YOU ARE LOVED FROM THE GARDEN TO THE CROSS

SONG: JESUS LOVES ME THIS I KNOW FOR THE BIBLE TELS ME S LITTLE ONES FROM HIM BE YES JESUS LOVES ME

There is little doubt is my mine that for most of us, this song is the first song we were taught as children along with the 23rd PSALMS.

BUT DO WE REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT THAT MEANS.

I NEED YOU TO COME ALONE AND TAKE THIS JOURNEY WITH ME...

AND GOD AS IT WERE, STANDING ON THE FRONT PORCH OF HEAVEN AND WHILE LOOKING OVER THE CANADY OF THE WORLD, SAW THAT MAN WAS WALLOWING IN A CESSPOOL OF SIN ANS IMMORALITY. SO HE PLUCK THE VERY FLOWER THAT BLOSSOMED IN THE GARDEN OF HEAVEN AND SENT US DOWN A SAVIOR. THIS SAVIOR CAME WALKING THROUGH 42 GENERATIONS. LANDED IN MARY’S WOMB. SPLIT OPEN HER WOMB AND CAME FOR LIKE A ROYAL CHILD OF A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD. HE WENT AROUND DOING GOOD. HE TURNED WATER INTO WIND AND CAST DEVILS OUT OF A MAN AND SENT THEM INTO THE SWINES HEALING THE SICK AND RAISING THE DEAD FED 5000 FOLKS WITH 2 FISHES AND 5 LOAVES OF BREAD. HE DID MANY OTHER MIRACLES AND THEN HE DIED. WENT DOWN TO HELL AND GAVE SATAN A BLACK EYE HE CONCURRED DEATH HELL AND THE GRAVE. THAN HE ROSE AND NOW SITS ON THE RIGHT HAND OF THE FATHER AWAIT HIS COMMAND TO RETURN AND RECEIVE US AS HE BRIDGE.

The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language ( MATTHEW 20:20-23 )CAN YOU HANDLE IT

20  It was about that time that the mother of the Zebedee brothers came with her two sons and knelt before Jesus with a request.21  “What do you want?” Jesus asked.She said, “Give your word that these two sons of mine ( JAMES AND JOHN) will be awarded the highest places of honor in your kingdom, one at your right hand, one at your left hand.”22  Jesus responded, “You have no idea what you’re asking.” And he said to James and John, “Are you capable of drinking the cup that I’m about to drink?”They said, “Sure, why not?”23  Jesus said, “Come to think of it, you are going to drink my cup. But as to awarding places of honor, that’s not my business. My Father is taking care of that.” EVERYBODY WANTS TO GO TOHEAVEN BUT NOBOBY WANTS TO DIE.

King James Version ( MATTHEW 26:27 ) TAKE A SIP

27 And he took the cup, and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it; 28 For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins. 29 But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.

The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language ( MATTHEW 26:36-46 ) BOTTOMS UP!!!

36–38  Then Jesus went with them to a garden called Gethsemane and told his disciples, “Stay here while I go over there and pray.” Taking along Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he plunged into an agonizing sorrow. Then he said, “This sorrow is crushing my life out. Stay here and keep vigil with me.”39  Going a little ahead, he fell on his face, praying, WHICH IS TO LAY PROSTRATE ON YOUR BELLY IT IS WORSHIP. The act of paying honor to a deity; religious reverence and homage

“My Father, if there is any way, get me out of this. But please, not what I want. You, what do you want?”40–41  When he came back to his disciples, he found them sound asleep. He said to Peter, “Can’t you stick it out with me a single hour? Stay alert; be in prayer so you don’t wander into temptation without even knowing you’re in danger. There is a part of you that is eager, ready for anything in God. But there’s another part that’s as lazy as an old dog sleeping by the fire.”42  He then left them a second time. Again he prayed, “My Father, if there is no other way than this, drinking this cup to the dregs, I’m ready. Do it your way.”43–44  When he came back, he again found them sound asleep. They simply couldn’t keep their eyes open. This time he let them sleep on, and went back a third time to pray, going over the same ground one last time.45–46  When he came back the next time, he said, “Are you going to sleep on and make a night of it? My time is up, the Son of Man is about to be handed over to the hands of sinners. Get up! Let’s get going! My betrayer is here.”

The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (LUKE 22:39-46)

39–40  Leaving there, he went, as he so often did, to Mount Olives. The disciples followed him. When they arrived at the place, he said, “Pray that you don’t give in to temptation.”41–44  He pulled away from them about a stone’s throw, knelt down, and prayed, “Father, remove this cup from me. But please, not what I want. What do you want?” At once an angel from heaven was at his side, strengthening him. He prayed on all the harder. Sweat, wrung from him like drops of blood, poured off his face.45–46  He got up from prayer, went back to the disciples and found them asleep, drugged by grief. He said, “What business do you have sleeping? Get up. Pray so you won’t give in to temptation.”

