Communion & Foot Washing 2025 | Pastor Paul McGee

Man Hallelujah, you can read his word Amen and all the mysteries

and the secrets are revealed Amen And his word the Bible in

Romans chapter number one said that even even nature closes in

on his divine power and his Godhead Amen.

Nature itself Amen informs us of all these things Hallelujah.

What a great spirit of the Lord, what a great spirit of the Lord.

I want to be mindful of that that spirit of God Amen.

I want to involve myself in with that all that made me think of

Scripture actually in the the book of Exodus Amen.

The Bible says that the children of Israel had arrived at Mount

Sinai after leaving Egypt. That's where they would receive

the law of God. The Lord had already told Moses,

he says, I'm going to come down. There's going to be smoke,

lightning, fire, all this thunderings said you, you said

you set a perimeter. So I'm a holy God, right?

I'm a holy God. So you set a perimeter where the

people can get back close to me and hear me and what I have to

say and and so on and so forth. And the Bible basically tells us

that all of this came about and it was so.

And the people saw the lightning and the Thunder and the smoke,

and Moses even told him, sanctify yourself for three days

and then come and draw close into the Lord.

The Bible says when they saw that and they really experienced

the nearness of God, when they really experienced the nearness

of God, the Bible plainly says that they removed and then went

and stood afar off and they told Moses, Moses, why don't you talk

to us rather than us hearing from God?

This is in your Bibles. Why don't you talk to us rather

than hearing from God? And the Bible says they just

kept standing afar off as Moses drew near the darkness, the

thick darkness where God was. I hope this week, Bishop, that

we can draw back close to where the fire and the smoke, that we

won't stand afar off. I felt God's presence come down.

When you think about it, that in part really explains why there

was ever this whole mediation of a man between a nation and a

people because they said we like you God, but we don't want to

get that near. We don't want to get that close.

And it would take this whole generation of time through all

the offices of a priest of the Old Testament and Jesus Christ

being the mediator between God and man, Christ Jesus, that

tempt he spoke of that after, then finally the death, burial

and resurrection. It tore down that whole system

that all of us can go boldly. What was that getting back to?

It was getting back to God's original plan of being close to

his people. Man, I feel the Holy Ghost.

Thank you, Jesus, Hallelujah, Amen.

Let's see what we can do tonight, huh?

Some other consecrative things tonight with communion, foot

washing, and you can throw my first slide up there and I'll

control it, try to the best of my ability, control it from

here. Amen.

This evening, we're not going to be going right into a scripture

right here. I'm just going to ask for us to

pray. I know we've been doing a lot of

praying, but we need God's help in the next little while.

Father, I love you tonight, God. I'm so grateful, Lord, for your

spirit, God, that we have both experienced and felt God thus

far. God, I pray, Lord, that this is

just a good stage, Lord, this evening for Lord, your Spirit to

continue to minister. God through God, these these

memorials, these ordinances, God of your word, I pray God to

concentrate upon aspects Lord of our lives that we live unto you.

I pray God that you're able to help us now in the next little

while and will not fail to thank you for it.

In Jesus name everybody say Amen.

Amen once again Pat, so good to see you tonight.

Amen. Does my heart well to see your

Amen face here this evening. Pat isn't a stranger Amen to the

first Apostolic Church. I OFT times joke he's the only

reason why that we have a a tape CD or any type of ministry like

that. It was here because he used to

buy every CD, every tape that ever got got put out from here.

And so now it's all online. So you know anybody.

But if you want, if you ever need something that's from the

archive, you can probably see Pat.

He might have it, you know, still yet, maybe some cobwebs on

it, I don't know. Amen.

But you can see see him for that here this evening, Communion

foot washing. So I'm going to talk about both

tonight. Going to talk about communion

first and then I'm going to talk about foot washing.

Both of these things throughout the history of the church, not

just biblical history, but history since I've been alive

have been practices, morals, if you will, ordinances of the

church that we have have participated in.

And that is even told some of these things that they are to be

done forever or even as Jesus spoke to them when he washed the

disciples feet in John chapter 13.

John 13 · chapter mention

That as I have done unto you, go and do likewise.

A type of scenario. And so something that's always

interesting to me. That's me bro, a man.

Can you get nice one slide back up there.

I might have went the wrong direction.

I don't know if I'm going frontwards or backwards tonight.

All right, it did it again. Can you do it one more time?

Amen. There we go.

The greatest commandments foot wash in the communion and I've

taught on this for years, right? We do this typically we try to

get it in every year, but foot Washington Communion really

parallel to aspects of of commandments in reality, when

the lawyer came to Jesus and he was testing him and trying him

about, you know what, what are the 2 greatest commandments And

we, we would say, and maybe you know what those two commandments

are, but being that you would love God, just just making them

simple in a nutshell, that you would love God and that you

would love your neighbor as yourself.

And he said all the other commandments, right.

All these 613 other commandments that we read of in, in the

Jewish law and so forth. All those others hang or hinge

upon those two commandments. And, and that's really true,

Sister Jessica, even whenever we look like in Exodus 20 of just

the 10 commandments, right? These two of loving God and

loving your neighbor, we can take the 10 commandments and

even start hanging them on one or the other.

Because if you love God, then you will not make any graven

image, all right, which is one of the 10 commandments.

If you love God, you won't worship anything else but Him

alone, which is one of those commandments.

This. And then likewise, if you get

the second part of Exodus chapter 20, like the last five

Exodus 20 · chapter mention

of the last portions of those commandments, if you love your

neighbor, you will not kill, you will not steal from them.

