The minute-long ad featured a number of images featuring a diverse cast of people washing each other’s feet. One picture featured a Hispanic police officer washing the feet of a black man in an alleyway; another of a mother washing the feet of her daughter outside of an abortion clinic; other stills that appear to be same-sex couples washing each other’s feet; and many others.
Before closing the commercial ended with upbeat tune and said, “Jesus didn’t preach hate. He washed feet.”
Many believed that the ad featured AI imagery. But, AdAge, a global media firm explained that the pictures are not AI-generated.
Initially, few of us at Ad Age thought the He Gets Us Jesus #SuperBowl ad was made with AI…it wasn’t.
They are photographs shot by photographer Julia Fullerton-Batten, who has experience in the fine arts industry.
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The Christian group tried to provide some context to the ad in a description of the video on YouTube: “The night before he died, Jesus got his friends and followers together and washed their feet as a symbolic example of how they should humble themselves while dignifying and valuing others. How would our contentious world change if people, especially those with opposing ideologies, took off their shoes and washed each other’s feet?”
Moreover, the group explained their reasoning in a blog post. They claim they chose to go this route because “with an upcoming election year that will be filled with division and derision, we decided to focus on one of the most important directives given by Jesus — Love Your Neighbor,” the group wrote.
They added:
As we explored creative ideas, we recalled the story of Jesus washing his disciples’ feet and realized this was the perfect example of how we should treat one another, even those people with whom we don’t see eye to eye. Jesus had washed Peter’s feet, a loyal friend who would publicly deny that he knew Jesus later that very night. And even more astoundingly, Jesus washed Judas Iscariot’s feet, the one who would betray him for 30 pieces of silver.
[…] Jesus was using foot washing to emphasize a larger point — a symbol for all of his followers to see how they should treat one another. […] Not only was Jesus teaching them that a true leader should be willing to humble himself or herself and serve all, but also that they should be willing to wash one another’s feet. Foot washing required humility on the part of both parties: the one willing to wash another’s feet and also the one willing to have their feet washed. It was an act of mutual admiration. Jesus was shedding any notion of rank or caste among his disciples.Foot washing requires one to lower themselves, even kneel before another person. While the posture seems subservient at first, it truly represents an act of kindness and generosity that makes the actions of the foot washer noble. That was always the way of Jesus — put others first and himself last.
It was these words and actions of Jesus that inspired us. We began to imagine a world where ideological others were willing to set their differences aside and wash one another’s feet. How would that look? How would our contentious world change if we washed one another’s feet, not literally, but figuratively? Figurative foot washing can be as simple as giving a compliment to a co-worker or paying for a stranger’s lunch. It can also be as difficult as not responding to someone who’s criticizing you or reaching out to an estranged family member. Acts of kindness done out of humility and respect for another person could be considered the equivalent of foot washing.
Our hope is that our latest commercials will stimulate both societal discussion and individual self-reflection about “who is my neighbor?” and how each of us can love our neighbor even as we have differences and serve one another with more kindness and respect.
Most of the top comments under the YouTube video criticized the video for being a distortion of what Jesus actually taught and did during his earthly ministry.
One user mocked, “Jesus once said “Sorry, I’d feed you all but I have to spend this 14 million on Super Bowl ads.” Another wrote, “When’s the video on repentance coming out?” Another commentor added, “Jesus ate with sinners, but didn’t condone their activity either. Jesus is meant to change the sinner, not sinners change who Jesus is.”
Notwithstanding some pundits marketed as conservative attempted to downplay the messaging in the ads, claiming that while it was not perfect it was not as bad as some people were making it out to be. This included figures such as Jesuit-converted-Mormon Glenn Beck of The Blaze, and Michael Knowles, another Catholic, who works for The Daily Wire. But most of the commentors were not having it.
Last year the group advertised two commercials during Super Bowl LVII and drew plenty of controversy then as well, after having already published a number of these types of provocative ads during normal broadcasting hours, and on social media. SEE: $20M Super Bowl Ads Will Feature An Antichrist And Affirming “Jesus” Part Of A Campaign Called ‘He Gets Us’
The campaign was funded by Hobby Lobby CEO David Green and other unknown boosters. Last year around this time, in an interview with CBN’s Chris Broussard, a Fox Sports analyst and spokesperson for He Gets Us, described the He Gets Us campaign as a “rebranding of Jesus Christ in America,” and that the ads are designed to “show that Jesus is for all people, of all races, ethnicities, of all socioeconomic statuses.”
The two ads from last year’s Super Bowl LVII.
AUTHOR COMMENTARY
Here is the passage they are butchering to teach their abomination:
[5] After that he poureth water into a bason, and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel wherewith he was girded. [6] Then cometh he to Simon Peter: and Peter saith unto him, Lord, dost thou wash my feet? [7] Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do thou knowest not now; but thou shalt know hereafter. [8] Peter saith unto him, Thou shalt never wash my feet. Jesus answered him, If I wash thee not, thou hast no part with me. [9] Simon Peter saith unto him, Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head. [10] Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all. [11] For he knew who should betray him; therefore said he, Ye are not all clean. [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. [16] Verily, verily, I say unto you, The servant is not greater than his lord; neither he that is sent greater than he that sent him. [17] If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them. John 13:5-17
The key to understanding that passage is what Jesus states in verse 10. It’s another one of his analogies that applies to self-righteousness, and the call to REPENTANCE; that is nowhere mentioned, or ever will be, in these advertising campaigns. Take notice:
[10] And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples. [11] And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners? [12] But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick. [13] But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance. [10] When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none but the woman, he said unto her, Woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? [11] She said, No man, Lord. And Jesus said unto her, Neither do I condemn thee: go, and sin no more. Matthew 9:10-13; John 8:10-11
Yes, he shewed mercy, but he NEVER once condoned their sins: he called them to repentance, not just a change of the mind, but of the heart and belief, and repenting of who they are, a sinner.
