1. TBN
  2. Programs
  3. Power Point with Jack Graham
  4. Episodes
  5. Jack Graham - The Way of the Master
Power Point with Jack Graham

Jack Graham - The Way of the Master

April 12, 2026 | 27:29

Jack Graham - The Way of the Master
Dr. Jack Graham's mission is to glorify God by introducing Jesus Christ as Lord to all people.
#Focus #SeekGod #Jesus #Humble #Surrender #WalkwithGod #Sacrifice #Cross #Crucifixion #Death #Resurrection #Lastsupper #LoveofGod #UnconditionalLove #Humility #Christ-like #Obedience #Serving #JackGraham

Closed captions

Show Timecode
Power Point with Jack Graham | Jack Graham - The Way of the Master | April 12, 2026
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:00:00.356 --> 00:00:05.128
  • There is no person that god cannot save!
  • 00:00:05.128 --> 00:00:10.333
  • There is no promise that god will not keep!
  • 00:00:11.234 --> 00:00:16.372
  • There is nothing that our god cannot do!
  • 00:00:17.240 --> 00:00:32.522
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:00:32.822 --> 00:00:37.827
  • Okay, open your bibles to john's gospel, chapter 13...
  • 00:00:38.895 --> 00:00:43.566
  • This is a brand-new message series called the
  • 00:00:43.566 --> 00:00:47.103
  • Christ-centered life. life in christ. and with jesus in the
  • 00:00:47.103 --> 00:00:56.446
  • Upper room, we're going to discover the plans and the
  • 00:00:56.446 --> 00:01:01.417
  • Promises of god for each one of our lives.
  • 00:01:01.417 --> 00:01:06.389
  • And so in the upper room with jesus... and this is known in
  • 00:01:06.389 --> 00:01:10.226
  • Biblical circles as the upper room discourse... it's the
  • 00:01:10.226 --> 00:01:14.297
  • Longest message recorded of jesus in all of the new
  • 00:01:14.297 --> 00:01:18.067
  • Testament in all of the bible. john is the author. he was
  • 00:01:18.067 --> 00:01:22.705
  • There. he was in the upper room sitting right next to jesus. in
  • 00:01:22.705 --> 00:01:25.775
  • Fact, we're told that he just to get a little closer and to
  • 00:01:25.775 --> 00:01:30.146
  • Hear a little better, he put his head over on the chest of
  • 00:01:30.146 --> 00:01:33.783
  • Jesus in these moments of passion, these moments of
  • 00:01:33.783 --> 00:01:39.389
  • Preparation for the cross. and so today we begin.
  • 00:01:39.389 --> 00:01:46.362
  • And i want to speak to you about “the way of the master.”
  • 00:01:46.362 --> 00:01:50.300
  • Because the way of the master and of the christ-centered life
  • 00:01:50.300 --> 00:01:54.504
  • Is one of love. humble, compassionate love.
  • 00:01:54.504 --> 00:02:02.579
  • It's one of the most sobering and serious moments in all the
  • 00:02:02.579 --> 00:02:07.450
  • Bible there in the upper room with jesus. we hear his words,
  • 00:02:07.450 --> 00:02:16.292
  • And we hear them now through tears because we know what is
  • 00:02:16.292 --> 00:02:21.097
  • About to happen to our loving lord. he is on his way to the
  • 00:02:21.097 --> 00:02:24.567
  • Cross. this is thursday night, hours before his arrest and his
  • 00:02:24.567 --> 00:02:31.274
  • Crucifixion the next day on friday. he is on his way to lay
  • 00:02:31.274 --> 00:02:40.116
  • Down his life for our sins, and then to rise again on the third
  • 00:02:40.116 --> 00:02:46.522
  • Day.
  • 00:02:46.522 --> 00:02:47.724
  • A preacher by the name of alexander maclaren wrote these
  • 00:02:47.724 --> 00:02:50.827
  • Words about what was happening in the upper room. he said:
  • 00:02:50.827 --> 00:02:54.197
  • "nowhere else did the blended lives of our lord's superhuman
  • 00:02:54.197 --> 00:02:58.234
  • Dignity and human tenderness shine with such lambent
  • 00:02:58.234 --> 00:03:01.537
  • Brightness. nowhere else is his speech at once so simple and so
  • 00:03:01.537 --> 00:03:07.176
  • Deep. nowhere else have we the heart of god so unveiled to us.
