Legends: Thomas Goodwin
(Evening Service)
Text: John 13
This evening we continue our series, “Legends,” as we learn about the life and thought of a puritan from Norfolk: Thomas Goodwin. While he has been hailed as “the greatest pultpit exegete of Paul that has ever lived,” most of us have never heard his name. Tonight we will be aquianted with him and our hearts will be warmed by his profound understanding of Christ’s heart and affections towards us here on hearth even as Christ is enthroned in heaven.
“Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. During supper, when the devil had already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him, Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going back to God, rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist.
(John 13:1–4 ESV)”