Now we're going to read from the scriptures tonight in John chapter 13, verses one through 17. Now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come, that he should depart from this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, 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 to God, rose from supper and laid aside his garments, took a towel, and girded himself. After that, he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel with which he was girded. Then he came to Simon Peter, and Peter said to him, Lord, are you washing my feet? Jesus answered and said to him, What I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will know after this. Peter said to him, you shall never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, if I do not wash you, you have no part with me. Simon Peter said to him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. Jesus said to him, he who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not all of you. For he knew who would betray him. Therefore he said, you are not all clean. So when he had washed their feet, taken his garments, and sat down again, he said to them, do you know what I have done to you? You call me teacher and Lord, and you say, well, for so I am. If I then your Lord and teacher have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I've given you an example. that you should do as I have done to you. Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them." This is the word of the Lord. I want to start by asking you What is the greatest thing that you ever did? What's the greatest thing that you can think of that you ever did to this point in your life? Maybe you might say the greatest thing that you did was you finished your degree. It was hard. It took a long time, but you did it. Maybe you would say you finished your career. You got through decades of doing the job that you were gifted and trained to do, and you're done. You've put down the plow. You're retired. Maybe for you, the greatest thing that you did was on a kind of different spectrum. Maybe it was that you got married. And maybe you had kids, you raised kids, and they turned out decently. Or maybe for you, the greatest thing that you ever did, some heroic act. comes to mind, that maybe the time that you provided emergency care to someone, and it saved their life. I mean, several years ago, I had a next-door neighbor, the man living right next to us, and he looked out his window in the middle of the day, and he saw that the house behind him, behind us, it was on fire. Fire was just rising up from the first story up through the second story. It was because a porch grill had been left unattended overnight, and just after 12 hours, it had turned into a fire. And a fire was raging up the side of the house. My neighbor ran, ran to the house, pounded on the door, woke up the residents, and he got them out. He saved their lives. It was a great thing that he did. Well, let's talk about Jesus now. What was the greatest thing that Jesus did? Of all the great things that Jesus did, what was the greatest? Jesus did many astounding things, so maybe it's a little bit tricky to think, well, what was the greatest of them? Was it that he fed an entire stadium of hungry people? Was it that he raised from the dead a daughter at one occasion, a son at another occasion of a broken hearted parent? Was it that he restored vision to a man who had never seen from the day that he was born? Was it that Jesus stilled a storm at sea so that men in the boat lived to see a new day. What was the greatest thing of all that Jesus did? Well, that's the focus of our text. Of all the things that Jesus did, perhaps the greatest thing that Jesus did was this. He became homeless and financially insecure, and he invested his life in finding dirty people and making them clean. more than all of his other stupendous miracles, maybe his signature great deed, was becoming a homeless man, investing in dirty people, and making them clean. And so tonight we look at why this is so great. Three reasons why it's great. First of all, we need to be loved. And secondly, we need to be cleaned. And thirdly, we need to be lowered. We need to be loved, we need to be cleaned, and we need to be lowered. So first of all, we need to be loved, verses one through five. The text opens, verse one, and it opens with this time marker. It's the final week of Jesus' life, and Jesus, that means has only seven days left to live. And in these seven days, he is going to accomplish the greatest thing of all that he ever did, But the text emphasizes that the drive, the motive that animates Jesus for this, his greatest work, it was not ambition. It wasn't a desire for him to get higher, to move higher, to get more. And it wasn't fear that motivated him either. It wasn't a fear of failing, fear of what people think of him. The text says that the animating motive for Jesus was love. Verse one, it says, Jesus knew that his hour, the time of his terrible death, he knew that his hour had come, that he should depart from this world to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. The text says, having loved his own, he loved them to the end. Having spent his entire life from childhood to his manhood, In his final week, Jesus loved them until his last breath. He lived a life that was animated by love. Now, it is easy to glide over this. and