WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:22.260 Hi, and welcome to the Willow Ridge Church weekly podcast. 00:00:22.780 --> 00:00:25.880 This is where you can find audio for our current and past sermons. 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:30.420 We hope that you enjoy this week's installment, and be sure to check back next week to hear 00:00:30.420 --> 00:00:31.260 the latest message. 00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:32.460 Thanks for listening. 00:00:44.680 --> 00:00:45.780 Hey, well, good morning. 00:00:46.660 --> 00:00:50.440 Glad that you guys are here with us and glad that you're joining us online. 00:00:50.440 --> 00:00:54.300 If you've got your Bibles, go ahead and open them up to John chapter 13. 00:00:54.780 --> 00:00:58.780 And in typical fashion of how we're doing with this series, also open it up to Romans 00:00:58.780 --> 00:01:00.080 chapter 12. 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:02.920 We're going to look at two different passages of Scripture this morning. 00:01:03.300 --> 00:01:07.320 As you turn there, a couple things that I want to point out to you or make you aware of. 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:12.660 First, especially if you're joining us online, but also if you're here with us this morning, 00:01:12.960 --> 00:01:18.260 what we've been doing is we do one song after the message, and then we dismiss right after 00:01:18.260 --> 00:01:18.560 that. 00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:23.480 So if you're watching online, don't turn us off after the last song. 00:01:23.580 --> 00:01:26.340 If you're here with us after the last song, don't turn to leave. 00:01:26.420 --> 00:01:30.860 We've got an announcement to make that's important about our next series that we're going to be 00:01:30.860 --> 00:01:31.960 starting here in a couple weeks. 00:01:32.060 --> 00:01:33.920 And so please just hang tight. 00:01:34.340 --> 00:01:40.580 Also, we want to remind everyone, right, that we have our drive-in movie on September the 00:01:40.580 --> 00:01:41.220 11th. 00:01:41.220 --> 00:01:43.400 And so you're all invited to be there. 00:01:43.460 --> 00:01:44.520 We would love to have you. 00:01:44.560 --> 00:01:49.440 Now, we've done things like movies on the lawn before where we gather out in the field 00:01:49.440 --> 00:01:52.900 and then it's rain, and so we've had to come inside and different things that we've done. 00:01:53.280 --> 00:01:59.560 We are going really traditional drive-in movie style in the parking lot with the big screen 00:01:59.560 --> 00:02:05.300 in the parking lot for you to be able to come and enjoy a night in a movie together as a 00:02:05.300 --> 00:02:05.740 family. 00:02:06.180 --> 00:02:09.640 At 8 o'clock, we're going to have something no matter what your preference is. 00:02:09.700 --> 00:02:11.360 We hope we have something for you, okay? 00:02:11.580 --> 00:02:15.640 At 8 o'clock until the movie starts, number one, we're going to have Pelican Snowballs 00:02:15.640 --> 00:02:16.520 are going to be there. 00:02:16.780 --> 00:02:20.140 And so you can go and get Pelican Snowballs free of charge. 00:02:20.300 --> 00:02:23.980 The church is paying for it, so we want you to make sure that you have that opportunity 00:02:23.980 --> 00:02:25.200 to go and to do that. 00:02:25.460 --> 00:02:30.120 But then also, if Pelican Snowballs isn't your thing, and coffee is, all right, we're going 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:32.460 to have a coffee bar open so that you can come through. 00:02:32.460 --> 00:02:37.140 And we even have stuff, if you want to ruin your coffee and put flavor in it, right, you 00:02:37.140 --> 00:02:37.720 can do that. 00:02:37.740 --> 00:02:41.160 Or if you want to drink real coffee, which is coffee, beans, and water, we'll have that 00:02:41.160 --> 00:02:43.760 for you as well, that you can just do that. 00:02:43.880 --> 00:02:49.280 And so be a great, great, great opportunity for us to come together as a church family 00:02:49.280 --> 00:02:53.360 and to have a night where we can do drive-in movie style. 00:02:53.660 --> 00:02:55.340 I think it's a 30-foot screen. 00:02:55.640 --> 00:02:59.920 There's going to be a sound system that's set up that all you have to do is roll down your 00:02:59.920 --> 00:03:02.560 windows to be able to hear the movie. 00:03:02.760 --> 00:03:08.160 And so we're going to be playing the 2019 Lion King version, which I haven't seen, so looking 00:03:08.160 --> 00:03:08.860 forward to it. 00:03:09.120 --> 00:03:14.340 But please, please, please be there with us as we kind of have this opportunity to gather 00:03:14.340 --> 00:03:19.400 back as a family, whether you gather with us on Sunday morning here or on Sunday mornings 00:03:19.400 --> 00:03:21.180 at home, an opportunity for that. 00:03:21.480 --> 00:03:26.660 But then also, great opportunity, grandparents, bring your grandkids, invite your neighbors, 00:03:27.000 --> 00:03:32.160 a wonderful opportunity for us to be able to reach out and to serve our community. 00:03:32.160 --> 00:03:33.660 So we're looking forward to that. 00:03:34.340 --> 00:03:39.620 Well, last week, as we continued on in our Family Traits series, we've been looking over 00:03:39.620 --> 00:03:42.000 Acts chapter 2 and Acts chapter 4. 00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:45.240 And don't worry, I'm going to read a couple of verses out of there, even though I'd have 00:03:45.240 --> 00:03:46.800 you turn there this morning. 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:50.400 But last week, we started looking at this concept of they, not some. 00:03:50.820 --> 00:03:55.320 That when we read Acts chapter 2 and we read Acts chapter 4 and we see the great work that 00:03:55.320 --> 00:04:01.200 God does and people getting saved, that there's this commonality that we see amongst the believers. 00:04:01.520 --> 00:04:07.940 That when it's described what the church looks like, there's this notion of the they and not 00:04:07.940 --> 00:04:15.400 the notion of the some, meaning that there was great unity amongst the body of what was happening 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:18.080 and what was taking place. 00:04:18.400 --> 00:04:24.080 And so as we look through this, this is an examination for us to say, is this what we, 00:04:24.080 --> 00:04:31.800 not as I as an individual, but that we've embraced as a church, as a body of believers, as we look 00:04:31.800 --> 00:04:40.180 together to press into what it truly looks like to be a family that God has called us to be. 00:04:40.540 --> 00:04:47.640 And so we see some very unique circumstances that begin to unfold amongst the early church. 00:04:47.640 --> 00:04:54.220 Now it's important for us to remember that there was great diversity in the early church. 00:04:54.220 --> 00:04:58.440 There were people from different languages that had come together. 00:04:58.800 --> 00:05:02.820 There were people from different countries, from different backgrounds, from different races, 00:05:03.220 --> 00:05:08.880 from different socioeconomic backgrounds that had come together and we saw this great unity 00:05:08.880 --> 00:05:16.500 of diversity so that diversity was there, but diversity wasn't the goal. 00:05:16.600 --> 00:05:24.740 The goal for the church, which is the goal for us today, is yes to have diversity, but in that 00:05:24.740 --> 00:05:31.060 as God begins to work and move in the life of diverse people, of what comes from that is unity. 