Well, good morning, everyone.
If you would, open your Bibles with me to John chapter 13. John
chapter 13. Let me tell you what a great
honor and privilege it is to be able to be here and worship
together with you. Already been blessed this morning.
Look forward to the Lord blessing his word to our hearts. I've
titled the message this morning, Do You Wash My Feet? I took my
title from verse 6, then cometh he to Simon Peter, and Peter
saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? Now this passage
of scripture is not teaching us literally that we ought to
have a service and we wash one another's feet. And I've always
been very, very glad of that. My feet are ugly. They're very
ticklish. I mean, it's just, you know,
I laugh when I wash my own feet. It's just, you know, to have
somebody else do that would just be embarrassing. And I'm glad
that's not what the Lord's teaching us. But he is teaching us something
so much more important. He's teaching us who he is and
what he did. What did it take for him to save
the souls of his people and to cleanse us from our sin? And
second thing he does is he gives us an example that if we'll follow
it, it'll make us happy. Now, it won't make us happy just
to know what the Lord says about this. It'll make us happy if
we do it. And that's those two things are
what I want us to look at this morning. Now, first and most
importantly, I want to look at what it took for the Redeemer
to cleanse and save his people from their sin. Number one, it
took his love for his people. Verse 1, John 13. Now, before
the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was
come, that he should depart out of this world unto the Father,
having loved his own, which were in the world, he loved them unto
the end. Now, contrary to popular opinion,
God does not love every son of Adam. You know, one statement
of Scripture ought to knock that out forever. Jacob have I loved. but he saw have I hated. John
says here that the Lord Jesus loved his own. He didn't love
everybody. He loved his own. Now who are his own? It's all
the elect that the father gave to him to save. God loves his
elect and only his elect. And Christ came to save God's
elect and only God's elect. And he loves those people. You
know, one of the things that makes God's love for his people
so special and so appreciated is that God loves sinners, real,
genuine sinners. John says here that the Lord
Jesus loved his own, which are in this world. Now, this is what
I can tell you about everybody in this world. We're sinners.
We have the nature of Adam, and we're sinners. And Christ loved
them. He loved those people. And there's
just no way to calculate The love of God for His people. Scripture
calls His love for His own an everlasting love. A love that
has no beginning and it will never have an ending. God's love
for His people never wavers up or down in its strength for His
people. It's always perfect. And the
Lord will have all those that He loves. He will have them.
This is what He said, I've loved thee with an everlasting love.
See, God's love means something. Therefore, with loving kindness
have I drawn thee. He's going to draw all those
that he loves to himself. And you can count on it. Paul
told the church at Rome that nothing can separate God's people
from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Nothing.
Scripture describes God's love as immeasurable. You can't measure
it. Paul told the church at Ephesus,
you can't measure the breadth or the length or the height nor
the depth of it. God's love passes knowledge. It just passes human knowledge.
But every believer in this room knows it, because you know it
by experience. And the Savior's love was put
in action to save his people. He loved his people so much that
He humiliated Himself to become flesh. He humiliated Himself
to become flesh and then to suffer and die for the sin of His people.
Christ humiliated Himself to appear in the flesh and then
He humiliated Himself to pay for sin that was against Him.
All of our sin is against Him, yet He came to pay for the sin
of His people. He paid the debt. And that's
what he's getting ready to give us a picture of. Look at verse
2. And supper having ended, the devil now having put into the
heart of Judas Iscariot Simon's son to betray him. Now Christ
loved his people so much he let Judas go do what Satan had put
in his heart to do. Obviously, the Lord could have
stopped Judas, couldn't he? But he didn't. He could have
stopped Judas from going to betray him, but he let Judas go do what
was in his heart to do so that the Lord would be taken and made
a sacrifice for the sin of the people who he loves, that he
would be sacrificed in their place. It took the love of God
for Him to do such a thing to redeem sinners who'd done nothing
ever but sin against Him. Number two, it takes the Redeemer's
sovereignty to save sinners like us. Verse three, Jesus knowing
that the Father had given all things into His hands and that
He was come from God and went to God. Now the man Jesus of
Nazareth knew everything. He knew it because he's God. He knew the secret thoughts of
men. He knew their secret plans and plots to take him and trap
him and kill him. He knew their secret purposes.
