Now this was a most solemn time for the master and
for his disciples. The scripture that I read a few
moments ago from John 13 indicated the things that took
place just hours, just hours before the agony of Gethsemane's
garden. and just hours before the sufferings
of the cross of Calvary. This was a solemn time. This
was the last time that our Lord and his disciples were to be
together, really all of them together, before he went to Gethsemane's
garden and Calvary's cross. And as far as I can determine,
they had observed the Passover. Now the Passover feast was was
instituted in Egypt. If you remember the story, I'll
just briefly give an account of it. The children of Israel
were in Egypt in bondage. God would deliver them. And he
set forth for them this beautiful type or picture of Christ. He
told Moses to tell the people to take a lamb of the first sling
of the flock. of the first year, in full age,
without spot or blemish. This is a picture of Christ in
his humanity, in his full age, in his perfection, in his sinlessness. And to put it up for a certain
period of time and to observe it, to make sure there was no
flaw in it, as our Lord lived on this earth in a public ministry
for several years, having no sin, no flaw. And then on a certain
time, they were to slay that animal And they were to eat the
flesh. And they were to put the blood
on the doorpost and on the lintel, on either side and on the lintel.
And God said, I'm coming through Egypt this night at midnight. And when I see the blood, I'll
pass over you. Passover. And where there's no
blood on the door, the firstborn son will die in every home and
the cattle on the hillside. But when I see the blood, I'll
pass over you. Now, the Jews had been observing
this Passover hundreds and hundreds of years. A certain day of every
year, they met together and ate the Passover. Now, we know the
Scripture says Christ is our Passover. In other words, He's
the Passover, the picture of Christ. It's a type of Christ. It's a symbol. And when our Lord
Jesus came, God's Lamb, who was without spot or blemish, without
sin, He shed his blood for our sins. He went to Calvary and
they suffered and died. His blood was not on the door,
but on the mercy seat of glory, covering our transgression, the
broken law. And when God sees the blood,
he passes over us. That's the pattern. These disciples
admit this was the last Passover that the Church of the Lord Jesus
Christ would ever observe. This is the last one. Christ
is our Passover. And at this Passover supper,
when the disciples, you know, he told his disciples to go into
town and find a place where they could observe the Passover. Our
Lord was born a Jew. He was born in a Jewish home.
He was circumcised the eighth day, like all Jewish boys. He
was dedicated at the temple at a certain time. His mother brought
the turtledoves and the offering and all for her purification.
And he went to the synagogue every Sabbath day. He kept the
Sabbath Saturday. He observed the Sabbath, just
like all the other Jews. He came to fulfill the Levitical
law, every bit of it. And when he sat down at this
Passover table with his disciples, this was the end of it. That's
it. That's the end of the Levitical law. That's the end of the title.
He taketh away the first, and he may establish the second.
That's the end of the pictures. That's the end of the symbols.
That's the end of the sacrifices. That's the end of the ceremony.
That's the end of the observance of these things. We know in the
early church, some of the false teachers and preachers just kept
trying to bring these things back. You must be circumcised.
They're doing it today. You've got to observe the Sabbath.
You can't do this on the Sabbath. And you've got to eat certain
meats, not eat pork and all these things. You're to do this, do
that. It goes back to the Levitical law. That law is fulfilled in Christ. done away. I wouldn't eat a Passover
feast. I'm not coming to a Passover
feast. Our Lord, but he observed the Passover like he did all
these other types and all these pictures and shadows and fulfilled
them. And then he instituted the Lord's table as he sat there
with his disciples. They finished eating the Passover,
the lamb and so forth, the unleavened bread. He took bread and stood
there before them And he broke it. And he said, this is my body. In the same way that that lamb
represented Christ. Symbolic. That lamb wasn't Christ. That little bleeding year-old
lamb of the first year without blemish or spot when Moses and
Aaron cut its throat, they weren't cutting Christ's throat. That
wasn't Christ's blood, Paul, that spilled out there on the
basin that they put in that tabernacle. That was a picture. That was
symbolic of Christ's blood. So when our Lord broke this bread
and said, this is my body, he wasn't saying, this is actually
my body. When you eat this, you're not
eating Christ. And he took the wine, he said, this is my blood.
