Shalom, my dear friends. What a wonderful privilege we have together to be able to study the Word of God, and to learn more and more about our Lord Yeshua HaMashiach, our Messiah Jesus, who loved us and gave himself for us. It is so precious to be able to open the Word of God and to learn concerning the person of Jesus the Messiah. Wonderful, especially as we study together this gospel of Yohanan, of John, the one that presenting, John presenting before us Yeshua, Jesus, the Messiah, is the eternal Son of God who became a man and came in order to fulfill the promises that were given to the people of Israel, that in the fullness of the time, God will send the Messiah into this world to become a man, Emmanuel, God with us, as we read in the prophet Isaiah, and John in his gospel began with the words, in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and the word was God then verse 14 and the word became flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory the glory is of the only begotten of the father full of grace and truth and a beloved friend we are moving along in our study together of this gospel of John and we have arrived now to the 13th chapter in fact what happened here as we're moving along in the study of the Word of God especially in the Gospel of John.

Now we are entering into the portion of the Gospel of John which presents before us Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah no longer in His public ministry along the whole land of Israel from the Galil all the way to the Yerushalayim and the whole land of Israel, the Shomron, Samaria. By the time that we arrive to chapter 13, from here on, John 13, John 14, John 15, John 16, and John 17, these chapters deal specifically with the ministry of the Lord among the disciples, the Talmidim in the city of Yerushalayim in the upper room, especially doing the Feast of Pesach, Chag Pesach, the Feast of Passover. It is a feast that not only reminded our people of Israel of the history of which God had deliver the Hebrews out of bondage into liberty to take them into the promised land.

But it is also, this is one of the most important feasts that pointing the nation of Israel and you and I also into the coming of the Lamb of God, the Messiah himself, who will take away the sin of this world. So here we are in the 13th chapter of this Gospel of John, and I would like to read the first 17 verses of the 13th chapter in order to enter into the upper room. We might call it the upper room discourse or the upper room sermon in which Yeshua is presenting before his disciples the fact that soon and very soon he will go to become the Redeemer, the Savior, when he will die and become the substitute for the sin of this world.

And so we read in John chapter 13, and I will read, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, I will read the first 17 verses of. This 13th chapter and so we read now before the feast of Pesach Passover when Yeshua 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 and supper being ended the devil having now put into the heart of Judah Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him, Jesus knowing that a father had given all things into his hand, and that he was come from God and went to God, he rises from supper, laying aside his garments, and took a towel and girded himself, after that he pours water into a basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded.

Then cometh he to Simon Peter, Shimon Petros, and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? Yeshua answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now. But thou shalt know hereafter. Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Yeshua answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. Jesus saith unto him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit, and ye are clean, but not all. For he knew who should betray him, therefore said he, Ye are not all clean.

So after he had washed their feet and had taken his garment and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me Master and Lord, and ye say, Well, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet, ye also ought to wash one another's feet. For I have given you an example that ye should do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord, neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.

And I will stop here with verse 17. Beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, this is a very interesting portion of the Word of God because when we have arrived to this 13th chapter in the Gospel of Yohanan, that is John, we arrive to the time when our Lord Yeshua, the Messiah, is now alone with the Talmidim with his disciples who will later on will become the Shlichim the Apostles who will go later on to preach the message of the Gospel of the Grace of God throughout all the world who will be the foundation of the Ecclesia the Church and they will be the one that the Lord Yeshua the Messiah by the Spirit of God will use in a future day after his death burial and resurrection to send them to become the shlichim, the apostles who will present the message of the gospel that the Messiah has finished the work of redemption and that whosoever will believe on him shall not perish but have everlasting life and so this upper room time alone with his disciples is very very important to remind you.

In this conversation that the Lord Yeshua the Messiah will have now in the feast of Pesach, in Hebrew Pesach, Passover, in the upper room in the city of Yerushalayim, as it was just about to become the 14th day of the month of Nisan, where he must die and become the Passover lamb. This discourse, this conversation with his disciple is very important. To remind you that in Matthew chapter 5, 6, and 7, In the earlier part of the Messiah public ministry, he gave a sermon there in the Galilee, in the north of Israel, the sermon on the mountain. And there he gave what is known to us all as the sermon in which the Lord Yeshua the Messiah was challenging.

