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July 18 - John 13 · A Chapter a Day Bible Reading

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  Hello friends, it's shown here. It is Thursday.
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  It is the 18th of July and welcome, welcome to the day
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  where we are invited up into a very, very sacred space.
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  We are invited up into that upper room where Jesus and his
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  disciples gather as they share the Passover meal together.
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  And this is behind closed doors. This was a space where Jesus
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  really poured his heart out and shared his most intimate
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  thoughts with his closest group of friends.
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  And we are not only invited up there to hear a transcript of
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  what happened, but we are invited up and, and have this
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  shared by John, by a man who has spent his entire life reflecting
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  on these words. And so they come to us filled
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  with explanation and emotion and intent, bound up in and through
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  and around the words that Jesus spoke.
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  And he did this led by God's Spirit, so that you and I are
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  invited into that intimate place with Jesus to hear not only what
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  he said, but to feel His intention, to know his heart and
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  to understand what it is that he was doing and what it is that He
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  wanted for us, his followers, to continue building His Kingdom on
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  earth. So this is a beautiful space
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  that we will spend the next number of days in.
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  So let's do it, shall we? Let let us head up those stairs,
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  open that door, brush off a cushion on the floor, and sit
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  down next to Jesus and hear what it is he has to say.
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  As we read together John chapter 13 before the Passover
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  celebration, Jesus knew that his hour had come to leave this
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  world and returned 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 then. The devil had already prompted
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  Judas, son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.
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  Jesus knew that the Father had 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, Floyd, are
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  you going to wash my feet? Jesus replied.
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  You don't understand now what I'm doing, but someday you will.
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  No, Peter protested. You will never wash my feet,
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  Jesus replied. Unless I wash you, you won't
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  belong to me. Simon Peter exclaimed.
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  Then wash my hands and my head as well, Lord, not just my feet,
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  Jesus replied. A person who was bathed all over
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  does not need to wash except for the feet to be entirely clean.
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  And your disciples are clean, but not all of you, for Jesus
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  knew who would betray him. This is what he meant when he
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  said not all of you are clean after washing their feet.
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  He put on his robe again and sat down and asked, Do you
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  understand what I was doing? You called me Teacher and Lord,
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  and you were right, because that's what I am.
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  And since I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet,
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  you ought to wash each other's feet.
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  I've given you an example to follow.
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  Do as I have done to you. I tell you the truth.
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  Slaves are no greater than their master, nor is the messenger
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  more important than the one who sends the message.
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  Now that you know these things, God will bless you for doing
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  them. I'm not saying these things to
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  all of you. I know the ones I've chosen.
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  But this fulfils the scripture that says the one who eats my
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  food has turned against me. I tell you this beforehand so
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  that when it happens, you will believe that I am the Messiah.
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  So I tell you the truth, anyone who welcomes my messenger is
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  welcoming me, and anyone who welcomes me is welcoming the
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  Father who sent me. Now Jesus was deeply troubled,
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  and he exclaimed. I tell you the truth, one of you
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  will betray me. The disciples looked at each
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  other, wondering whom he could mean.
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  The disciple Jesus loved was sitting next to Jesus at the
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  table. Simon Peter motioned to him to
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  ask who's he talking about? So that disciple leaned over to
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  Jesus and asked, Lord, who is it?
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  Jesus responded. It is the one to whom I give the
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  bread I dip in the bowl. And when he had dipped it, he
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  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 their treasurer, 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 sun, He will give
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  His own glory to the sun, and he will do so at once.
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  Dear children, I will be with you only a little longer, and as
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  I told the Jewish leaders, you will search for me.
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  But you can't come where I am going.
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  So now I'm giving you a new commandment.
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  Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you
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  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. Thank you, Jesus, for the
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  clarity of your teaching here. Thank you for the way that you
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  serve. You don't sit around placing
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  yourself on a throne, big noting yourself, but you come, towel
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  wrapped around your waist to serve as a servant would do, as
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  a slave would do for their master, cleaning the dirt off
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  the feet before they sit down to a meal.
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  And you don't do this as a mystery, but you come to serve
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  us and asked that we would serve each other.
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  So Jesus, I pray that your humble servant leadership, that
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  the way that you loved would change our hearts, that we would
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  be inspired to spend our lives lived in service of your people,
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  of all of your people, those who love you and those who don't yet
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  know about you. I pray that we would always be
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  looking for opportunities to wash their feet, to serve them
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  in a way that feels so unnecessary but so appreciated
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  as they receive just a little bit of the love that you have
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  given us. So shape us for your service.
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  Shape our hearts. Lead us, Challenge us, and place
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  us in situations where we can love as you have first loved us.
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  And thank you for your love, and we can only pray these things
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  because of you and your love. So it's in your name that we
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  pray at all. I'm in.