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John chapter 13 · Scripture Unscripted

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  John chapter 13. Let us pray.
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  Dear Heavenly Father, we thank you for another day to come and
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  worship you in spirit and truth. Lord, we are expecting that
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  You're going to touch us and heal us today.
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  Father, I pray in the name of Jesus that the Holy Spirit will
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  increase in US and give us discernment.
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  I decrease as you increase. Come and teach us your eternal
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  paths and ways. Lord, we just want to know
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  Christ and know Christ crucified.
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  Thank you, Father, for another opportunity to come and to dine
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  and Sup with you and to be loved on by you, you and to love you.
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  Father, I pray that you will be well pleased with the teaching
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  and the reading of your Scripture today as we open up
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  your word. Father, bless us and bless this
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  time in Jesus Christ, Holy and precious name, I pray, Amen.
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  Let's start in verse one Now before the feast of the
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  Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come, that He
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  should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved
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  his own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end.
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  So we can see here that Jesus knew that his time was short and
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  He knew that He had fulfilled the Father's will for the time
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  that He had on this earth, and that He was obedient to the
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  Father because of the love that he had to.
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  And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the
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  heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him.
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  So we can see here that the devil was coming into Judas
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  because Judas had opened himself up to greed and to stealing, and
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  he did not actually believe that Jesus Christ was the Messiah.
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  He wanted to follow Jesus to be able to get something out of it
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  in the business transactions. And so we can see here that
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  Judas had opened himself up because he refused to come to
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  the Lord Jesus honestly. Three Jesus knowing that the
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  Father had given all things into his hands and that he was come
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  from God and went to God, Jesus knew he was here for his
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  Father's business. For he rose from supper and laid
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  aside his garments and took a towel and girded himself.
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  So of course, the natural application is that he's showing
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  them that he is the servant leader and he is the shepherd
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  king. He is modeling for them the
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  behavior that we need to exude on this land.
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  And we do not need to think of ourselves as more highly than we
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  ought. We should not consider ourselves
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  wise. We need to be humbled and we
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  need to make sure we have humility.
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  And he's showing us that. But he's also modeling how he
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  came from heaven, and how he rose from the throne that he had
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  from eternal. And he came, and he laid aside
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  all of his deity, and he put on flesh, friends.
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  He girded himself with flesh and came to this earth. 5 After that
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  he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples feet
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  and to wipe them with the towel. Where, where, wherewith he was
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  girded. So here we can see that of
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  course the natural application is that it was the lowest
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  position for a servant to touch somebody else's feet.
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  To mess with the feet would have been relegated to the lowest
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  position. And here the King of Kings is
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  washing his disciples feet. And so you must understand that
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  there is a continual washing that is available to us even
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  though our whole body has been washed in the blood of Jesus
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  Christ. We must come to Him and have the
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  renewal of our mind by the washing of the Word, friends.
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  And that is what he is modeling for us in the spiritual realm.
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  Six And then come he to Simon Peter.
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  And Peter said unto him, Lord, do you wash my feet?
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  So here Peter is full of pride and he's trying to ask if Jesus
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  is going to wash his feet as if he's above that.
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  He thought of himself as being too lofty. 7 Jesus answered and
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  said unto him, What I do you know not now, but you will know
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  afterwards. So Jesus is saying, when the
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  Holy Spirit comes in you, whenever you are in dwelled with
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  the Holy Spirit after Pentecost, the baptism of fire, you will
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  look upon these things and have discernment and understand all
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  of it. 8 Peter said unto him, You shall never wash my feet.
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  And Jesus answered, if I wash you not, then you have no part
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  with me. So look at how Jesus is showing
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  Peter that he must be washed, that he must wash him not only
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  in the blood of Jesus, but he must have this continual washing
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  of the word over his mind. And he's showing him that that
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  if we will abide in him, he will abide in US, friends.
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  And that is this washing of the word that is happening.
