Jesus came to die on the cross for?

So give verses two through seven.

It says, during supper, when the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Escarat, Simon's son, to betray him.

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, rose from supper.

He laid aside his outer garments.

And, taking a towel, tied it around his waist.

And then he poured water into a basin.

And began to wash the disciples'feet.

And to wipe them with a towel that was wrapped around him.

He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, lord, do you wash my feet?

And Jesus answered him, what I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.

As we look at the work of Christ.

The second thing that we see here is the humble work of Christ.

The humble work of Christ.

I think in three different ways.

The first way is this.

Jesus washed Judas'feet.

And if you know the story, Judas is the one who betrays.

Everyone else in the room will become the leaders of the church.

They've had their moments.

They've had their times.

They will be the one filled with the Holy Spirit.

Acts one, eight of what Jesus promises them, that comes to them in acts two.

And then goes from there, spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ.

And seeing the kingdom of God work and move into far areas.

And Jesus, I don't know about you, but I'm probably thinking in this moment, wash your feet.

Wash your feet.

We're going to have to have a conversation.

Wash your feet.

Jesus.

No.

I wash yours.

And I wash yours for everyone in the room.

I don't know about you, but I felt the sting of betrayal.

I've felt the pain of persecution.

Not to that nth of degree.

And what stops me from being the example of the humble servant that Jesus causes me to be is I blame their sin.

But really, it's my pride, which is my sin.

And so we see the humble work of Christ.

Christ washed Judas's feet.

Number two.

Christ physically humbled himself.

Physically humbled himself.

Let me explain to you what Jesus did.

He took off the Bible says, his outer garments.

Jesus took off his clothes.

And then he went and grabbed a towel.

That would have been the towel that the slave of the house would wear.

And he took the slave's towel, and he tied it around his waist.

Jesus was the rabbi that walked, and everyone followed.

And in this moment, he says, I'm going to physically humble myself, remove what is here to be vulnerable before you, to identify as a slave.

And then to take the dirtiest part of you and make it clean.

And as I make it clean, I'm doing so with what was clean, but is now taking on your dirt, taken on your filth, taken on the waste.

Of the world of all that's there, right?

Just as Jesus willingly got on the cross.

Never forget John 1018 says, jesus says, I willingly lay down my life.

No one takes it from me.

No one takes it.

It's not Rome taking it.

It's not the jewish leaders taking, no, no, I do this.

No one said to Jesus, you must do this.

And Jesus says, I want you to see what I'm doing.

I'm willing.

This hasn't been asked of me.

This hasn't been demanded of me.

You guys haven't set this expectation of me.

You haven't said, you're going to quit following me unless I do this.

But watch what I'm going to do, and I'm going to do this, and I'm going to willingly do this.

Right?

Number three.

Jesus'work is only understood through maturity.

Through maturity.

Back at verse six.

And he came to Simon Peter, who said, lord, do.

You wash my feet?

The words that are used in this.

Peter is confused about what is happening.

And he is insulted for Jesus.

He's embarrassed for him.

I'm confused.

Why would you do this?

And look at what Jesus says.

Everyone understood footwashing.

It was what you would do when you would come into someone's house.

Everyone understood it.

Jesus, though, says, what I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward the cross, you will understand what Jesus is pointing Peter to in this direction.

Jesus knows, man.

Peter's ready to fight for him and denying all in the same moment.

And what I love about this, what I love about the cross, what I love about the resurrection, is this.

The more that I walk with Jesus, the more that I'm desperate for him, the more that that story is not just some story that I've heard before, but the more that I dive into and dive into, the more that I wrestle with my own sin, the more that I come to him in confession and repentance, the more that I'm diving into this.

These words ring true in my life.

What I'm doing now, Bo, you don't fully understand, but afterwards you will.

The humble work of Christ, Judas's feet.

Jesus physically humbled.

And that in this, the more and more we cling to his word, the more and more that we understand the work of the cross and the power of the resurrection.

And so you see, what's going to happen is there's going to be this interaction that we see between Peter and Jesus.

Look at verse eight.

Peter doesn't get it right.

So Peter said to him, you shall never wash my feet.

Probably culturally, this is a correct statement.

Peter's saying, I know my place.

I know who you are, I know your goodness, and I know that I am not and you shall never wash my feet.

Jesus, I'm not good enough.

And Jesus answered him, if I do not wash you, you have no share with me.

You have no share with me.

What we're seeing from this is the one time work of Christ.

The one time work of Christ.

Peter, I love you, man.

Outspoken, quick to act, deep lover of Jesus.

