Imitating the Love of God (Ephesians 5:1-2) | Pastor Costi Hinn | Worship Service

Good morning, good morning, and welcome to Kootenai Church. We're glad that you're here today. Would you please stand as we have a reading out of Psalm two? Why do the nation's rage and the people's meditate on a vain thing?

The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take counsel together against Yahweh and against his anointed, saying, let us tear their feathers apart and cast away their cords from us. He who sits in the heaven laughs.

The Lord mocks them. Let's sing together the psalm. Why do the nation's rage?

Why do the nation's rage? The people bought in vain. The kings and rulers of this age against God's holy name. Therefore, oppose the whole. Asunder, he said to David, shalt thou as her fifth thy crutch of her persuade his wrath on his own this day until you turn in your Bibles.

To first John, chapter four, in preparation for the scripture reading. There are a number of announcements in your bulletin. I would just point you there for some of those. But there's one that I do want to remind you of.

That's rather timely. And that is tonight at 6 p .m. here at the church. We're going to have a meet and greet and a ministry update from Chris and Debbie Kleinstra, who are on furlough from the mission field missionaries that we've supported for a number of years.

They're here with us this morning. So you can do the where's Waldo thing and try and figure out where they're at, which one they are and say hi to them. And then we would encourage you to come out tonight to listen to the ministry update and have some fellowship with them.

And one last thing before we do the scripture reading, I do want to introduce our guest speaker, but and I hate to do this. I don't know that I've done this with any other guest speaker that we've had, but I need to correct something that he said in Sunday school that is not accurate.

And this is mostly for the sake of those who are watching by streaming. He was talking about how this is a great place to live, a great place to move to. And I want to look right now into the streaming audience and tell you that is an absolute lie.

This is a horrible place to be. Do not consider moving here. It is only somebody from Arizona where it's 110 for 360 days out of the year. I could say that this is a great place to live. So with that correction out there, our guest speaker today is Kosti Hinn.

He is the pastor or one of the pastors at Shepherd's House Bible Church in Chandler, Arizona. He is the nephew of famed televangelist, prosperity preacher Benny Hinn, and he has been our guest speaker for our conference this last Friday and Saturday.

The video sessions of those are available on our website and on our YouTube channel, if you'd like to dial in and watch those. This is his book, God, Greed and the Prosperity Gospel. We have a few copies of this left over out there in the foyer.

I think they're $15 each if you want to grab one of those. If you didn't have a chance to do that, Kosti is not going to be here much after the service today. By one o 'clock, he has to leave. So if you would like to come up and visit with him, meet him, have your picture taken, have him sign your book or something like that, or just say thank you or ask him about his uncle, anything like that.

He would love to do that. Signatures are $100 a piece if you want to get one for the book. And if you buy the signature for $100, the book is free. Otherwise, the book is $15. 1 John chapter four, beginning at verse seven and read of God's love.

And the love of the brethren for one another and for God. 1 John chapter four, beginning at verse seven. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.

The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love. By this, the love of God was manifested in us, that God has sent his only begotten son into the world so that we might live through him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that he first loved us and sent his son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. No one has seen God at any time. We love one another. God abides in us and his love is perfected in us. By this, we know that we abide in him and he in us because he has given us of his spirit.

We have seen and testified that the father has sent the son to be the savior of the world. Whoever confesses that Jesus is the son of God, God abides in him and he in God. We have come in to know and have believed the love which God has for us.

God is love and the one who abides in love abides in God and God abides in him. By this, love is perfected with us so that we may have confidence in the day of judgment because as he is, so also are we in this world.

There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear because fear involves punishment and the one who fears is not perfected in love. We love because he first loved us. If someone says, I love God and hates his brother, he is a liar.

The one who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen. And the commandment we have from him, and this commandment we have from him, and that the one who loves God should love his brother also.

Will you stand with me as we pray? Let's bow our heads. Our father, we thank you for your perfect love for us, that you loved us before we were ever able to love you back in return. The love that you have for us is unmerited for we are sinners by nature, depraved and fallen in Adam before you rescued us by your great love that you have poured out upon those who are yours in your son.

