Christ’s Last Parable. Himself. Now He speaks plainly of the Father
It was said of the man many call Jesus, that “25 These things have I spoken unto you in parables: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak to you in parables, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.
So a parable is something that sounds like and looks like? But not really like, but Eternally more significant. Parables are for explanation purposes only using tangible things for the carnal mind to convert their thinking to opporate in the realm “at hand” and “in Christ”. Amen!
It was at the “last supper” that the disciples were gathered together to Him. Then He taught them His last parable, right before His display of the Cross for Him to then back to the Father. The account goes like this;
So we ask, do you? Do you understand the parable of Him washing Simon Peters feet? For it is an encapsulation of His ministry with them, for them to understand and to repeat. That He spoke to them only in parables, and that would be useless unless they understood this, so that they could in turn wash others feet and know what purpose it served.
And this is a grave misfortune that in all religious settings they perform rituals over and over and not learning what they really mean. To mean doing things over and over without knowing why, serves no purpose. They are done in vain and why God said of old, that He had enough of their sin offerings and asked them “why do you trample My courts with your sacrifices?”
That is why Christ told the Disciples as He washed their feet “you do not know what I do now, but you shall know later because it was a parable that He would explain.
Well, this is later. And because Christ was to depart and go back to the Father. Where He said “Father I have finished the work you have given Me to do. I have given Your name to those whom you have given Me and they have kept it. They know that I have come forth from you and that I am returning to you.” This meant that He finished the task the Father gave them to do to them too.
The parable is this, When Christ finished dinner and set aside His garments to then wrap Himself with a towel, was Him dressing Himself as one of us in humanity. He then put water in a basin of water to wash the disciples feet. It was the feet that were in contact with the world signifying what needs to be washed off. And it is the world’s religious establishments along with all the health care providers and other assorted services that compete against the promises from God available to us from the scriptures and why scripture is called the “Living Word” as having to do with Eternal life that starts the moment one believes the things in the parables to be true. This is the Gospel.
So that just as Christ had gone to the cross to pay for the sins of humanity, once for all time to never suffer again, because that is how the Eternal God does things, and why Christ is “seated at the right hand of the Father, far above all principalities and powers, and at rest in Heavenly places, waiting for His enemies to become His footstool. And the main enemy to be defeated is your doubt in His gospel message (John 3.16).
And just as Satan challenges people by planting in their minds saying “has God really said.” He can be a still small voice of doubt as to many things but primarily make people disbelieve in the cross as though sin has not been handled and that Jesus is NOT done and that Jesus must come back for unfinished business. Where in the Revelation, it closes with “all the earth and all its works get burned up for the Eternal to remain” as the only parable left open to need to be fulfilled.
Our Application Today
So that in light of this, it should be easy to see that the continued confessionals of sin is your measure of doubt and disbelief that all the sin of all of humanity has been propitiated for. It has been covered and paved over and restored for our access and one on one time with our Heavenly Father to become vibrant. And if there was any sin left undone, Christ could NOT be finished, and that is akin to putting Him back on the cross. To mean that neither the New Will and Testament nor The old Covenant worked to restore us to the Father.
To which we ask: Are you still focused on sin and the need to try to remember them all so that you can bring them up in prayer to the Father? Well what about the Cross?
First off, people don’t really know what sin is to confess it. For it is the focus on sin, that is the sin of not only misunderstanding the Cross, but moreso not knowing that NOW! we walk in newness of life with all sins, past present and future to have been taken care of. For if it has NOT been, then Jesus must repeat the cross every time someone comes to Him with a new sin they had just realized, for it was the purpose of the Cross, for us to never talk about sin again because that was the mindset of the Old Covenant that Christ replaced.
That is what scripture means when it says that Jesus was the propitiation for our sin, and not ours only but for the world. So as to say that sin has been paved over with the acceptance of your inability to believe it. That in and of itself is why people cannot break their sinful patterns, because they try to fulfill scripture by fixing their own sin of trying to help good, as was the sin of the Law era. The point is, if God is no longer keeping track of your sin, why are you? “Those whom the Son sets free are truly free?”
To mean that the best posture to have with the Father, is to never bring up your short comings again because that is you keeping them alive. Christ died once and for all, with the “all” meaning all of humanity for all time. So that your relationship with Him can now only be tainted by you not accepting His Son taking on the consequences you deserve. So that unbelief is you rejecting the free gift as being something you cannot add to or take away. This is the only sin not forgiven at the cross, and the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit.
Those are planted in your mind by Satan and those whom he controls and NOT your Heavenly Father. And that is what it means in scripture that “those who the Son sets free are truly free. So that after Christ had healed, when He then said “they sins are forgiven, go your way in peace and sin no more”. Wasn’t Him setting you up to fail.
When He said go your way and sin no more, meant no more acknowledge or define sin in that fashion. That “blessed is the one in whom the Lord will not impute sin”, is an accounting term. That to impute is to continue to calculate. But He says “I will remember your sins no more!”
Now then with this put in place in our thinking, He knows our thoughts and heart, and expects us to make amends where we’ve wronged if we can. That is you not sinning. So that the point is, your Heavenly Father did not want to talk about sin at all, ever! It is Eternally solved and being played out as planned without needing to send His Son back to the cross, nor to have Him come back for anything again. For He returned to the Father and left us these instructions to “follow Me that where I am ye may be also.”
Think about it. We can go to Him and ask Him for help on a matter. And if you feel the need to talk to Him about something you did, then thank Him for taking care of it and don’t do it again. But you cannot go to the cross over and over. So that sin is dead in that way, and that is the Testimony of the cross. Now you can enjoy your inheritance of Eternal life NOW, so that “Today is the day of Salvation”. For us to grow in the knowledge of God and the gift we get in His Son, not later at some second coming, but right now. This is the gospel and why “The Kingdom of God is at hand.” Right now!
“You are clean but not all of you” meaning Judas
Now don’t forget later in this text He said “you are completely clean but not all of you. The completely clean is like with Baptism you are cleansed once and for all, as signified as something you do once because pictures us putting off the old man of the flesh, not so much the flesh itself but the deeds that were antagonistic. And however much that Baptism may be ceremonial, it is credited to you up front so that you can interact with God the Father, and why “Christ became flesh and dwelt among us.” Was Him jump starting that process with the first disciples, who become Apostles when they had learned their tasks. And understanding like Christ said after Peter said “Lord you are washing my feet? Who also said “you shall never wash my feet” Well this was one of the prominent stains Peter had to be cleansed from, the sin of self righteousness, of which Peter clearly succumbed saying in essence” okay, go ahead, wash my feet and do my head and hands also. But Christ reiterated that your contact point, in this picture was the feet but the meaning is to keep our selves clean from the things from this age, not so much creation itself but the dirt we get on our souls by our associations, our carnal attractions and weeknesses. That all these are washed as in forgiven as seen here 12 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? 13 Ye call me Master and Lord: and ye say well; for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Master, have washed your feet; ye also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that ye should do as I have done to you.. As Christ said “ye are all clean”. Was the outcome of a freshly washed inner man.
Scripture also says that Jesus was the propitiation for the sins of the world. That propitiation as a covering, meaning like being paved over like a road so as to have smoothed out the passage.
If you can learn to truly understand this, then the power of sin itself dies. The son of self becomes a mute point, so that NOW you can enjoy the spoils of the cross. He who the Son sets free is truly free from the sin soaked mind of those still stuck in their old Adamic way of continually dying., as being ignorant to this insurmountable gift. Praise God. Amen