John 13

Do turn, if you will, to John chapter 13 in the church Bibles.

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I said I hoped to kind of do two more sermons in Psalm 17,

but I've been away and the end of this week was chaos.

So I've kind of been working on an article on the three nevers that Peter says to our Lord.

So you're going to get the fruit of that this morning.

And then it's something from Hebrews 13 tonight.

No Lord. No Lord. Have you ever said that?

No Lord. What a stupid thing to say.

How crazy it is to call him Lord and to say no to him.

Either he is Lord or he isn't.

And if he is Lord, you can't say no to him.

Or maybe you do.

Look at Peter in this passage. Look at verse 8.

Of chapter 13.

Peter says, no, no, no.

You will never wash my feet.

Never ever. Literally.

And not to all eternity, he says.

Never in a million years, Lord.

And this isn't the only time that Peter says no to Jesus.

Three times Peter says no to Jesus.

The most obvious time is at Caesarea Philippi.

Where he says no to the cross.

Jesus says this is what is going to happen to me.

And Peter says no, no, no.

That's not to happen.

And Jesus says get behind me, Satan.

Now there are many people on there.

There are actually many churches that would like to take the cross out of Christianity.

Now they'd love to do that.

But Jesus says, doesn't he, to that, get behind me, Satan.

Now Peter was one of those people.

He said no, Lord.

That will never happen to you.

And now he is saying no to having his feet washed by Jesus.

He's saying no to a changed life by Jesus, actually.

He wants Christianity without cleansing.

And it's not possible.

It's not possible.

It's a really famous episode, isn't it?

John 13.

You'll be familiar with it.

It's been ritualized and dramatized every Easter around the world.

It's inspired great works of art by Leonardo da Vinci.

And Dan Brown thinks he's found a hidden meaning, doesn't he, in the da Vinci code?

And people are fascinated, aren't they, by conspiracy theories.

Especially if they seem to discredit Christianity.

Well, if you've read the da Vinci code, it's absolute nonsense.

But I do want to say to you, there is a hidden meaning in this incident, isn't there?

I look at verse 7.

It says there.

It says what I'm doing, you do not understand now, but afterwards you will understand.

There's a hidden meaning.

It's not apparent now, but Jesus says to them, it will be apparent later.

John's Gospel is written, if you've read it, on multiple layers, isn't it?

And they're not arbitrarily imposed, a kind of hidden code within it.

But there is, deliberately intended by the author, many levels of meaning.

And we see that in this passage.

And so three things, three things beginning with P.

First of all, a portrait, then a parable, and then a pattern.

Verses 1 to 5, you can see a portrait of Jesus.

And then there's a parable of salvation between Jesus and Peter, verses 6 to 11.

And there's a pattern for us to follow.

And so writing many decades later, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit,

and with the benefit of hindsight, looking back on this event,

John sets the scene in these opening words.

Look at verse 1.

He says this is when it happened.

It happened just before Passover.

Just before the feast of Passover.

And Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of the world.

Having loved his own who were with him in the world, he loved them to the end.

In other words, John is saying he showed the full extent of his love towards others.

In this little passage here, he shows us something of the height and the depth and the length and the breadth of his love.

That's what this story is.

It's a glorious little picture.

It's a picture of love on its knees.

Think of a mother with her small children who've dropped food yet again on the floor.

Is she proud to her children?

Does the mother boast of her accomplishments to her kids?

No, of course not.

A mother might be very proud of her children, but she is never proud to her children.

Because love is not proud, is it?

Love is not puffed up.

Love does not stand on dignity.

So think of even the most powerful, high-flying executive.

When he's with his grandchildren, he'll get down on his knees to play, won't he?

It's what love does.

Love stoops.

And that's what Jesus demonstrates in the upper room.

He knows, verse 1, his hour has come.

He knows that it's now time for him to go to the cross.

All through John's Gospel, if you read it, you're told the hour has not yet come.

The hour has not yet come.

And then you get to chapter 13.

The hour has come.

And he knows it's time.

It's Passover time.

It's going to be time for him to lay down his life as a sacrifice to God for the sins of his people.

The time has come for him to go to the cross.

The time has come for him to leave this world and go to his Father.

And he knows in verse 3 that the Father has given all things into his hands.

And he knows that he's come from God.