And so we thank you that you loved us before the world was, before the foundations of the world, that you set your affections on us because we are foreknown by you in that way. And then that you by love drew us to yourself and then by love sent your son to be the propitiation for our sins.

And then because of your great love, you have opened our eyes and our hearts to respond to the gospel of grace, that loving expression of your redeeming grace in Christ, that we might be made worshipers and lovers of God.

And so we thank you for the great work of grace that you have done in us. And we pray that in our hearts and in our minds that our affections may be directed toward you, our great and loving father, toward your son, the son of your love, and the spirit who pours out the love of God in our hearts.

That our worship and our love for you may be Trinitarian in nature and in direction, and that you would be glorified through us and in us. And in this worship service, we ask this in Christ's name.

Amen.

Christ the sure and steady anchor In the fury of the storm When the winds of doubt blow through me And my sails have all been torn In the suffering, in the sorrow When my sinking hopes are few I will hold fast to the anchor It shall lift me up

Christ the sure and steady anchor

While the tempest ranges on When temptation claims the battle and its season The night has won, deeper still then goes the anchor Though I justly stand, it shall never end Christ the sure and steady anchor

Christ the sure and steady anchor

Psalm 90, verses seven through 12, it says, for we have been consumed by your anger and by your wrath, we have been dismayed. You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins, in the light of your presence.

For all our days have declined in your fury. We have finished our years like a sigh. As for the days of our life, they contain 70 years or if due to might, 80 years, yet their pride is but labor and wickedness for soon it is gone and we fly away.

Who knows the power of your anger and your fury according to the fear that is due you? So teach us to number our days that we may present to you a heart of wisdom. We're gonna end our music this morning by singing Psalm 90 from Everlasting.

Brought forth were days of spring and summer We dwell beneath the stars in ancient skies

A thousand years or so

The Call to Love One Another as God Loves Us

Good morning, wonderful to be with you all and it has been a wonderful weekend of ministry and getting to enjoy one another together. I wanna say thank you to my dear friend, Jim. It technically is Ossman.

Historically, his last name would be pronounced Ossman. Let the record show. And the two Canadians, any other Canadians here? Oh yes, we're strong.

Strong.

Though few. The Canadians, both myself and his dear wife have gone through the halls of history to discover. It's Ossman. So grateful, very grateful. And yes, I would affirm and agree if you're watching this and you are from California, don't move here.

Turn in your Bibles to Ephesians chapter five. We're gonna read verses one to five in Ephesians chapter five and then spend our time focusing primarily on verses one and two. The text we're focusing on is all about love and Christian love at that.

Not worldly love, not finicky, shallow, transactional love, but the kind of love that you and I are to have for one another because we are a part of the body of Christ, because our God is distinct from every other God.

And this is the kind of love that you have signed up for and are committed to if you are a follower of Jesus Christ. Let's read together, we'll pray, and we'll jump right into our time of study in the Word.

Paul the Apostle writes,. Therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children and walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

But immorality and any impurity or greed must not even be named among you as is proper among saints. And there must be no filthiness and silly talk or coarse jesting, which are not fitting, but rather giving of thanks.

For this you know with certainty, that no immoral or impure person or covetous man who is an idolater has an inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and God. That is God's Word to us this morning. Let's go to Him together in prayer.

Father, right in the middle of this section where Paul is giving practical instruction to the Ephesians, we find a way of life filled with tenderness, kindness, love. We find that bitterness and wrath and slander and malice and anger are to be put away.

We find the warning that people who reject You and that are living in habitual sin are not going to inherit the kingdom. And in the midst of a dark world where so many are living that way, and they love themselves and they love this world, we are a people called to love You and love one another in a particular way.

Teach us, guide us, correct us, convict us through Your Word here and now. Help me to be a faithful servant to my brothers and my sisters here, to be clear, to be faithful to Your Word and to exhort and encourage them and also myself as we meditate on Your Word and what it means to imitate Your love.

We pray and ask all of this in the name of Jesus, amen. The title of the sermon is Imitate God's Love. And I was listening to a very faithful preacher recently on the subject of love, and he said this, when you're looking for a real church, you're looking past the doctrine, past the theology, and to how much affection these people have for each other and how much love do they demonstrate.