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  And he's telling him that he has no part with him if he will not
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  be continuously washed. So 9 Simon Peter said unto him,
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  Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.
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  So here Peter is saying, OK, if this washing of the feet is so
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  special, then go ahead and just wash my whole body too.
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  What does Jesus say? Jesus said unto him, He that is
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  washed needs not save to wash his feet, but it's clean every
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  way, and you are clean but not all.
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  He's obviously talking about Judas, but he's saying that
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  after we've been washed in the blood of Jesus Christ, we don't
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  need to continuously keep going back to it.
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  We can abide in that, but we do need to make sure that we're not
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  stained by the things in this world when we're going out, When
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  we go out to make disciples, we need to make sure that we're
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  free from sexual immorality and from the meat that is sacrificed
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  unto idols. We need to make sure that we are
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  practicing purity, friends, and Jesus is offering us this
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  continual washing of our feet as we go. 11 For he knew who should
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  betray him. Therefore he said, You are not
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  all clean. 12 So after he had washed their feet and had taken
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  his garments and was set down again, he said unto them, Know
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  you what I have done to you? So look at how after Jesus goes
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  to the cross and he accomplishes the work of the Father, he is
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  ascended to the right hand, and he sits down and makes
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  intercession for you and for me. And then he asks the disciples,
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  do you know what I've done to you?
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  13 You call me Master and Lord, and you say, well, for so I am.
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  So there's another I am statement.
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  He is Master and he is Lord, and we do well to call him that. 14
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  If I then your Lord and Master have washed your feet, you also
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  ought to wash one another's feet.
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  We need to be edifying our brothers and sisters, building
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  them up friends, not breaking them down.
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  We need to get away from gossip and slander and discord and
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  disunion Friends. We need to be coming alongside
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  each other and we need to be fanning the flame.
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  We need to be encouraging each other.
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  There is no competition friends. We are Co air, we are Co
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  laborers and we will inherit our inheritance, friends.
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  And so we need to know that we need to put away all malice.
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  We need to put away all of this negativity.
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  We need to be washing each other's feet.
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  And yes, there is a ceremony here and it is beautiful.
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  And when we do it, we are modeling and remembering what
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  the Lord did for us. But there's so much more to it
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  than just a ceremony. 15 For I have given you an example that
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  you should do as I have done to you. 16 Truly, truly, I say unto
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  you, the servant is not greater than his Lord, neither he that
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  is sent greater than he that sent him.
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  So he's showing us that we need to model and mirror the things
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  that the Lord did and what he said, and we need to obey them
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  and take them at face value. 17 If you know these things, happy
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  are you if you do them. So we can see here that the Lord
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  desires for us to do them with a cheerful heart.
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  We don't need to be begrudging as we spill out our lives, as we
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  spill out our resources. We are happy if we will obey
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  Him. 18 I speak not of you all. I know whom I have chosen, but
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  that the Scripture may be fulfilled.
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  He that eats bread with me has lifted up His heel against me.
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  Scripture after scripture after scripture, prophecy after
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  prophecy after prophecy being fulfilled in this last week of
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  Jesus Christ. And here we are, and Jesus knows
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  that Judas is filled with the devil and that he's going to
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  betray him. And it doesn't excuse Judas.
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  Judas had free will and he could have chosen not to.
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  But God already knew what he was going to do, and he could write
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  about it as if it was already done.
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  What a thought. 19 Now I tell you before it comes that when it
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  comes to pass, you may believe that I am.
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  So here He's showing us that He has full authority and all of
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  Scripture lines up with all of the events of this night and
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  nothing is happening that should not happen.
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  And it's no different for us today.
