Remind: The Garden

Lloyd Wells

Remind • Sermon • Submitted 6 years ago

Mark 14:32–42

The Passion

Humanity

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Jesus understands stress and the desire to want His father to move on his behalf.

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The Garden

Jesus troubled and distressed, his will vs God’s will

The three disciples inability to stay alert and pray.

Betrayal

Mark 14:32–42 ESV

32 And they went to a place called Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. 34 And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.” 35 And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36 And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.” 37 And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? 38 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” 39 And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. 40 And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not know what to answer him. 41 And he came the third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 42 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”

: 32-42

Jesus is Distressed

vv 34-36

Jesus is Distressed

Perilypos - Greek, a rare word, means “burdened with grief” in this case “despair unto death.”

Why? His mortality? I’m certain he knows the pain he will suffer but it was something more spiritual than physical that had him sorrowful unto death.

His Purpose

Mark 10:45 ESV

45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Isaiah 53:4–5 ESV

4 Surely he has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; yet we esteemed him stricken, smitten by God, and afflicted. 5 But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed.

Isa 53-

He was to pierced and CRUSHED for our transgressions.

The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to Mark Gethsemane: Prelude to the Cross (14:32–42)

All three have earlier crowed of their mettle (Peter, 14:29–31; James and John, 10:38–39; 14:31); they should be exactly the companions Jesus needs in the crisis before him.

Mark 14:34–36 ESV

34 And he said to them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch.” 35 And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. 36 And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. Remove this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Jesus must conform his WILL, to God’s WILL

The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to Mark Gethsemane: Prelude to the Cross (14:32–42)

Nothing in all the Bible compares to Jesus’ agony and anguish in Gethsemane—neither the laments of the Psalms, nor the broken heart of Abraham as he prepared to sacrifice his son Isaac (Gen 22:5), nor David’s grief at the death of his son Absalom (2 Sam 18:33). Luke 22:44 even speaks of Jesus’ “sweat falling to the ground like drops of blood” (so, too, Justin Martyr, Dial. Trypho 103.8). The suffering of Gethsemane left an indelible imprint on the early church (Heb 5:7).

The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to Mark Gethsemane: Prelude to the Cross (14:32–42)

In Gethsemane Jesus must make the first payment of that ransom, to will to become the sin-bearer for humanity

Mark 10

Mark 10:45 ESV

45 For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

Submitting to the will of God is not always pretty and certainly not always comfortable.

The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to Mark Gethsemane: Prelude to the Cross (14:32–42)

In Gethsemane Jesus must make the first payment of that ransom, to will to become the sin-bearer for humanity.

Two things to remind ourselves of

Jesus presented himself to God to answer for every sin and crime and act of malice and injury and cowardice and evil in the world.

As the sin-bearer for humanity he experienced complete alienation from God. The father/son relationship has transitioned to the Executioner/Criminal. Not because Jesus had committed a sin, but because he took our sin upon.

Jesus Warns his Disciples

34, 37, 38

Jesus had told his three closest disciples to “watch and pray”

The second time he had said

Mark 14:

Mark 14:37–38 ESV

37 And he came and found them sleeping, and he said to Peter, “Simon, are you asleep? Could you not watch one hour? 38 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Mark 14:38 ESV

38 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

Noticed he used his chief apostles old name “Simon” and not “Peter” In the Garden, in Jesus darkest hour, he is not a “Rock.”

Mark 14:

Jesus seems to be frustrated with them

1) Trusting and obeying God are not the default responses of followers of Jesus.

2) Ongoing struggles against temptation and weakness are.

Jesus seems to be frustrated with them

Mark 14:41–42 ESV

41 And he came the third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and taking your rest? It is enough; the hour has come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 42 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”

Mark 14:42 ESV

42 Rise, let us be going; see, my betrayer is at hand.”

Mark 14:

With that statement the first event of the passion predictions comes to pass.

1) Trusting and obeying God are not the default responses of followers of Jesus.

2) Ongoing struggles against temptation and weakness are.

With that statement the first event of the passion predictions comes to pass.

Mark 14:

Mark 9:31 ESV

31 for he was teaching his disciples, saying to them, “The Son of Man is going to be delivered into the hands of men, and they will kill him. And when he is killed, after three days he will rise.”

Here we are reminded that

1) Trusting and obeying God are not the default responses of followers of Jesus.

2) Ongoing struggles against temptation and weakness are.

Mark 13:35–37 ESV

35 Therefore stay awake—for you do not know when the master of the house will come, in the evening, or at midnight, or when the rooster crows, or in the morning— 36 lest he come suddenly and find you asleep. 37 And what I say to you I say to all: Stay awake.”

Jesus had explained to his disciples

The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to Mark Gethsemane: Prelude to the Cross (14:32–42)

Not his own mortality, but the specter of identifying with sinners so fully as to become the object of God’s wrath against sin—it is this that overwhelms Jesus’ soul “ ‘to the point of death’ ”

The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to Mark Gethsemane: Prelude to the Cross (14:32–42)

What profound irony Gethsemane conceals, for when Jesus feels most excluded from God’s presence he is in fact closest to God’s will! Gethsemane is the prelude to Calvary, for in a valley beneath the city Jesus allows his soul to be crucified; on a hill above the city he relinquishes his body.

The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to Mark Gethsemane: Prelude to the Cross (14:32–42)

Jesus’ prayer is not the result of calm absorption into an all-encompassing divine presence, but an intense struggle with the frightful reality of God’s will and what it means fully to submit to it.

The Pillar New Testament Commentary: The Gospel according to Mark Gethsemane: Prelude to the Cross (14:32–42)