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The True Meaning of Messiah’s Footwashing Exhortation
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Sai
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Before I answer your question let me ask you one?... Do you or have you ever washed feet?... Brother Glen
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When Yeshua washed the disciples’s feet it was during the Passover Seder. Foot washing is not part of the ceremony. Peter responded and by his request we can tell that he was offended by what Yeshua was doing. Rather than washing hands he’s washing feet. Well, “wash my whole body then” is the objection Peter laid out.
Yeshua continues the conversation with Pete. Asking him if he understood what he had done by washing his feet. Again, Pete is offended claiming Yeshua must never wash his feet. And he might as well do the whole body. Yeshua’s response is the key.
When one took a bath in their days they went to a bath house. Once bathed they would walk home on the dusty streets of their city and during their regular walk home their feet would get dirty requiring that only their feet be washed again. Yeshua declares Peter and the others to have been bathed already and totally cleaned except for Judas. Judas being an unbeliever was never saved never bathed.
The bath represents salvation forgiveness. When we believe the gospel we take our bath and are totally forgiven, we have been washed of our sin problem. However, as we walk in our daily lives in Christ we commit acts of sin and sin breaks our fellowship with God. Yeshua is teaching that we do not need to take the salvation bath all over again, like Pete we’ve been wholly cleansed but we will require fellowship forgiveness as symbolized by the feet washing.
John who was present for the Passover violation interprets this in I Jn 1:9. When we as believers commit acts of sin we should on a nightly basis confess our sins to God. By doing this God is obligated to forgive us our daily trespassing and the goodness of God is so that even those sins which we forgot we did during the day are also washed allowing us a fresh new day with our God and Father to live our our lives for Him.
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Yeshua continues the conversation with Pete. Asking him if he understood what he had done by washing his feet. Again, Pete is offended claiming Yeshua must never wash his feet. And he might as well do the whole body. Yeshua’s response is the key.
When one took a bath in their days they went to a bath house. Once bathed they would walk home on the dusty streets of their city and during their regular walk home their feet would get dirty requiring that only their feet be washed again. Yeshua declares Peter and the others to have been bathed already and totally cleaned except for Judas. Judas being an unbeliever was never saved never bathed.
The bath represents salvation forgiveness. When we believe the gospel we take our bath and are totally forgiven, we have been washed of our sin problem. However, as we walk in our daily lives in Christ we commit acts of sin and sin breaks our fellowship with God. Yeshua is teaching that we do not need to take the salvation bath all over again, like Pete we’ve been wholly cleansed but we will require fellowship forgiveness as symbolized by the feet washing.
John who was present for the Passover violation interprets this in I Jn 1:9. When we as believers commit acts of sin we should on a nightly basis confess our sins to God. By doing this God is obligated to forgive us our daily trespassing and the goodness of God is so that even those sins which we forgot we did during the day are also washed allowing us a fresh new day with our God and Father to live our our lives for Him.
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Sai
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“If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.”
John 13:17 KJV
John 13:17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. | King James Version (KJV) | Download The Bible App Now
The exhortation yo do to one another has taken on meaning here my friends. Happy if we do them? The dirtier the feet the more joy it is to perform? Lol yes it is if it’s understood that forgiveness of each other is what we are to be performing, and in that forgiving we enjoy restoration as fellow servants before God.
So yea if it’s really dirty and we really clean out all of the impurities then there’s a great blessing knowing that they Christ we suffer one another’s wrong doings, one another’s idiosyncrasies, and personalities.
John 13:17 KJV
John 13:17 If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. | King James Version (KJV) | Download The Bible App Now
The exhortation yo do to one another has taken on meaning here my friends. Happy if we do them? The dirtier the feet the more joy it is to perform? Lol yes it is if it’s understood that forgiveness of each other is what we are to be performing, and in that forgiving we enjoy restoration as fellow servants before God.
So yea if it’s really dirty and we really clean out all of the impurities then there’s a great blessing knowing that they Christ we suffer one another’s wrong doings, one another’s idiosyncrasies, and personalities.
You are not alone. I am a Baptist who washes his feet at least twice a week.I would not give you an answer unless you have... I'm a foot washing Baptist... We do, but not all Baptist do... I will get more into giving you an answer later, gotta run now... Bother Glen
Sai
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Sai... I will answer you later but let me address and kindly correct, our previous moderator, my brother in the Lord and friend... JON!!!... YOU"RE AS DENSE AS A POST!... Brother Glen
Well I'm a foot washing Old School Primitive Baptist and we wash feet... It's what we do and what others don't do... So if my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ washed his disciples feet and set an example... Then I wash feet!... Enough said... Brother Glen
John 13:12 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?
13:13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am.
13:14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another's feet.
13:15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.
Sai
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Very happy! He that’s been forgiven much the same loveth much!