That All May - What Jesus Knew | Pr Jack Ling

You're listening to a message to go from acts Church. We hope this message

will light up your day. All may know. And that's our theme for

this year, that all may know, all right? Uh, And it

comes from a story of Daniel okay. Uh and uh you know the part

where he you know, King Nebuza. Uh, you know, and there's

a so whole story then all right. Last year it was Heaven rules and

then now it's that all may know. So Heaven's still rules and that all

may know. But now I want to ask you the question that all may

know? What that all may know? What is the question? Right?

So? Uh? That all may know that Jesus is Lord. Amen,

they all may know, that Heaven rules, that all may know the Kingdom

of God. So these are the few things that we are we are talking

about that all may know. But today I want to focus in on that

all may know what Jesus knew. Okay, what Jesus knew from John chapter

thirteen. So that's the main text that I'm going to talk about and let's

see where we go from there. So okay, so that all may know.

Why we have this theme is because you know, people need to know

Jesus people need to know who is the creator of the earth, of the

whole world of the universe, and who can save us? Who can save

us? Right, So that's very important. But this morning, let's look

at the text here, all right, got slights here? All right,

thank you, Fred. So let's go with the first one. We'll read

the Bible and let's see how we go from here, all right, now,

Yeah, so you know I've been talking on I've been using the Book

of John, right, And I stopped for a while, right, I

remember, and then we went into Easter, and I think I did the

story of Nayman before this. But so as I prayed and prepared, I

didn't get you know, the message for a while and go like what am

I supposed to talk about? And I was going on the Book of Kings

still, and I was exploring different different stories. And then I've in the

end, you know, I believe the Holy Spirit led me back to Hey,

go back to John. Right, So I'm back at John here,

John the thin right, So let's look at this here. Now, let's

read that all right 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. Okay, we just continue to stay on this verse here,

all right, and let's look at it a little bit. So now before

the feast of the Past or what does that mean, right, Jesus is

about to you know, accomplish his work on the Cross. To go to

the Cross. I believe it's kind of like around maybe twenty four hours before

this happens this at this time, all right, or maybe around there.

Okay, So it's can you imagine that. Imagine you know you're about to

fly for your holiday trip to Europe or whatever, right, okay, far

away place, and your flight you know you have to be there, you

know for international flights, around four hours before you there's some excitement, right,

excitement a little bit of anxiety. You go like, oh, you

know how I don't miss my fly? Right? How many of you here

you've missed flights before? Miss flights for I have? I have? And

yeah it was really sad and then we have to pay more money to get

the next flight anyway, is real? Right? So imagine you know your

big exam is coming in twenty four hours right, So what are you thinking

about? Right? So you're worrying, You're wondering, am I prepared?

You know, you're studying your last minute stuff. Right, You're doing the

most important thing before that thing comes. Right, So just giving us a

sense of the feel, right, that might that Jesus might have been feeling

so just before. That's why he's mentioned there. Right, Jesus knew that

his hour had come. Jesus knew, So that on me. Know what

Jesus knew? You know, Jesus knew time, he knew when his hour

was coming. He knew when he was going to die. You know,

that's really amazing. Actually, not many people, in fact, I don't

know of anyone who knows when they're going to die except I've God told them

maybe right, And many you know, big names, maybe even religious right

names, they don't know when they were going to die. Right. If

you go and study you know a lot of whoever you know that claims to

tell the truth, and you're going to find out how they die. It's

quite interesting to just study that, like how they died. Okay, And

when you look at Jesus's death, you will find it very amazing, very

glorious. Right. It was a horrible death, it was painful, but

he knew exactly what was going to happen and when. So Jesus knew when

I want to tell you how amazing that is. First, he's definitely you

know, God to be able to know when he was going to die,

right. And the other thing is this, how about you? You have

challenges and you know that you're worried about things like, for example, you're

worried whether you'll fall sake, You're worried whether you know you're wondering like when

when will I suddenly die? All right? What will happen to me?

