Jesus, Mission, and Glory: New Purpose PART VII
Dr. Timothy Keller
23 October 2016
John 13: 12-17
12When he had finished washing their feet, he put on his clothes and returned to his place. "Do you understand what I have done for you?" 13"You call me Teacher and Lord, and rightly so, for that is what I am. 14Now that I, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also should wash one another's feet. 15I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you. 16Very truly I thell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. 17Now that you know these things, you will be blessed if you do them.
LOVE IS ACTION - (NOT JUST ATTRACTION)
--Foot washing is an unattractive act that deals with unattractive situation.
--Love the unattractive as well.
--Loving ourselves results in using others as a commodity.
--Sacrificing our time is dying to our own desires.
LOVE IS INVESTING
--The feet are ugly and the dirt on our feet is our sin.
--Jesus isn't just doing a duty, but has a vision of how things should be.
--Beyond our duty to others, we should care and pray at how it turns out.
--Our indifference and cruelty empowers evil.
--Love means confronting--not just tolerating.
--Ultimate form of hate is indifference
FULLNESS OF LOVE
--Difficult to give love away because we are ultimately empty inside.
--Let Jesus be our Lord and Savior.
--Have we seen Jesus kneeling before us and washing our own feet?
--Do we feel his love?
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Sent with Grace
Jesus, Mission, and Glory: New Purpose PART VI
Rev. Abe Cho
16 October 2016
John 13: 6-11
6He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"
7Jesus replied, "You don not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand."
8"No", said Peter, "you shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with me."
9"Then, Lord," Simon Peter replied, "not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!"
10Jesus answered, "Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you." 11For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.
OFFENSE OF WASHING FEET
--Feet were dirty and the culture has a sense of shame regarding it.
--Foot washing preserves dignity of guests around the table.
--Foot washing was left for the lowest servants and slaves.
--Peter was concerned for his own dignity as well as Jesus.
--Offense of foot washing was and essential point for Jesus.
--A genuine encounter with Jesus brings something to light in our life
--Our sense of shame about ourselves.
BEAUTY OF THE ACT
--Intent of the act is to cleanse and heal the moment of our shame.
--Perfectionism, for example, hides our soul covered in shame.
--Jesus even washed Judas's feet--the ultimate act of cleansing.
NECESSITY OF THE ACT
--Unless I wash your feet, you have no part of me.
--Did Judas think his sin was too big to be forgiven--hence the suicide?
Rev. Abe Cho
16 October 2016
John 13: 6-11
6He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, "Lord, are you going to wash my feet?"
7Jesus replied, "You don not realize now what I am doing, but later you will understand."
8"No", said Peter, "you shall never wash my feet." Jesus answered, "Unless I wash you, you have no part with me."
9"Then, Lord," Simon Peter replied, "not just my feet but my hands and my head as well!"
10Jesus answered, "Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean. And you are clean, though not every one of you." 11For he knew who was going to betray him, and that was why he said not every one was clean.
OFFENSE OF WASHING FEET
--Feet were dirty and the culture has a sense of shame regarding it.
--Foot washing preserves dignity of guests around the table.
--Foot washing was left for the lowest servants and slaves.
--Peter was concerned for his own dignity as well as Jesus.
--Offense of foot washing was and essential point for Jesus.
--A genuine encounter with Jesus brings something to light in our life
--Our sense of shame about ourselves.
BEAUTY OF THE ACT
--Intent of the act is to cleanse and heal the moment of our shame.
--Perfectionism, for example, hides our soul covered in shame.
--Jesus even washed Judas's feet--the ultimate act of cleansing.
NECESSITY OF THE ACT
--Unless I wash your feet, you have no part of me.
--Did Judas think his sin was too big to be forgiven--hence the suicide?
Saturday, October 22, 2016
Sent in Love
Jesus: Mission and Glory: New Purpose PART V
Dr. Timothy Keller (MP3)
09 October 2016
John 13: 1-5
1It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
2The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Isacriot, to betray Jesus. 3Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
FOOT WASHING - WHO JESUS IS
--Lowest slaves typically washed feet.
--Menial and offensive task.
--Juxtaposition of His high status with humble behavior.
--Jesus is equal with the Father.
--Foot washing caps the behavior that highlights/contradicts the his lofty claim.
--Lofty claimed mixed with "lowly" behavior
--Rational conclusion that he is the Son of God.
--Emotional conclusion is that he is Beautiful.
FOOT WASHING - POWER
--v.1; begins and ends with Love.
--His infallible love against the power of forces against him in spite of his impending death.
