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From R.C. Sproul Jr’s lecture ‘Blessed Are You If You Do Them’.

[From the thirteenth chapter of John’s gospel:]
“You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you. Truly, truly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.”

We can often become so familiar with a passage of scripture that we lose our ability to be shocked by the truly shocking. This is one of those familiar passages; yet, when we look at this passage, we have the Lord of Glory doing a dirty, nasty job, and taking a posture of humility.

One application:

Jesus washes Judas’ feet
Jesus knew Judas’ heart, but washed his feet anyway. Why did He do it? Well Jesus models for us here how we are not to practice presumptive excommunication. Jesus treated Judas as his own, in order to show the need to leave time and opportunity for repentance and turning. The wheat and tares will grow up together, and we are not to be presumptuous about who the tares might be, but to be longsuffering with one another.
Read detailed notes of the whole lecture here.