Sent to Love

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?