00:05:31.460 --> 00:05:33.440 That that's what the gospel does. 00:05:33.880 --> 00:05:37.820 What the world says is separate, the gospel unifies. 00:05:38.520 --> 00:05:41.760 And so we begin to look and see how this has played out in the life of the church. 00:05:42.120 --> 00:05:44.800 So I want to read to you Acts 2 verses 44 and 45. 00:05:45.800 --> 00:06:12.180 And so what we see is this sense of community living amongst the early church, that they looked at each other, 00:06:12.180 --> 00:06:18.240 they saw where they had needs, and the body of believers together said, we take care of that. 00:06:19.060 --> 00:06:21.220 And it's not a one isolated event. 00:06:21.320 --> 00:06:22.400 Acts 4.32 00:06:22.400 --> 00:06:28.080 Now a full number of those who believed were of one heart and soul, 00:06:28.260 --> 00:06:33.020 and no one said that any of the things that belonged to him was his own, 00:06:33.400 --> 00:06:36.780 but they had everything in common. 00:06:37.260 --> 00:06:40.000 Let's begin to understand what is taking place. 00:06:40.520 --> 00:06:45.300 In the early church, what we begin to understand is this, nothing is mine. 00:06:47.480 --> 00:06:56.640 The destruction of the self in early church was nothing that I own is viewed as mine. 00:06:57.600 --> 00:07:02.040 So that in the church, I got my buddy Frank sitting over here, Frank and I are in Bible study together. 00:07:02.300 --> 00:07:09.520 And so if I have something and Frank does not have that, and Frank needs what I have, 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:14.980 then my nature is to not let Frank borrow it, right? 00:07:15.460 --> 00:07:17.920 It's to not let Frank buy it from me. 00:07:18.700 --> 00:07:19.620 No, bud, you need this? 00:07:19.680 --> 00:07:20.180 I got it. 00:07:20.260 --> 00:07:21.000 Man, it's yours. 00:07:21.680 --> 00:07:22.220 Take it. 00:07:22.760 --> 00:07:23.860 That's crazy. 00:07:23.860 --> 00:07:26.880 But that's what the church looked like. 00:07:27.360 --> 00:07:28.280 And it continues on. 00:07:28.380 --> 00:07:31.040 It says in verse 34 of chapter 4, 00:07:31.720 --> 00:07:57.760 So there was the depth of relationship within the context of the early church that the Bible says that there was not a divide amongst them. 00:07:57.760 --> 00:08:04.320 So if there was someone who had a need at a great depth, and that they see the aspect of need, 00:08:04.540 --> 00:08:11.920 then what the church did was they stepped in because what is mine is not mine, but what is mine is ours. 00:08:12.640 --> 00:08:13.900 So how does that play out? 00:08:15.260 --> 00:08:16.860 So it means Joan and Lenny are here. 00:08:16.940 --> 00:08:17.480 Hey, Joan and Lenny. 00:08:17.620 --> 00:08:21.240 So Joan and Lenny go through a difficult time. 00:08:22.560 --> 00:08:24.400 And Joan and Lenny are going to lose their home. 00:08:25.840 --> 00:08:30.180 And so I look at what I have, what I've been blessed with, what God has entrusted to me. 00:08:30.920 --> 00:08:33.220 And I say, but this doesn't count because they're in need. 00:08:34.080 --> 00:08:39.200 And so I sell, and I get rid of, and I don't loan it. 00:08:40.260 --> 00:08:45.300 I don't say, well, when you can pay me back, I say, no, no, no, no, this is yours. 00:08:46.060 --> 00:08:50.500 Because what is mine is yours, and this is the depth of the relationship that we have. 00:08:51.480 --> 00:08:52.020 I say, you know what? 00:08:52.040 --> 00:08:58.360 I've got an extra bedroom in my home, and what I want to do is I don't want to just give you a room, right? 00:08:58.520 --> 00:09:06.360 I want to give you my home so that what is mine isn't just mine anymore, but that this home, it's ours, so come be here. 00:09:07.080 --> 00:09:09.460 And this is the depth of the community that we see. 00:09:10.120 --> 00:09:17.380 There's no way to try to understand anything different than this is the depth of unity of the early church. 00:09:18.160 --> 00:09:19.200 Nothing is mine. 00:09:19.580 --> 00:09:20.700 Everything is ours. 00:09:21.260 --> 00:09:23.160 Now, this is foreign to us, right? 00:09:24.500 --> 00:09:25.740 We're good at borrowing. 00:09:26.220 --> 00:09:27.300 We're good at loaning. 00:09:27.480 --> 00:09:28.800 We're good at stepping in. 00:09:29.000 --> 00:09:30.500 We're good at helping out with groceries. 00:09:30.700 --> 00:09:34.540 But we're talking about people who say, no, no, no, no, no. 00:09:34.780 --> 00:09:41.240 If I've got to gut the retirement because there's someone who's in need within my family, then I'm going to do it. 00:09:41.980 --> 00:09:45.080 Now, we say it's foreign, but I'd like to argue that it's probably not. 00:09:46.220 --> 00:09:51.180 Because when we begin to understand that that is difficult for us in this context, 00:09:51.260 --> 00:09:53.200 here's a context where it's not different. 00:09:53.200 --> 00:09:54.420 Think about your family. 00:09:54.620 --> 00:10:01.240 Parents, what would you not get rid of for your kid when they're in need? 00:10:02.860 --> 00:10:08.400 We're walking through that with my 94-year-old grandmother right now. 00:10:09.400 --> 00:10:09.680 Right? 00:10:09.840 --> 00:10:12.740 Whatever she needs, take it. 00:10:13.460 --> 00:10:16.420 Whatever she can't do for herself, take it. 00:10:16.480 --> 00:10:20.420 It's mine, but it's yours now in this. 00:10:20.640 --> 00:10:21.400 And so have it. 00:10:21.580 --> 00:10:27.040 And so there's a notion that we begin to understand that parents, when it comes to your kids, right? 00:10:27.880 --> 00:10:31.920 Grandparents, when it comes to your grandkids, like, because I've learned once grandkids come in, 00:10:31.960 --> 00:10:34.400 we just skip over kids and we go to grandkids, right? 00:10:34.480 --> 00:10:37.800 When it comes to them, like, no, no, no, take it all. 00:10:37.920 --> 00:10:43.380 I'll move into a tent in the backyard because of the depth of the love that I have for them. 00:10:44.900 --> 00:10:48.800 But this is the way the church viewed each other. 00:10:49.840 --> 00:10:55.380 And I think this is how we begin to see each other when we begin to see each other as family. 00:10:55.940 --> 00:11:04.980 We begin to see things differently, not as church members, not as friends, not as people in community together, 00:11:05.120 --> 00:11:08.680 but when we truly see each other as family. 00:11:08.840 --> 00:11:10.680 Because here's the truth, right? 00:11:11.120 --> 00:11:17.560 Emma and Grayson, my son and my daughter, that in this world, that's who they are. 00:11:17.560 --> 00:11:21.580 They're my son and my daughter, and Joan and Lenny are my friends. 00:11:21.840 --> 00:11:26.480 But spiritually speaking, Lenny is my brother, and so is Grayson. 00:11:27.420 --> 00:11:29.520 But Joan is my sister, and so is Emma. 00:11:30.180 --> 00:11:34.260 So do we live with the mindset of the world, or do we live with the mindset of the Spirit of God? 00:11:35.460 --> 00:11:37.940 And we begin to see each other differently. 00:11:39.040 --> 00:11:43.740 In church, like, we try to lessen what is talked about in Acts, 00:11:43.740 --> 00:11:48.580 but it hit me in my face this week as we begin to see that this is what Scripture turns us to. 00:11:48.960 --> 00:11:54.080 And it's a switch that we begin to flip and begin to look at things differently in our life. 00:11:54.980 --> 00:11:57.240 And so we want to look at that and what it means to serve. 