Well, we're getting the message. We'll ask God's blessing again. Pray for those that are sick, Audrey's sick, and others who have illnesses in this body. And I tell you, we are weak and feeble creatures. We are just totally dependent on our God for everything. There's no doubt concerning this. We're dependent upon Him for every blessing.

So, Gina is not feeling well. Pray for her and others who are not able to be with us tonight. So, pray for them. I ask your prayers. I had a message up until yesterday I was going to preach and then the Lord changed it. I believe He changed it. This message blessed my heart, this text. And I do long for the Spirit of God to bless you as I was blessed to see the great care and love of our Lord Jesus in this text. And I long for that to be displayed to your heart by the Spirit. So pray for me, body and mind, that I preach the gospel to you. and that the Spirit apply it.

Remember those churches without pastors, those who have need. There are many. There are many. So pray for them that God give them pastors after his own heart. Let's go to him in prayer.

Our gracious Father in heaven, we pray this evening that you'd be with us, that you would strengthen us, in body and mind, and especially in our hearts. We plead this evening that the Spirit would be present with us and that the Word would go forth in power and demonstration of your spirit. That you would bless the Word, Father, that Christ would be magnified through the preaching of this Gospel, that sinners might hear and believe Father, I do pray that you'd cast out every foe, every enemy that would come in and try to disrupt. Father, you would be gracious and merciful. Show forth the power of your grace and mercy in the application of this word to the hearts of sinners. Cause those that are Saved by your grace, I pray that you'd make this message a comfort to them, that you would again display the love and grace that you have for us in Jesus Christ, our Savior, and show forth his love and his grace in the accomplishment of our salvation. Bless those that are sick. By the power and grace of your hand, I pray that you would heal your people, heal those who struggle in their minds, those who struggle in their bodies, those who struggle spiritually. I pray that you would be with us and strengthen us. And I plead that you forgive us our sins and cleanse us of our unrighteousness. I pray this in Jesus' name. and plead it for his sake. Amen.

I take your bow and let's turn back with me to John chapter 13. John chapter 13. I've entitled this message, The Love of Jesus on Display. The Love of Jesus on Display. Now in verse 1 it reads, before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come, that He should depart out of the world unto the Father, having loved His own, having loved His own, which were in the world, He loved them unto the end.

Now, the first thing in this text we notice is that Jesus knowing His hour was come. This hour was His hour of suffering. It was the hour ordained of the Father. It was His hour of agony and the purpose for which He came into this world. Remember when Peter resisted Him. He said, For this hour am I come. For this purpose am I come. He come that He should be made sin for His people and that He should suffer the full vengeance of God. That was His hour. He knew it was come. It was come. And He, knowing that He should tread the wine-pressed of the wrath of God alone, he out of infinite love, eternal love, the scripture says, even in this hour, he said he loved his own. He loved his own, which were in the world, and he loved them even unto the end. even unto the end.

Here in our text, He then will manifest this great love. He is going to display this great love, which is a gospel picture in the washing of His disciples' feet. In this text, He is going to display His great love. His great love. We must understand this. that everything Jesus did, everything Jesus did on this earth, He did on purpose. Now, we don't do that. I mean, most of the time, we barely do on purpose those things we desire to do. But everything the Lord Jesus did, He did on purpose. And this is no different. This was on purpose. Everything that God had ordained to be done, our Lord Jesus Christ did it.

I did a whole message on Jesus is the Christ and how He must fulfill Scripture. Everything He did was on purpose that He should fulfill Scripture, which is what? The salvation of His people. And so everything He did He did to display His deity, He did to display His humanity, He did to display His humility, and He always did it on purpose in order to declare this, that salvation is by the grace and power of God through His work. That's every time He did something, He was declaring that.

I'm going to give you an illustration of this. In Matthew chapter 9 you have that man who is sick of the palsy. He's paralyzed. He's paralyzed. And his friends, they can't get in so they let him down through the roof. You think that was accidental? This happened by chance? No, our God designed this specifically so that Jesus should display His character, His person, His nature. And so they lower that man down before the Lord Jesus. On purpose, Jesus says this, Son, be of good cheer. Now, can you imagine that? This is what He says to a man who is paralyzed, to a man who could not move. He says, Be happy. And then He doesn't raise him up. He says something totally that no one ever expected. He said, Son, be of good cheer, now this is why, thy sins be forgiven. Now listen, we could be sick, we could be in trouble, but if we have this, truly we should be happy. Be of good cheer. Thy sins be, now what was he doing? On purpose, he was displaying his deity.

