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John 13 - Devotion · The Five Minute Bible Podcast

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  Welcome to Five Minute Bible in our journey through the New
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  Testament. In each.
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  Episode We take just a few minutes to focus on one chapter
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  of the New Testament, exploring the truths.
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  God is. Teaching us through His Word and
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  expanding our view of who He is. Before you listen, make sure
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  you've gone straight to the source, either by reading
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  today's chapter of the Bible yourself or listening to today's
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  read along episode in this podcast feed.
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  If you haven't done that yet, feel free to pause and do that
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  now. When you're ready, let's dive
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  into God's Word together. In John chapter 13, we see Jesus
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  and his disciples in the upper room partaking in their Last
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  Supper together before Jesus is betrayed, arrested, tried, and
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  executed. During this meal, Jesus takes
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  time to serve his disciples in the humblest of ways and to
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  model for them what true service looks like.
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  This picture and the conversation with Peter that
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  ensues has much to teach us. Listen to verses 5 through 11 in
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  this chapter. It says.
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  Then he poured water into the basin and began to wash the
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  disciples feet and to wipe them with the towel with which he was
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  girded. So he came to Simon Peter.
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  He said to him, Lord, do you wash my feet?
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  Jesus answered and said to him, What I do you do not realize
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  now, but you will understand hereafter.
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  Peter said to him, never shall you wash my feet.
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  Jesus answered him, if I do not wash you, you have no part with
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  me. Simon Peter said to him, Lord,
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  then wash not only my feet, but also my hands and my head.
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  Jesus said to him, He who has bathed needs only to wash his
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  feet, but is completely clean, and you are clean, but not all
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  of you, for he knew the one who is betraying him.
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  For this reason he said, not all of you are clean.
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  Jesus here is lowering himself. He is serving his disciples and
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  modeling for them and for us what real servant leadership
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  looks like. During this display, Peter,
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  often the first one to speak, starts to refuse.
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  How could he let his master wash his feet?
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  Never shall you wash my feet, he says.
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  Jesus explains to Peter that anyone who would have part in
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  Jesus and the salvation he offers must be washed.
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  And Peter goes to the other extreme.
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  If it's good to be washed, then don't just wash my feet, wash my
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  hands and my head too. Jesus explains to Peter that
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  anyone who has been bathed, who has been truly washed, needs
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  only to wash his feet. What Jesus says here goes much
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  deeper than just the dusty streets of Jerusalem.
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  Jesus teaches Peter and us that it is only necessary to
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  spiritually bathe once, an act that is symbolized in the
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  ordinance of baptism. Jesus is talking about
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  salvation. We do not need to keep being
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  justified over and over and over.
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  We do not need to be saved from our sin repeatedly.
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  At the point that we put our faith in Christ, we are once and
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  for all eternally saved from our sin.
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  Nothing can snatch us from God's hand.
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  We need not, as Peter request, have our head and our hands
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  washed again and again. But what about the foot washing?
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  Why, if we have been saved, do we need to have our feet washed?
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  This symbolic foot washing represents A continual renewal
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  and revival in Christ. As we live in the world, we
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  inevitably pick up spiritual dust.
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  We are influenced by the broken world around us, and we have the
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  tendency to get tired, complacent, and jaded.
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  But God has given us one another, so that as the world
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  brushes up against us with its dust and its dirt, we brush up
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  against one another with the refreshing, living water of
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  Christ. As we gather together on the
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  Lord's Day, as we fellowship with one another throughout the
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  week, as we live out the one anothers of Scripture,
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  encouraging, loving, forgiving, bearing with one another, we
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  experience that regular but supernatural refreshment that
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  God provides us. In other words, we have our feet
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  washed. So praise the Lord that if
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  you're in Christ, you are clean. You've been made right with God.
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  But don't miss out on the reviving power of Jesus in your
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  life as He uses His people to wash your feet and then take
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  that reviving and refreshing that you experience and be His
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  instrument among His people, encouraging your fellow
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  believers with living water as they walk in this dusty world in
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  which we live.