He wasn't saying that you drink this, you're actually drinking
my blood and drinking salvation. That's what the mass is based
upon. I had a young fellow tell me one time, don't Don't call
other denominational names. Don't talk about Catholics and
so forth publicly. I will too. Now, you don't tell
me anything like that. That's like telling me not to
preach the Bible. They celebrate a mass and they say that wine
is transubstantiation, right? Is Christ's blood and that bread
is Christ's body and it ain't no such thing. That's a lie. And they say when you take that
little wafer and dip it in that wine, that's the blood and body
of Christ and you've given a man salvation. That's not so. That's
a lie. You can drink all the bread the
Vatican puts out, eat all the bread and drink all the wine
and go straight to hell. You see, when our Lord ordained
that Lord's table and said that wine, that's a picture. That's
a symbol. Symbolic. Those elements are
symbols. That bread is not his body. Salvation
is not by eating literal bread and drinking literal wine, it's
by spiritual faith in a living person. And he instituted this
table of the Lord. And he told his disciples, he
said, now, I'm going to die on the cross, be buried and rise
again, and as often as you drink this wine and eat this bread,
symbolically, He didn't leave us but two ordinances, baptism
and the Lord's table, and they perverted both of them. The religionists of our day,
the liberals of our day, have perverted both of them. Our Lord
Jesus Christ said, when you believe, you go make disciples, and when
they believe, baptize them. No, we got to switch it around.
We baptize them before they ever believe. We take them out of
the mother's womb and throw water in their face and call it baptism.
That's not so. That's not what our Lord gave
us. And we made the Lord's Supper a fellowship supper. We've made
it a place of worthiness, not a place for sinners, a place
for worthy men. We've made it a way of salvation.
We've just twisted and perverted these things that he gave us
as pictures. Only two ordinances. One of them
is baptism, and a person shall not, must not, and will not,
if he knows anything about Scripture, submit to the ordinance of immersion. And that's the only kind of baptism
taught in God's Word. The only kind. It's a death and
a burial and a resurrection. And the only person that's a
candidate for baptism is a believer. He that believeth and is baptized. Not he that's baptized and later
on decides he believes. He that believeth and is baptized
shall be saved. That's what Scripture says. And
it's identification. It's showing the world. It's
showing the people. It's a confession that I'm dying
with Christ. I'm dead with Christ. I'm buried
with Christ. I'm risen with Christ to walk
in newness of life. You're not entitled to an opinion
on that. That's what Scripture says about
baptism. And the Lord's table, which our Lord instituted right
here. He said, as often as you eat
this bread and drink this cup, you show my death till I come. And let a man examine himself
and so let him eat. The Lord's table is not for everybody,
it's for believers. It's not to be given out indiscriminately
to everybody that comes along because he's a member of the
parish. or because he's a member of the denomination. He said,
let a man examine himself and so let him eat. He that eateth
and drinketh this supper unworthily is guilty of the body and blood
of Christ. He said, when you come to the
table of the Lord, you better be able to discern. What does
the word discern mean? Judge, understand, enter into
the mysteries of his broken body and shed blood. If you don't
discern the Lord's body, the Lord's broken body and shed blood,
you're violating our Lord Jesus Christ's body and blood. And
it's no minor thing. He said, for this reason, 1 Corinthians
11, many of you are sick and some of you got killed. You're
dead, you're asleep. God bested judgment upon those
who tampered with the table. That's exactly right, 1 Corinthians
chapter 11. So while this is serious, solemn
time, our Lord had instituted the table, and he arose from
the table. He arose from the table. And
they were quiet. He told his disciples, one of
you is going to sell me. Betrayed me. He said, all of
you are going to be offended. He said, Peter, you're going
to deny me. Before the cock ever crows tonight, you'll swear you
don't know me. You see, they were troubled. That's the reason
John 14 starts out, let not your heart be troubled. They were
troubled. What if our Lord here this morning spoke to us and
said, one of you out there is going to sell me out? It would
be an awful hush fall over this congregation. Not even identify
who it is. No, I didn't mean out there,
I mean up here too. And Peter, you're going to deny three times
you ever knew me. And it troubled the disciples.
