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April 9 - John 13 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's Sean here. It's Wednesday, it is April 9th
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  and thank you for tapping on play.
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  Gee, I'm grateful that you are taking a moment in your full
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  hectic busy day. Or maybe yours isn't so hectic
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  and what a wonderful thing that is for you.
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  But whatever your day is like, you have hit pause on the play
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  button of life and hit play on the pot.
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  Yeah, that's very confusing. You have invited me in, and we
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  are going to read another chapter of God's Word together.
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  And as you well know, we are working our way through the book
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  of John heading toward that Easter day.
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  And today is the day, friends, that you and I, fellow disciples
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  of the living Lord, are going to follow him up those dusty stairs
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  into the upper room where we're going to settle down for the
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  next 5 days. As we spend this time with
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  Jesus, hearing to his words, not just to those disciples, but to
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  you and to me as his disciples alive today as captured by his
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  beloved disciple John. So that we would know the truth
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  of what it is that Jesus just yearned for his disciples to
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  know in that last precious opportunity for Him to teach and
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  share with them. So let's head up there together
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  friends, so that we can hear these beautiful words of our
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  Saviour as we head up there in John chapter 13.
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  Before the Passover celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had
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  come to leave this world and return to His Father.
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  He had loved his disciples during His ministry on earth,
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  and now he loved them to the very end.
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  It was time for supper and the devil had already prompted
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  Judah, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.
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  Jesus knew that the Father had already given him authority over
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  everything and that he had come from God and would return to
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  God. So he got up from the table,
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  took off his robe, wrapped a towel around his waist and
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  poured water into a basin. Then he began to wash his
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  disciples feet, drying them with the towel he had around him.
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  When Jesus came to Simon Peter, Peter said to him, Lord, are you
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  going to wash my feet? Jesus replied, You don't
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  understand what I'm doing, but someday you will.
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  No, Peter protested. It will never, ever wash my
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  feet. Jesus replied, Unless I wash
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  you, you won't belong to me. Simon Peter exclaimed.
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  Then wash my hands and head as well, Lord, not just my feet.
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  Jesus replied, A person who has bathed all over does not need to
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  wash except for the feet to be entirely clean.
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  And you disciples are clean, but not all of you.
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  For Jesus knew who would betray him.
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  And that is what he meant when he said, not all of you are
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  clean after washing their feet. He put on his robe again and sat
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  down and asked, Do you understand what I was doing?
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  You call me teacher and Lord, and you were right, because
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  that's what I am. And since I, your Lord and
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  Teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash each other's
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  feet. I have given you an example to
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  follow. Do as I have done to you.
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  I tell you the truth. Slaves are not greater than
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  their master, nor is the messenger more important than
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  the one who sends the message. Now that you know these things,
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  God will bless you for doing them.
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  I am not saying these things to all of you.
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  I know the ones I have chosen. But this fulfils the scripture
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  that says the one who eats my food has turned against me.
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  I tell you this beforehand so that when it happens you will
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  believe that I am the Messiah. I tell you the truth, anyone who
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  welcomes my messenger is welcoming me, and anyone who
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  welcomes me is welcoming the Father who sent me.
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  Now Jesus was deeply troubled, and he exclaimed.
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  I tell you the truth, one of you will betray me.
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  The disciples looked at each other, wondering whom it could
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  mean. The disciple Jesus loved was
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  sitting next to Jesus at the table.
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  Simon Peter motioned to him and asked, who's he talking about?
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  So that disciple leaned over to Jesus and asked, Lord, who is
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  it? Jesus responded, It is the one
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  to whom I give the bread I dip in the bowl, and when he had
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  dipped it, he gave it to Judas, son of Simon Iscariot.
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  When Judas had eaten the bread, Satan entered into him.
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  Then Jesus told him, hurry and do what you're going to do.
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  None of the others at the table knew what Jesus meant.
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  Since Judas was the treasure, some thought Jesus was telling
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  him to go and pay for the food or to give some money to the
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  poor. So Judas left at once, going out
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  into the night. As soon as Judas left the room,
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  Jesus said the time has come for the Son of Man to enter into his
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  glory, and God will be glorified because of him.
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  And since God receives glory because of the Son, he will give
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  his own glory to the Son, and he will do so at once.
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  Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer.
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  And as I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me.
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  But you can't come where I'm going.
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  So now I am giving you a new commandment.
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  Love each other, just as I have loved you.
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  You should love each other. Your love for one another will
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  prove to the world that you are my disciples.
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  Simon Peter asked. Lord, where are you going?
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  And Jesus replied, You can't go with me now, but you will follow
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  me later. But why can't I come now, Lord,
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  He asked. I'm ready to die for you, Jesus
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  answered. Die for me.
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  I tell you the truth, Peter, before the rooster crows
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  tomorrow morning, you will deny three times that you even know
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  me. Lord, thank you for your
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  scriptures, Thank You for the way it teaches us about You and
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  Your will for us. Not so that we can become more
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  intellectually attuned, but that our hearts can draw closer to
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  You, Jesus, and that we can know You better.
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  Ah, we listen to you speaking and we hear the love that You
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  have for us and just how much You want us to follow on what
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  You have started sharing that love with others.
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  Our Lord, your love is phenomenal and we are so
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  grateful for it, but you know that we struggle and are so
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  inadequate when we try and share your love the way that You
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  intend us to. So we need Your help.
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  Come Holy Spirit, continue to build up in us Your fruits that
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  we would be Your representatives and that as we love the way that
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  you have taught us, others would look at us, scratch their heads
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  and say how do they love that way?
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  And that they would know that you are the author of our love
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  and all love. We praise you and we want to do
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  that with every act in our lives.
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  We are yours and we commit ourselves fresh to you today,
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  Lord, and we pray all of this in your name, Jesus, Amen.