November 10th, 2024 | Week 52 - Gospel of Luke 22:20-38 | Pastor Harley Doneburg

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Good morning.

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Welcome to Calvary Chapel.

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We're going to be in Luke chapter 22, if you'd like to turn there with me.

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Luke chapter 22, going through the Gospel of Luke.

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So we do here at Calvary Chapel, we go book by book, chapter by chapter, verse by verse,

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get the whole counsel of the Word of God as much as the Bible talks about any particular subject.

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That's as much as we talk about it and teach about it.

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So Luke chapter 22, I want to encourage you guys to come after service today, go out to the gym, hang out fellowship.

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There's always food.

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We get to hang out this week as an extra bonus because there's things to purchase out there,

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different baked goods, different things and stuff that's out there.

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And I want to encourage you guys to come out tonight for the church meeting.

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So we're going to talk about a lot of different things, hopefully update everyone on some different things.

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I've got some videos of some of the missionaries we support, some greetings from people.

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So come on out for that.

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Keep the transition of our new president in your prayers and that whole thing.

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We're thankful for what God's doing.

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He's the one that raises up kings and sets down to kings.

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We trust him.

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He's the one we look to as the final authority.

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And that's who we put our trust in.

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So keep that in prayer.

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But Luke chapter 22, we're going to read verse 21, starting there in verse 21.

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It says, But behold, the hand of my betrayer is with me on the table.

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And truly the Son of Man goes as it has been determined, but woe to that man by whom he is betrayed.

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And then they began to question among themselves which of them it was that would do this thing.

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So, Lord, we give you this morning.

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We give you this time.

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And it's our hearts desire, Lord, that you would speak to us, Lord, that our ears would be open,

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that our hearts would be open, God, to hear what you have to say to us, Lord, that we would be able to process

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and receive everything you want to tell us personally, Lord.

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We're not here just to gain knowledge.

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We do need that.

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But we also, Lord, we need to hear from heaven.

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So many of us have had different days, weeks, months of hardships or questions.

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And Lord, you want to answer some of those things.

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So I pray this morning, God, you would settle our hearts and we just want to hear your voice today, Jesus, in your name.

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Amen.

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Last week, we looked at the Last Supper and Jesus really changed the elements from Passover.

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It went from the lamb, which Jesus is the Lamb of God, but now he was able to take the cup and the bread and he related it.

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Listen, this is my blood.

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This is my body.

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It's been my blood is being poured out for you.

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It's being poured over you.

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It covers you.

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It cleanses you.

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It makes you whiter than snow.

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This is my body.

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And then he and he said, as often as you do it, do it in remembrance for me.

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I want you always to remember why we're forgetful people.

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We forget how much God loves us, what he's done for us, how much he cares for us.

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That's why we do these things.

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That's why there's a memorial, a reminder, because God wants us to remember.

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But again, Luke, his gospel isn't necessarily chronological.

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Jesus is betrayer.

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Judas leaves before communion, but Luke brings it up here after in sequence.

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And Jesus says, the hand of my betrayer is on the table.

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And the Son of Man goes as it's been determined.

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But woe to that man by whom he's been betrayed.

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It has been determined.

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Jesus knew who his betrayer was.

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But also, Judas is accountable for his actions.

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As he betrays, the Lord walks away.

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What's amazing is that they all question.

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If you read the gospels, they all say, is it I?

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Is it I?

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Even Judas says that.

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And Jesus says it's as you said, if you read the other gospel accounts.

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But I think the one thing, because have you ever felt bad about who you are in Christ?

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Have you ever felt like, oh my gosh, does anyone else struggle with this?

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Or has anyone thought this?

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Have you ever had a lapse, not in faith, not that you don't believe in the Lord,

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but sometimes you feel like you don't measure up?

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Like, well, how come I'm not like this guy?

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And that guy's got it all together.

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Man, their family, whatever.

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And as you read this, I think part of it is, number one, it's comforting to know that

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you're not the only one that thinks that way.

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You're not the only one that thinks, oh my gosh, what is wrong with me?

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Has anyone ever had that thought or that feeling?

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Or man, you come, whether it's church or you talk to somebody that's a Christian,

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and man, the way they know the Bible or the way they they witness or the way and you

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feel like, oh, man, you're you're like, feel second rate, maybe.

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I don't know. And these guys felt like not only were they at second rate, they're

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like. Jesus brings up a betrayer and they're all like.

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Is it me? Could it be me?

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Right. They weren't like they didn't do because Judas didn't have horns or a pointed

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towel, right? They served with Judas and they weren't like, I knew everybody's like

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it is him. No, nobody said that.

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Right. I think that's why I mentioned this before.

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I think that's why John was so upset, calls him a betrayer, a traitor, a liar, a thief.

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In his gospel, I think John is the youngest and Judas was probably the guy you'd least

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expect, maybe.

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He was somebody that John probably looked up to in a discipleship way.

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And that guy, he knows how to handle finances.

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He knows how to do this. He's so put together or whatever it might be.

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And I think that's what upset John so much like, how could it be him?

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And sometimes you don't know who that is.

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But I think the identification that sometimes there's there's the traitor within we can

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identify men, there's we're stuck in this flesh.

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We're not going to be perfect until we go home to be with the Lord.

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And there is a traitor.

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There is a betrayer.

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There's part of us that's not going to measure up at any time ever.

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And the disciples all see that in themselves.

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I think it should be comforting to us.

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Judas didn't feel bad until it was way too late and he never repented.

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He just went and hung himself.

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Never went to Christ. He just killed himself.

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But the betrayer.

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All the disciples, they felt bad.

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And I've talked to people.

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Maybe you have to or maybe you felt this way.

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Some people ask me, I don't even know if I'm saved.

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I wonder. I recently just talked to got a phone call from someone and they're like,

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hey, pray for me.

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I go, yeah, OK, definitely. We can pray right now.

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No, I mean, pray. I don't even know if I'm saved.

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And I made this many mistakes.

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I'm I've done this. I feel bad.

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I have an addictive personality with everything.

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I had Red Bulls smoking cigarettes, you know, whatever.

