"Just a FOOT-WASHING"

“Just a FOOT-WASHING”

 

“Those who have had a bath need only to wash their feet; their whole body is clean.  And you are clean, though not every one of you.”         John 13:10

 

In the biblical days, people walked everywhere on dirt roads and dusty streets.  They wore sandals and therefore their feet needed a DAILY WASHING.   When they went to visit and partake in fellowship with someone, their host would provide a “foot washing” for their poor, tired, hot, dirty feet.  Even though ALL of their body was bathed before they arrived, their feet had gotten DIRTY and NEEDED a fresh CLEANSING, before the fellowship began. 

 

Jesus, the PERFECT HOST, proceeded to wash His disciples’ feet, because they had become dusty and dirty from their journey.  When He came to Peter, Peter refused to let his Master do such a thing to him, so Jesus, in essence, told Peter, even if you are bathed and CLEAN, your feet have become DIRTY and needs to be CLEANSED from the dirt that is on them.  Then He says that NOT EVERYONE is TOTALLY CLEAN. 

 

For ALL TRUE BELIEVERS, our HEARTS are like our FEET, they tend to get DIRTY from the DAILY SIN that we partake of, and in order to partake in FELLOWSHIP with Christ, we must first have our HEARTS CLEANSED, even though we have been FULLY WASHED by the CLEANSING BLOOD of Jesus Christ.

 

 In our daily life, we get our HEARTS defiled with the sins of envy, hatred, jealousy, gossiping, slandering, lust, etc., and then we want to have FELLOWSHIP with  Christ, and we can’t because we have a DIRTY heart, which MUST, FIRST be CLEANSED, then we can commune with our RIGHTEOUS REDEEMER.  Some BELIEVERS are like the Apostle Peter, who told Jesus, “not just my feet, but my hands and my head as well!”  They think they need another WHOLE BATH, when all they need is a “FOOT-WASHING.

 

In order to do that, we must ALL, BELIEVER and NON-BELIEVER, come to God with a TRUE REPENTANT HEART, ready to have their heart CLEANSED from its sins, and we MUST CONFESS our sins to Him, asking Him for His FORGIVENESS.  The NON-BELIEVER NEEDS to BELIEVE that Jesus died for them and is ALIVE in Heaven, making intercession for them, before God, and ACCEPT His gift of SALVATION, which results in a COMPLETE CLEANSING, then they ONLY NEED to have a DAILY CLEANSING of their HEART, in order to partake in DAILY FELLOWSHIP with Jesus.  Come to Him NOW, while you still can.  He’s waiting and coming SOON!!!