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Part 4 Easter "The Last Supper" - Pastor Don Guldin
May 21, 2025
Part 4 of the Easter Series Lesson 54 Bible Study Series Pastor Don Guldin 150 Guldin Rd Jacksonville, NC www.calvaryministry.org
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Good morning folks. Thank you again for being here with us at Calvary Ministry.
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We will be continuing the series of messages that we have prepared for
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Easter in particular. As you recall the last several sermons and messages we've
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had, we covered the triumphant uh entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. We covered the
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next day where he cleansed the temple. Then we covered Tuesday and Wednesday
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where he spent his time teaching in the temple with particular emphasis on what
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the Pharisees should know so that they could respond to the good news.
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Sometimes the hardest people in the world to teach anything to to get to
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listen are those who think that they know it all already. The message of God
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is a very simple message, one of salvation to all who will come. The
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brokenhearted, the oppressed, those that are downtrodden, those that feel as though
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life has passed them by. The message that Jesus brought was one of salvation
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into the human soul such as mankind had not
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experienced for a thousand years. And so here's Jesus and he tells them just as
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John did to the Pharisees. He tells them during his teachings, he says, "Repent
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for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." The message hasn't changed. The
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world is still a lost and backsliding place, a place that is filled with anger
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and violence and harm and every form of wickedness mankind against another.
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And so a message of the kingdom of God that is within being activated and to
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flow out so that lives are changed and people live again not for their own will
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but for the will of almighty God within them. We're going to continue in our series
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today and we're going to go to Thursday of that week and we're going to cover
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the early part of Thursday of that week. And that would be the part where they
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have the preparation for the last supper which will take it place in Jerusalem.
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When I say they, it'll be the Jesus and the 12 disciples.
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They will have the what we commonly call the last supper, the last Passover meal
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that Jesus would celebrate on this earth. He does it with his
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disciples and he is at Jerusalem. And so we will pick up
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today's sermon by looking at chapter 13 of John and we will begin with verse
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one. Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, this is going to be his
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last to celebrate in Jerusalem. The last meal he will celebrate before his
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betrayal and crucifixion. The last meal he will celebrate with the disciples. It says,
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"Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour
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had come that he should depart from this world to the
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father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end."
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Now, one thing I want to point out to you is that Jesus, it says that he is
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going to depart that the he knows that the hour
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has come according to God's divine purpose and he is going to depart from
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this world and go to the father. He is
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going to do that because he loved his own who were in the world. He loved them
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to the end of his time here on this earth. Verse
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two, they celebrated the Passover. They're in Jerusalem in what
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was called an upper room. And Jesus knowing that the
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father had given him a will to do on
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this earth for the salvation of all those who
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would be drawn to him. It says in verse two, "And supper
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being ended, the devil already put it into the heart of Judas is chariot,
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Simon's son, to betray him." Now Jesus knows that this is part of the divine
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sequence of events that are going to transpire. All these things will take
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place according to what God has ordained for his divine purpose of the Messiah on
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this earth. And supper being ended, it says the devil had already put into the heart
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of Judas to betray him. When did this occur? We talked about it in the last
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sermon. how on Wednesday, the day before the last supper, Judas had gone to the
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temple priests with the intent to betray
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Jesus into their hands in exchange for his act of
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betrayal. They were going to give him 30 pieces of silver.
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Judas agreed to deliver to them the Messiah. He would identify the Messiah
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to them in exchange for 30 pieces of silver.
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Verse three, Jesus knowing that the father had given all things into his
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hands and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper.
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Now look what Jesus does. He knows that all those things to lead to his
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betrayal, him being delivered to the Pharisees and those that hated him and
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literally despised what he was doing, that he had been betrayed and but
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that this was all going to be part of the transpiring of God's plan.
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He knew that because he had come from God and he was going back to God. He
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knew these things. It says in verse four, look what he does. He rose from the supper and
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laid aside his garments. He took off his outer garment that he was wearing and
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only had the inner garments on him. He took a towel and put it around
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himself a long piece of cloth that he was going to use for washing
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purposes. It says in verse five, "And after that, he poured water
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into a basin and began to wash the disciples feet and began to wipe with
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the towel with which he was girded."
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He does this as an act of humility to those whom he
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loves. Pours water into a basin. Now he is the Lord. He is the master. He is the
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Messiah that God has sent. Peter has already confessed him as the
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son of the living God, the Christ, the son of the living God. And here's Jesus
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after they have eaten the Passover meal, pours water into a basin, lays aside his
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outer garment, and he takes a towel, wraps it
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around himself, and he goes to wash the
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disciples feet. It says in verse six, "And then he came
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to Simon Peter." And Peter said to him, I can just imagine the quiet, the hush
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that was in that upper room after they had eaten the meal. And as Jesus came
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one to another, each one of them individually and washed their feet. Now
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there's symbol symbolism there as well. Jesus came to them
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individually one by one to wash their feet. He was going to take that part of
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their human body which would pick up the dirt of the street, the the dirt from
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their daily travels and moving about. And he was going to take that
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dirt, that filth that was upon them, and he was going to wash it away. He was
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going to wash it away. And as a sign of the washing being complete, he was going
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to take a towel and then wipe their feet clean and dry. It's no different when we
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come to God and we confess our sins. We repent of our sins.