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And I just can't stop.

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I just I prayed for him, but I tried to encourage him.

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Listen, here's the reality.

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You care about that stuff.

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People who betray the Lord.

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They don't care. I'll do whatever I want.

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There's no conviction.

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There's no sense of, man, should I be doing this?

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This is, you know, so that was promising when I talked to him.

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And you guys would never know who this person is.

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That's why I'm saying it.

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But don't look around like I know who it is.

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It's Leah. No.

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You guys would never know.

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So but it's funny that people think that way.

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And it's and it's and it's real.

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Like, man, is it me?

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Maybe felt that way. Like, oh, golly.

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I think sometimes those feelings are normal because we know,

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even though the Bible says our heart is desperately wicked,

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it's deceitful, who can know it?

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Sometimes we get a little glimpse of it and we realize, man, there's what is messed up.

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Is my heart more messed up than that person?

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Is my is who I am more messed up than this other person?

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Am I even saved?

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It's good that you care.

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Good that you wonder.

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They question among themselves.

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But there is an accountability for those who do walk away.

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Listen, Judas knew the truth and he made a firm stance.

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I'm betraying the Lord took that step, made that stance to walk away.

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And there is an accountability there.

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And this is interesting, funny.

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We're going to read these verses.

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Verse 24, in particular, it says this.

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On the heels of all that, it says, now there was also a dispute among them

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as to which of them should be considered the greatest.

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And he said to them, the kings of the Gentiles.

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So he answers that question.

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He said to them, the kings of the Gentiles exercise lordship over them,

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and those who exercise authority over them are called benefactors.

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But not so among you.

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On the contrary, he who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger

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and he who governs as he who serves.

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For who is greater, he who sits at the table or he who serves?

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Is it not him who sits at the table?

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Yet I am among you as one who serves.

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But you are those who have continued with me in my trials.

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And I bestow upon you a kingdom, just as my father bestows one upon me.

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That you might eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones,

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judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

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Amazing. Jesus is talking about his death, his burial, crucifixion,

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his blood is going to be poured out, his body is going to be broken.

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For you, there's going to be a betrayer.

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Someone's going to betray me sitting at this very table.

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And they're thinking, that's great.

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Who's better here? Who's the greatest?

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And I can understand and maybe justifying it a little bit.

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Jesus says, I'm going away. I'm leaving.

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Who's going to take over?

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Who's going to step into that authority role, that leadership role?

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Who is going to? All right.

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Who's going to be there now in that position?

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Jesus is leaving.

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Right. And but this isn't the first time they've done this or said this.

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Right. We've read it before.

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Who's going to be the greatest?

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Who's going to be the greatest?

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It's a question they have.

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And I think, you know, there's times comparison or leadership or whatever.

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You know, who's the greatest?

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Who's the leader?

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I've done things.

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I remember moving a stove at my house, a big wood burning stove when I lived in town.

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And we were joking because we were trying to figure out, all right, how are we going to move this?

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And I got two by fours under this thing that weighs up ton.

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And everybody I had at my house, they were like the head of their company or the head of their business or the head of this or the head of that.

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We're all looking around like who's going to take charge here?

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Who's the boss of this operation to move this stove?

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It was just kind of funny.

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And but we can think that way.

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Like who's the boss?

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And Jesus says, listen, that's not the way it should be among you.

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You want to be the boss?

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You want to be the greatest?

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Here's how you do it in my kingdom.

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You be a servant.

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You take the lowest seat, the lowest place.

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And at this point, Jesus and we're going to read it.

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Jesus.

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Washes the disciples feet.

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He takes the lowest place of a servant.

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Amazing.

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He says, he says, listen, the kings or the presidents in our day or whoever it might be those in leadership roles, they want to be called benefactors.

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Those who want to be thought of as as having done something great for their country.

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They want people to recognize what and they want to be called that doesn't necessarily mean that's who they are.

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Right.

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During election season, that's what everyone that's what every commercial is is.

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Look at what I've done for the country.

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Look at what I'm going to do for the country.

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Who do you believe?

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Right.

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Because everyone thinks they're a benefactor like they're going to change the world for you.

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They're behind you.

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And but at the end of the day, once they get into power, you know, and I'm not saying our current the one coming up, most people want to be served.

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Right.

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They're not serving us.

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They want you to serve them.

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Then there's a there's an elevation, a hierarchy.

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And that's what it was that way in Jesus's day.

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Jesus is saying the kings of the Gentiles, they exercise lordship over them.

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And those who do that, they want to be called benefactors.

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They want people to think so well of them.

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He says, listen.

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But not so among you.

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Jesus constantly preached his kingdom, his kingdom that's coming.

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In fact, when he was arrested, he said, listen, my kingdom is not of this world.

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If it was, my servants would fight, but it's not.

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You read Matthew chapter five, the Sermon on the Mount.

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Jesus talks about his kingdom and the difference between this one we're living in and the one that's coming.

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And you read it and listen, the Bible says that we're sojourners, we're pilgrims, we're passing through this life,

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we're to be salt and light in this world, we're to be representations, representatives of Jesus Christ.

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Why? Because the Bible says we're ambassadors, but this isn't our home.

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It's not our kingdom.

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The money that we have not going to last the gold and silver we save up.

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There's going to be a time when those are those are the things that are going to pave the streets of heaven.

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They're going to be like asphalt in in in God's kingdom.

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Right. Because there's no value there.

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Not valuable.

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But Jesus is teaching them a huge lesson.

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And it's good that they thought that who's going to be the greatest and Jesus settles the issue.

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Because we're called to walk as he walked.

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If you turn to John chapter 13 with me for a second.

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I know I read this not that long ago.

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At this point, this is what Jesus does as they're arguing about who's the greatest.

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It says this.

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In verse four of John chapter 13.

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Says he rose from supper.

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And laid aside his garments and he took a towel and girded himself.

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And after that, and the disciples are probably thinking, what is he about to do?

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Oh, what's that towel for?

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Puts a towel around his waist.

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It says he poured water into a basin.

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And he began to wash the disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded.