And our Lord got up and went over and took his robe off and
laid it aside and picked up a towel, a great big towel, wrapped it
around himself. And they were just watching,
watching. And he went over and he Very
methodically, got a, it says here, got a pitcher of water
and got a basin and poured water in a basin. And I'm sure some
soap of some kind. And then he just walks over here,
everything quiet, and he kneels down in front of one of the disciples
and takes his sandal off and puts that dusty, dirty calloused
foot in that basin of water, and he just begins to wash it. And then when he got through
washing that foot, he washed the other one and dried it off,
not a sound. And he moved to the next one,
put that basin of water down, and he washed that old, tired,
hot, dirty foot, and then the other one. Now you say, what was he doing?
Well, let me tell you something here. That was, as we studied
in our Bible school lesson this morning, that was a custom in
that day. Our Lord was performing for these disciples a service.
I'll tell you what it was. The people in that day, they
didn't dress like we do. They didn't wear shoes and socks
like we do. They wore sandals. That's so. And if I were having a dinner
today over at my house, now this is over in an oriental, hot,
dusty, dry country, and very little rain, and everything is
so dusty, and they wore things over their face to keep the dust
out of their mouths and their noses, and if I were having a
dinner and I invited Bob and Paul and Cecil and Ava and Joe
and their wives to come, If I were a wealthy person or just a common
courtesy, I'd have at the door when they came in, they'd take
their sandals off, and I'd have right there at the door a servant,
a slave, a slave, a servant, a lowly person. Just, you know,
the maider wouldn't be there, that's for sure. And the local
physician wouldn't be there, that's for sure. And I wouldn't
be there, that's for sure, at the door there with that towel
and that water. And you'd come in and you'd kick off your sandal
and that little servant down there would wash your feet, get
all the dust and dirt and wash that foot. And I'd be standing
behind him and I'd give you a kiss of green after that service was
performed. And then I'd probably know your
head's hot and tired, I'd nort your head with some kind of precious
spikes or something. And I'd say, my home's your home.
That's the reason when our Lord ate with Simon, you know, when
the woman, the harlot, came in baby's feet and kissed him with
tears. Well, he said to Simon, he said,
when I came in your home, you didn't even give me the common
courtesies. You didn't kiss me, you didn't
nort my head, you didn't wash my feet. You see what I'm saying?
It was a custom. Now these disciples that are
eating this last table or supper and Passover with our Lord, and
our Lord, the master, the king, goes over and washes their feet. And that's the reason when he
came to Peter, verse 6, you see it here? He came around, he washed
this one and this one and this one. And he came to Peter, and
Peter, I think, was sitting there, and I believe, I believe Peter
just maybe stood to his feet and recalled in horror when he
said, Lord, there was the master kneeling down there looking up
at him. Dost thou wash my feet? He washed my feet. And the master
said to him, Simon, he said, what I'm doing you don't understand,
but you will. You will. Now, I know that, I know Peter
understood the lowliness of the Christ. He could, as thick-headed
as we are, we can understand that, you know, humility and
all. He's going to say it, show him that. But there's a whole
lot more to this, because then our Lord says, I said, what I'm
doing you don't know. And then Peter said, Lord, you'll
never wash my feet. Now, now watch this. The Master
said, Peter, if I don't wash you, you don't have any part
with me. It's getting deeper in humility
now, Bob. I believe I can demonstrate some
pride and still be saved. I do. You do too. All of us do. Peter was demonstrating it right
here, wasn't he? But here's something that goes a lot deeper than that.