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The Bible says that Jesus in God, the
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only begotten son, Jesus, when we confess our faith in him
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and receive the salvation that only comes by
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him according to God's salvation, that we are washed clean.
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old things that person we want is put away and all things have become a new
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according to God's plan of salvation. He came to Peter and Peter
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said to him, him being Jesus, Lord, are you washing my feet?
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Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing, you do not understand." Now,
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see, he was performing that symbolic cleansing that we just talked about back
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in verse six. What I am doing to you now, you do not
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understand, but you will know after this. You
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see, Jesus knew that Peter, like the
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other disciples, was going to run and leave
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him. He knew that a time would come when Peter would deny him three times during
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the course of Thursday evening into Friday morning. He knew, but he also
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wanted Peter to know that he had the assurance of being washed clean in the
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salvation that comes from God alone.
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Listen to what he says to Peter in verse eight. Peter said to him, "You shall
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never wash my feet." First mistake. If you don't come to God and ask him for
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completely complete forgiveness for your sins because of
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Jesus, then you have no forgiveness. There can be no forgiveness without the
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blood and the sacrifice that was shed by Jesus the Christ by God's divine plan AC
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upon that cross on Mount Calvary.
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Jesus says to him, "If I do not wash you, if I do not make you clean with the
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salvation that has come by God's grace through me, listen to what it says. You
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have no part with me. You must believe in the Lord Jesus
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Christ as your savior. You must believe that he has come because of the very
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grace of God according to God's plan of salvation. Jesus says further to
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him after Peter says to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my
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head." Why would he do that? because his head, his brain, his
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mind. There are four things that we have to give to God in our
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repentance. We give him our mind. We give him our
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thoughts. We give him our daily
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actions. and we give him our complete
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faith. Four things that we give to God. The first two, our mind and our
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thoughts come from that gift of God where we are made to know good and evil.
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Created in the very image of God's ability to discern.
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We give our mind, our thoughts to almighty God. So Peter says
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he will give him his head. And then he says also his hands because we give the
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very life we live unto God in thanksgiving and in praise of what God
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has done to us. We give our mind, our thoughts. We give our hands, the very
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lives we live and that is our head in our hands.
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And Jesus says unto Peter, he who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but
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is completely clean. and you are clean, but not all of you. That clothes there
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refers directly to Judas
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Escariat. For he knew, it says who would betray him. Therefore, he said, "You are
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not all clean." There was one who did not understand the salvation that God
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had sent in Jesus, the Christ, the Messiah, the one who has come to save us
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from our sins. So when he had washed their
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feet, he took his garments and sat down again. And he said to them, "Do you know
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what I have done for you? You call me teacher and Lord, and
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you say, "Well, for so I am." If I then, your Lord and
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Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. the
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humility that Jesus displayed in the washing of their
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feet. Remember what it said in the Lord's prayer. Lord, forgive us our
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trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. You see,
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forgiveness. Jesus, even though he knew that they were going to run from him, even though
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he knew that Judas was going to betray him, had already betrayed him, and even
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though he knew that Peter would deny him three times during the course of that
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Thursday evening and into Friday morning, he washed their feet as an act
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and an expression of the great love that he had
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for them. And he says that this love that he expressed in this act of
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humility, they need to keep this as a way to show their love one to another.
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Verse 15, Jesus says plainly, "For I have given you an example that you
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should do as I have done to you." Verse
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16, most assuredly I say to you, a servant is not greater than his
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master, nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him.
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If you do know these things, blessed are you if you do them. I do not speak.
