Sermon Tone Analysis

The King finds comfort with His Father.

Four truths stand out in these 10 verses.

The disciples continued to fail to understand the danger that awaited them that night.

Matthew 26:36-38

Jesus was alone in His anxiety and grief, since the disciples kept falling asleep on Him.

Matthew 26:39-41

Jesus was fully human, longing for the emotional support from His friends.

Matthew 26:42-44

Jesus remained loyal to His Father’s will, in spite of his knowledge that he was about to endure the agony of crucifixion.

Matthew 26:45-46

Jesus’ death was like no other death.

It wasn’t a martyr, it was self-sacrifice.

Matthew 26:36-46

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1)The disciples failed to understand what was going on.

Matthew 26

We see in these verses that Jesus took 3 of the men that he was closet to out of the 12.

Jesus takes Peter, John and James.

Matthew the writer uses the words sorrowful and troubled to show Jesus’s extreme emotional distress that Jesus was experiencing.

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Jesus was on the verge of dying from a broken heart, so extreme was his emotional distress.

Can you see that Jesus who is fully God put His own emotional well-being in the hands of His creation/friends.

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(2) Jesus was alone when He needed help the most.

In verse 39 it says that Jesus separated Himself from the 3 and fell with his face to the ground and he prayed to his Father.

He prayed “if it is possible”, knowing that his request could not be granted if he were to remain obedient.

Jesus’s model here should be a comfort to us.

We need to pour our hearts honestly to God, even if we know our deepest “want” is not what He will grant.

God desires us to be able to come to Him feeling the safety of total honesty.

He is competent to handle the cries of our souls.

Jesus’s request to spared suffering and death was the desperate cry of the Son’s Heart to his Father.

Now the prayer was accepted but not granted.

A Son’s loving request and a Father’s loving wisdom; this should be a model of our own prayerful exchanges with the Father.

The cup refers not only to Christ’s suffering and death but even more uniquely to the Father’s wrath upon sin.

At this moment Jesus’s grief was rooted in the fact that he was about to become the object of his Father’s wrath- an experience that many people on earth will encounter in eternity, but which no one but the Son of God could possibly anticipate ahead of time.

Can you imagine at this time in His prayer to His Father/our Father that Jesus had done nothing to deserve the wrath that we deserve.

You see at the end of this verse he says “yet not as I will, But as you will”

In verse 40-41 we see that the three disciples where sleeping, Jesus rebukes Peter on behalf of the others.

The disciples showed that they were unaware of the spiritual danger and that there guard was down.

You have to understand that Jesus was more concerned about there spiritual well being rather than there physical will being.

They were on the verge of entering into the temptation to deny and abandon Him, and they needed God’s help to stand fast.

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(3)Jesus longed for the support of his disciples.

Matthew 26:4

Then Jesus left them to pray again to his Father.

This time the words Matthew recorded demonstrate less distress and even greater resolve to obey.

The wording of “May your will be done” is a more complete thought than the fragmented wording of the prater in verse 39

After some time Jesus returns to His disciples asleep again, because there eyes were heavy.

Matthew acknowledged their human limitations, even as Jesus seemed to do by hi decision not rebuke them the second time.

Still with a heavy heart, the Son sought the companionship of the father a third time, not having found it in his disciples.

This shows us that even though we may have some of the closet of friends, there is no comfort like that, that comes from the Father.

There are time that our friends/Pastor/Deacon/Elder will fail you, but you can always trust in the Father for comfort.

He is set apart as God’s servant

(4)Jesus is completely loyal even though He knows whats coming next.

Jesus is saying here alright the time for sleep and prayer is over.

He woke them and rebuked them a second time.

Jesus was not satisfied with his disciples faithfulness.

When He says look, that may have drawn the disciples attention to the sound of the approaching crowd, or even the light of the torches.

We can see in these last two verses that it was time to go.

Things where moving a lot faster then they could imagine.

Thanks to Jesus’ time of watchful prayer, the Messiah was ready for what lay ahead.

Most people would have taken this opportunity to escape, but His purpose did not lie in escape.

Jesus went boldly to meet his enemies.

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His life is consecrated to the will and purpose of God

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He is appointed as the judge of sinners

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Declarations of the holiness of Jesus Christ

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by demons; by the angel Gabriel

By Peter:

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by Jesus Christ himself

Results of recognising the holiness of Jesus Christ

Awareness of sin and unworthiness

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Fear

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Adoration and worship