Deep lover, passionate lover of Christ.

As his savior, as his mentor, and as his friend.

Loves him.

But Peter doesn't understand all of what's happening.

And Peter says to no, no, in my relationship with you, I am unworthy for you to wash my feet.

Right?

And look what Jesus says.

He says, peter, if you want to have a relationship with me, this true relationship with me, then I must make you clean.

I must make you clean.

The words Jesus says is, if I do not wash you, you have no share with me.

Those two words, no share, were the words that would be used in inheritance.

You will not partake in the inheritance with me.

Peter, if I don't wash your feet, it's not just that we won't be friends anymore.

It's not just you won't enjoy my company unless I wash you and make you clean.

Peter, there's no inheritance for you.

You're not in the family.

Unless I make you clean.

Here's what I think we have, and I think this has been an issue from the beginning until today.

We've got a lot of people who want to cling to sayings of Jesus.

We got a lot of people who want to cling to the idea of Jesus.

We got a lot of people who want to cling to these concepts of Jesus.

We got a lot of people who want Jesus to be their friend.

But Jesus says, if I do not wash you, if I do not make you clean, you gotta understand, you may love my sayings, you may love my teachings, but you don't get relationship with me.

I think there's a lot of people that says, hey, man, give me the rules of Jesus and let me follow the rules, and I'll prove how I'm good with doing the things of Jesus.

Says, no, it's not about if you can follow the rules.

It's about have I made you clean?

People say, well, I'm gonna do a lot of religious things for Jesus.

I want to do the mission trips, I want to volunteer, I want to do all of these things.

And in that man, I deserve this relationship with.

No, no, that's not what it's about.

Doing good kingdom work, loving your neighbor, giving a lot of money, doing all of these things doesn't get you a relationship with Jesus.

You can't earn it.

You can't buy it.

Jesus says, it's from me.

The only way you and I have.

A shot at a relationship with Jesus is found only in his work.

Only in his work.

And it is only by the faith that God gives us that we place our faith and hope in Jesus as the savior of our souls and the Lord of our life.

Verse nine through eleven.

I love this part.

To me, this is like Bible nerd funny.

Okay, you might not find it funny, but I do.

So give me grace.

Simon Peter said to him, lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.

So here's really quick.

What happened?

Jesus is like, unless I wash you and make you clean, right, then you're not going to share in the inheritance with me.

Now that speaks to Peter.

So he's like, well, listen, if footwashing gets me that right, like, I see this is my mind.

Peter's like, let me take my robe off like I'm here.

Like, wash me, Jesus.

Right?

Wash me.

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.

Judas is in the room, for he.

Knew who was to betray him.

And that was why he said, not.

All of you are clean.

The next one wants us to see that.

We find in this is the continual work of Christ.

The continual work of Christ.

Peter still doesn't understand.

And so Jesus, in this moment, he shifts the teaching narrative.

Everything that Jesus has said was true.

Everything Jesus just said.

And what we'll say is true, but they seem to contradict one another.

Jesus is washing the feet, but he says, you're completely clean.

But I'm not completely clean, Jesus.

I'm not.

Yes, my feet are clean, but I'm still dirty.

I still got dust on me.

I'm still sweaty, Jesus.

My hair's not.

The fine fibers of the sand of the desert are still down at my scalp, Jesus.

But I'm not clean.

And so Jesus shifts this teaching moment and he says this, but you are clean.

You are clean, Peter.

You've been made clean by me.

But there's more of what's there in your life.

One Peter 116.

I love this, the challenge of the man in the words that says, I've made you clean, but there's still some dirty parts of your body.

Be holy as I am holy.

That's the standard.

That's the call.

And I want to be honest with you, we've softened that.

We've softened that.

That's the call.

Are we going to fulfill that?

Can we fulfill that?

No, we can't.

We can't.

It's the standard.

Fight against sin, pursue righteousness, desire not our holiness, but the holiness of God to reign in us and come from us.

That's difficult.

That's a battle.

That's hard.

We fail, we succeed, we fail.

We succeed.

We fail.

We succeed.

So God in his grace gives us that.

We've been washed, we've been made clean.

A one time work that's happened in the power of Christ.

But we see the continual work of Christ.

One John one nine.

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all of righteousness.

The christian life is not, well, I'm good, so I'm done.

The christian life, what God's called us to is, I'm good, so I'm following.

I'm good, so I'm obedient.

I'm good because I've been washed and made clean by the blood of the lamb.

And when God sees me, what he sees is the sacrifice and the work of Christ.

But they're still the pieces.

They're still the problems, they're still the issues.