But the Lord Jesus was no fortune teller. He knew everything that
was going to happen because he's the very one that purposed for
it to happen before time began. The Lord purposed every single
event in human history before he created anything. Man never
does anything that God did not determine before to be done.
And the events of human time, all it is, is the unfolding of
God's purpose. That's all it is. I don't know
what God's purpose is for tomorrow, but tomorrow you'll know. You'll
know when it'll happen. Now that includes everything.
You know, that includes Adam's fall in the garden. Now God's
not the author of sin, but God did ordain. that Adam would sin,
that he would fall and put his whole race into death and destruction
so that God's son would get to glory when he came to redeem
those people out of Adam's fallen race. That includes the sacrifice
of Christ. At Calvary, men committed the
worst crime that's ever been done in God's creation. They
tortured and they slaughtered the only holy, righteous man
who ever lived. And they rejoiced while they
did it. But you know what? Why'd that happen? Because God
purposed for it to happen before time began. God purposed for
that to happen so that there would be a sacrifice for the
sin of his people. God is the one who purposed the
cross. so that sinless blood would be shed to atone for all
of the sin of all of God's elect. None of that would have happened
apart from God's sovereignty. It takes God's sovereignty to
save sinners like us. The Lord even knew who would
betray Him because He purposed Judas to betray Him. Look at
verse 11, for he knew who should betray him. Therefore said he,
you're not all clean. The Lord knew that Judas was
going to betray him and the Lord was going to use Judas's sin
to accomplish the will of God in the redemption of his people.
And he's with at least 11 of them. I don't know if there are
other ladies or anything, but at least the 11 were there with
him. These ones that he loved, these ones that he purposed to
save, that he's going to suffer and die for in just a matter
of hours, they're all there with him by his sovereign will. He
went and found every one of them and called them to himself. He
kept every one of them, didn't he? And he's going to continue
keeping every one of them. That happened by God's sovereign
will. There's no salvation of a sinner
apart from God's sovereign will to save us. Then number three, there's the
Redeemer's humiliation. It took his humiliation to save
sinners like us. Verse four. He riseth from supper
and laid aside his garments and took a towel and girded himself. Now the Lord and Master, he took
off his outer robe, his outer garment, and he wrapped himself
in a towel. Now that is the outfit that the
lowest slave in a house would wear, and that the lowest slave,
the low man on the totem pole, would wash the feet of guests
as they came into the house. And being wrapped in a towel
like that, it's a humiliating outfit because it identifies
you as the lowest slave in the house, and the Lord of glory
stood up in front of his disciples and clothed himself that way.
I'll tell you why he did it because it's a picture. This is what
our Savior did to save his people from their sin. At the time appointed
of his father, the son rose from his throne of glory and he stripped
himself of all of his glory as God. For a while he stripped
himself of that glory and he clothed himself in human flesh.
He limited himself to human flesh. Now you and I will never ever
know how humiliating that was for the Son of God. How far down
he had to come. My dad used the illustration
one time. that if we could lower ourselves
to become a maggot and we would compare that to the Son of God
becoming human flesh, he said that would be an insult to maggots
everywhere. We can't imagine how far the Son of God came down
to humiliate himself to become what we are so he could be our
representative, the second Adam. You and I think it would be humiliating
to be taken from our comfortable lives and to be made a slave
somewhere. I mean, that's just a horrible
thought. And that's nothing compared to
how far the Lord of glory came down to become a man. He set
aside all of his glory as deity and clothed himself in human
flesh. The omnipotent one clothed himself
in weakness. The Ancient of Days became an
embryo, not just a baby. He first became an embryo in
the womb of the Virgin. And the Almighty, the Eternal
One, grew from a baby to a child to a full-grown man. And as the
Lord dressed Himself as the lowest servant, then He did the job
of the lowest servant. He began to go around and wash
his disciples' feet. And I'm just sure of this, except
for poor old Peter, who can't be shocked into silence. The
rest of them were just shocked into silence, just shocked. There's no word for this. They
know this is their Lord and Master. This is the one Peter had said,
we believe and we're sure you're the Son of God. You're the promised
Messiah. This is the Son of God who was
lowering himself to wash their dirty, stinky feet. Can you imagine
such a thing? But you know, if you think about
it, everything our Savior did was shocking, wasn't it? Everything. I just imagine the angels were
just shocked They're just shocked into silence often at watching
the humiliation of the Son of God being made flesh, being made
under the law, and working out a righteousness for his people
by obeying his own law, by submitting himself to the authority of his
creature. They were just shocked. And Christ
our Savior stooped that low because he loves his people. Look back
at Isaiah chapter 42. The master and Lord became the
servant because that's the only way his people could be saved
from their sin. It had to be done just that way.