You will not bear false witness against your neighbor, right?

And so you have these other things that that you will not do

so based upon these two. So whenever you look at

communion and foot washing, they really have their places up on

or within these two categories. When we talk about communion,

we're going to talk about it here in just a little bit.

Communion is that time for reflection of community number

one, we're here to commune with God through communion, but we're

thinking up on that death, that burial, that resurrection, what

he had done for us, right to open up a door of communication,

a communion with us. And so we're thinking back on

that. So it's our love for God aspect.

And then when we talk about foot washing, right, Jesus washing

all the disciples feet and then him saying, as you see me do, go

and do likewise whenever we do this.

And yes, it is an act of humility to do such a thing, but

we'll look at it here in a little bit.

It's it's that loving your neighbor type of aspect that is

that is being concentrated on here.

But interestingly enough, both have to do with love.

It's just where that love is directed in the moment of that

ordinance or in the moment of of that memorial, our loving God

and expression, if you will, of our love of God or a love for

our neighbor. And so when we talk about these

things, foot washing, foot communion, we see them depicted

in the scripture and we might say, well, they're, they're just

symbols or they just stand for something.

Then they do like many things, even in the Old Testament that

were shadows of of good things that were to come.

There's a lot of symbolism in the scripture.

But to say that they don't mean anything or if there's there's

no ground of importance to them would be a farce in reality.

Because when you look at some of the Old Testament symbols, they

stood and had meaning for something that a greater

representation than what they were even were.

We look at the Old Testament, we look at all of the the feast

days, if you will, that's throughout the Old Testament

like like like Passover and unleavened bread and Pentecost

and Tabernacles. We say, well, that that's just

all. Yes, but what it represented,

what it stood for, what it's connected to is so much larger

and so vital and so important. The sacrificial system, the Old

Testament, we know, of course, that was totally fulfilled in

Christ Jesus, but it stood for something that represented

something that had a lot of meaning.

The Tabernacle in point, right? The outer court, the inner

court, the holies of holies, all those things in their symbols

and representations of other things.

So symbols do mean something. And I've said this for years in

in teaching this at different times and you all getting off

easy because I'm putting them both in one rather than having a

night set aside for each, which what I did for several years.

But nonetheless, if we say that the symbols don't mean anything,

then Moses should have been able to enter the promised land

though he smote a rock. There's a New Testament

scripture in Corinthians says that rock that followed them was

Christ. Well, it's a symbolism, an

embolism that that rock was Christ.

But even him smiting the symbol kept him from entering the

promised land. And so it means something.

We, we have other stories like Joe Ash, the young king,

whenever he went to visit Elijah.

Elijah is a old man at this point.

He's laying in the bed and, and Joash is asking some instruction

about war and about fighting. And this causes Elijah to rise

out of his bed. And Elijah tells Joash, he says

grab, grab your bow. And he does.

And that old prophet puts his hands up on Joash's hands and he

says open the window, point the arrow and he says shoot the

arrow. And he did.

And he, he told Josh he says take the arrows and he said beat

them on the ground. The Bible says, I think Joash

hit like 3 times up on the ground and, and Elijah said back

to him, he said, I wish you had just, you know, done more than

that. He said as a result of this,

you're only going to defeat, I believe it was Syria.

I said you're only going to defeat them three times.

He said I was what was it? It was just a symbol, arrows,

but in his beating he was embolizing the type of

deliverance he was going to have.

And so if none of this means anything, then he could have had

victory without beating him more times and so and so forth.

So you get the concept of the idea that we're portraying here.

And so when we look at these things, the Last Supper that is

written about in Matthew chapter 26, and you see it also in the

Matthew 26 · chapter mention

other harmony of the Gospels, the Lords Supper was instituted

in the same night that the Passover meal had taken place.

All right, you we read about Passover in Exodus chapter #12

and Exodus chapter #13 the Lords Supper was instituted in that

same night. And to understand this, the Old

Testament sacrificial system, right, It always required blood

whenever the priest was going to enter into the holies of holies

where the Ark of the Covenant was.

And up above on top of the Ark of the Covenant was that thing

called the mercy seat. Whenever all that took place, it

always required blood. The priest could not enter in

there on the Day of Atonement without blood, all right, for

him to be there. And no, in the book of Exodus

you will read of this the first time with Moses.

He told Moses, he said, I will meet with, with, with the

priest. I will meet with my people

between the cherubim that are up upon the mercy seat.

His, his presence would come down in that cloud.

And there would be, if you will, communion, communion with the

Spirit of the Lord on that mercy seat.

But you didn't get into that place of communion without

blood. But if there is blood, there is

a body that the blood has come from.

There's blood, there's body that the blood come from.

Sacrificial blood already denotes there must be a

sacrificial body. And so for us, when we talk

about communion, then we talk about the fruit of the vine that

Jesus will say, take, this is my blood of the New Testament.

And when we talk about the body, we're talking about, he says,

this bread, this is my body taken, eat of it.

Jesus Christ ultimately being the ultimate sacrifice that

provided both the body and the blood for communion, All right,

for communion with the Lord. All of that is typified in the

Old Testament, Amen. Through the sacrificial system

and even through the mercy seat in the ark of the covenant.

Let's look at this particular Scripture tonight of Hebrews

chapter #9 and verse #7 he says, But into the second went the

high priest alone once every year.

This is the Day of Atonement. Look again.

Not without blood, which he offered for himself and for the

errors of the people. So blood was required.

Body was required. Blood and body, a man of food,

of the vine and bread, if you will.