And he's going to go back to God.

And knowing that, knowing all who he is and all that he's come to do in the world,

he comes down from the table.

And he takes off his outer clothing.

And he wraps a towel around his waist.

And he washes the feet of his disciples.

And that's what's being painted for us.

Love doesn't stand on ceremony.

Love gets down on its knees to meet the needs of loved ones.

And that's what you see here, isn't it?

That is the hidden meaning in this painting.

Love which brought him down.

Love which brought the creator into his creation.

Love which brought the one who flung the stars into space.

Love that brought him who was always at the Father's side in glory to the feet of smiley disciples.

The him, it wasn't the nails that held him there.

It was his love.

For you and for me, having loved his own who were in the world,

he loved them to the very end.

He saw it through.

Probably the best commentary on John chapter 13 is Philippians chapter 2, isn't it?

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Philippians chapter 2, which says this about him.

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Jesus Christ, who though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped.

But emptied himself by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of man, being found in human form.

He humbled himself, becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.

Joseph de Vista was a missionary in 19th century Hawaii.

It's the worst places to go as a missionary.

But he was a missionary to the leper colony on the island of Molokai.

You might have seen the film.

There's a film out about it.

One morning, he was preparing to take a service in the leper colony,

when Damien actually spilt boiling hot water on his bare foot.

It took him a minute to realize what had happened.

He realized that he hadn't felt anything.

And realizing what that might mean in a leper colony,

he poured more boiling water on his foot, on the same spot,

and there was no feeling whatsoever.

That morning, he went to church, and he opened the service,

not in his normal way, dearly beloved, or welcome to IPC, good morning.

He opened the service with these words,

my fellow lepers, my fellow lepers.

What a demonstration of love, isn't it?

It's one thing to go to a leper colony to minister to lepers,

but to die a leper's death, my fellow lepers.

Isn't that what Jesus has done for us?

Isn't that what is being demonstrated in this passage?

It's telling you that he is a friend of sinners.

He is numbered with the transgressors.

And that is baptism.

We've often thought of it, don't we?

He joins the queue of sinners to be baptized by John in the Jordan River,

confessing his sins.

Jesus is in line with them.

Jesus is numbered with the transgressors,

even though he was not a sinner himself.

He was numbered with the transgressors on the cross.

We're told he became sin for us.

He who knew no sin became sin.

It's him that I used to sing when we were growing up.

It's borderline heretical, but it's brilliant.

Listen to this.

How willing was Jesus to die that we fellow sinners might live?

The life they could not take away.

How willing was Jesus to give?

But Jesus was not a sinner, was he?

He was not a sinner.

And yet, in identifying himself with us,

he became sin for us.

Our sin was laid on him.

He was numbered with the transgressors.

Having loved his own, he loved them to the limit.

He loved them to the end.

And so what you've got in this passage

is a beautiful portrait of a servant king

who stoops to meet your need.

What you have in that upper room

is a prefiguring of what he will do at Calvary.

It's a picture of love on its knees.

How far love will go.

How love far will go to meet the needs

of people like you and I.

And the answer is this.

He will go all the way.

Here's the second thing that I want you to see.

That all who are loved by Jesus

are washed by Jesus.

And what I mean by that is

there's an interchange between Jesus and the eleven

and you see a parable of salvation.

It's a parable of salvation.

Peter says, doesn't he,

just look with me at John 13 again.

Peter says when Jesus comes to him

with the bowl and the towel,

verse eight,

you will never wash my feet.

Never ever.

Not a chance, Lord.

And Jesus answered him,

if I do not wash you,

you have no share with me.

It's not about hygiene.

It's not about COVID

and counting in 20 seconds while you wash.

It's about holiness.

It's a parable.

And Jesus is taking the social conventions of the day

and he's preaching the good news,

the gospel to Peter.

The streets of Jerusalem were filthy.

Not only with dirt,

but probably with sewage as well.

And the streets were a thousand times worse at Passover

because the city swerved to about five times its normal size.

And so if you went into someone's house on arrival,

there would be someone to wash your feet.

And maybe it would be a household slave

or the lowest in the whole household.

And Jesus says to Peter,

let me do that for you.

Let me be your servant.

Let me wash your dirty, smelly feet.

And it's too much for him.

What you, you wash my smelly feet?

