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Sermon Outline:
“The Paschal Supper (pt 2) – The Feet Washing” (John 13:12-20)
8. Christ’s probing question vs12
9. Christ’s nature and authority vs13-14
10. Christ’s example for us to follow vs15
11. Christ’s warning against pride vs16
12. Christ’s beatitude of practical godliness vs17
13. Christ’s electing love and inflexible justice vs18-19
14. Christ’s encouraging promise vs20
Sermon Text:
John 13:12-20
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? 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. 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. I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he. Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”
Sermon Notes:
Thinking Biblically to Live Holy
Review
1. Christ’s immutable, eternal love vs1
2. Judas’s hardened malevolence vs2
3. Christ’s return to the Father vs3
4. Christ doing slave’s work – the washing of feet vs4-5
5. Peter’s impulsive, strong willed ignorance vs6-9
6. Clean lives vs dirty feet vs10
7. The son of perdition unmasked vs11
The Feet Washing – Pt2
8. Christ’s probing question vs12
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?
9. Christ’s nature and authority vs13-14
13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.
10. Christ’s example for us to follow vs15
15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.
11. Christ’s warning against pride vs16
16 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.
12. Christ’s beatitude of practical godliness vs17
17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
13. Christ’s electing love and inflexible justice vs18-19
18 I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen. But the Scripture will be fulfilled, ‘He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.’ 19 I am telling you this now, before it takes place, that when it does take place you may believe that I am he.
14. Christ’s encouraging promise vs20
20 Truly, truly, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.”
There is a double washing for the believer: the one of his entire person, the other of his feet; the former is once for all, the latter needs repeating daily. In both instances the “washing” is by the Word. Of the former we read… (1 Cor. 6:10, 11; Titus 3:5). The “washing of regeneration” is not by blood, though it is inseparable from redemption by blood; and neither the one nor the other is ever repeated. Of the latter we read… (Eph. 5:25-27).