Now, before you think, whoever I'm quoting has left the reservation. Doctrine, theology, don't matter, look past all those. The man I'm quoting is John MacArthur, so relax. His point was, and he continues in it, people will say, I want a church that's doctrinally sound.

That's fine, but you got to get beyond that. That doctrine has to have a dramatic impact on the heart. This type of teaching is in many New Testament letters and often mentioned multiple times in various ways, making it clear that we always need this reminder as the church, and that's what I want to encourage you in today.

We'll take some application notes, if you will, throughout this, but there's one main heading, and it is this, we are called to emulate God's love. We as believers are called to emulate God's love. Paul writes, therefore, be imitators of God as beloved children and walk in love.

Let's understand the directive here to imitate God's love and to walk in love, since that's what we're commanded to do. What does he mean by imitate God? Well, there's a way that the Christian is to live, and there's an example that the Christian is to look to, none other than our God.

This is the whole point of the Christian life, the word he uses for imitate. It's a word where we get our English word mimic from, so you're literally supposed to look at God and the way that he loves and the way that he operates, and you are to say, I'm gonna copy that, I'm gonna mimic him, different than the world, different than my feelings, different than even the best example of love you might have.

You would still, as a believer, say, I look beyond all of those things to God, and I copy his love. You may say, well, Costi, I am very, very sinful, and I am, of course, human. How in the world am I to imitate God's love?

I can't mimic God the way he is, and you're right, you can't, but this is where we need to understand one particular rabbit trail that's worth going down, and it's to do with the attributes of God, in which we have God's communicable attributes and his incommunicable attributes.

Let me explain these to you. You have incommunicable attributes, which are things that no, you cannot imitate like God. For example, his holiness in the sense of his perfection. You'll never be perfect.

Don't try, you'll fail. His immutability. You, you change. You, you're finicky. You, your emotions are going to sway you here, there, and everywhere. God's immutable. He's unchanging. That is incommunicable.

We don't copy that. His omnipotence, all-powerful. Don't try to copy that. You'll come off just arrogant and full of yourself. Most dictators and tyrants try that and fail. His omnipresence. Some of you are parents of perhaps many children like me.

I have five, and while we wish we were omnipresent, you never will be. You can't be everywhere at the same time. His aseity, that's his self-existence. You're not self-existent. You didn't start your life.

You were born. You were created. And then his sovereignty, another incommunicable attribute. Even the queen or the king of a country, while described as a sovereign, is not completely sovereign. But there are God's communicable attributes, and these are ones you should copy.

And holiness makes both lists, because we are commanded to be holy as He is holy. And that means to be separate, to be consecrated, to live your life, and to express your Christianity, your following of Jesus, in a way that is different than this world.

That's why Peter says in 1 Peter 1, 14 to 16, be holy as I am holy. And he's quoting, of course, from the Old Testament, but says, as obedient children, don't be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance.

But as he who is holy is holy, you are to be holy in all your conduct. So we copy God's holiness, and that He's separate. God's goodness is another communicable attribute that we seek to copy and emulate.

That is, to be doing good to one another. God's mercy, another attribute that we imitate and copy. That is, to give others what they do not deserve. God's justice is another thing we copy, and that we seek to live righteously and live just lives, to see His judgments and His justice upheld in all matters.

And God's grace, of course, which is benevolent favor. It's unmerited favor. People don't deserve grace, and yet we would extend it and be gracious. And then, of course, where we'll focus our attention here, love, God's love.

His unconditional, non-transactional, never-ending, can't-be-separated-from-it, if He has pointed His love at you, love. That's the kind of love that you and I are to imitate. And in this context, you've got to reach back and look at Paul's words leading into chapter five.

And so, let's do that for just a moment together. You can go back to verses 31 and 32. In chapter four, he says, let all bitterness and wrath and anger and clamor and slander be put away from you along with all malice.

There's this way of life that is sinful. It's aggressive. It's focused on you. It is vindictive. It's filled with vengeance. It's the kind of attitude that says, you do what I do or else. And that threat could be loaded with, or else I won't love you.

I won't serve you. I'll never forgive you. You want my kindness? Then do these things. Paul says, put all of that, this bitterness, this holding on, this wrath, all of it, the clamor and the malice, put it all aside.