If I don't wash you, you don't have any part with me. And my
friends, I realize this, and I know there's some dear people
who actually literally wash feet in religious circles in our day.
And I wouldn't make fun of them. I tell you, it's like Mr. Spurgeon
said one time, he said this, there's certain brethren who
wash the saints' feet literally. It might do some of us some good. It might do some of us some good.
I think it'd be a good thing for the pastor. I'm not instituting
this now. Don't misunderstand me. But there's
no place for Mr. Big in the kingdom of God. There's
no place for Mr. or Mrs. Important. We need to
get that through here. And here's where we need to get
it. Our Lord said, don't call anybody your master. One's your
master. Don't be called rabbi. One's your teacher. Be ye called
brethren. I know what he said. He said
He said if any would be great among you let him be your servant
Now God's preachers and teachers are to be obeyed obey them to
have the rule over you Submit to them as they that watch for
your soul. There's a there's a balance here But there's no
place for pride and arrogance in mr. Big now watch this listen
to me this This foot washing, or feet washing, however you
want to call it, is not intended for us to practice as an ordinance
literally. I know that. I know that. The example has a spiritual meaning.
To begin with, these disciples, when the Lord was washing their
feet, he was rendering to them a definite need. They had dirty
feet. They didn't have a little slave
boy at the door when they came to their room to observe the
Lord's table. Our Lord was washing dirty feet. He was rendering
a service, but he was giving us a spiritual meaning. Actually,
this thing of washing feet is this, listen to it. If there
be any deed of kindness, love, and service, however lowly, that
we can do for the least of God's people, Let us be most willing
to render that service as servants. You see what I'm saying? You
might actually have a foot washing here tonight and all of us come
and go through this tradition that renders no service and next
week miss many opportunities to really lowly serve and make
a contribution to someone who has a need because it's beneath
our dignity. See what I'm saying? It's not difficult to get men
to labor in the limelight, but I'll tell you where it's difficult
to get folks to labor, in the unknown, unrecognized, and unrequired. The secret deed is something
else. But there's no question, go down
to verse 14, verse 13, 14. No question this is what our
Lord's teaching. I'm not putting a question mark
on that at all. He said, verse 13, you call me
Lord and Master, and you say, well, so I am. I'm as high as
a man, as any person can be. I'm the Lord and Master. All
authority is Christ in heaven and earth. He's Lord and Master. Let's call him Lord and Master.
What do you say? That's what he is. He said, you
call me Lord and Master. You say, well, if I then your
Lord and Master have humbled myself, have taken the lowly
position, have come not to be ministered unto but to minister,
if I've washed your feet, you ought to wash one another's feet. I have given you an example that
you should do as I've done unto you. And brethren, we'll miss
the blessing. Now please misunderstand. You'll
miss the blessing if you relegate this only to washing little feet. You're going to miss the blessing. Because it's not a service that
I need, believe me. If you washed my feet this morning,
you'd render no service to me whatsoever. My feet are not dirty. They just are not. I took a shower
before I left home this morning, just 8.30 almost, 8.15, that's
just two hours ago. You're really no service to me
at all. And so you say, well, we do it to show our humility.
Well, anything you have to show like that, you know, needs working
on anyway. So really, I'm saying this with
the authority of the Scripture. This is not an ordinance. Christ
didn't institute it as an ordinance. The ordinances all point to Christ. Death, burial, and resurrection
is baptism in the Lord's table. This is not an ordinance of the
church. This is an example. This is an
example that our Lord has set. And we, alright, but there's
something bigger here, more mysterious. I want you to go down here to
this place where our Lord said, Peter said, you'll never wash
my feet. Never! Verse 8. And Christ said,
if I don't wash you, you don't have any breath. I want to say three things and
I'll make them brief. One, part with Christ. A part
with Christ. If I wash thee not, you have
no part. No part in me. No part with me. What does that mean? Well, let's
go back all at Christ. You go back to the covenant of
mercy. You see, the Lord Jesus Christ, my friends understand
this. That he's not just a messenger of God. He's not just a son of
God. He's not just a representative.
