The Table and the Basin | Pastor Paul McGee

Presence is God. There's none like you, Lord.

There's none beside you, Lord, we honor you, Jesus tonight.

Hallelujah, Jesus. Sweetest name I know.

Hallelujah, Jesus, God. We want to know what it feels

like, God, where heaven touches earth.

That's our slogan. That's our motto.

We're having an earth connect. Amen.

Want to know where heaven touches earth?

Jacob said that there was a ladder that reached up to

heaven. There's a ladder that reached up

to heaven. He seen angels ascending and

descending upon the ladder. On the top thereof was the gate

of heaven. Amen.

And always amazes me that it wasn't that the angels

descended, then ascended, but they ascended then descended.

They were already there. They were already there, Amen.

And I know that wherever we gather tonight that He is

already here, His Spirit is already here.

Angels, angels. It wasn't that long ago I

preached along the line about angels are indicative of His

presence. We seek sometimes to have an

Angel, but we just get His presence and you have it all.

Amen. Just a few announcements before

we get started here this evening.

Remember the tomorrow night is Power Hour from 7:00 to 8:00.

Prayer here at the church and so come be a part of that.

This Sunday of course, is Resurrection Sunday AM service

only. It will end our Sunday School

campaign as far as an official contest, but that never ends

right, Never ends inviting someone to the House of the Lord

or having them come. Also our candy rain will happen

if there's not real rain happening all right, or if

conditions are not good for it, we won't if there's lightning.

I don't want four or five guys standing on the roof out there.

I'm just everybody on the ground is fine.

It's those people on the roof. I'm worried.

No metal roof at that. But nonetheless, I would have

our candy rain and door prizes be given away on Sunday as well.

And also just you kind of put on your calendar, this really

pertains to whether or not you're part of the winning team.

But on April the 18th, that's a Saturday at 4:00 PM, that's when

the winning team will be having their meal at login, Saturday

the 18th at 4:00 PM. So if you end up winning, that's

when you need to show up at the login in order to have your meal

taken care of and with your teammates.

From the past four weeks leading into this Sunday, also the 19th,

the 19th of April, in the evening service will have

missionary roads and they will be here.

They've just been recently appointed for.

So we want to invite them and make them feel at home as they

come. And also then in April, I'm

saying April because April's the first folks.

And that's not a April Fool's joke.

It is all right, the fool have said in his heart there is no

God. OK.

And so we're showing up because we know there is one.

But nonetheless, the 28th, the 26th rather a Sunday will be our

camp focus. Sunday it'll we'll have time for

prayer for camp that's coming up in the month of July.

We'll also be taking up an offering for camp and that kind

of helps offset the cost of camp.

It doesn't totally take care of it, but it kind of helps offset

the cost. If you are planning on going to

camp meeting this year, the 27th of this month is important to

you because that's registration. The day that registration opens,

folks, I'm telling you it's like a wrestling match to get a room

and so you want to mark that day on your calendar.

If you have plans to go camp, you can go to the Indiana

District Facebook page. It's probably on ours too.

But nonetheless, there's prices already listened there.

So you, you don't have to, you know, ahead of time as you're

getting into it. And so just be mindful Amen, of

that tonight as well. If there's anything else, my

wife will help me get it all situated here at the end of

service. Amen, Amen.

You may be seated tonight in Jesus name, Brother Zach, if you

can get me started up there here this evening.

We're coming together and I, I, I announced this before coming

here tonight. Other services tonight.

We're going to celebrate, we're going to celebrate communion.

We're going to celebrate foot washing.

These are two things that Jesus and his disciples participated

in before the death and the burial and the crucifixion of

the Lord. In most years, I have done it

either at the end of the year, at the beginning of the year.

But this year I thought we'll do it close to Resurrection Sunday,

kind of in tandem with the way that Scripture plays things out

concerning the communion and foot washing.

And so they're both really happened within the same night,

the same period of time. And so that's the reason why

we've coupled them together. There have been other times

we've taken just one Wednesday, Sister Raven on on foot washing,

the other one on communion. And there's enough information

in the Bible to do that. But we're going to try to

condense it down tonight. And I don't always do a good job

at the condensing stuff. OK.

I was looking over past years and I still went 50 minutes an

hour. And so I'm I'm going to try to

do better this year. Like really going to try to do

better with that tonight. We can go to the next slide

there, Brother Zach, this evening.

Really communion foot washing are theologically tied, in my

opinion, according to the Word of God, theologically tied to

what the Scripture says was the 2 greatest commandments.

We read of these in the New Testament.

A lawyer comes into the Lord and he's asking him which which of

these are the greatest commandments?

And the Lord speaks back to him. Number one, of course, he goes

back to Deuteronomy in six and four.

Hero is with the Lord. Our God is 1 Lord.

But as Deuteronomy continues, it says that thou shalt love the

Lord thy God with all of thy heart.

And then we get to the next part of it, and I shalt love thy

neighbor as thyself. I see communion and foot washing

depicting these two greatest commandments that are spoken up

in Scripture that Jesus spoke of in scripture #1 a love, a love

for God, or even a love from God if we could state it like that.

Because we only according to first, second, third, John, we

only love the Lord because He first loved us.

