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INTRO
Can you remember being lost as a child?
Maybe you were in a supermarket and department store with your mom or dad, and suddenly they weren’t there.
One minute you were playing in the clothes racks or checking out the newest video games and your parents were close by and then no one.
You start looking around, but when you’re little you can see over the top of anything.
You run up and down some aisles and you start to panic.
Where can they be?
Of course they didn’t abandon you, but you wandered off and they thought you were still following.
Being alone like that is a terrible feeling.
Jesus knows just how you felt.
In today’s message from Mark 14, Jesus knew that the time for his arrest had come.
God was still in complete control of the unfolding redemption plan.
But Jesus knew this was going to be the hardest night of his life.
He wanted his closest friends around him for support.
He brought all of his pain and fear to his heavenly Father in prayer.
But he was left alone.
Abandoned while praying, betrayed, and then abandoned completely.
Series
We are continuing our series The Crown & The Cross.
Mark has shown us Jesus as a man with a clear message and mission, and the reader is called to actively response to the message.
Jesus’ life on earth helped us all better understand God’s heart and what His kingdom is like.
In the first half of Mark the emphasis was on seeing Jesus revealed as Messiah - the King who deserved the crown.
The second half’s focus is on Jesus in Jerusalem fulfilling His life’s mission to suffer and die on the cross - and to rise from the dead.
Last week Jesus shared his last supper with the disciples.
They all ate the bread and they all drank from the same cup.
Jesus gave them the symbols of communion to bind them in unity.
Today they will all face temptation and they will all promise to stay by his side, but they all abandon him.
Every last one.
Our parallel passages are in Matthew 26, Luke 22, and John 18.
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READ Mark 14:26-31
You Will Deny Me
Just as they all drank from one cup Jesus said “You will all fall away.”
And the disciples all pledged to follow Jesus even to death.
But we will see that they all scattered and they all deserted Jesus.
Jesus quoted Zechariah 13:7 as yet another ancient prophecy is fulfilled.
The shepherd will be attacked and the sheep will scatter.
The Greek word for call away means to stumble.
It is not intentional but accidental because of a lack of awareness.
This is typical of our own sins.
We don’t often set out to deliberately disobey God.
We trip up or stumble and fall.
But Jesus doesn’t just hit them with this bad news.
He also offers hope.
v 28 After I am raised up I will go before you to Galilee.
Back in Zechariah, God offered a similar hope - they will call upon my name and I will answer them and I will say They are my people.
I’m so thankful God doesn’t turn his back on me when I sin and fail him.
He forgives and renews us when we call on him.
Jesus told his disciples, I will see you again in Galilee - the place where He first called them to follow.
He is going back to the beginning.
Peter, as usual, can’t keep silent.
He blurts out, “Even if they all fall away, I will not!”
Imagine telling God, you’re wrong?
Peter had no idea just how weak he was both spiritually and physically.
Jesus gently corrects Peter, and tells him that tonight before the morning rooster has crowed twice, you will have denied me three times.
Jesus is not mad, but states the facts will very specific detail.
You will deny me not once, but three times this very night before morning - before the rooster crows two time.
Often the spokesman for the group, Peter emphatically says (He may be shouting now) “Even if I have to die with you I will not deny you.”
And the rest of the disciples all said the same.
None of them knew just how weak they really were.
Have you made those bold statements? - No way.
I would never do that.
Only to be very wrong later.
It’s humbling to learn that you are weak.
Jesus warned them that temptation was coming.
They had not denied him.
In fact they all promised that they would not.
How would they handle this trial?
Jesus showed them the importance of praying, but they missed the lesson.
READ Mark 14:32-42
Jesus Prays, Disciples Sleep
They went to a place called Gethsemane.
That name means olive press.
They were on the side of the mount of olives, so while we call this a garden, it may have been more of an olive grove.
Just as olives were pressed, Jesus would be pressed with the great weight of the coming cross.
Jesus told the disciples to sit there while he prayed.
John 18 tells us that this was a place that Jesus and the disciples often visited - maybe as a peaceful retreat from the crowds of Jerusalem.
Jesus took the inner three, Peter, James, and John.
These are his closest friends.
The ones who saw him in his glory on the mount of transfiguration.
They are the ones he revealed more about the end times back in chapter 13.
When he was facing his most difficult challenge, Jesus wanted these three men to be with him.
Jesus told them “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death.
Remain here and watch.”
Jesus’ deeply moving words here, remind us of Psalm 42, where the writer says “I pour out my soul.
My soul is downcast and in turmoil with me.
Hope in God for I shall again praise him, my salvation and my God.”
We see Jesus as one hundred percent human in his frailty in this moment.
He is facing the most severe test of his faith.
Even greater than Satan’s temptations in the wilderness.
He is being pressed hard by the realization that he will bear our sins on the cross.
He is also still one hundred percent God, because he knows what is coming and he knows there is no other way for salvation to come to earth.
Jesus fell face down on the earth in the most humble position before God his father and he cries out Abba which means daddy.
It’s a term of endearment that no one else in scripture uses when talking to God.
He prayed if it were possible that the hour would pass from him.
Father, daddy, please take this cup from me.
You can do absolutely anything.
Yet, I want to do your will not mine.
Jesus shows us the real purpose for prayer.
It’s not to get what I want from God or to make him change his mind.
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