Primary Significance of the Passage

Driving home: He does not face them stoically because He is the God-man He says my soul is troubled it is experiencing tremendous upheaval there is this mighty stream of His cultivated unbroken communion with His Father that He knows …

Martin recounts visiting Banff National Park and seeing two mountain streams converge to form 'Kicking Horse Creek,' causing the footbridge to shake. This illustrates the tremendous upheaval in Jesus' soul as His delight in the Father's fellowship and His resolute commitment to the Father's will converged with the approaching agony of the cross.

He does not face them stoically because He is the God-man He says my soul is troubled it is experiencing tremendous upheaval there is this mighty stream of His cultivated unbroken communion with His Father that He knows will be touched in that hour and yet there is another stream that pours into His soul and that is His resolute commitment to do the will of the Father I do always the things that please my Father this stream that flowed through His soul from the dawning of His consciousness so that as a twelve-year-old lad He says to His mother woman didn't you know that I must be about the thi...

15:37 - 17:07 Read in full sermon

The point: Be sensitive to common courtesies; it is Christ-like to be aware of them, and denying them can be insulting. Commend the gospel by practicing common courtesies.

To convey the demeaning nature of foot washing in that culture, Martin compares it to the task of emptying a 'thunder jug' (chamber pot) in times before flush toilets, emphasizing it was a task for the lowliest servant.

But it would not be a Jewish servant, a Jewish house servant. It would be someone who was a Gentile or a slave. It was considered a very demeaning action. Similar to what it might have been years ago when you didn't have bathrooms with flush toilets, and someone had to empty the thunder jug.

28:59 - 29:17 Read in full sermon