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And I know I've shared this before.

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My grandmother, if you've ever maybe some people here have been part of a foot washing.

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But my grandmother did that at a church and she was prepared for it.

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She washed her one foot.

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Painted her toenails and she was prepared.

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The disciples aren't prepared.

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They're like walking through the streets who get, you know, prepare for the meal, do this.

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Disciples are here and then Jesus gets down and begins to wash their feet.

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They're like, oh my gosh, like what if somebody came up to you right now and pulled your shoe off?

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Grab some water and a towel like we're going to wash it right now.

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Like what?

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Start with him.

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I'll be right back.

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Well, my grandmother did that and she had one foot all ready to go.

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Well, guess what?

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They did both feet.

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So she's got one foot already.

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She's got the bunions all scraped and sanded and all the, you know, toes polished.

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But they did both feet.

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She's like humiliated because it made it more obvious that she was really not ready.

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And why wouldn't she do both feet?

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I don't know.

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She didn't paint both sets of toenails.

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Like it really looked obvious.

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But Jesus takes and what he did.

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It's the lowest servant in the home.

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It would be the lowest place.

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It would be though.

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Like if you start a job, you start on the ground floor.

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Here you go.

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Here's your job, right?

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You're going to sweep floors, clean toilets and shovel snow or whatever.

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Yeah, I don't know and change garbages.

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It's not bad, but you start on the ground floor and you work your way up.

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Now I'm going to be head of maintenance or whatever that might be.

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And Jesus takes the lowest form of a servant and he's going to teach them a lesson about being great in his kingdom.

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Because his kingdoms is not of this world.

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And this is what he's teaching the disciples to do is what he's teaching us.

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If you're a disciple of Christ, this lesson is for you.

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It's for me.

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And it doesn't mean you just do it in your home.

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It's serving the Lord.

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How do you do that?

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And I think you need to examine as we read this.

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How are you?

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What towel have you put around yourself?

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Whose feet are you washing?

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This was an example for the disciples a lesson for them to learn about being great.

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It's an inverted pyramid.

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Really the kingdom of God, the greatest is the lowest, right?

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We always think of we're climbing the ladder.

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We're getting to the top of the pyramid.

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Well in Christian life, it's an inverted pyramid to be the best be the lowest be the servant of all.

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Begins to wash their feet and wipe them with a towel which he was girded.

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Imagine stinky smelly.

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Some guys didn't clip their toenails probably just all the craziness that you can imagine.

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And how humiliating that was to be to have somebody serve you that way, especially Jesus.

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But Jesus didn't think I'm doing this.

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Give me your feet washing them amazing.

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And Peter's blocks it for a second.

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He came to Peter and Peter said him Lord, are you washing my feet?

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What Lord I barely wash my feet.

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Are you going to want no, you didn't say that.

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Peter probably knew that that that was like, oh my gosh, that's what you're going to do.

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And Jesus said what I'm doing, you don't understand now, but you will after this.

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And Peter said you'll never wash my feet.

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No way blocks him.

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He's still blocking him.

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And Jesus said if I don't wash you, you have no part with me.

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And Simon Peter said, Lord, not my feet only, but my hair.

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I want to identify you wash my hands, my head.

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Give me a bath.

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And Jesus says he was bathed needs only to wash his feet.

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But he's completely clean and you're clean, but not all of you.

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For he knew who would betray him.

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Therefore, he said, you're not all clean.

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Not everyone here is taking a bath.

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He knew Judas had it.

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You're a Christian, you're bathed, you're cleansed in the blood of Christ, but you walk through

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this world and what gets dirty, what part of you touches this world?

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It's your your feet.

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That's the idea.

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Jesus is saying you need to wash up by the end of the day.

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You're picking up all this stuff from the street.

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You need to sit down and get in the word.

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You need to sit before me and get washed up and cleaned up your mind, your heart.

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If you don't, it's trouble.

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You're going to carry that to bed.

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You're going to have it in the morning.

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You're going to keep going.

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You got to wash up Peter.

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And that's what I'm doing.

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I'm cleaning you up.

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You're clear.

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You're saved.

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You're a Christian.

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You're already washed.

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That's not the end.

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That's not the bottom.

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That's not it's not over.

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And then he said this verse 12.

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So when he washed their feet, he taken his garments and he sat down again and said to

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them, do you know what I've done to you?

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You call me teacher and Lord and you say well for so I am.

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They looked up to Jesus.

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He was their teacher, master, Lord.

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I'll obey you.

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I want to learn from you.

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And Jesus says this is here's a huge lesson.

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I want to teach you.

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That we need to grasp.

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We need to grasp it.

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If I've been your Lord and teacher have washed your feet, you want to wash one another's

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feet.

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I've given you an example that you should do as I have done to you.

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Most assuredly, I say to you a servant isn't greater than his master.

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Nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.

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And if you know these things, blessed are you.

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If you do, it's not just a matter of knowing them, repeating them, quoting a verse.

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He says, listen, you're blessed if you do them.

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So what you have to do, it's activating your faith.

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Walking in what Jesus called you and I to do and and it's being a servant.

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I've left you an example.

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What an example he left the disciples to serve.

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The apostles that would turn the world upside down.

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The Book of Acts says.

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To be servants, that's what God's called us to do.

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Be a servant, not just all right, I'm going to serve my wife today.

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Where's the dishes, right?

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And you should serve in your home.

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I remember Chuck Smith saying, you know, he's serving at the church, serving at the church

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and whatever he's doing things in his home.

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And finally, Kay Smith, his wife, yells at him.

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She says, you know what?

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You can't leave all your stuff around here just because you're the pastor doesn't mean

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you come here and expect me to be a maid or a housekeeper.

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And she was, but you're just throwing your stuff around.

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You're leaving your dirty dish.

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How about picking up after yourself too, right?

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And sometimes we can feel that way out worked all day.

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Serve my wife.

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She should.

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That's her job serving me.

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Right.

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And Chuck was like, and she was right.

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You know, I shouldn't be doing that.

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Should be serving one another.

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To take the lowest seat.

