John 13: What does it really look like to love like Jesus?

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I'm April Foster, and together with my husband, John, we are honored that the
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Holy Spirit would choose us to guide others into the way, the truth,
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and the life with grace and love.
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Good morning, John. Good morning, April. Where are we now?
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Where are we located? Where are we doing bedroom and Bible from?
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My initial reaction was, which is interesting, is home.
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Interesting. But where is home? Interesting. Home is where your feet are? I don't know.
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Oh, I like that. I like home is where your feet are.
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Yeah, because... Right now, we are in Louisiana. Well, and you woke up a little discombobulated.
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And I woke up wondering why I was on the wrong side of the bed.
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And so I didn't know where I was at.
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But then I woke up and I texted my bestie, Tish.
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And we were kind of having this, you know, little texting thing.
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And one of the things I said to her this morning was, this isn't our home.
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We're foreigners living for a purpose, for a time.
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In these tents, which I call, I call her skin tents, and we're living in these tents temporarily.
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And, you know, it's so interesting because for you to think of that right now,
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you know, and again, you know, all of this is completely unscripted.
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We just pray for the Holy Spirit to just come and, and just have this,
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have his way, you know, the Ruhach, the breath of God.
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And, you know, So it reminds me of like wherever your feet are is where home
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is. And we're actually, I bet you didn't even realize the setup on that is that
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we're reading Jesus washes the disciples' feet. Did you catch that?
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Did you catch the connection? Well, yeah, sure.
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You intentionally said that because of that? No, I didn't think so.
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But yes, we are here at your parents' house.
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Ham and Louisiana. In Hammond, Louisiana, sitting in this beautiful room that when we sold our house.
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We are literally sitting in all the furniture, pretty much, that we had in our house.
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And we moved, basically, we moved into this room and,
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And your parents were gracious enough, and they call it the Airbnb for us.
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And your dad is so funny because he always asks when we're coming in.
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He texts to make sure that the Airbnb is available.
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But, yes, where is our home? I know.
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Your mother was saying that just the other day.
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She asked us, she said, like, where do you consider home?
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You know, and then Tish came over and visited and was talking and talking about our son coming.
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And then she's like, coming. And then your mom was like, home.
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This is home. This is home.
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And so, yeah, it's an interesting thing to be kind of living in more than one place.
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It's something that you and I have always considered. You know,
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it's been something where we're like, as we get older, we would like to be able
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to have like homes in different places.
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But then it makes me think of eternity. And I think of, wow,
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we're just foreigners here.
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And, you know, one of the episodes of Esther's that I just did was called When Heaven—no.
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When—something about when the church—,
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When heaven is watching, like us, the church, and Ephesians,
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I did the whole unpacking of Ephesians 3, and I was just, I just reread it again this morning.
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And Paul goes into the purpose of why we're here, you know, God's eternal purpose.
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And he doesn't sway from his plan, but it's so fascinating how he can give his,
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children free will, and still not sway from His plan.
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Like, that is just a mystery of the highest proportions for me.
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But anyway, so yeah, we're here, and we're going to read about the Jesus washing the feet.
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And I actually, while I was in Ohio, I'll share after I think we pray,
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but it talks about sandals in this scripture.
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And I had this really, really amazing vision during worship at a church up in
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Columbus, Ohio, that I attended like a prayer service and conference.
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And it was pretty amazing. And then God actually reminded me of that vision
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again while I was reading this scripture again. So we'll get started with it
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and then we'll go from there. Yeah. All right.
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So we're going to pray. Would you like to open us up in prayer?
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Most certainly. Let's do it. Good morning, Father.
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We thank you. Thank you for this morning and for new life and a new day.
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Yeah. So over the last few weeks, we have celebrated with taking communion,
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taking communion, the body and blood of Jesus.
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And today we actually read it in the words of John in the New Covenant chapter.
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The new covenant that you entered into with your body of Christ,
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with your body, with your believers.
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So, yeah, we thank you for giving up, for sacrificing yourself as the blood
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offering for that new covenant to take place.