But, I suppose these hyper-grace, easy believer, quick prayerism (or no-prayer zealots like Robert Breaker) would call me a “lordship salvationist,” teaching “hard believism” and “backloading works,” right? I teach eternal security, for this current dispensation of grace given by Paul, but that does not mean you can do willy-nilly and whatever you chose, per those passages I gave and a myriad of others (Romans 6; Ephesians 5; Colossians 3; 1 Thessalonians 4:1-8; etc.).
SEE: The Forgotten Verses Of Salvation
This false gospel without repentance has destroyed this once blessed country; and instead of telling people to get away from sin, and to condemn sin, instead these evil ministers of Satan will tell you to embrace them, and don’t judge them and cast stones. Those are the words of false converts.
[11] And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. [12] For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret. [13] But all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever doth make manifest is light. [10] Ye that love the LORD, hate evil: he preserveth the souls of his saints; he delivereth them out of the hand of the wicked. [11] Light is sown for the righteous, and gladness for the upright in heart. Ephesians 5:11-13; Psalms 97:10-11
The rest of my commentary is what I said before about this He Get Us garbage the first time I rebuked it last year:
[18] (For many walk, of whom I have told you often, and now tell you even weeping, that they are the enemies of the cross of Christ: [19] Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.) Philippians 3:18-19
This passage really sums it up. These people are the ENEMIES of the true Jesus Christ of the King James Bible, and what he accomplished on the cross for us. The new version-perversions lowercase “God” in verse 19, which totally ruins the meaning of the verse. The verse is condemning people that make God and Jesus Christ to be what they want him to be.
The “He Gets Us” blasphemy is nothing really new: this is the same effeminate, limp-wristed, pacificist hippie that “loves” everybody unconditionally, does not judge them, never gets angry and uses acerbic language, and is a “friend of sinners” that will participate in everything lowbrow and lascivious, because “he gets us.”
[25] Wherefore he is able also to save them to the uttermost that come unto God by him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them. [26] For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens; [27] Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people’s: for this he did once, when he offered up himself. Hebrews 7:25-27
Jesus is not your “homeboy.” Jesus does not ‘put his arm’ around the sodomites and affirm their abominations. He does not get tattoos to fit in with the “tribe.”
4 years ago give or take I did a video refuting a false gospel by some preacher named Ralph “Yankee” Arnold who promoted the cliché sayings of “God loves you” and “God loves the sinner but hates the sin,” and so forth. The Bible never says such a thing. God’s loves starts and stops at the cross, and in order to get his love you MUST meet him there. No exceptions. But man oh man I got SLAMMED by these people, and was called all sorts of things. But that video got deleted when YouTube axed the channel.
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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The spirit of Antichrist has been going on longer than we think. This heresy of “hate sin love the sinner” and God just loves and accepts everybody, I was brainwashed with that gobbledygook even when I was going to the wannabe catholic “christian” schools run by the Accelerated Christian Education (ACE) program – that cult school system. The ACE program is of the devil and it just goes to show that the devil is so subtle and so sly, he can make broken glass and motor oil look like chips and bean dip.
The spirit of Antichrist is far-reaching, even as far as that wicked commercial during the Super Toilet Bowl. Speaking of football (FOOL-ball) myself and a brother in Christ, Daniel, are tearing apart Crossroads super bowl preaching bash and MY OH MY, it is cringe central! But bottom line, it’s another form of the spirit of Antichrist.
American christianity is heresy on steroids, it is created and run by Jesuits and their Freemason and Illuminati helpers, and it all started when the King James Bible was attacked, “corrected”, and criticized. The REAL Jesus is fed up beyond words with this satanic nation and He will “love” America by destroying it. Pray for His mercy and grace, brothers and sisters!
I pray for the Rapture so we can get out of this mess, but we do need to pray for those who will be left behind that they will come to the Lord before the Rapture, including my children and loved ones and everyone else’s.
Lord, please deliver us from flippant “He gets us” “Romans” with their foot-washing fetishes.
I can remember a time when the Super Bowl was considered so boring that the idea was to put it on pay per view only. Better yet was the time when you did not see too many women at an NFL stadium watching the game.
This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
— 1 Timothy 1:15
Luke 13:1-5
13 There were present at that season some that told him of the Galilæans, whose blood Pilate had mingled with their sacrifices. 2 And Jesus answering said unto them, Suppose ye that these Galilæans were sinners above all the Galilæans, because they suffered such things? 3 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. 4 Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem? 5 I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.
Luke 15:10
10 Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
Matthew 12:30
30 He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth abroad.
Great point and article brother. Thank you for sharing those scriptures. God’s word really does expose the darkness of this world. They have no fear of God before their eyes.
John 8:12 (KJV) Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life.
Romans 3:13-18 (KJV) Their throat is an open sepulchre; with their tongues they have used deceit; the poison of asps is under their lips: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness: Their feet are swift to shed blood: Destruction and misery are in their ways: And the way of peace have they not known: There is no fear of God before their eyes.
Romans 1:32 (KJV) Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them.
First time I saw one of their commercials, I knew that this is not the Jesus Christ I serve.
“He gets us” is of the Devil, who is a giant copy-cat of the Lord Jesus Christ.
This is what the Real Jesus said;
Mat_7:13 Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:
Mat_7:14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
Luk_13:24 Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able.
I’m surprised that nobody here realized that it was always the whites washing feet in this evil presentation. There was never a person of color washing the feet of a white person… CRT anyone? It was in plain sight, but only a few “got it”.
Just because no one stated the blatantly obvious doesn’t mean we didn’t see it.