  • 00:03:07.176 --> 00:03:12.649
  • On no other page, even of the bible, have so many eyes,
  • 00:03:12.649 --> 00:03:15.685
  • Glistening with tears, looked and had the tears dried. the
  • 00:03:15.685 --> 00:03:19.622
  • Immortal words which christ spoke in the upper chamber are
  • 00:03:19.622 --> 00:03:24.460
  • His highest self-revelation in speech..." these are powerful
  • 00:03:24.460 --> 00:03:33.703
  • Moments in the presence of the lord and i want us by god's
  • 00:03:33.703 --> 00:03:37.340
  • Spirit to be transported there in the days ahead.
  • 00:03:37.340 --> 00:03:42.779
  • Jesus knows that his hour has come. and his hour was the hour
  • 00:03:42.779 --> 00:03:49.052
  • For which he came on mission. jesus tells us in john 12:47
  • 00:03:49.052 --> 00:03:56.659
  • What his mission on earth was all about. he said, “for i did
  • 00:03:56.659 --> 00:04:00.863
  • Not come to judge the world, but to save the world.”
  • 00:04:00.863 --> 00:04:06.769
  • And so now here is jesus observing the passover which
  • 00:04:06.769 --> 00:04:11.708
  • Ultimately is transformed for his church into the lord's
  • 00:04:11.708 --> 00:04:15.411
  • Supper. but this is the final supper jesus would observe with
  • 00:04:15.411 --> 00:04:20.116
  • His disciples.
  • 00:04:20.116 --> 00:04:23.186
  • Look at verse one of chapter 13:
  • 00:04:23.186 --> 00:04:25.555
  • 1) now before the feast of the passover, when jesus knew that
  • 00:04:25.555 --> 00:04:29.325
  • His hour had come to depart this world and go to the
  • 00:04:29.325 --> 00:04:32.628
  • Father, having loved his own...
  • 00:04:32.628 --> 00:04:37.033
  • Those men were his own. they were a motley crew but they
  • 00:04:37.033 --> 00:04:44.340
  • Belonged to jesus. he picked them, he chose them, he trained
  • 00:04:44.340 --> 00:04:49.379
  • Them, he prayed over them. they're all there, including
  • 00:04:49.379 --> 00:04:54.250
  • Judas the betrayer. he said, "you are mine and i am yours."
  • 00:04:54.250 --> 00:05:02.892
  • And what is true for those men that night is true for you if
  • 00:05:02.892 --> 00:05:08.765
  • You have put your faith and trust in jesus. and this
  • 00:05:08.765 --> 00:05:12.668
  • Statement in verse 2... verse 1:
  • 00:05:12.668 --> 00:05:15.772
  • 1) ...they were in the world but he loved them to who were
  • 00:05:15.772 --> 00:05:21.611
  • In the world, he loved them to the end.
  • 00:05:21.611 --> 00:05:25.348
  • Now these disciples had earlier been arguing about who was
  • 00:05:25.348 --> 00:05:29.519
  • Going to be greatest in the kingdom. they were expecting a
  • 00:05:29.519 --> 00:05:33.723
  • Triumphant messiah that would overthrow their enemies and
  • 00:05:33.723 --> 00:05:37.794
  • Rule and reign, and they were all uptight about who was going
  • 00:05:37.794 --> 00:05:42.465
  • To have the best chairs in the kingdom, who was going to have
  • 00:05:42.465 --> 00:05:44.867
  • The biggest platform in the kingdom. so in spite of that...
  • 00:05:44.867 --> 00:05:48.671
  • In spite of their failures, in spite of the fact that these
  • 00:05:48.671 --> 00:05:52.708
  • Men did not yet get it as to what christ was about to do,
  • 00:05:52.708 --> 00:05:57.647
  • "he loved them to the end".
  • 00:05:57.647 --> 00:06:01.384
  • What is a christ-centered love? define it. it is an
  • 00:06:01.384 --> 00:06:06.522
  • Unconditional love. it is the unconditional love of god. the
  • 00:06:06.522 --> 00:06:09.192
  • Scriptures says god has loved you with an everlasting love.
  • 00:06:09.192 --> 00:06:10.526
  • There is nothing you can do to make god love you less; nothing
  • 00:06:10.526 --> 00:06:19.735
  • You can do to make god love you more, because he loves you to
  • 00:06:19.735 --> 00:06:22.238
  • The end. that means perfectly! telos- it's too the end, to the
  • 00:06:22.238 --> 00:06:29.979
  • Completion, all the way! god loves you! he always has and he
  • 00:06:29.979 --> 00:06:39.922
  • Always will. his love never ends.