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So today, we just thank you for your sacrifice and your love and your servant
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leadership over your church.
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We pray that in Jesus' name. Amen. Amen.
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It's funny because I made this face at you while you were praying because I'm
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like, I know I've read this chapter, but is this where he breaks the bread?
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And I was like, no, this is all about the washing of Jesus's,
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I mean, the washing of the disciples' feet.
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And I guess I'm just so singularly focused on that part of Scripture that,
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you know, it was like, I just completely, you know, I know.
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But it was funny when you were praying, I was like, are we doing that? Are we reading that?
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I thought you read the wrong chapter. I know, but I guess, you know,
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what I find to be interesting about Scripture is, you know, when you go in to
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read it, it's, I can't even explain it.
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There is this—I don't—it's so hard to put into words that Scripture is so personalized.
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And you and Elohim, Elohim, the triune God, so the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit—,
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they are tabernacling with you individually.
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And so, you know, when you go into scripture,
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he's got this way, the ruhash, the Holy Spirit, the illumination.
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To illuminate what he wants you to perceive and to learn and to grow from.
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And it's funny because, you know, the Holy Spirit, we are so opposites.
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You and I are so opposite and yet so complementary at the same time.
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I've had someone say that, that, you know, on the color wheel,
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you know, we're opposite, but we're complementary.
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And I believe that that is truly what, you know, God had intended for marriage
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and a man and a woman is that opposite yet complementary design.
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And so, you know, I see Holy Spirit always shows me things in colors,
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and in numbers and in like just signs, like license plates.
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Like just watching, just seeing.
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And so it's so funny because when you're praying, I'm just like,
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what is he praying? And I just have this moment of like, where am I at? And it's just this.
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It's like when we woke up this morning. It is, because I think that, honestly, I just,
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I believe that God is really trying for us to stay grounded in His Word,
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but also flow with the Spirit and stay ascended,
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In the heavens, like, and he, so anyway, he winds up giving me this incredible
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vision. So should I share the vision before we read? Because I feel like I just,
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I need to get it out. Okay, yeah, let's get it out there.
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And it's so funny because I believe that it, I didn't write about it.
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Like, I usually write my visions down or I record it, but he's just reminded
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me every day. And he reminded me again, but I had, so during this worship,
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and it's called, Hope City Global, and it's in Columbus, Ohio.
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And I was doing, we were at a conference like last Wednesday.
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And during the worship, I was literally physically, I went and like kneeled
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to the ground during worship.
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There was a song that just, you know, even the song itself was just,
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you know, come to the ground, like come in this humble, lowly place.
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And, you know, so I just kind of laid, you know, on the ground.
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And then all of a sudden I saw Jesus, the eyes of my heart, that imagination
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place where you can, you know, meet and tabernacle with Jesus.
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He says in scripture, you know, Paul did it, Peter did it, John did it.
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And there's this place where you can meet with Him. And, you know,
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you can't, like, fabricate it. You can't force it. It just, it's something that.
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God will give you. And you just have to be in a posture to receive.
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And so I saw Jesus in this place where I'm kind of like sitting on the ground
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and I see him and he's huge. I mean, enormous.
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And he's got one foot on the sea and he's got one foot on the land and his feet were sandaled.
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That was very interesting that I could remember that. They were both sandaled and sandals.
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And he extended up when i kind of like looked up he extended so high
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that his head was in the heavens almost like i mean maybe like if you wanted
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to imagine something like jack what in the beanstalk or the you know where he's just like so big,
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but there wasn't a beanstalk in this it was just him standing one foot on the
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sea one foot on the land and his head was extending into the heavens.
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And he came down and he reached and he lifted me up. But he wasn't like lifting me up to the heavens.
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When he went to lift me, I grew.
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Like I grew. Like I was, my feet, one foot was in the ocean,
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one foot was, you know, over the sea, one was on the land.
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And I can't remember if my feet were sandaled. I just remember his feet being sandaled.
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And when I looked again, I was looking eye to eye with him.
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And my head was in the heavens and one of my feet was on the land,
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like I said, one was on the sea.