Instead, be kind to one another. Be tenderhearted.

Forgive one another,.

Just as God in Christ has also forgiven you. So there's this way that God has been towards you and I. And that's why he says, then therefore, so based on that, therefore, walk in love. Imitate God. Be like Him.

Live your life and express your love for one another His way. That idea of walk is one of my favorite Greek words in the New Testament epistles. It's the word peripateo. It means to be busy about, kind of to be a busy body in a good way.

It's you go about your business. You're going here, there, and everywhere, and you're very preoccupied with. And so walk in love is the command. Be very busy about love and loving one another. He says, as beloved children, and walk in love.

The two truths being conveyed here should motivate our love. Number one, you're loved by God. He calls them beloved, as beloved children. You always want to remember that. You are, as a believer, the beloved of God.

So you're accepted. You are valued. You are prized. You are cherished. It's okay to say that. Many times in maybe reformed or kind of biblical doctrine-heavy circles, we rightfully tell people, you are totally depraved.

You are sinful. You are a worm in the dirt. You're undeserving of God's mercy. We say, yes, amen, I know, I know. I was a horrible person. No, no, you still are. Yeah, I know, I know. Even on your best day, you're still nothing but a filthy rag.

I know, you're right, it's true. And yet, as beloved children, we can still say, what mercy, what grace, that I am loved, that I am called, that I am known, that I am cared for in God's providence. That is, He's intimately acquainted with every detail of my life.

He cares about me. You can say that, that you are loved. In the same way that we might say in life by way of principle, hurt people hurt people, right? Hurt people, they tend to hurt people. They're wounded, like an animal.

Wounded, cornered, they lash out. Well, we should also understand, loved people should love people. We are His beloved children. We are cherished. We are cared for. We are known. We are called. We are secure in our Father's love.

So as beloved children, we should be and are called to be the most loving people on planet earth. In the same way that because we have been forgiven much, we should be forgiving because we've been loved by God and we did not deserve it.

We are to be loving. And the idea here of children, why does he use that term? Well, it's just meant to help the reader think about how a child copies his parent. Now this is convicting, of course. If you as a parent are copied in every way, certainly you'll be looking over at your child saying, no, no, don't do that.

Not that. Copy the good things, dump out the bad things. But with God, He is perfect in His expression of love. And so you always have a perfect model and a perfect example for you to follow in your love.

And He says, just as Christ. So the comparison is rooted in God, no doubt, in His love, and then by way of specific illustration, Paul then begins to unpack all of these truths about Christ. He says in verse 2 there, just as Christ also loved you, and He gave Himself up for you, and it was an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.

There's three qualities of Christ's love that we seek to emulate. You can picture this as a child, if you and I are in God's eyes, we're His beloved children. Picture a child tracing the lines. Here are the lines that you and I, we trace with regard to copying God's love and what it looks like through Christ.

Number one, Christ's love is unconditional love. It says, just as Christ also loved you, using the word agape, and that is unconditional, non-transactional love that seeks the good of the one being loved.

That's unconditional love. It's the kind of love that is a Gospel-centered love described in Ephesians 2 .4, that because of God's great love, it's without condition. And how many of us find it so easy to love people that are lovable?

I know I do. So much easier to love kind people, obedient people, good people, like-minded people. It's easy to love people in the church that you get along with or you prefer. And so we tend to get these little silos in which we might say, well, I really love these people.

I don't love a lot of them. These are my people, though. This is who I stick to. We love people who agree with us and who are like us. But Jesus says in Luke 6 .32, if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?

For even sinners love those who love them. And so this means, if we're gonna love like Christ and we're tracing the lines of His life and His love, to love unconditionally means that you and I, if we copy His love, we love the difficult people in the church, we love the annoying people in the church, we love the repetitive people in the church, we love the frustrating people in the church, we love the awkward people in the church, and every other category that makes you feel uncomfortable.

We love the brethren. And it might be very helpful for us just to call unconditional love that, to describe that uncomfortable. If you are not being made somewhat uncomfortable in your interactions within the church with people, it is likely that you are not loving like Christ.

