Episode 183: The Family Altar Audio Devotional – Day 149

Episode Summary:

So after he had washed their feet, and had taken his garments, and was set down again, he said unto them, Know ye what I have done to you? Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you. (John 13:12-15)

72 Now, notice Him. As He, here on earth, we see some of His work. Let’s see what He meant in Christian faith now. Here He is here. The stream of all Christianity, the Head, the Beginning, the Origin of the Christian faith was Jesus Christ, God’s Son, the beginning of Christian faith, the starting place for all mankind of all ages to look to that starting place and begin from there. He was an Example to us. Is that right?

73 When, 13th chapter, Saint John, when feetwashing was brought along, and He said… Watch as Peter, self-starched, this Peter—Peter was, protected, sassed, stood there as a stiff collared. And He walked up to wash Peter’s feet. He said, “You’re never washing my feet.” Oh, my. We have so many of those today.

“You’re never washing my feet.”

74 Jesus looked at him, said, “Well, if I don’t wash you, you got no part with Me.”

75 Peter said, “Then Lord not my feet only, but my hands and head.” Kind of unstarched him, didn’t it?

76 Oh, I’d imagine those kind words, looking around at Peter and saying, “Now, now… If I—if I can’t wash you, you got no part with Me, if you can’t follow My commandment, if you can’t do the will of the Father; Peter, I love you, but you’ve got to do these things.” That’s part of the Christian faith.

77 Then after He got through washing the disciples’ feet, set down, said, “Now, you call Me Lord and Master: and you say, well; for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; you ought to wash one another’s. For…” Listen at it. “For I have given you an example, that you should do to each other as I have done unto you.” He was the Example of Christianity. He was Christianity. He was our Pattern.

78 Don’t never try to pattern your life after some preacher, after some priest, after some great religious man here on earth, but pattern your life after Christ. He is your Example. He set an example. He lived an example and presented it to the Church. Oh, I hope that soaks so deep.

55-0123e – “Earnestly Contend For The Faith”
Rev. William Marrion Branham

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