It's a place where we would call it the beatitude, the mountain on which he said, Blessed are the poor, and blessed are they that mourn, and blessed are the meek, and blessed are they which do hunger and thirst, and blessed are the merciful, blessed are the pure in heart, blessed are the peacemakers, blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake. Blessed are ye when men shall revile you. And so these are the B attitude that he taught his disciples and the multitude that came in the time when he was in his early part of his ministry. Then later on, if you remember, in Matthew chapter 13, he continued to give another parabolic message to those that came to him concerning the mystery kingdom of heaven.

And if you remember, he gave the eight parables. In Hebrew, we call them Meshalim. With these eight Meshalim, these eight parables, he explained them to the disciples that these eight parables represent the age in which he will be rejected. And it will begin, will he be rejected at his first coming? And this mystery kingdom of heaven age will end at his second coming when Israel as a nation will accept him and he will establish the future promised Messianic kingdom. That was the second sermon or the second deliberation that he had with his disciples. Later on in Matthew chapter 24 and 25, there was a third sermon or a third deliberation which Yeshua the Messiah had with his disciples on Har Hazitim, the Olivet Discourse on Mount Of Olives.

And there you remember the disciple asking, when shall this thing be? What shall be the sign of your coming and of the end of the age? And the Lord Yeshua the Messiah in chapter 24 and 25 of the Gospel of Matthew gave them this sermon, this discourse. He told them how things will come to pass. The temple in Jerusalem will be destroyed. The Jewish people will be dispersed and there will be a persecution. And ultimately the Antichrist will rise at the tribulation period. And he will be the one that will violate God's word. And there will be that abomination of desolation. And then he promised his return.

If you remember at Matthew chapter 24, when he said to them that at the end of the tribulation, the Messiah himself, for as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. He is the Son of Man, Ben-Adam, the Messiah will return at the end of the tribulation and he will gather, as it says in verse 31, He will send His angels with the sound of the trumpet and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from the one end of the heavens to another. This is the third discourse or the third sermon that He gave to His disciples in Matthew chapter 24 and 25.

But now, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, When we arrive to chapter 13, 14, 15, 16, and we can include chapter 17, we have this final, you might say, the farewell speech or the farewell message that Yeshua is giving to these early Hebrew disciples in the city of Yerushalayim during the feast of Pesach, Passover. In fact, we say it in Hebrew, this is Meser HaShalom LaTalmidim Shel Yeshua. This is the farewell message to his beloved disciples, because soon he is going to be hung on that Roman cross, and he will be judged for the sin of the whole world, beloved friend. And so here he's just about ready to say shalom, just about ready to say farewell, just about ready to go to the cross where he will die for the sin of this world.

And so chapter 13 began with these first 17 verses that present the Lord Jesus the Messiah as the one that is relating, we might say, the relationship, first of all, that he has with God. God the Father, Elohim HaAba, in verses 1 to 5. Then in verses 6 to 11, he related to Shimon Petros, to Simon Peter, who needed to learn some lesson here in this upper room. And then verses 12 to 17, he relating to the disciples who needed to know a certain truth concerning now his departure. And all this happened in this upper room discourse that Yeshua is sharing with his disciples here. So, you notice this, dear friends and dear brothers and sisters, that in this 13th chapter, verses 1 to 17, we find the Lord Jesus doing something that is unique.

You see, Moses had a farewell address when he spoke to the children of Israel before he died in Deuteronomy chapter 31, 32, and 33. Joshua had a farewell discourse and message and address when he spoke to the children of Israel when, before he died, Joshua chapter 23 and 24. Even the apostle Shaul Paul himself had this farewell message that he gave to the Ephesians elders in Acts chapter 20. And you remember they wept there because he was leaving them. Here we see the same principle the Messiah Yeshua is just about to leave he's just about to become the Passover lamb the Pesach and he's sitting now with his disciples and one thing that they that neither Moses or Joshua or Paul did Yeshua the Messiah does something here in his action that is unique he's really the Sovereign God as man, yet the servant of all.