Those Pharisees, they said no man can forgive sins except God, and they were right. And Jesus was displaying his deity. And they said, I hear you murmuring inside yourselves. I know you're murmuring among yourselves. But that you may know that I have power to forgive sins. He said to the sick of the palsy, rise and take up thy bed and walk. Now that man had not walked for a long, long time. And you know what? It would be amazing, wouldn't it, if that man were just sitting there and he moves his hands, you know? I said, look, look, he's moving his hands. He's paralyzed. Oh, what a miracle. He moved his fingers. Oh, look at that. He sat up. No, Jesus said, don't wiggle your fingers, don't sit. Get up. What a miracle that was. Strength immediately returned to that man. He got up and he said, not only get up, I want you to take your bed and show them how strong you are. Take your own bed. That bed that they pulled down from the ceiling. He said, you lift that up and you take it out. And he did. What was he doing? On purpose, he was displaying, I'm God, manifest in the flesh, and I forgive sins. That's on purpose.

I could do many illustrations like this, but what was he doing? He was preaching the gospel, wasn't it? Aren't we the man sick of the palsy by nature? We're dead in sins, we can't lift ourselves up, we have no ability, and then what? He said, Son, be of good cheer, thy sins be forgiven thee. Now, our sins were forgiven us long before we ever knew it. And then what happened? The spirit of power comes and we're able to come. We hear the gospel and we get up and we believe. We come to Christ. See, what Christ was doing was displaying the gospel on purpose. He was displaying His character, His nature. And so even so now, that's what's happening right now in our text. Our Lord, knowing His hour has come, knowing that He should suffer, our Lord Jesus, out of love, now He does this, everything He does after this is a total act of love toward His people, toward those who were His own. And He's going to show us a great picture, another picture of salvation.

Before we begin to see the picture, John points out some things. Now, listen to this. He knew some things. He points out what the Lord Jesus Christ knew. And supper being ended, The devil now being put into the heart of Judas Iscariot to betray Him, Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands. He knew His hour was come and He knew this, that all things were now given into His hands.

Now the Son of God by divine right had all things in His hands. Did He not? From the beginning of the world were they not in His hands? Scripture says that all things were made by Him and for Him. So from the beginning, Jesus, the Son of God, had all things in His hands. He created everything.

But now we see this, that as He had condescended, To become a man, he willingly became subject to the law of God. He became a servant. Our Lord Jesus, his whole life was spent in absolute servitude. He who by nature had all things in his hands. willfully disrobed his glory and came down and became a man. And when he became a man, he became subject to everything a man is subject to. He was subject to the law of God.

You see, he was a servant chosen by the Father to do a work. That's what servants do, isn't it? Their master commands them. And Jesus said, I am become a servant of God to do a work. What is that work? He came down to provide righteousness. Righteousness for his people and to satisfy the justice of God for all his elect. But in order to do that, he had to become a servant.

And when he came to John the Baptist, John the Baptist had just preached a message and he said, he that cometh, he that is before me, he that cometh after me, that's what he said, he that cometh after me is preferred before me. Now John was three months older than the Lord Jesus, by birth. And he said, so he said, he that cometh after me, listen to this, he was preferred before me. He was before me. John displaying His deity.

And He said when He comes, He's going to come to His threshing floor and He's going to sift the wheat and all the chaff falls on the ground. And He said He's going to be like a fan that blows away the chaff. He's talking about our sins. He's going to blow them all away. He's going to get rid of all of our enemies and our sins.

And then Jesus comes to John and He's standing before John and He said, I've come to be baptized of you. And John said, No, that doesn't seem right. He said, I need to be baptized of you. And Jesus said this, Suffer it to be so now, because it becometh us to fulfill all righteousness. That's what he came to do. He came to fulfill all righteousness as a servant of God. And now is the Passover lamb.

You see, he was tried like the Passover lamb. It's Passover in this time that our Lord Jesus is going to do this. The Passover was always intended to be the time He was to be crucified. Why? He's the Passover Lamb.