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How do I serve?

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What?

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Don't expect, you know, it's it's.

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It can be very hard to be have this flash in our minds because for some reason we think

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everyone is created to serve us.

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And we think everyone is thinking about us and they should be.

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And if you're not, you should be.

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If you're not thinking about me, you should be.

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What?

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You know, put my stuff away.

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Do this, do that.

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And Jesus said, I'm leaving you an example.

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You should be a servant.

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Should be a servant.

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And I think assessment for us, how do we serve?

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What are we doing?

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How are we serving the Lord?

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Not just your spouse or your kids should be a given.

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Should be serving and how are you serving the Lord at church?

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Are you engaged in fellowship at church?

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Are you serving?

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It's part of it.

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Part of serving.

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Jesus said, I left you this example that what's below you to serve?

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What's the what's the thing that's like?

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I would never I can't do that.

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Sunday school, maybe I'll teach a men's Bible study Sunday school.

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No way.

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I'm above that.

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Cleaning ministry, parking lot.

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I don't think so.

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Maybe Sunday morning if they need me.

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I don't know what people are thinking.

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How do we serve?

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How do you serve the Lord?

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Are we are we just takers?

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You turn back to look with me.

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I'll just read this scripture to you real quick.

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In Philippians chapter two, Paul says this to the church.

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He says, let this mind let this be your mindset, which was in Christ Jesus, who being in the

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form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God.

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But this is what he did.

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He made of himself no reputation and he took on the form of a bond servant.

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Just a slave and coming in the likeness of men being found in the appearance of a man.

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He humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death.

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Even the death of the cross.

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And God highly exalted him and gave him a name which is above every name.

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It was a reward of service.

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And that's what Jesus tells his disciples.

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There's a reward of service.

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Those who have continued with me in my trials back in Luke.

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I bestow upon you a kingdom just as my father bestowed one upon me.

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It's not going to be easy to be a servant.

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There's suffering involved.

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There's agonizing involved.

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There's sacrifice involved.

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But this isn't it.

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It's not the end.

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Jesus said the same way.

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My father has promised me a kingdom.

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I'm going to promise you're going to be part of my kingdom.

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There's going to be rewards based on your sacrifice, your service.

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What are we waiting to hear?

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Well done, good and faithful servant.

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That's what that's what God is going to say.

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Not well done, good and faithful Bible teacher or.

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It's well done, good and faithful servant.

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What are we expecting in this life?

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Jesus sat and it laid down an example.

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How are we serving?

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What are we doing?

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That you might eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones,

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00:30:35,800 --> 00:30:39,400
judging the 12 tribes of Israel.

489
00:30:42,560 --> 00:30:44,200
Says this in verse 31.

490
00:30:44,200 --> 00:30:58,400
Lord turns to Peter and he says, Simon, Simon, indeed, Satan has asked for you

491
00:30:58,400 --> 00:31:03,000
that he may sift you as wheat, but I've prayed for you that your faith should not

492
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:03,480
fail.

493
00:31:03,480 --> 00:31:08,080
And when you have returned to me, strengthen your brethren.

494
00:31:08,080 --> 00:31:10,120
Peter responds.

495
00:31:10,120 --> 00:31:16,000
He says to him, Lord, I'm ready to go both to prison and to death.

496
00:31:16,000 --> 00:31:18,480
What do you mean when I return?

497
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:19,840
I'm ready to go to prison.

498
00:31:19,840 --> 00:31:21,320
I'm ready to die for you.

499
00:31:21,320 --> 00:31:23,160
And this is what Jesus says.

500
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:30,000
I tell you, Peter, the rooster shall not crow this day before you will deny three

501
00:31:30,000 --> 00:31:32,520
times that you know me.

502
00:31:32,520 --> 00:31:35,840
Peter had no idea that that was in him.

503
00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:38,640
He had no clue what Peter didn't understand.

504
00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:45,120
And Jesus puts an exclamation point on it when he says, Simon, Simon, like, do you

505
00:31:45,120 --> 00:31:48,400
have a name like maybe it's your middle name or your full name when somebody's

506
00:31:48,400 --> 00:31:50,080
like trying to get your attention?

507
00:31:54,360 --> 00:32:00,800
Harley David, I don't know what you would be if your wife or your husband or your

508
00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:02,280
mom or dad is calling you.

509
00:32:02,280 --> 00:32:03,920
Do they use your middle name too?

510
00:32:03,920 --> 00:32:05,080
I don't know.

511
00:32:05,080 --> 00:32:11,040
He's like the way he would Jesus did with Mary, Mary, Mary.

512
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:13,320
He goes to Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Jerusalem.

513
00:32:13,320 --> 00:32:15,600
He's getting it's the attention.

514
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:16,760
Simon, Simon.

515
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:28,560
And Peter has no idea that he is the focus and the center of a satanic plot

516
00:32:28,560 --> 00:32:29,680
against his life.

517
00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:33,320
Satan has desired to sift you as we what?

518
00:32:33,320 --> 00:32:38,880
I had no idea that that was a thought in the devil's mind.

519
00:32:38,880 --> 00:32:39,400
Right.

520
00:32:39,400 --> 00:32:45,440
And I don't know if maybe you guys are unaware of that today because that's the

521
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:51,640
reality that there's a spiritual battle going on and you're part of a spiritual

522
00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:55,840
attack, a plot against your life, your faith, your family.

523
00:32:55,840 --> 00:32:57,240
Maybe you don't know that.

524
00:32:57,240 --> 00:33:02,600
Today, this morning, and Jesus is waking him up.

525
00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:06,280
Sometimes we fail to remember that or identify it.

526
00:33:06,280 --> 00:33:08,280
Job certainly didn't know it.

527
00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:09,280
Right.

528
00:33:09,280 --> 00:33:17,920
Job did not know that the devil was like, actually, the Lord's like, hey, if you

529
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:21,120
consider my servant, Job, Lord, why?

530
00:33:23,120 --> 00:33:25,120
Why not my servant, Greg?

531
00:33:25,120 --> 00:33:29,120
Why Job?

