Part with Him (John 13)
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John 13
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Will you come first, Paul?
Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew of his always-coming salvation, he asked of the world,
unto the Father, having loved Israel, which were in the world, he loved them, unto the end,
and supper being ended, the devil, having ennobled it into the heart of Judas Iscariot,
sent the Son to betray.
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from the Lord,
and went to the Lord, he arises from supper, and there sang his joy,
and took a towel, and covered himself.
And after that he poured water into a basin, and began to wash the disheveled feet,
and wiped them with the towel with which he was covered.
Then cometh he to Simon Peter, and said, Set up the way.
Lord, dost thou wash my feet?
Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do, thou dost not know.
But thou shalt know hereafter.
Peter said unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet.
Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.
Simon Peter said unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my feet.
Jesus said unto him, He that is washed, or if you like, bathed, needeth not seem to wash his feet,
but is clean everywhere.
And ye are clean, but not all, for in you all shall be clean.
Therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.
So after he had washed their feet, and taken his garments, and was set down again,
he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you?
Ye call me master and lord, and ye say, Well, for so I am.
If I then, your lord and master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done unto you.
Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is none greater than his lord.
Neither is he greater than he that sent him.
If ye know these things, happier ye if ye do them.
I have a little bit of a problem to connect the truth that lies in this chapter here
with what we have in the second chapter.
But I feel that there is a line that runs through it,
and I trust that the Lord will make it clear as I go along,
the value that this house is teaching here in relationship to eternity.
Because I believe that this chapter was meant for you and I to learn
its importance as regards to the enjoyment of company with Jesus.
I believe that is the basis of the case to the whole of this incident in the Lord's life.
If I washed thee not, there was no part with me.
Now then, to say a man can enjoy eternal life apart from Christ is nonsense.
The enjoyment of eternal life that lies in the truth,
the being in full communion and intimacy with the Son of God,
and that's where I think the truth, dear brethren, of John 13, lies.
But before we touch the feet, brethren, I should like to draw your attention
to something of the greatness of our present Savior.
But before I do that, it might be as well to just touch one or two points
where we've arrived to in this book of John.
I won't go beyond chapter 8 of this chapter.
I gather you know the various chapters, or you have a little bit of an idea.
Now in chapter 8 of John's Gospel, the thing which had to really be met was the Lord of God.
Now it was impossible for you and I, beloved brethren, to know liberty from sin
and liberty of life before that could be met.
And I believe that the Son of God honors the Lord in John 8,
but not at the expense of light, by his very manifestation of light.
In John 8, there's a clear evidence that he was greater than the Lord.
That's the first point I bring that we have in the importance of eternal life.
But then, as well as the Lord, there lay under the condemnation.
And so, he says, are there any accusers?
And this is what the cross of Jesus says, beloved young believers.
If there is such a thing as an accuser in the world,
God's answer to the accusers is, there is my Son hanging upon the cross.
The cross of the Son of God is the answer to every accusation.
And so he said to the woman, where are those thine accusers?
Not the condemnation, the accusers.
Paul raises the question in Romans 8, who shall lay an accusation?
She says, no one accuses me. Neither do I.
Go and sin no more.
Now in chapter 9, we have a different picture.
We have a man who has been brought into this world,
that the works of God might be displayed.
I believe, the light and activity, if you like.
This man was not born for sin, nor his parents either.
But that the work of God might be manifested, not to him,
but that the work of God manifested in him.
Now I believe, beloved brethren,
that manifestation of the work of God in the blind man
was a consequence of the light meeting his dark benighted eyes
and illuminating him to such an extent
that the very first movement that he made in respect to his responsibility in this world,
whether it was amongst his parents, or the Pharisees, or the neighbors,
freedom from spiritual responsibility,
what really sheltered him and guarded him
was the mighty effect of what he had come under.
He had been sent to the pool of Sidon and invoked in the light of sight.
The light had given him sight.
And if it had really exposed the fallacy of the Pharisees' position,
it also brought to that dear man the importance of Jesus as Son of God.
And this is what the light does with every one of us.
If it has a negative effect,
if it affects where we are held in bondage,
and I gather that the blind man in John 9
sets forth you and I in our blind condition in God's Word.
And the moment we come in contact with the Son of God, the light of the world,
he dispels the darkness which we are held in,
but he also reveals the power of the darkness that held us.
That's the main point.
We learn not only the darkness that held us, but we learn its terrible power.
And we get with that, having received the light,
we get that which is sufficient in itself.
As John says in his epistle,
If that about which you have received from the beginning abideth in you,
ye shall continue in the Father and the Son.
And so this blind man, he walked in the light.