So we would even be at a place of a incapability of loving Him

had he not first loved us. We read the scriptures in

Romans. Scarcely for a righteous man

would one die, yet pre adventure for a good man some would even

dare to die. But God commended his love

toward us, and that while we were yet sinners, He died for

us. And so it's because of his love

toward us that we are able to reciprocate that love then back

to him. And so in that mode of, of

communion, right, of taking of the bread and the fruit of the

vine that we recall and remember and we have that grace that we

received and we're reciprocating that love back to the Lord.

And when we do that, of course we are, we are remembering.

He says often as you do these things, do them in remembrance

of me. We are remembering the sacrifice

of Calvary. We're remembering in that mode.

We're remembering that catonine tails that was laid to his back

with that metal and bone that was entwined in there.

We're remembering that crown of thorns that was plated on his

head, that spear that went through his side, that blood and

water came out, the nailing of the hands and the feet.

We're remembering all of that, remembering the agony, the

mockery. We're remembering all of that.

And then remembering that that was done for us, that it should

have been me hanging there. It should have been me going

through that torment and that agony and pain, But it was the

Lord. And He's filled that gap for me.

And so as often as I do this, I do this in remembrance of Him.

It's my love of my love toward God and of course His love that

has already been displayed toward me, a man through through

Calvary and what took place at Calvary.

But then when we talk about foot washing, Brother Reese, it's

that second, that other command that Jesus spoke of and that is

loving our neighbor as ourself. Because just as much as I have

been extended grace and love, then I am also extending that

grace and love in a horizontal manner to others, right?

Those that are around about me. And so whenever we we wash feet,

if you participate in washing feet, it is an essence of

illustration. Well, Brother McGee, I can

illustrate my love in a lot of different ways.

You could. I could illustrate love in a lot

of different ways. I could illustrate humility in a

lot of different ways. You could, but there is just

some something intimate about foot washing and there is

something humbling, whether you're the one that is receiving

it or the one that is doing it. There is a humbling practice

that takes place. And, and really, as we'll get in

tonight, there is really a a forgiveness that can happen in a

mode of, of washing whenever there is wrong or there's sisms

in the body, one between the other.

I tell you what, a good old foot washing session can just bring

attitudes and frustrations and bad concepts of each other can

just kind of bring those things down when you're kneeling at

somebody's feet and you're being washed by someone else with

their hands, a service 1 to the other.

And so both sides of this equation then have to do with

love, have to do with love, love for God, from God, love to your

fellow man and then from your fellow man.

And so that's what we're looking at this evening.

But going on to the next slide, brother Alex, you've changed up

there. OK, Zach, you looked a little

different. OK, Don't you guys be doing that

to me. Amen.

But when we talked about when we talked about communion,

communion really finds it's, it's it's place in the Old

Testament, the Passover. And then we find that it's

instituted in the Gospels. Jesus even kind of uses Passover

to introduce the Lord's Supper. It's instituted in the Gospels.

And it's then in First Corinthians chapter #11 we see

the observation of it taking place.

And the Apostle Paul kind of given some other guidance about

what is proper and not proper in all of those things.

But as we go back in the Old Testament, we talk about

communion. Quinonio Quinonia, rather, is

the Greek word that means commune.

In the New Testament, it means partnership.

It means fellowship. But here's the thing.

Usually when you talk about communion or communing with

someone, you have to have something common between the two

of you to come together on. And herein lies a difficulty.

How can we commune with God? Vastly different.

Big chasm between US and God. Vastly different.

What would humanity have in common with God to have

communion or fellowship or partner?

We got to have something in common, and that's where the

bread and the fruit of vine or the body and the blood come in

place, because God manifested himself in the flesh, according

to Timothy, as a result of that sister grace, then we had

something in common. Before.

What would there be between God and humanity?

Nothing. But since God became a man, we

have something in common and communion.

We come then and center ourselves in around that

commonality, right of body and blood, Amen.

And so when we look at this, we go back to the Otessa, I'm

already tell I'm dragging my feet, ain't I got to pick it up,

put it down, Amen. But we go back to the Otessa, we

go back to the Tabernacle because the Lord told Moses in

the Tabernacle system of that holies of holies, where the Ark

of the Covenant was, where the mercy seat was up on the Ark of

the Covenant. And there were cherubim on

either side of that Ark of the Covenant made of gold.

That was the place that the priest, according to the book of

Hebrews, would go in once a year.

But the Bible says not without blood, not without blood, He

would go in there. He'd sprinkled that blood there

and there would be communion with God.

The Lord would come down in a cloud between those cherubim on

that mercy seat and commune with that priest.

That was our communion was that. But it could not happen without

blood. And so with that comes the the

given. That blood came from a body.

Blood came from a sacrificial animal.

And so just as much as there was blood that blood necessitated,

there had to be a container, there had to be a body.

And so communion then happened, hinged upon those two pegs, 2

prongs of both blood and body that facilitated or enable bear

being communion being able to take place at the Ark of the

Covenant. Amen.