  • 00:06:39.922 --> 00:06:44.694
  • Now, i'm reminding you today of what most of you already know.
  • 00:06:44.694 --> 00:06:52.268
  • I learned it as a little boy. “jesus loves me; this i know,
  • 00:06:52.268 --> 00:06:58.040
  • For the bible tells me so.” teach that to your children and
  • 00:06:58.040 --> 00:07:03.012
  • Your grandchildren. so i'm reminding you of this to
  • 00:07:03.012 --> 00:07:08.584
  • Challenge us to live out this love that is in us. because if
  • 00:07:08.584 --> 00:07:14.123
  • There's one thing this world desperately needs, it is the
  • 00:07:14.123 --> 00:07:18.928
  • Love of jesus christ; it is the love of god.
  • 00:07:18.928 --> 00:07:23.766
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:07:23.766 --> 00:07:30.973
  • Amidst the chaos, challenges and upheaval in the world, it
  • 00:07:32.141 --> 00:07:36.078
  • Is possible for you to navigate through life with god's wisdom
  • 00:07:36.078 --> 00:07:40.049
  • And peace that is found in jesus christ. the profound life
  • 00:07:40.049 --> 00:07:44.053
  • And example of jesus gives us an example in which we can
  • 00:07:44.053 --> 00:07:47.590
  • Thrive. when we have a personal relationship with him. in my
  • 00:07:47.590 --> 00:07:52.461
  • Book, life according to jesus, i show you how to practically
  • 00:07:52.461 --> 00:07:56.365
  • Apply the profound teaching and wisdom of jesus in your
  • 00:07:56.365 --> 00:07:59.669
  • Everyday life.
  • 00:07:59.669 --> 00:08:01.971
  • [announcer] as i thank you for your generous gift. we'd like
  • 00:08:01.971 --> 00:08:04.073
  • To send you a copy of life according to jesus through 80
  • 00:08:04.073 --> 00:08:07.310
  • Lessons from the book of john. pastor graham shows us just how
  • 00:08:07.310 --> 00:08:10.413
  • Jesus responded to the tough issues and the questions we all
  • 00:08:10.413 --> 00:08:13.983
  • Face day to day. he'll introduce you to the wisdom of
  • 00:08:13.983 --> 00:08:16.652
  • Jesus, to practical life lessons, and demonstrate the
  • 00:08:16.652 --> 00:08:20.156
  • Powerful role he can play in your life today.
  • 00:08:20.156 --> 00:08:23.392
  • We'll send you a copy of life according to jesus today. when
  • 00:08:23.392 --> 00:08:26.295
  • You give your best gift to help powerpoint take the gospel of
  • 00:08:26.295 --> 00:08:29.231
  • Jesus to the world. just text the word april to 59789.
  • 00:08:29.231 --> 00:08:34.370
  • [jack graham] my hope and prayer is that through the
  • 00:08:34.370 --> 00:08:36.372
  • Lessons in life according to jesus, you'll find yourself
  • 00:08:36.372 --> 00:08:39.842
  • Drawing closer and closer to christ, gaining a deeper
  • 00:08:39.842 --> 00:08:43.512
  • Understanding of who he is and what he can do in your life,
  • 00:08:43.512 --> 00:08:47.383
  • And learn how to have his wisdom and peace and confidence
  • 00:08:47.383 --> 00:08:50.920
  • Facing any challenge in your life. and remember, with your
  • 00:08:50.920 --> 00:08:55.391
  • Support, you're helping powerpoint reach the whole
  • 00:08:55.391 --> 00:08:58.027
  • World with the gospel of jesus christ.
  • 00:08:58.027 --> 00:09:01.931
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:09:01.931 --> 00:09:06.002
  • Look in chapter 2 of philippians. in fact,
  • 00:09:06.002 --> 00:09:08.237
  • Go ahead and turn in your bibles. and in philippians
  • 00:09:08.237 --> 00:09:11.240
  • Chapter 2 we are told of this love and how it plays out with
  • 00:09:11.240 --> 00:09:19.615
  • Others. philippians chapter 2 and we're going to look at
  • 00:09:19.615 --> 00:09:25.621
  • Verses 3 and 4 to start: “do nothing from selfish ambition
  • 00:09:25.621 --> 00:09:32.795
  • Or conceit, but in humility count others more significant
  • 00:09:32.795 --> 00:09:38.401
  • Than yourselves. let each of you look not only to his own
  • 00:09:38.401 --> 00:09:42.171
  • Interests, but also to the interests of others.” that's
  • 00:09:42.171 --> 00:09:47.843
  • Christ-centered love, that's christ-centered living.