And it's got to do it time? Right? But I want to tell

you Jesus knows. Jesus knows when you know what's going to happen to you.

He knows when he knows exactly when. And maybe if you really want

to know, you can actually go find out, pray see God about it.

If you're worried about something and it has got to do it time.

He knows because he knows when, he knows when he was going to die,

so he will know when for you as well. Okay, I hope

that encourages you time can be a very mysterious thing. But if you're in

God's hand, he knows and you want to find out, you want to

know, you can ask him and he will reveal to you if he wants

to la all right, Sometimes he allows you to be in the mystery.

It's okay, you don't know the time yet, It's okay. Trust him.

But he knows. Even if we don't know, he knows, and

we can trust him. Amen. You don't know when your friend or your

relative is going to come to Jesus, but he knows, so we can

trust him and we continue to speak the good news, we continue to share,

right, And sometimes it looks impossible, but he knows when. Amen.

All right, next one, so same verse here. I just want

to highlight the next part here. He knew that his hour had come to

depart out of this world to the Father. Now he knows, not only

when he knows where he's going. He knows where he's going. He does

not really know the time. He knows where he's going. How many of

you know where you are going? Right? And that's the other thing,

Right, What if you bought a plane that goes to wherever? You don't

know where you're going. That's a very interesting thing to do. But what

if it you ended up in a place that you didn't like. What if

you ended up in a place that, right, that is gonna torture you,

right, You're gonna suffer there. So but then Jesus knew where he

was going, all right, He knew where he was going. So I

believe he was in a way, you know, he was not worried.

Yes, he's a little bit troubled with the pain that he might have to

go through, but he knew where he was going. After that, but

you know, when you know, if you know where you're going, and

let's say you end up in a very nice place. You ended up in

a very nice you know, five style hotel, nice holiday, nice destination,

all the birds and whatever, the sky is beautiful, but you don't

know who you're going to be with. Even if you go into a nice,

beautiful place and you're all alone, what's the point. What's the point?

Right? You can't share it with anyone. You take pictures and nobody

sees it. What's the point, right? So, more importantly, he

knew who he was going to, you know, that's the best thing to

know, right, doesn't matter. You go to a place with streets of

gold whatever, the water is made of gold, whatever, But there's no

one there that loves you, and no one there that cares about you.

It is pointless. I rather go to a place that is I mean,

humble, maybe made of wood whatever. Right, But I'm with the person

I love. I'm with the person who loves me. That's even better.

Amen. Right. So a lot of people talk about heaven and oh what

a beautiful place, and what am I going to do there? But actually

it's more important to know who you're going to. And we're going to the

Father. A man Jesus knew he was going to the Father and that comforted

him. And that's the same comfort that we can have if you knew who

you were going to. So I asked you a question. You know who

you're going to right in the end, right, So let's at least connect

with him now, right, all right? Otherwise you'll say do I know

you? Oh? All right? So all right, it's not about where

you're going only it's who you're going to. Amen. So let's connect with

the who right now. Let's let's speak to him. Right. If you've

not been praying that's what that's what we mean. Speak to him. Pray.

It's actually very challenging to prayer, isn't it. It can be because

you've got to remember to pray because you don't see this person as in like

your physical eyes don't see Father, God or the Holy Spirit, and it

is it needs to come from you know, inside. It comes my faith

to actually pray, all right, even a simple prayer. Start, just

do it. Amen. More and more I feel, you know, uh,

there's something that stirs in me to quickly pray, quickly pray, all

right. I used to do this, you know, when we are in

the car with the kids, I will, you know, listen to some

things, listen to maybe a sermon, a Bible, a podcast, listen

to some songs, and then when we're about to reach there, I start

praying. I used to do that, all right. Uh, and then

we're about to reach and the amen, and then let's get get out of

the car, let's go to school, go work. I used to do

that, but then I reversed it. Instead. I started doing like when

we start the car, I start stop praying already, we start praying with

everyone, and uh, well it works somehow, all right, the children

are able to join in, all right, And I realized I can pray

a little bit more, you know, uh, and uh, pray for

things that matter, all right. I pray for the government, I pray

for the nation, pray for the church, pray for you know, work,

pray for each other, pray for the church. And then then when

I'm done, Hey, still got time? Then okay, Then return on

the song, return on the podcast, and it's all still good. So

I reversed it in state because I wanted to prioritize. Let's speak to God

first. Amen, So I want to encourage us. Let's pray, and

let's speak to the one whom we are going to, whom we want to

go to, all right? Can we do that? Church? Amen?

