April 12th, 2026 - Two Basins

And so then we can show god, say, look at what I've chosen. Look at what I've done. Look at this basin. Look at this gate. Isn't this amazing, god? With this gate, with this basin, lord, I've done so many things for you. I've cast out demons. I've prophesied. I've done good works. And how does the story go? God says, but I never knew you. I never knew you. We picked this basin because it was so attractive. [00:21:37] (28 seconds)  #RelationshipOverReligion

As Pilate washed his hands in the basin, he said, I am innocent. He declared himself innocent. I can cleanse myself. I've got this. All I have to do is wash my hands and I'm gonna be good to go. I could do this myself. I'm innocent. Nobody look at me. I'm fine. He declares himself innocent. I don't know how much Pottett thought of that decision or that situation. I wonder what it must have been like trying to go to bed at that night knowing he just ordered an innocent man to be crucified. [00:29:22] (42 seconds)  #WashMyHandsOfIt

You will eventually understand it. Instead of that being the period, sometimes we are still insisting, No, I need to understand this. We become stubborn ourselves. I'm gonna figure this out. And sometimes we get so much stubborn like Peter. We get so stubborn about this. I'm not gonna cooperate, Lord, till I understand this. I need to know this now. If you want me to keep moving forward, then explain this to me. And Jesus said, I already had the end of the sentence a while back. [00:15:48] (30 seconds)  #TrustBeforeUnderstanding

We cannot earn our salvation. We cannot work for it. We can't do these things. Only Jesus can do this. He's trying to show us that, teach us that. And this was humbling for the disciples. One of if if you remember the disciples, they didn't get along all the time. They had their fair share of disagreements. The last disagreement that they had before this took place was, which one of us is the greatest? I mean, Jesus, I know that we're all good. In fact, we're all great. But but which one's the greatest? That was their argument. That was their mindset. [00:08:35] (46 seconds)  #GraceNotWorks

And we start adjusting our answer for the crowd. That's washing our hands of him. We cannot have that attitude. We ask ourselves, if I make a stand for Jesus, what will it cost me? What will it mean for me? And this is why Pilate's Basin is so attractive. It doesn't cost us anything. Just wash your hands and move on. No big deal. But we choose Jesus' basin. We humble ourselves. [00:27:07] (40 seconds)  #CostOfFollowingJesus

Here's what happens when we come to Jesus' basin. When we come to his basin, the greatest, no matter how great we think or we are in our own mind, we are humbled. We're brought low because he brought himself low. Amen. And Peter struggled because, listen, if you've ever been part of a foot washing service or anything like that, you know that it is humbling to wash someone else's feet, but you also know it is humbling to have your own feet washed. [00:10:05] (32 seconds)  #HumilityThroughService

And all that we did, everything that we worked for, we find out just like Pilate, we gained nothing. At the end of the line, we get a god who tells us, but I never knew you. And all that's left for us to do is just wash our hands of it and say, well, I tried. That's all I can do. Remember I told you last week, we make a decision to follow Christ, but then we make a decision which basin do we want. [00:22:05] (29 seconds)  #WorksDontSave

If we live for him, we're obedient to him. We allow him to be our lord, our savior. We allow him to be everything to us. He's the one who calls the shots. It's all about him and what he wants, not about what I want. It's about his standard, not my standard. His desires, not my desires. That's what happens when we choose his basin. But that requires us to be humbled. It requires us to go to his basin. But this other basin looks so good over here. Live for myself. Do it my own way. [00:23:02] (34 seconds)  #ChooseHimNotSelf