Title: Let's Get On Our Knees
Contents
Text: John 13:12-20
Title: Kneeling makes you beautiful
Hymns:
There are many ways in which our prayer members pray to God.
Some kneel in prayer, some stand and pray with open arms just as the Pharisees prayed with open arms, and others just sit and pray.
There is no one right or best way to pray in any position.
When you pray in any posture, you only need to pray with a sincere heart toward God.
Today's sermon is about the life we kneel in prayer and live as Jesus did when we pray.
Jesus was the life of the knee.
When he was baptized by John the Baptist, he was baptized with a heart on his knees and prayed for 40 days in the wilderness before starting his public ministry.
When he chose the 12 disciples, he knelt and prayed all night, and when he prayed for the last time in the Garden of Gethsemane, he knelt and prayed, praying that his sweat would become blood.
In today's text, Jesus got down on his knees and washed the feet of his disciples.
He says, “I have washed your feet as Lord and Teacher, so it is right that you also wash one another’s feet.
As I said a moment ago, the life of Jesus is the life of the knee.
Why did you become a life of the knee?
Because the way of Jesus is different from the way of the world.
This world is conqueror.
The world is different from Jesus.
The world has no knees.
There is only control.
In Article 22 of the paraphrase of Genghis Khan, who conquered the world, there is this saying. “My soldiers must rise like a jungle, and their wives and daughters like red petals.
What I have to do, whatever I do, is all for the purpose of making their leaves bite sweet sugar and savory food, with silk robes draped over their chests and shoulders, to ride good horses, and bring them clear and cool water from sweet rivers. mind
It will make you drink.”
Genghis Khan is a great conqueror.
He ruled mercilessly to give his people sweet sugar and delicious food.
He always gave orders on horseback and ruled the world with his fiery eyes and sepharan sword.
He chose dominion over knees, command over humility, death over acceptance.
Wherever Genghis Khan passed, there was always a river of blood and death.
But Jesus never gave a command.
Jesus did not command like Genghis Khan.
I've never given a command on horseback.
No orders were given, no fiery eyes, no black swords.
Jesus was a calm lake.
When the disciple draws out his sword, he tells him to put it back.
Even when he brought an adulterous woman and made a lot of noise and made a fuss, Jesus quietly forgave him.
When a blind man came to him, he quietly touched his eyes. A prostitute, a widow, a publican, and a small child became friends when they came to Jesus.
Instead of commanding, Jesus accepted the cross.
You must grow the tree of your knees.
Jesus on his knees said to his disciples
live like me
Following Jesus' words, the disciples began to serve one another.
They obeyed each other and began to love each other.
Then, the tree of life began to grow in the community where the disciples lived.
It is a new heaven and a new earth.
This is because the tree of life grows only on the ground called the knee.
Who is the real winner, knee or dominance?
Are you a ruler?
no.
He is the first to kneel.
Because you have to be humble and humble to be able to contain more.
The life of Jesus has always been the life of the knee.
It was not the rule that Jesus saved the world, but the knee.
I hope that we too, rather than rule like Jesus, get on our knees and pray and love more humbly.
Because life is not in the rule, it is in the knee