Never was a more important prayer prayed in all of history. It was prayed in great agony by the One who prayed in the dark morning hours before dawn. After a last meal with His apostles He went to this His favorite place of prayer and He prayed. "Deeply distressed and troubled" He prayed. "My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death."
It would be His last prayer before going to His death. It contained three parts: 1. Abba, Father, everything is possible for You. 2. Take this cup from Me. 3. Yet not what I will, but what you will. (Mark 14:36)
A beautiful pattern of pray for us all. 1. An acknowledge that all things are possible when it comes to God. 2. A personal prayer for deliverance from something He was facing. 3. A very Personal surrender to God's will no matter what the outcome.
What do you suppose was in that cup that He beg for deliverance from? What did He see in the cup? Why was it so important for Him to drink it? A cup is often referred to in the Bible in special ways. (Isaiah 51:17; Jeremiah 25:15; Revelation 14:10) In these passages it is called the cup of God's wrath.
Is this the cup that Jesus was being ask to drink? And what does it mean? I think it is obvious that the cup contained all of God's angry against sin and what it had done to His creation. God was angry. Satan used sin and its curse to bring destruction upon God's special creation and God was angry with Satan, with Sin's cruse, with the destruction that it had caused.
The cup had to dealt with. The wrath of God against sin had to be turned away. Someone would have to take the cup into His own hands and willingly drink the cup's contains to its dregs. Someone qualified. Someone who was exempted from the wrath that was in the cup. Who qualified for such a task?
There was a man. A man born without sin and subsequently not under the curse of the cup's wrath. Someone whose love for others would be so great that He would drink their cup for them.
The agony of the prayer of Jesus lets us know that He knew the consequences of drinking the cup. He knew the intense suffering that it would cause Him. He knew that at some point, the Father would turn away from the one drinking the cup, even if it were His on Son. "My God, My God why have you forsaken Me?"
This is Good Friday. Do not forget how important this day is. If it had not been for Good Friday there would have been no resurrection Sunday. It is Friday. But Sunday is come.
It would be His last prayer before going to His death. It contained three parts: 1. Abba, Father, everything is possible for You. 2. Take this cup from Me. 3. Yet not what I will, but what you will. (Mark 14:36)
A beautiful pattern of pray for us all. 1. An acknowledge that all things are possible when it comes to God. 2. A personal prayer for deliverance from something He was facing. 3. A very Personal surrender to God's will no matter what the outcome.
What do you suppose was in that cup that He beg for deliverance from? What did He see in the cup? Why was it so important for Him to drink it? A cup is often referred to in the Bible in special ways. (Isaiah 51:17; Jeremiah 25:15; Revelation 14:10) In these passages it is called the cup of God's wrath.
Is this the cup that Jesus was being ask to drink? And what does it mean? I think it is obvious that the cup contained all of God's angry against sin and what it had done to His creation. God was angry. Satan used sin and its curse to bring destruction upon God's special creation and God was angry with Satan, with Sin's cruse, with the destruction that it had caused.
The cup had to dealt with. The wrath of God against sin had to be turned away. Someone would have to take the cup into His own hands and willingly drink the cup's contains to its dregs. Someone qualified. Someone who was exempted from the wrath that was in the cup. Who qualified for such a task?
There was a man. A man born without sin and subsequently not under the curse of the cup's wrath. Someone whose love for others would be so great that He would drink their cup for them.
The agony of the prayer of Jesus lets us know that He knew the consequences of drinking the cup. He knew the intense suffering that it would cause Him. He knew that at some point, the Father would turn away from the one drinking the cup, even if it were His on Son. "My God, My God why have you forsaken Me?"
This is Good Friday. Do not forget how important this day is. If it had not been for Good Friday there would have been no resurrection Sunday. It is Friday. But Sunday is come.
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