And that is because, opposite the finicky love of this world, number two, it's not only an unconditional love, but it's an unselfish love. And aren't we so selfish? Don't we just enjoy what we enjoy? And we long to be comfortable.

We long to feed ourselves. And the way that we want to be is the way that we would like things to be. And yet Christ, His love is described here as unselfish. He says, and gave Himself up for us. This is His unselfish laying down of His own divine rights, His position in heaven, ultimately His laying down unselfishly, His own life out of love for us.

He loved in order to give, not to get, if you will. Do we love people that way? When we look at the model of Jesus and His unselfish love, you think about perhaps the people in your life, in your church here, people you serve with, spend time with.

We're going to have different perspectives. We're going to have different personalities, but like our common Master Jesus, we're called to live out what He commands and to love the way He does. It's an unselfish love.

John 13, verses 34 to 35, Jesus says, a new commandment I give you, that you love one another even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. And He says, by this all men will know that you are My disciples, if, the condition there, you have love for one another.

One of the primary evidences of being a true Christian is loving one another. You want to see evidence of life change? You want to know if you're saved? And that would be the evidence? No doubt, growing in godliness, yes.

Bearing fruit of the Spirit, yes. Being more holy, most certainly. But in all of that, you can keep the rules better than everyone else. You can look good on the outside and have it all together, but if you don't love people in a way that is unconditional and unselfish, and you're not laying your life down for others, you must question if you truly love like Christ.

And you might even go as far and benefit from this as asking, am I really saved? Am I really a Christian? Or am I just a very moral, conservative person who is selfish and about me? Love will be the evidence.

So may it be that we are an unselfish people, loving like Christ. And this can be hard, and you may say, this sounds like a lot. Well, of course, because third, we also see here, it's not just an unconditional love and an unselfish love, but it is a sacrificial love.

It's gonna cost you. It costed him, he says, an offering and a sacrifice to God like a fragrant aroma. Now, seems a little outdated and a little weird in the way that he uses the language. Like, it's like a fragrant aroma.

Like, is God smelling this? Is it going up to his nostrils? What's the picture here? The picture is from Exodus 29, 18, describing the sin offering and the sacrifices of Aaron, the original priesthood, and their offerings, their sacrifice going up to the heavens being acceptable to God.

It's described as a soothing aroma to the Lord. Now you need to think about Jesus as the final atoning sacrifice and His laying down, sacrificing His own life, being an acceptable act that pleased the Lord.

Now, I want you to think about Romans 12, one and two, in which Paul says, very simply, that you are to be a living sacrifice. You're not to be conformed to the patterns of this world. You'll be transformed in the renewing of your mind.

He says, I beseech you, therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, to what? Present yourselves, your bodies, as a living sacrifice. So your life is to be sacrificial in the way you love and live within the body, and that pleases the Lord.

You want to please the Lord? Yes, walk in righteousness. You want to please the Lord? Yes, have faith. You want to please the Lord? Yes, seek to be holy and read the Word and walk in prayer, be devoted to prayer.

Yes and absolutely yes, but you want to please the Lord? Love one another in a sacrificial way. This is the kind of love we are called to have. Matthew 22, 37 to 40, a lawyer asked Jesus, which is the great commandment in the law?

He said to him, you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the great and foremost commandment. The second is like it. You shall love your neighbor as yourself.

Upon these two commandments hang the whole law and the prophets. Jesus takes every complexity of the law and the prophets, breaks it down into two simple commands. Love God and love others like you love yourself.

This is why Paul links our motive for love to the forgiveness of Christ. He's pointing back to the way you've been forgiven and the way you've been loved and Christ's work on the cross because when you don't love like Jesus, when you are selfish, when you're all about you, you and I, oh, we couldn't be more blind, more prideful, more ignorant to the very truth that we used to appreciate and used to motivate us to love, the cross, forgiveness, the gospel, his kindness, his love for you and his love for me.

And what would happen then if a church would love like Christ, unconditional, unselfish and sacrificial, oh, how many wrongs would be so quickly forgiven, wouldn't they? How many people restored, cared for, disciplined and also don't forget that we speak truth because we love people, so how many more times then would instead we say, you know what, I don't want to tell them.