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And I was talking to a friend about the vision and she's like,
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wow, well, that's interesting. Because, you know, John 4, you know,
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talks about the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and in truth.
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And so, you know, she was like, could it even possibly symbolize that one foot,
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you know, grounded on the earth was grounded in the truth.
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And then the other part, being on the sea, could be that the flow,
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the Spirit of God and the water.
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The Word is alive and Jesus is always compared to the living water.
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And it could have meant even authority, the authority. But he also said to me,
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that my head was in the heavens.
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And he said, you don't have to choose.
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You can be in both places. And I was like, well, that's interesting because
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if you know me, I'm more of the, I like to go in the heavens.
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Like I like to be up here, but then I'm not relatable if I'm not here on the earth.
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And so he said, you can have both. So he was showing me that,
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I think that's what he was showing me was that we don't have to choose.
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We can, as long as it's almost like a triangle, I could see almost like the
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triangle with the leg and the leg and the head, you know, we don't have to choose
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because we have the wholeness of God.
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We have the wholeness of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit.
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He's given us full access and we don't even understand the access that we've been given.
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And so we have a tendency to only get, you know, obtain or think we only have a part of it.
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But he says, no, you have my fullness. And I think this really even ties in
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with how we're going to read about how Peter responds about Jesus washing his feet, you know.
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And so anyway, I just, I don't know. Y'all take that vision.
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If you know me and, you know, the Lord gives you some more revelation to parts
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of that, reach out to me, you know, go to my website. lovecoloroftheway,
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you can fill out one of the little forms and it reaches out to me.
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Or you can email me at lovecoloroftheway at gmail.com.
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Or if you know me personally, shoot me a text and tell me what you see in that dream, in that vision.
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Because I do believe that the Lord is showing us in what He—oh,
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I forgot what He said to me was, be confident.
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Confidence. Like, look at me eye to eye confidence. You have the access,
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the authority, you know, as I do.
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And so walk in confidence because I am with you.
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Like he keeps telling me that like my journal, I have my journal and the cover of it is I am with you.
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And so I hear the Lord saying that wherever you go, wherever your feet land,
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wherever you, you, you, you are, you're,
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But my authority goes with you. I am with you. And so I'm writing out right
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now in my journal everywhere in Scripture.
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And I'm starting with Genesis. And I just went through Genesis and Exodus.
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And I'm moving into the next one. But I'm writing in my journal wherever the
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Lord said, He said, I'm with you to Abraham. Then He said, I'm with you to Isaac.
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Then He said, I'm with you to Jacob.
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I am with you with Joseph. I'm with you. Like I'm finding every single place
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in God's word that says that God is with us.
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And it's just a reminder and a promise that no matter what we go through,
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we have the access and the authority because Jesus is the way,
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the truth and the life. He is the door.
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And so he just showed me in that vision. He's like, the confidence that I need you to have.
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I need you to speak boldly. This is the year of 5787, and this is the year of the sword.
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It's the power of the spoken word. And so we have voice wars that are happening right now.
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And it's not from our voice, and it's not from our thoughts.
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It's from His Word and His Holy Spirit.
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He said, I will put the words in your mouth and speak them.
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So anyway, that's what that's what happened to me.
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And I am excited to see how that vision will continue to to unfold in real time.
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You ready to read? I am. Let's do it. OK. Were you excited about my dream and vision? I am.
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I love you. But you told me about it the other day. I did. I heard it.
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Spoiler alert. Yeah, I did. So my listeners got to hear it. Are you guys who
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are listening excited? Do a shout out.
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It's so fun to do this. I don't know. I know. Comment.
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Yes, that's it. You're supposed to comment. Comment all over the place.
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Yeah, comment and say what you think.
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All right. Let's read the word of God. Okay. And today we are in the book of John chapter 13.
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Ready, ready. We're reading from the Passion Translation.
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All right, here we go. Jesus washes feet.
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Jesus knew that the night before Passover would be his last night on earth before
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leaving this world to return to the Father's side.