Isaiah 42. Verse one, the father says, behold
my servant. This is my servant. Behold. Don't
just look at this. Be shocked into silence. The
Son of God became the servant. Behold, my servant, whom I uphold,
mine elect. This is the one I elected. I
chose to be the savior of my elect people, in whom my soul
delighteth. I put my spirit upon him. He
shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He should not cry,
nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street. A
bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he
not quench. He shall bring forth judgment
unto truth. He shall not fail, nor be discouraged,
till he have set judgment in the earth, and the isles shall
wait for his law. This is the son of God who became
a servant and he shall without a doubt save all of his people
from their sin because he became the servant of his father to
do it. And he did the job that the father gave him to do. But it ought always to shock
us into silence. Just so shocked there's just
no words for it. That the Prince of Glory would
humiliate himself like that so he could save the likes of us. There's just no words for it,
is there? And then fourthly, here's the Redeemer's work. Now,
it took a work. The Father willed the salvation
of his people, but the work had to be done. The salvation of
God's people requires the Redeemer's work as the servant. After that he poureth water into
a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe
them with a towel wherewith he was girded. Here's the Lord of
glory stooping down and washing the feet of his disciples. Now,
considering who's doing the washing here, I'm just confident of this,
that the disciples' feet had never been so clean and so refreshed. they were when the Lord Himself,
He did it perfectly. You know He did. And the Lord
performed this foot washing as a picture of the work that He
came to do for His people. Christ came to wash His people
from their sin. To cleanse them from the filth
of their sin. To wash them in His blood and
make them white as snow. You know sin is not covered up
with a coat of paint. God will not ignore sin. What
Christ came to do is take the sin of his people and put it
away so that it is gone under his precious blood. It does not
exist anymore. The blood of Jesus Christ, God's
son, cleanses us from what? All sin. All sin is cleansed
away. It's put away. Now that's a work
we can't do. We cannot cleanse ourselves from
any of our sin. We can't cleanse ourselves and
make ourselves presentable in the sight of God. We can't straighten
up and fly right and do better so that God will accept us. We
need somebody else to come and do for us what we can't do for
ourselves, to cleanse us from our sin and to make us holy and
righteous in the sight of God. And that washing, It can only
be done by the blood of Christ. Nothing else will do it. Now,
this cleansing of the soul, that's being made holy. Not someday,
not someday when we appear in glory, right now. And this being
made holy is so vital. There's no salvation without
it. The Lord is getting ready to tell Peter, if I don't wash
you, You don't have any part with me. If Christ does not wash
me, Christ is not my portion. I don't have any part. I can't
be a partaker in who He is. I can't be a partaker in His
work. If Christ does not wash me, Christ is not my wisdom,
my righteousness, my sanctification, or my redemption. If Christ is
not all to me, then I don't have anything that I need. Now we
know what the scripture says, without the shedding of blood
is no remission. Everybody here knows that, right?
Without the shedding of blood, there's no remission. If sin's
going to be put away, blood's got to be shed. But listen, without
the washing in the blood, there's no remission either. We must
be washed in the blood of Christ if we would be accepted by the
Father. And the illustration I always use for that is the
Passover. On that night, the Passover in
Egypt, if the father had taken that lamb, he washed it for 14
days, the lamb is perfect, he's spotless, he takes that lamb
and he kills it. At the right time, at the right
moment, he kills that lamb, catches its blood in a basin. He takes
the lamb and he roasts it, all the whole lamb with the head
and the legs and the pertinence thereof. He's got the bitter
herbs and the leavened bread and everything he's supposed
to have. And he takes that lamb, he's roasted it with fire, takes
it in the house and closes the door, and they sit down and eat
that lamb with their shoes on their feet, their loins girt,
and their staff in their hand, because they believe we're leaving
Egypt tonight, because that's what God said. His firstborn's
going to die. Because he didn't put the blood
on the door. The blood must be applied. You and I must be washed
in the blood of Christ and made holy and righteous in order for
God to accept us. And I know full well that the
Lord, when he's talking here about, I have to wash your feet,
I have to wash you. He's not talking about an outward
washing. He's talking about an inward
washing. The Lord is going to wash Judas' feet. And Judas is
not clean. We know that. So the Lord's not
talking about an outward washing. He's talking about an inward
washing, a washing of the soul. And I'm here to tell you that
everyone who's been washed in the blood of Christ, they're
clean through and through, holy and righteous in God's sight. I'm not holy and righteous in
my sight. When I look at myself, you know
what I see? Sin. And if I think I see anything
good, all that is, is just the misconception of self-righteousness.