532
00:33:32,120 --> 00:33:33,120
Have you considered?

533
00:33:34,480 --> 00:33:37,000
And then and then the conversation ensues.

534
00:33:37,920 --> 00:33:40,160
Well, he doesn't serve you for no reason.

535
00:33:41,440 --> 00:33:42,400
You've blessed him.

536
00:33:42,400 --> 00:33:44,440
You've done and the battle.

537
00:33:45,840 --> 00:33:51,000
Job doesn't know initially what the heck is happening.

538
00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:53,120
Right.

539
00:33:53,120 --> 00:33:59,600
And I think sometimes we fail to remember or recognize or even know that some of

540
00:33:59,600 --> 00:34:02,320
the things that are going on in our life, it's spiritually.

541
00:34:02,760 --> 00:34:03,680
It's an attack.

542
00:34:03,680 --> 00:34:05,480
It's a trial, a temptation.

543
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:07,920
It's the devil does not like you.

544
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:14,320
He comes to steal, kill and destroy to divide and conquer were to be or not to

545
00:34:14,320 --> 00:34:19,640
be ignorant of his devices, his tactics, his schemes, his plans against you.

546
00:34:19,640 --> 00:34:24,320
Paul says we don't wrestle against flesh and blood, and sometimes I think we we

547
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:30,480
put a name or a job or a position to a person that we feel attacked by or and

548
00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:34,920
sometimes the source of that, the root of that is spiritual.

549
00:34:34,920 --> 00:34:37,240
That's why Paul says here, take this armor.

550
00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:38,880
You're going to need it.

551
00:34:40,040 --> 00:34:41,600
You're going to need this stuff.

552
00:34:43,480 --> 00:34:47,600
Because the battle you're in, the battle I'm in is eternal.

553
00:34:47,600 --> 00:34:48,800
And it's spiritual.

554
00:34:51,120 --> 00:34:52,120
Peter didn't know.

555
00:34:53,400 --> 00:34:58,120
And you might think, not me, maybe Peter, Peter, but he he's the first pope.

556
00:34:58,240 --> 00:35:00,120
Of course, he's getting attacked.

557
00:35:00,160 --> 00:35:01,080
No, that's a joke.

558
00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:02,080
He's not the first pope.

559
00:35:05,720 --> 00:35:10,480
Sometimes we don't recognize the impact that your life is having even on one

560
00:35:10,480 --> 00:35:13,280
person, the witness you are on the job.

561
00:35:13,280 --> 00:35:16,600
The people you witness to the devil does not like that.

562
00:35:17,600 --> 00:35:19,080
So here's the focus.

563
00:35:19,880 --> 00:35:20,880
Let's go after him.

564
00:35:22,040 --> 00:35:27,040
See if he'll still be a witness if if this happens to him financially or

565
00:35:27,040 --> 00:35:29,960
health wise, they're going to hold their ground.

566
00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:32,000
No.

567
00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,480
We crumble sometimes.

568
00:35:37,320 --> 00:35:41,240
Thankfully, Jesus knew that he was going to be a witness.

569
00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:46,120
Thankfully, Jesus knew. Peter was going to crumble.

570
00:35:48,120 --> 00:35:51,000
Jesus knew Peter was going to crumble under the pressure.

571
00:35:53,200 --> 00:35:58,240
Right. He wasn't this wasn't a great victory for Peter, like I'm going to stand

572
00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:00,120
for you. Peter thought he was going to.

573
00:36:00,320 --> 00:36:01,760
I'm ready to go to prison.

574
00:36:01,840 --> 00:36:04,440
Nah, actually, I'm ready to die for you.

575
00:36:05,000 --> 00:36:06,000
Right. Like.

576
00:36:07,160 --> 00:36:08,200
No, you're not, Peter.

577
00:36:08,200 --> 00:36:12,560
Actually, this young girl will look at it next week, this little servant girl is

578
00:36:12,560 --> 00:36:17,000
going to question you and you're going to deny three times that you even know him.

579
00:36:18,360 --> 00:36:20,400
You're going to swear you're going to take an oath.

580
00:36:21,480 --> 00:36:23,080
Maybe even swear, I don't know.

581
00:36:26,440 --> 00:36:27,480
I don't know the man.

582
00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:36,120
Satan has asked for you that he might sift you as wheat.

583
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:41,920
That's a tough process. The tough process.

584
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:46,440
Fifteen. It's wheat was rolled over the grain.

585
00:36:47,120 --> 00:36:50,960
They roll over it to crack that shell.

586
00:36:51,480 --> 00:36:55,920
And then they would take it to a high point mountain.

587
00:36:56,320 --> 00:36:58,720
They throw it up in the air and the chaff.

588
00:36:59,920 --> 00:37:05,240
Would blow away and then the wheat, the valuable stuff that stays,

589
00:37:05,240 --> 00:37:06,320
they would keep doing that.

590
00:37:06,320 --> 00:37:07,320
And it was quite a process.

591
00:37:07,320 --> 00:37:09,800
You're cracking it. You're throwing it, cracking it, throwing it.

592
00:37:09,960 --> 00:37:12,480
And that's what Jesus said. Satan wants to do that to your life.

593
00:37:13,360 --> 00:37:18,240
He wants to stomp you a little, throw you up in the air, stomp you a little more,

594
00:37:18,240 --> 00:37:19,440
throw you up in the air.

595
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:22,520
He has to ask.

596
00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:24,080
That's good news for you and I.

597
00:37:24,080 --> 00:37:26,480
Yes, Satan is not all powerful.

598
00:37:26,480 --> 00:37:27,640
He can't do whatever he wants.

599
00:37:27,640 --> 00:37:28,800
He has to ask.

600
00:37:29,640 --> 00:37:30,640
That's good news.

601
00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:33,760
He has to ask permission.

602
00:37:33,760 --> 00:37:35,040
And it's also good news.

603
00:37:35,040 --> 00:37:36,840
Jesus said, I've prayed for you.

604
00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:43,240
You read it in Hebrews and Revelation that Jesus ever lives to make intercession.