And so the Bible says, and I made mention that in Hebrews 9

and seven, you'll probably waffle back and forth, but into

the second, Speaking of that second, that area, not the holy

place, but the Holy of Holies with the high priest alone once

every year, not without blood, which he offered for himself and

for the heirs of the people. And so sweet communion took

place because of body and blood. That's a Old Testament, that's a

Old Testament establishment. But again, our communion takes

place because God made Himself a body, and there was body and

blood all right for the sake of the redeeming of mankind.

Because without blood, according to Leviticus and Hebrews,

without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sins

for you and I. But when we look at Passover,

the Old Testament Passover, and Feast of Passover that was

initiated in the Exodus chapter #12 if you'll recall, the

Israelites are in captivity in Egypt.

There's been a myriad of plagues that have went through.

Each plague has been aimed at a dog, the Egyptians.

The final plague that is to come upon Egypt is that the death of

their first born, the death of their first born.

But Moses has been commissioned by God that on this night that

if you Israelites will take the blood of the lamb and you will

strike it up on your doorpost and up on your lentil, when are

the death Angel passes by and it sees that blood, it will pass

over your households. Death will not come.

Now you're dwelling. And it's this very, this very

institution of Passover that was the springboard for the

deliverance of the children of Israel out of their Egyptian

bondage. And so they were to take the

blood of a lamb and put it on their lentil upon their door

post post. And that night when the deaf

Angel passed by and it's taken the first born of Pharaoh even

down to the one, the popper that's in a dungeon.

And even of the cattle, the Bible says where the blood was,

there was safety. And so they were able to leave

that night. The children of Israel was able

to leave that night, again with safety, with deliverance, with

redemption from bondage because of blood.

But where there's blood, there's always a body.

There was a lamb. And so again, upon those two

things of blood, a man and the body.

Here is a group of people that were incarcerated, bound slaves,

if you will, now set free and able to go free again.

All of that is casting a very big foreshadowing for New

Testament scripture of our freedom, of how we were bound to

sin. And I believe some of those

things are up there for you. Just for a comparison and a

contrast from the Passover and the Last Supper.

The Bible says, and I'm going to go to Exodus 12 verse #17

Brother Alex. The Bible says, and you shall

observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread.

For in this self same day have I brought your armies.

I always love the Scripture. I'll do it now until I die.

Brought your armies out of the land of Egypt.

Therefore shall you observe this day in your generations by an

ordinance forever. I always love this verse.

We got slaves 430 years in Egypt.

Slaves. They're told what to do, when to

do, how to do. They're slaves.

They are not the picture of an army.

They are the incarcerated, they are the subjected.

But the Bible says in the self same night, because of blood and

because of a body, that they left Egypt not as slaves, but as

an army. An army is, it's in rank, An

army is marshalled. An army is put together.

These are not a bunch of people that don't know their left hand

from the right hand or they're just in just total despair.

No, this is an army. This is an army on the move.

Matter of fact, Lord told Moses, he said when you eat that's lamb

tonight, he said make sure that you have your staff in your

hand, have your shoes on your feet and do it in haste because

you're going to be moving out of the condition that you're

presently in. You're going to be moving out of

this. And so I think it's important

tonight that we don't just come together and take communion.

We're looking at dead stare over in left field, you know, and

we're like thumbing our head and halfway sleep.

No, we are alert because actually communion is about a

transition. Communion is about movement,

right? Even it's about movement.

And it's what took place in that night.

And when we take the night, we, we, we remember, we remember all

of that. We were, they were bound.

But because of a body and blood, we are now free as an army that

is marshalled 4th. And so that's very important, I

believe this evening. So you look there before you on

this slide, the shadow to the substance again.

So you have the sacrificing, the sacrificing of the blood of a

slain lamb in the New Testament with the Lords Passover, what

will take place? You're going to have the body

that is bruised of Christ Jesus, all right, The blood that was

shed for all, right? He was a ransom for all.

We have the blood struck on the, the doorposts and such.

We have blood that shed for the removal or the remission of our

sins, Deliverance of the Old Testament of the Israelites from

Egypt in the New Testament, the Lord's Supper again of our

bondage from sin, Amen. Because we are, we are captives

to sin. You were born into the world

that way. You're a captive unto sin.

But the result, again, the slaves became army.

And then us who were sinners now become a part of this thing

called the church triumphant, Amen.

And that is a glorious thing, Amen.

Going on tonight where we talk about communion, there are a few

different directions, Amen, that that we can look toward whenever

we do communion tonight. You can find these in First

Corinthians chapter #11 like verses 26 through 29.

They are, they are there in the Scripture and I might even go to

a few of them. But one, one thing that we can

do, we look back. We've already spoke about that.

We can look back to Calvary. We can look back with a

gratitude of the sacrifice and the remission of sins that was

afforded us through that sacrifice.

The Bible says this in verse #26.

For as often as you eat the bread and drink this cup, you do

shew the Lord's death till he come.

So not only do we look back, but we also look forward.

Because Christ said when he was with his disciples and he took

communion with them, he said, I will not do this again.

We will not share this again until we come into my Kingdom.

He's making a reference to the marriage supper of the lamb.

That's after the Rapture, that's after this, that's after all of

that is taking place. He says we'll do this again when

we come to my Kingdom. And so taking communion isn't

just looking on back there what was done, but it's looking

forward to a day, looking forward to a day when at that

moment there'll be no more sorrow, no more pain, no more

despair, no more sickness, no more disease.