He had fellowship with the Son of God,
though not in person at that moment,
but he was in fellowship.
In this respect, he knew that Jesus was more than a sinner.
He wasn't a sinner. He couldn't be a sinner.
He had learned the value of purity.
In chapter 11, 10, we come to really meet the entrance of the door, you might say.
If light has been diffused, both in a negative and a positive way in 8 and 10,
now then, he says, we're brought to the light.
The sheep hear his voice.
They won't follow the darkness.
They won't follow the agents of the darkness.
They don't know the voice.
They've heard the voice, the light of the world.
They've come under his influence, and they won't go after strangers.
They won't listen to them at all.
What's the consequence?
The sheep follow me.
But who is the main meat and turn of life?
The Son of God.
They follow me.
And I give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish.
Now to chapter 11.
I come to chapter 11, and then the other thing he dealt with.
If he dealt with the law in chapter 6,
and he dealt with darkness in chapter 9,
in chapter 11, beloved brethren,
and hallowed him, he deals with death.
He deals with death.
This has happened, he says.
He says, not, he says, for the simple reason that not as they,
he says, this has happened for the glory of God and brethren.
The glory of God was this,
that God was more than a mask for death.
God was the one who was going to destroy the cloud of death
and destroy him who had the power.
But that was only the negative side.
He was going to bring in what he brought into Lazarus.
He brought in eternal life.
And he brought them all to the power of death.
It held them in.
And the grave clothes held them in abundance.
He says, crucify them in death and go.
I believe John's epistle does that.
He crucifies you and lets you go.
And you find that the man judges you.
The apostle, Lazarus, he finds himself in the light.
What light?
The companionship of the eternal light, the Son of God.
He sits down and suffers in chapter 12.
No, but just for a moment in chapter 13.
You find that we're stuck.
We're stuck under death.
We're stuck under the law.
We're stuck under darkness.
And now then, you know, he says,
that you might have fellowship with us.
We have brothers that were with the master in chapter 13.
That you might have fellowship with us beyond death forever.
And now then, we see what it takes to have fellowship with the apostles,
the important factors in that blessed fellowship.
And it's the Son of God himself.
He's indispensable to every one of us.
And now then, look at the beginning of this beautiful chapter.
I'll have you on.
I was just touched.
I've been long in the interludes.
Now then, in this first verse,
now before the feast of the Passover,
when Jesus knew that he's almost coming,
that he's almost coming, he'll be carnal for the world,
under the harbour, having loved his own world,
he loved them unto the end.
So this is the key point.
What was going to happen
was going to be anticipated
if I'm leaving this world.
He's almost coming.
He's almost coming when the world will see him no more.
And when he was going to leave then,
in which you learn in chapter 14,
the heart will be troubled.
Before that takes place, he says,
I must do a work
that will give them the consciousness of my feelings,
where I'm going to,
the intimacy that will be theirs
in that new position.
He says, I've demonstrated
in the way I act towards them,
bless his precious name,
to know them in verse 2.
Suffer the anger.
The devil hath now put it into the heart of Judas Gareth,
saying, set the brake.
And Jesus, knowing that the Father
hath given all things into his hand,
and that he comes from God,
and went to God,
he rises from suffering.
O beloved brethren,
can't you see really the importance
of these two things?
What the Son of God hath,
and what the Father hath given him,
and what the grace he hath given him.
These three things are dealt in John 17.
But what I want to press today,
that if God in his infinite love
develops in me
the sentiments and the feelings of the Son of God,
it will humble me.
It will make in me a man full of compassion,
a full of kindness,
and a full of love.
He knew this.
And he knew that.
And instead of rising and speaking
at the beginning of these, Lord and Master,
never a word about being Lord and Master.
He was that.
But he does not in that fashion.
He answers us,
O we mother brethren,
is the enjoyment of eternal life,
is the development and the revelation
of God's word,
making a sheet of pressure to your heart,
is it be more than you,
out of your sight altogether,
like this dear man saw at Tarsus,
he started, he was getting littler,
and littler, and littler,
the work of development of eternal life
and its enjoyment.
So now when he rises from supper,
he must head into the garden to pray his Father,
if it be possible,
the cup might be passed from him.
And with that weight upon his mind,
and with the terrible consequences
that involve,
he finds time to give a little bit of sympathy,
a little bit of love,
for those who are going to have the heart's trouble,
when he was going to speak further down here,
O beloved brethren,
he rises from supper,
and he goes on supper.
He's got to do a work on Epiphany.
He's got to remove from her.
That was what gathered in the world.
And it took an energy,
it took love.