  • 00:09:47.843 --> 00:09:51.781
  • And then, we need a model for this. what is our example of
  • 00:09:51.781 --> 00:09:56.952
  • This love? jesus himself. “have this mind (verse 5) among
  • 00:09:56.952 --> 00:10:02.258
  • Yourselves, which is yours in jesus christ, (you have the
  • 00:10:02.258 --> 00:10:05.861
  • Mind of christ) who, though he was in the form of god, did not
  • 00:10:05.861 --> 00:10:10.900
  • Count equality with god a thing to be grasped, but emptied
  • 00:10:10.900 --> 00:10:14.470
  • Himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the
  • 00:10:14.470 --> 00:10:18.808
  • Likeness of men. and being found in human form, he humbled
  • 00:10:18.808 --> 00:10:22.278
  • Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death
  • 00:10:22.278 --> 00:10:26.882
  • On a cross.” the most shameful way to die, the death on a
  • 00:10:26.882 --> 00:10:29.452
  • Cross. and therefore, god has highly exalted him and bestowed
  • 00:10:29.452 --> 00:10:34.757
  • On him the name that is above every name, so that at the name
  • 00:10:34.757 --> 00:10:37.760
  • Of jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and earth and under
  • 00:10:37.760 --> 00:10:40.696
  • The earth, and every tongue confess that jesus christ is
  • 00:10:40.696 --> 00:10:43.966
  • Lord, to the glory of god the father.” say amen! [amen]
  • 00:10:43.966 --> 00:10:49.739
  • So the model of this love is christ himself. and that's what
  • 00:10:49.739 --> 00:10:55.578
  • He shows us in this upper room as he defines it, as
  • 00:10:55.578 --> 00:11:00.883
  • Ultimately, he washes the feet of his disciples. he emptied
  • 00:11:00.883 --> 00:11:06.989
  • Himself; he took on the form of a servant. and we see it here
  • 00:11:06.989 --> 00:11:09.692
  • In the upper room, don't we? we see it as jesus after or during
  • 00:11:09.692 --> 00:11:16.532
  • The passover meal, gets up and he takes off his outer cloak
  • 00:11:16.532 --> 00:11:23.839
  • And strips down, picks up a towel, fills a basin with
  • 00:11:23.839 --> 00:11:28.544
  • Water, and one by one he begins to wash the feet of those
  • 00:11:28.544 --> 00:11:35.684
  • Disciples.
  • 00:11:35.684 --> 00:11:38.721
  • It was the job... it was the task of a household slave if
  • 00:11:38.721 --> 00:11:44.093
  • One was available, to do this dirty work, to wash the feet.
  • 00:11:44.093 --> 00:11:50.099
  • It was a sign of hospitality and honor to make sure that
  • 00:11:50.099 --> 00:11:53.969
  • Your guests were clean... they had their feet washed.
  • 00:11:53.969 --> 00:11:59.642
  • So jesus, realizing that no one had washed the feet of his
  • 00:11:59.642 --> 00:12:04.513
  • Disciples and none of his disciples had washed his feet.
  • 00:12:04.513 --> 00:12:15.090
  • I could kind of see why peter didn't want wash judas' feet,
  • 00:12:15.090 --> 00:12:21.430
  • But i can't understand why not one of them offered to wash the
  • 00:12:21.430 --> 00:12:24.800
  • Feet of jesus. so jesus gets up and he begins to wash their
  • 00:12:24.800 --> 00:12:32.975
  • Feet. he removes their sandals gently, splashes the water,
  • 00:12:32.975 --> 00:12:40.616
  • Massages their feet and this is the very definition and
  • 00:12:40.616 --> 00:12:45.688
  • Demonstration of love. more about that in just a moment.
