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I am preaching through the life of Christ, we had begun with HIS forerunner, John the Baptist, then to HIS birth and we will go all the way to HIS ascension.

In all of that, we have many events, parables and miracles to cover.

Jesus said in Matthew 11.29 to “learn of me”.

That is exactly what we are going to do, is to learn of Christ.

We are to learn of Christ, this is what the Christian faith is all about.

We are still in the beginning of Jesus’ earthly ministry.

The passage we are looking at this morning is a healing.

All though this event is also recorded in Mark 1 and Luke 4, we will be in Matthew 8.

We are going to parallel God’s reasons for the healing this women with God’s reasons for saving us.

We find three reasons for God healing this woman, so we will be looking three reasons as to why God saved us.

Matthew 8:14 (KJV)
¹⁴ And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.

A regular part of Jesus’ ministry was healing the sick and here we have another opportunity.

The bible says Peter’s mother n law is “sick of a fever.”

Before we go another further, who knew?

Who knew that Peter was married, when we think of Peter we do not think of a family man.

This brings a lot questions to the mind of the bible student, how did this work?

How does a man wholly forsake all with a wife?

How many of the disciples were married, did they have children and why no mention in the bible about it, except for this event right here?

We are NOT here this morning to answer what we cannot know but, to speak of the things we can know.

We know Peter was married and that his mother n law is sick.

Matthew 8:15 (KJV)
¹⁵ And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.

Jesus Christ, Immanuel, God with us touches this woman and the miracle of her healing takes place.

This lady is helpless lying on her sick bed when, in comes the “Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace”.

Jesus Christ reaches down to this woman to touch her hand and the bible says “the fever left her”.

This woman was gloriously healed.

What a great picture of salvation how we were helpless unable to do anything in and of ourselves to obtain salvation.

John 3:16 (KJV)
¹⁶ For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

We are born into this world damned and diseased by a sinful condition.

Jesus who was sent by HIS FATHER left the glories of Heaven to reach down to us, to meet us where we are and to touch us to heal us.

1 Peter 2:24 (KJV)
²⁴ Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.

That is the difference between BIBLE Christianity and all the religions of the world and that is our GOD came to us, to reach down to us and touch us.

Healed to Minister

Notice what happened when this lady was healed, the bible says “and she arose, and ministered unto them”.

Luke 4:39 says “and immediately she arose and ministered unto them.”

She gets healed and immediately she begins serving the Lord and His disciples.

One of the reasons Christ saved us is to minister.

Ephesians 2:8-10 (KJV)
⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast. ¹⁰ For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

Those who are saved by grace through faith are the workmanship of God, “created in Christ Jesus unto good works”.

When somebody gets saved their life changes.

2 Corinthians 5:17 (KJV)
¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

When somebody gets saved their life changes, this is what the bible says.

One of those changes is motivated by great gratitude for what Christ has done.

When somebody gives you something of great value, a natural response is to attempt to give something of like value in return.

What if somebody gives you something that saves your life and you could never repay them.

Wouldn’t your gratitude compel you to do whatever you could for them?

Jesus Christ gave HIS life for you.

HE was tortured, beaten and died a criminal’s death in your place for the things you have done.

HE SAVED YOU!!!

Peter’s mother n law was relieved of a fever and she got up and served the LORD.

You who are saved have been relieved from judgment and the penalty of sin, which is the torments of the eternal fires of hell.

What are you doing in response to the greatest gift ever given you?

The local church should never be in need of people to rise up to minister or serve HIM.

We have been “created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.”

God does HIS work through HIS children, US.

Matthew 25:44-45 (KJV)
⁴⁴ Then shall they also answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee? ⁴⁵ Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

2 Corinthians 5:18-19 (KJV)
¹⁸ And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; ¹⁹ To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation.

Peter’s mother n law was healed and she immediately ministered to HIM.

We have been healed and we should be ministering to HIM.

How are you doing Christian, what is your ministry to Christ?

Healed as an Example for others

Matthew 8:16 (KJV)
¹⁶ When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:

Peter’s mother n law was healed but she is not the only one with a need.