Wonderful to see that. This is fascinating, beloved brothers and sisters, to see how Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, conducting himself here in the upper room just before he become the Lamb of God, Just before He will die on that shameful cross. In the first five verses of John chapter 13, we see Yeshua and His Abba, His God the Father. We read, now before the Feast of the Passover, when Yeshua 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. And supper being ended, the devil having now put into the heart of Yehudah Ischariot, Judas Ischariot, Shimon's son, to betray him, Yeshua knowing that the Father had given all things unto his hand and that he was come from God and went to God he rises from supper and laid aside his garment and took towels and girded himself after that he pours water into the basin and he began to wash the disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded you notice how interesting beloved brothers and sisters before the feast of Passover the disciples are now all the Talmudim are there in the upper room in preparation for the celebration of Pesach to remind you that the first Pesach, the first Passover happened from the time that Yeshua was there with his disciples 1500 years passed by when Israel, when our forefathers came out of the land of Egypt out of bondage when the first lamb was killed when a Jewish the Jewish.

People had to sit in their home after they killed the lamb and placed the blood on the doorpost and the lintel and God said when when i see the blood i will pass over that's where you get the word pasach hover over pasach in Hebrew i will pass over you now 1500 years later some 1500 years later Yeshua himself as he have always done so when he was since his birth with his family in Nazaret, in Jerusalem, keeping this feast that pointed now to him who will become the Passover lamb. Now therefore, before the feast of Passover, when Yeshua knew, now notice that, he knew that his hour was come, that he should depart out of the world into the Father.

Notice that, if you remember, beloved brothers and sisters, in chapter 7, we have already read it, and in verse 8 we read that the time has not come for him to become that one that will die yet, because his hour was not yet come. You remember we read go ye up unto the feast i go not up yet for uh unto the feast for my time is not yet fully come Yeshua said to his brethren wanted him to go to the feast of Passover it was not yet the time for him to die and to become the lamb of God later on we did read this as well in John chapter 12 and we read in verse 23 and Jesus answered them saying the hour is come that the son of man should be glorified now you see time has arrived for him to be glorified and here we find in chapter 13 and verse 1 he knew that his hour was come that he should depart out of this world notice unto the father now how will he depart out of this world unto the father well to remind you when God so loved the world and he gave his only begotten son God the father sent the son first John 4 to become the Savior of this world.

How did God send his son into this world the Spirit of God placed in the womb of Miriam the seed that Miriam will give birth to the Messiah who will be sinless and will be born into this world. And that's why when he was born they called his name Yeshua, Jehovah the Savior. So he entered into this world in a supernatural way and he was born to the virgin Miriam in the city of Bethlehem. And now that he is on earth 33 years, it's the time for him to return back to God as men now how he will do so he will have to go to the cross he will have to die for the sin of this world as men and so his hour was come that was an hour in which he anticipated all alone it's the hour that we will read about later on when we will arrive to chapter 18 and you remember that is the hour in which he will finish the work of redemption in John 17 1 we read these words speak Yeshua and he lifted up his eyes into heaven and he said Father the hour is come glorify thy son that thy son may also glorify thee that hour beloved friend is the hour in which he will become the Lamb of God.

That will take away the sin of this world that hour is the hour in which he will be judged the just one for the unjust one that's the hour that he have anticipated throughout his life on earth the hour in which God as a holy judge will lay upon him as a sinless man the iniquities of us all. So we read in verse 1, Yeshua knew that the hour of his death is coming. Mine hour, he said many times throughout the Gospel of John, mine hour is not yet come, mine hour is not yet come, but now the hour has come for him to give his life.

And so he's just, remember, before the the feast of Pesach Passover he is there knowing that his hours come notice what we read here in verse 1b having loved his own which were in the world he loved them unto the end the word there is telos the end unto death you see that is what is so attractive to our hearts about the Lord. Yeshua the Messiah it is simply because that his love was beyond comprehension his love for you his love for me his love for his God his love for his Abba his father was without measure who being in a form of God he thought it not robbery to be equal with God but he made himself of no reputation and he took upon him the form of a servant and he was made in the likeness of men and being found in the fashion as men he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the cross and so chapter 13 and verse 1 we see here clearly how Yeshua loved his own which were in the world this is you this is me this is everyone that belongs to him he loved them unto the end this is verse one this is precious it touches our hearts when we think of the one that was willing to love us all the way through all the way unto the end and so we read in verse two and three.

