Good Friday: From The Cup Which Cometh My Lord Did Not Shrinketh
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Good Friday:
Good Friday:
1 For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins; 2 he can deal gently with the ignorant and misguided, since he himself also is beset with weakness; 3 and because of it he is obligated to offer sacrifices for sins, as for the people, so also for himself. 4 And no one takes the honor to himself, but receives it when he is called by God, even as Aaron was.
5 So also Christ did not glorify Himself so as to become a high priest, but He who said to Him,
“You are My Son,
Today I have begotten You”;
6 just as He says also in another passage,
“You are a priest forever
According to the order of Melchizedek.”
7 In the days of His flesh, He offered up both prayers and supplications with loud crying and tears to the One able to save Him from death, and He was heard because of His piety. 8 Although He was a Son, He learned obedience from the things which He suffered. 9 And having been made perfect, He became to all those who obey Him the source of eternal salvation, 10 being designated by God as a high priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
11 Concerning him we have much to say, and it is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing. 12 For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food. 13 For everyone who partakes only of milk is not accustomed to the word of righteousness, for he is an infant. 14 But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to His disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.” 37 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed. 38 Then He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch with Me.”
39 And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.” 40 And He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “So, you men could not keep watch with Me for one hour? 41 Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
42 He went away again a second time and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done.” 43 Again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy. 44 And He left them again, and went away and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more. 45 Then He came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. 46 Get up, let us be going; behold, the one who betrays Me is at hand!”
7 “Awake, O sword, against My Shepherd,
And against the man, My Associate,”
Declares the Lord of hosts.
“Strike the Shepherd that the sheep may be scattered;
And I will turn My hand against the little ones.
8 “It will come about in all the land,”
Declares the Lord,
“That two parts in it will be cut off and perish;
But the third will be left in it.
9 “And I will bring the third part through the fire,
Refine them as silver is refined,
And test them as gold is tested.
They will call on My name,
And I will answer them;
I will say, ‘They are My people,’
And they will say, ‘The Lord is my God.’ ”
ORDER OF CRUCIFIXION:
ORDER OF CRUCIFIXION:
Thursday = passover sacrifice
Thursday evening = passover supper (Last Supper)
Christ is using this passover to institute something different for His disciples: The Lords Supper or Communion
Drink all of it should be “all of you drink of this” the all is nominative. Everyone who knows the Lord should drink of the cup.
Does it matter what the liquid is?
Is it a sacrament?
Sacrament means that it is a means by which you gain grace. Thus to call communion a sacrament would appear to be blasphemy.
If it is a sacrament then it is a sacrifice, bur scripture states that there is no more sacrifice for sin.
Is it an ordinance?
Generally concluded that there are 2 ordinances (established rite or ceremony, observance commanded): 1. The Lords supper ( & ) 2. Water baptism ()
The language for “this is my body/blood” is like…”this is like my body”…similar to how Peter speaks of the prophecy of Joel in the book of Acts. It is the same Greek construction.
“I want you to eat it” it is an illustration. Is not our communion the body and blood of Christ? …that is what we do every time that we gather together. Every time you study the scriptures with other believers, if we are not feasting on Christ then we are not handling this Word proper.
The primary lesson is that the study of His Word must be the body and blood of Christ.
As of an ordinance, I believe it is, but how often should it be observed? Every Sunday? 4 times a year?…never any indication that this was ever done privately. Communion is a fellowship group where we gather together to eat. It is not a cup and biscuit…it is a mean. We have a meal every-time that we feast on Christ.
Friday = preparation day - (Christ Crucified) (preparation for Saturday the high Sabbath)
Friday evening/Saturday morning = feast day (Pharisees/Sadducees did not want Christ crucified on this day.)
35 Peter said to Him, “Even if I have to die with You, I will not deny You.” All the disciples said the same thing too.
29 But I say to you, I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now on until that day when I drink it new with you in My Father’s kingdom.”
The Lord had eaten the passover with His disciples and spoken of His new testament. Quoting from Zachariah Christ tells his disciples that they would be offended and go astray. Peter not only disagreed with Christ but spoke it as though Christ statement is not true. Peter is wrong. Far too many Christians do the same thing and make Christ out to be a liar. Christ responds to Peter and tells Him specifically how many times he will error. Let us not act God as a liar, but take Him at His Word.
Matthew 26:36
36 Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to His disciples, “Sit here while I go over there and pray.”
The Gethsemane in Israel today that tourist go to is close but not the actual Gethsemane that Christ went to.