00:11:58.320 --> 00:12:02.740 To be servant-minded does not mean just doing stuff for people. 00:12:03.520 --> 00:12:08.880 To be servant-minded does not mean that we are simply completing tasks for each other. 00:12:08.880 --> 00:12:13.860 But to be servant-minded means loving each other as family. 00:12:14.360 --> 00:12:16.220 That's what it means. 00:12:16.820 --> 00:12:19.900 I read a pastor this week who was talking about this. 00:12:20.640 --> 00:12:21.260 And he said this. 00:12:21.320 --> 00:12:21.480 He said, 00:12:21.580 --> 00:12:25.020 The more Christ-like and selfless a church is, 00:12:25.520 --> 00:12:31.780 the more powerful a tool that church becomes in the hands of our great God and King 00:12:31.780 --> 00:12:35.260 for the purposes of redemption and restoration. 00:12:35.900 --> 00:12:39.520 That if we want to be used for redemption for the kingdom, 00:12:39.520 --> 00:12:46.320 if we want to be used for redemption and restoration amongst our people where God has placed us, 00:12:46.580 --> 00:12:49.680 then the solution to that is not a new strategy. 00:12:50.280 --> 00:12:56.580 The solution to that is not a better message, a more impactful small group, a new building. 00:12:57.420 --> 00:13:05.900 That the means of this is that the body, the bride of Christ, be more Christ-like and be more selfless. 00:13:06.260 --> 00:13:11.520 And that is where the redemption and the restoration and the power of God takes place. 00:13:11.520 --> 00:13:18.660 It says in Acts 2 and Acts 4 that God added to their numbers day by day those who were getting saved. 00:13:18.880 --> 00:13:20.420 In church, it was in the thousands. 00:13:21.800 --> 00:13:23.500 And they could lose their life for it. 00:13:24.460 --> 00:13:26.040 So what does that mean for us? 00:13:26.260 --> 00:13:30.100 What does this look like as we begin to serve people in this capacity? 00:13:30.400 --> 00:13:35.160 And what we have to understand is that we have to let Jesus be the standard. 00:13:35.720 --> 00:13:39.400 That when it comes to serving, we must let Jesus be the standard. 00:13:39.760 --> 00:13:47.820 So John 13, what we saw our wonderful cartoon about is the story of Jesus washing the disciples' feet. 00:13:48.400 --> 00:13:50.040 And so let's start reading in verse 1. 00:13:50.860 --> 00:13:53.520 This is now before the feast of the Passover. 00:13:54.300 --> 00:14:01.300 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. 00:14:01.540 --> 00:14:03.760 He loved them to the end. 00:14:04.560 --> 00:14:11.460 During supper, when the devil had already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him. 00:14:12.220 --> 00:14:18.880 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands and that he had come from God, was going back to God, 00:14:18.880 --> 00:14:20.560 rose from supper. 00:14:20.860 --> 00:14:26.260 He lay aside his outer garments and, taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 00:14:26.700 --> 00:14:36.660 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. 00:14:36.800 --> 00:14:57.320 And so as Jesus gathers these disciples around him, he's trying to, one last time before the cross, explain to them what he's come to do, 00:14:57.320 --> 00:15:01.420 what he's calling them to do, what he's calling them to do, and modeling this before them. 00:15:01.820 --> 00:15:10.980 This is the time where he will implement the Lord's Supper and the breaking of the bread and the drinking of the wine to represent the sacrifice of what would take place. 00:15:10.980 --> 00:15:26.420 Now, let's talk a little bit about what washing feet looks like, because that's kind of different for us. 00:15:26.860 --> 00:15:30.880 If you come to my house, I'm not washing your feet, right? 00:15:31.680 --> 00:15:35.300 If I come to your house, please don't offer to wash mine. 00:15:35.400 --> 00:15:37.880 That's going to be awkward and very uncomfortable for me, right? 00:15:38.060 --> 00:15:41.040 And now that you know that, you may offer to do that, right? 00:15:41.080 --> 00:15:41.860 But here's the deal. 00:15:42.160 --> 00:15:45.620 We're talking about sandals in the Middle East. 00:15:46.320 --> 00:15:50.840 Let's explain kind of, in some grossness, what that would look like. 00:15:51.440 --> 00:15:52.380 Most people walked. 00:15:53.300 --> 00:15:54.440 Everybody had sandals. 00:15:55.280 --> 00:16:01.860 And if you know about anything of walking long distance with sandals on, your feet get dirty. 00:16:02.320 --> 00:16:04.980 Now, we have two types of dirt in the Midlands. 00:16:05.140 --> 00:16:08.100 We've got clay and we've got sand. 00:16:08.240 --> 00:16:10.820 That's not the dirt that they had in the Middle East. 00:16:10.940 --> 00:16:15.340 I want you to think of dirt, not by what we know of dirt, but think of it like powder. 00:16:16.180 --> 00:16:19.760 And so now think what happens when something is wet. 00:16:19.760 --> 00:16:23.600 So imagine your feet are sweaty, right? 00:16:23.980 --> 00:16:24.960 They're smelling bad. 00:16:25.500 --> 00:16:31.840 And you're walking through and this dirt that's like powder begins to get onto your feet and 00:16:31.840 --> 00:16:35.660 begins to turn into like a paste that's there. 00:16:36.420 --> 00:16:42.240 Now, the roads in which you were traveling on are also the roads in which every form of 00:16:42.240 --> 00:16:48.180 livestock, whether it's for processing or whether it's for travel, whatever it's for, they are 00:16:48.180 --> 00:16:51.400 also using these exact same roads, right? 00:16:51.620 --> 00:16:55.880 And just by the way, like the animals aren't using the rest stations, right? 00:16:56.440 --> 00:16:59.780 And no one's walking around with their little plastic baggie to clean up after them. 00:17:00.660 --> 00:17:08.400 So you go through your everyday journey and what do you think your feet begin to look like? 00:17:09.280 --> 00:17:13.580 What do you begin, what do you think your feet begin to feel like? 00:17:14.160 --> 00:17:20.020 Maybe even worse, what do you think your feet begin to smell like? 00:17:20.880 --> 00:17:26.240 And let me just say, there's no doormat that's going to knock all that off. 00:17:27.040 --> 00:17:32.080 There's no wiping that's going to take away every bit of that. 00:17:32.880 --> 00:17:40.380 So when you're invited to someone's home, both to serve you and for convenience for the home, 00:17:41.160 --> 00:17:51.280 there was a servant whose job was to make sure that your feet were clean and that the master 00:17:51.280 --> 00:17:59.420 of the house would send the lowliest of the servants in order to do this. 00:18:00.440 --> 00:18:07.800 They wouldn't grab a hand towel from a basin or from a hook on the wall and wipe your feet clean. 00:18:08.720 --> 00:18:15.280 Instead, the servant who washed your feet would have had a towel around their waist 00:18:15.280 --> 00:18:19.560 so that they could wipe off your feet once they were washed. 00:18:20.120 --> 00:18:28.700 And then the servant who cleaned you now wears your filth for the rest of their time. 00:18:29.940 --> 00:18:33.680 And this is the process that happens. 00:18:34.900 --> 00:18:40.660 And so Jesus, the Bible tells us, who has been sent from his father, 00:18:41.900 --> 00:18:43.300 takes on the role of the servant. 00:18:45.280 --> 00:18:48.960 And he does what a servant would do. 00:18:50.300 --> 00:18:56.680 And he takes off of his robe and he puts on a towel and he grabs water 00:18:56.680 --> 00:19:02.540 and begins to wash the feet of those around him 00:19:02.540 --> 00:19:07.260 and begins to dry them with the towel around his waist 00:19:07.260 --> 00:19:16.380 so that when he is done, he has bore and he is covered in their filth. 