In that day it will be taken again.

Christ said, I'll, I'll renew it with you in that day.

So it's not just about what has happened, it's about where we

are going. And so as we take immune

tonight, that's what we're talking about.

This blood and this, this, this body, this bread and this fruit

of the vine. I'm still looking forward to

something. I'm not just thankful for what's

happened. I'm looking forward to

something. Listen, if you don't have

something to look for tonight beyond this life on this earth,

you need the experience of Calvary for the experience of

the marriage supper, Amen. Amen.

And so we, we can look backward, then we look backward.

Amen. At Calvary, verse #26 tells us,

all right. And then we also, though we look

forward a man according to verse #26 and verse 28, though it

tells us, but let a man examine himself.

And so let him eat that bread and drink that cup.

In other words, tonight we will, before we do this, this evening,

we'll have a time of prayer. We'll look introspectively into

our own lives, right? Anything that may need to be

made right in the sight of God. We're going to examine

ourselves, right? Going to examine ourselves Lord,

you know, you know you know my uprising and my down sitting and

my thought afar off. David said you're acquainted

with all of my ways. There's not a word in my mouth,

O Lord, but thou knowest it all together.

Search me O God. He started out that with search

me O God, and know my heart right and so that that's that

should be. Repentance is not a one time

practice leading into your baptism and Holy Ghost

infilling. Repentance is a daily thing.

The reason why Paul said he died daily, he was referencing

repentance. I'm going to take this old man

to the cross daily, right? Because I guarantee you there's

something this old man that needs to die or it's trying to

rear its head again today, right?

And so there is a there is a daily dying.

And so I examined, we examine ourselves, we look inward, but

also we also consider one, one another.

Look at verse #29 for he that Edith and drinketh unworthy

lead. And we'll look at that here in a

minute. Edith and drinketh damnation or

judgment to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

So there there was a problem in Corinthians 11.

They just kind of treated this whole communion session just as

every other potluck. OK Oh, they got the moon here to

the rain, you know, and it was even a part of what they called

Love Feast. And there would be other food

there. And people were coming in and

they were just gorging themselves and drinking and they

were being inconsiderate, as happens Brother James at

Potlucks. Well, let's talk about that for

a little bit. You know, people going in there

and they're piling up their plate and they're the first one

in line. They still got 60 people behind

them. Well, let's not get too touchy

there, huh? But in doing so, it's

inconsiderate. You have no consideration for

others that are there. And that was what was taking

place in this setting. There was no consideration.

And so that consideration, though, is being there's other

people, other members of the body here.

So in one respect, they're not discerning the Lord's body,

Other members of the body. It's not just about you and it's

not just about you. There's others to consider, but

also not discerning them. There's there's bread here

that's symbolical of his body. There's fruit of the vine here

that's symbolical of his blood. There's a certain amount of

reverence. Yes, you say, well, it's there's

just symbols. Well, true, but Moses mite in

the rock twice kept him out of the promised land and it was

just a rock and it said that rock that followed them was

Christ. So you know, we entered this

time with with reverence, right? Thinking about this, taking this

consideration. So we look in, we look around

discerning the Lord's body, we look at in the past, we look in

the future, all of these things, right?

We're looking with intent in the book of First Corinthians

chapter #11 verse #29 and the next slide also, so you can show

the Scripture 1st and then you go to slide, Brother Alex, verse

#29 of First Corinthians 11, that word unworthily.

Unworthily. A lot of people over the years

have got so stumped up over this passage, and it's mentioned

again then a little later, unworthily because they get this

mindset. Well, communion is only about

those who are worthy. The unworthy and unworthily are

two different words #1 unworthy is an adjective, It's going to

describe a noun. Unworthily.

That little LY, that's an adverb.

It's going to describe a verb action.

Because if we would consider it today, we'd say, well, only the

worthy can partake of communion. Someone opened the back door so

we all can just make our way home.

Because I'm not worthy. The best quotation marks among

us isn't worthy. I don't deserve the body or the

blood. It's not based upon the premise

of deserving, he said. That's the reason why scarcely

for a righteous man, even for a Sinner, he would dare to die.

Wasn't about worthiness. Amen.

And so when we talk about that, then it's not talking about

who's at the table, but it's talking about how we approach

the table, Our, our, our actions, our manner.

Is it a irreverent manner? Are we, are we just taking it

all just lightly? No big deal.

Is it in the disrespectful type manner?

Because clearly that was what was taking place in First

Corinthians #11 that's the reason why the apostle Paul is

calling them on these particular things.

So it's about how we approach the table, right?

With reverence. I'm, I'm unworthy.

You can be unworthy without acting irreverently, huh?

You you might not deserve it, but you can still know the price

of what brought that to you, right, of what brought that to

you. And so we have our heart really

must be in the right spot concerning those things going

on. Then tonight, Brother Alex, the

next slide, we're doing it 23 minutes.

See that ain't bad compared to other years.

Brother Earl, want to switch this a little bit from communion

to look at at foot washing, right?

That horizontal, that horizontal relationship with mankind.