  • 00:12:45.688 --> 00:12:53.128
  • Because there's something else you need to see in this first
  • 00:12:53.128 --> 00:12:56.131
  • Message in the upper room, and that is, not only the
  • 00:12:56.131 --> 00:13:00.269
  • Definition of love or defining love, but i want you to see the
  • 00:13:00.269 --> 00:13:03.172
  • Christ-centered love here is denied. denied by who? judas is
  • 00:13:03.172 --> 00:13:11.547
  • In the room. he has yet to go out and do his own dirty deed,
  • 00:13:11.547 --> 00:13:18.087
  • Selling jesus out for thirty pieces of silver, but the plot
  • 00:13:18.087 --> 00:13:22.391
  • Has already been hatched. judas is at this meal, the one who
  • 00:13:22.391 --> 00:13:28.631
  • Would betray the lord with a kiss. what a hypocrite!
  • 00:13:28.631 --> 00:13:35.037
  • Now judas was a religious man. i can't understand how after
  • 00:13:35.037 --> 00:13:42.344
  • Three years... he had seen the miracles of jesus, he had heard
  • 00:13:42.344 --> 00:13:46.849
  • The powerful words of god coming through the lips of
  • 00:13:46.849 --> 00:13:50.252
  • Jesus, he had seen the perfection and the beauty of
  • 00:13:50.252 --> 00:13:53.789
  • The life of jesus. how is it possible that he would kiss
  • 00:13:53.789 --> 00:13:59.128
  • This life goodbye? jesus is the door to heaven, and judas
  • 00:13:59.128 --> 00:14:04.667
  • Kissed the door to heaven and went to hell! because he was a
  • 00:14:04.667 --> 00:14:09.405
  • Religious man, he was not a saved man.
  • 00:14:09.405 --> 00:14:11.240
  • Did you know that judas was actually the treasurer of the
  • 00:14:11.240 --> 00:14:14.777
  • Disciples? john tells us in his gospel that he held the bag,
  • 00:14:14.777 --> 00:14:18.514
  • That he was a thief from the beginning. they didn't all know
  • 00:14:18.514 --> 00:14:20.983
  • It, maybe they didn't even suspect it at this point. in
  • 00:14:20.983 --> 00:14:24.687
  • Fact, when jesus said, “one of you will betray me,” they began
  • 00:14:24.687 --> 00:14:29.825
  • To look at each other and say, “is it me? is it i? is it i?” i
  • 00:14:29.825 --> 00:14:32.227
  • Don't know if anybody pointed the finger at judas, but he was
  • 00:14:32.227 --> 00:14:39.635
  • The culprit and he was in the room.
  • 00:14:39.635 --> 00:14:42.071
  • But here's what had happened to judas; he had given himself
  • 00:14:42.071 --> 00:14:44.640
  • Over to satan. jesus called him the son of satan, the son of
  • 00:14:44.640 --> 00:14:49.011
  • Perdition. we have... i wonder sometimes why is judas in this
  • 00:14:49.011 --> 00:14:59.188
  • Room? and why do we have to see all this ungodliness and
  • 00:14:59.188 --> 00:15:04.026
  • Ugliness in the midst of the beauty and the sanctity of
  • 00:15:04.026 --> 00:15:07.796
  • What's happening here in this upper room? well, it is
  • 00:15:07.796 --> 00:15:10.432
  • Instructed to us that judas is there because it reminds us
  • 00:15:10.432 --> 00:15:16.672
  • That just because you are near to jesus doesn't mean that you
  • 00:15:16.672 --> 00:15:20.075
  • Know jesus. judas was with him all those years and he was
  • 00:15:20.075 --> 00:15:26.782
  • Right there in the room before christ gave his life. and yet,
  • 00:15:26.782 --> 00:15:31.186
  • He sold his soul to satan.
  • 00:15:31.186 --> 00:15:34.123
  • And it's possible that you can be in church and you can be
  • 00:15:34.123 --> 00:15:37.593
  • Around the things of god and you can know about god and even
  • 00:15:37.593 --> 00:15:40.496
  • Know about jesus and know the bible and be near to all these
  • 00:15:40.496 --> 00:15:43.432
  • Things, and not know jesus in your heart and in your life.
  • 00:15:43.432 --> 00:15:49.872
  • It's what happened to judas.