It was the Old Testament standard.

And so that's what we even see, though taking place even with

Passover. When we come to Passover, many

may be familiar with the story of Exodus chapter #12 it is that

last plague of Egypt, the death of all of the first born, right?

And Moses came with the plea, a man for the children of Israel,

that in order for the death Angel to pass by us and it not

to be our first born, it's going to require the slaughtering of a

lamb. And we're going to have to take

the blood of that lamb. And we're going to put that

blood up on the lentil and up on the doorpost.

And so that whenever the death Angel comes by, when it sees the

blood, it will Passover us. And so once again, we have a

sacrificial body and the sacrificial blood, right?

The body is what made the blood available.

But it was also you could have sacrificed the lamb and had

blood in a basin and never had blood on a doorpost and a lentil

because it involved the people, huh?

It involved the sacrificial animal that gave us the blood.

But it involves the people for the appropriation of the blood

up on the House. And if you'll remember, he said

it 1 lamb per family. And he said if if there be more

lamb, then there is family. He said, call over your

neighbor. In other words, we don't want

any lamb wasted. We don't want any lamb wasted.

And so they would call over their neighbors.

And on that night of Passover, due to a sacrificial body and

sacrificial blood, the children of Israel were released from 400

years of bondage that they had been out.

There was deliverance. There was a freedom, Amen.

And so when we think of this, whenever we go tonight, we take

communion. We have the food of the vine and

bread. It's all these things that we

are remembering, Sister Grace, we're remembering that children

of Israel, their deliverance, Amen.

Leaning upon a sacrificial body and the sacrificial blood.

And so this is important. The Bible says in Exodus 12 and

verse #14 it says these words and this day shall be unto you

Speaking of Passover for a memorial, and you shall keep it

a feast to the Lord throughout your generations.

You shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever, he says.

This is for a memorial. Has anybody ever been to a

memorial? Have you ever been to the 9/11

memorial or some other memorial in our country?

You go there, whatever it is, they might have something there

that reads that accounts of whatever took place and

happened. It's sometimes a very somber,

according to what it's memorializing time and you're

standing there and what are you doing as an individual?

A lot of times I've been to places like there in Oklahoma

City, OK, where there was the, the, the bombing there that took

place. And I've been to that memorial

and they have a time of silence and what's going on.

Everybody is reflecting on that day and what took place on that

day and what happened on that day.

And so when we later do what we do, that is part of, in case in

point, what's taking place. This is a memorial.

We're remembering Calvary, We're remembering that the, the, the,

the Egyptians that are mourning their first born, but Israel

going out with all of their first born because they had a

sacrificial body and a sacrificial blood.

Amen. He says, So this is a memorial.

This is an ordinance that we keep year by year going on to

verse #17 of Exodus chapter #12 the Bible says, And ye shall

observe the feasts of leavened bread.

For in this, and this is awesome to me, always has been.

For in this self sane day have I brought your armies out of the

land of Egypt. Wherefore therefore shall you

observe this day in your generations by an ordinance

forever. So he's again talking to him

about Passover. He says, in this self sane day,

I love this. You were delivered.

But here's what I love, Brother Fred.

He said I brought you out as armies.

Think with me for a moment. In just a split moment of time,

they went from slaves. Someone tell them what to do,

when to do, how to do. They went from slaves to be an

exiting Egypt as an army. How?

A sacrificial body and sacrificial blood, ladies and

gentlemen, that's what we consider.

That's what I consider as a New Testament St. as I do communion.

I understand what I was enslaved to, what I was bound to, but in

the moment that I became a partaker, if you will, of the

blood in the body and everything that Christ sacrifice did for

me, I come forth not as a slave anymore.

I if I can say I'm a soldier in the army of the hear me, I come

out as an army, I come out as a soldier.

That's reason to contemplate Amen and commune with the Lord.

I've used this quote several seven years ago.

It's AW Tozer from the pursuit of God in John 17 as Jesus

Christ high priestly prayer. It's Christ in his flesh crying

out to God, crying out to the Spirit.

And he's praying over the disciples.

He's praying over those that would come to him based upon

their word and their testimony and his prayers, Lord, that they

would be one as we are one, right?

That they would be one as we are one.

And we know that God was manifested in the flesh.

Corinthians tells us, to wit, that God was in Christ.

The New Testament tells us he was manifested.

So there is this oneness and connectivity between Christ,

Amen, the, the flesh of man and the Spirit of God in that man.

And he says that they may be one.

This is what AW Tozer said. He said, has it ever occurred to

you that 100 pianos all tuned to the same fork, tuning fork are

automatically tuned to each other?

I've said this before, because I don't have to come in and, and,

and take a piano and I can't tune a piano anyway, mind you,

but I can't tune a piano and then take that piano and tune

another piano to that one. That would be very rigorous to

have to do that. Imagine these poor guys at tune

pianos before Brother Mike Wilson.

He does. Could you imagine him having to,

you know, have a old upright piano on on some carts somewhere

as he goes to tune pianos because he's going to base it up

off the tune of that one? No, he goes through with a

tuning fork, and yet in all these places he uses that same

tuning fork. If you could bring all the

pianos together that he tuned with that tuning fork, they

would all be in tune with each other.

There's something that happens with communion because we want,

we want, yes, communion with God.

But here's the marvelous thing that happens when we get in

communion with God, we get in in rightness with each other.

Sometimes we get overly, you know, down as far as I got to

get right with brother freeze and oh, then I got with Jessica

over here, you know, and then man, I'm drive myself mad.