Never.

Not in a million years.

You'll never wash my feet.

And Jesus says,

unless you let me wash you,

you will have no part in me.

That's the same word,

the word part in me,

that's used in the prodigal son.

So the younger son goes to his dad, doesn't he?

And he says,

give me my share in the inheritance.

Give me my part.

Before he goes and he kicks off the traces.

It's the same word that was used for Israel

when they came into the promised land.

When they were given a share,

when they were given a part of the promised land.

It's the same word that's used in Revelation.

When we will have a share in the tree of life

as part of the holy city.

And Jesus says,

unless I wash you,

you'll have no share in what I came to do.

In other words, Peter,

if you recoil,

if you draw back from what I'm doing now,

then you're rejecting the very principle

on which my kingdom is founded.

You reject this,

you reject me and everything I stand for.

Because, Peter,

if you think that washing your feet

is offensive,

how much more are you going to find

the cross of Jesus Christ offensive?

If you're too proud to let me wash your feet,

how will you ever accept my death on your behalf?

My atoning sacrifice for you.

And if I don't wash you, Peter,

you will have no part with me.

No share in what I've come to do.

And that's the offense of Christianity.

That's the offense of the cross.

Unless I wash you.

Christianity is about being washed.

Christianity is about having

your sin cleansed

and your sin blotted out.

And that's our problem.

I want to ask you,

how's that happened to you?

Have you come to Jesus

to be cleansed from your sin?

Or are you too proud to do it?

Some hymns that we sing,

when you think of them,

they're so odd, aren't they?

Foul,

I to the fountain fly,

wash me, Saviour,

or I die.

Foul?

A bit extreme.

You sing, I'm foul?

The dying thief

rejoiced to see

that fountain in his day,

and thereof I,

though vile,

as he washed all my sins away.

Vile?

Vile?

Is that what you're saying?

And our problem is Peter's problem,

that he is too proud

to admit that he's got a problem.

And many of us are like that,

aren't we?

We refuse to admit

that we need to be cleansed.

And we need to be washed.

And we need to be made fit

for the company of Jesus.

I'm not that bad.

I'm not that bad.

I'm not that bad

compared to others.

I'm a decent person.

It's too humbling, isn't it?

And pride is so very subtle

that it can invert itself.

And so most of us,

like Peter,

we are far more comfortable,

aren't we,

with what we can do for Jesus

than what he can do for us.

And in fact,

a lot of people,

they think that's what

Christianity is all about,

don't they?

They think that Christianity

is all about doing Jesus a favor.

It's all about trying your best.

But Christianity is not about

what you do for Jesus.

It is about what Jesus

has done for you.

And so we see this

all the time, don't we,

in churches.

We can be really happy

serving and doing this

and doing that,

but we hate to be served.

It's one of the hardest things,

isn't it?

I'm told about growing older.

That you can't do

what you want to do

and you can't serve

as you used to serve

and instead,

you have to let

other people serve you.

And instead of people

depending on you,

you are dependent on them.

But that's a great picture

of what Christianity

is all about.

It is all about

what Jesus has done for you.

And Jesus says to Peter,

unless I wash you,

you've completely missed

the point altogether

and you've got no part

in what I've come to do.

And at which point,

Peter, in kind of

characteristic fashion,

does this great backflip,

doesn't he?

Look at verse 9.

He goes from one extreme

to the other.

He says,

Lord, not only my feet,

but also my hands

and my head.

First, he protests

about washing at all.

I don't need to be

washed at all.

And then he says,

I need a bath.

And what he needed

was to have his feet washed.

And Jesus says to him,

Peter, actually,

you don't need to have

another bath.

You need your feet washed.

If I come to your house

for lunch today

and somebody comes in

from the kitchen

and they say,

dinner's ready,

feel free to wash your hands,

and I say,

actually,

I'm just going to pop

in the shower,

you would think,

wouldn't you,

he's a very,

very odd man.

Because you would hope

that I showered

before I came to church,

which I did.

Not when you arrive

at someone's house

for dinner.

It would be weird,

wouldn't it?

Dinner's ready,

I'm just going to jump

in your shower.

No, what do we do?

We wash our hands.

I shower you

to do that

before you left home.

And in their case here,

it wasn't their hands,

but their feet,

and they needed

their feet to be washed,

and so do we.

