Sermon Tone Analysis

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You are spiritually more vulnerable than you imagine.

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The Talmud designated as the Hallel (praise psalms) of Egypt.

These psalms were sung at Passover (see notes on ).

- His steadfast Love endures forever.

There is a great danger in overestimating your ability to resist temptation.

Peter thought he wasn’t like everyone else.

Peter though he was stronger, tougher, more spiritual, and immune to the things that plague other men.

He tragically overestimated his ability to resist temptation.

There is a great danger in ignoring Christ’s warnings about human weakness.

Jesus is holding up a caution sign and Peter completely ignores the danger.

Peter tragically overestimated his ability to resist temptation.

Peter tragically ignored Christ’s warning about his own weakness.

As a result Peter faced the darkest moments of his life when he very publically disavowed his relationship to Jesus Christ.

History is strewn with the wreckage of those who believed they would never...

2. Christ’s sacrifice was excruciatingly expensive.

Picture of the Garden of Gethsemane.

Matt 26:36-

Gethsemane means “oil press,” indicating a garden area among the olive groves on the Mount of Olives where olive oil was prepared.

This was the olive press - they place were Christ would be crushed.

says that Jesus sweat was like “drops of blood.”

“This suggests a dangerous condition known as hematidrosis, the effusion of blood in one’s perspiration.

It can be caused by extreme anguish or physical strain.

Subcutaneous capillaries dilate and burst, mingling blood with sweat.”

John MacArthur

This Begs the Question: Why was Jesus in such a state of anguish?

others have faced death without similar experiences.

Histrory recordes Christan’s going to their death with song!

Why was Jesus is such a state of anguish?

Please understand this!

Christ bristled at the wrath of God not the cruelty of man.

In the ancient times, often people were executed with a cup of terrible poison, a cup of poison that went in and basically emulsified your insides, tore them into pieces, ate you up from the inside, and you died...

Because that was the method of execution for many people, the Old Testament, the Hebrew prophets, came to use the cup as a metaphor for the wrath of God on human evil.

Tim Keller

When Jesus himself speaks of the cup, it shows he knows that he is facing not just physical torture and death; he is about to experience the full divine wrath on the evil and sin of all humanity.

Tim Keller

He went looking for heaven and found hell.

"Christ was going to be cast into a dreadful furnace of wrath, and it was not proper that he should plunge himself into it blindfolded, as not knowing how dreadful the furnace was.

Therefore, God brought him and set him at the mouth of the furnace, that he might look in and stand and view its fierce and raging flames, might see where he was going, and might voluntarily enter into it and bear it for sinners as knowing what it was.”

"Christ was going to be cast into a dreadful furnace of wrath, and it was not proper that he should plunge himself into it blindfolded, as not knowing how dreadful the furnace was.

Therefore, God brought him and set him at the mouth of the furnace, that he might look in and stand and view its fierce and raging flames, might see where he was going, and might voluntarily enter into it and bear it for sinners as knowing what it was.”

Jonathan Edwards

3. Christ’s commitment to love God and love others is unconditional.

His love of God led Christ to submit is will to the Father.

The first Adam in the garden says “My will be done”.

The second Adam in the Garden says “Thy will be done”!

His love for man led Christ to substitute himself for others.