That Yeshua knew that he will also be betrayed by the name Yehudah Ishkroyot. The Lord Jesus, the Messiah, knew that he will be betrayed. And you notice that we read here in the second and third verses in John chapter 13, we see that he knew that Judah will betray him. To remind you that Yeshua, Jesus, is God, the Son. He's a divine person. He knows the hearts of all of us. And so he knowing, verse 2, the supper being, as the supper is doing the supper time, doing the time with the disciples and all the land of Israel, the celebration of Pesach, doing supper time, doing the Passover meal, We read that the devil had been put into the heart of Judas, Ish-krayot, Simon's son, to betray him.

You see, the devil all along, Satan all along, my dear friend, Satan all along wanted to put away the Lord Yeshua the Messiah. All along, he opposed anything that the Lord had done. In fact, already at the birth of the Messiah at Bethlehem, if you remember that the devils through Herod sent those to kill all the Jewish boys from two years and under. Why? Because knowing that the Messiah was to be born. And so using Herod to kill all the Hebrew boys from two years and under. Why? Because he did not want the Messiah to be born. And now, of course, the devil is using Judas and others throughout the ages to oppose the work that the Lord is going to accomplish.

Now, mind you, the Lord came to die. So, not knowing that by the death of the Messiah, redemption will come, for mankind. Satan will be defeated when the Messiah Jesus will die. But notice how the devil enters. Satan, the devil, having now put into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him. And you notice the word Yehuda Iscariot. Judas, the Hebrew name is simply Yehuda, like any Judah. Karyot, or Ish Karyot, Ish means a man, Karyot means of the suburbs, Yehuda, the man of the suburbs, he was Simon's son, a man by the name of Shimon, he was his son, and the devil was placed into Judah's heart and ordered to betray the Lord Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah.

So Satan entered into Judas, and simply the word put simply means, it's almost like to throw, it is simply like throwing a fiery dart, meaning simply to cast into Judah in order to cause Yehudah to betray the Lord Jesus the Messiah. Remember that earlier already we know that Judas he was really not one who believed on the Lord Jesus the Messiah he was though chosen to become part of the disciples but Yehuda himself never came to a point of time that he believed that Yeshua indeed is the Messiah and so Judas was doing the work of Satan and he was the one that the Satan enter into that word once again is a the word for having enter or put into it's really come from the Greek word to cast it's like to throw it is to it's like almost a fiery dark was was there in order to cause judas to follow him and ultimately betray Jesus the Messiah.

So we read in verse 3, Jesus knowing, Yeshua knowing, that the Father had given all things into his hand and that he was come from God and went to God. Here you notice once again his relationship to God the Father. You notice that we read once and again verse 1 he came into the world and now he's returning unto the father we find out that verse 3 that knowing that the father had given all things to his hand and that he was now come from God this is God the father he went to God this is God the father here we see that the Lord Jesus knowing everything that he's going to do and everything that he does is he is in relationship to God and the father and so this is what we learn from verse two and three and now we learn in verses four and five the shocking things that the Lord Jesus the Messiah is doing what we really learn here in verses four and five that in the midst of his anticipation to go to the shameful cross to die.

What does he do? Knowing the Judas, that the devil enter into Judas, knowing that he's about to go to the cross to pay for the sin of this world, there in the upper. Room, he's now rising. Notice that's very interesting in verses 4 and 5. We can see that now he's rising from supper this is from the Passover meal and he set aside lay aside his garments he took a towel and he girded himself we read here in verse 5 after that he pours water into the basin began to wash the disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded very interesting to see the the humility of our blessed Lord Yeshua the Messiah we learn from this that he was indeed a servant that rising up at the upper room at the feast of Pesach rising from supper laying aside his garments taking towel girding himself and then he He poured water into a basin and He began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel wherewith He was girded.

This is so fascinating, my dear friend. What a lesson the Lord Jesus seeking to teach His disciples. He rising up, laying aside His outward garments, Then he, girding himself, he pouring water into a basin and he began to wash the disciples' feet. This is exactly what we read in so many places concerning the servant of the Lord. He's setting an example, but to wash the disciples' feet, to wash their feet right there at the Feast of Pesach was something unusual. Something unique it shows us how the Lord Jesus is seeking to teach his disciples to be servants because soon he's he will be going back to God and they will remain here on earth to represent him as you and I are called to represent him here on earth and what an example to wash the feet to remind you in the middle eastern days of old some 2 000 years ago the dusty roads demand when one would enter into a home to wash one's feet Avraham have done it to the Lord and to the angels when came to him years earlier it was a customary thing to do to wash the feet of the guests that come for the meal that enter into the house but apparently none of the disciples did anything about it and Yeshua rising up by himself and he their Lord their Mashiach God the son has meant he began to wash his disciples feet and then we learn beloved brothers and sisters now we find out that he is now presenting himself as the servant of the Lord as Isaiah.