Because as the people

of God,

as the people of God

who have trusted in Christ,

we have been forgiven

wonderfully.

We've been forgiven.

If you put your trust

in the Lord Jesus Christ,

you have been saved,

you've been regenerated,

you've been born again.

But you still need

your feet washed.

And as we walk

through the dirty streets

of this world,

week by week,

we pick up all sorts

of yuck on our feet,

and we come week by week,

don't we,

needing to confess our sin.

We know that.

Every day,

it's a parable.

Jesus is speaking

in language

that they could understand

and you can understand

to point you to the cross.

to show your need

of what he's about

to do for you,

to wash away your sin.

You don't understand,

he says in verse 7,

but you will later understand.

When later,

on the other side

of the cross,

at the deepest level

of how we're to understand it,

it's a parable of salvation.

A.M. Hunter,

a New Testament scholar,

says this,

he says,

there is no place

in Jesus' fellowship

for those who've not

been cleansed

by his atoning death.

Many people today

would like to call themselves

Christians,

but see no need

of the cross.

Ready to admire

Jesus' life

and praise his teaching,

and even perhaps

like Gandhi,

follow his example,

but they cannot

bring themselves

to believe

that Jesus died

for their sins.

And that's the gospel.

There is a fountain

that is open

to sin and uncleanness.

There's a fountain

filled with blood.

It's such peculiar

language,

isn't it?

Blood drawn

from Emmanuel's veins

and sinners plunged

beneath that flood

lose all their

guilty stains.

The dying thief

rejoiced to see

that fountain

in his day,

and there may I,

though vile as he,

just like him,

wash all my sins away.

That's the good news.

There's a once

and for all-ness

about it,

isn't it?

There's a once

and for all-ness

about the death

of Christ

and forgiveness

that no one

need to spare.

But there's an

ongoingness

that none of us

should be complacent.

In the atoning

sacrifice of Jesus

on the cross,

there is complete

cleansing for your

sin that is past,

that is present,

that is future.

When you put your

trust in the Lord

Jesus Christ,

he washes you

completely from

toe to toe.

And so that when

God looks at those

who put their

trust in his son,

he doesn't see you

in your sin

and your dirt

anymore,

he sees you

justified,

right with him.

Completely clean,

washed.

He gives you a

bath,

he cleanses you

from all your

sins,

but there's an

ongoingness as well,

isn't there?

Think of King David

and what he did,

how he lived a lie

and committed adultery

and murder

until Nathan the

prophet comes and

challenges him

and he is convicted

of his sin.

And in Psalm 51

he says,

Have mercy on me,

O God,

according to your

steadfast love,

according to your

abundant mercy,

blot out my

transgressions,

take them away,

wash me thoroughly

from my iniquity,

cleanse me from my

sin,

hide your face

from all my sins,

blot out my

iniquities,

creating me a

clean heart.

And renew a

right spirit

within me,

cast me not away

from your presence,

restore to me

the joy of your

salvation,

and then I'll

teach transgressions

your ways.

Sinners will be

converted to you.

David had fallen

into the mud

and the muck

of sin,

he'd lost the joy

of his salvation,

that's his testimony,

and the prophet

comes and says,

you're the man.

Do you remember

what John says

later on,

in 1 John,

he says,

if we confess

our sins,

if we own up

to our guilt,

if we open up

the closet,

take the skeletons

out and say,

Lord,

this is who I am,

God will what?

God is faithful

and just.

He will forgive us

our sin,

and he will cleanse

us from all

unrighteousness.

There's a once

and for allness

about the death

of the Lord Jesus

Christ,

and there's an

ongoingness.

The truth of the

Christian life is

we need to keep

short accounts

with God,

don't we?

We can't become

blasé about

walking through

this life and

the mud on our

shoes.

We need to be

cleansed and

ongoingly cleansed.

John Sott,

I think,

really helpfully

compares the

two sacraments

of baptism

and the Lord's

Supper.

He says this,

he says,

you're baptised

once.

I think that's

really important.

You need to be

baptised once

in the name of

the Father,

the Son,

and the Holy

Spirit.

There's one

baptism,

the Bible

says.

You don't

get baptised

over and

over and

over again

because when

you do that,

you're

misrepresenting

the gospel.