But if Reese can get right with God and communion with God and

Jessica can get communion with God and pastor can get communion

with God, you know what happens? We're automatically in communion

with each other because we got there is I mean, even later

night when you think about and I say this all times and that's

OK. I'll I'll repeat till I died,

you know, sometimes some repetitions how we learn.

But you, you take the fruit of the vine and all these, these

grapes that have been been squashed and squished and all

those other words that you can say crap, you know, to produce

this juice that whenever I partake of it, a lot of

different grapes that they're all smashed together and they

make this the substance. And then whenever I drink it

later tonight, at the same time that you drink it, I have the

same taste in my mouth that you have in your mouth.

And whenever I eat that bread, that's that corn that's been

bruised and crushed and made into a flour type thing and the

right ingredients added for a bread to take place.

Then whenever I eat that, what's in my mouth is in your mouth

there, there is a communion, if you will.

We are all involving ourself in the same thing at the same time.

And there's a communion then that happens.

So just to specify the Old Testament, the Old Testament is

the origin. The Old Testament is the origin.

Passover, think of that is the very origin really of communion.

And then whenever you get into the Gospels like Matthew and

John, it is really then the institution.

Whenever the Bible says whenever supper had ended, then they went

to wash feet. But we see that the Lord's

Supper was instituted during the time of Passover and so provides

then a bridge or connection from the Old Testament to the New

Testament. But then in Corinthians, the

apostle Paul in First Corinthians chapter #11 he kind

of goes over with some clarification concerning how we

observe, Amen. Communion.

This is what Paul says in First Corinthians 1118 and 19.

Amen. I'm glad you guys had my time

going so we can keep this straight.

For first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear

that there be divisions among you.

And I partly believe that he says for there must be also

hears hearsays, which means sex or party or or clicks like

groups, right factions. We could say it like that said

there's there's there's factions, there's parties,

there's clicks among you that they which are approved may be

made manifest among you. We just go on just a little

further here, he says, for he that eateth and drinketh

unworthily, he's talking here about communion.

Unworthily means irreverently. And here's where some people

lose it, right, because they see unworthily as unworthy.

Two different words, two different words in the English

language, two different words here.

For sure. If we were based in our partake

in the communion, based upon worth, we all just might leave

right now and go home and eat sausage and Bologna and whatever

hang up our hats. It would be done.

It's unworthily. It's how you partake.

They, they were coming in and they weren't giving it the

reverence that it deserved because we're talking about

Christ's death here, right? It was just kind of a haphazard,

you know, thing. As a matter of fact, they, they

had these kind of a feast that kind of went along with that.

And it said some were coming in and they were just gorging

themselves with this stuff and they were being inconsiderate of

one another as they were going in the process.

It was just kind of just pale male, just just totally just

chaos. And he says so.

So he that drinketh unworthily or irreverently eateth and drink

of damnation. That word there means judgement

to himself not deserve returning the Lord's body, not deserting

the Lord's body. Now really whenever it says not

deserting the Lord's body, that is like A2 edged sword because

not deserting the Lord's body number one, with the actual

fruit of the vine and the bread that is there.

But number two, guess what Scripture tells us, Corinthians

says that ye, we, the church is the body of Christ.

So they're coming in here pushing each other aside, being

very irreverent. They're not, they're not

discerning or being considerate of one another and how they were

even doing this. And so he says that we can't

have none of that. You, we, we got to be conscious

of one another because we're going to have communion with

him. And as a result, communion,

communion with one another. The Bible says backing back up

the verse #26 which is an awesome verse in my opinion.

It says, for as OFT as ye eat this bread and drink this cup.

Well, how, brother McGee, why do we just do this once a year?

Well, why don't we do it every quarter?

Why do I? Regardless of how many times you

do it, it's when you do do it that you do it in remembrance of

the Lord. All right, there are some things

that are taking place. There are some I know that

practice like every week. My only thing about that is

this. You take anything like that and

you do it consistently. It sometimes can turn into a

ritual and lose its message. I will state this.

We are not of the persuasion, the Bible even doesn't teach

this, but that when we eat the bread and we drink the fruit of

the vine, that that bread actually becomes the body of

Christ and that that fruit of the vine actually becomes the

blood. That's that's a concept called

transubstantiation. He was the sacrifice once and

for all, and for that matter, when he spoke the words to them

in John 6 about even taking the bread because this is my body

and take this blood, it's my blood of the New Testament.

Calvary hadn't happened yet, So what he was giving them in that

moment we see very clearly wasn't a literal body and

literal blood symbol symbol Amen.

And so, but look at this, he says for as OFT as ye eat this

bread and drink this cup, he said ye do shoe the Lord's death

all right till he come. So this this is also because we

have a past, present, future thing that's going on here.

He says, as you do this here in the present, you do show forth

the Lord's death, which was in the past, right?

We're remembering that, we're contemplating that.

He says, till he come in the future.

Remember when Jesus did this with his disciples, he said, I

will not drink this cup again with you until we come into my

Kingdom. So there's something awesome

that's going on when I do this tonight.

I'm reflecting up on what he's done for me, but I'm also

looking forward to him coming back for me.

Amen. So there's a lot of remembrance

of both what he's done and what he's going to do in the moment

as we take this tonight, The body and the blood, if you will.

So there's some things that took place.

I, I want to look back, Sister Milen, I want to consider again

tonight, Calvary, I want to take some time as I do this, and I'll

probably have you do it just to think, if you can for a moment,

think about a, a, a, a crown of thorns.