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All throughout his time with his disciples, Jesus had demonstrated a deep and
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tender love for them, and now he'd longed to show them the full measure of his love.
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Before their evening meal had begun, the accuser had already deeply embedded,
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betrayal into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
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Now Jesus was fully aware that the father had placed all things under his control,
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for he had come from God and was about to go back to be with him.
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So he got up from the meal and took off his outer robe and took a towel and
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wrapped it around his waist.
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Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' dirty feet,
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and dry them with a towel.
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So before you go on to this washing
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of the feet, I just want to point out that twice, in verse 1 and 3.
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Jesus knew, is verse 1, knew. Jesus knew.
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And so the Father told him that he was going to be returning back to him.
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And so there is a part where I believe that we begin to know.
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We began to know that we were returning back to the Father.
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And even now it says, Jesus was fully aware that the Father had placed all things
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under his control, for he had come from God and was about to go back with him.
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And so again, we are eternal beings, spirit first, interest.
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Soul, body. Body is, you know, and we, you know, it talks about how our bodies
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are fully restored. And I don't know what that's all going to look like. I have no idea.
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But we are the spirit beings and we will return to the Father.
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And just kind of what I was saying about this isn't our home.
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This isn't our home. Jesus was a foreigner. We're foreigners.
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And so I was just trying to show you with confirmation of Scripture here in
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verses 1 and 3 that we will, just like Jesus, return back to the Father.
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And so we don't have to fear death.
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We don't have to fear what all that's going to look like, because.
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We know that Jesus came to do and fulfill the work so that all things will be
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restored back to its original intent that the Father had set up from the beginning of creation.
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So we just get to rest in that. Like, we can have peace with that,
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that all the troubles of this world have nothing.
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And can do nothing for what we are just here for this temporary time to do the
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Father's work, just like Jesus was here for a temporary time to do the Father's
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work. That's what we're here for.
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We're the hands and feet of Jesus. And together, we become the bride of Christ,
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working together to fulfill the Father's purpose.
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Isn't that just, I mean, that's just, it's so plain, but yet why we complicate,
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all of this, I just, I really wanted to sit with that for a minute for those
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who might be fearing what, you know, that death looks like.
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And just looking at Jesus as the one who knew.
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And so when you begin to fellowship with the Father, you will begin to know,
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you'll begin to understand that, what is it? Oh, death, where is your sting?
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You know, so we don't have to fear death. So if anybody is out there fearing
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death, just be at ease and, and let, you know, the scriptures wash you and give
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you a peace that surpasses all understanding.
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I, that was definitely from the Holy Spirit because that, that,
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that's not from me. Those are things that like I'm standing there,
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I'm like, really? That's an interesting thought.
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Okay, so now we're going to go and hear about this. As we enter October,
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which has Halloween in it, that's a whole nother long segue that we probably don't want to go down.
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Well, well, every time. Okay, so if any Christian is listening,
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whether you like Halloween or you don't like Halloween, I don't like Halloween.
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I'll just be straight up.
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But what God is showing me as I'm seeing all these things is I hear the Holy
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Spirit whispering that dead things come alive. That's what I hear.
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So if you are struggling with all of this Halloween, just remember that dead
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things come alive in the name of Jesus and all power and authority belong to him.
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And the devil does not win on this one. And so we just walk in confidence as we see all these things.
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Those things have no hold on us. So that's my little commercial break.
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You brought it up. Hey, but I said we weren't going to go down that rabbit trail. You did.
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But I did it briefly. It was really brief. Let's go. Verse 6. Okay. All right.
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When Jesus got to Simon Peter, he objected and said, I can't let you wash my
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dirty feet. You're my Lord.
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And Jesus replied, You don't understand yet the meaning of what I'm doing,
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but soon it will be clear to you.
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So the commentary, I want to read that. Yes. Okay. Do you want to read it or you can read it?
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Okay, sure. By commentary, by removing their sandals and washing their feet,
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Jesus was showing them what he was granting them, a new inheritance, his own inheritance.
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The sandal is often used in covenants of inheritance in Hebrew culture.