to miss this very unusual disposition. I mean, just look around at the world around us. Look at all the people that you rub shoulders with every day, whether you're at the grocery store, whether you're sitting in the office, the places where you shop, the public people that you see in the news, the people that are interviewed and they're presented towards us. Do you see anybody, do you see anybody animated by love? People that you live with and work with, do you ever see people where you think, that is a person who is going through work, going through life, going through the grocery store, and they are a person animated by love. What is it that keeps people going? What is it that drives us? Why are we studying so hard? Why do we show up at the office? We're busy. We need to make money. We need to pay the bills. We need to make the grades so that we can avoid getting scolded. We need to avoid being embarrassed by our lives. And many of us have these long lists of all these tasks that we've got to complete. And if we don't complete them, something will start to sink. Someone will start to think that we are stinking. And we've got these million appointments that we need to schedule. We're driven. And we're driven maybe by fear of running short. driven by fear of losing approval, driven by this insecurity in our lives. But consider this very remarkable observation about Jesus, the son come from God. On the inside, on the inside of Jesus, the mainspring that was ticking and was propelling forward his schedule and his commitments, it was love. Jesus, under the surface, loved his people. If you were to replay the video of his entire life, every conversation that he had, every time that he said to a person yes and sat down with them and gave them a few minutes, if you were to go under the surface, if you were to get into the thought processes of his mind, you would find thought processes of love. If you went under the surface and you could measure his heart somehow, there was some way you could measure what was going on, you would find a heart of love. Now that's remarkable, and it's very unusual, and it's really not the space that most of us live in for most of our lives. But Jesus was motivated by love. I heard a story about a man named Nick. Nick was well off, Nick had his own business, but Nick had a heart to help the high school kids in his county. And so Nick would host a place every week at his business where kids could have work on weekends, work while they were on break, and it was a place also where kids could come and there would be a Bible study for them if they were interested, a place where kids could talk to an adult who took interest in their questions, an adult who took interest in their problems. Nick was a person who cared about your parents breaking up, Nick was a person who cared about your emotional instability, and he cared about your financial inability to get regular food for dinner. Nick was a person who cared for the high schoolers in his county, and he did that, he lived that way for decades, well into his elderly years. Nick loved each generation of high school kids. Nick had a heart of love. Well, Jesus was that way. Jesus loved his own, his people, all of his life. Now, do you sense the significance of that? Verse three, Jesus, it says, he came from heaven. He was sent from the Father. Jesus came from God with one assignment, to love us to death. Verse three, it says, he came from God and was going back to God. Verse one, he was departing from this world back to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world. He loved them to the end. Jesus loved us to death, to his death, to the last minute of his life. He loved us. He lived to love us. Have you considered that in this whole wide world, with all of your worries, with all of your minor ambitions and all of your major ambitions, what you need in this life is to be genuinely loved. You know, maybe you're old. Maybe you're old and you feel like, my body is just starting to shut down. I'm old, I'm starting to, the death process, and you need to know that you're loved. You need to know that your life everything that's transpired for these past decades, and your death, you need to know that all those things matter, that your soul has value, and that you will not die unloved, forgotten, alone. You need to know that your death is precious in the sight of someone, that someone will mourn and miss you when you die. And maybe you're not aged, maybe you're not sick, But maybe your heart is filled with all kinds of turmoil. There's just a lot going on, a lot that's troubling you, weighing on you. You're worried about money. You're worried about friends. You're worried about your relationship with your spouse. You're worried that you're single and you're just aching to have a spouse. You need to know. You need to know that when you're sitting in a cafeteria filled with 800 people, other high schoolers, someone wants to sit with you. Someone notices at church when your seat is empty. You need to know that on a Friday night, when once again you are all alone, that someone, someone out there wants to get together with you. The reason why we're that way is that in the beginning, when God had made all things good, We knew, we knew that we were loved. Adam was a friend of God. Adam knew the daily warmth of the love of God. And then when Adam and Eve both