FBkids: Easter 2 - The Last Supper

The Last Supper

Hi boys and girls! I am praying that you all are doing well. Even though we are all still at home, we can always pray for each other, right? That’s something that friends do, isn’t it? Pray for each other. Do you have friends that you pray for? Friends are special. Jesus had friends while He was on earth. Do you remember who His special friends were?

The disciples. They spent every day with Jesus. They were able to learn from Jesus and see His miracles for themselves. That would have been very exciting, don’t you think?

Have any of you ever known someone who didn’t turn out to be a very good friend? Maybe someone who pretended to be your friend, but really wasn’t? Jesus had a friend like that. His name was Judas.

Judas pretended to be Jesus’ friend in order to betray Him. Judas was not a genuine follower of Jesus. He heard the message of Jesus, but never believed it. He saw the miracles of salvation, but he never experienced it. He was fake. He looked, acted, and sounded like a Christian, but he wasn’t. He was a pretend Christian.

The religious leaders of Jesus’ time rejected Him as the Son of David and wanted to kill Him. These religious leaders plotted Jesus’ death. Judas was a thief and he wanted money. He want to the chief priests, offering to betray Jesus. They offered him 30 pieces of silver. Judas accepted the offer and revealed his ultimate priority in life – money. From that point on Judas looked for an opportunity to betray Jesus. He turned against his teacher, leader, and friend. He betrayed God’s own Son, who came to earth to be his Savior.

Judas pretended to be Jesus’s disciple, follower, and friend, but in the end he was none of those things. Judas may have been physically close to Jesus, but spiritually his heart was far from Jesus. There are people like that today. They are surrounded by the truth, hearing God’s word taught every Sunday, but they have rejected Jesus in their hearts. Our desires and actions should show that we are followers of Jesus. Not just the words we say.

Jesus knew Judas would betray Him. During the Passover meal, not long before Jesus would die on the cross, He even told the disciples that one of them would betray Him. After they ate, Jesus went to Gethsemane to pray with some of the disciples. While in the garden, Judas entered with a large mob armed with swords and clubs. Judas went to Jesus and kissed Him on the cheek. This was a symbol of Judas’ betrayal. He turned something that was a special symbol of affection in the Middle East into a sign of death. He showed everyone that he was an enemy of the King. Of Jesus.

After his betrayal, Judas knew what he had done was wrong. He felt sorry for his actions. He threw the money he had received for betraying Jesus into the temple. Although he felt sorry, Judas did not truly repent. Godly sorrow over sin leads to repentance. It leads us to turn from our sins and follow Jesus. We know Judas never truly repented because in his guilt he killed himself. He never had a change of heart concerning his sin. He didn’t seek God’s forgiveness.

If we truly feel bad for our sins, we should ask God to forgive us and help us turn away from them. He loves us and will forgive us if we just ask.