Show Notes
Why did Jesus die for you on the cross? Was it to shame you into being good? In the movie, Private Ryan, as Captain Miller (played by Tom Hanks) is dying — just having saved Private Ryan — he says to Private Ryan, “Earn this.” And then, he breathes his last. But we’re not sure if that’s a curse or a blessing.
Did Jesus say, “Earn this,” then breathe his last? Why did the veil in the temple rip from the top to the bottom? What was behind the curtain in the Holy of Holies? What was “uncovered”? What has God been hiding? What are the intentions of His Heart?
John 13:1-9, “Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them into the end. And becoming supper, when the devil had 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 back to God, [‘is raised from the’] supper. He laid aside his garments, and taking a towel, he girded himself. Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel in which [‘he was having been girded’]. He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, ‘Lord, do you wash my feet?’ Jesus answered him, ‘What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.’ 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!’”
I think I understand Peter. He’s saying: “Oh, I get it now! If it’s about humility, I’ll win the humility contest; I’ll earn your love.” He still doesn’t understand. He’s projecting his psyche on to Jesus, who is literally the Psyche of the Lord. Peter gets religious.
John 13:10-12, “Jesus said to him, ‘The one who has bathed does not need to wash (except for his feet) but is completely clean. And y’all are clean, but not all of y’all.’ For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, ‘Not all of y’all are clean.’
“When he had washed their feet and put on his garments and reclined again, he said to them, ‘Do you understand what I have done to you? ...If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them. I am not speaking of all of you; I know whom I have chosen.’ [He’s already told us that he has chosen all 12]. ‘Nevertheless, the Scripture will be fulfilled, “He who ate my bread has lifted his heel against me.”’”
Jesus must be saying, “My close friend has lifted his heel against me as if I am the serpent.” This close friend is projecting his own psyche onto the Psyche of the Lord. It’s the psyche of the snake.
John 13:21-26, …“’Truly, truly, I say to you, one of you will betray me.’ The disciples looked at one another, uncertain of whom he spoke. [Jesus washed everyone’s feet, and Judas looked just like everyone else.] One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was reclining at table at Jesus’ bosom, so Simon Peter motioned to him to ask Jesus of whom he was speaking. So that disciple, leaning back against Jesus, said to him, ‘Lord, who is it?’ Jesus answered, ‘It is he to whom I will give this morsel of bread when I have dipped it.’ So when he had dipped the morsel, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot.”
He gave this morsel to Judas, just as His great-grandfather, Boaz, had given the morsel to His great- grandmother, Ruth, who then dipped it in his cup, before she uncovered his feet, and Boaz became her kinsman redeemer. Christ was born of their communion. Now Christ offers this morsal to Judas.
John 13:27, “Then, after he had taken the morsel, Satan entered into him.”
Paul wrote that if we drink the cup in an unworthy manner, without discerning the body, we drink judgment on ourselves. Judgment can be very painful, but the Judgment of God is always good.
In Corinth, Paul tells the church to deliver (be
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