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  Everything is moving in accordance to Scripture, and we
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  would do well to get in line with it and to obey it. 20
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  Truly, truly, I say unto you, He that receives whomsoever I sin
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  receives me, and he that receives me receives him that
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  sent me. So he's showing that him and the
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  Father are. 121 When Jesus had thus said, he was troubled in
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  spirit and testified, and said, Truly, truly I say unto you,
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  that one of you shall betray me. You can see that Jesus was all
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  man. You can see that he was troubled
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  just like you and I, but he knew where to go, and we need to do
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  the same. 22 Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting
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  of whom he spoke. So Judas was so sly and cunning,
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  he was a ravenous wolf in sheep's clothing, that he caused
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  no one to look at him. He even had the place of honor
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  at this supper, and it was to look as if he was free from all
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  guilt. And this is what we need to be
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  on guard for. We need to be on guard not from
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  those who outright outwardly show us their sins.
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  We need to be on guard from those who sure look the part,
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  but they are teaching false doctrine.
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  They are teaching heresy. We need to make sure that we are
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  on guard for those suit and ties who try to lead us astray.
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  Friends, we need to be rooted and grounded in the Word of God.
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  If you don't hear anything else that I ever say, you need to be
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  rooted and grounded in the Word of God.
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  You need to be like the Bereans and search the Scriptures for
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  yourself and search for divine counsel from God.
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  Don't take my word for it. 23 Now there was leaning on Jesus's
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  bosom, one of his disciples, whom Jesus loved.
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  Of course, this is the writer of the Gospel, John here.
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  This is the author of the book. He's Speaking of himself. 24
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  Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him that he should ask who it
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  should be of whom he spoke. So Simon Peter wanted to know
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  who is it that's about to betray Jesus Christ?
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  So he beckons to John and says, Ask him. 25 He then lying on
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  Jesus's breast, said unto him, Lord, who is it?
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  26 Jesus answered, He, It is to whom I shall give a SOP when I
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  have dipped it. When he had dipped the salt, he
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  gave it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
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  So this salt, this dipping of the bread into the wine, this
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  was meant to be a toast to the celebration.
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  This is a commencement of the Passover, and Judas here is at
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  the place of honor, and then John here is in the second place
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  of honor, and they are so close to the Father.
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  He's got his head against his chest, and he is able to speak
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  to him in a way that the other disciples could not hear.
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  That's how close these two were with Jesus on this night. 27
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  Then after the SOP, Satan entered into him, then said
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  Jesus unto him, That you do, do quickly.
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  So Jesus knew this divine timeline must be fulfilled.
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  And he knew that Judas was so reprobate that he was not going
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  to turn back. And he tells them, whatever you
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  have in your heart to do, go and do it quickly, for he knew his
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  time was cut short. 28 Now no man at the table knew for what
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  intent he spoke this unto him. So you can see that it was
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  shrouded and clouded from the disciples.
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  And if Peter would have known that it was Judas, he would have
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  cut him down on his way out the door.
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  But all these things must happen, and it's no different
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  for you and for me. Sometimes we go to the Lord and
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  we're not too happy with how things are going and we try to
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  argue with Jesus and tell Him to fix all the things that are
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  going on in the world. And we don't realize that all
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  the things that are going on in the world are actually moving
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  all of His plans into reality. And we need to be in tune with
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  Him and listen to Him and trust Him and don't call any of it
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  into question. And just know that if you try to
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  save your life, you will lose it.
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  And what does it profit a man to gain the whole world, but to
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  lose his soul? We do not need to fear the one
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  that can kill the body, but fear him who could not only kill the
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  body, but to cast your soul into eternal damnation. 28 Now no man
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  at the table knew for what intent he spoke this unto him.
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  29 For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that
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  Jesus had said unto him, by those things that we have need
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  of against the feast, or that he should give something to the
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  poor. So here you can see that Judas
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  was so sly and cunning that the disciples thought he was going
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  to do a good thing, and they missed it.
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  But Jesus knew. 30 He then, having received the SOP, went
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  immediately out, and it was night.
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  So Jesus talked about that this night was coming where no man
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  could work. He talked about how they must do
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  the work while it's still light out, and they must believe on
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  the light while it's still with them.
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  And here it was night, and it was darkness, and it was closing
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  in on Jesus. 31 Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now
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  is the Son of man glorified, and God is glorified in him?
