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It had been almost 3 ½ years since the day he’d dropped everything he’d ever known to step out into a life he knew nothing about.
He could still remember Jesus’ whisper loud enough for only him to hear amidst the crowd.
“Come and follow me.”
Peter knew very little of what he was getting into but something inside him told him this was the most important decision he would ever make in his life.
Now, several years later he could barely even remember the days when his only goal was catching fish on the Sea of Galilee.
He and the other guys Jesus called his disciples had seen the blind see, the dead rise, the waves become calm and demons cast out.
Even crazier was that at some point Jesus had him actually doing the miracles.
It never got old seeing the look of joy on a man’s face as he walked for the first time after a lifetime of being paralyzed.
Here they were in their 3rd Passover meal together.
Someone how this one felt different.
As the guys found their spots around the table Jesus didn’t go directly to his seat.
Instead he got down on his knees next to a basin of water and began to wash the other guy’s feet.
The others like Peter were speechless.
Jesus had spoken about serving others countless times but this was too much.
This was going too far.
Peter was the last one to go and by this point Peter couldn’t stay keep quiet anymore.
“No Lord!” he blurted out as he pulled his feet away.
Then Jesus looked deeply into Peter’s eyes much like he’d done over three years ago when they first met and said words that once again would forever change his life.
Once more Peter slowly extended his feet and watched in disbelief as the creator of the unaversive washed the gunk in between his blistered toes.
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Good morning.
We’re in week five of our Made for Mission Series.
If you’ve been MIA lately here is a quick review to catch you up.
We started out by saying “We are all called.”
Calling is not for the spiritually elite but for everyone who calls Jesus Lord.
Week two we answered the question, “What’s my mission?”
We said our mission is Jesus’ mission so we better find out what He’s about.
Week three we asked, “What’s my message?”
If I’m made for a mission then what do I say when I’m on it.
We learned our message is simple.
We’re just supposed to share how God’s goodness has intersected with my life.
Finally, last week we talked about “Who’s my mission?”We said it’s simply those around us that God has strategically placed around us where we live work and play.
Today we are asking the question, “Why am I on Mission?”
Maybe while we are here together you are pumped to go live out the mission God has put you on the planet to live but in the craziness of life do you find yourself asking questions like…
-Can’t I just be a normal soccer mom instead of a Mom on a mission?
-Do I really have to see my school as a mission field?
Can’t I just attend like everyone else? -My job’s hard enough, do I really have to try to force spiritual conversations with my unsaved co-workers?
Before we dive into today’s passage let me speak to those of you who are brand new to this whole God/Church/Jesus thing.
As you’re trying to figure this whole thing out I think it’s important to understand that Jesus is inviting us into a Chicken Pot Pie relationship not TV Dinner one.
You know in a TV dinner the food comes it their own compartments.
So you could devour the steak but completely avoid the broccoli because it’s from the devil.
In the same way we can easily break our lives into their own distinct compartments.
You’ve got one titled family, one titled work, one titled friends one for spiritual beliefs.
In this image you could have strong spiritual beliefs that come out on Sundays but they really don’t mix naturally with the other parts of your life.
The only problem is that Jesus isn’t interested in your spiritual life, he’s interested in your life.
With Chicken Pot Pie all of the food is fixed in so there is no picking and choosing.
The broccoli, chicken and carrots are all in every bite whether you like it or not.
The same is true with our walk with God.
He wants our relationship with Him to touch every part of our lives and for us to get rid of the compartments.
Back in the day Carl’s Jr had a catchy slogan, “If it doesn’t get all over the place, it doesn’t belong in your face.”
The same could be said for us and our relationships with God.
“If it doesn’t get all over the place, it doesn’t belong in your faith.”
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It was just before the Passover Festival.
Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father.
Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
The evening meal was in progress, and the devil had already prompted Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betray Jesus.
Jesus knew that the Father had put all things under his power, and that he had come from God and was returning to God; so he got up from the meal, took off his outer clothing, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash his disciples’ feet, drying them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
The most frequent response people had to Jesus was utter amazement.
They simply just did not see it coming.
Is that ever your response to Jesus?
Maybe it was before, but now we’ve been at this Christian thing for a while kind of know the drill.
Maybe that’s how the disciples felt after 3 ½ years of following Jesus.
Yawn—another blind guy can see.
Yawn—another paralyzed guy can walk.
This was something new.
—YOU’RE going to wash my feet?
No way!
If you really want to grab people’s attention then have someone come on stage and sit down while you’re speaking for the next 3-4 minutes and thoroughly wash their feet.
If that grosses you out then skip it.
For me it’s easy to turn my mission on and off but Jesus was always on mission.
One obvious difference was that he was God but I think it was more than that.
He knew Why He was on Mission and it was stronger than any of the reasons or excuses that could have gotten him off track.
Check out all the excuses Jesus could have easily come up with to not wash their feet.
He was having a nice meal with his friends.
“This is a party, I don’t need to think about serving others for the next two hours.
I get it if I’m on a mission trip or at church but can’t I just enjoy a Friday night with friends.
The people at the meal didn’t deserve it.
Jesus knew that Peter would deny even knowing him later that night.
Judas could betray Jesus in just a few hours and hand him over to be crucified.
It’s one thing when the people you’re serving are grateful but that wasn’t an excuse for Jesus to bail out.
His servant’s heart was bigger than whether the person was deserving.
Jesus was grossly overqualified.
Washing someone’s feet was not even part of the role of a servant.
He could have easily built a strong case that this was far beneath him.
He could have said, “I’ll serve but just not that.”
Seemingly he was making no impact by washing their feet.
Another time Jesus spit in the dirt to make mud so he could give sight to a blind guy.
This was different, even after Jesus cleaned their feet, an hour later their feet would be caked in filth again from walking through the dirty streets in open toed sandals.
He could have easily said, “What’s the point?”
This was a really undesirable task as well.
No human should have to clean the nasty gunk between someone else’s toes.
It’s not as strong as the other excuses but I bet this was not something he really wanted to do.
Finally, He had a lot bigger stuff on his mind.
He knew that he was about to be arrested, beaten and crucified.
We read that maybe just an hour later he is sweating blood because of the stress in his life.
If there was ever a time to think about his own stuff this would certainly be one.
Yet here he is—with every excuse in the book to not.---Here he is again amazing those closest to him.
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