Luke 22: 41-43......Strength From Prayer

Psalm 16:8 “I have set the Lord always before me; Because He is at my right hand I shall not be moved.”

As we get closer to Holy Week and Easter Weekend. Let us look once again at some of the before. Before the courts, before the beatings, before spitting, before the nailing and before the death of our Saviour.

Lets look at the story....

TELL THE STORY....

Jesus has celebrated the first Lord’s Supper...

they now have went out to the Mount of Olives

The Mount of Olives is a single peak of a two-mile long ridge that borders eastern Jerusalem, forming a barrier between the city and the Judaean wilderness to the east.

The site of significant biblical events, including the triumphal entry, arrest, and ascension of Christ.......TALK, PREACH...

Jesus had come here to wait for what was next.

His disciples with Him but Jesus stills away to have a little talk with the Father…TALK, PREACH…(SECRET CLOSET, WAR ROOM)....NOW LET US HAVE A LITTLE TALK WITH JESUS

Prayer…communication with God....

and here is where our lesson begins .....as Jesus is kneeling down, talking to the Father about what is about to happen....

So here is Jesus and he is about a stones throw away from his disciples....some reckon about fifty of sixty paces, and there he kneeled down

Our saviour was in agony about what was about to happen to him.....Being in agony, he prayed more earnestly. Prayer, though never out of season, is in a special manner seasonable when we are in an agony.....TALK, PREACH....(JESUS ISN’T THE ONLY ONE THAT PRAYS IN THE TIME OF TROUBLE)....

and we see His prayer..... Luke 22:42 “saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.””

what the first part of His prayer shows us…IS THAT JESUS KNEW THAT THE ONLY ONE ABLE TO CHANGE ANYTHING WAS GOD HIMSELF...

Luke C. The Glory Decision: The Father’s Will Wins (22:39–46)

The Father’s will was what he always prayed for and did, even when the human side wanted something else.

Human on his mama side and Holy and his fathers side...

but here the human side was coming out and Christ was in agony but still holding on to his fathers side, he knew the father was the only that could change things...

we must remember that God has plans for us. and what God has for us is for us.

we have to learn how to accept the good and the bad…we just want the sunny days....TALK,PREACH...

how many of you know that the storm doesn’t last forever.....TALK, PREACH..

it’s ok to ask God but just be prepared for the answer....

there is strength in prayer...

what we learn from this prayer is that ......Prayer is submission; Prayer is always answered, yet sometimes with a no;

God is the only that can change, can add, can take away...

we hear people say all of the time…look what I did....boasting but I heard Paul say…Ephesians 2:8–9 “For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.” .....TALK, PREACH....(if it had not been for the Lord)

So Jesus knew that God was the only one to be able to answer His prayer and take the cup away..... Luke 22:42 “saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.””

what is this cup.....

For in the hand of the LORD there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is fully mixed, and He pours it out; surely its dregs shall all the wicked of the earth drain and drink down. (Psalm 75:8)

Awake, awake! Stand up, O Jerusalem, you who have drunk at the hand of the LORD The cup of His fury; you have drunk the dregs of the cup of trembling, and drained it out. (Isaiah 51:17)

The cup didn’t represent death, but judgment

Jesus became, as it were, an enemy of God, who was judged and forced to drink the cup of the Father’s fury, so we would not have to drink from that cup. Taking this figurative cup was the source of Jesus’ greatest agony on the cross.

Exalting Jesus in Luke Jesus Was Rejected by the Father (Luke 22:39–46)

The “cup” has two references. On the one hand, it refers to the cup of God’s wrath

Exalting Jesus in Luke Jesus Was Rejected by the Father (Luke 22:39–46)

The cup contains God’s righteous fury against all the sins of the world for all time. Christ will suffer for it all.

Exalting Jesus in Luke Jesus Was Rejected by the Father (Luke 22:39–46)

In order to save sinners from their sin the Lord Jesus will have to “drink,” or suffer, that wrath in our place.

Gods wrath was meant for us the true sinners but Jesus drunk it for us.....TALK, PREACH....(we don’t know anything about Gods wrath)

Exalting Jesus in Luke Jesus Was Rejected by the Father (Luke 22:39–46)

But this is also the cup of God’s salvation

Exalting Jesus in Luke Jesus Was Rejected by the Father (Luke 22:39–46)

The bitter wrath results in our sweet rescue from condemnation and hell.

Jesus took the bitter cup so we could have the sweet cup....and we can’t even say thank you.....TALK, PREACH....

so Jesus knows that only God can take this cup from.

Jesus still wanted to save us but He was just checking to see if there was another way...

and He recognized it and look at the last statement in His prayer.... Luke 22:42 “saying, “Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done.””

Jesus came to a point of decision in Gethsemane.

Luke C. The Glory Decision: The Father’s Will Wins (22:39–46)

He would have liked to have found another way to follow God’s plan. Still, he submitted to the Father. The Father’s will he would do, not his own. The Father’s will he knew was best. The Father’s will was what he always prayed for and did, even when the human side wanted something else.

the will of God...The intent and purpose of God, as revealed in Scripture. God’s will for his creation and his people is set out in the Law and the Prophets, which find their fulfilment in Jesus Christ. A central aspect of the will of God is that his people be faithful and obedient......TALK, PREACH....

Jesus’ flesh said no but His Godly said yes and thru the last part of His prayer he fully submitted to God....

He surrended to God’s perferct will…his surrender made him a perfect and ideal atonement,

his surrender made him righteousness and able to stand for every man

his surrender made him able to bear the cup of wrath against sin for us...

how did this happen.....

look at verse 43..... Luke 22:43 “Then an angel appeared to Him from heaven, strengthening Him.”

In response to Jesus’ prayers, the Father did not take the cup from Jesus; but He strengthened Jesus by angelic messengers to be able to take — and drink — the cup.

Luke C. The Glory Decision: The Father’s Will Wins (22:39–46)

The angel’s presence reaffirmed what Jesus knew. He had to face the task God had placed before him. He had to go to the cross. But he went with heavenly presence, heavenly strength, and heavenly nourishment.

Church there’s strength from prayer.....Prayer requires effort and self-denial

Exalting Jesus in Luke Applications

We must pray until we pray.

listen here church....Every life has a Garden of Gethsemane. But every Gethsemane has an angel. The Lord will always send an angel into your Gethsemane—an unexpected person, a Bible study, a radio teaching, a book—to strengthen you in your time of need.

I heard what Jesus said over in John 14:16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you for ever;

in your times of stress, PRAY

when the clouds hang low.....PRAY....

there is strength in Prayer....

when we look at the example Jesus has set before....

he was strengthed and finished the assignment....

what was the assignment.....TALK, PREACH, CLOSE....