Yeah? Now I want to move on. So Jesus knew where and who?

And then next one, okay, still the same verse, having loved

his own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

Now, actually, if you go to the original text, the last part

actually says love them to the end, meaning love them to completion, love

them completely, all right, so meaning he see the thing is, how

did they respond to Jesus? And how do we respond to Jesus sometimes is

I mean, because we're not God right, and we're made of clay,

clay or you know does and we are we are imperfect people, right,

Yet he still loves us. And when we come to him, sometimes we

betray him, sometimes we deny him, just like Peter and you know Judas,

remember we were talking about Judas some time ago as well. He betrayed

Jesus. Yet and then you know, they deny Jesus and they gave him

a heart time. But yet he still loved them completely, completely, not

partially. He's not like, Okay, this guy, you know, he

gave me a half hearted thing. I'll give him half heart as well.

You know, I'll give him some things, all right. He didn't do

that. He gave his all anyway. He completely loved them all. That's

what he means, having loved his own. He took them as his own,

his own, all right. It wasn't like just a half breed or

you know, half, but this is mine. They are. Mind these

people, and mind, these disciples and mine. I love them completely.

I give them my best, I give them my all. I will lead

them, I will teach them, I will feed them all right, and

I will protect them. Jesus protected his disciples as well, and I will

die for them, and I will forgive them and I will accept them.

So this is complete. No one else in this world will do this for

us, complete love till the point of death. All right. He didn't

just die, he resurrected. That's completion, amen, all right. So

really there's no one else in this world who can do this for us.

It's Jesus alone, amen. And that's why all need to know Jesus.

Yeah, that's why we say that all may know. Now move on.

I think that the Jesus knew his disciples but still love them completely, not

partially. Right, they turn against him, they betrayed him, they disappointed

him, they upset him. They Yeah, they disappointed him, and he

still loved them completely. So the same thing for us, right, Yeah,

I don't know how many of us. You feel like I disappointed God.

I didn't do what I was supposed to do, all right, And

sometimes it gets into condemnation. He go like, yeah, because I didn't

do you know, I'm not good enough, then I might as well just

don't. Might as well stop serving him, all right, might as well

not do this because I'm not holy enough. Hey, do you know Jesus

still loves you. Jesus still loves you completely. His death is still for

you. Right, He's not giving a discount about that, he's not pulling

it back. He's still giving it, and he's still there on offer.

All we need to do is come humbly and stop thinking in a condemning way

about yourself. Because you know, when you say when you condemn yourself,

you are actually saying I am God, I am the Master, and that's

why I judge myself, you know. But we should surrender the judgment to

God. Let him judge us, and his judgment is right. His judgment

is right, and his judgment is merciful. All right. He loves us,

he's merciful. He gives us a lot of chances. He's still giving

us a chance. So don't do condemnation, because condemnation is you judging yourself,

saying, yeah, I'm not good enough, I'm not going to do

this, I'm not coming back to God. But come on, you're not

a judge, all right, Let it go. Let that go, and

let God be the judge in state. Come to God and say, God,

you judge me, you judge me. Oh, and we're all afraid.

Right, he's going to strike lightning on you, open the earth and

you know, fall into it in the ground, whatever you think. So

let him do it live if he feels he needs to do that to you,

right, all right, But the Bible, the Word of God,

tells us that God is merciful, he loves us, so he's gonna,

I believe he's gonna take you in. Look at the story of the prodigal's

son, right, Yeah, he went and did all kinds of stuff right

far away, and then he comes to his senses, he stops judging himself.