00:19:17.580 --> 00:19:22.080 Not because of what he's done, not because of where he's been, 00:19:22.880 --> 00:19:27.760 but because of where they've been and what they've done. 00:19:29.040 --> 00:19:34.600 There's nothing, absolutely nothing in our culture that compares to this. 00:19:35.840 --> 00:19:41.280 But we begin to see the depth of serving of what this looks like. 00:19:42.460 --> 00:19:44.760 And then we begin to understand who's in the room. 00:19:46.080 --> 00:19:46.860 Who's in the room? 00:19:48.060 --> 00:19:49.960 Two people are going to be pointed out. 00:19:50.080 --> 00:19:51.020 One already has. 00:19:51.120 --> 00:19:53.460 Judas Iscariot and Peter. 00:19:54.740 --> 00:20:00.580 Peter, the one who will grab his knife and charge Roman soldiers in order to defend Jesus, 00:20:00.580 --> 00:20:03.460 but later on deny him three times. 00:20:04.780 --> 00:20:06.440 And Jesus washes his feet. 00:20:07.860 --> 00:20:10.380 Judas, who will betray him. 00:20:11.400 --> 00:20:13.200 Judas, who will sell him. 00:20:13.780 --> 00:20:16.900 Judas, who will come up, embrace him, give him a kiss, 00:20:17.120 --> 00:20:19.440 and in doing so, send him to the cross. 00:20:21.320 --> 00:20:22.880 And Jesus washes his feet. 00:20:24.100 --> 00:20:29.620 A depth of love that you and I cannot imagine 00:20:29.620 --> 00:20:32.600 that Jesus models for us. 00:20:33.740 --> 00:20:36.480 Verse 6, he came to Simon Peter, who said to him, 00:20:36.560 --> 00:20:37.940 Lord, do you wash my feet? 00:20:38.920 --> 00:20:40.000 Jesus answered him, 00:20:40.380 --> 00:20:43.620 what I'm doing to you, you do not understand now, 00:20:43.900 --> 00:20:46.140 but afterward you will understand. 00:20:46.660 --> 00:20:47.960 And Peter said to him, 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:50.420 you shall never wash my feet. 00:20:50.960 --> 00:20:51.980 Jesus answered him, 00:20:52.320 --> 00:20:55.140 if I do not wash you, you have no share with me. 00:20:55.340 --> 00:20:56.860 And so Simon Peter said to him, 00:20:57.120 --> 00:21:00.820 Lord, then not only my feet, but also my hands and my head. 00:21:01.360 --> 00:21:02.480 And Jesus said to him, 00:21:02.700 --> 00:21:06.820 the one who has bathed does not need to wash except for his feet, 00:21:06.900 --> 00:21:08.360 but is completely clean. 00:21:08.520 --> 00:21:11.600 And you were clean, but not every one of you. 00:21:12.080 --> 00:21:15.580 For he knew who was to betray him. 00:21:15.940 --> 00:21:17.740 And that was why he said, 00:21:18.120 --> 00:21:20.720 not all of you are clean. 00:21:20.980 --> 00:21:22.500 So Peter begins. 00:21:22.500 --> 00:21:26.140 He says, but Jesus, you're above this. 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:30.280 Jesus, it's not for you to do this. 00:21:30.480 --> 00:21:33.320 And Jesus says, no, no, no, Peter, you're completely missing it. 00:21:33.960 --> 00:21:38.480 This is exactly what I have been sent here for. 00:21:38.720 --> 00:21:44.660 That I've been sent here in my majesty and in my royalty to serve you. 00:21:45.160 --> 00:21:49.260 And yes, Peter, you haven't done anything to deserve this, 00:21:49.480 --> 00:21:51.680 but I'm going to do it for you anyway, 00:21:52.080 --> 00:21:55.480 in spite of all that you have done. 00:21:56.400 --> 00:21:57.380 And so verse 12, 00:21:58.320 --> 00:22:03.320 when he had washed their feet and put on their outer garments and resumed his place, 00:22:03.700 --> 00:22:04.660 he said to them, 00:22:05.060 --> 00:22:07.360 do you understand what I have done to you? 00:22:08.100 --> 00:22:10.020 You call me teacher and Lord, 00:22:10.120 --> 00:22:12.660 and you are right for so I am. 00:22:13.220 --> 00:22:16.740 If I then your Lord and teacher have washed your feet, 00:22:17.260 --> 00:22:21.920 you also ought to wash one another's feet. 00:22:22.280 --> 00:22:28.260 For I have given you an example that you also should do just as I have done to you. 00:22:28.900 --> 00:22:31.160 Truly, truly, I say to you, 00:22:31.160 --> 00:22:33.960 a servant is not greater than his master, 00:22:34.320 --> 00:22:37.880 nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 00:22:38.080 --> 00:22:40.140 If you know these things, 00:22:41.180 --> 00:22:43.920 blessed are you if you do them. 00:22:44.820 --> 00:22:46.800 Look at the question Jesus asks. 00:22:48.240 --> 00:22:53.680 Do you understand what I have done to you? 00:22:54.800 --> 00:22:55.820 Jesus says, 00:22:57.000 --> 00:23:04.360 as my followers grasp the depth of my servant love for you. 00:23:05.720 --> 00:23:09.940 Grasp the intensity of my love for you. 00:23:10.340 --> 00:23:12.100 And when you grasp that, 00:23:12.280 --> 00:23:15.320 when we embrace that as the bride of Christ, 00:23:15.520 --> 00:23:17.240 as the family of God, 00:23:17.480 --> 00:23:20.700 how should that change your love for each other? 00:23:20.700 --> 00:23:23.300 And then Jesus says very clearly, 00:23:23.580 --> 00:23:26.460 it's not just enough that you know that I do this. 00:23:26.560 --> 00:23:29.480 It's not just enough that I've done it to you. 00:23:29.660 --> 00:23:30.960 But then Jesus says, 00:23:31.520 --> 00:23:34.440 go do it to one another. 00:23:34.880 --> 00:23:38.420 That this should be what marks you. 00:23:38.780 --> 00:23:45.820 Let what I've done be how the family of God interacts with each other. 00:23:46.240 --> 00:23:50.060 How they love each other and what this looks like. 00:23:51.200 --> 00:23:52.940 So Jesus gives us the command, 00:23:53.560 --> 00:23:53.960 do it. 00:23:55.060 --> 00:23:57.080 So now how to wash feet. 00:23:58.240 --> 00:24:01.820 Let's begin to see in scripture how to wash feet. 00:24:02.440 --> 00:24:04.260 Because here's what you're going to be called to do. 00:24:04.740 --> 00:24:05.820 You're going to be called to go to church, 00:24:05.920 --> 00:24:06.520 not church, 00:24:06.600 --> 00:24:09.500 to work tomorrow and wash feet. 00:24:10.260 --> 00:24:13.200 You're going to be called to go home today and wash feet. 00:24:13.620 --> 00:24:16.100 You're going to be called to go to your neighbors and wash feet. 00:24:16.100 --> 00:24:20.100 And if you show up right wrapped in a towel with a basin of water, 00:24:20.220 --> 00:24:21.740 you're going to get fired at work tomorrow. 00:24:21.900 --> 00:24:22.220 All right. 00:24:23.000 --> 00:24:25.240 If you show up to your neighbor's house with a, 00:24:25.240 --> 00:24:27.880 with a towel wrapped around you in a basin of water, 00:24:27.880 --> 00:24:31.720 you're going to violate multiple HOA regulations in your neighborhood. 00:24:31.720 --> 00:24:32.120 Okay. 00:24:32.200 --> 00:24:35.380 So how do we as the body of Christ do something, 00:24:35.380 --> 00:24:40.120 which is so foreign to us that nothing relates to in our culture. 00:24:40.340 --> 00:24:41.580 And so let's look at Romans 12. 00:24:42.300 --> 00:24:44.480 Paul walks this out for us. 00:24:45.320 --> 00:24:46.640 Romans 12 verse one. 00:24:46.640 --> 00:24:47.100 He says, 00:24:47.100 --> 00:24:54.980 I appeal to you therefore brothers by mercies of God to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, 00:24:55.420 --> 00:24:57.720 holy and acceptable to God, 00:24:57.880 --> 00:25:00.860 which is your spiritual act of worship. 