The thing with foot washing, the Lord flipped the script at that

dinner that they had together. He flipped the script.

All the social norms were just totally undone.

I mean, typically if someone was going to have water that was

provided for their feet. The Jews were very big on

showing levels of hospitality even to strangers that may come

by their house. And if they come by their home,

it was customary as a law of hospitality that they would

provide water for the guests feet so that they could wash

their feet right. We see this in different places

of scripture. Abraham did it for the angels

that came to his house before he understood them totally, the

angels providing water for their feet.

Lot provided water for the visitation that he had of angels

there in, in, in Sodom and Gomorrah.

We read in Scripture that even whenever Joseph, the steward of

his house, Joseph's brothers are coming, waters provided for

their feet. And each of those episodes, the

owner of the feet or the person would wash their own feet.

That's what would take place. And so again, it's just

customary that that that's what happens.

And so one of the disciples are gathered together for this meal

and they're going to be eating this meal.

And there's someone hosting this.

Jesus is hosting this meal. They're coming in.

They're thinking, no doubt. We've been on the streets.

We've been walking along these roads.

They're not paved like our interstates or even like, you

know, you know, Cedar St. out here.

We're just talking about dust roads.

You travel the same roads that the animals are traveling.

There's things that come from animals.

You don't want to step in, but when you got big flocks, it's

almost unavoidable. And your shoes are not like

totally closed. They're open toed, open heeled.

They're just like a piece of leather with a little strap.

Katie, Something's bound to get on there.

Whether it be dirt, Whether it be not dirt.

Thank you, Sister Grace. You're working with me tonight.

I appreciate that interaction For the audience.

Yeah, not dirt. So you're coming into the home

here. Surely someone's going to

provide some water for the feet, right?

I mean, we're going to be not sitting at a table, but laying

at a table, usually resting on an elbow.

Feet, yes, are going to be away from the table.

But listen, you're next to a neighbor, and if there's not

dirt there, there's an aroma, huh.

I mean, I'm over here with my lamb's leg.

The last thing I want wafing, you understand?

Surely someone is going to provide some water, but

nothing's provided. As a matter of fact, the Bible

even says that whenever supper was ended that Jesus took off

his robe, which really shakes things up because we had a

typically done this before the meal.

So see, everybody's in a little tenuous place right here.

No, what I was provided, no servants come in.

We've already been eating. Can you imagine?

And what even makes this even bigger for me is leading up to

this time you read in the Gospels, you know, what the

disciples been doing before this moment has ever arrived,

deciding among themselves who's the greatest among them.

Matthew, I know you think you're, you know, a Happy Meal

on the side of fries, but I got the toy or whatever, you know

what I'm saying? They're kind of bantering back

and forth about who's the greatest among them.

So, you know, none of them is going to be stooping down to

wash Peter's feet, Matthew's feet, because that's above me.

No, no, no. But Jesus comes in as the Master

and the Lord, and he takes off his garment, which the garment

of his day indicated, indicated his, his row in life.

So he's kind of removing his identity and he lays that down.

And we got a few towels around here we could use tonight.

And he girts himself with a towel.

Oh, wait a minute, disciples thinking that's Lord and Master.

I need a beach towel spreading in the ministry.

We'll do it like this. Amen.

So what's going on? He's removing what everybody

would identify him by and when it would typically be the lowest

of servants that would do this for another person.

He said me being your master, your Lord been teaching you,

instructing you, none of you washing each other's feet.

So I'll get a pail and I'll get water and I'll assume that role

of a servant, but you call me master, I'll assume that role of

the servant. And he went by and he washed all

important, all the disciples feet.

He didn't pick and choose. He was like, oh, I'll do his,

let's raise it a little bit higher.

This is God manifest in the flesh.

He already knows who's going to betray him.

He already knows who's going to deny him.

He already knows who's going to walk away.

But he didn't let that interfere with stooping before Judas,

stooping before Peter, stooping before every other.

Now, let's just back up and let's get real with humanity for

a moment. The last person anyone would

probably want to wash feet with tonight would be someone you

have something against or that you know has something against

you. But Jesus, he just flips it all.

He provides the water. He kneels and he's driven by his

unconditional love, and he's washing feet one after the

other, after the other, after the other.

And Peter's even a little taken aback by it.

When you read of it in John chapter 13, it's like, Lord you,

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you're not going to wash my feet.

What's Peter caught in? He's pop caught in the custom.

It's unheard of for someone so superior of a position as you

are to wash feet. He couldn't, he couldn't grapple

with the idea that the Lord was actually going to do this and go

on to our next one, loving them unto the end, the next slide, if

you will, because John 13 one starts out, John 13 one starts

out like that. It's Speaking of Christ Jesus.

And this is what he basically says.

He says now before the feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew

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. He loved them into the end.

He loved them through their mistakes.

He loved them through their faults, through their failures.

He loved them to the end. Again, I'm washing Judas's feet.

I mean the little space removed from this moment.

He's going to tell Judas, whatever you do, go, do quickly.

He's going to be leaving because he's going to be betraying later

in the garden hours from this moment in time, but He's washing

Judas's feet. The Bible speaks how Satan they

come into his heart. I all times say this.

