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The Gospel of John, The Period of Conference, The Last Supper, Part IX, John 13:13-15 - Lesson 117
John 13:13-15, Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
As children of God Jesus Christ expects us to enter into the business of washing one another's feet.
He expects us to submit ourselves to each other.
We are to apply the cleansing agent of the word of God to our brother or our sister in Christ.
We are to use the same cleansing agent on our brother or sister that Jesus Christ used on the feet of the disciples.
We are to use the word of God.
The word of God cleaned the disciples feet and that is still the cleansing agent that God expects us to use on our brother.
The word of God is the restorative agent we are to use in the spirit of meekness and by doing this we fulfill the law of Christ.
As Christians we are not given any other cleansing agent to apply to our brother but only the same cleansing agent that washed the feet of the disciples; the precious word of God.
We cannot clean the feet of the brethren with morality, or psychology or education or any of the isms that fill the world.
All those may only cover the feet but the dirt of the world remains.
Jesus Christ said to Peter, If I wash not your feet you have no part with me.
This was Jesus Christ's lesson in fellowship, this was his lesson in restoration.
We are here given an example, we are here given a lesson on being an imitator of God.
We, as conforming ones of the image of God's Son, are to be a witness of God.
We are to be a light of God before our brothers in Christ.
And in so doing we participate in the washing away of the influence of this world on our brother.
This is Christ like!
We are to be patient with our brother's faults, we are to apply the word of God to his case, we are to daily intercede in prayer for him.
And in doing this we have participated in the washing of our brother's feet!
We are to have a clean slate each day in the eyes of the Lord and his disciples.
Clean spiritual feet each day, for who remembers the dirty feet of yesterday?
Are we not to be little Christ’s as God conforms us to the image of his Son?
Isn't this how Jesus Christ washed the feet of his disciples?
And he expects us to do the same! |