Gethsemane

Road Trip - Gethsemane

Scripture: Matthew 26:36-39 | Genesis 3:6-7

Introduction:

Anybody you get stressed when you travel? Maybe you feel the pressure of time constraints or the fatigue of long days and longer roads?

Jesus takes us to a place he is familiar with…the Garden.

Gethsemane = gat(or gath): A place of pressing | shemanin: oils

“The valley of fatness”

When you bend your will to God’s will, your world can look like God’s world.

• Ruining God’s Garden.
• Genesis 3:6-7…they loved the Garden more than God.
• What they consumed actually ended up consuming them.
• The object of your devotion in life will determine your level of delight in life.
• The shiny things in life can only bring you so much joy.
• True joy is found in relationship with and through God.
• There is pressure to bend to our own wants
• There is pressure to get distracted from what’s real to what’s really tempting.

Even the most beautiful gardens can have the sharpest thorns.

This place had been a place of retreat for Jesus and his crew. Now things have turned.

We all have our own Gethsemanes:

Even when I don’t know your plan, I know you. Therefore I will trust you.