Maybe you'll get tired of me saying it over the next 15

years, but I'm going to continue to do it.

Amen here. Something's already happened in

Judas heart, but the Lord has his feet.

I know you got some conflicting things going on there, but I'm

I'm trying to wash I'm if I can say I'm trying to direct.

I got your feet, Peter. Lord, I'd die for you.

Lord, that's not going to happen.

You don't have to worry about me.

I'm going with you all the way. No, no, Peter.

Before the cock crows wise. You're going to deny me thrice.

You're going to tell people. Oh, aren't you one of those

galleons? No.

Aren't you with him? No, I don't know him.

You're going to deny me three times.

But I'm going to stoop here. I'm going to wash your feet.

We give Peter a hard time for what he did.

And that he fled and followed the Lord from a distance of the

Bible says in the Garden of Gethsemane, whenever they came

and arrested the Lord, that all the disciples fled.

And He knew they all would in his darkest hour, if we could

put it in these terms as though he needed them.

But they were. There was that friendship in

that community. When he needed them the most,

they abandoned him. Yet whenever we've needed him

the most, He's always showed up. And so the washing feet going on

to the next library there, Alex, 2 basins, 2 choices startling

that in the same storyline so close together that we have this

and really not too far removed as far as in time frame from one

another. Jesus grabs a basin and water to

wash feet. Doing so again, it was typically

the owner of the feet that washed their own feet.

Always loved this because Jesus doing this for them.

It's almost as though I own you. And so he's taking

responsibility. There's dirt, there's grime on

their feet that they got on their feet because of where they

walked. Huh.

You had to walk right through that, didn't you?

But I'm going to wash it off. So he's taking responsibility,

right? This is his love, sacrificial

love. Yet in the same mode we see just

a little later, a politician punches Pilot.

He grabs a basin 2 and water. He's not washing feet.

He's washing his own hands because he doesn't want any

responsibility, anything to do with the Lord.

Do with him as you will. So you have two separate

individuals, 1A King, another a politician.

One says I'll become responsible.

The other one says I don't want any responsibility.

And folks, if there's anything you would want responsible,

you'd want responsibility for the Lord.

He's like, no, I don't want anything to do with that.

But Jesus says I'll take all the I'll take all the grime, I'll

take all this other stuff, I'll take it up on me.

Amen. And so he grabs those basins and

he washes the disciples feet. So the question you got to ask

yourself, if you're grabbing a basin, are you doing it to

remove yourself from responsibility?

Are you engaging and being responsible?

Well, I ain't going to be responsible for Zach McGee.

Well, what about all those verses about burying one

another's burdens? What about that Galatians 6 of

when you see a brother overtaking the fault you which

your spiritual restore such a Amen going on the physics of

forgiveness, the coefficient of friction.

I'm joking, sorry. Oh physics joke.

So washing one another's feet, going back to the Old Testament

again, the Bible speaks of the priest, that the priest before

they entered the Tabernacle, they were to wash their hands

and their feet so that they would be pure and clean before

the Lord as they would enter into that place.

There's something seen almost then in the washing of feet that

takes place in the Book of Revelation.

The Bible says that He's making us kings and priests.

All right, So with that being said, if we're to have clean

hands and clean feet, there's something that happens.

And I, I don't have one out here to picture it for you tonight,

but as you are washing another person's feet, your hands is in

that same water that's cleansing their feet.

Your hands are there and there's something that happens.

We talked about, and I think I have it up there on probably the

next slide, but there is a mode of forgiveness that you've

received from God. The Bible says that if we cannot

forgive, then he won't forgive because we've been in able to

forgive others because we have been forgiven years ago.

And I've preached forgiveness more than once around here.

But if there's forgiveness found anywhere, it should be in the

House of the forgiven. Oh, I didn't come in here with a

silver spoon in my mouth. He gave me forgiveness.

Who am I then, to withhold forgiveness from anybody else?

Because sometimes I can enter that mode and I can, I can Arbor

some some resentment. I can Arbor some some some

bitterness, right? My hands can be full, if you

will, of grudge and anger, right?

But sometimes I got to lower myself and wash, wash some feet.

And sometimes it's almost like an act of forgiveness.

I'm going to wash some feet. And in doing so, you're washing

some of the resentment and the, the bitterness off of your own

hands because you might be serving the one that offended

you. You know, the only person that

stays bound whenever you're not able to forgive is you.

You've been offended by XYZ. They're going to go on with

their life, but you're going to be held hostage because you've

not forgiven them for what they supposedly done to you.

It's like the little, I said it before, it's like the little

bird got a little, got a little feeder in the tree.

That's my feeder. Eats there all the time.

It stays up in the tree, Missy, watching other birds come to

feed and comes down and chases them away.

Don't want anybody else feeding them my feeder.

But you know what the bird has done?

The bird has incarcerated the freedom of of its life because

it's just constantly sitting there watching the feeder.

It can't go anywhere else, do anywhere else, because it's

bound by what it thinks it deserves.

We Arbor unforgiveness in our spirit sometimes toward people.

The Lord's forgiven us, but we're not willing to let them

go. But we're the ones bound.