first walked in the garden, Adam and Eve loved one another. They loved one another fully, nothing hidden. And when we sinned, when Adam disobeyed, we lost that community of love. Adam and Eve were cast out from the community of closeness to God and of closeness even to one another. We ran from love, we hid from him, we covered up from one another. We once knew love and we lost the love that we are wired to receive. And that's why we spend so much of our days, so much of our time, self-preoccupied. Wondering if people like us. Wondering what people think of us. And that's why it aches so much when the kids don't call. That's why we fear dying alone and forgotten. You need to be loved. Now next, you also, you need to be cleaned. We need to be cleansed, verses four through 12. In these verses, Jesus enacts a drama. He's making up a point, a dramatic representation of what he's trying to teach. They're at a meal, it's the Passover meal, and the food is on the table, and this meal, the Passover meal, is served in multiple courses. If I remember correctly, it's about four different stages. It's a multiple course meal, but in the middle of the meal, Jesus rises from the table, And he gets up from his place at the table and he, it's strange, he takes off his outer garments and he wraps a long towel around his waist and it's the uniform of a lowly servant. It's a minimum wage position. And then Jesus, to the 12 that are at the table, one by one, Jesus with his 12 interns, his disciples, Jesus washes each man's dusty, dirty feet with water. He wipes their feet with a long towel that's around his waist. And they're startled by this. Jesus is on his knees. Jesus is on the floor to clean and to wipe their feet. It's symbolic. By washing them, Jesus says, you're dirty. I will clean you. You're dirty. I will clean you. The dirt on their feet, the dirt symbolizes, well, it symbolizes sin. It symbolizes moral stain. Jesus is saying to every man in that room, you are dirty. You have your own dirt. You have sin. You need to be cleansed. You need to have your sin removed. And Jesus says, I will do it. I will do it. The Bible teaches that there's no exception. None is righteous, not even one person. Do you remember when you were in high school and they assigned those depressing books for you to read? Maybe it was Heart of Darkness. Maybe it was Lord of the Flies, whatever it was. Or Ethan Fromme. Some of the books were especially depressing because in those novels, every character was flawed. Every character had darkness in their heart. It's the same message in this visual dramatic metaphor that Jesus is making. Every person in that room is dirty, all 12 of those men. No one is good enough. Everyone has messed up. Everyone has fallen short of what God called us to be. Now that's a bitter pill because some of us, we feel pretty good about ourselves. I've kept my life together. I've kept my marriage together. I've kept my career together. I'm not the bad kid in the family. And so this is a bitter pill because Jesus is saying, you're dirty. Now, some people are more dirty than others. Others are so dirty that you can't even tell the skin color. There's so much dirt caked on it. But Jesus is saying, everyone is dirty. And that contradicts the typical belief that there are, well, there are good people in society. And then there are bad people in society. Jesus says, all of you are dirty, all of you. All of you have got broccoli lodged in your teeth, everyone. All of you have evil in your heart, whether it's a grudge that you're holding against your brother or your sister, and you won't budge, you won't forgive it. All of you, Jesus is saying, have evil in your heart. Maybe it's a greed. It's a greed that prioritizes keeping your own life comfortable. Resenting people who ask for your time, resenting people who ask for your money, resenting people who ask what for you would be a huge emotional donation to their need. The time, the burden of trying to help hold up someone's burden. The fallen human race is characterized largely in the negative in the Bible. 1 Corinthians 6, 9, speaking to the church. 1 Corinthians 6, 9, or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you. But you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus and by the spirit of our God. The scriptures condemn every person on the planet, no exception. But Jesus also says this, He says, I can wash you. And if you want a part of what I'm doing, I must wash you. That's what he's saying in verse eight. If I do not wash you, you have no part with me. Do you want a part of what Jesus is doing? Do you want a place with Jesus? Jesus must wash you. And when he says this, That should both condemn you, but it should also encourage you. When Jesus says, if I do not wash you, you have no part with me. Well, that condemns you. It's saying your sexual activity, your secret sexual activity, which you hope will never come up, will never show up in a background check. Or the times when you were just plain mean. to your kids, mean to your spouse. He's saying you're condemned by that. Our sins make us dirty. But by him saying this, it also encourages us. Jesus is saying whatever your dirt is, I can wash your dirt away. I can make you completely clean, says Jesus. And that means no matter what dirt is on your feet, Jesus makes this offer. I will come to you. Will you have me? Will