Christ Jesus is God. All things are in Him. He thought
it not robbery to be equal with God. In the beginning was the
Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God and all
things were made by Him. Christ is God. And back before
the foundation of this world, there was a covenant established.
And the scripture talks about it being an everlasting covenant,
talks about him being the surety of an everlasting covenant, talks
about his blood being the blood of an everlasting covenant. You
see, there's no time with God. What God does today, he's always
purposed and decreed to do. You see what I'm saying? And
this, when we talk about a part with Christ, we're not talking
about something we slip in in 1982 or something you slip in
in 33 A.D. or something you slip in. We're
talking about God's purpose and plan and design and redemption
that was decreed in Christ before the world began, a covenant of
grace. So a part with Christ would be
to have a part in that covenant. If you're in Christ now, you've
always been in Christ. If you're in Christ reigning,
you were in Christ dying, and you were in Christ risen, and
you were in Christ representing, and you were in Christ ordaining. That's right. Because he never
changes. He's the same forever, today,
and yesterday. You see, you got that backwards.
I know, but we'll have to go that way. That's where I am.
I'm here. But he's the same yesterday,
today, and forever. I hope what I'm saying is clear
because it's very important. He who understands something
of the covenant understands something of redemption. And he who knows
nothing of the covenants, you say, I've never been to church
much in my life, I don't know much about covenants, better start
studying. Because God makes covenants.
He made a covenant with Adam, Adam broke. He made a covenant
with Noah, He made a covenant with Abraham, huh? He made a
covenant with David, huh? And he talks about in Hebrews
the covenant, the whole book of Hebrews talking about a covenant. And there's an everlasting covenant
which he made with Christ. And Christ is a surety of that
covenant. And to have no part with him,
all right, next is to have no part in his righteousness. We
have a part in Adam's fall. We have a part in Adam's sin.
In Adam, we died. In Christ, we're made alive.
By one man's disobedience, we were made sinners. By one man's
obedience, we were made righteous. Christ has a righteousness. At
the wedding feast, there was a fellow came in, and when the
king came in to see the guest, he looked around, looked at everybody,
finally spotted the fellow there, and he said, well, he doesn't
have on a wedding garment. Friend, how'd you get in here
without proper attire? Speechless. Called his servant
and said, bind him hand and foot and cast him out. There's just
one garment at the marriage supper of the Lamb, that's his righteousness.
Has to be clothed in his beauty. That's right. No part in Christ.
He said, Peter, if I don't wash you, you don't have any part
with me. In the covenant, no part with me. In righteousness,
no part with me. In death, no atonement. No sacrifice. No sin offering. Brethren, that's
trouble. You have no part with me. You
have no part in my resurrection. Because I live, you shall live.
No part in my intercession. He ever liveth to make intercession.
No part in the second resurrection. No part in deliverance from judgment. You see how serious this is?
Peter says, Lord, You're not gonna wash my feet if I don't
wash you. He didn't say feet, wash you
he said. If I don't wash you, you don't
have a partner. No P-A-R-T partner. Now we have a part in the fall
and a part in condemnation and a part in judgment and we have
a reservation in hell that'll never be counseled except by
Christ. But I want to be washed. Well,
let's see. So Peter, he sat back down. I think I would have too. He sat back down and he said,
Lord, wash my head, my hands, wash me all over. And that's
when our Lord said this. He said, Peter, verse 10, are
you with me? Now please understand, I'm saying
that this scripture teaches humility, teaches our Lord's perfect example,
that this mind be in you, which was also in Christ, who thought
it not robbery to be equal with God, made himself of no reputation.