And we see the continuing work of Christ.

Verse twelve.

When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, do you understand what I have done to you?

Jesus gets done and takes that towel off, puts back on his robe, goes.

Back to the table, who would all have been reclining at the table, and.

He says to him, do you understand what I have done to you?

To you?

What we see here is the atoning work of Christ.

The atoning work of Christ.

It's the work of Christ.

That's the beauty of the celebration of what we're going to come in fullness of celebration of next week.

It's the work of Christ in every part of his coming as a child, as a baby, growing up into a man, establishing his ministry, dying on the cross and being raised from the dead until he ascends into heaven.

The work that Jesus did.

Jesus lived the perfect life.

Jesus was falsely accused.

Jesus was beaten and imprisoned.

Jesus died in your place.

Jesus took on God's wrath.

Jesus overcome death.

Jesus rose from the grave.

And he says this to the men in that room.

Do you understand what I have done to you?

Do you understand what I have done for you?

For you?

Do you understand what God has done to you?

Do you understand what God has done for you?

Oh, my prayers for us is that the cross of Christ is not some children's story in the bible that we've grown used to and tired of that.

It's what God did to you.

It's what God has done for you, not a one of us worthy.

But Jesus took it on the beating that you deserved.

He took the rejection that you earned.

He took the death that should have been mine.

Jesus says, no, that is mine to take for you also, that we can stand before God for now and for eternity.

The powerful work, the powerful, atoning work of Christ, verse 13.

Jesus continues on.

He says this.

You call me teacher and lord, and you are right, for I am.

So these two titles, teacher and Lord.

That Jesus gives here and what we.

See here is the authoritative work of Christ.

Jesus was considered a great teacher, and rightfully so.

Even those who did not follow his teachings would address him as rabbi.

They understood that his level of expertise was high.

What they didn't understand was that his level of expertise was perfect.

Do you know what's there?

And he's like, yeah, I wrote it.

I got this, right?

And the disciples, they would call him that when they began to follow him.

Most think that that's their following.

These are guys who had not been chosen by a rabbi to follow a rabbi.

Now you got a rabbi saying, come follow me.

They've always wanted to be chosen by a rabbi.

So now they go and they follow Jesus.

And so Jesus says, you call me teacher.

Everything that I say is authoritative, and it is right.

You call me teacher.

I am so.

I am the teacher.

It is my word.

It is my standard.

This is who I am so many times.

I don't know about you, but I want to take on the role of being teacher.

I want to take this and say, let me see if I can figure out what this means for me, what I need to do.

Run it through the filter of my selfishness.

Run it through the filter of my weakness.

Run it through the filter of my manipulating characteristics.

But Jesus says, I'm teacher.

So you seek what I say.

Then you understand what I say, and you do what I say, because I'm the teacher.

But Jesus also said that he is the Lord.

That he is Lord.

There are many people in the Bible, during the times of Christ that used the title Lord in context for Jesus as a sign of respect.

A great man.

They had heard of his healings.

They had heard of his miracles.

They had heard of his profound teaching of what he did.

And out of respect, they came to him and they said, lord.

But when Jesus says, lord, here, there's a rule that comes with this, that Jesus says, if you say that I'm teacher and you say that I'm lord, what you're saying in that is I'm your king.

What do you do for a king?

You surrender to a king.

I heard someone say this years ago, and it's always been a picture that stuck out in my mind, right?

Like, we've kind of lost the bowing before people in our culture, right?

Like, go to the bank tomorrow, say, I need a loan.

This is weird.

Not really going to happen today, right?

But that was common during most of the creation of the world, that you would go to someone and rule above you and you would bow down to them.

You would show your humility before them, you would show their greatness before you.

But it wouldn't just be bending a knee.

It would be bowing your head.

Because what you do when you bow your head is you expose the back of your neck, the most vulnerable part of your body.

And what you're saying is, here's my life.

Do with it as you please.

Jesus says, you call me teacher.

You call me Lord.

I am so.

I am king.

Jesus, so many of us want Jesus as our savior, but I'm not sure we want him as our Lord.

As our savior, he keeps us out of h***.

As our savior, he removes the punishment of eternal damnation.

Man, we want that.

But as our Lord, he says, your life is mine to go and be and to go and do what I've called you to do.

And in this Easter season, my challenge for you is this.

Is the cross and the resurrection authoritative in your life?

Does it not just determine your eternity, but does it determine your right now in who you are of every fiber of your being?

So Jesus ends this passage, verse 14 through 17.

He says this, if I then your lord and teacher have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet, for I've given you an example that you should do just as I have done to you.

Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master.

Nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

If you know these things, blessed are.

You if you do them.

We close with this.

The illustrative work of Christ.

Jesus, in his words, has been teaching.

Them the truth of what he is there to do and what he will do.

And in his actions in those moments, he's playing out something for them.

He's saying, you can do this, too.

You can do this, too, right?

I hear this excuse given a lot.

I hear it a lot because a lot of the times, it comes from my own mouth or comes from my own heart.

But I've heard it from a lot of you, too.

So don't just laugh at me.

Laugh at you, too.

Well, I know what Jesus would do, but, you know I'm not Jesus.

You ever thought about what Jesus did that we can't do?

Jesus died on the cross and paid for the sins of the world because he's perfect, right?

I didn't make that list.

Neither did you.

He walked on the water.

He fed thousands with a few fish, few pieces of bread.

He called dead people to life.

I can't do that.

Tried a few times when the pantry is running a little low doesn't work.

He rose from the grave by his own power, defeating death.

I can't do that.

Neither can you.

But there's so many things that Jesus.

Did that we can do.

I think this is what he's saying to the disciples.

Jesus doesn't say, I've just now, but Jesus said, I've given you an example.

I am an example of what you are to do.

Go and do this.

Go and be this.

Go and look at my life.

So let's look at what Jesus did.

He loved and obeyed the father.

You can do that through the power of the spirit that dwells in you.

As the follower of Jesus Christ.

He loved and served those who befriended him, and he loved and served those who hated him.

You can do that as a child of God through the power of the.

Holy Spirit that lives in you.

He worked in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Everything that Jesus did was done in the fullness of the power of the spirit of God.

You can do that, too.

God promises us that when we're saved.

What he gives us is the Holy Spirit.

We don't get, like, a small sliver of the Holy Spirit.

It's not like the last piece of pie.

And God's got to keep cutting it because he's got to make it work for everybody.

God gives us the fullness of the power of the Holy Spirit.

And you do that as well.

In the power of Christ.

He shared a message of hope and love while calling people to repent and turn to God.

You can do that, too.

The question that I close as we prepare for all that will be next week, Easter egg hunts, big lunches, fancy shiny clothes and bright colors.

I've got something picked out next week.

I'm like an Easter egg.

I'm going to tell you all that.

Right?

In all that we're looking to do, let me ask you this question as we close.

Are you living out the illustration of Christ and who he is and what he has done?

Where God has sent you, where you find yourself?

We don't have to go and try.

To figure out and determine where our mission field is.

Where your mission field is is where you are.

It's where you'll be when you leave here.

It's where you'll wake up at in the morning.

It's where you'll go to during the course of your day.

It's the people that you'll interact with.

It's what God has for you.

The illustration of Christ that we're called to because he died on the cross for us.

But he didn't stay dead, did he?

He rose from the grave to walk in life in obedience to the father who sent him that he calls us to.

Would you pray with me?

God, I thank you so much for this word.

God, I thank you for your love for us.

To see, to know the brutality of what awaited him.

Word that he did so so that we may have life and have it abundantly.

God, I pray that Christ would not.

Just be a concept for us, would not just be statements to make us feel better, would not just be an ideology that we have to be our friend when we need him.

But that in his work, what he demands is the authority over our life.

Yes.

To be our savior, to save us.

To save our souls, to save us from our sin, to save us, so that we can be brought in right relationship with you, so that we can talk to you and we can hear from you, that we can serve you and that we can love you and that we can worship you and that we can seek you.

All of those things he saves us for.

But, Lord, he's not just our savior.

He's our Lord.

He's our king.

We're part of his rule and his reign.

Lord, it doesn't fit to try to say that we're rebellious servants seeking our own, desiring our own.

And so, God, I pray.

Lord, I pray that if there is anyone here this morning and what they've subscribed to is the lesser Jesus.

Jesus that saves them but then leaves them alone.

Christ, that's not who you are.

God, I pray if there's anyone here, Lord, that their desire is Christ as their savior.

And Christ as their lord.

Lord, change us.

Move in us.

Lord, convict us.

Lord, thank you that you have washed me and made me clean.

Lord, may I always in the power of your spirit, find that which is dirty and confess that to you and to bring that before you so that you can work in me and you.

Can move in me and where the.

Blessings of this life are found in surrender to you.

Jesus, thank you for being vulnerable.

Vulnerable in this moment in John 13.

Vulnerable on the cross and vulnerable with us today.

Lord, may we respond to your love and the hope of the gospel.

This in Jesus name we pray.

Amen.

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