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Every defilement would be removed so that they could place the sole of their
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feet upon the new covenant inheritance.
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And then there's references to Joshua, the book of Joshua and the book of Ruth.
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God likewise told Moses to remove his sandals,
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That's in Exodus For he was about to receive a new inheritance The holiness
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of God and the authority that came with it So,
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yeah, by them removing their sandals and washing their feet It's actually,
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I don't know, prophecy is not the right word But think about all of the other
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covenants the covenants, the,
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Abrahamic covenant and the Mosaic covenant, and that was part of that ritual.
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Yeah, I was looking up, I actually looked up the Hebrew word that's translated
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for sandal, N-A with a little dash, A-L, and it's written in Hebrew, but,
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you know, like you were saying and like the translation said,
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because, you know, I wanted to kind of like see a little bit more, but a sandal...
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Really wasn't just merely footwear. So biblically, and we have to remember,
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we're reading the Bible from a Western worldview, and it was written in an Eastern
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mindset, Eastern worldview mindset.
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So when we read the Bible from a Western, it's just, honestly.
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We literally have, we really don't really get it.
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Like we don't, unless we really emerged ourselves in the Eastern culture.
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That's why we really have to sit with God's Word.
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But biblically, in that Eastern mindset, was that sandals and feet become symbols
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connected with authority.
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And you said covenantial rights because of the different covenants.
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Ownership, relinquishment, holiness, and social status and service.
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And like you said, you mentioned in Ruth, there was a time where,
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you know, removing a sandal publicly confirmed the transfer or the relinquishment
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of a right of redemption.
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So one man took off his sandal and gave it to another.
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So in the wider ancient near Eastern world, placing one's foot on land could symbolize claiming it.
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Correspondingly, lifting the foot or removing the sandal could signify relinquishing the claim.
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So it was interesting. My vision actually had the sandals on the feet and one
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was on the ocean, one was on the land. It was like Jesus was like, I'm claiming this.
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And April, wherever your feet go, you claim it in the name of Jesus.
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And so another powerful thing that you mentioned was in Exodus 3,
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5, where Moses was asked, take your sandals off your feet for the place where
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you're standing is holy ground.
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And then in Joshua, you mentioned that one, Joshua 5, 15.
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Joshua receives essentially the same command and connects being barefoot before
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God with acknowledging God's ownership and the human being's position as servants.
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See, I never saw my feet. I don't think I had sandals on my feet in my vision.
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But then here, you know, we have right now in John 13, it's not nearly just
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like a teaching on humility,
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but the one Jesus who possesses all authority deliberately takes the servant's position.
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And so he gets down and washes their feet. He washes their feet because he knows exactly who he is.
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And so I just, I found this to be extremely interesting. So I guess we'll just
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keep, keep reading here because, well,
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I just, I love stopping and getting curious with scripture.
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That's what I keep encouraging is don't keep saying, I know, I know, I know.
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Because we don't know. We don't know what we don't know.
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And we have to remain curious in a posture of learning so that our thoughts
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can wash and brush with the word of God. And then we can be like, oh, wait a minute.
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This is my Western mindset. This is my worldview I've lived in.
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And this is what I've heard. And this is what I've thought it meant.
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But then when you go in with an open mind and open heart and let the Holy Spirit
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teach you, this is just like, this is the way, you know, that I believe Jesus
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wants us to have that personal relationship with his word,
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which he is, he is word.
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He is the word. He is the word that came flesh.
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So as long as you're reading it and it's all pointing to Jesus,
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that's what you said the other day about translations. We were talking about translations.
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And you asked such a great question, that curious question about,
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well, does the translation that you're reading lead you away from Jesus or towards Jesus, right?
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And if the translation you're reading is moving you towards Jesus, then keep reading.
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And keep being curious. Okay, what verse are we on? We are on verse 8.
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Peter looked at Jesus and said, You'll never wash my dirty feet. Never.
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But Peter, if you don't allow me to wash your feet, Jesus responded,
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then you will not be able to share life with me.
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So Peter said, Lord, in that case, don't just wash my feet. Wash my hands and my head too.