But our Lord's talking about something Peter couldn't understand
now. He could understand humility,
Paul, now. But there's something Peter couldn't
understand that was going, that was taking place, that he was
showing that disciple and the rest of them, that they would
learn later. And we better learn this. And
the saying is this, if I don't wash you, you don't have any
part with me. You don't have any part with
me. When they're singing the songs of Moses and the Lamb,
you don't have any part with me. When I'm crowned and enter
into my kingdom, you don't have any part with me. That's serious. All right, Peter said, wash me
all over. Our Lord said, Peter, he that is washed needeth not
save to wash his feet. But he's clean all over, everywhere,
every spot. You're clean. You're clean, not
all. When I was a kid, we lived in
the country in Alabama. It was back in the Depression,
and folks didn't have much. We didn't have much. We lived
in a little four-room house, and one of the rooms we used
as a place to store hay because it didn't have a barn. It had
a cow or two, some pigs. But we lived by a creek. We didn't
have any indoor plumbing. We had a cistern. Catch water
off the roof, you know, and go down into the cistern. We'd draw
the water and so forth. In the summertime, we bathed
in the creek. My mother in the evening, you
know, she'd throw us a bar of soap in the towel and say, go
to the creek. Go to the creek. Not go to the creek, but go to
the creek. And so we'd go to the creek. And we'd bathe down
in the creek. It wasn't but about parts from
here to the filling station over there to the creek. And then
we'd get out of the creek and we'd come on back home. We'd
wrap our towels around us, you know, and come back home and
we'd walk to the door and my mother said, put your feet up
here and she'd wash our feet off. Are you with me? I didn't need another bath. I'd
just been to the creek. But my feet needed washing. because
I got him dirty from the creek to the house. And our Lord is
saying here, Peter, the man that's been to the bath, the man that's
been cleaned, cleansed, washed, he doesn't need to bathe again,
he just needs his feet washed, where he got dirty from the bath
to the house. Remembering the custom of the
day, please. You've got to. You've got to
interpret the scripture according to the custom of the day. This
was 2,000 years ago. This was when they had the public
bath. Every house didn't have a shower like today. You didn't
go back there in that air-conditioned, wall-to-wall, carpeted, tiled
bathroom and shower and then come into your bedroom. You went
down to the baths. And you walked home in the dirty
robe. And when you got home you washed your feet. But you didn't
bathe all over. And what our Lord's saying here
is a two-fold meaning. Justification and sanctification. He says you're clean. The blood
of Jesus Christ cleanses us from all sin. I'm clean in Christ. We're redeemed not with corruptible
things but with the precious blood of Christ as a lamb without
spot or blemish. I'm clean. But he said not all
of you. Judas wasn't. He washed Judas' feet. He's sitting
right there in that bunch. Not all of you are clean. But
Peter, you're clean, and John, you're clean, and James, you're
clean. I died for you. Verse 11 says, he knew who would
betray him, and therefore he said, you're not all clean. Christ died for our sins. If
blood cleanses us from all sin, you're clean. Blessed is the
man to whom God will not impute sin. Christ has bathed my soul. He has bathed my spirit. He has
bathed me in his blood. I'm clean, clean! I'm clean. But I need my feet washed. What
does that mean by this? You have no part with me if I
don't wash your soul with the blood, if I don't die for you,
if I don't put away your sin. And also you have no part with
me if you're not daily pardoned and daily washed. and daily forgiven
and have a daily relationship with Christ as you walk through
this world. Now let me tell you, this does
away with this easy believism. This does away with this walking
down the aisle and getting it fixed up forever. This does away
with some priest slapping something on your tongue. This does away
with somebody sprinkling some water on you and you as a baby.