Now, in that Old Testament type, you remember that Passover Lamb had to be looked at. He had to be perfect. He had to be perfect. And so the priest would inspect that Lamb. They would look at all of the hairs on that Lamb. And if there was one blemish, He was rejected. He had to be perfect.

You see, our Lord Jesus Christ of Passover land was inspected by everybody. Satan inspected Him. The Jews inspected Him. Pilate, he inspected Him. What did they say? He said, I find no fault in this man. That's what they found. Our Lord Jesus Christ was tried and found and proven to be righteous as a righteous servant.

a righteous servant of God he perfectly obeyed the law of God and now having obeyed the law of God listen what he knew he knew this that now all things were given into his hand because he deserved it he earned it as a servant he must earn the righteousness of his people And now that he did it, you know what he knew? He knew this, that the Father gave him all things into his hands.

In other words, all the responsibility rested in his hands. Now he knew that. He knew that all the glory of God and all the salvation of his people depended totally on him. Can you even fathom the weight of that responsibility?

When He knew all things were given into His hands, He was the substitute. It was now the time to be offered as the substitute. His hour was come. I want you to get a sense of this hour because it's the most important hour ever. This small window of time that the Lord was to be delivered up, I want you to know this, that all things before it move toward it. And everything after it looks back to it. It's the hinge upon all eternity is this hour. It is an hour of great magnitude that all the salvation of His people were now in His hands.

Your salvation, my salvation was in His hands. The Father put it in His hands. I like the way the Apostle Paul put it in Ephesians chapter 1, and the scripture says, who first trusted in Christ. Who was the first one to ever trust in Christ? It was the Father. The Father entrusted to Him all the salvation of His elect, and now the time had come for Him to do it. Jesus knew this was the time.

You that believe, this should give you great comfort to know that in this hour was all your salvation given to Him. The responsibility of your salvation never rested with you. The burden of your salvation never rested on your shoulders. In this hour, it rested on His.

The scripture says in Ephesians 1 that the Father chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world. Purpose, that we should be holy. And without blame before Him. Purpose is Reason in love having predestinated us under the adoption of children means by Jesus Christ unto himself According to good pleasure of his will to the praise of the glory of his grace wherein he hath made us Accepted in the beloved when were you accepted in the beloved? You were accepted when he chose you When he put you in Christ you were accepted you were made accepted in the beloved and now the hour had come for him to do it and to fulfill it.

And so all the Word of God from the beginning spoke of Christ coming to do this. Isn't that so? Go to Genesis 3.15, what does it say? The seed of the woman shall crush the head of the servant. God from the beginning was going to tell you how it was going to be done. He tells us in Isaiah 42, Behold my servant! whom I uphold, mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth. He shall bring judgment unto the Gentiles.

Scripture says in verse 4, He shall not fail. Isn't that trust? Did not the Lord trust Him? He did. He said He shall not fail nor be discouraged. Therefore, all the fulfillment of Holy Scripture and the very glory of God and the perfect salvation of his people rested solely in his hand.

So when you read that, he said, knowing that the father had given him all things into his hand, all your salvation was now in his hand. This was the time. You know what? You want to know when you were saved? This is it. This is when you were saved. And we're going to talk about experience of salvation a little bit later, but look, this is when all the elect were saved. when the Father put all things into His hands. And yet He knew, listen to this, even though He had this weight of responsibility given to Him, listen, He knew who He was and where He went, look at that. He said, knowing that the Father had given Him all things into His hands, He knew that he was come from God and went to God. He knew where he came from and he knew where he was going. In other words, he was sure that this thing was going to be done. He said, I know who I am. I know what I came to do and I know where I'm going when I'm done. This salvation was It's not iffy. Does it sound like he's questioning things? Does it sound like he may not get this done? He said no. He knew where he was come from and he knew where he was going when this was done. He knew it was going to be finished.

I like when he said that to Nicodemus in John 3. He said, As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of Man be lifted up. Was there any question He was going to be crucified? Was there any question that the wrath of God was going to fall on Him? Any question of this? Was there any question that He would not sustain it? That He would not be able to endure it? No question. He said, I know where I came from and I know where I'm going. Therefore, being God in the flesh, he could not fail. The salvation of his elect were totally dependent upon him, and he said this, I know this, I'm not going to fail. I'm not going to fail. That by his one offering, he would forever redeem his people.

