ReverendRV
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Foot Washing ~ by ReverendRV * April 13
John 13:7 NLT; Jesus replied, "You don't understand now what I am doing, but someday you will."
The Bible often represents the Disciples of Jesus as not understanding everything that he did. This is because they had a set of Presuppositions from which their Mindsets were working; they had already ‘pre’ supposed how things should be. One example is that it was accepted by the World, the Master never did the work of a servant. This is what shocked Peter when Jesus placed himself in a position to wash their feet. Peter must have thought ‘This is the job of the lowest servant whenever someone enters a home with dirty feet! I’ve had my feet washed when I arrived, they don’t need to be cleaned again’. Jesus washed their feet during supper because his Disciples had murmured over wasted ointment which had previously been poured on his head. ~ This is what happened that day…
Jesus rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the Disciples' feet, and to dry them with the towel with which he girded himself. Then He came to Simon Peter, and said, "Lord, are You washing My feet??" Jesus answered him and said, "What I am doing you do not understand, but you will know after this." Peter said to Him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus said to him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me." Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!" Jesus said to him, "He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, "You are not all clean." ~ Are you cleaner than Peter was?
Sin is like the dust of a path which sticks to our feet and makes us filthy. We have all Lied and it is like the stain of Georgia red clay. When I worked for Brick Masons, I used to get this all over me; I needed more than my feet cleaned. Because of Sin, you need more than your feet washed too! Have you taken the Lords name in Vain, Stolen, or broken any of the Ten Commandments? This is Sin and no one can enter God’s Heaven looking like this! If we don’t seek to be clean we won’t have a part with Jesus! If we are not clean, the bad news is that when we go before God on Judgment Day; Jesus is the Judge. We are not able to wash the Sin away ourselves; even the fires of Hell will never be able to incinerate Sin to ashes! ~ But who wants to stay dirty even now??
The Disciples would go on to learn what Jesus was really teaching them that day; there is a cleansing only he can perform. Jesus spoke about two cleansings; a bathing that cleansed the whole body, and a foot washing that cleaned off fresh dirt. Jesus said Peter was already bathed; this is known as the Washing of Regeneration and Renewing of the Holy Spirit. Regeneration is also called being ‘Born Again’, a renewal wrought by God! Jesus was born of a Virgin and never Sinned; he was the Lamb of God who takes away the Sin of the World. He shed is blood to pay for traitorous Sins which are rightly ours. Trust in Jesus Christ as your risen Lord God and you are a new Creation; clean and pure! When we are spiritually clean we only need to have the ‘soul’ of our foot washed of Sin from then on. ~ Judas learned this the hard way. Jesus said that not all the Disciples were clean; he spoke of the one who would betray him. Judas was a Disciple and Jesus washed the feet of all of them that day; but Judas did not receive the first Spiritual cleansing of the New Birth. Pray that Jesus will wash you with Regeneration and Renew your spirit. Do not go to Hell with a dirty head, dirty hands; but with clean feet like Judas did…
Psalm 51:10 KJV; Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
John 13:7 NLT; Jesus replied, "You don't understand now what I am doing, but someday you will."
The Bible often represents the Disciples of Jesus as not understanding everything that he did. This is because they had a set of Presuppositions from which their Mindsets were working; they had already ‘pre’ supposed how things should be. One example is that it was accepted by the World, the Master never did the work of a servant. This is what shocked Peter when Jesus placed himself in a position to wash their feet. Peter must have thought ‘This is the job of the lowest servant whenever someone enters a home with dirty feet! I’ve had my feet washed when I arrived, they don’t need to be cleaned again’. Jesus washed their feet during supper because his Disciples had murmured over wasted ointment which had previously been poured on his head. ~ This is what happened that day…
Jesus rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the Disciples' feet, and to dry them with the towel with which he girded himself. Then He came to Simon Peter, and said, "Lord, are You washing My feet??" Jesus answered him and said, "What I am doing you do not understand, but you will know after this." Peter said to Him, "You will never wash my feet!" Jesus said to him, "If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me." Simon Peter said to Him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!" Jesus said to him, "He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you." For He knew who would betray Him; therefore He said, "You are not all clean." ~ Are you cleaner than Peter was?
Sin is like the dust of a path which sticks to our feet and makes us filthy. We have all Lied and it is like the stain of Georgia red clay. When I worked for Brick Masons, I used to get this all over me; I needed more than my feet cleaned. Because of Sin, you need more than your feet washed too! Have you taken the Lords name in Vain, Stolen, or broken any of the Ten Commandments? This is Sin and no one can enter God’s Heaven looking like this! If we don’t seek to be clean we won’t have a part with Jesus! If we are not clean, the bad news is that when we go before God on Judgment Day; Jesus is the Judge. We are not able to wash the Sin away ourselves; even the fires of Hell will never be able to incinerate Sin to ashes! ~ But who wants to stay dirty even now??
The Disciples would go on to learn what Jesus was really teaching them that day; there is a cleansing only he can perform. Jesus spoke about two cleansings; a bathing that cleansed the whole body, and a foot washing that cleaned off fresh dirt. Jesus said Peter was already bathed; this is known as the Washing of Regeneration and Renewing of the Holy Spirit. Regeneration is also called being ‘Born Again’, a renewal wrought by God! Jesus was born of a Virgin and never Sinned; he was the Lamb of God who takes away the Sin of the World. He shed is blood to pay for traitorous Sins which are rightly ours. Trust in Jesus Christ as your risen Lord God and you are a new Creation; clean and pure! When we are spiritually clean we only need to have the ‘soul’ of our foot washed of Sin from then on. ~ Judas learned this the hard way. Jesus said that not all the Disciples were clean; he spoke of the one who would betray him. Judas was a Disciple and Jesus washed the feet of all of them that day; but Judas did not receive the first Spiritual cleansing of the New Birth. Pray that Jesus will wash you with Regeneration and Renew your spirit. Do not go to Hell with a dirty head, dirty hands; but with clean feet like Judas did…
Psalm 51:10 KJV; Create in me a clean heart, O God, And renew a steadfast spirit within me.