605
00:37:43,240 --> 00:37:45,360
He knows how to pray, what to pray.

606
00:37:45,520 --> 00:37:47,280
The father hears his prayers.

607
00:37:47,920 --> 00:37:49,040
He's praying for you.

608
00:37:49,040 --> 00:37:49,720
That's great.

609
00:37:52,840 --> 00:38:00,240
I remember going to a Bible study of the coverage of finger lakes and Don McClure

610
00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:04,080
was speaking, I'm like, oh, man, that's one of my favorite pastors.

611
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:04,880
I want to hear him.

612
00:38:04,880 --> 00:38:08,880
And then at the end, he's praying to whoever wants to, you know, get prayed for.

613
00:38:08,880 --> 00:38:11,760
We want to pray for the baptism of the Holy Spirit on your life.

614
00:38:12,240 --> 00:38:13,800
Like trying to get through the crowd.

615
00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,000
I want Don to put his hand on you.

616
00:38:16,000 --> 00:38:17,000
We want prayer.

617
00:38:17,480 --> 00:38:18,320
And Don's like this.

618
00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:23,720
He looks at me and another guy that that a friend of mine, we didn't come together,

619
00:38:23,720 --> 00:38:25,000
but we sat together.

620
00:38:25,640 --> 00:38:29,000
He looks and he looks at both of us and he puts his hand on me.

621
00:38:29,000 --> 00:38:35,600
He looks at both of us and he puts his hand on Jeff Inchco, a friend of mine, and prays

622
00:38:35,600 --> 00:38:36,120
for him.

623
00:38:36,120 --> 00:38:37,840
I'm like, what the heck, Don?

624
00:38:37,840 --> 00:38:40,520
You know, I was waiting for you to pray for me.

625
00:38:41,520 --> 00:38:42,520
But here's the good news.

626
00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:43,880
Jesus is praying for you.

627
00:38:46,040 --> 00:38:52,200
Jesus is praying for you, but may not be praying what you think he might be praying.

628
00:38:53,080 --> 00:38:55,920
He's not praying that Peter wouldn't be sifted.

629
00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:00,920
He says, when you return, when you grow from this process, when you get through this

630
00:39:00,920 --> 00:39:05,520
difficulty, you're going to be of greater value to me than you are right now.

631
00:39:05,800 --> 00:39:07,400
You're going to strengthen your brethren.

632
00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:10,440
Listen, and he's going to reinstate Peter.

633
00:39:10,440 --> 00:39:14,600
We're going to read about that, talk about that, because Peter's going to deny and Jesus

634
00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:17,000
is going to go get him while he's fishing.

635
00:39:20,400 --> 00:39:23,000
Because Peter gets really discouraged after that.

636
00:39:23,000 --> 00:39:26,360
After he realizes, no, I guess I'm not ready to go to prison for you.

637
00:39:26,360 --> 00:39:27,840
I guess I'm not ready to die.

638
00:39:27,840 --> 00:39:32,360
I barely even want people to know I'm following you, that I'm a Christian.

639
00:39:32,680 --> 00:39:39,240
Peter becomes a great tool, a vessel in God's hands on the other side of this

640
00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:44,760
difficulty, on the other side of failure, because that's the greatest thing on the

641
00:39:44,760 --> 00:39:48,720
other side of failure is the lesson you learn through it and who you become on the

642
00:39:48,720 --> 00:39:49,520
other side of it.

643
00:39:49,520 --> 00:39:52,120
Something you need to learn, something you need to know.

644
00:39:52,120 --> 00:39:53,640
Yeah, there's failure in you.

645
00:39:55,920 --> 00:40:00,200
You're not perfect, but God, he's not done with your life for Peter.

646
00:40:00,200 --> 00:40:01,560
He's not done with his life.

647
00:40:02,120 --> 00:40:05,440
He still wanted to use him and still was going to use him.

648
00:40:07,440 --> 00:40:13,560
What's also good to know is that Jesus already knew his failure.

649
00:40:15,400 --> 00:40:15,680
Right.

650
00:40:15,680 --> 00:40:17,080
He already knows his failure.

651
00:40:17,080 --> 00:40:23,320
He knew that Peter would deny him exactly what he would do in so much detail.

652
00:40:23,320 --> 00:40:25,840
He says, Peter, in fact, in the other gospel, I think it's Mark.

653
00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:29,200
He said the rooster will quote crow twice.

654
00:40:29,680 --> 00:40:33,760
And by the second time it crows, you'll have denied me three times.

655
00:40:35,520 --> 00:40:41,840
So exacting, so detailed as Jesus know your life and my life and Peter's life.

656
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,080
And he didn't give up on him.

657
00:40:43,080 --> 00:40:47,520
In fact, you remember in John chapter one is as as Peter comes to Jesus,

658
00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:48,440
he sees him.

659
00:40:48,440 --> 00:40:51,200
He says, Simon, son of Jonah.

660
00:40:53,240 --> 00:40:55,240
He says, you shall be called Cephas.

661
00:40:56,040 --> 00:40:57,040
We call the rock.

662
00:40:57,040 --> 00:40:58,040
That's what it means.

663
00:40:58,520 --> 00:41:01,120
He says, basically saying, I know who you are.

664
00:41:02,400 --> 00:41:03,160
Know your dad.

665
00:41:03,160 --> 00:41:04,120
I know your family.

666
00:41:04,120 --> 00:41:05,600
I know who you are, Peter.

667
00:41:05,800 --> 00:41:07,240
One day you're going to be a rock.

668
00:41:07,240 --> 00:41:08,120
You're going to be a rock.

669
00:41:08,120 --> 00:41:09,040
You're going to be a rock.

670
00:41:09,040 --> 00:41:09,960
You're going to be a rock.

671
00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,240
Peter, one day you're going to be a rock.

672
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,520
Your life is going to I know who you are and I know what I'm going to make you.

673
00:41:17,880 --> 00:41:19,400
I know how I'm going to change you.

674
00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:21,920
Change your life, Peter.

675
00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,840
Right. You can't change yourself.

676
00:41:24,840 --> 00:41:28,240
You can change some things, habits.