  • 00:15:49.872 --> 00:15:51.040
  • It's also a contrast here between jesus and judas. the
  • 00:15:51.040 --> 00:16:00.315
  • Reason that christ-centered people are persecuted for their
  • 00:16:00.315 --> 00:16:06.555
  • Faith and put out for faith and cancelled and even killed for
  • 00:16:06.555 --> 00:16:13.195
  • Faith in jesus christ, is the reason that in this world
  • 00:16:13.195 --> 00:16:17.366
  • Existed... like in this room, darkness and light. and the
  • 00:16:17.366 --> 00:16:23.972
  • Children of the darkness, like judas and his cohorts... they
  • 00:16:23.972 --> 00:16:27.276
  • Do what children of the darkness do. what satan does,
  • 00:16:27.276 --> 00:16:35.451
  • And kill and steal and destroy.
  • 00:16:35.451 --> 00:16:37.453
  • But what do we do? what do we do as children of light in the
  • 00:16:37.453 --> 00:16:44.793
  • Midst of all this darkness? we keep worshiping jesus, we keep
  • 00:16:44.793 --> 00:16:50.466
  • Singing our praises to god, we keep praying, we keep
  • 00:16:50.466 --> 00:16:55.838
  • Witnessing, we keep washing feet by serving people. the
  • 00:16:55.838 --> 00:17:02.778
  • People of christ... the followers of jesus are filled
  • 00:17:02.778 --> 00:17:07.116
  • With love. judas and all of his cohorts from time in memorial
  • 00:17:07.116 --> 00:17:11.653
  • Are filled with hate. here the contrast could not be more
  • 00:17:11.653 --> 00:17:17.126
  • Visible! the christ-centered church is the way of love.
  • 00:17:17.126 --> 00:17:22.331
  • Judas rejected the love of jesus and he died, and he's in
  • 00:17:22.331 --> 00:17:23.665
  • Hell today with all the religious people and the
  • 00:17:23.665 --> 00:17:25.000
  • Irreligious people who reject the love of jesus christ.
  • 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:26.335
  • One final point: a christ-centered life is
  • 00:17:26.335 --> 00:17:42.818
  • Defined, a christ-centered life is denied, but then a
  • 00:17:41.283 --> 00:17:47.356
  • Christ-centered life is demonstrated. let's get back to
  • 00:17:47.356 --> 00:17:52.661
  • The towel and the basin and jesus washing the feet of his
  • 00:17:52.661 --> 00:17:56.298
  • Disciples. it was necessary because their feet were dirty.
  • 00:17:56.298 --> 00:18:05.073
  • It was all about the divine servant. and why did jesus do
  • 00:18:05.073 --> 00:18:10.746
  • This? how is love demonstrated?
  • 00:18:10.746 --> 00:18:14.583
  • Love is a verb, it's an action. first john 3:18 says "love not
  • 00:18:14.583 --> 00:18:21.390
  • In word only but in deed and in truth." and here the model,
  • 00:18:21.390 --> 00:18:31.667
  • Divine servant is showing us... demonstrating for us as our
  • 00:18:31.667 --> 00:18:36.772
  • Example how we are to love truth and love people. we often
  • 00:18:36.772 --> 00:18:43.979
  • Use people and love things, but we are to love people and use
  • 00:18:43.979 --> 00:18:53.155
  • Things. not vice versa.
  • 00:18:53.155 --> 00:18:57.326
  • Now jesus knew who he was and john is making it very clear
  • 00:18:57.326 --> 00:19:03.198
  • Who jesus is in this passage, as he is in the entire gospel
  • 00:19:03.198 --> 00:19:07.336
  • Of john. that jesus is god, the infinite god-man. he tells us
  • 00:19:07.336 --> 00:19:12.641
  • That jesus is going back to the father, once his mission is
  • 00:19:12.641 --> 00:19:18.680
  • Complete. he tells us in the opening verses here that “all
  • 00:19:18.680 --> 00:19:24.286
  • Things were given to him”. everything belonged to him. he
  • 00:19:24.286 --> 00:19:30.292
  • Is creator, he is christ, he owns it all. he has it all!
  • 00:19:30.292 --> 00:19:34.062
  • “all things have been given unto him.” look at it right
  • 00:19:34.062 --> 00:19:37.699
  • There in the scripture. he's got everything. but what does
  • 00:19:37.699 --> 00:19:41.069
  • He do with his everything? he doesn't take up the throne; he
  • 00:19:41.069 --> 00:19:45.440
  • Takes up a towel. he takes up a tub and fills it with water.
  • 00:19:45.440 --> 00:19:53.582
  • Everything was there for him for the taking, but he's the
  • 00:19:53.582 --> 00:19:56.118
  • Kind of savior who first kneels in grace and mercy.