Over in verse 31 of this chapter, he says, Therefore, when he was gone out, Jesus said, Now is the Son of Man glorified, and God is glorified in him. Now is the Son of Man glorified. Behold the victorious prayer. In John chapter 17, he says this, Father, I have glorified thy name upon the earth. I have finished the work that you gave me to do. Now, Father, glorify me with thine own self, with the glory which I had with thee before the world was. Again, does this sound like he's questioning whether he's going to be able to finish this? Listen, before it was finished, he's saying to God, listen, glorify me! I've finished the work that you've given me to do. Now give me my glory. Could anybody else say that? Was there any other man could ever say that to God? Give me my glory. No. He alone glorified God. He alone has victoriously glorified God and now God has glorified him because of his success, because of his victory. We are sure of our acceptance and confident of our salvation because Christ has glorified God. Therefore, we are saved. Every one of his people, he says, having loved his own, he loved them until he finished it. He loved them until the end.

since he has victoriously fulfilled the will of God by this hour, by this one offering, he has satisfied, perfected, sanctified and perfected all his people. Hebrews 10, chapter 10, I think it's in verse 9, he says, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. Here's the servant, here's Christ in this hour, My hour has come, I have come to do Thy will, O God. And Paul says, By the witch will we are sanctified. How? Through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. You see, our Lord Jesus Christ didn't come to make salvation possible, did He? Religion tells you salvation, He made it possible. That's not the gospel, that's not good news, is it? That means that something's left for me to do. And I could really mess that up. He didn't come to make salvation possible. He said, Father, I have finished the work that You've given me to do.

Now then, look what He does. Now, seeing that He knows all this, He knows His love, He knows His hour has come, He knows that the Father has given Him all the salvation of His people into His hands. He knows that He's going to be victorious.

Now what does He do? What is He going to do? Look at this in verse 4. Now He riseth from supper, and He does something unexpected. He takes off His garment, and He takes a towel, and He girds Himself with the towel. pours water into a pot, basin. And he kneels down beside every disciple and he puts their feet into this water and he washes their feet and dries them with a towel.

Very, what was this? Peter even asked, he said, what are you doing? He said, you don't know now, but I'll make sure you know in a minute. What is this? Now I want you to see that this is the love of Christ on display. The love of Christ on display.

Now He rises and He takes off His garments and He puts on a towel. Now this is a small and simple act of Jesus Christ, but it says a lot. It's a gospel message here. Our Lord Jesus, like He said, like I told you at the beginning, He does everything on purpose. This taking off His garment and putting on that towel was on purpose. He was going to display something. He was going to show you something.

Now at this time, at this time that Jesus did this, it was always the lowest servant who washed the feet. It was always the lowest man. If you were slaves, you had a list of slaves of a master, and he had guests come over. If you were on the bottom of the list, you got this job. This was the worst job to have. It meant that you were the most despised servant. You did something to really take on your master to do this. It was the lowest position in the house.

And knowing that He was God manifest in the flesh, knowing that He had come to fulfill all scripture, He performed this act of washing His feet in order to show this, His great condescension. How far did the Son of God come down to save us? How far did He have to stoop to save us?

You see, the Son of God from eternity was robed in majesty. Go to Psalm 93. Look at this. Look at how the Lord Jesus is described in Psalm 93. Look at verse 1. Listen. This is the Lord Jesus before His condescension. Listen now. The Scripture says, The Lord reigneth. Sound like a servant to you? Listen to this. He is clothed with majesty. The Lord is clothed with strength. Listen, wherewith He girded Himself. You ever gird yourself with strength? Could you do that? You think you can gird yourself with strength? He said no. All strength is His and so He Himself put on this strength. It's His. The world also established that it cannot be moved. He made this world and it can't be moved. This is the garment wherewith the Lord Himself was robed with majesty and honor and glory before the world was.

Yet on purpose, out of love for His people, as the Lord Jesus Christ took off that outer garment, even so did our Lord Jesus take off the glory He had with the Father. When He walked on this earth, no one could see any difference between Him and another man. Isn't that true? Because they all wanted to kill Him. Could they see a difference? You see all these foolish pictures with a halo above His head. Nobody ever saw anything like that. Why? Because He disrobed Himself of His glory. And what did he put on? He put on the form of a servant.