And so you go tell someone else and that's just gossip. Instead of going directly to the person, the best way to love people is to go to them in relationship and in unity. Perhaps more powerful than what is happening internally would be also what happens externally as the love that is permeating the church then explodes out the doors to call lost sheep home.

The evangelistic passion, the driving love of people and others, how strong our witness and all of this would most certainly be blessed by the Lord in whatever way he chooses, why? Because this pleases the Lord in the way that Christ in his life and his sacrifice are a pleasing aroma unto him.

So it is that the loving sacrificial church that copies the example of Christ is also so pleasing to the Lord. Perhaps one of the great examples of how the church is to love is in Romans 12 verse nine, after Paul has called the church to present ourselves as a living and sacrificial offering unto God with our lives, he says in verse nine of Romans 12, let love be without hypocrisy.

The word that he uses there is translated play acting, like a two-face, you're putting it on. Let your love not be a show. Let your love not be hypocritical and insincere. He says, abhor what is evil, clean to what is good, be devoted to one another in brotherly love, give preference to one another in honor.

If you want an illustration for what this kind of love will look like practically in the church, you're just giving preference to others constantly. And you can see that example, of course, in Philippians 2, 3, where Paul says, do nothing out of emptiness or selfish conceit, but what?

You look to the example of Christ, he says. This is the way that we're to love and the way that we are to operate together. He says, outdoing one another and showing honor, not lagging behind in diligence.

Fervent in spirit, serving the Lord, rejoicing in hope, persevering in tribulation, devoted to prayer, contributing to the needs of the saints, practicing hospitality. This means that you are, as a believer, called to love in a way that keeps putting others in front of you.

You put a higher value on others. And often in the church, we put price tags on people. We do this. That's why James says, don't be partial to certain types of people. You got the rich, for sure. But also, we got people that they serve, they do a lot.

So we kind of value them more. People that are longer in the faith, so, because they're easy, they speak to speak, they talk to talk, they know all the words, they know the insider language, they're not as weird.

They don't do things that make you go, well, all right, well, we're gonna have to talk about that or meet about that. Now you have time that you have to take. And so it's so much easier to love, to be patient with and to enjoy people and value them because they do and say the right things.

And then this one, and this is certainly convicting for me as a pastor, that they're the people that aren't very messy. You know, the old percentage, the 80 -20 rule. They say 20 of the people cause 80 of the problems.

20 of the people take up 80 of your time. 20 of the people give 80 of the money. All of this, it can jade you and I. Jesus' example keeps calling us back to unconditional, unselfish, sacrificial love.

You see the person, you see the heart, the soul, who they are, and you simply love them. It's the idea of, I really don't want anything from you, I just want something for you. That's a love like Christ.

And so we reject the temptation of this world. We reject the temptation to be selfish and we look to Christ's example of sacrificial love because that is what pleases God. Perhaps then, after understanding all of that, by way of illustration, is there not a more vivid and heart-wrenching visual than what we see in John 13, verses 1 -16.

Let's turn there together and walk through this illustration and then talk about some practical applications.

For the church.

John 13, 1 -16. John writes, now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that His hour had come, that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end.

During supper, the devil, having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, that He had come forth from God and was going back to God, got up from supper, He laid aside His garments, and taking a towel, He girded Himself.

Then He poured water into the basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. And so He came to Simon Peter, and He said to him, Lord, do you wash my feet?

As if to say, no way. Jesus answered and said, what I do, you do not realize now, but you'll understand hereafter. Peter says, never shall you wash my feet. Jesus answered, if I don't wash you, you'll have no part of me.

And of course, Peter, typical Peter, Lord, then wash not only my feet, my hands, my head, give me a full bath. Jesus says, He who has bathed needs only to wash His feet. But is completely clean, and you are clean,.

But not all of you.

He has Judas in mind. For He knew the one who was betraying Him. For this reason, He said, not all of you are clean. So when He had washed their feet and taken His garments and reclined at the table again,.

He said to them,.

Do you know what I have done to you? You call Me teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, the Lord and teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet, for I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you.

Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is the one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. I am of the mind, biblically, interpretively, that Jesus washed all their feet.