Good evening. Not too long ago
I brought a message, Lord is it I? Thank you. If you will, let's open our Bibles
to John chapter 13 again. I appreciate your pastor and his
wife greatly. Greatly, I've learned so much
from him and leaned on him many times. throughout my life, and
I appreciate you, both of you. And I've learned quite a bit. I'm not gonna get up here and
say I have a message for you. Maybe I do, maybe I don't. If
the Lord's pleased, I could have my doctrine dead on. I could
say all the right words. I could do everything just perfect. And if the Lord is not pleased
to bless it to your hearts, Ain't going to do any good. I pray
he'll be with us tonight. Looking here in John 13, about
the Lord washing the disciples' feet. And many times throughout
this world, people preach from this, or they quote it or speak
about it, and it's a lesson in Christian humanity. Is there
something we ought to do to serve one another? And any lesson that
we see, any miracle that we see, any practicality that we can
touch on, It may benefit us in our daily walk, but if we don't
see the spiritual application of that, we've missed Christ. If we've missed Christ, we've
missed life. That's what we've missed. I pray
we can see that today. It says there in verse 1, John
13, verse 1, Now therefore, the feast of the Passover, when Jesus
knew that this 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. That hour. His hour was come. That was spoken
of often, wasn't it? In that first miracle he performed,
his mother come to him. And he said, we're out of wine.
This wedding's going great. They run out of wine. What are
we going to do? He said to a woman, what have I to do thee? Mine
hour has not yet come. They said we would see Jesus.
Those men come to him in John 12, we would see Jesus. And he said, the hours come that
the son of man will be glorified. Later on, they asked the master
said, Please don't don't go. Don't do what you have to do.
We don't really understand what you're talking about. We want
you with us. And he said, Now is my soul troubled. And what
shall I say father saved me from this hour. But for this cause
came on to this hour. This is an important hour. Eternity
hinges on it. And this glorification, this
exaltation, the completion of the work, purpose before time,
all of this was wrapped up in the love of His own. This hour
came because of the love of His own. He says, having loved His
own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end. He loved His own. That's what
this whole determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God was
for this hour. This love before time. His providence
to bring this hour upon because he loved his own. He didn't love
everybody. He loved his own. We know that
in verse 2, don't we? It says, In the supper being
ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot
Simon's son to betray him. But having loved his own in this
world, That was those in those days, those before that time,
those in this day now that we're in, and those to come. Till that last saint's called
to see Christ. Till they see Him and worship
Him. That's what will happen. He loves them to the end. What's
the end of? I mean, there's a termination
point. He loves him to the end of our physical lives, don't
he? You, who he's done a work in, he'll keep us till the end.
He loved us to the end of his physical life, to the cross.
We're loved with an everlasting love. That's how we're called,
with that everlasting love. We're drawn by that everlasting
love. We're set apart. Purpose to be in Christ, a love
without beginning, a love without ending. What a thought. Do I
love that way? It ain't like His love, is it?
Not what we think. He lets any love to the uttermost.
He's able to save that we have a high priest, able to save us
to the uttermost. Do you know what that means? That's as far
and as deep reaching as our sin can go, as sinful as we don't
even, can't even enter into, from that all the way to the
complete uttermost satisfaction of His Father that we offended.
That's who we send to you. Love them to the uttermost. Save
them to the uttermost. But he loved his own to the end
of that work on the cross. Boy, if we could enter into that.
I heard a preacher get up one time, I think it was Chris, I
gave him credit this morning. Go read Matthew 27 sometime.
All the things they said to our Lord, all the things they've
done to our Lord. What was prophesied from old,
that he fulfilled. And to get to the end of that,
how's that make you feel? I just sat one day and read Matthew
27 just wet. That was for me. That was for you. You who are
His own that He loved before time. All the way to the end
of that, to that punishment that I fully deserved, I earned. Those wages I earned were put
on Him and that wrath of God was on Him fully until He was
completely satisfied. The Father was completely satisfied.
He loved us to the end. John tells us later in life,
here in His love, not that we love God, but that he loved us. Who's us? Well, we, we, oh, we
love it. People profess their love of
God, don't they? Say, I love Jesus. I love the Lord. Do you
know him? He says in John one, he said
he came to his own, his own received him not. Well, that's, that's
the Jews. Well, those two, but us, when did he die for me when
I was ungodly? When did he go to that cross
of Calvary for me? It was before I was born and
while I was at enmity with him. That's when he loved me. That
hour was coming, and that love he hath for his own. It was Christ
being the propitiation for us. That bloody sacrifice, that atonement,
that atonement. I told you before, that was the
hour. That was the culmination of it. And this love for his
own, the Lord Jesus is going to show his own. If you, you
mommies and daddies, you love your children, you give your
life for them. You going to let them know about
it? You going to hide that love in a closet? Of course not. It's
just going to come out of you. The Lord gave his son. The Lord
came for us, and we're going to know about it. We're going
to be taught of God. He's going to reveal his love and his elect
children, and he's going to do this and show us that every bit
of it, from the purpose of the Father, the purchase of the Son,
and the announcement in your heart by the Holy Spirit, he
did this willingly. in love. Oh, what a kinsman redeemer. You had to be related, you had
to be able to redeem, you had to be willing. Oh, he was willing. I've tried soaking that in for
a month now and I can't get enough of it. He was willing. He willingly
did this. What a thought. And his condescension
to this earth, becoming a man, living for his people, hanging
on a cross for his own, his burial, his resurrection. and His intercession
right now at the right hand of the Father for every one of His
people, willingly, gladly. It says in verse three, Jesus,
knowing that the Father had given all things into His hand, and
that He was come from God and went to God. He knew where He'd
come from. He is God. He was with God. He was God.
He came into this world, and He knew this hour was coming,
and He knew exactly where He was going, right back to His
Father. What would you and I do if I
knew I had four hours left on this earth? You wanna go wash
some feet? Aaron, can I come help you change
oil in your car? John, can I do it for you? Can
you help me clean your house or something? No, I'd be worried
about getting out of here, wouldn't me? That's what I'd do. If we
had the mind, the spirit, and the faith of Christ, you would
serve his people on this earth. You would do the will of the
Father. Turn over to Philippians chapter two real quick. Philippians
chapter two. Philippians 2 verse 5 says, let
this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being
in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equal with
God. Why is that lamb provided? That lamb slain before the foundation
of the world, our substitute. Why is that worth so much? That's
God Almighty in human flesh. That's whose blood it is, whose
blood it is. He was girded with that towel
of flesh. He became a man, but that's God
Almighty. He put off that robe of holiness
with his father and became a man with no comeliness in him. Nothing
that we would be attracted to. If we saw him walking down the
street, we'd probably go to the other side of the street and avoid
him. Put your purse on the other side or whatever people do, they'd
be afraid of him. Don't talk to, don't make eye contact in
the elevator. No comeliness about him. It says in verse seven,
but he made himself of no reputation and took upon him the form of
a servant and was made in the likeness of men. He willfully
removed that holy, heavenly garment and he girded himself as a man
just like me and you. Why? Because he loved his own.
And that hour was necessary. for us, for the purpose of the
Father. That's why I did it. I had to.
Verse 8 says, In being found in fashion as a man, he humbled
himself and became obedient unto death, even the death of the
cross. The wages of sin is death. Well,
there's no blood. There's no remission of sin.
And he was obedient to death, even the death of the cross,
willingly. I laid down my life. Ain't no man takes my life for
me, he said. I laid down willfully. for His own, those that He loves.
He must come and bear His own, those that He perfectly loved
from everlasting to everlasting, and He's going to draw them to
Him, those that He loves, and He's going to reveal Himself
in them. Now back in our text here in John 13, verse 4 says, He rises from supper
and laid aside His garments and took a towel and girded Himself. After that, he poured water into
a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them
with the towel wherewith he was girded." That very same towel.
Now, what was the custom? What were they doing here? Back
in those days, if somebody was kind of well off, they had servants,
and in anything, there's a pecking order, ain't there? People's
been there a little bit longer than the new guys. Well, the
newest one, the lowest ranking servant, their job was to wash
the people's feet when they come in. The families and the guests
and whoever came into the home, they would go wash their feet.