Think about the pier, the spirit that pierced his side.

Think about the cat of nine Tails that was laid up on his

back with the metal and the bone that was in them that were

ripping chunks of his flesh off that his very entrails insides

were exposed. Think of, I mean, consider that

and then remember that was for you and remember that should

have been you. And so then I switched from that

and I think about the one that died for me, the one that

sacrificed for me, the one that shed his blood for me.

He said he's going to come back for me.

So that where he is, there I may be also.

He's already given me his spirit and he's given me something

that's going to allow my feet to get up off the ground someday.

Hallelujah. Hey man, that when that last

Trump sound, the dead in Christ shall arise, and we which are

alive and remain shall be caught together to meet him in the air,

and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

I want to think about paths, but I think one reason this is

personal thing, I think one reason this ordinance is in

place speaks to us. How many times even the Old

Testament and New Testament does Christ come, Amen.

Or is that spoken? He's constantly telling his

disciples basically this layman's terms.

Don't forget about me over and over and over.

And it's a struggle yet that we deal with today.

Do I go to church? Yeah.

But do you really consider, like some of the things I'm talking

about just really consider. I mean, it's just, you know,

it's the Easter summer. Oh, he, he died and was buried

and roast again. But when we really consider

sometimes we cheapen the sacrifice.

So this is a purposeful moment to take remembrance, a

purposeful moment to take remembrance.

And so we're doing all of that. And so we're, we're, we're going

to, we will examine ourselves. Corinthians tells us that we

should examine ourselves, you know, before taking communion.

It's a good time for repentance, you know, before taking

communion to examine ourselves. And so I'm, I'm, I'm even in the

process of doing I'm, I'm looking around and let me just

going to advance that one. I'm looking around and I'm

considering not just me about I'm considering about my

brothers and sisters in Christ as well.

What are we talking about? Communion.

All right, so let me jump on forward to foot washing.

That was the communion lesson. That usually takes an hour on a

different day. So let's go on to foot washing.

All right, foot washing. I mean, someone's cringing right

now, you know, And you know, the fact of the matter is, you know,

even still yet today, there are, there are other religions that

they may not practice it corporately, but their

leadership or their number one guy will choose a beggar and

wash their feet. And, you know, there are certain

connotations with that, that, oh, this guy must be a very

humble man. He washed the beggar's feet as

they broadcast it. There's something there that's a

little ironic that we're going to showcase an act of humility.

Sorry. Amen.

And so, well, there's other things I could do.

I could feed, you know, someone. Oh, yeah.

Or I, I could do something else. That would be an act of

humility. Sure.

But there's something about foot washing.

You say, well, I feel awkward. That's what I'm talking about.

That's what I'm talking about. In that, then there is a sense

of of a humbling because of the awkwardness of it.

And the Old Testament had examples of feet that were

washed. We read of Abraham and Sarah in

their tent. They were visited by a few

angels and Abraham, Abraham at first really didn't recognize

this as such, but he seen them as guests.

He offered them into his place. There he provided water or their

feet so that they could wash their feet.

Then there's there's a lot that's there in Sodom and he's

visited by some angels again, he doesn't quite pick up on that

these are angelic beans sees them as guest and he provides

water for them to wash their feet.

The Bible speaks that whenever Abraham sent his servant out for

to find a wife for Isaac and that servant finally ends up at

Laban's house searching for that bride Rebecca, that Laban

invited him again and again as a as a point of hospitality, as a

guest in his home, he provided water for that Abraham's servant

to wash his feet. Joseph's brothers, they come and

visit Joseph of Egypt. Joseph hasn't made himself yet

known and to his brothers and the stewardess of Joseph's

house. So guess what he did?

He provided water for all these folks so that they would wash

their feet. And then we we get this right.

They're living in a different time than we are array.

They don't have these enclosed shoes like we do.

They just have like a sole. I'm not talking about SOUL.

They had that too. But SOLE, the sole, you know,

that all the dirt, the animals that went through the roads and

what was left behind, the animals, you know, that

collected it. Not, you know.

And so a guest come to your home when you're going to eat at a

table where you typically reclined on the elbow with your

feet away from the table or over close to your neighbor.

You know, a little hygiene doesn't hurt, Sister Erica, you

know? Yeah.

I'm going to provide you some water for your feet.

The Bible even says in the book of Judges talk about an old man

that brought in the Levite and his concubine and again, he

provided water for their feet that they might wash their feet.

And it was a big thing among Judaism, right?

It was an act of service. It was an act of hospitality to

provide water for someone to wash the feet of another.

With that being said, I don't know if I have this on here

examples I gave them. Who will wash?

With that being said, typically Old Testament the guest washed

his own feet, right? Or there could be those

occasions where a servant or a slave, and I say that term

gingerly, would come and wash the feet of the guest.

There are even some occasions that the son of the host that

was hosting the meeting, the son would come and wash the feet.

Matter of fact, that was a very high compliment for the son to

wash the feet. But the highest mark of respect

was when the host himself would bend down and wash the guest's

feet. Guess what is always fascinating

about me? Or not about me, but about

Scripture? Nothing fascinating about me.

This is all you get, folks. I'm sorry to disappoint, but

Amaya, typically the guest would wash their own feet.

Be responsible for their own feet.

But see, Jesus has always operated in the upside down

Kingdom. He that wants to be the

greatest, be the least. Save your life, lose it, lose

your life, save it. Jesus in John 13, he's taken off

the vesture that identifies his placement in society and he's

girding a towel around his waist and he starts to wash each

disciple's feet. On one hand, he was really the

son of the host. On another hand, he was the

host, the greatest, if you will, of privilege him doing what he

did. But also I see this, if usually

the person with the water pill that came on the journey would

wash their feet, take responsibility for their feet.