He said, I'm gonna let my father judge me, because, yeah,

if he wants to make me a worker no longer a son, let

him let him see he's condemning himself. I'm I'm just a worker. But

then he comes to the father, he humbles himself, and then the father

receives him back as a son, as a son, puts a ring on

him, right, clothe him with a beautiful role. And that's what God

wants to do to all of us here. Amen, So don't condemn yourself.

Let God be the judge, let him receive and accept you. Amen.

Okay, moving on. Hallelujah. Okay, we move on hour verse

two to four. Here right during supper, when the devil had already put

into the heart of Judas, his cart Simon's son, to betray him.

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. So look at the first part here was two the devil had

already put into the heart of Judas, right, and to betray. You

know, the devil always seeks to steal, kill and destroy, but Jesus

wants to give life right, and not just life. It is abundant life,

more abundantly right. And so the devil, you know, will use

people, all right, And we've got to recognize that. And if you

feel, if you recognize it, that you're doing the work of the devil

and you're you know, going against life. Because when it's when it comes

to life and abundant life, that's Jesus, all right. But when it's

still kill, destroy, negative got recognize it's from the devil. So you've

gotta you know, perhaps go like, oh, I want to stop partnering

with the devil. Come on, stop partnering with the devil, partner with

Jesus, and agree with life, life and life more abundant. Amen.

So now I move on to the verse three. First, Jesus knowing that

Father had given all things into his hands. Listen, when I read this,

I was just trying to understand it, right, and realize that at

this moment, gee, God, the Father had given Jesus the authority.

It's actually all in his hands. He was in control. So meaning to

go to the cross, it was actually in his hands for Judas to betray

him. It was in his hands. He could have just cut off.

He could have stopped Judas from doing this, right, he could have no,

you know, not gone to the cross as well, you know,

or it's painful. I don't want to write. It's in his hands.

He was actually in control of this whole thing, right. And I think

we spoke earlier, you know, in the past weeks. You know,

it may look like, oh, Jesus was this, you know, lamb

led to the cross, and you know, it's all he was not in

control. It may seem like that but it's not. According to the word

of God. You look at it, It's all in his hands. So

Jesus was actually in control of this situation. Yet what does he do?

Right? He could have turned things around, but he wants it exactly this

way. This is how he wanted it, because this is how the Father

wanted it, so he allows it. Yeah, So I want to tell

you, so the situations that you are going through, he may look like

you're going through a slaughter, all right, it may look like you're going

through a torture. But Jesus, it's all in his hands. All authority

has been given to him. It's all in his hands. And we can

look to him and ask him, ask God, like why am I going

through this suffering? Why am I going through this torture? Perhaps he might

explain it to you, all right, but we can trust him that it's

all in his hands. He was in authority, and what he knows who

was in control? All right? Just looking at that line, the Father

has had given it into his hands. Amen. Okay, we haven't finished

reading the verse. I just want to read the Bible here back, yeah,

right, and that he had come from God and going back to God

rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments and taking a towel,

tied it around his waist. Okay, we're going I think we will talk

about that. Yeah, all right, So he laid aside. So,

knowing that he had the authority is all in his hands, what does he

do? You see, it's not a bunch of random words, right,

it's he knew what he was. He knew it was all in his hands.

But the next thing he does, he wants it to happen, and

he does this. He laid aside his outer garments, rose from supper for

us, right, stop it thinking, rose to supper, laid aside his

outer garments and takes a towel, ties it around his waist. Ready to

work, Ready to do a work? All right. So this speaks of

Jesus showing the example. I am in control. I'm in control of your

situation. You are going through suffer as well. You're going through difficulty.

You feel like you're going through a slaughter. And this is what I do,

and this is what we should do. This is what I want you

to do. He's showing us an example. We're going through a hard time,

we're going through a challenge. This is what you should do. Next,

lay aside, you're out the garment, take a towel, right ready,

get ready, okay, next, right, okay, okay. So

I want to read one Peter five five to seven here because Peter was there,

right, Peter was there, and it's hearing the words of Jesus,

or rather he's looking at Jesus, you know, laying aside his outer garments.

And this is very much connected to what Jesus was doing. And you

can see that Peter got it right. Likewise, you are younger, be

subject to the elders, all right, this verse are you know, if

you look at the earlier of us, it talks about the elders as well.

It's not just younger people be humble, but he's addressing all different people,

older, younger. So it just so happened this line here says younger.

Okay, all right, So likewise, you who are younger, be

subject to the eldest. Clothe yourselves, all of you. Clothe yourselves,

all of you with humility toward one another. For God opposes the proud,

but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty

hand of God, so that at the proper time he may exalt you,

casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. God opposes

the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Amen. So we go

back to the story of Jesus here and him removing his outter garment and putting

on the towel, clothing himself with humility, ready to work. So,

if you're going through challenges, you're going through a hard time in life,

right, what should we do next? Can we remember this? Get ready

and humble ourselves and be ready to serve? Amen? Now, all right,

let's go to the next one. Right. Jesus knew that he came

to serve, all right, Jesus knew that he came to serve. And

so, knowing that he has all authority, knowing that the hour is coming,

he's got twenty four hours before he goes across, he does the most

important thing. He serves. He serves, Amen, And I want to

encourage all of us here to also do that. Can we serve? Can

we serve? All right? Now? But how do we serve? How

do we serve? Next one? All right? So what does he do?

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. Okay, he

came to Simon Peter. All right, yeah, the guy who said,

you know, God opposes the proud right now. He came to Simon Peter,

who said to him, Lord, do you wash my feet? Jesus

answered him, what what I am doing? You do not understand now,

but afterward you will understand. Okay. Next Peter said to him, you

shall never wash my feet. Wow, all right, very humble, guya,

or rather it looks like that, looks humble? All right, you

shall never wash my feet. Oh, you cannot do this, you know

for me, Lord, you're you're too grand. You know, I am

not worthy? And this is again you know, it goes back to I'm

not worthy, I'm not good enough condemnation right, right, So we've got

to be careful. Right. It sounds humble, but is it really humility?

Yeah, Jesus answered him. If I do not wash you, you

have no share with me. Right. The humility of coming to Jesus to

allow him to do something in your life and acknowledging we cannot we cannot be

clean on our own acknowledging. We are in a way. You know,

when you come to God and say, yeah, God, I'm not good

enough unless I have you. Yeah. If I do not wash you,

you have no share with me. Jesus is telling us the truth here.

We need him to clean us. Right. And then Simon Peter said to

him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my

head. Wow, I'm telling you, I tell you, Simon Peter is

trying to call the shots. Yeah, he's trying to call the shots.

It sounds really good. Lord. Then you wash all of me. I

need to be fully holy, fully everything. Okay, I was playing a

home shouting. We had you know, we ate together some expensive food.

Okay, right, right, can I hear once in a while, once

in a while, next time we will do it in the house. You

will bring bring you know, yeah, God blessed. Okay. Anyway,

yeah, we were eating food. But the more interesting thing and that night

was uh uh you know, someone brought the Bible game. In the Bible

game. That was good. It was good. It was a very hot

Bible game. And then uh no we started playing it. I mean Pastor

was there, right, and uh, Everyone's like, yeah, just gonna

score it? Or isn't it right? I couldn't answer. I read,

I heard the clues, and like, is that in the Bible? Really?

And there were some experts there, There was some experts there. They

answered very quickly, all right, and yeah, I finally got one right.

