Saved To Serve 4-21-2024
April 21, 2024
Saved To Serve
Pastor Jason West
April 21, 2024
Matthew 16:28
I. Seeing the
A. Christ
(Luke 9:28-31; John 1:14; 2 Peter 1:16-18)
B. Peter Has Something to Add
(Luke 9:32-36; Mark 9:6)
II. Seeing the
A. Jesus Served Out of
John 13:1 “Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.”
John 13:3 “Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God,”
1. Knowing What God Called Him to Do
(John 13:1)
2. Knowing That God Is In
(John 13:3a)
3. Knowing His True
(John 13:3b)
B. Jesus Served
Luke 7:44 “Then turning toward the woman he said to Simon, ’Do you see this woman? I entered your house; you gave me no water for my feet, but she has wet my feet with her tears and wiped them with her hair.’”
1. The
(Luke 22:24-27)
2. The Act of
John 13:3-5 “Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.”
John 13:6-8a “He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, ‘Lord, do you wash my feet?’ Jesus answered him, ‘What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.’ Peter said to him, ‘You shall never wash my feet.’”
John 13:8b “Jesus answered him, ‘If I do not wash you, you have no share with me.’”
John 13:9 “Simon Peter said to him, ‘Lord, not my feet only but also my hands and my head!’”
John 13:10-11 “Jesus said to him, ‘The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.’ For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, ‘Not all of you are clean.’”
Titus 3:5 “He saved us, not because of works done by us in righteousness, but according to his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal of the Holy Spirit”
C. The Lesson for Us All – Take Up Your
John 13:12 “When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, ‘Do you understand what I have done to you?’”
1.
(John 14:17)
John 13:13-15 “You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.”
John 13:16-17 “Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.”
John 14:12-13 “This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends.”
a. In Your Marriage
(Ephesians 5:25)
b. With Your Children
(Ephesians 6:4a)
c. In the Workplace
(Ephesians 6: 5, 9; John 13:34)
2. Be
(John 13:35)