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Jesus continues in verse 18 concerning all of you. I know whom I
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have chosen. But that the scripture may be fulfilled. He who eats bread with me
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has lifted up his heel against me. Now, keep in mind, he has washed the feet of
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all 12 of the disciples, including
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Judas, and they sit down to share bread
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again. Verse 19, Jesus says, "Now I tell you before it comes that when it does
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come to pass, you may believe that I am he." Who? He the son of the living God,
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the Messiah, the hope for Christ, the one prophesied in all the writings of
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the Old Testament scriptures. Verse 20. Most assuredly I say to you, he who
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receives whomver I send receives me, and he who receives me receives him
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who sent me. verse
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21. They're eating these small morsels of bread and they're sharing
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conversation and they're listening to Jesus. It says in verse 21, "And when Jesus had
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said these things, he was troubled in spirit and testified and
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said,"Most assuredly I say to you, one of you will betray
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me." Now all of them except John will deny him. So 10 will deny him in the
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next 12 hours and they will all flee from his
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side. Only John will be with him through the trial and then the scorging and then
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the crucifixion. John is the only disciple that will remain. And Jesus says, speaking of
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Judas, most assuredly I say to you, one of you will betray
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me. Verses 21- 25. The disciples begin to talk among
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themselves, wondering who it would be. Jesus says to them in verse
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26, "It is he to whom I shall give a piece of bread when I have dipped
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it." So he took the piece of bread. He dipped it and he gave it to Judas is
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chariot the son of Simon. Now after the piece of
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bread, Satan entered into Judas. Though he had the chance to
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receive salvation directly from the Christ, the living God, the son of the
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living God. He denied that
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opportunity and he allowed Satan to enter into him.
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Then Jesus said to him, "What you do, do
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quickly." Those at the table were confused by his quick conversation with
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Judas. But in verse 31, Jesus says to them
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plainly after they had gone out of the upper room, he gathers them together and
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he says in verse 31, "Now the son of man is glorified and God is glorified in
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him." Oh boy. If God is glorified in him, God will
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also glorify him in himself and glorify
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him immediately. There will be no failure in God's divine plan. Even though Judas has
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rushed out and has made the final arrangements to betray him, knowing that
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Jesus is going to go into the garden, he is going to come later with a cohort of
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the guard of the temple and the Roman
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legion and he is going to identify Jesus and they will arrest him. But this is
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all to the glory of God because God is going to show us he is in
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control. God has a divine plan and that divine plan will be
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fulfilled according to God's purpose and according to God's glory.
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Remember Lazarus who was in the grave four
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days and he was raised not for the sake of Lazarus
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though he was returned to his sisters Martha and Mary but he was raised to give glory
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unto God. And as a final les lesson on the power of God to give back
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life on this earth, little children, verse 33, I
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shall be with you yet a little while. And he will be with them just a
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matter of hours before he is arrested. And he says there to them, "You will
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seek me. And as I said to the Jews, where I am going, you cannot come. So
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now I say to you, a new commandment I give to you, that you love one another,
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as I have loved you, that you also love
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one another. By this all will know that you are the
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my disciples if you love one another. None of those disciples could
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go to the cross where Jesus was going to go in a matter of hours. None of those
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disciples would hang on that cross for six hours after they had been brutalized
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and they would die a very slow, infamous and painful death. None of those
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disciples would go that night through that
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suffering. None of those disciples could hang on that cross by
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God's command and forgive the sins of the world.
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Jesus says, "But the one thing you can do, and I say this to you, and a new
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commandment that I give to you, that you love one another as I have loved
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you, that you love one another." Verse
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35. By this all will know that you are my disciples if you have love one for
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another. I want you to turn with me to chapter 15.
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Jesus gives a total of four verses here in
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chapter 15 and they start in verse
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9 and Jesus continuing on this thought that he gave them where we were just at
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chapter 15 of John and verse 9 Jesus says to his disciples now Judas is not
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with them at this time only the 11 he says as the father loved me I also
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have loved you. He looked past all their faults. He looked past all those things
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that the world would find wrong with them. These were just everyday men. They
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were fishermen. They were workers. They were not schooled in the great
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school of gamiel or Shemi or Haleiel. They had not received the very
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grandest of things right from the Pharisees and
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education. They were everyday ordinary people, fishermen, workers of the land.
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Jesus says to them, "As the father loved me, I also have loved
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you." You see, Jesus loves the ordinary people like me and you. And he says to
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them, "If you keep my commandments, remember the commandment
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to love one another, you will abide in my love just as I have kept my father's
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commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you
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that my joy may remain in you." The knowing of love, the knowing of
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unshakable love is the greatest joy you can have in your life. That my joy may remain in you and
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that your joy may be full. This is my
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commandment that you love one another as I have loved you.
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He adds one more verse there and this is where we'll close. And he says, "Greater
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love hath no one than this, that he laid down his life for his
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friends. You are my friends," Jesus says
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to them. In closing, if you have not yet received
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the salvation that can only come by the power of salvation from Almighty God, if
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you have not experienced that miracle in your life that changes you from what you
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were to what God would have you to be, I would encourage you to take this
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moment to pray and simply say, Say God, I know I am a sinner. God, I repent of
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my sins. And God, I call upon the name of a holy and glorious
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Jesus to re to receive forgiveness of my
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sins. God bless me with your salvation. I believe that if you prayed
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that simple prayer that God is going to do amazing and wonderful things with the
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spirit that he imparts in your life in the name of Jesus. Amen.