677
00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:36,600
We have to rely on God's work, rest in it, trust in it, believe it, hold on to it.

678
00:41:36,600 --> 00:41:38,200
I know who you are, Peter.

679
00:41:51,560 --> 00:41:55,840
And he says this, debating on continuing here.

680
00:41:57,000 --> 00:42:02,520
And then he said to him, when I sent you without moneybags, knapsacks, sandals, did you lack anything?

681
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:04,080
And they said nothing.

682
00:42:04,080 --> 00:42:06,680
That's when he sent out the 12, sent out the 70.

683
00:42:06,680 --> 00:42:08,560
He said, don't take anything with you.

684
00:42:08,800 --> 00:42:09,800
Don't take money.

685
00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:11,200
Don't take extra coat.

686
00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:12,200
Don't listen.

687
00:42:13,080 --> 00:42:15,880
You're a minimalist on this trip, on this missions trip.

688
00:42:18,720 --> 00:42:23,720
And now he says he's changing what he's doing.

689
00:42:24,720 --> 00:42:28,440
But now he who has a money bag, let him take it.

690
00:42:28,440 --> 00:42:30,200
And likewise, a knapsack.

691
00:42:30,200 --> 00:42:34,160
And he who has no sword, let him sell his garment and buy one.

692
00:42:37,320 --> 00:42:42,440
For I say to you that this which is written must still be accomplished in me.

693
00:42:42,440 --> 00:42:47,840
And he was numbered with the transgressors for the things concerning me to have an end.

694
00:42:48,960 --> 00:42:51,720
And they said, Lord, look, here's two swords.

695
00:42:55,120 --> 00:42:57,400
And he said to him, that's enough.

696
00:42:57,400 --> 00:43:00,400
Here's two swords. That'd be Justin.

697
00:43:00,400 --> 00:43:01,400
I got two of them.

698
00:43:12,400 --> 00:43:13,400
So he reminds them.

699
00:43:16,400 --> 00:43:19,400
When he asked them to step out in faith and trust.

700
00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:23,400
And just listen, go, believe me, I'm with you.

701
00:43:23,400 --> 00:43:26,400
You don't need your money. You don't need this.

702
00:43:26,400 --> 00:43:27,400
I'm going to just trust me.

703
00:43:27,400 --> 00:43:28,400
I'm going to provide.

704
00:43:28,400 --> 00:43:30,400
I'm going to give you everything you need.

705
00:43:30,400 --> 00:43:33,400
And now he's saying, listen, now I'm asking you.

706
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:35,400
And that happens in your life.

707
00:43:35,400 --> 00:43:40,400
Maybe you remember times like that when you're just stepping out in faith, you're walking in faith.

708
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:43,400
You're not like doesn't matter if you got the money or not.

709
00:43:43,400 --> 00:43:48,400
You're going out to buy this meal for this person or buy a Bible for that person or do something for this family.

710
00:43:48,400 --> 00:43:49,400
I don't care.

711
00:43:49,400 --> 00:43:50,400
I don't care.

712
00:43:50,400 --> 00:43:53,400
I don't know how I'm going to pay the rent.

713
00:43:53,400 --> 00:43:55,400
And you're like, oh, my gosh, I'm getting kicked out.

714
00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:56,400
No.

715
00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:00,400
But and then other times, God's like, be practical.

716
00:44:00,400 --> 00:44:02,400
Use what I've already given you.

717
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:04,400
Give me a job.

718
00:44:04,400 --> 00:44:05,400
Give me money.

719
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:06,400
I've given you this.

720
00:44:06,400 --> 00:44:07,400
I've given you that.

721
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:10,400
Now I want you to use wisdom.

722
00:44:10,400 --> 00:44:12,400
Be a good steward.

723
00:44:12,400 --> 00:44:14,400
That's how I got you to.

724
00:44:14,400 --> 00:44:16,400
And by the way, and then he says, buy a sword.

725
00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:17,400
Why?

726
00:44:17,400 --> 00:44:21,400
I thought we weren't supposed to defend ourselves.

727
00:44:21,400 --> 00:44:25,400
Jesus said, bring a sword with you.

728
00:44:25,400 --> 00:44:26,400
Get one.

729
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:33,400
If you don't have one, get one.

730
00:44:33,400 --> 00:44:41,400
And you should defend yourselves at times.

731
00:44:41,400 --> 00:44:44,400
Defend the.

732
00:44:44,400 --> 00:44:48,400
People who are defenseless and people who need it.

733
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:51,400
Maybe it's your spouse, your kids.

734
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:55,400
If you saw something happening to them.

735
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:57,400
Aren't you going to defend them?

736
00:44:57,400 --> 00:44:58,400
Right.

737
00:44:58,400 --> 00:45:03,400
If somebody wanted to abduct, hurt.

738
00:45:03,400 --> 00:45:06,400
Rape.

739
00:45:06,400 --> 00:45:09,400
I want two swords, not just one.

740
00:45:09,400 --> 00:45:10,400
Jesus says that.

741
00:45:10,400 --> 00:45:12,400
And then they're, I got two.

742
00:45:12,400 --> 00:45:14,400
He's like, all right, that's enough.

743
00:45:14,400 --> 00:45:16,400
Not like two is plenty.

744
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:18,400
But all right, that's enough.

745
00:45:18,400 --> 00:45:20,400
We could talk about this for a long time.

746
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:21,400
He's like, that's enough.

747
00:45:21,400 --> 00:45:22,400
Okay.

748
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:23,400
I'm going to move on now.

749
00:45:23,400 --> 00:45:24,400
I get it.

750
00:45:24,400 --> 00:45:25,400
You got it.

751
00:45:25,400 --> 00:45:27,400
And we'll read about that next week.

752
00:45:27,400 --> 00:45:28,400
Peter uses one of the.

753
00:45:28,400 --> 00:45:30,400
I don't know who's got the other sword.

754
00:45:30,400 --> 00:45:31,400
Peter uses one.

755
00:45:31,400 --> 00:45:32,400
We'll look at it next week.