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  32 And if God be glorified in him, God shall also glorify him
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  in himself, and shall straightway glorify him. 31 And
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  32 is glory, glory, glory. This embarrassment, this
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  mocking, this beating, this false worship of his murderers.
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  You can see that it's all glory. And Jesus understood that He
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  must suffer to bring about our salvation.
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  And that is the glory of Him is when we actually choose Him.
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  He could make us worship him, but He doesn't.
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  We have free will and when we choose to worship Him, it brings
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  Him glory. Do not hold back your worship
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  today, Friends. 33 Little children, yet a little while I
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  am with you, you shall seek me. And as I said unto the Jews,
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  where I go, you cannot come. So now I say to you. 34 A new
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  commandment I give unto you, that you love one another, as I
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  have loved you, that you also love one another. 35 By this
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  shall all men know that you are my disciples, if you have loved
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  one to another. So he tells us to love our
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  neighbor as ourselves, and that is just the elementary school
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  level of love. And then he tells us again that
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  we should not love the world or anything in the world.
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  So he's telling us there that we need to love him.
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  Paramount but this kind of Phileo love that he mentions
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  here is the love that we have for our brothers and sisters and
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  it should be in a deeper level than the love that we have for
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  our neighbor. But it is still in a secondary
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  rate to the amount of love that we have for him.
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  But you can see that God is love, and we know from John 3
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  for God so loved the world that he gave not.
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  His only begotten Son, that whoever shall believe in Him
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  will not perish, but have eternal life.
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  So we know here that all of it is love.
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  And that is what is mentioned here, friends, is that it's love
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  and love and more love. And we need to be loving towards
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  our neighbors, we need to be loving towards our brothers and
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  sisters, and we need to love God paramount.
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  And we should not be stained by the things in this life and the
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  things in this world. 36 Simon Peter said unto him,
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  Lord, where do you go? Jesus answered him, where I go,
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  you cannot follow me now, for but thou shalt follow me
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  afterwards. So here they're confused because
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  he's saying where he's going, they cannot come.
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  But we know that we will be with him forever more.
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  So this confusion, Peter wants to clarify.
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  And so Jesus lovingly says, you will eventually follow me into
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  this martyrdom, into this persecution that I'm about to go
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  to. But we know that we will be
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  caught up with him to meet him in the air, and there we will be
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  with him forevermore. 37 Peter said unto him, Lord, why can't
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  I? I follow you now?
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  I will lay down my life for your sake.
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  So here is emotionalism. This is Peter being led by his
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  emotions. But we know that there's going
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  to come a crisis emotion where he cannot push through the
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  barrier. It's easy to say that we'll do
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  something, but it's a whole lot harder to actually put it into
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  practice, friends. And we would do well to know
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  that God brings us to these places where we must put our
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  faith into practice. We cannot just sit on the
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  sidelines and say this and say that we have to put it into
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  practice. And that is what grows our
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  faith, friends, and gets us prepared for all of eternity. 38
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  Jesus answered him, Will you lay down your life for my sake?
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  Truly, truly, I say unto you, the cock shall not crow until
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  you have denied me three times. So Jesus knew everything that
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  was going to happen, and nothing was missed.
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  And we know that God so loved the world that he gave his one
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  and only Son, that whoever will believe in him will not perish,
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  but have eternal life. And we know that we can have
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  eternal life when we place our trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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  We know that here Peter looked as if he lost everything, but we
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  can see that Jesus is going to reinstate him when he comes back
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  in his resurrected form. And Peter's going to get a
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  chance to make it right with the Lord.
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  And I believe that Judas had that same opportunity, but he
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  chose not to take it and went and hung himself.
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  What a passage here. What a piece of scripture.
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  This is a lifetime of study right here.
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  We can sit and marvel at how beautiful these words are on a
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  page of masterpiece that has stood the test of time.
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  I'm praying for you, I love you. I'll see you back here tomorrow.
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  God bless you.