Said concerning the servant in chapter 42 behold my servant God said of him behold my servant Isaiah 42 and verse 1 whom i will uphold he is mine elect in whom my soul delighted God call him my servant in Hebrew avdi my servant and here we see the servant of the Lord is now rising to wash the disciples' feet. Well, now that we have looked at the first five verses, then we learn from verses 6 to 11 that Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, in relationship not so much now to his God the Father, but to Shimon Petal, Simon Peter. Notice, we read in verse 6, Then cometh he to Simon Peter, and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet?

Yeshua answered and saith unto him, What I do thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter. Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Yeshua answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Simon Peter, we read in verse 9, saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. Yeshua said to him in verse 10, He said to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every week. And ye are all clean, but not all. And ye are clean, but not all. For he knew who should betray him.

Therefore, he said, ye are not all clean. So, it is interesting because once he arrived to Shimon Petros, to Simon, Simon, in verse 6, he said to him, Lord, are you going to wash my feet? See, Peter was surprised. He loved Yeshua, he loved the Messiah, But he was at awe when the Lord Jesus, the Messiah himself, coming and stepping, stooping down kind of thing, and having the basin there on the floor, and taking Peter's feet, and ready to wash his feet as he has done that to the other. Peter said to him, Lord, are you going to wash my feet? Now, notice that's interesting because the word here in the Greek language, a nipto, which simply means to wash part of the body.

In other words, Peter is being, his feet is placed, you might say, into the basin and the Lord is ready to wash his feet. So he was saying, Lord, are you going to wash my feet? And the Lord had to give him an answer. And he said to him, what I do, you do not understand. Now, but you shall know hereafter. Peter, let me wash your feet. You do not understand what I'm doing now, but you will learn it later on. You will know later on what is the meaning in the washing of your feet. This is very interesting because there is a lesson that the Lord is seeking to teach the disciples.

To remind you once again that the feet represent the walk of the people of God. Years ago again in the streets of the uh in the middle east when you walk on the street your feet getting dirty so you would need to wash your feet once and again because you walk from one place to another your feet is getting in the dusty road getting dirty you will come into a home wash your feet inside the basin and then wipe them and then you can be inside the house having your meals and being with your family, being with those you came to visit. But when the Lord, the Messiah, Yeshua, is doing this, Peter could not understand it.

So Yeshua said to him, What I do, thou knowest not now, but thou shalt know hereafter. Peter, there's a lesson in what I'm doing in washing your feet. So when the Lord told him this, in verse 7, then Peter said in verse 8, he said, Peter says unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him and said, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. Again, beloved friends, you see, the washing of the feet in the word of God represent the fellowship that one can have with God. The Lord Jesus, the Messiah, is seeking to teach the disciples these amazing lessons. That as they are living here in this world, the washing of the feet represents washing by the water, by the Word of God, which is refreshing us and cleansing us and having fellowship with God when we are having this feet washing.

Now, of course, it is symbolically here, but the Lord seeked to teach Peter this lesson and all the disciples that are sitting there in the Feast of Passover. But Peter said to him, Lord, you will never wash my feet. Notice what the answer of the Lord was to Peter. He said to him, Yeshua said to Peter, if I wash thee not, if you will not allow me to wash your feet you have no part with me now notice my dear friend he used the word no part with me the word with me suggests fellowship the word with me suggests a fellowship with the Lord in other words if I don't wash your feet you will not have fellowship with me it was important for Peter to learn this lesson and it is important for us to learn this lesson that we as believers need on an ongoing basis to have our feet which represent our walk here in this world washed and washing the feet represents that's what the Lord is seeking to teach the apostles, and especially Peter, that they will never be able, that he will never be able to have fellowship with the Lord unless he will have an ongoing fellowship through the Word of God, through prayer, through hearing of the Scriptures, through sharing with others about the things of God otherwise they would never be able.