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (Agony)

AGONY—contest; wrestling; severe struggling with pain and suffering. Anguish is the reflection on evil that is already past, while agony is a struggle with evil at the time present. It is only used in the New Testament by Luke (22:44) to describe our Lord’s fearful struggle in Gethsemane

Easton’s Bible Dictionary (Bloody Sweat)

BLOODY SWEAT—the sign and token of our Lord’s great agony (Luke 22:44).

The New Unger’s Bible Dictionary (Sorrow)

SORROW deep distress, sadness, or regret especially for the loss of someone or something loved resultant unhappy or unpleasant state, a cause of grief or sadness, a display of grief or sadness

Coffman's Commentaries on the Bible

And he left them again, and went away, and prayed a third time, saying again the same words.

This passage is the basis for the assumption, allowed even by Plummer and others, that repeated prayers are acceptable. To this it may be replied that "repeated" prayers are indeed acceptable, provided only that they are PRAYERS. Furthermore, there is absolutely no precedent for rote prayers, mumbled or shouted over and over, without intermission. Christ did nothing like that; and one needs a strong imagination to find any permission in the Lord's thrice-repeated prayer for any such thing as that exhibited in the Rosary. True, Christ repeated the prayer three times, over a span of at least an hour; but, as noted above, there is a definite progression in the prayers, and they were, in each case, separated by intervals of time sufficient for Christ to return to the sleeping disciples. Add to this the significant change in the second prayer from the first, and a probable further change in the third from the second, and this solemn triple prayer plainly refutes the type of glib, rote prayer it is alleged to allow.

Luke's account adds a number of significant details in the scene depicted here. The apostles' sleep is attributed to sorrow (Luke 22:46), and he mentioned the great drops of blood falling to the ground. That detail was of special interest to Luke the physician. "Commentators give instances of this blood-sweat under abnormal pathological circumstances."[13] Men under torture have been observed to sweat blood, a phenomenon always followed immediately by death. If such was the type of blood-sweat endured by Jesus, it would explain the necessity of angels coming to strengthen him (Luke 22:43).

The blood-sweat, a portent of immediate and impending death, is thought by some scholars to be "the cup" which Jesus prayed to be removed, thus referring it primarily to the agony of that hour and not to the crucifixion. Supporting that view is the fact that no angel on the morrow was required to minister to him on the cross, whereas such supernatural power was required in Gethsemane. L. S. White, pioneer preacher of the gospel and profound expositor of the Scriptures, held this view, affirming that Christ, sweating the blood-sweat, and knowing that he was about to die in Gethsemane rather than upon the cross, prayed for the cup to pass. In this view, God answered the Saviour's prayer for the cup to pass, not by removing the cup, but by sending an angel to strengthen him. One may only wonder at the agony which produced such a phenomenon. Perhaps it was not meant for mortals to know the full story of that hour.

But none of the angels ever knew How deep were the waters crossed, Or how dark was the night our Lord passed through Ere he found the sheep that was lost!

THE WAY OF LOVE

1  13 If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don’t love, I’m nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.

2  If I speak God’s Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, “Jump,” and it jumps, but I don’t love, I’m nothing.

3–7  If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don’t love, I’ve gotten nowhere. So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I’m bankrupt without love.

Love never gives up.

Love cares more for others than for self.

Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.

Love doesn’t strut,

Doesn’t have a swelled head,

Doesn’t force itself on others,

Isn’t always “me first,”

Doesn’t fly off the handle,

Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,

Doesn’t revel when others grovel,

Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth,

Puts up with anything,

Trusts God always,

Always looks for the best,

Never looks back,

But keeps going to the end.

8–10  Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.

11  When I was an infant at my mother’s breast, I gurgled and cooed like any infant. When I grew up, I left those infant ways for good.

12  We don’t yet see things clearly. We’re squinting in a fog, peering through a mist. But it won’t be long before the weather clears and the sun shines bright! We’ll see it all then, see it all as clearly as God sees us, knowing him directly just as he knows us!

13  But for right now, until that completeness, we have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.

King James Version (John 3:16)

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

King James Version Chapter 5

17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new. 18 And all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Jesus Christ, and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation; 19 To wit, that God was in Christ, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them; and hath committed unto us the word of reconciliation. 20 Now then we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God did beseech you by us: we pray you in Christ’s stead, be ye reconciled to God. 21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

King James Version ( ROMANS 5:8)

21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

The Message: The Bible in Contemporary Language (ROMANS 5:8 )

But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.