Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1891-10-08
THE WASHING OF FEET.
LESSON m, FOURTH QUARTER, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, OCT. IS.

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]. "Now before the feast Of the passover,
when Jesus knew that His hour was come
that He should depart out of this world
unto the Father"
This Is that passover concerning which
He had said that lie heartily desired to eat
It with them before He suffered duke xxi,
l0l When weread Of the passover we should
always think of the words, Christ our
passover IL sacrificed for us" Il Cor v, a.
z And supper being ended, the devil
having now put into the heart of Judas
lscartot, Simon's son, to betray Him."
The revised version says during sup
per-" As to the character of Judas from
the very first see chapter vi, 20, "Have not
/ chosen you twelve, and one of you is a
devil"
Q. Jesus knowing that the Father had
given all things into His hands, and that
He was come from God and went to God 4"
Z. HE riseth from supper and laid aside
His garments; and took a towel and girded
Himself"
In this and the following verse see
seven fold action indicating its complete
ness. Jesus could not do anything i'm
perfectly. The laying aside of His gar
ments reminds us Of lsrael's high priest
who on the day Of atonement laid aside his
garments Of glory and beauty that clothed
only In white linen he might 90 into the
holy Of holes to make atonement for the
sins Of the nation Q4ev. xvi, A. 1t also
suggests to us that Jesus laid aside the
glory which He had with the Father before
the world was that He might become our
atonement to cleanse us from all sin I'll
Cor. viii, 0; v, 21)
8. AFTER that He poureth water into
basin, and began to wash the disciples feet,
and to wipe them with the towel where
with He was girded."
g. "Then cometh He to Simon Peter, and
Peter saith unto Him, Lord, dost thou
wash my feetP"
T. Jesus answered and said unto him,
What | do thou knowest not now; but
thou shalt know hereafter"
8. "Peter saith unto Him, Thou shalt
never wash my feet"
This may seem like humility, but it is in
reality resisting the loving and all wise
Saviour. Rather should Peter have said,
"Be it unto me as Thou wilt" Let us be
entirely and cheerfully submissive to His
will in all things, desiring to learn thor
oughly whatever He desires to teach us,
never setting our will against His.
Jesus answered him, If | wash thee
not thou hast no part with Me-"
o. Simon Peter saith unto Him, Lord,
not my feet only, but also my hands and
my head"
10. Jesus saith unto him, lie that is
washed needeth not save to wash his feet
but is clean every whit"
When we receive Jesus as our Saviour we
are Immediately accepted in Him, and are
washed, justified and sanctified, complete
in Him (Eph. /, 6, I; Cor vi, IL; Col. H.
10Y, 80 that by His finished work we are
made perfectly whole as to our standing
before God and acceptance with God. But
In reference to our state in this world and
our daily life, we are constantly liable to
contract defllement from without or be
cbme deflled by yielding to the sin that is
within us, and therefore need this constant
cleansing or washing Of our feet as the part
that comes in contact with the earth. 1t Is
the figure Of one having bathed, but need
ing afterward to cleanse the feet.
10, II. And ye are clean, but not ALL For
He knew who should betray Him; there
fore said He, Ye are not all clean"
Ia $50 after He had washed their feet,
and had taken His garments, and was set
down again, He said unite them, Know we
what have done to YOUR
"He Is now about to make good His word
to Peter, Thou shalt know hereafter, or
after these things Verse D. Teaching by
object lessons begun In Eden with the Tree
of Life, the cherubim and the flaming
sword. Israel was taught that Aaron was
the chosen of God by the rod that budded,
blossomed and bare fruit; and the nation
was taught holiness by the riband Of blue
on the fringe of their garments. Ezekiel
commanded not to mourn for his wife was
a sign or object lesson to Israel and now
Jesus has given lis disciples something to
remember and put in practice.
10. "Ye call Me Master and Lord; and We
say well, for 40 am"
IA. "If |, then, your Lord and Master,
have washed your feet, we also ought to
wash one another's feet"
That we are not our own but bought
with price IN found in Cor. vi, 10, 90
That Paul and Peter and James loved to
call themselves servants or bond slaves Of
Jesus is seen in Phil. l, l.; Titus |, /; Jas,
4, /; II Pet. |, l.; aud that as servants of
Christ we are to have the mind of Christ
is seen in our golden text, Phil. ii, 5.
16 For have given you an example,
that ye should do as have done to you"
We cannot be saved by trying to follow
His example, but being saved by His pre-
cious blood we can then by His spirit in
us follow His example, for He left us an
example that we should follow his steps
Il Pet. Ii, 2l), AS to this feet washing, we
may do 1t by admonlshing each other of
faults and sins. We may correct and
cleanse each other by the Word of God.
l6 verify, verify, say unto you, The
servant Is not greater than his lord neither
he that Is sent greater than he that sent
him"
There are those who rebel against being
servants, and | know of at least one
preacher who teaches his people that no
one should be the servant of another, but
such is not the spirit of Christ. He
teaches us that He that is greatest is to be
as the younger; and he that is chief us he
that doth serve duke xxi, 26l. He teaches
also that we as servants must not think to
receive better treatment than He received
(chapter XIV, 20). Weare to serve as the serv
ants OF Christ, doing the will of God from
the heart (Eph. vi, o. Being made free
from sin and become servants to God, we
are to have our fruit unto holiness (Rom.
vi, BY.
IL. .'If ye know these things happy are
yesif ado them"
ri know and not to do is only to bring
izSop ourselves greater condemnation
(TlSke xii, ~, 4S). The gospels are record
u the things that Jesus began to do and
Teach (Acts l. y; and that is the order in
which we have It in this lesson, first the
doing aud then the teaching. II we are
hearers only, and not doors, we deceive
ourselves (Jas. /, 22). Jesus said Whose
ever shall do the will of God the same is
my brother and my sister, and mother"
MARK iii, 95). my mother and my brethren
are these which hear the word OF God and