MAUNDY THURSDAY 2020
April 9, 2020
WELCOME to our online Maundy Thursday Service. The service is in also in video form on our Church Facebook page.
OPENING HYMN 435 Come to Calvary’s Holy Mountain
INVOCATION
Pastor: In the name of the Father and of the X Son and of the Holy Spirit.
People: Amen.
CONFESSION AND ABSOLUTION
Pastor: Let us confess our sins to our heavenly Father, imploring Him for the sake of His Son, Jesus Christ, our Lord, to grant us forgiveness.
Pastor: Almighty God, merciful Father,
People: I, a poor, miserable sinner, confess unto You all my sins and iniquities with which I have ever offended You and justly deserved Your temporal and eternal punishment. But I am heartily sorry for them and sincerely repent of them, and I pray You of Your boundless mercy and for the sake of the holy, innocent, bitter sufferings and death of Your beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to be gracious and merciful to me, a poor, sinful being.
Pastor: God be merciful to you and strengthen your faith.
People: Amen.
Pastor: In the stead and by the command of my Lord Jesus Christ, I forgive you all your sins in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.
People: Amen.
Pastor: Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is faithful; He will surely do it.
People: Amen.
SALUTATION AND PRAYER
Pastor: The Lord be with you.
People: And with your spirit.
Pastor: Let us pray. Father, on the night when He was betrayed, Christ Jesus humbled Himself to stoop down and wash His disciples’ feet, even the feet of the one who would betray Him. Grant that we may embody this attitude of service and love to all, that the love of God may abound in all our thoughts, words, and deeds, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.
People: Amen
EPISTLE 1 Corinthians 11:23–32 (The Lord institutes the new covenant of His body and blood.)
23 For I received from the Lord what I also delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night when he was betrayed took bread, 24 and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and said, “This is my body which is for you. Do this in remembrance of me.” 25 In the same way also he took the cup, after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of me.” 26 For as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup, you proclaim the Lord's death until he comes.
Reader: This is the Word of the Lord.
People: Thanks be to God.
HOLY GOSPEL John 13:1–15 (Jesus washes His disciples’ feet.)
Now before the Feast of the Passover, when Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart out of this world to the Father, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end. 2 During supper, when the devil had 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 back to God, 4 rose from supper. He laid aside his outer garments, and taking a towel, tied it around his waist. 5 Then he poured water into a basin and began to wash the disciples' feet and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.
6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, do you wash my feet?” 7 Jesus answered him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.” 8 Peter said to him, “You shall never wash my feet.” Jesus answered him, “If I do not wash you, you have no share 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, “The one who has bathed does not need to wash, except for his feet, but is completely clean. And you are clean, but not every one of you.” 11 For he knew who was to betray him; that was why he said, “Not all of you are clean.”
12 When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? 13 You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, 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 also should do just as I have done to you.
Pastor: This is the Gospel of the Lord.
People: Praise to You, O Christ.
SERMON HYMN 436 Go to Dark Gethsemane
SERMON NOTES Servant Eyes (A video of the service and sermon is on our Church Facebook page.)
- Eyes on Christ on Lenten theme… Tonight, Servant Eyes…
- Jesus sees the world with servant eyes, as something to serve…
- Two meanings of “world”… 1) the sinful culture, 2) the people of the world…
- Upper Room… Jesus washes his disciples feet to teach them to be servant leaders…
- Peter objects…
- The greatest act of a servant was when Jesus died for the world… The Son of Man came, not to be served, but to serve, and give His life as a ransom for many. Matthew 20:28
- Isaiah… the Messiah, the suffering servant…
- Jesus serves us even yet, through His Word and Sacraments…
- We miss the Holy Supper, but God is with us in His Word, blessing us through His Gospel…
- His Word and Sacraments empower us to see the world with servant eyes… to have a servant heart… servant hands and feet…
- Live to serve Him and others…
- Imagine if we all served one another… Heaven...
- And the blessing in serving is joy and fulfillment…
- May God’s peace guard your heart and mind, as you see the world with servant eyes, and serve Christ and others with love.
PRAYERS
Pastor: Lord in Your mercy,
People: hear our prayer.
All: Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be Thy name, Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven; give us this day our daily bread; and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us; and lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. For Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. Amen.
PSALM 22