you have me wash the dirt from your feet? And to get there, to get to that place, you have got to admit it. You've got to admit it. And to get in, you've got to receive it. You've got to receive this washing from Jesus. Let Jesus clean you. Submit to his washing. I wonder, have you done that? Have you done that? Have you come to a point where you can say, I am dirty. My life is dirty. My deeds are dirty. I have treated people dirty. I have made other people dirty. Have you come to this point and done that and said, Jesus, would you cleanse me? Would you clean me? Would you wash me? If you've dealt with Jesus like that, then you know what I'm talking about. But if you have never dealt with Jesus like that, What is stopping you? What's stopping you? Well, there are two things that might hold you back. What's stopping you? Here's one thing that might be stopping you. Are you too great to admit that you're dirty? Are you too great to admit that you're dirty? You might say that you have flaws, but overall, you think you're a decent person. that you look better than your brother who's an addict, who's always asking for money? You might think that you look better than your troubled sister whose life is always falling apart. Are you too great to admit that you're dirty, that you're dirty? And so that's why you don't admit and you don't ask Jesus to wash you. Could it be that you're too great to admit that you're dirty? Or maybe is this what's stopping you? Are your sins too great to believe that they can be washed? Are your sins too great to believe that they could be washed? You know, you know that you're dirty, but the things that you've done, the shame that you've brought on yourself, the shame that you've maybe brought on your family, your organization, You should have been locked up, or maybe you were locked up, and there are people walking around somewhere in the world, there are people walking around out there who despise you because of how you actually did ruin their lives. You admit that you were bad, but what you did was so bad, you can't believe that Jesus could wash it from you. It would take an act of God to make it clean, to remove moral stain, to clean evil off of a soul, off of your past, to remove deep, deep guilt. But that's what Jesus offers. The Son of God sent from God and come to wash your dirt and to give you a place and a part in his people. You need to be loved. You need to be washed. Now, thirdly, we see this. We need to be lowered, and this is what we close with. You need to be lowered. This is verses 12 through 17. Verse 12, Jesus says, do you know what I have done to you? Do you know what I have done to you? And the truth is, they don't understand what just happened. It was actually awkward, it was kind of embarrassing, and they're confused. They don't understand. But afterward, after his death, After his resurrection, they will understand. They do understand what Jesus did. Verse seven, he says, what I am doing, you do not understand now, but you will know after this. You don't understand now, but after this, after his death and resurrection. you will know." And you know, when you just hear that, and when Jesus brings this up again, this is just a pattern with them, pattern with us. That really should humble us. It should humble us because so many times, Jesus is making things clear. Jesus is doing something super clear, but we just don't understand. And what we learn from this is, Jesus is a classroom teacher and he has willingly filled his classroom with slow students. We're the slow students and Jesus is fine with that. Sometimes we don't understand Jesus until much later. And so that should make us humble. in the present, shouldn't it? It should make us less quarrelsome with one another. It should make us less arrogant towards one another. It should make us less condemning of each other, condemning of the slow person that we're frustrated with dealing with. Jesus might be calling you today. He may be calling you to admit that you are the one who's at fault, and you just can't see it. You just can't see it. Maybe you're gonna see it in a week. Maybe you'll see it next year. But maybe we're just slow, and that should humble us. Now, what was it that was so difficult for them to understand with this foot washing? What was so difficult for them to understand so that even when it was done, they didn't understand what he did? Well, first of all, here's one thing that was difficult for them to understand about this foot washing. First of all, it was just a shock of how low Jesus was descending by doing that, by washing their feet. It was shocking to them. Have you been to Walmart? You know, I hear that there are some people that don't go to Walmart. Instead, they will only go to Target. They will not go to Walmart. Well, have you been to Walmart? And you know at Walmart how they've got public restrooms, and the public restrooms are at the front of the store, and because of that, they are just heavy traffic public restrooms. And you know, Walmart tries to keep up with keeping it clean. For me, the Walmarts that I go to, it seems like maybe one out of 10 times, the bathroom is temporarily closed off, and it could be the middle of the day, temporarily closed off while someone is cleaning the restroom because it gets so much traffic. And there's someone there who's often swabbing the wet floors, someone