To have fellowship with the Lord Jesus that's why he used the word if I do not wash your feet you have no part with me so this is essential to remind you that Peter meant well by not wanting Yeshua to wash his feet because he didn't want the Lord the Messiah to wash his own feet it should be vice versa practically speaking but he needed to understand that the Lord want to teach him of the need to have an ongoing cleansing for those that are his servants those that are going to serve the Lord Jesus the Messiah there must be an ongoing washing of the feet ongoing cleansing for refreshment and fellowship.

So you notice what we find here in the next verse verse 9, Peter said unto him, Lord, if that means that I will not have fellowship with you, then he said to him in verse 9, Lord, not only my feet now, but also my hands and my head. See, Peter now wanted a bath. At first he didn't want even his feet to be washed by Yeshua. The Messiah. Now he won a complete bath because he meant well. He wanted to have fellowship with the Lord, but he needed to understand a second important lesson, as you and I need to understand. And that's why Yeshua is teaching the disciples, and Peter, and you and I today, when he said, Jesus says unto him, he that is washed, this is based already, he does not accept to wash his feet.

But he is clean, every wit, and ye are clean, but not all. You see what Yeshua is seeking to teach the disciples? That they, because they have trusted in him and they believe in the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, once they have accepted him, they are completely washed and they are cleansed positionally. But as they walk here in this world, they will need to have an ongoing washing of the feet, which represent the walk of the believer. You see, my dear brothers and sisters and dear friends, every true believer in the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, is once and for all cleansed. Positionally, the believers are cleansed.

They are washed by the blood of the Lamb. But we need, on an ongoing basis, to have our feet washed. Why? Because the feet represent our walk. Here in this world, we get dirty. We get dirty, meaning sin comes into our life. That which is dishonoring to the Lord comes into our life. Many times we fail and we stumble here in our walk in this world. So we have to understand that positionally the believer is once and for all cleansed. But we need an ongoing washing of the feet representing the daily cleansing. And how do we have these daily cleansing? By having fellowship with the Lord through His Word.

This is very precious for us to understand. We read in 1 Corinthians chapter 6. And verse 9, Know ye know that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived, neither the fornicators, and idolaters, and adulterers, and effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor thieves, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And listen to what he said, the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians. And such were some of you, verse 11. But he continues and he says, but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of our Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God.

Corinthian, you are already washed positionally, but practically there is always the danger as we walk here in this world that our feet, namely that our walk, will not be pleasing to the Lord because sin is so easily beset the people of God. And that's why we need constant cleansing as we repent of our sins, as we confess our sins and come to the throne of grace and find help in time of need. Paul said to Titus in Titus chapter 3 and he said there in verses 7 and 8 that being justified by his grace we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life. This is a faithful saying and these things I will that thou confirm or affirm constantly The day which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works.

These things are good and profitable unto men. So we learn that the believer is liable to fall and to stumble here in this world. And that's what the lesson that Yeshua is seeking to teach Peter and his disciples there in the upper room. He washing their feet. If you will not have your feet washed by me, you have no part with me. Notice the word with me. He doesn't say you have no part in me, but no part with me. But then in verse 9, after Shimon Petros wanted a bath, Yeshua explained himself. He that is washed need not save to wash his feet. But is clean every wheat.

But then he continues and he says, And ye are clean, but not all. Why? Because there was one who was an unbeliever there by the name of Yehudah Ishkariot. This is a great lesson to learn, beloved brothers and sisters today. If you are a believer in the Lord Jesus the Messiah, you are already cleansed. Positionally. Whosoever believeth on him shall not perish but have everlasting life nothing shall separate us from the love of God he that has the son has life so positionally all believers are saved forgiven but all believers you and I and all believers live here on earth and as long as we are here we stumble and we fall and sin easily beset us and therefore we need ongoing the washing of the feet which represent an ongoing restoration fellowship with the Lord enjoyment of his presence learning from his word sharing with him our burden confessing our sins for if we confess our sins.

He is faithful and just to forgive us and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. 1 John chapter 1 and verse 9. So now, as we are moving along, for verse 11, he knew the one that will betray him, therefore he said, ye are not all clean. So now, beloved brothers and sisters, in the same upper room, at the same feast of Pesach, the same time we see in the next verses, verses 12 to 17, how Yeshua relating to the disciples, not only now to Shimon Petros, but also to all the disciples. Notice what we read in verse 12. He finished to wash the disciples' feet. He asked a question. He asked the disciples do you know what have i done unto you we read this at the end of verse 12 after he washed their feet can you imagine he took the time to wash everyone's feet this is amazing to think of the grace of the Lord the disciples were sinners the disciples were failing people like you, like me.