--Thinks of others in the face of impending agony.
--Loves us in spite of unworthiness of recipients. (v.2)
--He's washing the feet of someone who will get him killed and one that will deny Him.
--All the guests will hurt them terribly and yet he humbles himself before them.
--Nothing can dislodge his love for us.
--He loves us, not because we are great, but because He is great.
FOOT WASHING - PATTERN OF LIFE FOR US
--Self giving is the ultimate reality or we will be on our way to self-absorption.
--Be loving and kind to people that oppose you.
--Jesus has a different model of greatness than the world gives us.
--As you grow older, hopefully a realization comes on that nothing, but God, will satisfy us.
--His love is crucial to our joy.
Dr. Timothy Keller (MP3)
09 October 2016
John 13: 1-5
1It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
2The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Isacriot, to betray Jesus. 3Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; 4so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist. 5After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
FOOT WASHING - WHO JESUS IS
--Lowest slaves typically washed feet.
--Menial and offensive task.
--Juxtaposition of His high status with humble behavior.
--Jesus is equal with the Father.
--Foot washing caps the behavior that highlights/contradicts the his lofty claim.
--Lofty claimed mixed with "lowly" behavior
--Rational conclusion that he is the Son of God.
--Emotional conclusion is that he is Beautiful.
FOOT WASHING - POWER
--v.1; begins and ends with Love.
--His infallible love against the power of forces against him in spite of his impending death.
--Thinks of others in the face of impending agony.
--Loves us in spite of unworthiness of recipients. (v.2)
--He's washing the feet of someone who will get him killed and one that will deny Him.
--All the guests will hurt them terribly and yet he humbles himself before them.
--Nothing can dislodge his love for us.
--He loves us, not because we are great, but because He is great.
FOOT WASHING - PATTERN OF LIFE FOR US
--Self giving is the ultimate reality or we will be on our way to self-absorption.
--Be loving and kind to people that oppose you.
--Jesus has a different model of greatness than the world gives us.
--As you grow older, hopefully a realization comes on that nothing, but God, will satisfy us.
--His love is crucial to our joy.
Wednesday, October 19, 2016
Sent to Bring Freedom
Jesus, Mission and Glory: New Purpose PART IV
02 October 2016
Dr. Timothy Keller
John 8:31-26; 56-59
31To the Jews who had really believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32Then you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free."
33They answered him. "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?"
34Jesus replied, "Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. 35Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. 36So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
56Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad. 57"You are not yet fifty years old," they said to him, "and you have seen Abraham!"
58"Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!" 59At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.
Does being a Christian end your freedom?
COMPLEXITY
--v31-32; you'll be free if you accept my "constraints".
--Modern life portrays freedom as an absence of constraints.
--Freedom is doing the things that are liberating.
ENEMY OF FREEDOM
--The ultimate enemy of freedom is ourselves...because we are bound by sin.
--v.32 We are slaves...without the Jesus's help.
--Sin is disobeying our Creator...and thus violates our design.
--Sin is living for our own self interest.
--Self centered-ness and rebelling against our own design.
LIBERATOR
--v.35-36; not just about obedience--we are His children.
02 October 2016
Dr. Timothy Keller
John 8:31-26; 56-59
31To the Jews who had really believed him, Jesus said, "If you hold to my teaching, you are really my disciples. 32Then you will know the truth, and the truth shall set you free."
33They answered him. "We are Abraham's descendants and have never been slaves of anyone. How can you say that we shall be set free?"
34Jesus replied, "Very truly I tell you, everyone who sins is a slave to sin. 35Now a slave has no permanent place in the family, but a son belongs to it forever. 36So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.
56Your father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing my day; he saw it and was glad. 57"You are not yet fifty years old," they said to him, "and you have seen Abraham!"
58"Very truly I tell you," Jesus answered, "before Abraham was born, I am!" 59At this, they picked up stones to stone him, but Jesus hid himself, slipping away from the temple grounds.
Does being a Christian end your freedom?
COMPLEXITY
--v31-32; you'll be free if you accept my "constraints".
--Modern life portrays freedom as an absence of constraints.
--Freedom is doing the things that are liberating.
ENEMY OF FREEDOM
--The ultimate enemy of freedom is ourselves...because we are bound by sin.
--v.32 We are slaves...without the Jesus's help.
--Sin is disobeying our Creator...and thus violates our design.
--Sin is living for our own self interest.
--Self centered-ness and rebelling against our own design.
LIBERATOR
--v.35-36; not just about obedience--we are His children.
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