They didn't have paved roads like we do. They're out walking
in dust and dirt, a lot like where I'm living now. And it
gets dusty real easy. And they'd come in, they'd wash
their feet, and they'd go sit down and visit or go to the table and eat. That
was the position, that was the duty of the lowest ranking person
in that home. Here in Simon's house where they
were meeting, they didn't have any servants to do that, did
they? They didn't have any servants at all. Christ did. God Almighty
in human flesh went to go wash their feet. He lifted us out
of that miry pit. If somebody's down in a miry
pit, you've got to get under them to get a hold of them, don't
you? He humbled himself. Well, if we could enter into
that. That was the custom there. And that's to show you and I
that he rose, it says he rose from supper and laid aside his
garment. He rose from that table with his Father and the Holy
Ghost and glory, laid aside his garments, and he put on the flesh
of a man. He girded himself in the apparel
and the flesh of a human being. And he had a basin there that
he filled. Just like that trench that Elijah and those prophets
of Baal, he built that altar and they dug a big trench around
it, didn't they? And they had to sacrifice on top, and they
kept putting barrels and barrels and 12 barrels of water on there,
a barrel for each tribe at washing. That didn't run all over, did
it? That wasn't a big fire truck out there just spraying stuff
down for whoever get underneath it. Oh, that was on purpose.
That's who that was for. It was individual. That's what
the Lord showed us here. There was a specific task. It
was applied individually, this washing was. And that towel he
girded himself with, it was tied to him. He took a great big old
towel and wrapped it around him. And I sat on that for a long
time in the study, and I thought, now if that was me, if I was
one of those 15, 20 people here and I got to wash your feet,
I'd probably get me a stack of towels, you know. I was there
in the motel, and I said, man, that'd be a good stack of towels.
You take one, use it, and well, you want a clean one, when I
get to you, you know, use that one and get rid of it and find
me another one. Well, how'd he have that one towel? It was bound
to him. It was His garment attached to
Him. He bore it. That dust went from the feet
of the disciples to Him. That dust is our sin. We're the dust. We're mud. Wet dust. Miry clay. Adam. Red dirt. That's man. That's
all we are is sin, the noun. That's what we are. And He did
this for His own, for His children. He bore in His body on the tree,
me. My mud. All that I am, this wet
dirt, my sin, who I am. He wore Kevin Thacker on that
tree. It didn't represent my mud, what he wiped off of their
feet. It was mud, it was my mud. And
when the Father looked at Christ, he saw me. He saw you that he's died for,
his own, that's who he saw. And when he looks at us, he sees
cleanliness, as clean as Christ. Because that's who we have to
be. We have to be made His righteousness, don't we? You see, this isn't
just an example of Christian humility, is it? This isn't just
a quick story you read to the kids before they go to bed so
they'll be nice to the brothers and sisters the next morning. This
is how men and women are just before the holy God we offended.
That's something to listen to and something to hear about.
Peter didn't see that at the time. I didn't see that the first
time I read this either, did I? He said in verse 6 and 7,
Then cometh he to Simon Peter, and Peter saith unto him, Lord,
dost thou wash my feet? He just washed the other disciples'
feet. He's coming to you, Peter. You're
next. And Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou
knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter. Oh, isn't that
the truth? Right then, Peter didn't understand
what was happening. But the Lord's going to teach
him. Throughout Peter's time on this earth, Peter ain't going
to fully enter into what the Lord just did. We'll see it at
the end. But he's going to learn something about it. And whenever
this body of death is gone and we enter glory, we're perfect,
holy, without blame, before him in love, with a holy nature,
that's all that's left. Now we're going to understand.
Now we're going to see something. Peter yanked his feet back, didn't
he, questioning the Lord. Oh, hold on now. I don't condone
Peter questioning the Lord, but I understand it. He didn't know
what this represented yet, but he knew who was doing it. Peter was his. He knew who that
was. That was the Almighty God right in front of him about to
wash his feet. And he said, no, Lord, I ought to wash your feet. You
don't need to wash my feet. I need to wash your feet. It'd
be nice if we could be like Eli, wouldn't it? It's the Lord let
him do what seemeth good to him. If we could just wait on the
Lord. I don't know what I don't know. That's a lot. None of us do, do we? Boy, if
we could realize we didn't know much. So much of this religious
world and the unreligious world, they think they know so many
things, and it's question and answer time all the time. Let's
have a Q&A, and everybody's got an answer for everything. a believer asked me, a stranger
asked me one time, he said, did you ever do like, you know, questions
and answers and stuff? And I said, no. He said, why
not? I said, because 99% of my answers would be the same. I'll
get back with you. You got a question, give me a
week or two, let me study it real good before I give you an
answer. If I'm going to speak on behalf of the Lord, buddy,
I'm going to see what he says, not what I think, not from the
hip. I want to know what the Lord
says. I'll get back with you. Like that blind man there in
John 9. The Lord healed him and his neighbors asked, how did
you get your sight? And he told them. And then they
said, that's not good enough. Let's take them to Pharisees.