Could you imagine with me, the excitement, here a lady is lying sick, a man walks in and touches her and she rises out of her bed as if she had not been sick.

I imagine immediately the folks that witnessed this began to think, “will HE do this for anybody?” “I know so and so that needs healed” “if I was able to bring so and so would HE touch them too”.

When you see something that somebody desperately needs you will let them know about it.

The bible says “When the even was come, they brought unto him many”.

The “they” were those who were witness to the lady’s healing, including the disciples.

They brought them unto Jesus, why did they bring them unto Jesus?

What had just happened to Peter’s mother n law could happen to all those the witnesses knew to be sick or demon possessed.

When I saw that God could save a wicked sinner like _______________ and change his life, giving him that peace that passeth all understanding it was an example for me.

When he and others came around me attempting to bring me to Christ, after awhile I became convinced that this thing of salvation was real, WHY???

Why, I was surrounded by examples.

What if Peter’s mother n law was healed by she stayed in her bed?

She would have been a POOR example of Christ’s healing power.

I am telling this morning that if God saved _______________ and he lived as if he never obtained grace, I may not be here today, saved and born again.

Now I am an example of what God can do in sinner’s life.

We who are saved have been made whole to bring glory to Jesus Christ being an example of HIS Love and His grace.

As we read earlier…

Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJV)
⁸ For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: ⁹ Not of works, lest any man should boast.

What if the people in your life only knew one example of somebody being saved and it was you?

What would those people think of Jesus Christ and salvation in HIM?

2 Corinthians 3:2-3 (KJV)
² Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men: ³ Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart.

An epistle is a letter; Paul is saying to the Corinthian believers, that they are the example of the Christian faith as they have been influenced by Paul.

What many people know about the Christian faith only comes from those they know in the Christian faith.

Peter’s mother n law was example of Christ’s healing power for all those who needed healed.

We were healed to be examples for those who are heading for the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, WE WERE MADE WHOLE TO BE EXAMPLES FOR OTHERS!!!

Healed to Fulfill God’s Will

Matthew 8:16-17 (KJV)
¹⁶ When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick: ¹⁷ That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.

Matthew records this event as a fulfillment of prophecy.

We know this to be God’s will because it fulfilled prophecy.

Many events in Jesus’ earthly ministry were the fulfillment of bible prophecy one right after another and this healing is included with those.

Matthew quotes Isaiah 53.4.

Isaiah 53:4 (KJV)
⁴ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

Peter’s mother n law was healed to fulfill prophecy, fulfilling God’s will.

So it is with salvation, so it is with my own salvation.

God’s will was for me to be saved and it was prophesied in the bible.

Genesis 12:3 (KJV)
³ And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.

God is telling Abraham that in his seed will come ONE who would be a blessing to all nations.

Galatians 3:8 (KJV)
⁸ And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

When God told Abraham that “in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed” Paul tells us God was talking about justifying the heathen.

I am the heathen God was talking about justifying, my salvation fulfilled OT scripture.

Just as Peter’s mother n law’s healing fulfilled Isaiah 53.4, my salvation fulfilled Genesis 12.3.

The salvation of sinners is the will of God.

Acts 17:30 (KJV)
³⁰ And the times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

God’s command is what?

God’s command is that “all men every where to repent:”

This is talking about salvation, getting saved, becoming born again or becoming a Christian.

This God’s command, this is HIS will.

When I was healed/saved by believing upon Jesus Christ for my salvation is was the will of God.

2 Peter 3:9 (KJV)
⁹ The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Peter is clear, it is NOT God’s will that any should perish.

Perish is talking about burning ALIVE in the eternal flames of Hell for ever and ever.

This is not HIS will!!!

Peter then tells us what HIS will is, “that all should come to repentance.”

This is talking about salvation, getting saved, getting born again or becoming a Christian.

This God’s will.

When I was healed/saved by believing upon Jesus Christ for salvation it was the will of God.

If you are NOT saved then it is HIS will for you to be saved.

Do not wait another minute.

2 Corinthians 6:2 (KJV)
² (For he saith, I have heard thee in a time accepted, and in the day of salvation have I succoured thee: behold, now is the accepted time; behold, now is the day of salvation.)