Baptism is a

sign and seal

of our

regeneration,

of our

need to be

born again.

It's a sign

of your

justification,

of being

declared right

with God

by faith

in Christ.

You're

baptised

once,

but you

come to

the Lord's

table

frequently,

don't you?

And every

time we

come,

we examine

ourselves.

You need

to know

what's going

on.

You need

to know

what's

happening.

And we

examine

ourselves.

That's what

we need

to do

because at

the Lord's

table,

we keep

short

accounts.

we keep

coming back

for cleansing

and forgiveness

and feeding.

Those who've

had a bath

only need

to have

their feet

washed,

Jesus said.

And Jesus

says,

you are

clean.

You're

all clean,

but not all

of you,

not every

one of you.

Of course,

he's referring

his knee to

Judas.

Look at

verse 11.

For he

knew who

was to

betray him.

That's why

he said,

not all

of you

are

clean.

try and

think

yourself

into this

scene

for a

moment.

Judas

scares me.

Judas

frightens me

because I

can easily

see myself

doing what

he did.

Jesus

saw the

miracles.

Judas

saw the

miracles,

heard the

teaching.

He'd been

with Jesus

every day.

He was the

treasurer of

the twelve.

He witnessed

the wisdom,

the kindness,

the patience,

the consistency,

the goodness,

and the love

of Jesus.

He was an

insider.

He was a

disciple.

That's scary,

isn't it?

It's possible

for you this

morning to be

in church and

not to be in

Christ.

You can read

your Bible,

you can pray,

you can talk

the talk,

you can look

the path and

not be saved.

It's possible

to be close

to Jesus

and not

be with

Jesus.

You are

clean,

Jesus says

to his

disciples,

but not

all of you.

And I

think when

Jesus said

that,

that one

of you

will betray

me,

I think

there were

eleven

frightened

men in

the group.

In that

room,

don't you

think?

The other

gospel writers

tell us that

the other

disciples began

to say,

is it I?

Is it I?

Is it me?

And I

think that's

the right

response.

I guess

there were

eleven

frightened

men in

that room,

but there

was one

who wasn't.

And Judas

wasn't

frightened

because he'd

already made

up his

mind.

He was

going to

walk out

on Jesus

and betray

him.

He'd

already

done the

deal.

And so

this morning,

let me say

this to you,

if you are

frightened by

Jesus here,

then you

jolly well

ought to

be.

And if

you think

that could

so easily

be me,

that is a

very good

sign.

That you

are spiritually

alive.

And your

conscience is

working properly.

And if you're

not frightened

at all by

these words,

then you

really ought

to be.

Decades

later, as

John writes

this gospel,

he can still

see Judas

disappearing,

the silhouette

against the

door.

He disappears

out of the

door, verse

30, into

the night.

He immediately

went out into

the night.

He surrendered

to his greed.

He's in league

with the devil

to betray

his Lord.

And it

was night.

It is

darkness.

He walks

away from

the love

of Jesus

into the

darkness.

Into the

darkness of

a Christless

eternity.

him.

And so

be warned.

Don't be

Judas.

Make your

calling and

election sure.

Love portrayed.

Love

betrayed.

Love

displayed as

an example

for us to

follow.

Love

displayed as

an example

for us to

follow.

Most people,

when they come

to this passage,

go straight

here.

It's the

first thing

they see,

and it

turns out to

be the

only thing

they see.

And so

they see,

ah,

here is an

example to

follow.

Verse 12.

When he

washed their

feet and

put on his

outer garments

and resumed

his place,

he said to

them,

do you not

understand what

I've done

to you?

You call me

teacher and

Lord,

and you are

right,

for so I

am.

If then I,

your Lord and

teacher,

have washed

your feet,

you also

ought to

wash one

another's

feet,

for I have

given you

an example.

You know,

a sense of

occasion,

some people

have it,

and some

don't.

Some people

get the

dress code

right at

a party,

others

don't.

And here,

the apostles,

the disciples

get it

wrong.

They turn

up to

the Last

Supper,

and they

are arguing

amongst

themselves,

who is

the

greatest?

It's a

remarkable thing,

isn't it?

I am the

greatest.

No,

no,

no,

I am

the

greatest.

No,

no,

no,

I am

the

greatest.

They

were arguing

about who's

going to

get the

top jobs

in Jesus'

kingdom.