And they said, how? Five times they asked him, how? How? How? How did you get your sight? Not
once did they ask, who? Who gave you sight? What's it
like to see? You ain't never seen before.
Let me show you a hummingbird. Them things are neat. Come here,
look what the Lord made. Not once. How? How? So many questions. Right now,
we that know the Lord, we know Him, but there's so much more
that we don't know yet. It hasn't been revealed to us.
We see in part, we prophesy in part, don't we? And that growth
in grace and knowledge and understanding, it's a slow growth. It grows
us down, but how thankful we are it's slow. You get growing
pains when you're growing up. My wrist would hurt. My shins
would hurt. Boy, wouldn't you be glad that
didn't happen overnight? I'm glad I didn't go to sleep at
five foot tall and wake up 6'5". Boy, I'd be screaming, wouldn't
I? How thankful we are. We're so eager. I know when I
was, Lord first did a work in me, I wanted to try to soak up
everything I could. I wanted to grow. I wanted to learn. Oh,
he's, he's, he's patient and he's wise to teach his children. Well, just like me, Peter was
headstrong, wasn't he? He says in verse 8, Peter saith
unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. You ain't never going
to do it. Never. He said that before, didn't
he? Peter's so adamant and strong, resolute. He picked something.
He went with it, didn't he? He said, Lord, these others,
they may forsake you. I'll never forsake you. Men claim this in
many aspects of religion, that for the glory of Christ is what
they package it with. I got to do something. You can't
wash my feet. Maybe you can wash eight toes, but I'm going to
do the other two. Now, that's just not right. I got to do something.
That's under the ruse of humility. We got to carry the bill over
the load, don't we? What a shame. No, you must be made one with
Christ. He must clean you every whit, head to toe. That's what
must happen. He must do the work 100%. He must save you from your
sins, not most of them, all of them. And outside of speaking
of our Lord and His promises, I, I put we and I scratched it
out and put I, me, I'm speaking to me. I should not be so concrete
and absolute in all my words. People say, where are you going
next? They ask me all the time. I was down in Pikeville. Where are you going?
Well, the Lord willing, I'll go to Ashland, and I'm going
to be in Lexington, and we'll go back to San Diego. And of course,
I get lazy. I'm going to Lexington next.
Well, I may come here, I may not. I have a message for you. I may have one, I may not. But
whatever the Lord promises, that you can stand on. If we could
be shut up to him in sin and bow to him, now we got something
we can stand on. We got something solid. And what
does he say? He said never to. Did you know
that? Peter said, you'll never wash my feet. I'll never leave
you. I won't go back on. I won't forsake you, Lord. The
Lord said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. I may
lose my mind. I heard a man say one time, he
said, boy, there's a whole lot of things I may forget. I may
forget my wife's name, but I'll never forget the lady the Lord saved
me. You just might. But if the Lord remembers you, like a thief
on a cross, Lord, remember me. That's something that he delights
in mercy, don't he? Here in verse eight, Peter saith
unto him, thou shalt never wash my feet. And Jesus answered and
said, if I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Notice
he didn't say, if I don't wash your feet. That's what he was there
doing, wasn't it? He said, if I don't wash you,
you have no part with me. He's got to wash all of you.
Who does the washing? The cross does. Man ain't got
no part in it. What was washed? The totality
of me. Head to toe. There's a new creation
in me. Complete. What are we washed
in? The blood of Christ. It says in verse 9, Simon Peter
saith unto him, Lord, Lord spoke effectually and power to his
heart when he said it, didn't he? Verse 9, Simon Peter said
unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.
He wouldn't just say and wash me all over. He said, you wash
my feet that walk in this world, Lord. The sin that I'm with every
day. Wash my hands. Everything I touch
is sin and death. Anything I put my hand to, I
can reach up and touch the ark. That's what we try to do. And
in my head, all every thought that goes through my mind. Be
standing here right now preaching to you. Lord, wash that. Everything that's went through
me. I've heard a lot of faithful preachers say that over the years,
and I thought, well, I can't understand until I stood and
preached, and I said, I know exactly what you're talking about.