who's cleaning the toilets. Who is it that cleans the Walmart restrooms? Whoever it is, I do not envy them. But it's like the disciples of Jesus, by what he did here with the foot washing, it's like the disciples of Jesus find Jesus cleaning restrooms. And this just shocks them. They're like, what are you doing? Like, you don't do this. I mean, just think, days earlier, Jesus entered the capital city as the leading candidate for the chief executive office. People welcomed him like a king. And now, here he is, putting off his clothes, putting on a towel, like a restroom attendant, cleaning floor dirt off of the feet of them off of their feet, and one by one, Jesus, to each man, he fills the washbowl with water, he holds their dirty feet, he wipes each one of their dirty feet, and then he dries each man's feet. This is what Jesus is saying. He's saying, I stoop to clean you. I stoop to clean you. Socially, by doing this, Jesus was taking the lowest, the lowest position in the household order. And Peter expresses the shock that they all feel when Jesus degrades himself by doing this. Verse six, he says, Lord, are you washing my feet? And Jesus says, this is the only way. to make you clean. He strips himself, he wears the towel, he bows before them, he's on his knees, and he hand washes their lowest parts. That was difficult for them to understand. That's part of why they didn't understand how low Jesus descended to do this. Another difficulty that made it hard for them to understand this whole foot washing thing, it was hard for them to understand the height, the height from which he came down, the height from which Jesus descended. He comes to the ground to descend them, but he's not merely appear to them. He's not merely another fellow human. He is that. But Jesus is the one who comes from above. Isn't that what the text emphasizes? He comes from above them, from above them all, from above heaven. Verse three, Jesus had come from God, the highest heights. To become man, Jesus was the royal son who set aside the robes of radiant glory and then He puts on this towel of humanity. That's what Jesus did to be there. He left the throne room and he took up a bucket in the restroom. It's the famous incarnation passage in Philippians 2. Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant and coming in the likeness of men and being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of a cross. And what that's telling us is he came from on high It was a demotion. He humbled himself to become the lowest kind of human being. And then he went even lower and he took the death of a cross. And that death was humbling. The death of Jesus Christ wasn't this glorious, noble warrior riding a horse into battle with all of his men charging behind him. The death of Jesus Christ was a man sitting in an electric chair surrounded by haters. The death of Jesus Christ was a man convicted on federal charges and executed by the government. So what was difficult to understand? It was the height from which Jesus came down. Another thing that was difficult for them to understand, one more difficulty, and that's this, Jesus in doing that, Jesus completely redefines greatness. He is redefining what they thought was great. Verse 13, he says, you call me teacher and Lord, And you say, well, for so I am. He's saying, you, my interns, my grad students, my disciples, you call me professor, for I clearly possess a postgraduate degree and a postgraduate education. And you call me Lord, because you recognize I'm superior. You recognize my superiority. And some of them recognize that he's the son of God and that he's God, my Lord and my God. Jesus is saying, you recognize that I am great, but here is real greatness. I lower myself. Jesus says, here's real greatness. I lower myself. For the people I love, I lower myself. And for them, when they're hearing this and they're just trying to make it compute, it feels backwards. Isn't greatness, when I'm above, and people serve me. Isn't greatness when people do my will, wash my feet, when people lift me up higher? But Jesus says real greatness is when someone great serves, not rules. Real greatness, Jesus says, is when I make myself so low that that is how I make you higher. Jesus says, he says, he's speaking to them, he says, I know why this surprises you, I know why this is a shock to you, because you, my disciples, he says, you think greatness means the greater one gives the orders, the greater one tells people what to do. Luke 22, he's speaking about the same theme to them. Now there was also a dispute among them, the disciples, as to which of them should be considered the greatest. And Jesus said to them, the kings of the Gentiles exercised lordship over them. And those who exercise authority over them are called benefactors. He says, you know what greatness looks like. You know what it looks like in government, among the kings. And he says, but not so among you. You want to be great? He says, don't do that. He says, not so among you. On the contrary, he who is greatest He who is greatest among you, let him be as the younger, and he who governs as he who serves. For who is greater? He who sits at the table and everyone is serving him. or he who serves. Is it not he who sits the table, yet I am among you as the one who serves. That's what Jesus says. The great one descended, Jesus, the great one descended