Title: Humble Yourself
Passage: John 13:1-17
Key Verse: John 13:12
Date: 22.04.03
Speaker: Jonathon White
Translator: Ruth Ann White
Outline:
1) Strangeness (of the situation)
- location in the Scriptures
after
-- triumpal entry
-- cleaning the temple
before
-- betrayal
-- death 
-- resurrection.
- only mentioned by John
-- Matthew -- Jesus as king narrative?
-- Mark -- Peter would have remembered his betrayal
-- Luke -- in Greek culture this action would hardly be commendable
-- only John remembered clearly: obvious big impact

- thought patterns in the room...
 -  11 disciples are thinking about future glory: Simon the Zealot -- General
    James -- Minister of Defense,
    Matthew -- a shoo-in for Finance Minister
    Peter -- Vice President, obviously
    John -- trusted advisor
  - only 2 people in the room knew that Jesus would be dead in 36 hours. a "secret" shared by Jesus and Judas  
- meal Jesus acting as father, standard ritual (every year for 500 years the same routine...) they know what is coming next

2) Humility (of Jesus)
3) Contrast (with today)
4) What do I need to do?
Vs 15 -- clearly Jesus expected us to copy. But what?
Do we literally do this at church?
- image picture of Pstr Shultz only wrapped only with towel (hopefully a large bath towel and not a face cloth) washing feet of parishoners at the front of the building.
- scene changes to President Lee explaining to the police (as the camera's are rolling) that Shengde Christian College takes the Bible literally, following scripture with this semi-naked foreigner with strategically placed towel is following the Bible.(I see the news cameras rolling as our church becomes famous)!
- As a Baptist this has been in the past a "Baptist" distinction:  dedication, water immersion Baptism, LORD's supper, marriage, death and feet washing (5 or 6 distinctives)
Who?
- think of this in terms of relationships to get better idea how to impliments
- only Jesus close disciples (his followers)
- 10 future leaders of church (except Judas and James)
- not the crowds
Where?
- in a 
- not 1:1 --> could lead to wrong ideas...