That's what Paul says in Philippians, he says, he being, the scripture says, let's go to Philippians chapter 2, I don't want to mess it up. Mine's not working on all cylinders, so. Ephesians chapter 2 and look at verse 6. who being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God. You got that? When he said, before Abraham was, I am, he was not robbing God of anything. If we said that, we would be robbing God of His glory. But he thought it not robbery to be equal with God because he was God. And yet look what he did. But made of himself no reputation, took upon him the form of a servant, and being made in the likeness of men, and being found in fashion, in nature, as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.

Behold the mind of our Lord Jesus Christ, as he took off this garment and put on that towel, what was he telling them? Look how low I condescended to save you. I who was God left my glory and put on the towel of humanity. And he was given then all the salvation of his people into his hands.

He must have become a man. Why? Because this was the only way to save us. It was by sin, it was by man that sin came. Wherefore, as by one man's sin entered into the world, result death by sin, so death passed upon all men, for all have sinned. That's how sin came in, by a representative man. This is how God determined it, that righteousness come in by a representative man. That's what Jesus was. He was a representative man. And in order to be a representative man, He had to become a man. He had to become a man. In every way, He was a man. And as a man, He was subject to the law of God. In every detail, He was subject to the law of God. in every way.

So behold the great humility of our Lord Jesus Christ on display, that He would stoop so low as to be made a man. How do you like being a man? Is it not encumbered with all kinds of sorrows and griefs and pains, at times it is the most humiliating thing, and yet he took the lowest place of a man. In order to do what? Look what Paul says, that he might, in Galatians he says this, that he might He was made under the law for the purpose of this, that He might redeem us who were under the curse of the law. That's what He has come to do, to redeem us from the curse of the law.

You see, was there any of us that could do this? Who among us could obey the law of God? Who? There was none. There was none of us that could have saved. None of us could have honored the law of God. We all polluted it. We all defiled it. But now you see the only hope and Savior, Jesus Christ, has come in the flesh in order to fulfill the law. That's exactly what He did. To do for us what we could never do for ourselves. He provided the righteousness of God for us by His obedience. And by His death He provided redemption for our sins.

Now the second thing, Jesus did this, look back at your text. So He took off His garments and He put on a towel. Let me get back to the right place, there we go. Verse 5, and He poureth water into a basin. He poureth water into a basin. You see now the picture of our Lord's impending death in this. Our Lord intends to picture His death in the pouring out of the water into the basin. He is going to testify and fulfill the scripture as He pours out His blood for the redemption of His people.

Look over in Isaiah 53, see if this is not so. Isaiah 53, look at verse 12. Speaking of our Lord, it says in verse 12, Therefore I will divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong. Why? Because he hath poured out his soul unto death. He was numbered with the transgressors and he bare the sins of many and, notice this word, made intercession. Made it! I think 700 years before He actually, this time in our text, had come, and yet God said He's already made it. He made intercession.

And knowing all things were given unto our Lord, in the greatest act of love and grace, our Lord poured out His soul unto death for our transgressions. You know, no man took His life You understand that, right? No man took his life. He said, no man taketh my life. I lay it down freely. I lay it down freely. The greatest act of love our Lord did was to lay down his life for the transgressor. That's me. You want to know where I'm at in this story? That's me, the transgressor.

The death of our Lord Jesus Christ was willingly. He said, I lay down my life for the sheep. We, by nature, were no different than any other transgressor. Isn't that true? By nature, we were haters of God. But Christ, by pouring out His soul unto death, has redeemed us and paid our sin debt to God. Behold, his blood that was shed was for the remission of sins. He suffered the full measure of God's justice. When he was on Calvary Street, your sin was being paid. All your sin. You haven't even finished sinning. You haven't experienced all the sins that you still got left. And he took them all. He took them all. And God punished him. in our stead.

So when He poured out the water in that basin, He was testifying of His love to pour out Himself unto death. Picturing His death.

Now notice this, thirdly, He began to wash their feet. Look at that. Back in your text. Get back over there. He poured the water in the basin. He began to wash His disciples' feet and wipe them with the towel wherewith He was girded. This is a picture of the work after His death, which is the regeneration of the Holy Spirit, the washing away of our sins.

