Tell City Nazarene Church's Biblical Journey
With Pastor Charles Areson
Today's reading is John 13-16
I would agree that Christians don't have to be the doormat for the world all the time. We have examples of Paul, Jesus, not to mention a host of Old Testament people standing up and saying, NO! However, the danger is that we forget that our primary mission isn't getting our way, getting our rights, or even putting others in their place. Our mission with Jesus is to make disciples.
Jesus knew Judas was going to betray him, that is clear in John 13. Jesus doesn't send him away first but first serves him by washing his feet. Jesus did what was considered the lowest servants job, not just to his friends, but to the very person who was going to betray him.
By all rights, Jesus could have refused to do this for him, but he does. Jesus also makes no noted difference in the way he washed Judas' feet as he did any of the others and surely if he had the gospel writers would have made note of it. Jesus was humble enough to be the doormat as it were, for the very person he said it would be better if he would have never been born. In this light, maybe that is the reason Paul doesn't stand up for his rights all the times. Perhaps we shouldn't be as worried about it either.
I would agree that Christians don't have to be the doormat for the world all the time. We have examples of Paul, Jesus, not to mention a host of Old Testament people standing up and saying, NO! However, the danger is that we forget that our primary mission isn't getting our way, getting our rights, or even putting others in their place. Our mission with Jesus is to make disciples.
Jesus knew Judas was going to betray him, that is clear in John 13. Jesus doesn't send him away first but first serves him by washing his feet. Jesus did what was considered the lowest servants job, not just to his friends, but to the very person who was going to betray him.
By all rights, Jesus could have refused to do this for him, but he does. Jesus also makes no noted difference in the way he washed Judas' feet as he did any of the others and surely if he had the gospel writers would have made note of it. Jesus was humble enough to be the doormat as it were, for the very person he said it would be better if he would have never been born. In this light, maybe that is the reason Paul doesn't stand up for his rights all the times. Perhaps we shouldn't be as worried about it either.
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