I see brother Pat as as Jesus goes around, he says today I'm

going to take responsibility for your feet.

You want to talk about a loving your neighbor scenario because

here's the fact of the matter there, you can't see it, but

there is a thread that knits me to you and you to me in this

body. Every joint supply as the Bible

says, every joint, the tendons and everything there, there is

this correlation. You supply what I lack, I supply

what you lack. And so in this tonight, through

foot washing, you know, we're taking some time.

I'm going to take some responsibility for my brother's

feet. I'm going to take some

responsibility for, for so and so's feet.

And so, so that we see this in the act then of of foot washing.

And so here's the thing, Luke chapter 22 and look at it.

Luke 22 · chapter mention

I got a couple of verses here and I'm going to read to verse

#27 This whole scenario that that is right here is there's

some debates going on about who is the greatest among the

disciples. You know, I mean, if you

remember a story one time the sons of Zebedee, their Mama went

and talked to Jesus one night and she said, Jesus, when they

come in, whenever you come into your Kingdom, can can you give

little, you know, the sons of Thunder, my boys, can you give

one of them a place on the right hand and another one on the left

hand? And he says, well, it's not mine

to give. Can they indeed be baptized?

She was just trying to posture her kids right in the in a place

of importance. And we see this discussion

taking place among the disciples.

So they want to know, you know, who's who's the disciple, you

know who's who's got it, got it all bag of chips, you know.

And so verse #24 says, And there was also a strife among them,

which of them should be accounted the greatest.

And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles exercise

lordship over them, and they that exercise authority upon

them are called benefactors. Verse #26 But ye shall not be

so. But he that is greatest among

you, let him be as the younger, and he that is chief, as he that

doeth serve. For whether is greater?

He that sitteth the meat, or he that serveth?

Is not he that sitteth the meat? But I am among you.

Jesus is saying this. I am among you as he that

serveth. And so whenever supper has

ended, I'm telling you. Leading up to this, this is the

type of stuff that's going on. They're posturing for who's the

greatest. So here's all these things.

They're sitting in this scenario.

They've all been talking about who's the greatest one, thinking

they're better than the other. And among them, nobody arises to

wash feet except Jesus, their master, their Lord.

Supper being ended, He washes, He washes and the tensions maybe

start to fall a little bit as this starts to take place.

And the amazing thing about Jesus, look, he wasn't choosing

with whose feet he washed. He wasn't picky.

He wasn't like, well, I'll take care of Peter and Matthew, but

I'm not, I'm not doing Judas. Judas was present.

We're talking about gob roped in flesh, Tracy.

You know what he knew as God? This guy's going to betray me.

He's going to lay a kiss on my cheek in the garden.

It's going to be the kiss of betrayal that's going to lead to

crucifix. He knew that.

And yet knowing that he bends down in front of Judas and says,

I'm going to be responsible for these feet.

I've oftimes said it, the Bible says that the enemy has already

been dealing with Judas at this point.

He is, he's trying to, he is trying to organize how and when

would be the right time to betray the Lord.

And I always think of it this way, that this foot washing

thing was the last ditch effort for Judas because his heart was

already being persuaded by the enemy.

And the only thing I can say is I, this is the way I see it.

The Lord's there and saying, you know what, his heart is already

being swayed, but I'm still going to try to direct his feet.

I'm going to I'm going to try to take responsibility for this.

And so the one who betrayed him watched it.

Peter, Lord, I'll go with you all the way, Lord, even to the

death. Lord, I go to you that that was

his play. Kennedy, I'll go with you all

the way. Lord, I'm I'm your number one

man all the way. And Jesus says Peter, he says,

you're going to deny me three times before the cock crows.

He knew that was going to happen.

And yet the one that's going to the 9, there's the Lord with his

towel and his wash basin, huh. He knew it.

The reason why I say that we wouldn't bring one towel wash

basin for some people that's done this wrong in our life, but

he knew they were going to and he did it anyway.

Now that's that's a big piece of humble pie.

Amen to do that him doing that was not advocating that what

they were going to do was right. No, not at all.

That's not what he was doing, but he was trying to show them

by example. Really when you look at

communion again, you look at the Washington.

It's all about love and who loving the Bible says in in John

13 verse one and John 13 holds the story of foot washing there

in the New Testament Scripture. It's in John 13 one that the

Lord speaks that he's like all these have been given to me and

I'm going to love them till the end is what the Lord said.

And so we see some of the verses after the foot washing and such

has has taken place. John 13 verse 34 he says a new

John 13:34

commandment I give you given to you that you love one another as

I have loved you that ye also love one another.

Verse 35 by this y'all all men know that ye are my disciples If

ye have love one to another and we're like Lord, I don't know,

but you've already talked to us about loving our neighbor

scenario. You've already told us about

loving our neighbor. So God we're you know what's

what's so new about this commandment compared to the fact

that you already told us to love our neighbor.

I think the prescription in that is this, that he got very plain

brother Trout. It wasn't just love your

neighbor, but love your neighbor as I've loved you.

Wait a minute. He's giving us a gauge.

He's giving us a standard to go by, right?

Because we're we're, we're the type of people we always want to

know how far we're supposed to go with our love, right?

Tell me how much so I know where the the perimeter of the line is

and I can go that far and no further.

Just that was the whole story in scripture of the Good Samaritan.

