Women of Grace Fall Semester ‘03

With the Master in the Upper Room

Homework for Lesson Two: John 13:6-17

Are You Washing The Saints' Feet?

Your Homework is Not Only to Sharpen Your Understanding of the Bible but a Ministry to Others in Your Small Groups! Be Faithful to Give Careful Thought to Each Answer with the Expectation of Sharing with Others What You have Discovered.

 

Memory Work - John 13:13,14

 

1) Read John 13:6-17 taking note of all the "if-then" statements. 
(a) How many are there? (Ex: verse 8 "If I wash thee not, thou hast not part with me.)

 

 

 

(b) What do you think Jesus meant by these statements?

 

 

 

 

 

2) What do you observe about Christ, Peter, Judas and the disciples from this passage?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

3) Read Mark 8:31-33 and Mark 9:2-6. 
(a) What do these passages and John13:6-9 tell you about Peter?

 

 

(b) What do you learn about your speech from these passages?

 

 

 

 

 

 

4) Jesus tells Peter in John 13: 7 that what He is doing now Peter will understand later.
(a) What other things did Jesus do or say which the disciples did not understand then, but understood later according to John 2:18-22 and John 12:12-16?

 

 

 

 

 

(b) What comfort does this give you today in circumstances that you do not understand?

 

 

 

 

Extra credit: 
What do you think Jesus meant when He told Peter he would understand later? Prove your answer Biblically.

 

 

 

 

 

 

5) (a) Do you think we should be literally washing each other's feet today?

 

 

(b)Why or why not?

 

 

 

 

 

 

(c)What are some of the ways we could be "washing the saints' feet?"

 

 

 

 

 

(d) Do you allow others to "wash your feet," or are you like Peter saying, "You shall never wash my feet?"

 

 

 

 

 

 

(e) What do you need to do to change your attitude?

 

 

 

 

 

 

6) (a) When should a believer come to the Lord for confession of sin? See Matthew 6:9-13 and I John 1:9.

 

 

 

 

 

 

(b) How often do you come to the Lord for confession and cleansing of your sins?

 

 

 

 

 

(c) What should be a believer's attitudes when confessing his/her sins according to Psalm 51?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(d) Are these your attitudes?

 

 

 

 

 

7) Assignment: Wash someone's feet this week--in the Biblical sense!

 

 

 

 

 

8) Based on this week's lesson, please write a prayer request for an area in which God is challenging you.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Come with a request so that we might pray for you.