But here's what's where it matters, in God's sight. Clean, holy,
and righteous in God's sight. Now here's the fifth thing, and
salvation requires this, the Redeemer's success. Verse six,
then cometh he to Simon Peter, and Peter saith unto him, Lord,
dost thou wash my feet? Jesus answered and said unto
him, What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter.
Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered
him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter
saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands
and my head. Jesus saith it to him, he that's
washed needeth not save to wash his feet. But he is clean every
whit, and you're clean, but not all. For he knew who should betray
him, therefore he said, you're not all clean. But all those
other ones, everybody except for Peter, now they're clean.
Now here's the question that we're looking at this morning.
Lord, do you wash my feet? Are you gonna wash my feet? Lord, I can't allow that. That's
too far beneath you. You're the master and I'm the
servant. Lord, if you wash my feet, everything's backward.
I understand what Peter is saying. I understand the motivation behind
what he's saying. He's trying to be reverent, isn't
he? He's trying to be reverent. But
you know, it is wrong for us to ever question the Lord. Now I can understand why Peter
D is trying to be reverent, but if we would find ourselves in
that situation, now let's not question the Lord. I bow before
him. He's not supposed to be stooping
in front of me. I bow before him. That's our
relationship. But in order to save us, the
Lord Jesus Christ had to stoop further than you and I can imagine. How low did the Son, the Holy
Son of God, the Holy One, His name is the Holy One, how low
did He stoop to be made sin? I actually had a woman say this
to me once. Oh, I would never say that the Lord was made sin.
I love Him too much to say that. Well, here's the problem with
that. Scripture says that Christ was made sin. Even though we don't understand
everything that that means, the Savior did have to stoop that
low to be made sin for his people so that he could put it away
by the sacrifice of himself. And yes, we want to be reverent,
but I tell you what, we always better say what the Word says.
We better say what God's Word said. The Savior was made sin. And then he suffered and he died
in justice. And when he died, he completely
and utterly cleansed all of his people from all of their sin. That's why the Lord told Peter,
you are clean. You are clean. You've been washed
in the blood of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Peter, you're clean. You're spotless of every sin.
You've been washed in the blood of Christ. Then why, pray tell,
if Peter's already clean, is the Lord washing his feet? Well,
it's because every believer goes through three washings, three
cleansings. I don't want this to be very
technical, but first there's a judicial washing. There's a
washing that must be done to satisfy God's law. We must be
washed from our sin in the blood of Christ to satisfy God's holiness,
to satisfy his character. The blood of Christ made the
sin of his people to be truly gone. The debts paid and he washed
that sin away so that the father says, you are innocent of all
charges. You're fit to come into my presence.
And the proof that Christ's sacrifice made the sin of his people to
not exist is his resurrection. And that's what pictured here
when the Lord washed all of his disciples' feet, you know what
he did? He didn't continue being dressed like the lowest slave.
He put his own garments back on. You know why he put his own
garments back on? The work of the servant was finished. Now he's Lord and Master again. And that is what happened when
the Lord rose again from the dead. He rose again in glorified
flesh. He rose again as who He is and
He ascended straight back into the presence of His Father where
the Father said, sit here on my right hand till I make your
enemies your footstool. Now the Father could only say
that to Him because the sin that had been charged to Him was gone.