By Pastor Jason LaPat

(614) 284-5151

jasonlapat@yahoo.com

The Law

This is a copy and paste of the first in a series of discipleship booklets that our church is distributing. This first series is designed to teach salvation in hopes of people getting SAVED!!! These booklets will be freely distributed to family, friends, neighbors and door to door. Pray for this ministry. If you are interested in using these booklets yourself contact me, I would love to be a HELP!!! jasonlapat@yahoo.com

The Law

Introduction

                This is the first of seven lessons on the Bible’s teaching of salvation. This lesson will show why anyone would need to be saved. The bible is very clear as to why anyone would need to be saved and it has to do with the law. There is coming a day when we are going to stand before God. Before death, it would be wise for us to know how our standing with God is. What is your standing before God and how do you know that your standing is pleasing to God? We hope to help you with these ALL important questions.

                                                                                                                                               I.            Our Day Before God

                Like it or not, the bible says every one of us is going to face God. In fact the bible says we will stand before God right after death. Many people live their lives without the reality of death. No man or woman will escape death, no matter how well they care for their bodies, how they lived, the things they did not do or the things that they did do, everyone is going to stand before God.

Romans 14:12 So then every _________of us shall give ___________   of himself to God.

            When you stand before God, you will have to give an account of how you lived your life. With what will God judge us?

Romans 2:2 But we are sure that the _____________ of God is according to ________ against them which commit such things.

            Now when we stand in the court of law, we know that not every case is judged by truth, sometimes the truth never comes out. Not so on our day before God. When we stand before God, every detail of our lives will be an open book before God, in fact the bible says…

Matthew 12:36 But I say unto you, That every ___________  ___________  that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the _________ of judgment.

            Nothing will be missed. There will be NO hiding of the truth before God. A Holy and Righteous God knows you and will only judge you by the truth.

                                                                                                                                                                   II.            The Law

            We ask the question: by what will God judge us? God has given us in the Old Testament what is called the law. There are 613 laws in all. The law is divided into 3 categories. First, there was the civil law that governed the society of the nation of Israel. The second were the ceremonial laws, regulating the sacrifices and offerings. Then there were the moral laws. These laws are the laws that are to govern how man should live. God’s law has never been repealed.

Matthew 5:17 Think not that I am come to ___________ the law, or the prophets: I am not come to ___________, but to ________.

                The law is still in effect. The law is what God will use to judge your life and mine. God summarized those 613 laws into 10 specific ones.

Deuteronomy 4:13 And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ______  _______________; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

            The 10 commandments were first given in Exodus 20. As we look through them, we are going to take a test to see how well we have kept God’s law. From that, we will see our individual standing before God? ARE YOU READY?

                                                                                                                                  III.            The 10 Commandments

Exodus 20:3 Thou shalt have no other ________ before me.

            Have you ever placed someone or something in the place of God? Have you ever placed anything before God? Has God always, all the time been first in your life? Placing something before God is making that very thing your god. Are you guilty? ________

Exodus 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any  ____________ ____________, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

            Most people in our culture would say “not guilty” I have never bowed down to any statue or image. God is not just talking about man made images consider the following.

Romans 1:23 And _____________    the glory of the uncorruptible God into an   ____________   made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

                What have we imagined God to be? Have we always had a correct image of God? Most people have broken this commandment by imagining God to be something other than what HE really is. Have you ever created in your mind a false image of God? Are you guilty? ___________

Exodus 20:7 Thou shalt not take the   _______   of the ___________thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

            What does it mean to take God’s name in vain? The word vain means empty, of no value and/or worthless. It means taking HIS name too lightly, speaking or singing HIS name without any consideration as to WHO HE is and what HE has done. How are you doing on this one? Are you guilty? ___________

Exodus 20:12  ___________ thy father and thy mother:

            The word honour means to give respect, to lift up. Parents are God’s given authority; no one has had perfect parents. Some are better than others. The ones you do have, have you always honored them? Are you guilty? __________

Exodus 20:13 Thou shalt not ___________.

            For some reason our culture has made this the standard of good or bad. I have heard many times “well I have never killed anybody”. Did you know that this commandment goes much further?

1 John 3:15 Whosoever _________  his brother is a ___________

                A brother is another human being. Have you ever hated anybody and I mean anybody? Are you guilty? ___________

Exodus 20:14 Thou shalt not commit ______________.

            This commandment also goes much further. Jesus said…

Matthew  5:27 Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery: ²⁸ But I say unto you, That whosoever ____________ on a woman to _________   after her hath committed adultery with her already in his ____________.

            The bible teaches lusting and/or any sexual contact with anyone outside of marriage is adultery. Are you guilty? _________

Exodus 20:15 Thou shalt not ____________ .

            We are not asking if you have ever stolen a car, but have you ever taken anything and I mean anything that did not belong to you. Or, have you ever taken credit for somebody else’s work? Are you guilty? __________

Exodus 20:16 Thou shalt not bear __________   witness against thy neighbour.

            Bearing false witness means to lie, have you ever told a lie. Have you ever misled someone? Are you guilty? __________

Exodus 20:17 Thou shalt not __________   thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not ___________   thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.

            To covet means to strongly desire. Have you ever strongly desired something that God has not provided you? Have you spent hours thinking about something that did not belong to you? Are you always looking over the fence to see what new toy the neighbor has? This is coveting; are you guilty? __________

Conclusion

            That is the standard by which God will judge. How well will you do on that day? If we are honest with ourselves we are condemned liars, thieves, blasphemers, coveters, idolaters and adulterers. Jesus further summed up the whole law.

Matthew 22:36-40 Master, which is the great commandment in the law?  Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy_________  , and with all thy _________  , and with all thy _________ . This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the _________  and the prophets.

            Some may claim that they are still good enough. Consider the following…

James 2:10 For whosoever shall keep the whole   ________, and yet offend in ________  point, he is ____________ of all.

            If you are guilty in one point of the law then you are guilty of the whole thing. One day you are going to stand before God. God is going to judge you for how you lived your life. God is going to judge by the truth of the word of God. The truth of the word of God finds us ALL guilty. That is the bad news. Here comes the good news. There is ONE who lived HIS life here on earth without breaking one of these commandments. This ONE was Jesus Christ, the bible says …

John 3:16 For God so __________ the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever _____________ in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

            Jesus died as a substitute, taking the penalty and the judgment for our sins. The bible says you must repent and believe in Jesus to be saved. BELIEVE IN JESUS TODAY TO BE SAVED!!! To further understand this, PLEASE do the rest of these bible studies. God’s will and the will of Old Paths Baptist Church is that you would be saved. Contact us with any question or concern.

Questions

1.      When will we stand before God? ____________________

2.      Is the law still in effect? _____________

3.      How many laws are there? ______________

4.      How do most people break the commandment in Exodus 20:4? __________________________________________ _______________________________________________

5.      Hating somebody is equal with what? ________________

6.      Who said looking upon others in a sexual way is equal to adultery? ____________________

7.      Jealousy of our neighbors stuff is what? ______________

8.      If somebody just sinned one time are they OK with God? _________

Essay

If God was to judge you by the 10 commandments would you be innocent or guilty? Please explain. _______________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

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Bible Christianity and Salvation Series

1.      The Law

2.      The Bible

3.      The Soul

4.      Sin

5.      The Gospel

6.      Repentance

7.      Faith

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Dirty Feet

Introduction

There are many passages in the bible when we read them casually we will miss some great spiritual truths.

Tonight we are going to look at one of these passages.

The title of my message is dirty feet and my text is John 13.

John 13:4-5
⁴ He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. ⁵ After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

Jesus Christ washing dirty feet?

John 13:1  Now before the feast of the passover, when Jesus knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end.

What Christ is about to do, HE is going to do because HE loved the discples and HE loved them unto the end.

Only Jesus understood the cross before HE went to the cross, the heaviness of the whole thing.

The false accusations, the beatings, the stripes, the disciples forsaking HIM, the torment of the crucifixtion, the crown of thorns and worse than all these things was MY sins were put upon HIM.

Just my sins alone was more than what HE physically endured on HIS way upto the cross.

Let alone your sins and the sins of the whole world, from the first one in the Garden of Eden to the last one at the end of times.

What Christ was facing did not move HIM from what HE was about to do, why?

Because HE loved them and HE loved them unto the end.

John 13:2-5 And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray him; 3Jesus knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he was come from God, and went to God; 4He riseth from supper, and laid aside his garments; and took a towel, and girded himself. 5After that he poureth water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

In John 1 the bible says Jesus is God, In Colasions 1 the bible says Jesus is the Creator, In Revelation 17 the bible says Jesus is Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

Jesus Christ who is the Creator God, Lord of Lords and King of Kings bends down to wash filth from the feet of the disciples?

Moreover, this is recorded in the oracles of God for men of all generations to read for there own profit.

One thing we see right off is the humility of Christ.

The dusty and dirty conditions of the region necessitated the need for footwashing.

Footwashing was reserved for the lowliest of menial servants.

Peers did not wash one another’s feet, except very rarely and as a mark of great love.

Is there not a greater humilty than the humility of Christ?

We call ourselves Christians meaning followers of Christ, He is our example.

There is a great message in this alone but we are not looking at HIS humilty tonight?

Not my feet!!!

What would you do, what do you do when somebody you have a high respect for lowers themselves to do some menial task for you?

What does Peter do?

John 13:6-7 Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? 7Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter.

Peter asks this question in opposition to Jesus washing his feet.

Jesus’ response was, I am going to teach something with this.

Would you let me do this so I can teach you something?

John 13:8a Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet.

Peter just cannot allow Jesus to wash his feet.

Peter has a conviction here; Jesus Christ does not belong on the floor washing feet.

John 13:8b Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me.

Jesus lets Peter know there is something at stake here; it is not a loss of salvation but a loss of fellowship.

The fellowship between Peter and Christ will be broken unless Jesus washes his feet.

John 13:9 Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head.

What a great response, a response we should have when we jepordize our fellowship with God.

This frightened Peter as it should every Christian.

Jesus is not talking about Peter losing his salvation but breaking fellowship.

There are many Christian that are not in fellowship with God.

How many Christians in here tonight, that is not in fellowship with God.

There ought to be sense of urgancy to get things right with God if you are not rigt with God.

John 13:10 Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

Jesus responds to Peter’s request to wash all of him, but this was not the need, Peter only had dirty feet.

This scripture has a lot to say as we will see.

Jesus is saying there is no need for Peter to wash again, the only thing that is dirty is Peter’s feet.

In this day people did not wash in there homes, they washed somewhere else.

A man after washing would put on his sandals to come home.

In his home was a basin of water for him to wash his feet because they had gotten dirty walking through the streets of the city?

So even though he had just come from a bath, he had to wash his feet when he entered the house.

Necessity of being washed and having clean feet

There is a great spiritual meaning to this foot washing, what is it?

vs 8 Tells us that dirty feet means no fellowship with God.

Now we know our fellowship is not broken with God when we take our shoes and socks off and run around in mud.

How does a Christian get dirty feet?

Here is the spiritual truth.

A born again Christian is not of this world.

John 17:14-19
¹⁴ I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁵ I pray not that thou shouldest take them out of the world, but that thou shouldest keep them from the evil. ¹⁶ They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world. ¹⁷ Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth. ¹⁸ As thou hast sent me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world. ¹⁹ And for their sakes I sanctify myself, that they also might be sanctified through the truth.

Jesus as HE prays to the father says they (his disciples) are not of the world, but that HE was going to leave them in the world.

How would HIS disciples be set apart or sanctified from the world, through the word of GOD.

Here is what happens, HE would leave HIS disciples (us included) in this world, living in this world, we acquire the filth of this world on our feet spiritually speaking.

When we live our day to day lives we will pick some of the things of this world.

We are tempted by the things of this world, we pick up behaviers of this world, attitudes of this world, styles of this world and we could go on and on.

1 John 2:15-16
¹⁵ Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. ¹⁶ For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

Jesus is teaching that the Christian is to have a continual practice of getting his or her feet washed.

When we pick up the things of this world and we will, this is clearly taught in this passage, not one of us will attain this so called Christian perfection, but we should be getting better and better as we are sanctified through thy truth, the truth of the word of God.

The dirty feet and the need for footwashing is symbolic of broken and restored fellowship with GOD.

What is the washing symbolic of?

John 13:10
¹⁰ Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

He that is washed, does not need washed again, what is this talking about?

Does this mean that the disciples no longer needed to wash their physical bodies, NO.

There is a spiritual meaning here, and it is salvation.

Eph 1:7 In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of his grace;

Col 1:14 In whom we have redemption through his blood, even the forgiveness of sins:

1 Peter 1:18-19   Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; 19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

How many times does somebody need washed, ONCE.

That is how good the blood of Christ is.

John 13:10
¹⁰ Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

Once you have been washed you are washed, this is what Jesus is teaching.

This kind of sounds like “once you are saved you are always saved”.

Peter was saved but his feet needed washed, as do our feet.

You can be saved and not be in fellowship with God, and may I suggest get right with GOD.

Dirty feet = no fellowship with God.  vs 8

How is a Christian to keep clean feet?

Confession keeps our feet clean.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Confession simply means to agree.

There should be an urgency to make things right with GOD, when you sin, when you pick up the things of this world.

Christian I got news for you, the world is not our home, and we should thank GOD for that.

The Word of God will keep our feet clean.

Psalm 119:11 Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee.

John 17:17
¹⁷ Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth.

Eph 5:25-27 Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; 26That he might sanctify and cleanse it with the washing of water by the word, 27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

There is fruit in daily bible readings and disciplined schedules.

Psalm 119:105 Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

What about those who have not been washed?

The washing is represnative of salvation.

Are you clean Christian, are you in fellowship with God?

Not all have washed

John 13:10-11 Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. 11For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.

Christ is speaking to his 12 disciples only, all of which participated in soul winning, miracles, preaching, healing. 

Jesus is saying not all are clean.  (Saved)

Jesus brings this up several times, later in the passage we read…

John 13:22
²² Then the disciples looked one on another, doubting of whom he spake.

The disciples did not know of whom he is speaking.

One of his disciples was not saved.

I have often wondered how many people are in Bible believing, preaching churches that are not saved.

I wonder if there are any in here tonight.

What changed when you got saved?                             

2 Corinthians 5:17
¹⁷ Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

The real change takes place on the inside knowing the Lord.

Do you know the Lord, do you love the Lord?

Is there spiritual fruit in your life?

Do you love God’s word?

Are you saved not according to what a preacher once said, not according to what you understand not according to a prayer you said?

Are you saved according to what Christ did for you on the cross?     

1 Pet 1:23 Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

Judas was not saved.

The eleven disciples did not know he was not saved.

Don’t ask your spouse if your are saved.

Don’t ask your parents if you are saved.

Don’t ask the preacher if you are saved.

Don’t ask the Sunday School teacher if you are saved.

They do not know if you are saved or not.

The eleven did not know that Judas was not saved. 

We are saved according to what the Bible says.

Washing one another’s feet

John 13:12-15 So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? 13Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. 14If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.

How do we wash each others feet?

Hebrews 10:24-25
²⁴ And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: ²⁵ Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

Some Christians only come to church to sit and listen and we are to do this, but we should be doing more.

Every Christian should come to church to be a help to another brother or sister, the bible calls this fellowship.

One of our children have a problem with stinky feet, it is easy for me to notice the smell.

You would think that he would notice that he is stinking up my house but he doesn’t.

I have to inform him of his smell so he can get it right.

In other words many Christians are stinking up the church of God but, they do not know it.

Pray for them, be careful in approaching them, and make sure you are right with God first.

Gal 6:1   Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Matthew 7:1-5
¹ Judge not, that ye be not judged. ² For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. ³ And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? ⁴ Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye? ⁵ Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

Before we can wash other persons feet, our feet need to be clean.

Psa 139:23-24  Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.

1 John 1:9  If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Are you saved, have you truly been washed?

You may have every person in here fooled as Judas had all the disciples fooled.

Fool this church no longer and get saved.

Maybe you are a Christian with dirty feet.

Does anybody in here like smelling your dirty feet?

I do not!!!

1 John 1:9
⁹ If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.