00:25:01.120 --> 00:25:04.080 We have to understand that when we wash feet, 00:25:04.160 --> 00:25:04.980 relatively speaking, 00:25:05.120 --> 00:25:09.360 and the love for each other is that it is our response to salvation. 00:25:10.000 --> 00:25:11.600 Our serving one another, 00:25:11.600 --> 00:25:19.820 our love for one another is based in and rooted in the fact that God has saved you and that God has saved me. 00:25:20.080 --> 00:25:20.500 Paul says, 00:25:20.780 --> 00:25:23.180 because of the mercies of God, 00:25:23.380 --> 00:25:29.580 that God's grace that he freely gives to us is going to be what we're called to love people, 00:25:30.740 --> 00:25:35.000 to present our bodies as living sacrifices. 00:25:35.000 --> 00:25:38.020 So we've got Romans 12 and we've got Ephesians 2. 00:25:38.320 --> 00:25:41.440 Ephesians 2 tells us that before God saved us, 00:25:41.740 --> 00:25:45.500 what we used our body for in everything was sin. 00:25:45.860 --> 00:25:47.860 That we're the temple of sin. 00:25:48.100 --> 00:25:48.940 Before Christ, 00:25:49.040 --> 00:25:49.800 that's who we were. 00:25:50.000 --> 00:25:52.240 The Bible describes us as objects of wrath. 00:25:52.460 --> 00:25:53.560 But now Paul says, 00:25:53.780 --> 00:25:55.040 because we've been saved, 00:25:55.280 --> 00:25:57.260 we're no longer objects of wrath, 00:25:57.500 --> 00:25:59.600 but instead we're used for God's glory. 00:25:59.900 --> 00:26:01.500 So in all of this, 00:26:01.860 --> 00:26:03.740 stop using your body to sin 00:26:03.740 --> 00:26:06.480 and start using your body. 00:26:06.880 --> 00:26:11.240 Start using everything about you for his glory. 00:26:12.080 --> 00:26:12.700 Paul continues. 00:26:12.840 --> 00:26:13.060 He says, 00:26:13.060 --> 00:26:15.260 Do not be conformed to this world, 00:26:15.880 --> 00:26:19.000 but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, 00:26:19.220 --> 00:26:22.740 that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, 00:26:22.980 --> 00:26:26.380 what is good and acceptable and perfect. 00:26:26.660 --> 00:26:28.380 For by the grace given to me, 00:26:28.460 --> 00:26:31.120 I say to everyone among you, 00:26:31.340 --> 00:26:35.540 not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think, 00:26:35.900 --> 00:26:38.120 but to think with sober judgment, 00:26:38.760 --> 00:26:44.420 each according to the measure of faith that God has assigned. 00:26:44.640 --> 00:26:46.820 So it's because we've been saved, 00:26:46.960 --> 00:26:50.280 but it's also because we are being transformed. 00:26:50.720 --> 00:26:52.060 That when we are saved, 00:26:52.160 --> 00:26:55.540 what God begins to do is he begins to transform us 00:26:55.540 --> 00:26:57.740 and we begin to seek transformation. 00:26:57.860 --> 00:27:01.040 It's a beautiful act of a spiritual work 00:27:01.040 --> 00:27:03.760 of what God is doing and his sovereignty. 00:27:04.180 --> 00:27:05.800 And it is a wonderful picture 00:27:05.800 --> 00:27:08.360 of how we are responding to that 00:27:08.360 --> 00:27:11.680 in our will and in our desires. 00:27:12.080 --> 00:27:12.980 And so Paul says, 00:27:13.080 --> 00:27:15.220 in order to be transformed, 00:27:15.520 --> 00:27:18.560 you have to be no longer conformed to this world. 00:27:19.260 --> 00:27:20.540 Now, when we talk about that, 00:27:20.600 --> 00:27:22.320 usually we give a list of sins. 00:27:23.100 --> 00:27:24.120 Don't be conformed. 00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:25.520 So don't do this, don't do this, 00:27:25.580 --> 00:27:26.460 don't do this, don't do this. 00:27:26.520 --> 00:27:27.640 Maybe do a few of these things. 00:27:27.780 --> 00:27:28.780 Don't do this, don't do this. 00:27:28.860 --> 00:27:30.280 And we look at that and we say, 00:27:30.500 --> 00:27:31.580 I do struggle, I don't struggle, 00:27:31.640 --> 00:27:33.080 I do struggle, I do struggle, I do struggle, 00:27:33.200 --> 00:27:34.180 I don't struggle, I don't struggle. 00:27:34.300 --> 00:27:36.120 I'm good, I got most of these covered. 00:27:36.800 --> 00:27:38.580 But what if being conformed to the world 00:27:38.580 --> 00:27:39.780 was not a list of sins, 00:27:39.780 --> 00:27:41.380 but it was a position of the heart. 00:27:42.240 --> 00:27:44.120 And that from the position of the heart, 00:27:44.360 --> 00:27:46.040 that these sins came out as a result of that. 00:27:46.800 --> 00:27:48.560 So in Romans 1, Paul talks about 00:27:48.560 --> 00:27:51.040 what it means to be conformed to the world. 00:27:51.520 --> 00:27:52.900 We're not gonna go back and read all that, 00:27:53.060 --> 00:27:54.100 but here's what he says. 00:27:54.660 --> 00:27:56.580 He says there's three basic aspects 00:27:56.580 --> 00:27:59.000 of when your heart is conformed to the world, 00:27:59.140 --> 00:28:00.800 and when we're not being transformed 00:28:00.800 --> 00:28:01.980 by the power of God, 00:28:02.020 --> 00:28:05.040 we can still have these tendencies resonate within us. 00:28:05.260 --> 00:28:07.180 The first thing that he tells us that we do 00:28:07.180 --> 00:28:09.580 is that we pursue the created 00:28:09.580 --> 00:28:11.960 and not the creator, right? 00:28:12.040 --> 00:28:13.900 We pursue the things of creation 00:28:13.900 --> 00:28:16.340 and not the one who created them. 00:28:16.900 --> 00:28:18.460 We make little idols. 00:28:19.400 --> 00:28:20.880 When the creator God is like, 00:28:20.960 --> 00:28:22.880 no, no, no, no, stop chasing that. 00:28:23.200 --> 00:28:24.200 I made that. 00:28:24.760 --> 00:28:26.800 Stop chasing stuff, that's just stuff. 00:28:27.140 --> 00:28:28.320 Pursue after me. 00:28:29.400 --> 00:28:31.960 We begin to understand that the second one 00:28:31.960 --> 00:28:34.380 is that when we're conformed to the world, 00:28:34.460 --> 00:28:36.800 that we believe that our way, right, 00:28:37.200 --> 00:28:39.680 is better than God's, right? 00:28:39.700 --> 00:28:41.380 So God, I know what your word says. 00:28:41.440 --> 00:28:43.180 I know what the truth is here, 00:28:43.320 --> 00:28:45.440 but I think I've got it on this one. 00:28:45.760 --> 00:28:46.420 No, thank you. 00:28:47.320 --> 00:28:48.580 Conform to the pattern of this world. 00:28:49.540 --> 00:28:51.340 Another way that Paul talks about in Romans 1 00:28:51.340 --> 00:28:52.940 that we're conformed to the pattern of this world 00:28:52.940 --> 00:28:54.300 is that in all things, 00:28:54.540 --> 00:28:55.420 not just in some, 00:28:55.900 --> 00:28:57.960 in all things we fail to acknowledge him. 00:28:58.880 --> 00:29:01.620 In all things that are good and lovely and pure, 00:29:01.800 --> 00:29:03.340 we begin to take credit for it 00:29:03.340 --> 00:29:05.600 and we fail to acknowledge him. 00:29:06.620 --> 00:29:07.560 From everything, 00:29:08.960 --> 00:29:12.100 from the sunrise to the cup of coffee in the morning, 00:29:13.680 --> 00:29:15.500 to the marriage that we have, 00:29:15.580 --> 00:29:17.360 to the love that we have for each other, 00:29:18.080 --> 00:29:19.560 to the house over our head, 00:29:19.620 --> 00:29:20.800 we look at all of these things 00:29:20.800 --> 00:29:23.080 and we feel that somehow we deserve it 00:29:23.080 --> 00:29:24.140 and we take credit for it 00:29:24.140 --> 00:29:27.780 and we fail to acknowledge him in all things. 