  • 00:19:56.118 --> 00:20:02.024
  • This is, of course, a metaphor of the incarnation of christ.
  • 00:20:02.024 --> 00:20:06.762
  • The ... condescension of christ, the humiliation of
  • 00:20:06.762 --> 00:20:12.567
  • Christ.
  • 00:20:12.567 --> 00:20:16.071
  • We know peter loved the lord. it was peter who said, when
  • 00:20:16.071 --> 00:20:23.011
  • Many were leaving jesus, he said, "lord, to whom... where
  • 00:20:23.011 --> 00:20:29.084
  • Would we go? you have the words of eternal life." it was simon
  • 00:20:29.084 --> 00:20:35.223
  • Peter who said, "you are the christ, the son of the living
  • 00:20:35.223 --> 00:20:39.528
  • God!" simon wanted a relationship with jesus; he did.
  • 00:20:39.528 --> 00:20:47.569
  • That's when jesus says...
  • 00:20:47.569 --> 00:20:48.904
  • 13) you call me teacher and lord, and you are right, for so
  • 00:20:48.904 --> 00:20:51.673
  • I am. 14) but if i then, your lord and teacher, have washed
  • 00:20:51.673 --> 00:20:55.544
  • Your feet, you also should wash one another's feet.
  • 00:20:55.544 --> 00:20:59.114
  • And simon peter heard this. jesus said,
  • 00:20:59.114 --> 00:21:06.888
  • 8) if i don't cleanse you... if i don't wash you, you have no
  • 00:21:06.888 --> 00:21:10.058
  • Part of me. 9) and simon said, "okay, give me a bath! head to
  • 00:21:10.058 --> 00:21:20.602
  • Feet, wash me!"
  • 00:21:20.602 --> 00:21:25.273
  • You see, jesus is the only one who can cleanse our sin and
  • 00:21:25.273 --> 00:21:30.212
  • Wash away our iniquity. "there's no other name given
  • 00:21:30.212 --> 00:21:36.051
  • Among men whereby we must be saved." jesus says in john 14:6
  • 00:21:36.051 --> 00:21:43.725
  • In this same upper room, "i am the way, the truth, and the
  • 00:21:43.725 --> 00:21:48.497
  • Life, and no one comes to the father except through me." the
  • 00:21:48.497 --> 00:21:53.335
  • Only way to be cleansed... the only way to be forgiven... the
  • 00:21:53.335 --> 00:21:56.772
  • Only way to be saved is through the blood of jesus christ.
  • 00:21:56.772 --> 00:22:03.578
  • First john 5:13: "...these things are written (god's word,
  • 00:22:03.578 --> 00:22:07.916
  • What he said) who believe in the name of the son of god,
  • 00:22:07.916 --> 00:22:12.087
  • That you may know that you have eternal life." if you, like
  • 00:22:12.087 --> 00:22:20.262
  • Simon peter, have confessed him as your savior and lord, you
  • 00:22:20.262 --> 00:22:24.599
  • Are clean; you are saved. and you and you and you.
  • 00:22:24.599 --> 00:22:32.741
  • And then jesus says:
  • 00:22:32.741 --> 00:22:34.042
  • 15) if i've done this to you as your example, (verse 15) that
  • 00:22:34.042 --> 00:22:41.516
  • You do just as i have done to you. 16) truly, truly, i say to
  • 00:22:41.516 --> 00:22:45.620
  • You (verse 16), a servant is no greater than his master, nor is
  • 00:22:45.620 --> 00:22:48.723
  • A messenger greater than the one who sent him. (and i love
  • 00:22:48.723 --> 00:22:51.993
  • Verse 17; mark it in your bibles.) 17) if you know these
  • 00:22:51.993 --> 00:22:56.498
  • Things, blessed are you if you do them. (not if you think
  • 00:22:56.498 --> 00:23:04.306
  • About them or talk about them, but...) blessed are you when
  • 00:23:04.306 --> 00:23:10.745
  • You do them.
  • 00:23:10.745 --> 00:23:12.013
  • Blessed, meaning truly happy; completely satisfied. content,
  • 00:23:12.013 --> 00:23:22.457
  • Full of joy. blessed are you when you no longer live for
  • 00:23:22.457 --> 00:23:33.134
  • Self but you live for christ and you do what he tells you to
  • 00:23:33.134 --> 00:23:37.772
  • Do. just do it. this is not emotional or theoretical or
  • 00:23:37.772 --> 00:23:47.115
  • Mystical. just do it. the way to see peoples' lives changed
  • 00:23:47.115 --> 00:23:56.458
  • And cleansed by the power of god is not to scold them or to
  • 00:23:56.458 --> 00:23:59.227
  • Judge them or ignore them, but it is to show them love and
  • 00:23:59.227 --> 00:24:03.532
  • Grace and mercy. in effect, to wash feet.