Really it was the whole Good Samaritan story was really about

people wanting to know how far they should go with their love.

That was the answer when he said there was a man that fell among

thieves on his way from from Jerusalem to, to, to Jericho,

that he fell amongst the thieves, right.

And the priest comes and he looks over there and walks on

by. And then the, the, the, the

Levite comes. He kind of goes to where he is,

considers the condition, but doesn't do anything.

He just walks on by and then a Samaritan comes and goes to

where he is, puts, puts the healing agents that he had on

him on his body, sets him on his own beast and take him to the

end and said if there's anything else that of the 'cause I'll

take care of it the next day. What is that all about?

He was dealing with people that want to know how far should we

go in this love thing? Because everybody thought, you

know, a priest for sure, a Levite for sure.

But when you get to a Samaritan, that's the half Jew, half

Gentile that they thought low down, dirty dogs.

And usually whenever we tell the story, if you give no other

specifications, you're usually imagining somebody like yourself

of your race, of your kind as the stories being told.

And So what we have here predominantly is a man among

these, which they probably assumed was a Jewish person, but

it was a Samaritan then that was helping the Jew.

He says, you want to know how far you go.

He says you go, you go priest, you go Levite, you go Samaritan,

you go to the outer right, you go to the uttermost parts.

That's how far love goes. And so Christ says, I've done

all of this. He said I've done all this to

give you an example. Love one another, but do it as I

have loved you. That's the standard and what

I've done until you go and do likewise.

Look, if you will, at verse #44 of Luke 7.

And I'm trying to tramp along here if I can get it done in 3

minutes. And he turned to the woman.

This is just a neat example. And again this is about love.

And he turned to the woman and said unto Simon.

Jesus went to Simon's house, and this woman had come in.

See us Now this woman I entered in thine house, and thou gave us

me no water for my feet, because that was hospitality, right?

But she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the

hairs of her head. Thou gave us me no kisses.

But this woman, since the time I came in, if not ceased to kiss

my feet again, something that was customary, my head with oil,

thou didst not anoint. But this woman hath anointed my

feet with ointment. Wherefore I say unto thee, her

sins which are many are forgiven, and I've left you all

behind, haven't I? Her sins, which are many are

forgiven. For she loved everybody, say

loved, loved much, but to whom little is forgiven, the same

loveth little. See, it should have been Simon's

responsibility to provide water. It should have been Simon's

responsibility for the oil and and the gestures of greetings.

All of that should have been his responsibility, he says.

But this woman that has come in off the street, she's used the

tears from her face, the hair on her head, and she's anointed me

and she's done. You know what's you know what's

provoked all of this, Simon, she loves me.

She loves me. It wasn't her responsibility,

Simon. This, I'm not a guest in her

house, but she has come in something that's not her

obligation. And she's done all of this out

of love, which ties to this, what Christ did then in John 13

with washing feet. You know what it was really

spawning out of? It was spawning out of love for

Peter and Judas and Bartholomew and each one of them with their

own little quirks and nuances of life.

He loved them. And so communion, I'm thinking,

I'm pondering, I'm reflecting backwards and forwards.

I'm loving God washing feet. I'm going to take some

responsibility in your life, right?

I'm going to I'm going to do unto you as he did unto them,

right? It's an act of humility.

Absolutely. Can you do other stuff too that

does that? Absolutely.

But I'm just saying he said this is the example as I have done so

go and do likewise in the scripture and I'm I'm wrapping

this thing up. You remember the story whenever

Jesus was on trial and Pilate, it was back and forth between, I

really find no fault in this man.

But there was all the pressure of the crowd that he was kind of

caving in and he finally asked for a basin of water and he

washed his hands and he basically told the crowd, you

just go do what you want with him.

I am not responsible that that's what that that symbolism of him

washing the hands, that's what it was portraying and telling.

I'm not responsible for whatever takes place that was pilot with

Jesus, right? It's your responsibility to do

with it as you want. But when we look at Jesus in

John 13, he's getting a basin too, but he's washing his

disciples feet and he's taking responsibility.

Responsibility for what even Peter thought was below him.

You're not going to wash my feet, Lord Never.

No, he takes a responsibility. So I guess my question tonight

is this, will we grab a basin tonight for washing our hands?

And it's not my responsibility or grab one for washing feet

saying I'm going to invest right here.

I'm going to I'm going to show an action and act of loving,

loving my neighbor. Amen.

If you understand with me tonight, those who desire to

participate in the communion, part of the service is happening

right now. If you desire to, to participate

in that ask you just come by, grab one of these little cups,

the wafers on top and the fruit of the vine is inside of the

cup. So you can come even as I speak

in orderly fashion and, and grab a cup and we're going to read

some scripture and we will participate in this together.

All right. And before we read the Scripture

and we participate in this, we'll take a moment of time,

Amen, for prayer and a reflection and asking for

forgiveness if there's areas of your life that need forgiveness.

And we're going to do this in the irreverent manner, of

course. And we're going to consider the

body that was bruised and pierced and beat up, the blood

that was shed for both our sin and our sickness.

We're going to do all of that here this evening.

Amen. This is a memorial forever

ordinance, Amen. We're going to remember the

freedom deliverance of the Israelites from bondage, Amen.

To our personal deliverance, Amen.

The Calvary has afforded us the sacrificial body and the

sacrificial blood, and there should be enough up here for

everyone, Amen. To my knowledge tonight,

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah, Amen, Amen. I'm asking us this evening here

if we can just take a moment of time here tonight and let's just

have I know we've done praying and such, but let's pray here

this evening personally for yourself.