The father could only raise the son from the dead because the
sin that demanded his death was gone. And now God's justice demands
that he be raised from the dead. And when he was raised from the
dead, he's not a servant anymore. He's king of all. He's Lord and
master. Second, look at Titus chapter
three. The second washing is a washing that's experienced,
a washing that's experienced in the new birth. Titus chapter 3, verse 4, But after that the kindness and
love of God our Savior toward man appeared, not by works of
righteousness which we've done, but according to His mercy He
saved us, by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy
Ghost. You and I are defiled by our
sin. Sin is not just breaking the
rules. It's not just like getting a
speeding ticket, and you got a mark against you, you know,
at the driver's license bureau or something. Our sin has defiled
us. It's defiled our souls, and absolutely
nothing will disinfect us but the blood of Christ. Our works
won't do it. Our religion won't do it. Our
religious activity won't do it. Our morality won't do it. What
can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus. And the washing of regeneration
doesn't mean that the old man, the man of the flesh is washed
and now he's holy. No, sir. The washing of regeneration
is when there's a clean, righteous, sinless nature born in the hearts
of God's elect. That old man, he's born from
the sinful seed of Adam, and the only thing he can ever be
is flesh. The only thing he ever can do
is sin. He can't be cleansed. But that new man, born of God,
is born from the sinless seed of the Word of God, and he can
only be sinless. He can only be righteous. He
can only be holy. He can never sin. He'll never
make himself filthy again. That's cleansing experienced.
And the unfortunate, if that's the right word, of this cleansing
experienced is now you got a warfare. Now the old man's got somebody
to fight against. How do I know if I've experienced this washing
of regeneration? It's the old man and the new
man fussing and fighting with each other for the rest of your
life. And the third washing, it's a
continual washing. You know, at that time, they
would bathe in public bathhouses. I remember when we would, when
I was growing up, we'd go camping, and sometimes there were public
bathhouses. You know, you go put a quarter
in, you take a shower, and then you walk back to the campsite,
you know, when you're done. That's what those people did
all the time if they took a bath. Well, when they got home, Their
feet were dusty and dirty from the roads that they walked on.
And they get home, and when they step in the house, they wash
their feet. Now they're all clean. Brethren, our feet have to be
washed. As we walk through this world, our feet got to be washed. You who believe, you love Christ. You believe Him. You love Him. You love His way. You love His
word. But you cannot help but be affected
by this world as you walk through it, by its ways, by its thoughts. You just can't help it. Its dirt
gets on you. As you walk through this world,
everything in this world appeals to your sinful flesh, and we've
got to be washed. Because walking through this
world affects what we want, what we desire, the way that we think. And then you drag yourself in
here, and I always kind of use the midweek service as an example.
You've been out working in the world, you've been out with all
these responsibilities, and you've been in the world, and you, oh,
you're so tired. And you think, now I'm gonna
go. And you drag yourself in here on a Tuesday night, and
you hear Christ preached. And your wagon gets fixed, doesn't
it? One of our men at home calls Wednesday night service an attitude
adjustment. Your wagon gets fixed. Why? You've been washed. Your feet's
been washed. David said in Psalm 119 verse
nine, wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? And I would
say that applies to young men or women, old men and old women
too. How is it that a believer is
going to cleanse his way David said, by taking heed according
to thy word, by the washing of the word. See, the Lord, he took
the dirt off his disciples' feet. Now, he washed them. They're
clean. But he also refreshed them, didn't he? That felt good.
They were refreshed. And that's the believer. We're
refreshed when we hear God's word preached. We're refreshed
by worshiping together. You've all experienced this.
You can't make it for whatever reason. You're sick or the roads. At home, we're dealing with flooding
today. Here, we're dealing with snow. You can't make it. And
you watch online or you watch a recording or whatever. Now,
that's the gospel. That's the truth. That's the
Savior. But it's not like being here, is it? It's not like being
here. We're refreshed by being with
each other. We're refreshed by bowing at the feet of the Savior
together and worshiping him together. We're refreshed by being with
each other and telling, I love you. I'm glad to see you. That
love expressed is expressed in our actions. And if it's not
expressed in our actions, it's not real love. But something
that's real, now that refreshes you, doesn't it? So that's the
importance of preaching the word in public worship. But that brings
me to the second thing, the Savior's example. Look back here in our
text, John 13, verse 12. So after he had washed their
feet and taken his garments and was set down again, he said unto
them, know ye what I have done to you? You call me Lord and
Master, and you say, well, for so I am. If I then your Lord
and Master have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's
feet. For I've given you an example that you should do as I have
done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you,
the servant's not greater than his Lord, neither he that is
sent greater than he that sent him. If you know these things,
happy are you if you do them." Now, I always want to stress
this so much. The Lord Jesus Christ, first
and foremost, He's our King. He's our Savior. He's to be bowed
to, He's to be worshipped, but He's also our example. You know,
I hate this thing, you know, what would Jesus do? I mean,
you know, in a way, what does it matter? Because you can't
do what He would do anyway, you know. He's our Savior, but He
is our example. He said here, He gave us an example
that we should follow, and if we do it, we'll be happy. by washing one another's feet.