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Jesus said to him, You are already clean.
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You've been washed completely, and you just need your feet to be cleansed.
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But that can't be said of all of you. For Jesus knew which one was about to
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betray him, and that's why he told them that not all of them were clean.
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After washing their feet, he put his robe on and returned to his place at the table.
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Do you understand what I just did? Jesus said.
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You've called me your teacher and Lord, and you're right, for that's who I am.
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So, if I'm your teacher and Lord and have just washed your dirty feet,
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then you should follow the example that I've set for you and wash one another's dirty feet.
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Now do for each other what I have just done for you.
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I speak to you timeless truth. A servant is not superior to his master,
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and an apostle is never greater than the one who sent him.
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So now, put into practice what I have done for you, and you will experience
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a life of happiness, enriched with untold blessings.
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So good. That's really, really powerful.
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We can have no part of Jesus unless we allow ourselves to be washed by him.
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And he didn't tell him the whole thing, you know, your whole body is to be washed.
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When we come into the fold of being a believer and a follower of Jesus Christ,
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You know, we do get the residue of sin on our feet, whether intentional or unintentional.
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You know, when we go out into the world and we're walking all over the place, we get dirty.
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I mean, we're still in these tents and we still have flesh and we aren't.
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Perfectly, you know, perfect, you know, I've, I've begun to understand that
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I have to move perfectly imperfect, knowing that the perfect one is in me.
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And so, you know, that's why we, we come and we sit and we rest and we.
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You know, repent of, of the way that, you know, we may have handled a situation
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that we're like, that was definitely not the way of Jesus and the way that I handled that.
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And, you know, not beating ourselves up, not sitting in shame,
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but recognizing our weaknesses and our frailties.
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And I just, I love, you know, how Peter at first is just so overcome by him,
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and his, is his like, no way, no way, no way. But he was giving us the example of servanthood.
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And even though you have all the power and the authority that Jesus has given
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us, it doesn't negate the fact that the modeled behavior that Jesus wants us is to,
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serve and to love others as he has served and loved others.
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And this is such a beautiful picture of what that means, that we get our feet
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washed, we receive, but we also wash other people and help them to be clean.
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So Jesus predicts his betrayal, verse 18.
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I don't refer to all of you when I tell you these things, for I know the ones
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I've chosen to fulfill the scripture that says, the one who shared supper with me
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treacherously betrays me.
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And so the commentary here could be, or has lifted up his heel against me.
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And that Greek text preserves the idiom that's in Psalms 41.9,
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which speaks of a treacherous betrayal.
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Semantic culture, it says it is the greatest breach of etiquette to sit and
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eat with a friend and then later betray them.
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And this is why many would never eat with someone that they were not on good terms with.
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And so you can see Psalms 41.9 for that direct reference.
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And Jesus goes on to say to them,
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I'm telling you this now before it happens, so that when the prophecy comes
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to pass, you will be convinced that I am,
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or I am the one, or I am who I am.
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Jesus once again equates himself with I am.
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And verse 20 said, listen to this
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timeless truth, Whoever receives the messenger that I send receives me.
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And the one who receives me, I mean, yeah, receives me, receives the father who sent me.
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And so then Jesus was moved deeply in his spirit.
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And this was a way, this is a translation from Greek and the Aramaic described
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Jesus's emotions as a feeling, feelings, feeling a profound tenderness,
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or his spirit felt a longing.
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And there's possibly a conclusion that everything within our Lord Jesus was
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moved deeply by the thought of being betrayed by one of his beloved disciples.
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And I have Esther episode, The Oil of Betrayal, because, you know,
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I was severely, severely betrayed,
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treacherously, treacherously is the best word, betrayed with a company,
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you know, that I was working for.
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And it was a Christian company and it just, I just got blindsided.
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You know, I had one of the people, you know, just tell me I keep my friends,
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close, but my enemies closer and just,
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you know, thought that this person was for me and was protecting me.
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And then that was the one that I turned around and just stabbed me right in
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the back. And it hurt so bad.
