The Model Suffer
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37 And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
38 Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”
Gethsemane was the place where Jesus stopped running. His hour has come.
This also was a place where Jesus went frequently to pray.
The sorrow that Jesus felt at this moment was beyond mere sadness.
Jesus wasn’t just perturb
But it was a deep profound sense of sorrow.
Great grief great distress began to fill Jesus mind.
This was the kind of stress that would cause the natural man to loose his composure.
Have you ever been so grieved all you can think about is this one thing. You stuck on it.
Jesus soul was cast down.
6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, And from the heights of Hermon, From the Hill Mizar.
11 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.
5 Why are you cast down, O my soul? And why are you disquieted within me? Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him, The help of my countenance and my God.
This wasn’t an ordinary sorrow.
This is a grief that goes very deep.
Similar to Jonah
Jonah 4:9 (NKJV)
9 Then God said to Jonah, “Is it right for you to be angry about the plant?” And he said, “It is right for me to be angry, even to death!”
Jonah loved his gourd more then he loved the people of Nineveh.
Do you love your stuff more then you love God.
Jesus the Man of Sorrows
3 He is despised and rejected by men, A Man of sorrows and acquainted with grief. And we hid, as it were, our faces from Him; He was despised, and we did not esteem Him.
Isaiah 53:4 “4 Surely He has borne our griefs And carried our sorrows; Yet we esteemed Him stricken, Smitten by God, and afflicted.”
Isaiah 53:10 “10 Yet it pleased the Lord to bruise Him; He has put Him to grief. When You make His soul an offering for sin, He shall see His seed, He shall prolong His days, And the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in His hand.”
Luke 19:41 “41 Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,”
John 11:35 “35 Jesus wept.”
Hebrews 4:15 “15 For we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathize with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin.”
Hebrews 5:7 “7 who, in the days of His flesh, when He had offered up prayers and supplications, with vehement cries and tears to Him who was able to save Him from death, and was heard because of His godly fear,”
Jesus wasn’t sorrowful merely because of His death. He was sorrowful because what kind of death He was undergoing.
There is no escape no ram in the thicket. Like Abraham and Isaac
It was the death of sinners.
At the cross Jesus would be one with sinners.
He would become sin.
21 For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
10 Then Simon Peter, having a sword, drew it and struck the high priest’s servant, and cut off his right ear. The servant’s name was Malchus.
11 So Jesus said to Peter, “Put your sword into the sheath. Shall I not drink the cup which My Father has given Me?”
The synoptic gospels, doesn’t name Peter as the one who cut off the Malchus ear. But John did.
The blow was as clumsy as Peter’s courage was great;
This strike with this dagger was unnecessary
Peter’s bravery was useless. You ever call yourself doing something for God and it doesn’t work out.
God isn’t calling us to be brave we he’s calling us to trust
Like someone offends you now it’s time to be brave no this is the time for love
Jesus told them play by play what was going to happen to Him
Mark 8:
The significant thing about this prayer, however, was that the Lord submitted His will to the will of His Father (Matt. 26:39).
36 And He said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for You. Take this cup away from Me; nevertheless, not what I will, but what You will.”