We're the ones bound. We're the ones with dirty hands

because we've not allowed ourselves to be lowered.

God has commanded us to wash. In the book of John 13, he says

wash one another's feet. I've given you an example.

Go and do likewise for one another.

Wash one another's feet. And the awesome thing about that

is in the moment that I wash your feet, my hands are getting

clean, your feet are getting clean.

But when we switch my feet are getting clean and your hands

become clean. There is a mutual interdependent

forgiveness that can take place sometimes when we enter with the

mindset of being cleansed and made pure before God going on

got to got to beat my record not of going over under all right,

so the table in the basin. So there's a deep love from God

at the table by the blood and the body, right?

Forgiveness that he's offered me through Calvary at the table.

But then at the basin I'm learning to love again like God.

There's 2 verses of scripture that are that I think are

essential. Matthew 26 and verse 28.

The Bible says this is concerning communion.

He says this is my blood of the New Testament or New Covenant,

which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Then we read in John 13 this is concerning foot washing a new

commandment. I give to you that you love one

another as I have loved you that you also love one another.

By this shall all men know that you are my disciples.

If you have loved one to another.

And so community says there's a New Testament in my blood and

that is all your old sacrifices and animals of blood of that

year always push your sins forward.

Just one year says, but the New Testament in my blood, the new

covenant in my blood is it's a once for all sacrifice.

Blood don't have to be shed ever again because I'm the perfect

Lamb of God. It's shed once.

You don't have to worry about more blood, bulls and goats.

No, no, no, no. It's a once for all.

It's a New Testament, a new covenant in my blood.

But there's also a new commandment.

He says love one another. Lord, we already got this

commandment. We got this in Deuteronomy.

We got this in the 10 commandments.

We got this. You've already talked about love

one another, but he gives the the impression the major love

one another as I have loved you. Oh, he gives the standard, well,

love, love one as you love yourself.

OK, but for some people they ain't a very good thing, he

says. The standard is love as I have

loved, so I'm loved by God. And then I'm learning how to

love like God and forgiveness isn't just coming to me, but

then it's going out from me and for my brothers and sisters back

to me. I'm in last slide.

So what we're going to do tonight, 42 minutes in and this

gives us time to do what we need to do.

Oh, this is still over here. But what we're going to do

tonight, we'll take communion, the bread and the fruit of the

vine again, in doing so, we're going to stand here in just a

little bit. And as is on that slide right

there, we're going to repent, right?

We're going to acknowledge any shortcomings in our life that

we're aware of. You might even pray some of

those generic prayers of those that you're not aware of, All

right, to have a clean heart before God.

And then we're going to ask God to, you know, things that we may

be arboring in our spirit. Maybe some of those things have

been there for a long time, right?

Because resentment and bitterness that just, that's not

us. That's just not like a turnkey

thing that slowly happens as we allow something to remain, as we

allow something to remain. And so we might ask God to help

us, you know, release some of those things, release some of

that bitterness, release that betrayal, release offenses that

we have. If there's anybody here, listen,

if anybody here has something against somebody right here

tonight, it'd probably a good night to just get taken care of.

Amen. No sense in allowing that bone

chain to continue with you on your journey, but also with all

of those things of repentance and stuff.

And we take the bread and we take the fruit of the vine.

We're also, they'll go look in those four directions, right?

We're examining ourselves. We're looking backward to

Calvary. We're looking forward to the day

that we'll take this anew and his Kingdom and we're

considering the Lord's body. We're considering one another as

many as want to participate tonight.

You can come and get one of these and I'll read some

scripture and we can do this together.

Say why we do this together. Well, again, it's that

communion, it's that unity. When you put the bread in your

mouth, we all have the same taste in our mouth at the same

time. You put that fruit of the vine

in your mouth. We all have that same taste at

the same time. And so there's unification.

If you want to participate tonight, you can come and get

these. Bread is in the top, and of

course, the juice is in the bottom.

And then as you are coming, if you can get me first, First

Corinthians chapter #11 and verse 24.

If it's not up there, that's fine, Brother Alex.

I can do it right from here this evening.

So we're going to repent, we're going to release, we're going to

remember. It says as often as we do it, we

do it in remembrance of him. Some people do this every week,

some do it every quarter, some do it every month.

We do it about once a year. There is no time frame.

But as much as you do do it, we're to do it in remembrance of

him. Because as I do this night with

the Reese, I'm thinking about Calvary.

I'm thinking about the substitute for Paul McGee.

I think that should be a heavy thought, a heavy thought to

consider. There's one little film on the

very top that'll give you access to the communion wafer.

So if you can pull back that little top layer that gives you

access to that communion wafer, the bread or the body.

Remember that's the bruised body, the the pierced body as

illustrated in Scripture. This is just a symbol of that

beat body. The Bible says in first

Corinthians 11 where it was observed, verse 24, we have

given thanks. He break it and said, take, eat.

This is my body which is broken for you.

Do this in remembrance of me. Amen.

Tonight as you take this, if you can just remember the broken

body of the Lord Jesus. Take and eat, Lord, I remember

that you was pierced for me. I remember the stripes upon your

back. God was for my sin and for my

sickness. I remember, O Lord, that that

that that spear through your side, Lord, blood and water came

out. God, I remember, O Lord Jesus,

that there was a crown of thorns upon your head.