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And it just reminds me of how Jesus knew that this was going to happen,
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yet he still kept loving him through it.
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So it says here, picking up with 21, looking at his disciples,
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he announced, I tell you the truth, that one of you is about to betray me.
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Eyeing each other, his disciples puzzled over which one of them could do such a thing.
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The disciple that Jesus loved dearly was at the right hand of him at the table.
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And this was obviously John, the one who wrote this gospel.
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And we also can also be that one that Jesus loves dearly too.
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And so just hearing the way that John sees himself in his identity next to Jesus, it wasn't boastful.
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It was that he saw who he was in the presence of his Savior.
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And the disciple that Jesus loved dearly was at the right hand of him at the table.
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And he was leaning his head on Jesus.
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Wow. Wow.
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The disciple whom Jesus loved was.
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Leaning his head on Jesus like,
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can you just picture that? Can you picture what that would look like?
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Have you sat and imagined, allowed yourself to lean in and put your head on
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the Savior of the world's chest?
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And do you see yourself being held by Jesus and being the one whom he loves?
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So verse 24, Peter gestured to this disciple to ask Jesus who it was he was referring to.
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Then the dearly loved disciple leaned into Jesus's chest and whispered, Master, who is it?
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Jesus said, The one I give this piece of bread to after I've dipped it into the bowl.
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Then he dipped the piece of bread into the bowl and handed it to Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon.
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And when Judas ate the piece of bread, Satan, the adversary, entered him.
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Then Jesus looked at Judas and said, what you are planning to do go and do it now,
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and it's like you know when i i hear that it's so hard to even understand because
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we're reading it but where are we partnering with a plan that we have and we're allowing,
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ourselves to be partnered with satan rather than jesus and it's it's really,
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a sombering thought because,
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you know, I truly believe that because of our free will,
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that we can partner with the adversary and not even realize it. Yeah.
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This always makes me think of the chosen. We talk about the chosen quite a bit.
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And, you know, it's whatever. Yeah.
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And the way that they interpret it, and you can interpret Judas' acts however you want,
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but it's always difficult to think how could someone who had been following
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and gave his life to follow Jesus for three, two, three, whatever years,
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however long Judas had been around, and then betray him.
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But I like the way the Chosen represents it as.
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Judas couldn't quite get out of his head that the Messiah, the Savior of the
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world, came as a servant leader.
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He didn't come to take over and overthrow the Roman government.
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He didn't come as knight in shining armor with his sword drawn.
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And Judas, again, the Chosen's interpretation of that is that Judas couldn't
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quite get over how he thought it should happen.
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It was his own personal opinions on what Jesus should be doing that he just
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couldn't get over rather than what Jesus kept telling him. It's not like that.
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It's not like that. And he just he couldn't get out of his own way, basically.
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And how many times do we do that? Times do we think, you know,
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we've got it and we don't rely on Jesus anymore.
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And it's, you know, I like what you were saying, how it's, he was,
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he couldn't get past his agenda.
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And he couldn't surrender that agenda.
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And he was trying to make something happen. And, and yeah, yeah.
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I think there's so many times where we're like, yeah, Jesus,
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I don't think you know what you're doing.
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Let me help you.
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Let me let me fix this for you,
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i do i have found myself in that position many times,
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and in his loving mercy you know i mean honestly if you really look at the comparison
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because they really do sit in tandem comparing peter to judas in this situation
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because as we're gonna see,
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i mean And Peter does pretty much the same thing.
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He portrays him. He denies not even knowing him.
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So Peter's denying him later on. Judas denies him.
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And yet there's a different outcome in this betrayal. Right.
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It's very, very, very interesting.
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So 28. Yeah. So, you know, Jesus is saying, what are you planning?
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What you're planning to do, just go do it.
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But in verse 28, none of those around the table realized what was happening,
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even though right before Jesus whispers to John what's going on.
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I still see that John is still confused.
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Even though he plainly says this in verse 29, some thought that Judas,
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their trusted treasurer, was being told to go buy what was needed for the Passover
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celebration or perhaps go to go and give something to the poor.