In John 16, our Lord tells the disciples of the coming of the Holy Spirit. In verses 8-11, He tells them that the Spirit is going to come, and when He comes, He's going to do three things. He's going to convince the world of sin because they believe not on the Son of God. He's going to convince the world of righteousness because He goes to the Father, and of judgment because the Prince of this world is cast out. And when the Holy Spirit comes, that's exactly what He does.

The first thing He convinced me of is I'm a sinner. He convinced you of that? Yeah, I knew I was not a great person. I knew that I had some bad things. But a sinner? Really? Sure, I'll confess I'm a sinner. You know, sure. No, I didn't know anything. I knew a lot about doctrinally. I knew total depravity as a doctrine. What I didn't know was I was totally depraved until He came to me and He convinced me of it. Oh, He convinced me of it. He convinced me of my guilt and my shame. He convinced me of my sin and my inability to come to God. He convinced me of sin.

And the worst sin He convinced me of is this, I did not believe in the Son of God. That was the worst sin. That was the vilest sin I could have ever had. That Christ poured out His soul unto death and I would not believe. What an offense! It is to God for men not to believe. If you will not believe on Christ, it is the vilest of offenses. It is spitting in the face of the Son of God to not believe. And that was me. I would not believe.

And when He convinced me of it, He also showed me righteousness. He convinced me of righteousness. First of all, I didn't have any, and I needed it. Isn't that what He convinced you of? I didn't have any righteousness, and that's exactly what I needed. But then He showed me this, because I go to the Father. What does that say? That He's my righteousness. That He's all my righteousness.

And He convinced me of judgment, that judgment is passed. You who believe, don't you know that judgment is passed? When this hour was finished, my judgment was passed forever. I love this saying, God cannot demand twice payment for sin. Once at my surety's hand and then again at mine. He wouldn't be just. The Spirit of God convinced me of that. That Jesus Christ, His judgment was settled. My judgment was settled. And how did He know this? He said, because the Prince of the world is cast out. You realize that the Prince of this world can say nothing against us? It falls on deaf ears. Now He says things to me all the time. But you know who doesn't listen to Him? God. God don't hear one word of accusation He says. Why? Because Christ paid for my sins. He paid for my sins. And this is what is displayed here. He comes in an act of grace and cleanses us from all our sins. That's what washing His disciples' feet means. He comes to cleanse us. And what do we do? We trust Him completely. I don't trust anything else. Do you? Are you wanting to add anything to Him? You that believe. Is there anything that you do that you want to add to Him? Nothing. Nothing.

But notice Peter's reaction here. I'm going to have to move faster, I know. Look at verse 6. Then come to Simon Peter, and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? Jesus answered him, What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter. And Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Thou shalt never wash my feet. Peter's reluctance here is displayed. And it's understandable. Here's his Lord and Master. And he's down on his knees, fixing to wash his feet. And he said, no, it's what John the Baptist did, didn't he? He said, I need to be baptized of you. Peter's saying the same thing. I need, I should wash your feet. I should be the one. But he didn't understand what he was doing. He didn't understand what he was doing. Peter is saying, Lord, my sins are so black. Is it possible that you wash my feet? When God convinced you of sin, isn't that what you said? How is it possible for you to wash my feet? But Jesus' insistence here, notice what He said. He saith unto Peter, Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered and said, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. And what does Peter say? He said to him, well, don't just wash my feet. Wash my hands and wash my head. I want to be washed completely. He said, if you don't have your feet washed, you'll never have any part with me.

You see, everyone Christ purposed to save, He did wash. He did wash. Oh, that there are any sinners that need to be washed. Are there any sinners that need to be washed? If Christ doesn't wash you, you shall never have any part within. And all the elect cry, Lord, wash me completely. I don't want any part of this filth. Is this not our heart? fully without sin?

Yet notice and see the picture in verse 10, Jesus saith unto him, He that is washed needeth not save wash his feet, but he is clean every wit. He is clean every wit. Why was the washing of Christ limited to the feet? Well, because it pictures the heart. or a picture of the heart. Wherever the heart goes, that's where man goes. Wherever your feet's pointed, isn't that where you go? Where your feet are pointed? Listen, wherever your heart's pointed, that's where you go, isn't it?