Yeshua, God the Son as man, washing their feet. Then when he finished to wash their feet, he had taken back his outward garments. He sat down again now at the table and he said to his disciples now he's speaking to all of them. Do you know what I've done to you? Do you see what I've sought to teach you by washing your feet so we read in verse 13 he said to them ye call me master and Lord the word for master is rabbi and the word for Lord is adon rav ve adon rabbi ve adoni my teacher my master and my Lord you call me master and Lord and ye say well Yeshua said to the disciples for i am i am your rabbi your teacher and i am your Lord your adon your master and your Lord if then notice verse 14 he reversed Yeshua reversed the wording if then your Lord now notice he reverses if your Lord and master have washed your feet He also ought to wash one another's feet.

If I did this to you, if I washed your feet, disciples, Talmidim, if I did this for you and I am the one that is your Lord and I am your master, I am your Rabbi, your teacher, what an example is that if I did so to you, you ought to do this to one another. You know, washing feet is very humbling. It means that one has to take a basin, to gird himself, to put water in the basin, to go on his knees, to take the disciples or any friend or any follower of Yeshua, to take their feet and to begin to wash their dirty feet with his hands and water and to dry them with a towel, it speaks of humility.

It speaks of going down. And you know, beloved brothers and sisters and dear friends, if there is anything that is difficult for all of us, it is difficulty to humble, to be humble before the Lord. How many times we are exhorted in Scripture to be humble before the Lord? You remember what we read in 1 Peter? Peter said this, the one that said to the Lord, you will not wash my feet. Later on, he said to the ones to whom he wrote. And Peter was the one that was the apostle to the circumcision, to his Jewish brethren. He said to them in 1 Peter chapter 5, he says to the younger, submit yourself unto the elder.

He says, ye all of you, be subject one to another, be clothed with humility. Why? Because God resists the proud, but He giveth grace unto the humble. Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, and He will exalt you in due time. Where did Peter receive this information that he is teaching these early believers to whom he was writing? Well, he had learned from his master here. Because his master said to him, the Messiah, in John chapter 13 and verse 14, If I then your Lord and your master have washed your feet, he also ought to wash one another's feet. Now this is something that we all can apply and learn this for ourselves in our life.

If we ever want to serve the Lord, we need to learn from the Lord. And we know how difficult it is for us to be humble before the Lord, because God resists the proud and He gives grace unto the humble. Peter, of course, was quoting the book of Proverbs, what Solomon wrote in Proverbs chapter 3. How important it is, beloved brothers and sisters, to be the kind of a person with an attitude of humility, if we will ever be able to serve the Lord and serve God's people. Sadly, this is not an easy thing for us to do. We read in James, Yaakov also said in his writing, he said in the fourth chapter, God, he said, but he giveth more grace.

Wherefore, he said, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble, quoting Proverbs 3, verse 34. This is a character that we as believers need to develop and may God help us to do so in our life as we serve Him here in this world. So Yeshua is telling to them, if your Lord and your Master have washed your feet, ye are to wash one another's feet. For I have given, notice verse 15, 16, and 17, Yeshua is saying, for I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. Verily, verily, I say unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord, neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him.

If ye know these things, verse 17, happy are ye if ye do them. The Lord Jesus the Messiah wanted the believers not only to know these things, but to do these things. So, to do the same thing, to learn from the Master, is essential as we serve our Lord Yeshua the Messiah here in this world. He said to them in these final verses for this message, Verily, verily, I say unto you, the servant is not greater than his Lord. Our Lord Jesus the Messiah set an example here. He revealed before us the manner whereby God's servants are to serve one another. This is very practical. And the only way that we will be able to behave like this, with an attitude as servants, is when we have fellowship with Him.

That's why it is necessary that our feet will be cleansed on an ongoing basis. We don't need to be bathed again. Namely, we do not need to be re-saved every time. No, because our salvation, our eternal relationship with God through the person of the Lord Jesus the Messiah is once and for all done when we believed on the Lord Jesus the Messiah. But our enjoyment of the relationship that we have and our ability to serve here in this world and to enjoy the Lord in our life is when we have our feet that are constantly getting dirty here in this world. Our feet need to be washed.