00:29:28.440 --> 00:29:29.760 So you see, being transformed 00:29:29.760 --> 00:29:32.600 is not a list of all of these behaviors 00:29:32.600 --> 00:29:34.380 of what's there that we begin to push out 00:29:34.380 --> 00:29:34.960 and to eliminate, 00:29:35.360 --> 00:29:37.060 but it is an acknowledgement of God 00:29:37.060 --> 00:29:39.700 and who he is in our pursuit of him. 00:29:41.200 --> 00:29:45.260 And so Paul says how we battle against this 00:29:45.260 --> 00:29:48.620 is we renew our mind, right? 00:29:49.300 --> 00:29:51.220 Right, my mom used to tell me growing up, right? 00:29:51.400 --> 00:29:54.640 Mom's here with me like trash in, trash out, right? 00:29:55.220 --> 00:29:56.480 Glory in, glory out. 00:29:57.500 --> 00:29:59.780 That that's what the renewal of the mind looks like. 00:30:00.340 --> 00:30:01.560 The glory of God in, 00:30:01.640 --> 00:30:02.940 the processing of God in, 00:30:03.020 --> 00:30:05.040 the desperate pursuit of God in, 00:30:05.120 --> 00:30:06.900 and then what begins to come out of me 00:30:06.900 --> 00:30:08.080 is the same things. 00:30:08.420 --> 00:30:09.660 The glory, the pursuit of God, 00:30:09.740 --> 00:30:10.700 the glory of the pursuit of God 00:30:10.700 --> 00:30:11.940 because this is what I consume 00:30:11.940 --> 00:30:13.960 and God in that you renew my mind 00:30:13.960 --> 00:30:15.200 and Lord this is who I am. 00:30:16.460 --> 00:30:18.260 And that's how we begin to love each other. 00:30:19.420 --> 00:30:22.180 And that's how we begin to pursue radical love 00:30:22.180 --> 00:30:23.140 that cannot be explained 00:30:23.140 --> 00:30:24.740 in any other way, shape, or form 00:30:24.740 --> 00:30:26.920 because it's who we are. 00:30:28.200 --> 00:30:29.500 And so Paul continues on. 00:30:29.600 --> 00:30:29.860 He says, 00:30:29.960 --> 00:30:31.980 for as in one body, 00:30:32.160 --> 00:30:34.620 we have many members 00:30:34.620 --> 00:30:37.480 and the members do not have all the same function. 00:30:38.240 --> 00:30:41.860 So we through many are one body in Christ 00:30:41.860 --> 00:30:44.360 and individually members one of another 00:30:44.360 --> 00:30:45.880 having gifts that differ 00:30:45.880 --> 00:30:47.820 according to the grace given to us. 00:30:48.300 --> 00:30:49.560 Let us use them 00:30:49.560 --> 00:30:53.800 if prophecy in proportion to our faith, 00:30:53.900 --> 00:30:56.120 if service in our serving, 00:30:56.260 --> 00:30:57.940 the one who teaches in his teaching, 00:30:58.240 --> 00:30:59.860 the one who exhorts in his exhuration, 00:31:00.220 --> 00:31:02.100 the one who contributes in generosity, 00:31:02.460 --> 00:31:04.120 the one who leads with zeal, 00:31:04.380 --> 00:31:06.120 the one who does acts of mercy 00:31:06.120 --> 00:31:07.520 with cheerfulness. 00:31:07.520 --> 00:31:08.600 And so Paul says 00:31:08.600 --> 00:31:11.300 when we begin to go through this process 00:31:11.300 --> 00:31:12.440 that we understand 00:31:12.440 --> 00:31:14.800 that we're responding to our salvation, 00:31:15.120 --> 00:31:16.880 when we begin to, right, right, 00:31:17.060 --> 00:31:18.860 glory in, glory out, 00:31:19.000 --> 00:31:19.980 being transformed, 00:31:20.200 --> 00:31:21.640 that this becomes manifest 00:31:21.640 --> 00:31:23.320 within the body of believers 00:31:23.320 --> 00:31:24.600 and that you and I, 00:31:24.680 --> 00:31:25.980 what we embrace in this, 00:31:26.180 --> 00:31:27.820 what Paul had said previously, right, 00:31:27.860 --> 00:31:29.560 that we count ourselves less 00:31:29.560 --> 00:31:31.300 and that we embrace humility 00:31:31.300 --> 00:31:33.660 within the context of the body. 00:31:34.080 --> 00:31:34.500 Why? 00:31:34.760 --> 00:31:36.320 Because it's one body. 00:31:36.540 --> 00:31:37.760 And I think those are, 00:31:38.000 --> 00:31:40.280 that's Christian cliches 00:31:40.280 --> 00:31:41.280 that we use 00:31:41.280 --> 00:31:42.520 when we just leave them 00:31:42.520 --> 00:31:43.700 at surface level. 00:31:43.980 --> 00:31:44.680 But it's true. 00:31:45.240 --> 00:31:46.760 We are one body 00:31:46.760 --> 00:31:50.160 and we desperately need each other. 00:31:50.680 --> 00:31:53.380 We do in the they, 00:31:53.540 --> 00:31:54.360 not in the some, 00:31:54.480 --> 00:31:56.200 to do what we are called to do. 00:31:56.460 --> 00:31:57.340 And so I began to think 00:31:57.340 --> 00:31:58.280 about the beauty 00:31:58.280 --> 00:31:59.560 of the unity 00:31:59.560 --> 00:32:00.820 of the diversity 00:32:00.820 --> 00:32:02.580 of the body, right? 00:32:02.720 --> 00:32:04.420 So I want to use the example 00:32:04.420 --> 00:32:05.940 that some of us 00:32:05.940 --> 00:32:06.840 are looking at 00:32:06.840 --> 00:32:07.660 and dealing with 00:32:07.660 --> 00:32:09.380 as we look at one another, 00:32:09.380 --> 00:32:10.420 as we see the gifts 00:32:10.420 --> 00:32:11.920 and talents of one another. 00:32:12.080 --> 00:32:13.160 There's some similarities 00:32:13.160 --> 00:32:13.960 that's there, 00:32:14.020 --> 00:32:15.080 but there's some diversity 00:32:15.080 --> 00:32:15.480 that's there 00:32:15.480 --> 00:32:16.520 and when they're unified. 00:32:17.280 --> 00:32:18.360 So think of the hands 00:32:18.360 --> 00:32:19.120 and the feet. 00:32:20.080 --> 00:32:20.240 You know, 00:32:20.260 --> 00:32:21.280 there's a lot of similarities. 00:32:22.200 --> 00:32:23.380 I've got two hands. 00:32:23.820 --> 00:32:24.720 I've got two feet. 00:32:25.760 --> 00:32:27.260 When you look at the hands 00:32:27.260 --> 00:32:28.560 and when you look at the feet, 00:32:28.620 --> 00:32:29.740 I've got five fingers 00:32:29.740 --> 00:32:30.480 on each hand 00:32:30.480 --> 00:32:31.920 and I've got five toes 00:32:31.920 --> 00:32:32.660 on each foot. 00:32:33.320 --> 00:32:34.060 And so, yes, 00:32:34.120 --> 00:32:35.220 there's a lot of similarity 00:32:35.220 --> 00:32:36.420 of what's there. 00:32:36.720 --> 00:32:37.720 They can both bend 00:32:37.720 --> 00:32:39.260 in similar fashions, 00:32:39.400 --> 00:32:41.180 but how God uses them 00:32:41.180 --> 00:32:41.900 is going to be 00:32:41.900 --> 00:32:43.100 extremely different. 00:32:43.400 --> 00:32:45.000 Let me prove this to you, right? 00:32:45.340 --> 00:32:45.980 I'm going to go out 00:32:45.980 --> 00:32:46.760 to eat for lunch. 00:32:48.140 --> 00:32:49.220 I'm going to order sweet tea. 00:32:50.680 --> 00:32:51.700 How would you feel 00:32:51.700 --> 00:32:52.980 if you pulled into 00:32:52.980 --> 00:32:53.980 the Mexican restaurant 00:32:53.980 --> 00:32:56.000 and I'm kicked back 00:32:56.000 --> 00:32:57.740 with my feet on the table, 00:32:58.740 --> 00:32:59.500 shoes off, 00:33:00.080 --> 00:33:00.840 drinking my sweet tea 00:33:00.840 --> 00:33:01.320 with my feet? 00:33:01.400 --> 00:33:01.900 Number one, 00:33:02.080 --> 00:33:03.140 please think that's impressive 00:33:03.140 --> 00:33:03.780 because there's no way 00:33:03.780 --> 00:33:04.760 I'm that flexible, right? 00:33:05.240 --> 00:33:05.600 But you're like, 00:33:05.660 --> 00:33:06.220 no, no, no, no. 00:33:06.460 --> 00:33:07.800 Bo, that's not what feet are for. 00:33:08.720 --> 00:33:09.980 Feet are for walking on. 00:33:10.720 --> 00:33:11.600 And then I got up 00:33:11.600 --> 00:33:12.220 from the table 00:33:12.220 --> 00:33:14.100 and I did a handstand, 00:33:14.220 --> 00:33:14.920 which again, 00:33:14.960 --> 00:33:16.180 would almost be like 00:33:16.180 --> 00:33:17.380 Jesus walking on water 00:33:17.380 --> 00:33:18.720 level miracle, right? 00:33:19.540 --> 00:33:20.960 And I began to walk out 00:33:20.960 --> 00:33:21.880 on my hands 00:33:21.880 --> 00:33:23.080 out of the restaurant. 