A bitter cup.....Luke 22:42

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

they now have went out to the Mount of Olives

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

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

and we know the story, and know that God did answer with a NO...

But this cup, intrigues me...

18th century theologian, Charles Inglis…shows 3 cups in Luke 22 alone....

Cup of the PASSOVER Luk 22:17, Luke 22:17 “Then He took the cup, and gave thanks, and said, “Take this and divide it among yourselves;”

Cup of BLESSING Luk 22:20; Luke 22:20 “Likewise He also took the cup after supper, saying, “This cup is the new covenant in My blood, which is shed for you.”

Cup of SORROW Luk 22:42....our subject for today...

what is this cup...

Repeatedly in the Old Testament, a cup is a powerful picture of the wrath and judgment of God.

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)

For thus says the LORD God of Israel to me: “Take this wine cup of fury from My hand, and cause all the nations, to whom I send you, to drink it.” (Jeremiah 25:15)

The cup didn’t represent death, but judgment.

The cup didn’t represent death, it was the wrath of God....

Why???

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......TALK, PREACH....

and He did it for us...

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

Charles Spurgeon states..."I am never afraid of exaggeration, when I speak of what my Lord endured. All hell was distilled into that cup, of which our God and Savior Jesus Christ was made to drink." (Spurgeon)

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

and Jesus felt the wrath…so much agony…if we look at verse 44....Luke 22:44 “And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” ......

sweating blood....TALK, PREACH...

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)

The Bible Exposition Commentary Chapter Twenty-Two: The Night They Arrested God (Luke 22:39–71)

A comparison of the Gospel accounts reveals that Jesus prayed three times about the cup and returned three times to the disciples, only to find them asleep. How little they realized the testing and danger that lay before them! And how much it would have meant to Jesus to have had their prayer support as He faced Calvary!

we can’t be too hard on the disciples....because we know and still sin…we still keep adding weight upon His shoulder....

and He is still pleading our case.....TALK, PREACH...

but Jesus took the bitter cup for us...

yes He asked for God to remove it…Now that doesn’t mean He didn’t want to save us...

Jesus still wanted to save us but He was just checking to see if there was another way....TALK, PREACH…(REMEMBER ON HIS MAMA SIDE)

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...

1 cup…2 purposes....

1st cup of wrath....TALK...

Next, But this is also the cup of God’s salvation

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

Jesus took the bitter cup so we could have the sweet cup....TALK, PREACH...

Salvation.....Deliverance from the power and effects of sin.

CALL THE ROLL....

come here Noah...

come here Jonah

come here David..

Israelites....

come here 2024....

Jesus took the wrath, so we could get saved....

He drunk of the bitter so we could drink of the sweet....

and this doesn’t move you?

people can’t say thank you

more worried about finding the Golden egg with the cash inside...

what about the tomb with no one inside....

oh, it should have been us but He fulfilled the prophecy went all of the way...

God’s will shall be done...

A bitter cup had your name on it, my name on it but Christ put in one cup and drank of up

So we could have a chance to get it together and be able to drank of the sweet cup of salvation....

TALK, PREACH, CLOSE...