We need to have this ongoing fellowship with the Lord and enjoyment of him. Now, in conclusion, I would like just to mention one or two things with respect to washing to one another's feet. You see, even then, when we seek to wash one another's feet symbolically mean to encourage each other, to build each other up. This is very important for us to learn how to minister to one another, because oftentimes we do not really know how to minister to one another. You see, when Yeshua washed the disciples' feet, when he put the water into the basin, he made sure, we learned this, we see it, that the water was refreshing, that the water was not too hot burning the feet or too cold freezing the feet he have come and approach everyone exactly we might say with the right temperature of the water that meet the need of that person you see it's very easy to be very critical on the one hand and very judgmental on.

The other hand and then then on the other hand to be very you might say not to say anything and not being encouraging of anyone it's so easy for us to just simply not serve not minister and even when we do so to be very judgmental very critical very uncaring not sensitive and so this lesson of washing of the feet because water always in the word of God speaks of refreshment whenever we read about water in the Scripture it often speaks about the washing of the water by the word to remind you in Ephesians chapter 5 when we read husband love your wife as the Messiah loved the assembly and gave himself for her we read that that he might cleanse her with the washing of the water by the word the word of God water in Scripture represent God's word so if we will be able to encourage the disciples the the brothers and sisters we need to use the word of God but to use the word of God in such a way that we will truly minister to our brothers and.

Sisters in such a way that the ministry and the refreshing water of the word will be that which will restore them to fellowship with the Lord that will encourage them that will build them up and that will cause them to continue on in following our Lord Yeshua the Messiah you see if we put too much of hot water we might say they will burn their feet if we put too much of cold water they will freeze their feet and they will not want to be washed by us this is why we need to learn from our Lord Jesus the Messiah who is indeed the servant of the Lord it reminds me of the verse that Isaiah the prophet wrote to our people, Israel of all, some 750 years before the Messiah even came.

The verses that are really encouraging us in a ministry of the Lord, the first few verses of, again, Isaiah chapter 42. Listen to these words. God is speaking through the prophet Isaiah about his servant. Behold my servant, whom I uphold, mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth. I put my spirit upon him, he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the streets. Then notice verse 3. The manner of the service of the servant of the Lord is found in verse 3. A bruised reed. Shall he not break, and a smoking flax shall he not quench.

He shall bring forth justice unto truth. He shall not fail, nor be discouraged, until he have set justice in the earth, and the Isles shall wait for his law. Notice the expression, A bruised reed shall he not break. Verse 3 of Isaiah 42, And a smoking flax shall he not quench. This is always touching my heart when I think of this verse. A bruised reed represents someone who is broken or bruised. And the Lord Jesus, the Messiah, who is called Eved Adonai, the My Servant, God called him. If he sees someone bruised, he will not aid. And he will not cause that reed to be broken. No.

He will straighten up. He will heal the wound. And he will seek that this reed will stand firm and not be broken. That's what we need to learn from Yeshua the Messiah, to know how to be an encouragement to God's people wherever they are and whatever situation they find themselves in. On the other hand, we read, a smoking flax shall he not quench? If he see a little smoke for God, you might say, a little light, a little smoke, a little light for God, he will not quench it, not cause it to die you will seek to cause more fire, you remember sometime my dear friend we sing it is only take a spark to get a fire going we need to learn from Yeshua the Messiah who was the servant of the Lord in Hebrew, Eved Yehovah, Eved Adonai who served God and was an example to the disciples and to these disciples he said ye call me master and Lord and ye say well for I am for he said in verse 14 if then I your Lord and master have washed your feet ye also ought to wash one another's feet.

The servant is not greater than his Lord neither he that is sent is greater than he that sent me if you know these things Yeshua said to the disciples and he's saying it to you and i happy are ye if you do them to know is one thing but to do is another thing may the Lord help us to do to behave and to learn from our Master Yeshua the Messiah and to be a blessing to God's people especially in a time when they need encouragement they need to continue on to follow after the Lord may God bless His word and may the Lord encourage us all to serve Him until He will come and take us to be with Him in glory.

Well, God bless you, dear brothers and sisters and dear friends. Until the next time, Shalom, Shalom.