“Sit here while I go over there and pray”
Why did He have them stay?
Prosukami - the most common word for prayer and carries with it a concept of worship.
Matthew 26-
37 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed.
After he told them to stay, he took with Him Peter, James and John. This is the same three that were at the Mount of Transfiguration. I don’t believe that He does this because He loves them more, but because He has a purpose and plan for each and every one of His own.
So…this is not because they were special, but because God had a certain purpose for them which this is included in.
God has a uniuqe purpose and work for each and everyone of His own.
Christ began to be distressed, sorrowful, heavy, greatly troubled, a burden that He cannot get out of.
38 Then He said to them, “My soul is deeply grieved, to the point of death; remain here and keep watch with Me.”
39 And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.”
There is an expression in Greek… “he fell as a worm on the ground”
“If it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as you will (the second will is in no text)”
It seems significant that the second will is left out.
In your thinking do you think that Jesus had a will that was other than the Fathers will?
This if in the text is also a first class condition… “since it is possible...”
I suggest that if Jesus asked one single thing that is not the will of the Father then He sinned. If this request of Christ is to get out of the cross then we are in trouble.
My Presuppositions:
Gods infallible Word
Jesus Christ is God the very God
God exist as three persons one God with one will not three
4 Suggested Teachings as to what He is praying:
Most popular: Christ desires to get out of the cross but is willing to do it if the Father wants.
Is Jesus now praying to get out of the crucifixion that He just told his disciples that He was going to go through? Is He now trying to get out of the very situation of the crucifixion and resurrection that He had just described?
- Jesus knows why He is here. I don’t believe for a moment that Jesus was trying was trying to get out of what He knew He was sent to do.
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- If Jesus doesn’t die on the cross none of this is possible.
How are we to believe that all of a sudden the eternal Lord wants to escape from His own predestined cross. Yet we do, so that we can make the application that Jesus the very God was Jesus the very man, and Jesus the very man can relate to you because just as everyone of you He shrunk from doing the Fathers will. How wonderful we think it would be if our Lord was just the same inadiquitness and cowerdice of us. Well thats not my Lord. I do not believe that He left Heavens glory to be made flesh, to be betrayed by those to whom He came to deliver. and then to shrink at the last moment shrunk from doing it as any human would have. I do not suggesting that He is not human, but I believe that as man a very man He never sinned, and to ask God to do something that is not His will is sin and if Christ sinned then I am not redeemed and neither are you. This is not just a indication of the humanity of Christ.
He as divine came to die in your place…no he being diving came in the flesh to die in your place.
Jesus is about to die
Sweating drops of blood, carrying a burden that is inconceivable, and knows He is about to go to the cross. He is fearing that He won’t make it to the cross and prays let this cup pass so that I can make it to the cross…He needs the strength to endure to the cross.
He knows He is going to be crucified, he knows he is going to die, but doesn’t know He will rise from the dead.
They believe he is saying, “let this cup (viewing the cup as sin) pass from me or come to an end so that I can rise from the dead”
But he does know of His resurrection:
The cup is Christ being made sin and the prayer is that sin not remain forever.
1. He is not trying to escape from the cross. My Lord is not a sinner. 2. If the cup passed from Him so that he can make it to the cross, then we are saying that the cup returns to Him at the cross (seems inconsistent) 3. Scripture demonstrates that He knew that He would rise from the dead. 4. He is being made sin (my God my God why has though forsaken me.) God cannot look upon sin. What do you think that it meant to Christ to be made sin? That is what brought the drops of blood. That is the cup.
- without argument, great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in flesh and justified in the Spirit,....”
He that was made sin, when He was in the grave was justified. He who was made sin for us that we might be righteousness in Him is sinless in Heaven. He who was made sin form me was justified in the Spirit.
Matthew
40 And He came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, “So, you men could not keep watch with Me for one hour?
41 Keep watching and praying that you may not enter into temptation; the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
42 He went away again a second time and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done.”
43 Again He came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
44 And He left them again, and went away and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more.
45 Then He came to the disciples and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.
46 Get up, let us be going; behold, the one who betrays Me is at hand!”
Christ is not questioning the will of the Father...”My Father, since this cannot pass away unless I drink it, Your will be done.” Christ is dependent upon the will of the Father. Oh how we twist and perverse things in seeking our own justification…oh how we loose the blessed truth. The truth is that dependence upon the will of the Father, upon the weight which is imaginable will prove good, will prove perfect, will prove glorious.