He was pure,
he was holy,
but that which was on her feet
wasn't a call to himself.
They had gathered it.
It wasn't a call to his mind.
He wanted to be perfectly in the light,
in all suitability,
both not only in position,
and not only in constitution,
but also in practice,
and in feeling.
And this is what I'm giving you,
O beloved brethren,
if I come under the influence of the love of Christ,
in dealing with my failures,
in dealing with my sins,
when I gather in this world,
he'll deal with me in a sympathetic way.
And he'll always give me the feeling
that he knows exactly what I'm passing through.
I needn't tell you about the symphony of the high priest,
Henry Hebrews.
It's not here I gather.
But he's the advocate here.
The one who really gives us to realize
that he's got us by his heart,
that it's sort of a blessing
that he wants to go up there.
But he doesn't want to go up there
and you and I to feel it at a distance from himself.
He wants us to feel here
the nearness of the position up there.
That's what he wanted.
That's what part means here.
It didn't mean part with him down here.
He was leaving here.
He told them that.
It was part with him up there,
if you like, the heavenly calling.
And so now then,
here it is, the sight is gone.
I gather, beloved brethren,
the layman's sight is gone
and he didn't want to impress him
with the greatness of who he was.
Oh, there are brethren who don't need to know.
They might give a little thing away.
But they don't in the position to hold.
And it doesn't humble the man, really.
It makes a man feel ashamed of himself.
But this man,
he's laid aside his garments.
Bless his precious name.
And here he is,
in all the humility,
in all the humbleness of love.
And what's he going to do?
He's going to get him to feel
how he feels for the heart.
This is love.
Brethren, this is love.
Love and expression.
And dealing with a heart
which is going to be troubled
while he was going to lie in the grave
for three days.
And so he lays aside his garments.
Bless his precious name.
And then heaven laid aside
and got his garments.
What's his next thing?
In the end of verse four,
he girded himself.
Oh, how do you go about the Lord's work,
beloved brethren?
How do you go about it?
Is it half-hearted?
Would you rather not be too old
than make them go to it?
That's not girding yourself.
He girded himself.
He wasn't going to have anything
hinder him.
He wasn't going to have anything
to tell the Lord.
He was going to be thoughtfully wrapped up
in what he was going to be engaged in.
May the Lord give you in the high arts
energetic hearts
and the energy of faith
to represent the Lord, my Lord and Master,
with girded garments.
He girded himself.
And then after having girded himself
there in the verse four,
in the verse five,
he poured the water into a basin.
No people get the water.
No junk get the water.
He poured the water into a basin.
This is the blessings
of the Lord and beloved brethren.
He's got everything.
He could have given us instructions.
He could have told us to do this
and do that.
He does everything himself.
Oh, beloved brethren,
have you seen the brother
who's faltering?
Who's losing heart?
He could have somebody else
wearing ungirded garments
and get the water
and get the towel yourself
and use it.
He gave you the full support.
You only get half the support
if you only get the water
and not the towel.
He got the water and the towel
and he girded himself
and there, bless his precious name,
he was going to make them feel.
Oh, he's going to make them feel
he's interested in their welfare.
It's a walk down here.
He's not concerned about
their eternal position.
That was a certain matter
between him and his father.
He's concerned about
the position down here,
the walk in the world.
And there's no one
who's concerned about you,
young man or young woman.
There is not a person
in this universe
concerned like the Son of God
with regards to your welfare.
And the beauty about it is
he wants you to know it.
He wants you to know it.
And in the getting of the know,
there's nothing better,
nothing sweeter.
Do you think that these dear men
would ever forget
the sins of them
just prior to his death?
On the eve of his death,
would you think, would they?
Peter said to John,
do you remember the night?
John, do you remember the night
when he took the boat?
We never thought
he was going to take the cross.
We never thought
he was going to die.
He took the towel,
and he took the water,
and he washed my feet.
And we didn't know,
we didn't know
the deep significance
of this beautiful life.
We never thought
for one moment
he's going to leave
for the next moment.
But what a blessing it was.
Hasn't it left an effect
upon our hearts?
Hasn't it made your life
dignified, endless,
and not a shame?
Hasn't it made you feel
how beautiful it is
to our heart?
And brethren,
the more he washes your feet,
the more dearly
he'll be come to you.
Oh, the beauty
of that blessed man.
And so,
down in verses,
where am I told?
Verse 5,
he poured out the water
from the basin,
and began to wash
the disciples' feet,
and to wipe them
with the towel
wherewith he was going.
And there he comes
to sign Peter.
There's always,
you know,
there's always some of us
who take exception
to the general rule of faith.
We want something
out of the ordinary.