So what does the Lord do? He cleanses us from the inside. He gives us a new nature. He washes and regenerates us by the power of the Holy Spirit. Every believer, the scripture says, the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord, and he delighteth in his way. Do you not delight in your way? Now that he has washed you, now that he has cleansed you, do you not delight in the way? What's the way? You that believe in Christ, what's the way? Christ is the way. Don't you delight in the way? Well, of course you do. The Lord directed your steps. He washed your feet. Do not our hearts delight in our Salvation that is by the sovereign grace of God He's brought our steps to Christ and made us willing in the day of his power

And you know what Christ said he said you're clean everywhere if God Regenerates your heart and gives you faith in Christ. Listen to me. You are clean from head to toe You're clean every wit even though we still possess in this body the body of death, the sin, the old man, yet Christ pronounces this, if I've washed you, you're clean. If I've washed you, you're clean.

Now notice this, but what about Judas? What about Judas? He says, notice what he says, he's going to wash even Judas' feet, but he said, look, he said, you are clean, but not all. Why? For he knew who would betray him, therefore he said, you are not all clean. You see, man isn't saved and then he's lost. When he washed Judas' feet, he knew this. It was just a picture. It was just a picture. Judas was not clean by this act. So Jesus washing Judas' feet, he says, you're not all clean. Jesus intentionally on purpose washed his feet to testify to us of this. that there are always goats among the sheep. There are always tares among the wheat. There are always pretenders. Always somebody pretending to be washed. Somebody pretending to believe. That's going to happen until He comes back.

But notice in verse 12, And Jesus took again His garments. What is this? This is His resurrection, isn't it? Remember He disrobed in His glory and took on the towel? Now then that he's washed his disciples' feet, he's saved his people, what does he do? He sets aside the towel, the servant, and he becomes Lord of all again. He dawns again the glory that he had with the Father from the beginning. Behold, sinner, do you see what Christ has done? and you see what He's done. You say, Peter, you don't know what I'm doing right now, but after you're done, you'll know.

Now then, listen, you know. You know what He did. Knowing where He came from, knowing what He was going to do, knowing the hour was come, knowing that everything was given into His hands, what does He do? He displays the Gospel clearly in a picture. He's disrobed in His glory, comes as a servant. pours out His soul unto death. For what? For the cleansing of His disciples. For the cleansing of His people. And those that are washed are clean everywhere.

And then what? He sets aside the towel, He dons again His garment, and He says, you know what I've done to you? You see what I did? Do you not see what great grace He's had on you? Do you not see how much love He had for you? And He said this, If I am your Lord and Master, and I've done this for you, I command you that you should do this for one another.

Pay attention. How much Should you love me? Listen, if God put on a screen everything in my mind, I don't know how in the world you could love me. But if He did, seeing what great things He did for you, and how much He loved you, is it not reasonable that you should love His disciples, you should love His people.

How much should you forgive me? How much should you wash my feet, seeing He washed yours? Is there any limit in this matter of forgiveness? Does Christ set a limit on your forgiveness? He set a limit on one another's forgiveness. Seeing He saved the least among you. I should do the same for you. I should do the same for you. Isn't it just reasonable? I know that believers are capable of any sin, and I know that we are capable many evil deeds. But if someone who is a believer has done many evil deeds against you, how much more evil have you done against your Lord? Should it not then be easier for us to forgive one another?

Seeing he loved his own and poured out his soul unto death, Should I not then love you even as He has loved me? Should I not forgive you even as He forgave me? If I understand what He did, then surely that would be easy for me to forgive you. You can't be proud and believe in grace. You can't. God saved you by grace, you have no reason to be proud.

If I, your Lord and Master, have done this unto you, so ought you to do this to one another. May God give us the grace to see what great love He had for us, and then in great love, love one another as He loved us. I pray that God bless this to you.

Let's stand and be dismissed in prayer. Gracious Father, thank You for the display of love that You've done for us on purpose. Magnify Your Word in our hearts. Strengthen us in the inner man. Cause us to see the great love and mercy the great sacrifice that you've made, the great victory that you've accomplished. And then give us grace to do this to one another, to love one another, even as you've loved us. And forgive us our sins where we fail you. In Christ's name, amen.