Who's

going to

fulfill the

top positions?

James and

John have

even got

their mum

to put in

a good

word for

them,

much to the

disgust of

others.

They're

jockeying for

position.

And as

Jesus prepares

to lay his

life down for

them,

they are

competing and

comparing

themselves with

each other.

the evening

meal is being

served,

verse 2,

and normally

the feet are

washed before

the meal.

but obviously

there's no

servant girl

because it's

hired room.

Somebody's

not done

their job.

Anyone could

have done it

but nobody

did it.

There was an

important job

to be done

and everybody

was sure that

somebody would

do it.

Anybody could

have done it

but nobody

did it.

Somebody got

angry about

that because

it was

everybody's

job.

Everybody

thought anybody

could do it

but nobody

realized that

everybody

wouldn't do

it.

It ended

up that

everybody

blamed

somebody

when nobody

did what

anybody

could have.

Welcome to

the upper

room.

And the

tragedy is

it's often

like that

in a local

church,

isn't it?

There's a

job to be

done but

nobody wants

to do it.

Somebody

ought to

have done

it.

Anybody

could have

done it

but nobody

did it.

Why

don't

they

do

something

about it?

Who are

they?

Anybody

could have

done it

nobody

did it

until

Jesus

he got

up

wrapped

himself

in a

towel

and

stooped

down

to

wash

their

feet.

And

he

does

for

them

what

they

were

too

proud

to

do

for

themselves.

There's

no household

slave

and all

the guests

are too

self-important

to do

that so

Jesus

does

it.

He

who

is

lord

of

all

becomes

the

servant

of

all.

How

embarrassing.

Twelve

red

glowing

faces in

the

dark.

And

the

silence

is

deafening.

I'm

breaking

the

silence

Jesus

says

do

you

know

what

I've

done

for

you?

I've

set

you

an

example.

I've

set

you

an

example.

How do

you learn

to write?

You learn

to write

in school?

You learn

to write?

How do

you learn

to write?

Do you

remember?

What do

you do?

You get

little letters

and little

dots

and you

copy

them.

Is that

right?

Is it

still like

that?

I think

it

is.

And so

you

do

that.

You

do

that.

You

follow

the

lines.

that.

You

may well

be

teaching

Sunday

school.

Maybe

volunteering

for

little

stars.

Maybe

washing

dishes.

Maybe

cleaning

toilets.

Maybe

giving

your

time.

Jesus

says

I've

set

you

an

example.

30

years

later

when

the

apostle

Peter

came

to

write

his

first

epistle

he

said

Christ

suffered

for

you

leaving

you

an

example.

In

his

steps

yes he

died a

substitutionary

death.

Yes he

died to

wash our

sins

away.

And that's

the most

important

thing.

But he

also died

giving us

an example.

And as

you see

the image

of Jesus

kneeling

with a

towel

wrapped

around

him

stooping

to wash

his

disciples

feet.

It's

so ingrained

in Peter's

mind

that he

says in

chapter 5

clothe

yourself

with

humility.

He

says this

is the

way that

I want

you to

do

church.

I've

set you

an

example.

Let me

wrap up.

As I

finish let

me ask you

this question.

Are you

saying no

to Jesus?

Is there

anything in

your life

and Jesus

is speaking

to you

about it?

at least

in your

heart

probably

not out

loud

you are

saying

Tim

no

Lord

never.

Not in

a million

years.

Don't

go there.

Don't

go there.

Anything

else but

don't

go there.

And Jesus

is saying

to you

this morning

that's the

very thing

I want

to talk

to you

about.

And

that's

the

very

thing

that you

need

to

change.

Let's

go there.

And

perhaps

you're

here

this

morning

and

you're

not

a

Christian

but

you're

definitely

interested

and you

see the

advantages

of

Christianity

and you

want

Jesus

as an

example

you think

he'd be

great

for the

kids

but you

don't

want a

relationship

with him.

You

don't

want him

as your

Lord

and

saviour.

And

you can't

bring yourself

to admit

that you

need a

saviour

and that

you need

to be

washed

because

you

stink

like I

do.

And

that's

the reason

he came

into the

world

to

rescue.

So

don't

say no

to him.

Don't

walk

out on

him

like

Judas.

Let's

pray.