Lord, wash me. Wash every bit of me. Many want
to wash their own feet, don't they? They want to bind themselves. Hearing the gospel preached,
hear that person and work of Christ the Lord, Christ and Him
crucified, who He is, what He accomplished in and for His people.
People hear that, the response to that isn't, well, I need to
get a little better before I can hear more. I need to do something. I need to stop doing something.
Well, before I can come to church, I need to quit doing that, don't
I? I kept manning the tombs. He didn't wait to get rid of
them demons before he came to Christ and worshiped him. He
came as he was to him and begged him, didn't he? When the spirit
moves on a sinner's heart through the preaching of the word, the
preaching of Christ, they're like Peter. They beg to be washed
throughly and thoroughly. Lord, cleanse me. You're my only
hope. You washing me is the only hope
I have of life. You are life, and I need you.
That's what they need. And they willfully submit, and
they willfully beg for mercy. Like John wrote to us in Revelations
1, he loved me, and he washed me. And that's what we ask. Lord,
love me and wash me. I don't know what love is. I
don't know what clean is. Lord called us a man with an unclean
spirit. That's the best word ever for
it, isn't it? What's unclean? Not clean? How dirty is it? Not clean. That's right, isn't it? It ain't
so much to do with what we are, it's what we ain't. We ain't
holy. We're not clean. He has to clean
us. All right, verse 10. Jesus saith
unto him, he that is washed thee if he washes you, he that is
washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every
wit. That can be kind of hard to read. Those who the Lord's washed,
they don't need another washing. They're clean, every whit, but
their feet still have to be washed. That's what he's saying. And
the Lord sent me halfway around this world to understand this
illustration, understand what he's talking about. And I hope
you can enter into it. I was in a desert area, just
like this, on the other side of the world, and for me to take
a shower, for me to get clean, I had to go two or three hundred
yards and flip-flops, and I'd go to a little trailer there,
and I'd shower, and I'd get real good and clean, and I'd walk
200 or 300 yards back to my room. Well, what happened to my feet?
My hair's clean. I smell good. My hand's clean. My knees, everything's clean,
but my feet ain't. I brought my calf muscle down,
just dirty. And so I'd sit on the edge of
my bed, and I'd clean my feet real good, and wipe them up real
good, put my socks on. Now it's clean. Every time I
showered, I had to go back and wash my feet again. You that are bought by the blood
of Christ, you are everywhere clean. He's cleaned you from
head to toe, but our feet is still in the dust of this earth.
We still walk in this body of death, don't we? Our salvation,
it is eternal and it's in Christ and it's right now for the holy
God, but we still walk in this world. I still live in this body
of death. I know we're led by the spirit,
we walk by faith, but this old man ain't died yet. Our Lord
taught us to pray, Lord, lead us not into temptation. That's
Father, keep me from the dust of this world. Keep me from the
sin of this world that I'm gonna be exposed to all day, that I
am. Keep me from me. Lord, keep me from me. And they
also taught us to pray, Lord, forgive us our sins. Because
that's what's gonna happen. We're gonna get dirty, ain't
we? That old Puritan wrote, he said, I wake up praying to the
Lord every morning to keep me from sinning. And I go to sleep
every night saying, Lord, forgive me of all the sinning I did today.
We need mercies that are new every day. Our pure minds need
to be stirred up and reminded of that person that is our salvation
every day. Because we're so prone to wonder,
prone to leave that God we love. We need to be reminded. of that
person that is our heaven, that we're going to after this life
is over. No one in their right mind, well,
not in their right mind the Lord gives, but no one that we would
consider a sane person wants to go to hell. They want to go
to heaven. They want to go to a better place,
don't they? Not until they find out what that capital H heaven
is. It ain't a place, it's a person.
That's who we're going to. Look at verse three. It says,
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his
hands and that he was come from God, and went to God. That's where He was going. I
was made here. I came as a being on this earth.
I was conceived here. But I know Christ came from God
because He is God. He's the eternal God. And that
His work on my behalf and His work on the behalf of all His
saints, His sheep throughout time, it's finished. It's completed. And when my appointed time comes,
that appointed hour comes, I leave this earth, I'm going to Him.
