Sermon Tone Analysis

The Garden

Jesus troubled and distressed, his will vs God’s will

The three disciples inability to stay alert and pray.

Betrayal

: 32-42

Jesus is Distressed

vv 34-36

vv 34-36

Jesus is Distressed

Perilypos - Greek, a rare word, means “burdened with grief” in this case “despair unto death.”

Why? His mortality?

I’m certain he knows the pain he will suffer but it was something more spiritual than physical that had him sorrowful unto death.

His Purpose

Isa 53-

He was to pierced and CRUSHED for our transgressions.

All three have earlier crowed of their mettle (Peter, 14:29–31; James and John, 10:38–39; 14:31); they should be exactly the companions Jesus needs in the crisis before him.

Jesus must conform his WILL, to God’s WILL

Nothing in all the Bible compares to Jesus’ agony and anguish in Gethsemane—neither the laments of the Psalms, nor the broken heart of Abraham as he prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac (Gen 22:5), nor David’s grief at the death of his son Absalom (2 Sam 18:33).

Luke 22:44 even speaks of Jesus’ “sweat falling to the ground like drops of blood” (so, too, Justin Martyr, Dial.

Trypho 103.8).

The suffering of Gethsemane left an indelible imprint on the early church (Heb 5:7).

In Gethsemane Jesus must make the first payment of that ransom, to will to become the sin-bearer for humanity

Mark 10

Submitting to the will of God is not always pretty and certainly not always comfortable.

In Gethsemane Jesus must make the first payment of that ransom, to will to become the sin-bearer for humanity.

Two things to remind ourselves of

Jesus presented himself to God to answer for every sin and crime and act of malice and injury and cowardice and evil in the world.

As the sin-bearer for humanity he experienced complete alienation from God.

The father/son relationship has transitioned to the Executioner/Criminal.

Not because Jesus had committed a sin, but because he took our sin upon.

Jesus Warns his Disciples

34, 37, 38

Jesus had told his three closest disciples to “watch and pray”

The second time he had said

Mark 14:

Noticed he used his chief apostles old name “Simon” and not “Peter” In the Garden, in Jesus darkest hour, he is not a “Rock.”

Mark 14:

Jesus seems to be frustrated with them

1) Trusting and obeying God are not the default responses of followers of Jesus.

2) Ongoing struggles against temptation and weakness are.

Jesus seems to be frustrated with them

Mark 14:

With that statement the first event of the passion predictions comes to pass.

1) Trusting and obeying God are not the default responses of followers of Jesus.

2) Ongoing struggles against temptation and weakness are.

With that statement the first event of the passion predictions comes to pass.

Mark 14:

Here we are reminded that

1) Trusting and obeying God are not the default responses of followers of Jesus.

2) Ongoing struggles against temptation and weakness are.

Jesus had explained to his disciples

Not his own mortality, but the specter of identifying with sinners so fully as to become the object of God’s wrath against sin—it is this that overwhelms Jesus’ soul “ ‘to the point of death’ ”

What profound irony Gethsemane conceals, for when Jesus feels most excluded from God’s presence he is in fact closest to God’s will!

Gethsemane is the prelude to Calvary, for in a valley beneath the city Jesus allows his soul to be crucified; on a hill above the city he relinquishes his body.

Jesus’ prayer is not the result of calm absorption into an all-encompassing divine presence, but an intense struggle with the frightful reality of God’s will and what it means fully to submit to it.

What profound irony Gethsemane conceals, for when Jesus feels most excluded from God’s presence he is in fact closest to God’s will!

Gethsemane is the prelude to Calvary, for in a valley beneath the city Jesus allows his soul to be crucified; on a hill above the city he relinquishes his body.

Pierced for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities ()