Dirty Feet

Jesus washing of the disciples feet.

Allegorized.

Jesus humbling himself.

Jesus example of service.

Christian leadership....

We should be washing each other’s feet........

There is a problem when we take scripture and make it say something it isn’t saying.

Exegesis - Critical examination and interpretation of a text.

Bad Exegesis

Genesis 1:29–30 NASB95

29 Then God said, “Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; 30 and to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food”; and it was so.

I heard someone yesterday interpret that verse to mean that 1. it was ok to smoke weed, and 2. there would be weed in heaven.

The Setting:

John 13:1–4 NASB95

1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, Jesus knowing that His hour had come that He would depart out of this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, the son of Simon, to betray Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands, and that He had come forth from God and was going back to God, 4 got up from supper, and laid aside His garments; and taking a towel, He girded Himself.

The weight of this moment.

2. Jesus was very intentional.

3. He is fully aware of Judas’ plot.

John 13:5 NASB95

5 Then He poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples’ feet and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded.

Cultural Significance.

1. This was an arid region. Dry and dusty.....So even though someone was clean. As they walked their feet would get dirty and dusty. So when they came home, they would wash their feet before they walked through the house.

2. If you visited someone else's house , it was common that they would bring a basin of water for you to wash your own feet.

3. If there was a large gathering, they would have a servant wash all the guest’s feet.

Peter

John 13:6 NASB95

6 So He came to Simon Peter. He said to Him, “Lord, do You wash my feet?”

I believe they were all thinking it, but Peter was the only one bold enough to say something.

John 13:7–11 NASB95

7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I do you do not realize now, but you will understand hereafter.” 8 Peter said to Him, “Never shall You wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.” 9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.” 10 Jesus said to him, “He who has bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.” 11 For He knew the one who was betraying Him; for this reason He said, “Not all of you are clean.”

Jesus is speaking of Salvation

If I do not wash you, you have no part with me......

This is the act of Justification.

1 John 1:7 NASB95

7 but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 1:9 NASB95

9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and righteous to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Titus 3:5 NASB95

5 He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,

1 Corinthians 6:9–11 NASB95

9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived; neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor homosexuals, 10 nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers, will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 Such were some of you; but you were washed, but you were sanctified, but you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and in the Spirit of our God.

Needs only to wash his feet.

Shake the dust off your feet...

It was an act of protest.....You are so filthy, I don’t want your dust on my feet.

The idea is the same. Sin creeps in by our interaction with the world......

Some churches have sought to protect themselves by isolating itself from the world.....Us 4 and no more....

Other churches haven’t isolated themselves, but because they are not regularly “washing their feet”, they have brought all the world into their church.

Romans 12:2 NASB95

2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.

Jesus Explains

John 13:12 NASB95

12 So when He had washed their feet, and taken His garments and reclined at the table again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you?

Silence......No eye contact.

John 13:13–17 NASB95

13 “You call Me Teacher and Lord; and you are right, for so I am. 14 “If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 “For I gave you an example that you also should do as I did to you. 16 “Truly, truly, I say to you, a slave is not greater than his master, nor is one who is sent greater than the one who sent him. 17 “If you know these things, you are blessed if you do them.

Humble acts of service......Part of that services is correcting one another......

Zipper analogy....

4 ways to handle it…

Ignore it....act like I don’t see it.

Laugh about it behind your back.

Call you out in front of everybody.

Discretely an privately let you know your fly is open.....

Judas

John 13:18 NASB95

18 “I do not speak of all of you. I know the ones I have chosen; but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled, ‘He who eats My bread has lifted up his heel against Me.’

Jesus washed his feet the same......There was no spiritual cleansing. But never the less, Jesus humbled himself and washed his feet.

Matthew 5:43–44 NASB95

43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ 44 “But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you,

Your Role

John 13:20 NASB95

20 “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who receives whomever I send receives Me; and he who receives Me receives Him who sent Me.”

Have you received Christ?

Have you been sent?

Matthew 28:19–20 NASB95

19 “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”