Salvation is not an act of faith. It's a life of faith. I promise
you that. Well, I know I'm saved. I was
saved when I was 12 years old. Of course, I hadn't had any connection
with God since then. If I don't wash you, you have
no part with me. Peter said, well, wash me all over. He said,
I've already washed you all over. I'm going to wash your feet now,
Peter. If I don't wash your feet, you have no part with me. Now you can't, if you want to,
it's your own privilege. It's your own privilege to rest
in that old age-old experience. It's your privilege to rest in
the belief of a few doctrines. It's your privilege to rest,
as you say, in the finished work of Christ and a once-for-all
decision. But I'm telling you what our
Lord's teaching right here is a daily proposition. It's a daily sanctification and
a daily washing and a daily relationship and a daily fellowship. It's no, I tell you faith and
salvation is not an isolated experience, it's not an isolated
act. If I don't wash you, you don't
have any part. What I'm doing you don't know
now, you don't understand. The natural religionist couldn't,
but he said you will later. And there was a time in this
early In these early days, you know, back there of fundamentalism
and tradition, and I didn't understand it, but I'm understanding it
now. More and more. More and more. I'm seeing this
more and more. These all died in faith. The
just shall live by faith. And if any man turns back, my
soul hath no pleasure in him. That explains those scriptures
in Hebrew. We are Christ's children if we continue in the faith,
if we hold fast our profession. He that endureth to the end shall
be saved. This is what our Lord's saying to Peter. I've washed
all of you. The blood maketh atonement for
the soul. The blood cleanseth us from all
sin. You're washed, you're clean, every whit clean. But I'm washing your feet. And
if I don't wash them, you don't have any part in me either. That's
daily sanctification. I'm not talking about a once
for all, somebody puts their hands on you and whoops, sin
flies out the window. No, tomorrow I have to wash my
feet. He'll have to wash my feet. I don't mean me. He'll have to
wash them. I'm a frail, fickle, foolish, fumbling, falling, keep
naming it, fleshling, but he's my sanctification. He's my sanctification. Now then,
take that scripture and look at it again and again and again.
And look at it from the standpoint of humility. Come on, let's come
on down. We're nobody. We're nothing. Let's come on down. Who are you?
Who makes you different? You walk this morning by God's
grace. You see by God's grace. Only reason somebody doesn't
have to lead you down those steps right out there this morning
is by God's grace. That'd take some of the starch out of you
and me too, wouldn't it, if we had to be let out of here? The
only reason we're not on beds of affliction is His grace. The
only reason I have decent clothes is His grace. Going home to a
fine meal by His grace. Some of His choice people are
hungry today down in the Yucatan. Their bellies are full of corn
soaked in water. So let's come on down. Let's
come on down. Let's wash the saints' feet.
Let's love one another. Let's embrace one another. Let's
reach out to one another. You get out there by yourself
and you're going to live eternally by yourself. If you can be happy
that way, that means you don't know Christ. Because Christ has
to have Christ. And brethren need one another.
But now let's look at this lesson like our Lord's teaching it too. If I don't wash you, in the blood
of the Lamb, if I don't justify you by the sacrifice of Calvary,
if I don't redeem you by faith before God Almighty's awful throne
and on the mercy seat of glory, and if I don't wash you daily
in the sanctifying principles and power of a daily cleansing. Because you see, if I stand in
God's presence, I've got to stand there perfectly holy. So I need
Christ not only to die for me 2,000 years ago, I need him to
cleanse me and present me right now. I need a mediator as much
today as I ever did. Daily cleansing, daily walking
with the King. Our Father, bless the Word. Thank you for your word. Powerful
word. And my soul's been helped. I
thank you for the promise that we're clean. We don't feel in
ourselves any cleanliness, nothing but sin. We fade as the leaf. Even my righteousness is a filthy
rag. But we've been washed in the
blood of the Lamb. And Lord, thank you for your
daily forgiveness. I'm so glad and so thankful that
all my sins are washed away, put away, remembered no more. They're under the blood, and
daily they're forgiven. We pray right now, forgive us
our sins as we forgive those who sin against us. Bless this
message and use it for your glory. For Christ's sake, I pray. Amen.