from a crown in heaven and came to the dust of men, not to rule, but to serve. And that particularly made him the greatest. He came to wash, to remove our sin. And then Jesus said, If you really get this, then you do this. If you really get what I'm saying and trying to teach and have modeled and done for you, if you really get it, then you go and you do the same thing. Verses 14 and 15, Jesus says, if I then, your Lord and teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example that you should do as I have done to you. And so here Jesus, he instruct us about community life. He's telling us what he wants this community, his church, his congregations to look like. The ethos of it, the practice, the sensibilities, what we think is truly great. Jesus is calling us to lower ourselves, to be congregations which lower ourselves, to do it in a way that defies cultural norms, that goes below even what would be normal in our societal sensibilities, to become churches of lowly love, to exhibit the same self-lowering love for the other people that are in this room. for the other people that are in the membership. And so congregation, I wanna encourage you. I see you doing things. I see those of you who do the dishes after every meal. And Jesus calls us to keep on doing this and to go even deeper, to go even lower. Can you give rides to meetings, to someone, even if it's gonna make you late, because they're always late. Can you make the time to share a meal with someone, even if it drains you, even if it's tedious for you? Can you volunteer to serve in a ministry that's far below your degree, far below your skill set? Can you take off your greatness and can you put on the robes of a lowly servant and do that to the children, to do that to the mothers, to do that to the people here who, well, there's a smell. You're pretty sure there is a smell. You can smell it. And it's not just talking about the community life of believers. What's greatness in marriage? Well, in Ephesians 5, it says to the husband, the man, it says, the husband, the man, is the head. And that sounds like the place of greatness. That sounds like the place that's on top, above everyone else. Well, what kind of greatness? It's the same thing that Jesus is demonstrating here. This kind of greatness. Ephesians 5, 25. Husbands, love your wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself for her. How did he do that? That he might sanctify and cleanse her by the washing of water by the word. That he might present her to himself, a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. What is Jesus saying? What is greatness even in this most intimate of the relationships in humanity? What is the greatness in marriage? It's loving her. It's lowering yourself below her. It's giving yourself up for her. It's washing her. It's at her feet. Isn't that greatness? Isn't that love? So do you want to be great? Do you wanna be great? Consider how someone who is truly great finds you so great that he was willing to shed all appearance of greatness in order to come and to wash you and to make you a part of what he's doing, to give you a place in what he's building. What makes you significant? What makes you be great to be significant in the gospel? Jesus finds you significant, so significant that he gave up his own significance in his death for your sins, in wearing your shame on the cross so that you could be raised with him in glory and to secure for yourself the admiration and the adoration of someone who is truly great. Some years ago, I was a foster dad. And part of that year involved supervising visits between the foster kids and the dad, the birth dad. And this father was an angry man. That was one of his challenges. He was demanding, he was ungrateful, he was abusive. And that was part of why the children were in the foster care system. And the parent-child visits for me were frustrating. They were infuriating because of how rude the dad was to me, how resentful the dad treated me and even the kids. And I remember at one point during one of these mandatory visitations that happened every week, I remember at one point the little child had a dirty diaper and the father wouldn't change the diaper. And so I'm there, I'm supposed to be the supervising visitation person, so I had to change the diaper. And we were just out in this public place and so I had to get on the floor on my knees and I had to change the dirty diaper while the father stood over me criticizing my diaper changing. And that was just one time where I thought, what is going on? Another time, the child's shoe was untied and the father wouldn't tie the shoe. And so I ended up once again on my knees before that father, him standing over me, complaining at me while I tied the child's shoelace. And I was furious. And then I remembered Jesus washing my feet. and suddenly it felt so right. Let's pray. Lord Jesus, how you have lowered yourself and loved us. And we, we admire that, perhaps more than all of the glorious miracles you did. We admire that. And you did it for us. Lord, we want to live lives of love, going through, navigating through this world and our work, loving, loving one another, loving you, knowing how we've been loved by you. Lord, if there's those here who have sins, would you be the one who washes away our sins and cleanses us of all unrighteousness? We ask in Jesus' name, amen.