00:33:23.400 --> 00:33:24.020 No, no, no, no. 00:33:24.240 --> 00:33:25.420 That even though 00:33:25.420 --> 00:33:26.360 they're similar, 00:33:27.040 --> 00:33:28.120 there's a distinct 00:33:28.120 --> 00:33:29.600 different purpose 00:33:29.600 --> 00:33:32.000 for how God uses them. 00:33:32.300 --> 00:33:33.300 And so for us, 00:33:34.020 --> 00:33:35.720 we're distinctively different 00:33:35.720 --> 00:33:37.540 with different gifts 00:33:37.540 --> 00:33:38.460 and different talents 00:33:38.460 --> 00:33:39.600 and different passions 00:33:39.600 --> 00:33:41.740 with different backgrounds 00:33:41.740 --> 00:33:43.020 and different cultures. 00:33:43.600 --> 00:33:44.360 But God says, 00:33:44.440 --> 00:33:44.760 no, no, no. 00:33:44.800 --> 00:33:46.700 I use all of them. 00:33:47.760 --> 00:33:48.540 But then there's 00:33:48.540 --> 00:33:49.220 some of us 00:33:49.220 --> 00:33:51.780 and what's in our mind 00:33:51.780 --> 00:33:54.680 is I know I'm saved. 00:33:56.100 --> 00:33:57.440 I know I'm transformed. 00:33:58.720 --> 00:33:59.980 But there's no purpose 00:33:59.980 --> 00:34:00.540 for me. 00:34:01.820 --> 00:34:03.020 I can just show up 00:34:03.020 --> 00:34:03.900 and just leave 00:34:03.900 --> 00:34:05.740 and there's nothing 00:34:05.740 --> 00:34:06.660 that's there for me. 00:34:07.600 --> 00:34:08.480 So this week, 00:34:08.520 --> 00:34:09.680 I took a little journey 00:34:09.680 --> 00:34:11.680 and tried to find 00:34:11.680 --> 00:34:13.660 the part of the body 00:34:13.660 --> 00:34:15.220 that's useless. 00:34:16.480 --> 00:34:17.320 I wanted to test 00:34:17.320 --> 00:34:17.880 the illustration 00:34:17.880 --> 00:34:19.320 that Paul uses 00:34:19.320 --> 00:34:19.920 in Scripture. 00:34:21.200 --> 00:34:22.020 So I spent a lot 00:34:22.020 --> 00:34:22.680 of time thinking, 00:34:23.140 --> 00:34:24.960 what part of my body, 00:34:25.080 --> 00:34:25.820 if it was removed 00:34:25.820 --> 00:34:26.180 from me, 00:34:26.240 --> 00:34:27.080 would I be just good? 00:34:27.880 --> 00:34:28.400 Serving me 00:34:28.400 --> 00:34:29.520 no function now 00:34:29.520 --> 00:34:30.840 and I don't care 00:34:30.840 --> 00:34:32.200 if it's gone. 00:34:33.140 --> 00:34:33.720 Immediately went 00:34:33.720 --> 00:34:35.140 to belly buttons. 00:34:35.240 --> 00:34:35.920 They kind of grossed me 00:34:35.920 --> 00:34:36.920 out anyways, right? 00:34:37.600 --> 00:34:38.480 But no, no, no, 00:34:38.540 --> 00:34:39.100 maybe not now, 00:34:39.180 --> 00:34:39.640 but it was 00:34:39.640 --> 00:34:40.900 at a point in time 00:34:40.900 --> 00:34:41.380 then, right? 00:34:42.100 --> 00:34:42.660 So here's what 00:34:42.660 --> 00:34:43.520 I came up with. 00:34:44.920 --> 00:34:45.280 Earlobes. 00:34:46.740 --> 00:34:47.100 Right? 00:34:47.940 --> 00:34:48.620 Thank you, Deborah, 00:34:48.680 --> 00:34:49.460 for laughing at that. 00:34:49.560 --> 00:34:49.940 Thank you. 00:34:51.040 --> 00:34:51.400 Earlobes. 00:34:51.920 --> 00:34:52.160 Right? 00:34:52.200 --> 00:34:53.160 If you've got earrings, 00:34:53.300 --> 00:34:54.020 that's great, 00:34:54.140 --> 00:34:55.000 but that doesn't really 00:34:55.000 --> 00:34:56.160 serve a purpose, 00:34:56.240 --> 00:34:56.600 does it? 00:34:56.640 --> 00:34:57.780 Like it makes your face 00:34:57.780 --> 00:34:58.560 look even prettier, 00:34:58.740 --> 00:34:59.240 but you know, 00:34:59.340 --> 00:34:59.620 whatever. 00:34:59.760 --> 00:35:00.920 Like if we had to do 00:35:00.920 --> 00:35:01.660 without earrings, 00:35:01.780 --> 00:35:02.480 we'd be okay. 00:35:03.500 --> 00:35:04.500 So what purpose 00:35:04.500 --> 00:35:05.680 do earlobes? 00:35:06.260 --> 00:35:06.820 And I thought, 00:35:06.820 --> 00:35:07.680 have I figured it out? 00:35:07.800 --> 00:35:08.980 Have I found the loophole? 00:35:09.660 --> 00:35:09.800 Right? 00:35:10.340 --> 00:35:10.620 There's, 00:35:11.100 --> 00:35:12.220 earlobes are useless, 00:35:12.400 --> 00:35:12.960 so maybe. 00:35:13.340 --> 00:35:14.580 So I went to the great 00:35:14.580 --> 00:35:17.960 medical survey of Google 00:35:17.960 --> 00:35:19.720 and I typed in, 00:35:19.980 --> 00:35:21.220 what is the purpose 00:35:21.220 --> 00:35:21.860 of earlobes? 00:35:23.040 --> 00:35:23.440 And you know what 00:35:23.440 --> 00:35:23.940 I found out? 00:35:24.700 --> 00:35:25.920 That your earlobes 00:35:25.920 --> 00:35:27.040 and mine 00:35:27.040 --> 00:35:28.400 serve a purpose. 00:35:29.180 --> 00:35:29.980 I didn't know that. 00:35:30.500 --> 00:35:31.380 This is fantastic. 00:35:31.720 --> 00:35:32.360 Here's what they do. 00:35:33.500 --> 00:35:34.660 If you were, 00:35:34.800 --> 00:35:35.260 and please, 00:35:35.400 --> 00:35:35.960 at home, 00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:37.240 like don't try this, 00:35:37.300 --> 00:35:37.520 right? 00:35:38.140 --> 00:35:38.520 Here, 00:35:38.700 --> 00:35:39.280 don't try it either. 00:35:39.800 --> 00:35:40.840 If you were to cut off 00:35:40.840 --> 00:35:41.820 one of your earlobes, 00:35:42.820 --> 00:35:44.180 do you know that your body 00:35:44.180 --> 00:35:44.800 would begin to be 00:35:44.800 --> 00:35:45.340 out of balance? 00:35:46.620 --> 00:35:47.500 Do you know that you would 00:35:47.500 --> 00:35:49.120 suffer from being dizzy? 00:35:50.300 --> 00:35:51.000 Do you know that you'd be 00:35:51.000 --> 00:35:52.480 more likely to suffer 00:35:52.480 --> 00:35:53.540 from vertigo? 00:35:54.300 --> 00:35:56.480 Because these useless 00:35:56.480 --> 00:35:58.120 little things 00:35:58.120 --> 00:35:59.680 that hang off the side 00:35:59.680 --> 00:36:00.360 of my face 00:36:00.360 --> 00:36:01.940 serve a purpose 00:36:01.940 --> 00:36:03.840 and serve a reason. 00:36:05.180 --> 00:36:05.900 So Paul's right. 00:36:07.260 --> 00:36:08.580 Every part of the body, 00:36:10.000 --> 00:36:11.520 regardless of what they feel 00:36:11.520 --> 00:36:12.560 their value is, 00:36:13.720 --> 00:36:14.960 regardless of what they feel 00:36:14.960 --> 00:36:15.860 their benefit is, 00:36:17.160 --> 00:36:18.160 regardless of what they think 00:36:18.160 --> 00:36:19.200 their past is, 00:36:20.000 --> 00:36:20.780 has a purpose. 00:36:21.920 --> 00:36:22.940 And that when the body 00:36:22.940 --> 00:36:23.680 of Christ 00:36:23.680 --> 00:36:25.920 begins to embrace 00:36:25.920 --> 00:36:28.320 that I serve 00:36:28.320 --> 00:36:30.100 and I love 00:36:30.100 --> 00:36:31.540 because I've been saved. 00:36:32.540 --> 00:36:34.220 When the body of Christ 00:36:34.220 --> 00:36:35.880 begins to serve 00:36:35.880 --> 00:36:37.040 and love 00:36:37.040 --> 00:36:38.880 because I'm being transformed. 