God an emblem, Lord of the sin, Lord of Genesis, thorns and

thistles. The ground was cursed with God.

It was for me. It was for me, God.

We're coming up on, Lord at the Resurrection Sunday.

Now we're coming up on Good Friday.

Lord, all of that was for me and I'm appreciative today of it.

I thank you. The Bible says the First

Corinthians, if you pull back that next little layer there

you'll have access to the Jews. The Bible says in First

1 Corinthians 11:25

Corinthians 11 verse 25 after the same manner also he took the

cup when he had Sup saying this cup is the New Testament in my

blood. This beauty as OFT as you drink

it in remembrance of me, you can take up the cup.

Thank you Lord for the blood of Calvary.

Thank you O Lord, without the shed in the blood there is no

remission. I'm still in my sin.

If there was never no bloodshed. God, that you shed that blood,

Lord, Jesus, you shed that blood.

God, we sing the song that the blood still flows.

The Lord, it still meets people, Lord, it still meets them where

they are and their dilemmas and their troubles and their

heartaches and their pains. God, it's still there.

It's still ample. Lord, I love you, Jesus, I love

you. Jesus, I love you.

Jesus, can you just raise your voice in Thanksgiving right now,

or hands raised into the Lord? God, I look back on Calvary, but

God, I look to a day in the future, God, a day in the

future, that of that same spirit that raised Christ from the

dead, dwell on me. It will quicken my mortal

bodies. God, it will change this mortal

to immortality, this corruptible to incorruptible God, So shall

our change come, I pray, O Lord, we'll drink the new Lord Jesus

in your Kingdom. I pray, O Lord, it's forever a

memorial, Forever. Lord Jesus, a recollection and a

remembrance, God of your sacrifice.

Lord, in our stand, for us, because of us, I thank you, Lord

Jesus, today for it. I praise you, Lord Jesus, today

for it. Thank God, Thank God, thank God,

thank God, thank God, I love you, Jesus, I love you, Jesus, I

love you, Jesus, Oh, the blood of Jesus that washes us as white

as snow. God, our sins were red as

scarlet, but you wash them, Lord, as white as snow.

God, we're grateful today for it.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

I was a betrayer of God, but you was there, Lord.

I was a denier, but you were there, God, I fled, but you were

there, always there. God, You're patiently waiting,

Lord, You're caring. Lord, Jesus for me, being

mindful, Lord of me, oh Lord, while I was yet a Sinner, you

died for me. Lord Jesus, God, the death Angel

will pass by. Lord, I'll know death, but I

won't know eternal death and damnation.

Because Lord of the blood, oh Jesus, it gives me strength from

day-to-day, It will never, ever lose its power.

Hallelujah, Jesus, Hallelujah, Jesus, Hallelujah, Jesus, Lord,

oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord, oh Lord.

It's not by might nor by power, but God, it's by your spirit,

God, it's because of your spirit, O God, we don't have

anything to offer but our brokenness.

We don't have anything to offer, Lord, but our mistaken lives.

We don't have anything offer, Lord Jesus, but our availability

unto you, O Lord, Hallelujah, Jesus, Hallelujah, Jesus,

Hallelujah, Jesus, Hallelujah, Jesus, Hallelujah.

I love you Jesus. I love you, Jesus.

I love you Jesus. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Amen.

We're going to be dismissed here in just a little bit.

Ladies, go back on the kitchen side if you're going to be

involved in foot washing. Men, we'll be back on this side.

We have the partition closed in between the two.

Ladies can get from water from the kitchen sink.

Men, we'll go to the mud room. That's where men belong in the

mud room. We'll go to the mud room and

we'll get our water. If you desire to participate.

Please remember though, tomorrow night, it's going to be very

easy to forget that tomorrow night's prayer, okay, just

because everything going on. I know this week in everybody's

life, tomorrow night, prayer, their church, church 7 to 8 and

then Resurrection Sunday here at 10, Amen.

One service only. Come and be a part of that.

If you'll stay with me tonight, I'll give a prayer of dismissal,

Amen, For all of us and those who stay may stay.

Those who need to leave or go can go.

Father, I thank you tonight. I praise you, O Lord Jesus, God,

that we enter into this session. Lord, this evening, God, this

time of remembrance, God, as you did, Lord Jesus with your

disciples, God, before that faithful Lord Jesus, weekend of

events, I pray, O Lord, tonight, help help us to go.

Lord, let this be constant on our mind.

Help us to live, Lord, in that mode in the next few days of

remembrance and thinking and consideration, Lord, of

everything that has taken place thousands of years ago for our

benefit. God, I pray, O Lord, be of your

people, help them to have a good week, Lord, as they go their

separate ways, that your hand of protection be upon them and

bring us back on Sunday, God, ready to rejoice, Lord, over a

resurrection, Hallelujah, that still has implications for us

today. In the lovely name of Jesus

Christ that I pray Amen man and Amen.

Can the church say Amen, Amen. If you need dismissed, be

dismissed. If you're going to participate,

you can go to your respective areas here tonight in Jesus

name.