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1. Christ is Distressed
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The *priority* of *prayer*
b. Taking three disciples?
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Take in context of what Peter and the rest probably just said
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Why these three?
Not for His benefit, but for theirs
c. Unusual response from Him
i.
All past accounts record Him having great courage and strength, not distress
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Why this response?
*Transition*
1. Contemplates the wrath of God
2. Begins to experience abandonment
2. Christ is Deserted
a. Rejection includes
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God – would forsake His Son and pour out His wrath
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Disciples – the three would fall asleep, and all would fall away
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Judas – one of the 12 is the leader of the group brought to arrest Jesus
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Peter – instead of dying with Christ he denies Christ
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Israel – they fail to recognize their Messiah and cry for Him to be crucified
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**~*~*~*HE IS ALONE~*~*~**
b. Realization of the wrath
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The cup
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What is it?
a. Jeremiah 25:15 – a cup of *staggering* and *madness*
b. Isaiah 51:17 – a cup of *reeling*
c. Revelation 14:10 – a cup of *fire*, *brimstone*, and His *anger*
2. Summarized – it is a picture of the *full*, *righteous*, and *furious* wrath of God against the sin of mankind.
It is “all the fury of the Mount St. Helens eruption concentrated within a coffee mug.”
3. Jesus entered the garden, “to be with the Father for an interlude before His betrayal, but found Hell rather than Heaven open before Him.” */Cross Reference Isaiah 53/*
4. We would not want to experience this wrath, but how much more the Holy One of God.
c. Response to the disciples
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Spoken to Peter, applicable to all
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Sympathy and compassion are clear
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The imperatives convey a continuous action, their prayer is not to be for 5 mins.
But extended period.
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Yet another cutting wound, his closest friends could not support him
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Reaction to His prayer
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Silence – he prays three times and each time he is met with silence.
Why is the Father silent in this His Son’s great time of need?
Don’t doubt for a millisecond that if there was an alternative that the Father would have provided it.
But there was no alternative.
*My friends the silence in this passage is deafening.
Heaven is silent.
God the Father is silent.*
Why if the Father loves His Son is He silent?
Why?!?! Listen to this quote as one pastor wrestles with this same question…
“Listen carefully to a very familiar verse for the first time.
God so loved the world…*that He was silent* when the Savior in His sinless humanity appealed for an alternative.
God so loved sinners like you and me that He was silent.
There is no alternative.
There is only one way to realize God’s holy hostility to us in our sin and to reconcile us in our wickedness to a Holy God.
There is no alternative.”
C.J. Mahaney
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Submission
3. Christ is Determined
*Application* –
· *Recognize His* love for you in his darkest hour– you can’t enter Gethsemane without being confronted with your sin.
The appalling nature of our sin should strike us because this is what our sin required.
· *Receive His care for you* in His darkest hour – there is immeasurable encouragement for us in the Garden.
But His suffering is unique.
Our only hope is that we don’t go through Gethsemane.
But his Gethsemane becomes our hope that He understands what we are going through.
We should not say that we have or are going through our Gethsemane, because no one else will ever go through something like that.
John 18:1-11
Courage vs. 1-3
Power vs. 4-7
Care vs.
8-9
Compassion vs. 10-11
We should note something very important here, even though he was the Son of God, here we find Jesus praying before facing this, the reason he came to earth.
The last man that you would expect to need to pray.
But he is the first one we find praying here.
If the disciples were smart, they would have known that Jesus was about to be betrayed and taken to be killed.
Jesus had repeatedly warned them of His coming crucifixion, but they obviously did not pay attention or were unable to discern the clear signs.
Furthermore, Jesus did not come to this Garden unaware that men were on their way to arrest him and eventually kill him.
He knew what happening.
He is the one who set his eyes on Jerusalem and would not be deterred on his journey there.
He repeatedly faced the opposition in his life without fear, distress, or a second thought.
On the human level, He was crazy to do what he did.
Coming to Jerusalem was ludicrous on a human level.
After getting to the Garden, he takes Peter, James, and John with him a little further.
He probably left the just at the entrance of the Garden.
Why did he take these three disciples?
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