We want to be someone
different to somebody else.
So Peter thought,
well,
he would take an exception.
He thought
it was a disgrace,
I suppose,
for the Savior
to do such a menial act.
He thought probably
it was a serious matter.
And so he says
to the Lord,
Peter,
he says,
Peter,
he says to Peter,
I said,
Lord,
just now
wash my feet.
The feet,
he says,
my feet,
he says,
it was in the boat
with stinking fish.
Since a fisherman's feet,
the Lord of Glory
would never wash my feet.
I wouldn't allow
him to wash my feet.
Oh,
what grace he was missing,
wasn't he?
Wasn't it wonderful
grace Peter was missing here?
No one should
never wash my feet.
Oh,
what a tragedy it is
if you've never
had your feet washed
by Jesus.
Have you had your feet
washed by the Son of God?
Have you known
what it takes
for him to restore you
as the psalmist says
in Psalm 23?
He restored my soul.
Oh,
we love it,
brethren.
Have you felt it?
When you made
a little slip
and you gathered
up a little bit
and you did
like the Lord
to have a little thing
and you knew about it
and you occurred
the way you knew
about it.
Oh,
wasn't it nice?
Wasn't it nice?
When there
have you come
and drawn the end
of yourself,
you got on your knees
and he drew
the end of you
and he removed
the sin
and he gave you
the feeling
of the way
he felt
about the living.
Oh,
what a serious
thing to do.
Isn't it a normal thing?
Well,
the Lord
said to Peter,
all of a sudden
you appreciate
you know,
the gold,
the holiness
the purity
and so the washing
of the feet here
was developing
under one hand
a decided taste
for the purity
of the light of God
but with it
a decided hatred
and this isn't
development of holiness
and a decided hatred
of evil.
So he said to
Peter now
verse 7
Jesus answered
and said
what I do
thou knows not
but thou shalt
never wash
my feet
Jesus answered
my worsening mouth
thou hast no
part with me
that's the secret
now that was
all it was for
the Lord says
I'm washing
your feet
for you to have
intimacy
and relationship
with me
in a new order
a new place
it's quite obvious
in chapter 12
he had said
there was no part
with him
he had made
that perfectly clear
the corner of
it was alone
it didn't matter
who the man
was
he had made it
possible
that you'd be able
to have part
with me
in the new place
and he says
if I don't wash
your feet
he said
you won't have a part
you'll be afraid
he said
you wouldn't want
to be with me
but he says
and you get
the feelings
in my heart
as regards to
your true interest
that lie in my heart
your true position
is my welfare
and he said
I want to convey
to you
by this simple
I want you to
feel at home
in my presence
but he says
if I don't do it
you'll never want
to be in my presence
you'll never feel
at home in it
and you won't have it
and so Peter
he got a grip
he got his eyes open
oh he says
if washing your feet
gives us part
with him
why
I'll probably get
heaven
he says
he washes
my whole body
he says
not my feet
he says
wash my whole body
give us a good
foot to do it
and he got to be
born again once
he got to be born
again twice
this is what the
Lord means here
he that is
made
he that is born again
he's a new man
in Christ
a new creature
he's got to get
the things passed
and done with
now then
he says
he doesn't need
he says
to be washed
save his feet
and so this
is the seed
of healing
of new birth
brother
now in the
verse
let me
say
Jesus said
but
he that is
washed will
attain
he that does
not
say
that he
washes
his feet
but is
clean
every week
and he
was clean
and then he
says
he referred
to judas
but not all
didn't mean
part of
Peter wasn't
clean
didn't mean
at all
and he
says
it's
your feet
he says
they take it
away
i've been
and he
summoned
the Lord
in the manner
which is
worthy of
faith
he says
i wanted to
represent me
in the Lord's
manner
and he
says
you don't
need to be
washed over
again
you're
clean
every week
now i've
chosen
properly
because
we'll have
one more
thought
verse 12
so after he
had washed
their feet
and taken
his garments
and was set
down here
he said to
them
know ye
what i have
done to
you
ye call
me
master
and lord
and ye
say
help
me
and
everything
necessary
you require
to wash
your
brother's
feet
know then
he says
i've set you
an example
know then
there's another
thing i touched
before i
closed
he says
you won't
he says
you will
drown out
your worries
but he
says
you know
hereafter
and i think
they learnt
in a manner
which was
serious
what the lord
had said in
john 17
they are not
of the world
even as i
am not of the
world
it's one thing
for the lord
to say
about you
and i
but then
it's another
thing for
the child of
god to
turn around
and say
it's
worthy
true
lord
and i
and the
love of
the holy
god
may god
bless his
people …