  • 00:24:03.532 --> 00:24:08.837
  • This is how we live a christ-centered life. start
  • 00:24:08.837 --> 00:24:11.206
  • Here. there's going to be a lot more but start here. give
  • 00:24:11.206 --> 00:24:15.944
  • Yourself a way in loving and serving somebody. jesus said,
  • 00:24:15.944 --> 00:24:22.951
  • “deny yourself. pick up the cross.” that sounds like a big
  • 00:24:22.951 --> 00:24:26.288
  • Task. all right, start with a towel. pick up a towel and wash
  • 00:24:26.288 --> 00:24:37.332
  • Feet. get down and dirty, like jesus did. washing feet is not
  • 00:24:37.332 --> 00:24:43.471
  • A ritual; it's not an ordinance like the lord's supper or
  • 00:24:43.471 --> 00:24:47.909
  • Baptism, but it is an act of love and devotion. we're to
  • 00:24:47.909 --> 00:24:53.949
  • Serve people in the name of jesus.
  • 00:24:53.949 --> 00:24:55.550
  • Helping... (listen to this. i'm wrapping up) especially helping
  • 00:24:55.550 --> 00:25:00.155
  • People when things get down and dirty in their lives, when
  • 00:25:00.155 --> 00:25:06.595
  • Things get messy. that's when we show up with a tub and a
  • 00:25:06.595 --> 00:25:11.232
  • Towel.
  • 00:25:11.232 --> 00:25:12.467
  • We have a wonderful man in this church. his wife is battling
  • 00:25:12.467 --> 00:25:18.406
  • Dementia. it's a tough go. it's hard. for 3 or 4 years. it's
  • 00:25:18.406 --> 00:25:29.184
  • Not getting better. but you know what this man does every
  • 00:25:29.184 --> 00:25:33.688
  • Day? he brings home flowers to his wife, that she barely
  • 00:25:33.688 --> 00:25:43.632
  • Recognizes are hers. you what that is? what is it? that's
  • 00:25:43.632 --> 00:25:53.241
  • Washing feet.
  • 00:25:53.241 --> 00:25:57.278
  • Husband, start by washing the feet of your wife, serving your
  • 00:25:57.278 --> 00:26:02.684
  • Wife, serving your kids. can we not move out of the selfishness
  • 00:26:02.684 --> 00:26:07.789
  • And the self-centeredness of our life, men and women, and
  • 00:26:07.789 --> 00:26:10.659
  • Start doing what jesus taught us to do? and here's the thing-
  • 00:26:10.659 --> 00:26:14.062
  • I know it's hard; it's down and dirty, but jesus lives in us.
  • 00:26:14.062 --> 00:26:17.899
  • We started with that. this is a christ-centered life that we
  • 00:26:17.899 --> 00:26:24.305
  • Have in christ. so do the little things; do the random
  • 00:26:24.305 --> 00:26:29.077
  • Things. meet needs. shoot a text to someone who may need
  • 00:26:29.077 --> 00:26:32.714
  • Encouragement. call them, pay a visit.
  • 00:26:32.714 --> 00:26:37.285
  • So would you bow your heads with me in prayer. lord, teach
  • 00:26:37.285 --> 00:26:41.956
  • Us what we need to learn and how to live in the power of
  • 00:26:41.956 --> 00:26:45.460
  • Your holy spirit. fill us with your presence, that we would
  • 00:26:45.460 --> 00:26:50.131
  • Love like you. help us to go where things are messy with
  • 00:26:50.131 --> 00:26:56.871
  • Your grace. when things get down and dirty, to speak of
  • 00:26:56.871 --> 00:27:01.776
  • Good news. that we love one another because by this we know
  • 00:27:01.776 --> 00:27:09.317
  • That the world will know that we are your disciples, that we
  • 00:27:09.317 --> 00:27:14.723
  • Love one another.
  • 00:27:14.723 --> 00:27:17.625
  • ♪♪♪
  • 00:27:17.625 --> 00:27:17.625