If there's any iniquity your regard in your heart, I ask that

you would just ask for repentance tonight.

Let's talk to God and just have a moment here of consideration

of has done Amen concerning Calvary for us.

God trying me, Lord hearings. God, God, God, your spirit, oh

God, everything that is unlike you, that's not all the light

and God, that's not all. Time to the Lord with your plan.

God, I want to walk. Lord, a bright Lord for you.

I pray, Oh God, purge, Oh God, purge my mind and my thoughts.

I pray, Oh God, I want to consider the Lord Jesus to

sacrifice the Lord that was made for me.

I want to consider, Oh, Lord Jesus, the meanings that were

taken on my behalf, God, the blood that was shed, Lord Jesus,

God for me. God, it should have been Lord,

my peace, it should have been. Lord my life, God, it should

have been me. God placed their Lord from that

cross. The Lord it was you, God, You

took my place. God.

You're the ultimate Lord substitute, Lord Jesus for my

life. God, I thank you, Lord, for

bearing your party. Lord, my sin, I thank you.

Lord, you took the handwritings of the ordinances that were

against me. You nailed the Lord to a tree,

and I'm grateful today, Lord Jesus, for that.

I don't want it, Lord, to become Jesus in my mind.

I don't want it to become Lord Jesus, God of no power to me.

I wanted Lord Jesus to be as real God to me now as it was.

Lord, when I first come to know you, God stirred up Lord, in my

mind, stirred up God in my heart.

Tell me, Lord, I just remember what has been done.

But God also anticipate, Lord, that you're coming back to me,

God, you're coming back for your church.

You're coming back, God, for your children, Lord, to take

them. Hallelujah, in the name of

Jesus, I'm going to read First Corinthians Chapter 11 and verse

1 Corinthians 11 · chapter mention

24. The Bible says, and you can

remove that first little flap of paper there that gives you

access to that bread or that wafer.

The Bible says and when he had given thanks, he break it and

said, take, eat. This is my body which is broken

for you. This do in remembrance of me, if

you will, just put that wafer in your mouth and just remember, if

you will, the broken body of the Lord Jesus Christ.

Holy God, holy God, thank you Jesus, thank you Jesus verse 25

says and after the same manner also he took the cup and when he

had Sup saying this cup is the New Testament in my blood.

This do as OFT as you drink it in remembrance of me, if you

will. Tonight can partake of the fruit

of the cup and remember both the blood and the body.

Hallelujah Jesus, the New Testament in his blood.

Hallelujah, Jesus. The law could do nothing for our

sin but point out our sin, but the blood could wash away our

sin. Thank you Jesus for the blood.

Thank you Jesus for the body that made the blood available.

Thank you Jesus for the sacrifice.

God, I was so undeserving, God, so undeserving, but you did it

for me anyway, God, and I have failed so many times, Lord, from

the point that I first come to know you until now.

But God, you forgive and your patient and your long-suffering.

God, there's times I've crucified you afresh, so to

speak, God with my actions, the Lord and the things that I have

done. But Lord, your sacrifice is

enough. Your sacrifice is enough.

Your blood and body is enough. God, never will there be another

sacrifice. It's the once for all, ever,

forever sacrifice. Thank you Jesus tonight for it.

Oh, thank you Lord Jesus for it. God, I know when you was on the

cross, I was on your mind. I know you was looking through

the annals of time and you seen a young little boy that was

going to need salvation, going to need a cleansing of sin.

And I thank you today, God, I was born a Sinner.

I was born a Sinner. But God, through you I can be

born again. And I'm grateful today,

Hallelujah, for the sacrifice that made that available to

little and me, that made that available to Paul McGee.

Hallelujah, Jesus, Hallelujah, Jesus, Oh, the blood of Jesus

that washes us as white as snow. Hallelujah for my sin, for my

sickness. God, it still flows, it still

meets the Lord God, the needs of humanity.

And I'm grateful today for that. Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Jesus, we love you,

Lord, we love you, Lord, we love you, Lord, we love you, Lord, we

love you. And we thank you God.

Oh God. As we do this in the present, we

remember the past and look toward the future.

We love God, we love you, Lord, we love you, Lord, we love you.

Lord, someone say Amen. If you desire to participate in

the foot washing of the service, Amen.

It takes place in the fellowship hall.

The middle door dividers will be closed.

The women will be on this side of the fellowship hall.

The men will be on that side of the fellowship hall.

The women will get their water from the sink in the kitchen.

All right. Pardon me.

It's fine. It's just the way it is.

It's like you could get it early and have cold water, whatever

you want to do. And the men will get our water

from the mudroom cleaning room, their brother Reese.

And we'll have a time. We'll have prayer.

Amen. And we'll wash one another's

Amen. Feet.

If you brought a towel, if you need to get it, be a good time

to get it. If you're not going to

participate in this part of the service, you're free to go.

You're free to be dismissed at this time.

But please don't forget that we're back here tomorrow night.

All right? Doors are open from 7:00 and

8:00 to seven, from some from 7:00 to 8:00 for prayer here at

the church. There will be prayer guides out

on that table in the foyer. When you come in each night,

there's a prayer guide that will be out there.

That's the focus of the evening of our praying.

You can take that prayer guide with you when you leave or you

leave it on the table back there when you leave.

Don't leave it in the sanctuary because we don't want to stress

out Brother Reese. But if you, if you want to leave

it, you can leave it on that table or take it home with you.

Amen. God bless you tonight.

Thank you for being in the House of the Lord.