Monday, 2 January 2012

Get Underneath Everything


John 13:2-20
 2 And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, 
 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come from God and was going to God, 
 4 rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. 
 5 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. 
 6 Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?” 
 7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.” 
 8 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.” 
 9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!” 
 10 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.” 
11 For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, “You are not all clean.” 
 12 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? 


13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 
14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 
15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. 
16 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. 
17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. 
 18 “I do not speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have chosen; but that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats bread with Me has lifted up his heel against Me.’ 
19 Now I tell you before it comes, that when it does come to pass, you may believe that I am He. 
20 Most assuredly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Shine.



ACTS 7:8-22
Then He gave him the covenant of circumcision; and so Abraham begot Isaac and circumcised him on the eighth day; and Isaac begot Jacob, and Jacob begot the twelve patriarchs. And the patriarchs, becoming envious, sold Joseph into Egypt. But God was with him and delivered him out of all his troubles, and gave him favor and wisdom in the presence of Pharaoh, king of Egypt; and he made him governor over Egypt and all his house. Now a famine and great trouble came over all the land of Egypt and Canaan, and our fathers found no sustenance. But when Jacob heard that there was grain in Egypt, he sent out our fathers first. And the second time Joseph was made known to his brothers, and Josephs family became known to the Pharaoh. Then Joseph sent and called his father Jacob and all his relatives to him, seventy-five people. So Jacob went down to Egypt; and he died, he and our fathers. And they were carried back to Shechem and laid in the tomb that Abraham bought for a sum of money from the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem. But when the time of the promise drew near which God had sworn to Abraham, the people grew and multiplied in Egypt till another king arose who did not know Joseph. This man dealt treacherously with our people, and oppressed our forefathers, making them expose their babies, so that they might not live. At this time Moses was born, and was well pleasing to God; and he was brought up in his fathers house for three months. But when he was set out, Pharaohs daughter took him away and brought him up as her own son. And Moses was learned in all the wisdom of the Egyptians, and was mighty in words and deeds.