VBS Day 1 Monday
Memory Verse
John 13:17 “If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Story
John 13:1-17
Jesus Washes the Disciples’ Feet
1 Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour had come that He should depart from this world to the Father, having loved His own who were in the world, He loved them to the end. 2 And supper being ended, the devil having already put it into the heart of Judas Iscariot, Simon’s son, to betray Him, 3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into His hands and that He had come from God and was going to God, 4 rose from supper and laid aside His garments, took a towel and girded Himself. 5 After that, He poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples’ feet, and to wipe them with the towel with which He was girded. 6 Then He came to Simon Peter. And Peter said to Him, “Lord, are You washing my feet?” 7 Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.” 8 Peter said to Him, “You shall never wash my feet!” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no part with Me.” 9 Simon Peter said to Him, “Lord, not my feet only, but also my hands and my head!” 10 Jesus said to him, “He who is bathed needs only to wash his feet, but is completely clean; and you are clean, but not all of you.” 11 For He knew who would betray Him; therefore, He said, “You are not all clean.”
12 So when He had washed their feet, taken His garments, and sat down again, He said to them, “Do you know what I have done to you? 13 You call Me Teacher and Lord, and you say well, for so I am. 14 If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet. 15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you. 16 Most assuredly, I say to you, a servant is not greater than his master; nor is he who is sent greater than he who sent him. 17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Two parts to this story from the bible
Action
Explanation
If you ever had show-in-tell in school This is what this is.
The action, what did Jesus do?
(Washed feet)
The explanation was for the disciples to do likewise.
Jesus’s words to you and me are
15 For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.
Not only an example but a command as well.
A command to serve the Lord
If we are doing what God says then we are being obedient.
But what if we do the opposite?
There is a way that seems right to a man, But its end is the way of death.
Paul in Romans 7 said –NLT
21 I have discovered this principle of life—that when I want to do what is right, I inevitably do what is wrong. 22 I love God’s law with all my heart. 23 But there is another power within me that is at war with my mind. This power makes me a slave to the sin that is still within me.
24 Oh, what a miserable person I am!
Who will free me from this life that is dominated by sin and death?
25 Thank God! The answer is in Jesus Christ our Lord. So, you see how it is: In my mind, I really want to obey God’s law, but because of my sinful nature I am a slave to sin.
So, God through Jesus Christ gives us the opportunity to repent.
We have to do something first; we need to accept Jesus as Lord and savior.
The bible says if we confess with our mouth and believe in our heart Jesus is Lord we will be saved.
Then we have the ability to repent
but the key is to do it right the first time.
Pray –
Sinners’ prayer
Memory verse
John 13:17 “If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
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