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So Judas left quickly and went out into the dark night to betray Jesus.
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So now we shift to what happens, you know, at verse 31, where now we're shifting,
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where Jesus is now predicting Peter's denial.
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So after Judas left the room, Jesus said, the time has come for the glory of
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God to surround the Son of Man.
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And God will be greatly glorified through what happens to me.
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And very soon God will unveil the glory of the Son of Man.
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And there is a repetition here, if you've noticed.
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And it's interesting because there's this exchange of glory between God and
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His Son, Jesus Christ, here.
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Very, very, very interesting.
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In verse 33, Jesus continues to say to them, My dear friends,
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I only have a brief time left to be with you.
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It's interesting because the Lord says, I am with you, I am with you,
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I'm with you. And here Jesus is saying right here to them, I have a brief time
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that I will be with you. It's interesting.
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And then you will search and you will long for me.
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But I tell you what I told the Jewish leaders.
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You'll not be able to come where I am.
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So I give you now a new commandment, love each other just as much as I have loved you.
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For when you demonstrate the same love that I have for you by loving one another,
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everyone will know that you're my true followers.
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Peter interjected, but master, where are you going?
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Jesus replied, where I'm going, you won't be able to follow,
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but one day you will follow me there.
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Peter said, what do you mean that I am not able to follow you now?
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I would sacrifice my life to die for you.
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And Jesus answered, would you really lay down your life for me, Peter?
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Here's the absolute truth. Before the rooster crows in the morning,
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you will say three times that you don't even know me. That's it.
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It's a very sombering ending. It is. But the commentary has that funny bit.
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Are you going to read that? Oh, you can read it.
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Again, look, this is commentaries are someone's thoughts and opinions.
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And it's just like when you're doing a Bible study and you have a Bible study Bible.
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Somebody's putting their thoughts. And so take this for a grain of salt. But it is a little funny.
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So peter was given the commentaries peter was given the sign of a rooster crowing
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for that is what he was he was a crowing rooster strutting his pride,
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but then rocky got cocky and forgot where true strength is found.
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Oh, I wonder if that should be. Rocky got coffee.
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We should make that the title of this. John 13, Rocky got coffee. Rocky got coffee.
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But yeah, I mean, there is Peter who is an interesting disciple of Jesus in his inner circle.
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You know, Peter was in his inner circle.
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And there are times that, you know, we do. We get a little cocky.
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Honestly, we get a little puffed up. wrong.
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And he used that. Jesus was able to use that.
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And as we will later see in the Gospel of John, how Jesus redeems and restores
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Peter to be the rock of the church.
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And so it just reminds me of the grace of God that is on our lives.
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Even when we fail, even when we fall, even when our pride gets in the way.
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Jesus gives us Peter as a beautiful example of how he, even in his cockiness and his boastfulness.
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God will use all things to work together for good.
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And in Judas's situation,
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Wow, that is also extremely sombering that how that pride of your own agenda,
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partners with, you know, Satan, who Satan himself was similar.
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That's why he got kicked out of heaven is because he wanted to be like God and
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he wanted his, you know, he wanted all the answers. And, you know, he was.
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The most beautiful worshiper in the kingdom. And he, because of.
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His need to want or to have what wasn't being offered to him, caused him to fall.
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And we don't want to be part of the fallen.
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We want to be part of the risen, the resurrection life.
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Stay humble, you know, with a posture of gratitude.
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That's where we, you know, where we can remain.
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And so, Father God, we thank you. We thank you, thank you, thank you.
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Our hearts are just bubbling up with your goodness and your grace and your loving
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kindness as you always have.
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You've made a way for each of us in our cooperation and our surrender to be,
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washed, our feet washed, the residue of the world to be washed off our feet.
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And so we just pray that we would sit and we would rest and we would allow you
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right now to wash our feet,
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to wash the residue, wash the sin that so easily entangles us and help us to
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run the race with perseverance,
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knowing that our eyes are fixed upon you, King Jesus.
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We love you. We praise you. In Jesus' name, Amen.