Oh, I finally got one right. I was relieved one right at

least, thank God, you know, if not, I would have gone

zero. But but what I'm trying to say here is this Jesus is I

thank God? You know, Jesus says this? Or rather know when Peter

said, wash all of me, wash all of me, you know,

and what does Jesus say? Jesus said to him, the one who has

bathed does not need to wash except for his feet. But he's completely clean,

and you are clean, but not every one of you, all right,

meaning you know simon Peter saying, all right, I've got to be

fully holy, maybe even you know, I got to know all the Bible,

is it. I've got to be serving, you know, all wonderfully

missions. You know, I'm living the Christian life right uh? And then

maybe I'm accepted. But Jesus saying, no, I don't need to wash

your whole body. Just give me your feet. Let's just start there,

all right. If you don't a whole bible, at least start one somewhere,

right, It's okay, get one right first, all right? Uh,

and uh, you know that's what Jesus saying, Just give me,

just give me your feet. You don't call the shots. You don't call

the shots. Let me lead. I want to wash your feet. Let

me wash your feet. Right, you're still struggling with sin. You're still

struggling with sin. Right, It's okay. I don't need you to be

fully completely perfect yet, It's okay. I know you. I know what

it means to struggle with sin because sometimes, uh, it's you know,

it takes a while, you take some time because you're struggling with it,

right, and you're sometimes it's a habit you you're so used to doing something

and then and uh, you know, the devil wants you to continue to

condemn yourself and say, yeah, I'm not good enough. I can't,

I won't, I won't come to Jesus, right. I need to be

fully good and all good first, holy right, But that's your own effort.

Yeah, Jesus is saying, it's not your own effort. Let me

let me do that work. Let me wash you clean, and I start

with the feet. All right. So he's saying maybe perhaps also you know

what he's saying is, yeah, I mean what what is uh you know,

playing the guitar, playing the cahan played, doing one sound system?

Right, He's saying, yeah, if you give me that, I'll take

that. Just one thing. I'll start somewhere. Amen, all right,

I wanna I wanna also encourage and command the husbands of the new homes leaders,

all right, homes leaders, right, all right? Uh? With

them supporting them? Is is their their man? You know? Okay,

thank Gonnor. All right. Sometimes they're not also prominent now you know,

they're not the homes leader but the wife the home leader. But then they're

they're supporting there. They are making sure they can go for the meetings and

then do things. All right, So men, well done, Okay,

keep doing that. Yeah hallelujah. Yeah, I do that all because you

know, Jillie is going to Singapore, I think and of April to you

know, speak on mental health to ex Singapore, and then I think she's

going to preach it there as well. So I'll be here like you know,

the kids will be with me. It's all good, all right,

Praise God. Yeah, so she can go and serve the lot there.

Yeah, Expo will be blessed. Hallelujah. All right, let's go all

right. Uh so, don't call the shots. Don't call the shots on

Jesus. Let him be the one. If he's asking you for one thing,

let's let's give it one thing. Yeah, and thank God, he's

very merciful. Right he doesn't say, come, let me wash your whole

body. Now, let me wash your whole body. You need to be

fully, perfectly clean right now. Then only you can serve me, all

right, he starts somewhere. That's why I say God is so merciful,

He's so kind. Amen, all right, moving on, next one,

next one, thank you, Fred, Okay, all right. So the

point here is that Jesus knows how to wash us clean. He knows how,

he knows the right way, and we can trust him with it,

and we can allow him to work in our lives. Amen. We don't

need to tell him how to wash us, all right. We don't need

to set the rules, because he sets the rules. Yep. Okay,

next one, right, So this is all says, we are incomplete until

we receive his gift. So Jesus is offering a gift of wanting to wash

the feet of his disciples. And instead of bargaining with him and say,

why don't I give you more of this? Why don't you, you know,

give me more of this? Received what Jesus has given to us?

What has Jesus given? Why do we receive that? All right? Instead

of putting, you know, our extra terms and conditions with him, Let's

receive what the Lord has given to us. Amen, all right? Fred,

Yeah, all right? So what else does Jesus know? For he

knew who was to betray him. That was why he said, not all

of you are clean when he's when he washed their feet and put put on

his outer garments. When he had washed their feet and put on his outer

goverments 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. So

thank god Jesus explains to us what he does, all right, doesn't leave

us in a blanket, and so he explains it. He explains it because

it's important for us to understand, it's important for his disciples there to understand.

That's why he explains it, all right, And it's twenty four hours

before his death. After that, right, in a sense, he may

not have the time to explain. So you see, he knows the time.