756
00:45:32,400 --> 00:45:34,400
He chops off Melchus's ear.

757
00:45:34,400 --> 00:45:35,400
Right.

758
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:36,400
I don't know.

759
00:45:36,400 --> 00:45:38,400
Is it too dark where he can't see or does Peter need glasses?

760
00:45:38,400 --> 00:45:40,400
Or was it just a bad shot?

761
00:45:40,400 --> 00:45:41,400
I don't know.

762
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:44,400
He lops off an ear and Jesus is like, all right, no, that's Peter.

763
00:45:44,400 --> 00:45:45,400
I have to die.

764
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:46,400
This is going to happen.

765
00:45:46,400 --> 00:45:47,400
And he heals.

766
00:45:47,400 --> 00:45:51,400
That's the last miracle Jesus does is he heals Melchus.

767
00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:53,400
Puts his ear back on.

768
00:45:53,400 --> 00:45:56,400
Fixes something to the disciples break.

769
00:45:56,400 --> 00:45:59,400
Right.

770
00:45:59,400 --> 00:46:04,400
Last miracle before his crucifixion.

771
00:46:04,400 --> 00:46:07,400
But he says, I want you to walk out in wisdom.

772
00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:08,400
Be practical.

773
00:46:08,400 --> 00:46:12,400
And sometimes God does that for you and I and we're done.

774
00:46:12,400 --> 00:46:17,400
But sometimes for you and I, there's times where God says, I want you to walk out in

775
00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:18,400
faith.

776
00:46:18,400 --> 00:46:22,400
You don't need this, this and this to do what I'm asking you to do.

777
00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,400
I'm asking you to step out in faith.

778
00:46:25,400 --> 00:46:28,400
And other times it's like, be practical.

779
00:46:28,400 --> 00:46:29,400
I've given you wisdom.

780
00:46:29,400 --> 00:46:31,400
I've given you provision.

781
00:46:31,400 --> 00:46:32,400
Do this.

782
00:46:32,400 --> 00:46:35,400
You have to.

783
00:46:35,400 --> 00:46:39,400
Use what I already gave you.

784
00:46:39,400 --> 00:46:46,400
And that's between you and the Lord and me and the Lord to determine that sometimes.

785
00:46:46,400 --> 00:46:54,400
That's called our walk.

786
00:46:54,400 --> 00:46:58,400
But I do want to ask you, is there a time where you feel like God's called you to do

787
00:46:58,400 --> 00:47:01,400
certain things, asked you to do certain things?

788
00:47:01,400 --> 00:47:03,400
And you're like, no, I can't do.

789
00:47:03,400 --> 00:47:05,400
I can't afford that.

790
00:47:05,400 --> 00:47:07,400
Can't do that.

791
00:47:07,400 --> 00:47:12,400
But you know, God's saying that this is what I want you to do is what you should be doing.

792
00:47:12,400 --> 00:47:16,400
And you're like, no, that's not practical.

793
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:22,400
Well, not everything is called a walk of faith, a life of faith.

794
00:47:22,400 --> 00:47:28,400
Sometimes we mix those two things up and we think everything has to be practical.

795
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:29,400
I got to write it down.

796
00:47:29,400 --> 00:47:33,400
That's not my budget or that's not my time schedule.

797
00:47:33,400 --> 00:47:38,400
Some things are and some things aren't.

798
00:47:38,400 --> 00:47:52,400
And if God is challenging you or putting something on your heart or maybe early on in your walk with zeal and you were walking with the Lord, man, I just was walking in faith and anything God asked me to do, I was willing to do it.

799
00:47:52,400 --> 00:47:56,400
Maybe it's not that way anymore for you.

800
00:47:56,400 --> 00:47:59,400
You're not willing to do anything. I don't know.

801
00:47:59,400 --> 00:48:01,400
But he's speaking to the disciples.

802
00:48:01,400 --> 00:48:03,400
He's giving them direction.

803
00:48:03,400 --> 00:48:05,400
It's okay to have a sword.

804
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:13,400
Also, there's an obvious translation in the New Testament or today.

805
00:48:13,400 --> 00:48:15,400
Maybe just kidding.

806
00:48:15,400 --> 00:48:18,400
I'm not going to go down that road.

807
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:19,400
We'll just pray.

808
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:23,400
Lord, we're thankful, God, for your word.

809
00:48:23,400 --> 00:48:26,400
We're thankful that it directs our hearts and our minds.

810
00:48:26,400 --> 00:48:31,400
Lord, it's a word that you tell us that it's alive.

811
00:48:31,400 --> 00:48:35,400
It's powerful, active.

812
00:48:35,400 --> 00:48:37,400
It speaks to us.

813
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:43,400
Lord, I pray that the things that you spoke to us this morning, Lord, would be impressed on our hearts.

814
00:48:43,400 --> 00:48:49,400
They would change our hearts, Lord, that they would change our way of thinking that they would challenge us, that they would encourage us.

815
00:48:49,400 --> 00:48:54,400
Lord, I look at Peter's life so encouraging.

816
00:48:54,400 --> 00:49:06,400
You knew all his flaws and failures and shortcomings, God, and you stood with him and stuck with him the way you do each and every one of us here, God.

817
00:49:06,400 --> 00:49:08,400
We want our lives to bring you honor and glory.

818
00:49:08,400 --> 00:49:10,400
We want to be servants.

819
00:49:10,400 --> 00:49:11,400
Help us to serve, Lord.

820
00:49:11,400 --> 00:49:17,400
You left an example that we should walk in, John tells us.

821
00:49:17,400 --> 00:49:20,400
We should walk as you've walked in your footsteps.

822
00:49:20,400 --> 00:49:21,400
Help us to do that.

823
00:49:21,400 --> 00:49:24,400
Let that mind be in us.

824
00:49:24,400 --> 00:49:33,400
Heart of a servant, Lord, you want us to be that, called us to be that.

825
00:49:33,400 --> 00:50:01,400
I pray by your Holy Spirit you'd empower us to be all that you've called us to be, Jesus, in your name.

826
00:50:03,400 --> 00:50:06,400
Amen.