He went to the Father. I'm going to Him. That's where
I'm going. Because of what He did and what
He promised. Because He washed His own. He
loved His own. He cleansed. But not everybody.
Not everyone. Just His own. So we know He's
speaking of Judas here in verse 11. It said, For He knew who
should betray Him. Therefore He said, You're not
all clean. Oh, this last couple of years,
I've learned so much from Judas. I've learned a lot from him.
take the Lord's table, that first supper that he gave. Who was
there? Judas was. We like to, in our
nature, worry about who's sheeps and who's goats, and we get carried
away in all kinds of things. Who's the Lord's person? Who
ain't? Who's saved? Who isn't? Am I? And the Lord gave it to
every one of them, didn't he? And he knew. He knew for real.
And then he washed the feet. He washed the feet of every one
of them, didn't he? What was he showing us? He even washed
Judas' feet. But this physical washing isn't
miraculous. Like Naaman dipping in a Jordan
seven times. That water didn't do nothing
for him. Him going down is what did something. The Lord did something
in him to make him obey. That's what it was. The Lord's
person and his work on Calvary is where that life comes from.
for that hour, and just as it is for me and you. And that day
then, what happened here, and what happens in this day now,
after the Lord does a work in us, He's on His throne right
now in glory, and we're informed about it. He teaches His people.
Look here in verse 12. So after He had washed their
feet, He had laid that sin on Him, He made us clean. He had
taken His garments. Where'd that towel go? All our sin, all me on it. Where's
the towel? As far as the east is from the
west, it's gone. He put that away and he put on
his rightful garments. And he was set down again in
his rightful robe seated. And he said unto them, know ye
what I've done to you? He physically did this to his
disciples. And he said, you know what just happened? You know
what I just showed you? Hours come where you're going
to see this play out, but I've washed you, he told him. I have
forgiven you. I have cleansed you because I
loved you. I love my own and I've done it
for eternity, forever. And it can't be undone. Multiple
times a day, we are to forgive the trespasses of our brethren
only. because Christ did, were to forgive
the sin that they walked through that day, that dirt that's on
their feet. Don't look at it. Don't worry about it. The Lord
washed their feet. Peter said, you've got to forgive
your brethren. Peter's so used to those rules.
I like rules. I like order. He said, how many
times? 70 times, said Peter, infinitely,
as much as the Lord's forgiven you. That's how we're to forgive.
Look at verse 13. You call me master and Lord,
you say, well, for I am. Verse 13, you call me, if I then,
your Lord and master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash
one another's feet. We need to forget about the sins
of those that Christ died for because he has. And what a blessing
it is to do so. People say, boy, that's hard.
I'm about to ask the Lord. It is hard, but it's a blessing
to do so. Do you know to go cry with a
brother or sister that's weeping? And just cry with them. Help
them cry. to go mourn with someone, to go comfort someone during
a trial, to be merciful to someone. That can only be done in this
life. Do you know that? When this life
is over, there'll be no more tears, there'll be no more trials,
there'll be no more pain. Lord, let's us comfort our brothers
and sisters while we're here. What a blessing, what a privilege
it is to forgive someone, to mourn with them, to cry with
them. That's a great privilege. We walk in backwards and cover
our father's sin. This was our example, verse 15.
For I have given you an example that you should do as I have
done to you. Those who are his own, who have
been washed, they will have a heart of mercy and forgiveness. Christ
will abide in them. And to whom much is given, much
is required. To whom much is forgiving, that's
what we're giving. What are we giving? Forgiveness.
We're giving forgiveness. And it's going to be required.
It's going to come out. Our cup runs over. And the Lord reveals
this when he says, do you know what I've done for you? And he
reveals himself in us what he's accomplished. We can't contain
it. All those mercies that are new
every day, it runs over, don't it? Verse 16. Verily, verily,
I say unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord, neither
he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If you know
these things, happy are ye if you do them. We're happy every
time we give. every time we forgive, every
time we're merciful, every time we're long-suffering, because
now, now, if the Lord's taught you something, now we know these
things. We know what he's done. We know at the great price that
that came at. And we delight, we happy, happy
to do it. Christ has washed us every wit,
and we're happy to follow this example, to be made like him. And I hope we're happy today. We'll be with y'all. Thank you.