He knows when he has he has a plan even to explain things and

teach things within that twenty four hours. And after this, I think verse

chapter twenty fourteen, he is you know, he says a lot of very

important things, and I think towards chapter seventeen he prays, you know,

for everyone, hey, well planned, you know, well plan you know,

just before that, right, because he knew the time. So I

want to tell you as well, you know, whatever you're going through,

you feel like you have only twenty four hours left whatever his God knows the

time, and he has a plan, and he can put all the plans

in place within that twenty four hours if we allow him to amen. So

let's trust him. Let's trust him. Now where are we now? Okay?

So if I then your teacher and Lord have washed your feet, you

also ought to wash one another's feet. So that's why he's teaching us.

He's giving us an example, and he's telling us directly, this is what

you need to do. Can't get any clearer. He's telling it to us,

this is what you ought to do as well. Right. Of course,

some people can misunderstand this and go like, oh, now we're gonna

do this ceremony wash feet and stuff like that. So let's all now line

up here. Let the pasta wash your feet and stuff, right, which

I know some people do that, but it's not that I don't think.

It's just it's literally go and wash your feet, right, because many of

your feet actually cleanland nowadays, Yeah, you already take bath to wash your

feet many times yourself. Okay, unless you're very very smelly, feed Okay,

then then you need help. Okay, you need washing. Okay,

there's a different story. But we don't need that nowadays. Those days,

they they needed that, all right. But he's telling us we need to

serve one another. We need to serve one another. All right. Let's

go to the next slide. For I have given you an example that you

also should do just as I have done to you. Just like him repeating

himself almost all right, truly, literally, I say to you, a

servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the

one who sent him. You know these things, blessed are you? If

you do them. You gotta do them, not just know it, but

do them right, very very clear here. He's very direct here. You

know, if you think Jesus is very nice person, gentle, right,

he is. But he's also very direct. So all the direct people in

the house say yeah, yeah, because the direct people, a lot of

people don't like them because they're very too direct. All right, your mother

is smelly direct. All right, you need to come your head today,

right, okay, all right, So we need some direct people in the

world. Huh yeah, otherwise things will get done. So anyway, Jesus

is very direct here. He's very clear. Do this all right. This

is my example. You know it, don't just know it, You've got

to do it, all right. So that's Jesus' words, Praise God.

And so now the point here is this, Jesus knows that we need to

serve one another. He knows that that we need to watch each other's feet,

all right. It's something that we don't want to do we don't like

to do. We don't like to do to clean someone else's dirty you know

things. Yeah, but Jesus is asking us to do that because he knows

that we need it. If we don't do it, then there's no humility.

Humility is when we can actually put to action and serve people, serve

one another. Yeah, we all like to say, okay, Jesus,

I will serve you. I will serve you. I will wash your feet,

Jesus. But then when it comes to how about this guy's feet?

Can you wash his feet? Can you wash her feet instead? But no,

Jesus, your feet is beautiful. I will wash your feet. No,

no, no, no, no, wash each other's feet, that's

what he's saying, wash each other's feet. Yeah, Serve one another because

that's where you need to humble yourself. That's where you will need to work

with one another, submit to one another, all right, And he knows,

he knows that we need it, and that's why he tells us to

do that. So you know, when we lead, when we are leaders,

especially with you know, leaders in church, leaders who are believers,

who are leaders even in the marketplace. Right p's the man is gonna you

know, has invited, you know, business leaders things like that. All

right, how do we worship God in the marketplace? Right? So?

Uh? Leaders, and the word of God tells us. Right. Leaders

generally around the world they lauded over us. But leaders who believe in Jesus,

we serve. Leaders serve. They remove the outer governments, They put

on the towel and they serve. Amen, hallelujah. Now let's move on.

He knows, He knew that we needed to wash one another's feet.