Now, how do we do that? It's by doing whatever it takes
to help our brethren. There's no task that is too low
for us to do to help one another. Christ our Savior lowered himself
to do everything that it took to save the people that he loved.
The Apostle Paul said in the book of Philippians, now let
that mind be in you. Let that attitude be in you.
And the Savior says, you'll be happy if you do the same thing
to lower yourself, to serve others, to do something to help somebody
else. Here is a thinking that gets
in our mind because we're out in the world. We think happiness
comes from being the big important guy and having everybody do for
us, right? Everybody at work wants the big
corner office and boss everybody around and have everybody do
for them because they think that that's what will make us happy.
But that's not how it is in God's church. Happiness here will not come
from trying to get others to do for me. Happiness here amongst
the family of God comes from us doing for others and expecting
nothing in return. That's exactly right. If you're
a believer and you would be happy, tell you what to do. Find a way
to serve. Find a way to serve. You know,
if you do something to help one of your brothers or sisters,
Now they'll get a blessing for it, something that they needed,
something that was very helpful and you did it and absolutely
they got a blessing from it. But you know what? You got a
bigger one. You got a bigger one. I was talking to one of
our dear ladies the other day and we were talking about our
upcoming conference and I was worried about you know, how we're
going to get all this food together. And I said, what do you think?
What if we had one of the meals catered so that the ladies didn't
have to cook so much, you know? And she said, no, no, don't do
that. Let us do it. This is our way
to serve. Let us do it. I want to tell
you, that washed my feet. That refreshed me. It really
did. We can wash one another's feet just by forgiving one another. Isn't it refreshing when you
just step in and do something stupid, and you realize it, and
you feel so bad about it, and one of your brothers or sisters
puts their arm around you and says, don't worry about it. Forget
it. I forgive you. All is forgiven. Isn't it refreshing,
especially in today's world, when somebody goes out of their
way to make sure you have a peaceful relationship with each other?
Now, we need to do that because believers that still carry around
this old carcass of flesh, we're going to sin against one another
from time to time. We're going to hurt one another's
feelings from time to time. And when that happens, wash one
another's feet. Just forgive us. Forgive them as God, for
Christ's sake, has forgiven you, and you'll get a blessing. You'll
be happy if you do it. That's what the Lord said. You
know, if you would be saved, look to Christ. I try to never
preach a message where I do not tell sinners, now you look to
Christ. You come to Christ. You look to him in faith. But
if you would know how to wash one another's feet, do the same
thing. Keep looking to Christ. You want
to know how to be a good husband or a good wife? Look to Christ. Read Ephesians 5 and look to
Christ. You want to know how to be a good child? Look to Christ,
the son of God who always pleased his father. You want to know
how to be a good friend to one another? Look to Christ, the
friend of sinners, the friend who sticketh closer than a brother.
You want to know how to be a good neighbor? Look to Christ who
got down there in the ditch and poured in the oil and wine and
helped that man, the Samaritan, that had been beaten. Get down
there in the ditch and serve one another. We'll find that
out by looking to Christ. You want to be a good citizen?
Look to Christ. You want to know how to treat
your enemies? If you look to Christ, you'll
find out I shouldn't treat my enemies the way I want to treat
them. Maybe y'all aren't like me. Me, if I want to find out
how to treat my enemies and I look to Christ, I find out, oh, I
ought not treat them the way I want to. I find that out by
looking to Christ. You want to know how to be a
good church member? You want to know how to be a good part
of this body? Look to Christ our head. Looking
to Christ will take care of every situation that we ever find ourselves
in. Look to Christ for mercy. Look
to Christ for forgiveness. Look to Christ for grace. Look
to Christ for righteousness. Look to Christ to be everything
that the Father requires of us to be. And as we go through our
daily walk through this world, look to Christ. Look to him. All right. Well, that'll be a
blessing to you. I thank you all for having me.