00:36:40.160 --> 00:36:41.800 When the body of Christ 00:36:41.800 --> 00:36:42.780 begins to see 00:36:42.780 --> 00:36:44.980 if another part of the body 00:36:44.980 --> 00:36:45.740 is hurting 00:36:45.740 --> 00:36:48.020 that I need to respond 00:36:48.020 --> 00:36:49.260 in like. 00:36:50.920 --> 00:36:52.460 So washing feet 00:36:52.460 --> 00:36:54.680 is foreign to us. 00:36:57.420 --> 00:36:58.640 And the illustrations 00:36:58.640 --> 00:36:59.680 that I gave earlier, 00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:00.400 unfortunately, 00:37:01.280 --> 00:37:02.400 are foreign to us as well. 00:37:03.420 --> 00:37:04.540 But do I believe 00:37:04.540 --> 00:37:05.640 Acts chapter 2, 00:37:06.720 --> 00:37:08.100 John chapter 13, 00:37:09.260 --> 00:37:10.340 Romans chapter 12 00:37:10.340 --> 00:37:10.800 means 00:37:10.800 --> 00:37:13.220 if Frank needs something 00:37:13.220 --> 00:37:15.020 and I have it, 00:37:15.840 --> 00:37:16.860 that I give it to him? 00:37:18.020 --> 00:37:18.680 Yeah, 00:37:18.720 --> 00:37:19.360 I believe it does. 00:37:20.900 --> 00:37:21.800 Do I believe 00:37:21.800 --> 00:37:23.460 that God's word 00:37:23.460 --> 00:37:24.580 teaches 00:37:24.580 --> 00:37:26.300 that the level 00:37:26.300 --> 00:37:26.960 of dedication 00:37:26.960 --> 00:37:28.000 and level of love 00:37:28.000 --> 00:37:28.720 that I have 00:37:28.720 --> 00:37:30.000 for my family 00:37:30.000 --> 00:37:30.500 in Christ 00:37:30.500 --> 00:37:31.040 mean that 00:37:31.040 --> 00:37:31.980 Joan and Lenny 00:37:31.980 --> 00:37:32.480 are going to lose 00:37:32.480 --> 00:37:33.200 their home, 00:37:34.120 --> 00:37:35.300 that it's my obligation 00:37:35.300 --> 00:37:36.400 to step in for them? 00:37:37.580 --> 00:37:37.820 Yeah, 00:37:37.880 --> 00:37:38.300 it does. 00:37:39.720 --> 00:37:40.780 It's not normal. 00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:42.660 It's not how 00:37:42.660 --> 00:37:43.560 we've been raised, 00:37:45.000 --> 00:37:45.420 but it's what 00:37:45.420 --> 00:37:46.380 God's word says. 00:37:48.280 --> 00:37:49.660 That nothing is mine, 00:37:51.160 --> 00:37:52.020 but it's all 00:37:52.020 --> 00:37:53.740 ours 00:37:53.740 --> 00:37:55.460 for the good 00:37:55.460 --> 00:37:56.960 and the glory 00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:57.460 of God. 00:37:58.540 --> 00:37:59.480 Would you pray with me? 00:37:59.480 --> 00:37:59.480 Would you pray with me? 00:38:06.860 --> 00:38:07.300 God, 00:38:07.380 --> 00:38:09.100 this passage 00:38:09.100 --> 00:38:09.760 of Scripture, 00:38:10.660 --> 00:38:11.920 Lord, 00:38:11.960 --> 00:38:12.600 it just hits me 00:38:12.600 --> 00:38:13.540 like a ton of bricks. 00:38:17.560 --> 00:38:18.000 Lord, 00:38:18.040 --> 00:38:18.560 it brings me 00:38:18.560 --> 00:38:19.160 to repentance 00:38:19.160 --> 00:38:23.300 because I see 00:38:23.300 --> 00:38:23.760 so much 00:38:23.760 --> 00:38:24.580 of my life 00:38:24.580 --> 00:38:26.860 that has been 00:38:26.860 --> 00:38:27.440 conformed 00:38:27.440 --> 00:38:28.160 to this world, 00:38:29.920 --> 00:38:30.760 that the radical 00:38:30.760 --> 00:38:31.600 obedience 00:38:31.600 --> 00:38:33.720 that you call 00:38:33.720 --> 00:38:34.220 us to 00:38:34.220 --> 00:38:37.080 of what 00:38:37.080 --> 00:38:37.480 it means 00:38:37.480 --> 00:38:38.380 to serve 00:38:38.380 --> 00:38:40.740 is so 00:38:40.740 --> 00:38:41.920 much 00:38:41.920 --> 00:38:42.640 stronger, 00:38:43.240 --> 00:38:44.260 so much 00:38:44.260 --> 00:38:45.120 deeper, 00:38:46.520 --> 00:38:46.780 where it's 00:38:46.780 --> 00:38:47.200 so much 00:38:47.200 --> 00:38:47.620 more 00:38:47.620 --> 00:38:48.460 sacrificial 00:38:48.460 --> 00:38:50.340 than any 00:38:50.340 --> 00:38:51.340 surface level 00:38:51.340 --> 00:38:52.160 obedience, 00:38:52.320 --> 00:38:52.400 Lord, 00:38:52.460 --> 00:38:52.820 that I think 00:38:52.820 --> 00:38:53.380 that I've ever 00:38:53.380 --> 00:38:53.780 embraced 00:38:53.780 --> 00:38:54.520 within my life. 00:38:56.680 --> 00:38:57.860 That I hurt 00:38:57.860 --> 00:38:59.260 when others 00:38:59.260 --> 00:38:59.820 hurt 00:38:59.820 --> 00:39:01.820 and joyful 00:39:01.820 --> 00:39:02.580 when others 00:39:02.580 --> 00:39:03.280 are joyful. 00:39:04.220 --> 00:39:05.520 because we 00:39:05.520 --> 00:39:05.900 begin to 00:39:05.900 --> 00:39:06.560 understand 00:39:06.560 --> 00:39:08.180 that not 00:39:08.180 --> 00:39:08.860 only are 00:39:08.860 --> 00:39:09.580 we friends, 00:39:10.620 --> 00:39:11.100 that not 00:39:11.100 --> 00:39:11.680 only are 00:39:11.680 --> 00:39:12.640 we church 00:39:12.640 --> 00:39:13.100 members, 00:39:14.740 --> 00:39:15.700 that not 00:39:15.700 --> 00:39:16.260 only are 00:39:16.260 --> 00:39:16.700 we brothers 00:39:16.700 --> 00:39:17.380 and sisters, 00:39:18.380 --> 00:39:19.120 but we're 00:39:19.120 --> 00:39:19.440 of one 00:39:19.440 --> 00:39:19.820 body. 00:39:21.720 --> 00:39:22.320 Lord, 00:39:22.380 --> 00:39:22.720 I pray 00:39:22.720 --> 00:39:23.380 for us, 00:39:25.120 --> 00:39:25.820 whether we're 00:39:25.820 --> 00:39:26.200 here at the 00:39:26.200 --> 00:39:26.580 church, 00:39:26.680 --> 00:39:27.040 whether we're 00:39:27.040 --> 00:39:27.540 at home 00:39:27.540 --> 00:39:28.900 watching online, 00:39:31.600 --> 00:39:32.400 Lord, 00:39:32.440 --> 00:39:32.660 that your 00:39:32.660 --> 00:39:33.200 spirit just 00:39:33.200 --> 00:39:33.600 speak to our 00:39:33.600 --> 00:39:34.000 hearts, 00:39:34.220 --> 00:39:37.980 or to reveal 00:39:37.980 --> 00:39:38.960 the depth 00:39:38.960 --> 00:39:39.300 of our 00:39:39.300 --> 00:39:40.040 selfishness. 00:39:42.600 --> 00:39:43.080 Lord, 00:39:43.180 --> 00:39:44.060 speak to us 00:39:44.060 --> 00:39:45.000 and show 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:45.460 us 00:39:45.460 --> 00:39:49.540 who we 00:39:49.540 --> 00:39:50.000 are 00:39:50.000 --> 00:39:52.140 and what 00:39:52.140 --> 00:39:52.320 we're 00:39:52.320 --> 00:39:53.100 capable of. 00:39:57.800 --> 00:39:58.400 I just 00:39:58.400 --> 00:39:58.740 thank you 00:39:58.740 --> 00:39:59.000 for who 00:39:59.000 --> 00:39:59.440 you are. 00:40:01.220 --> 00:40:01.700 In your 00:40:01.700 --> 00:40:01.960 name we 00:40:01.960 --> 00:40:02.160 pray, 00:40:02.280 --> 00:40:02.400 amen. 00:40:03.820 --> 00:40:04.240 I said 00:40:04.240 --> 00:40:04.400 at the 00:40:04.400 --> 00:40:04.560 very 00:40:04.560 --> 00:40:05.000 beginning 00:40:05.000 --> 00:40:06.980 that Jesus 00:40:06.980 --> 00:40:07.420 was our 00:40:07.420 --> 00:40:07.800 standard. 00:40:09.320 --> 00:40:09.780 I want 00:40:09.780 --> 00:40:10.160 to close 00:40:10.160 --> 00:40:10.520 and read 00:40:10.520 --> 00:40:10.840 this, 00:40:10.940 --> 00:40:11.640 Philippians 2, 00:40:11.760 --> 00:40:12.420 6-8. 00:40:14.180 --> 00:40:15.100 It's as though 00:40:15.100 --> 00:40:16.940 he was in the 00:40:16.940 --> 00:40:17.800 form of God, 00:40:18.760 --> 00:40:19.940 he did not 00:40:19.940 --> 00:40:20.660 count equality 00:40:20.660 --> 00:40:21.380 with God a 00:40:21.380 --> 00:40:21.780 thing to be 00:40:21.780 --> 00:40:22.400 grasped, 00:40:22.960 --> 00:40:24.420 but he 00:40:24.420 --> 00:40:24.760 emptied 00:40:24.760 --> 00:40:25.220 himself 00:40:25.220 --> 00:40:33.660 by taking 00:40:33.660 --> 00:40:33.960 the form 00:40:33.960 --> 00:40:34.200 of a 00:40:34.200 --> 00:40:34.460 servant, 00:40:35.300 --> 00:40:36.980 being born 00:40:36.980 --> 00:40:37.220 in the 00:40:37.220 --> 00:40:37.540 likeness 00:40:37.540 --> 00:40:37.940 of men 00:40:37.940 --> 00:40:39.960 and being 00:40:39.960 --> 00:40:40.460 found in 00:40:40.460 --> 00:40:41.300 human form, 00:40:42.460 --> 00:40:43.020 he humbled 00:40:43.020 --> 00:40:43.600 himself 00:40:43.600 --> 00:40:45.580 by becoming 00:40:45.580 --> 00:40:46.180 obedient 00:40:46.180 --> 00:40:48.160 to the 00:40:48.160 --> 00:40:48.480 point of 00:40:48.480 --> 00:40:48.800 death, 00:40:50.240 --> 00:40:51.260 even death 00:40:51.260 --> 00:40:51.480 on the 00:40:51.480 --> 00:40:51.780 cross. 00:40:53.620 --> 00:40:54.340 Jesus said 00:40:54.340 --> 00:40:54.780 this is what 00:40:54.780 --> 00:40:55.240 I've done 00:40:55.240 --> 00:40:55.780 for you. 00:40:57.240 --> 00:40:57.860 Go 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