All right, So now about to close soon. I am not speaking of

all of you. I know whom I have chosen. Everyone say chosen,

right? Are we chosen? Yeah? Amen? We are? Yeah,

those who believe in Jesus, he chooses you. But the scripture will be

fulfilled. He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me. I

am telling you now 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. Okay, be positive for a

while. He knows who he has chosen. He knows who he has chosen,

all right, and he knows who will betray him. He knows.

That's why he says, you know, this one, this, this person

who does this will betray me, which is Judas at that time. All

right, he knows it. So my question to all of us is this,

Will we be the chosen ones? Or will we be the one who

betrays betrays Jesus? Yeah? Will you accept him choosing you? Or will

you will you be the one to betray him and turn against Jesus? Yeah?

Uh, I wanna go back to the diverse again, Fred, Let

me see. Yeah, let's look at a last line that whoever receives the

one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent

me. What does this mean? Right? You know, some of us

we understand that we've been sent by God. You know, someone sent to

you to lead you, someone sent to Cyberjaya to plant a church, someone

sent to start at homes. Right, Nidia has been sent to start CY

three, Kathy has been sent to start CY seven. They've been sent and

sometimes they knock on your door, they say can you help with this?

And so they're sent, right, they're coming on behalf of God. I

don't think they're doing for themselves, you know, I don't think they're doing

for themselves. They don't get paid for this, right, they don't get

any of these benefits. But they're doing it on behalf of Jesus. They're

serving Jesus. And they actually sent, they sent, They come and they

say, can you help with this? Can you do this? Can or

not? Right? And then what happens here? Whoever receives the one Jesus

said, right, Keller, don't abuse your power? All right, but

you know you've been said right, and I believe they won't. Right.

They send, they're coming to their approach you led by the Holy spirit,

you know, on behalf of Jesus, asking you can you help with homes

with this? And he says here, whoever receives receives, say yes,

Nina, I will I receive you, Nina, because the opposite or receive

is reject. No, Ninia, I don't want no. I have something

I understand, lie No, A meeting was already arranged. Understand, okay,

don't don't do self condemnation, right, all right, we understand that,

but you willingly rejected? Okay, no condemnation. I'm just giving you

a story here. I'm just giving you an illustration here. Whoever receives the

one I sent receives me receives Jesus. And whoever receives me receives the one

who I sent. He's giving the other way around. If you say we

receive Jesus, then received the one, he says, Yeah, okay,

someone you know, leader, someone who's you know, a leader in church,

brother in church, want to come and challenge and say, hey,

you know, how's your life? Can I speak with you about this?

Can I pray with you? All right? You look kind of lost.

I have a sense that you know, maybe you're not living your life?

Right? Can we talk? God has sent them, Jesus has sent them.

Right, Will we receive and at least listen and go like, okay,

I will at least consider what you're telling me and let me pray about

it. Let me seek Jesus to see whether you're saying the right thing.

Yeah, instead of no, no, no, no, don't talk to

me about this. I don't want I don't want any change. I don't

want to serve. I don't want to you know, receive this because maybe

you're like Peter, I need to be all clean for us. I need

to be all ready first. But hello, Jesus saying no, no,

no, I just want to wash your feet. Will you come and let

me wash your feet? Right? Amen? Wow? What a powerful word,

What a powerful word. This is just this one. I mean,

I mean I got that, you know, but as I think about it

a bit more, this is powerful. Let's receive the one that Jesus sends

to you. Let's receive Jesus, and we receive Jesus. We receive the

one he sends. Amen, Praise God. Is that next light? Yeah?

I think that's the last one, right, that's the last one.

So he knows, he knows whom he has chosen. Will you be?

Will you allow him to choose you? He chooses us. But if we

reject it, you can't do anything about it. Right. But you know,

if we recognize that Jesus choose us and he wants to send you,

let's allow him to at least start with washing our feet. Let him cleanse

us, all right. We can't cleanse ourselves, only Jesus can. And

then he will send us, and he will send us, and uh,

yeah, we might face some rejection. But listen, they're not rejecting you.

All right, sometimes leaders are We feel like, h why they reject

me? Don't worry, they're not rejecting you. They're rejecting Jesus and the

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