Mar. 15 2026 | Traditional Worship | Unashamed Boldness Week 4, John 13:1-9

If we profess faith, we need to activate our faith. We can't just talk about it. It's great to talk about faith, but we gotta put the lanyard on. We gotta serve. We gotta sacrifice. We gotta give. We gotta witness. We gotta pray. Do all the vows of the church type stuff. And the boldest moments in Jesus' life, if you think about it as well, the boldest moments in Jesus' life were when he kneeled. When he kneeled, when he when he got down and he washed his disciples' feet, and then he he got down when a woman was caught in adultery and he, like, was riding in the sand and he said, you know what? [01:02:23] (44 seconds)  #FaithInAction

Sometimes within a church community, it's about something way bigger than just us and our preferences, isn't it? And we butt up against that and that's hard. We have to sacrifice ourselves. We have to sacrifice our power and our authority that we have. And the biblical truth is this, if it doesn't cost comfort, it's probably convenience, not service a lot of times. We have to think about that. I wish that wasn't true but it's very true. In the bible, we see that scripturally. It's like if it doesn't cost comfort, it's probably just convenience and not serving. [00:53:09] (40 seconds)  #SacrificeNotConvenience

See, it is choosing the lower path, the Jesus path. And that's a downward path compared to the world's way of thinking. It's found in humility. In the passage today, what I want us to see is that kneeling is powerful. Kneeling is not weakness. Even though our world has sort of a different definition of boldness sometimes. And as we go through this entire series about midway through now, I want us to understand something too that if we misunderstand boldness, we will misunderstand Jesus. Let me say that again. If we misunderstand boldness, we will misunderstand Jesus. [00:41:20] (49 seconds)  #KneelingIsBold

And Jesus, he knew who he was. We've talked about this. He he went out into the wilderness and he was tempted. He understood his identity. And Jesus didn't serve because he lacked authority or power or position. He served despite of it. Unashamed boldness, really what it does is it kneels. That's what unashamed boldness does. You know, in verse five, it said, he got up from the table and he just he poured water into a basin. And I'm not gutsy enough to wash everybody's feet in here. Just letting you know that. But Jesus didn't talk about service. Did he? That wasn't his intent. He entered into service. [00:46:32] (57 seconds)  #ServeFromStrength

Here's Jesus who is teaching service is uncomfortable sometimes. Whether you're being served, and Peter was uncomfortable with Jesus serving him, some of you and and me, we get uncomfortable when people service. Sometimes we like it. But also serving people is uncomfortable and it's just different. You know? It's it has to be uncomfortable. Serving others doesn't always fit our schedule either either. Right? I mean, requires some things from us. Service requires courage. Service requires boldness in our life. It exposes here's the big thing, it exposes our ego because it's not about our will and our ways and our wants, it's about God's ways and God's will, God's wants. [00:52:20] (50 seconds)  #ServingTakesCourage

Again, the popular opinion, the culture, and the world that we live, boldness is mere merely extremes. It's all about the extremes. Over here, over there. Boldness is climbing higher. Boldness a lot of times in the worlds that we live in lacks compassion. It lacks emotional intelligence to read the room. But not in the kingdom of God. Not with the example of Christ and what we saw him do in his ministry and how we related to people. And when we could remain elevated, we need to then become humble and we need to kneel and we need to serve. And that's 100% the style of Jesus. [00:42:09] (50 seconds)  #HumbleBoldness

Are you bored yet? Because that's ministry sometimes, isn't it? Same thing over and over and over. And I'm not degrading it. I'm just saying sometimes it's just showing up, being faithful, folding the towels. No one else is gonna do it. So you gotta do it and you're part of that. Right? I mean that that's what ministry is. There's no highlight reel. There really isn't. There's really no applause that often. Majority of the ministry that happens in this building and outside of the building that we do has no applause, has no spotlight. You know? [00:56:31] (45 seconds)  #FaithfulWithoutFans

Some of them is gonna be your family and your grandchildren or people, your friends, people you know, people you invited. Think about that. One of the greatest feelings for them, not just you, for them would be if you serve them and then you worship with them. How awesome would that be? You know? Let's be the church. Let's be ready. Let's not be scrambling. Let's have more than we need on that. [01:05:31] (28 seconds)  #ServeAndWorshipTogether