2019-09-11 Mark 14
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32 Then they came to a place named Gethsemane, and he told his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”
33 He took Peter, James, and John with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled.
34 He said to them, “I am deeply grieved to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake.”
35 He went a little farther, fell to 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. Take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, not what I will, but what you will.”
37 Then he came and found them sleeping. He said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you stay awake one hour?
38 Stay awake and pray so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
39 Once again he went away and prayed, saying the same thing.
40 And again he came and found them sleeping, because they could not keep their eyes open. They did not know what to say to him.
41 Then he came a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The time has come. See, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
42 Get up; let’s go. See, my betrayer is near.”
Mk 14:
I. In the garden we see the fullness of Jesus as the Son of Man.
I. In the garden we see the fullness of Jesus as the Son of Man.
Mk 14:
32 Then they came to a place named Gethsemane, and he told his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”
33 He took Peter, James, and John with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled.
34 He said to them, “I am deeply grieved to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake.”
35 He went a little farther, fell to 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. Take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, not what I will, but what you will.”
A. The garden was no accident.
A. The garden was no accident.
32 Then they came to a place named Gethsemane, and he told his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”
33 He took Peter, James, and John with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled.
34 He said to them, “I am deeply grieved to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake.”
35 He went a little farther, fell to 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. Take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, not what I will, but what you will.”
Mk 14:32-34
Illus: Jesus’ life was intentional.
When he called himself the Son of man in verse 41, it was intentional. The fact that Jesus favorite name was the son of man was intentional.
Jesus saw himself as more than a nationalistic messiah, He saw himself is the prototype human who would be the mold for what God would do.
The Son of Man carried with it a pointing back to Adam— a reminder of Adam’s failures, and of God’s promise.
The garden was no accident either. Just as Jesus called himself the Son of Man, his final moments were spend purposely in a garden.
Jesus did not waste the imagry, but wanted you to see that the original man, Adam, was defined by his actions in the Garden. The second Adam, Jesus, was defined by his actions in the garden.
1 Now the serpent was the most cunning of all the wild animals that the Lord God had made. He said to the woman, “Did God really say, ‘You can’t eat from any tree in the garden’?”
2 The woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit from the trees in the garden.
3 But about the fruit of the tree in the middle of the garden, God said, ‘You must not eat it or touch it, or you will die.’ ”
4 “No! You will not die,” the serpent said to the woman.
5 “In fact, God knows that when you eat it your eyes will be opened and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.”
6 The woman saw that the tree was good for food and delightful to look at, and that it was desirable for obtaining wisdom. So she took some of its fruit and ate it; she also gave some to her husband, who was with her, and he ate it.
Gen 3:
Gen 3:
In the midst of failure God wrote a promise which would be fulfilled in Christ.
8 Then the man and his wife heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden at the time of the evening breeze, and they hid from the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
9 So the Lord God called out to the man and said to him, “Where are you?”
10 And he said, “I heard you in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.”
11 Then he asked, “Who told you that you were naked? Did you eat from the tree that I commanded you not to eat from?”
12 The man replied, “The woman you gave to be with me—she gave me some fruit from the tree, and I ate.”
13 So the Lord God asked the woman, “What is this you have done?” And the woman said, “The serpent deceived me, and I ate.”
14 So the Lord God said to the serpent: Because you have done this, you are cursed more than any livestock and more than any wild animal. You will move on your belly and eat dust all the days of your life.
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.
15 I will put hostility between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring. He will strike your head, and you will strike his heel.
Because of Adam , the entire world came under the curse of death.
17 And he said to the man, “Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, ‘Do not eat from it’: The ground is cursed because of you. You will eat from it by means of painful labor all the days of your life.
18 It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field.
19 You will eat bread by the sweat of your brow until you return to the ground, since you were taken from it. For you are dust, and you will return to dust.”
Gen 3:
Gen 3:
B. Jesus came as a new Adam to fulfill in the garden what the original Adam could not.
B. Jesus came as a new Adam to fulfill in the garden what the original Adam could not.
32 Then they came to a place named Gethsemane, and he told his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.”
33 He took Peter, James, and John with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled.
34 He said to them, “I am deeply grieved to the point of death. Remain here and stay awake.”
35 He went a little farther, fell to 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. Take this cup away from me. Nevertheless, not what I will, but what you will.”
mk 14
Illus: God could have dealt with us, by allowing us to live and deal with the consequences of being children of Adam.
You made your bed, now sleep in it.
That said, God’s plan all along was to accomplish through the son of man what we could not.
The Old Testament is filled with story after story of failure. It is the story of a people chosen by God who failed to keep their end of the covenant.
Hope is not found in human ingenuity, or idealism. It is not found in the goodness of men.
Hope is found in the goodness of God becoming a man, and recreating the mold broken in the Garden of Eden.
21 For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead also comes through a man.
22 For just as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.
1 cor 15
12 Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, in this way death spread to all people, because all sinned.
13 In fact, sin was in the world before the law, but sin is not charged to a person’s account when there is no law.
14 Nevertheless, death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam’s transgression. He is a type of the Coming One.
Romans 5:
II. In the Garden we see the futility of our flesh.
II. In the Garden we see the futility of our flesh.
Mk 14:37-
37 Then he came and found them sleeping. He said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you stay awake one hour?
38 Stay awake and pray so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
39 Once again he went away and prayed, saying the same thing.
A. Whether in Adam, the Disciples, or ourselves, our flesh is weak.
A. Whether in Adam, the Disciples, or ourselves, our flesh is weak.
37 Then he came and found them sleeping. He said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you stay awake one hour?
38 Stay awake and pray so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Illus: The account of the Garden of Gethsemane draws two distinct contrasts. The first is Adam to Jesus. The second is the Disciples to Jesus.
Both contrasts paint the same picture.
The show our weakness, and inability. Sure we have good intentions. Yes we want to follow God, but on our own the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Look at our daily lives. How often do we pursue living for God and fail miserable. How often do we swear off sin over and over again, yet fall right back in.
As you look at the disciples, do not say “I would have stayed awake”, instead realize that you would have been asleep right next to the disciples.
18 For I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my flesh. For the desire to do what is good is with me, but there is no ability to do it.
19 For I do not do the good that I want to do, but I practice the evil that I do not want to do.
20 Now if I do what I do not want, I am no longer the one that does it, but it is the sin that lives in me.
21 So I discover this law: When I want to do what is good, evil is present with me.
22 For in my inner self I delight in God’s law,
23 but I see a different law in the parts of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and taking me prisoner to the law of sin in the parts of my body.
24 What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death?
25 Thanks be to God through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with my mind I myself am serving the law of God, but with my flesh, the law of sin.
Romans 7:
B. Our hope rests in Christ’s success, not in our strength.
B. Our hope rests in Christ’s success, not in our strength.
37 Then he came and found them sleeping. He said to Peter, “Simon, are you sleeping? Couldn’t you stay awake one hour?
38 Stay awake and pray so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
Illus: Jesus succeeds where you fail. Jesus is depends on God where you fall into your flesh.
The foundation of the christian life is not that we work harder to please God.
The foundation of the Christian life is that we admit our failures, and see that Christ succeeds.
We hold to Christ who succeeds in our failures. We hold to the cross where our failures are paid for. We hold to the resurrection where we are given a sonship we do not deserve. We hold to a spirit that gives us a power we do not have.
24 Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
25 If we live by the Spirit, let us also keep in step with the Spirit.
III. In the garden Jesus embraced the cross.
III. In the garden Jesus embraced the cross.
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.”
Mk 14
Mk 14:41:
41 Then he came a third time and said to them, “Are you still sleeping and resting? Enough! The time has come. See, the Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.
42 Get up; let’s go. See, my betrayer is near.”
A. Jesus willingly embraced the cross for you.
A. Jesus willingly embraced the cross for you.
Illus: “Get up, let’s go.” It is important to see that Jesus was not the victim of a mob, a betrayer, nor the religious leaders. Jesus willing walked to his betrayer, arrest, torture, cross, and God’s wrath.
This is how the new Adam was able to save all the children of man, by willingly taking their place in punishment.
When you look to Jesus, I want you to see the willful choice in the garden to take your place. He took your place in punishment, in pain, so that you could be given his place of honor and sonship.
5 Adopt the same attitude as that of Christ Jesus,
6 who, existing in the form of God, did not consider equality with God as something to be exploited.
7 Instead he emptied himself by assuming the form of a servant, taking on the likeness of humanity. And when he had come as a man,
8 he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death— even to death on a cross.
PHil 2:5