What Was That Drank in that Cup
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Then he said to them, “These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophets and the Psalms must be fulfilled.” Then he opened their minds to understand the Scriptures, and said to them, “Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer and on the third day rise from the dead, and that repentance for the forgiveness of sins should be proclaimed in his name to all nations, beginning from Jerusalem. You are witnesses of these things. And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
Intro: Today as we observe Resurrection day I Pray that before you leave here you understand the totality of why we celebrate this day. To appreciate this day you must understand what it means for you and me. This is not a day for believer as the world would like you to believe. No this day is for all who are born into this world.
I want to explore this occasion under the question of what was in the CUP. You ever been given a drink and drink it and then suddenly ask wwwwhhhooooaaaahhhh what was in the Cup? That is the question I venture to answer today with the Help of God and the Holy Spirit.
To explore this question, we must define what cup we are talking about.
THE CUP
Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.” Again, for the second time, he went away and prayed, “My Father, if this cannot pass unless I drink it, your will be done.”
The Cup Jesus said take from me (Jesus referred to what he did here as drink from a Cup) thus the question.
The same cup he spoke about in
Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came up to him with her sons, and kneeling before him she asked him for something. And he said to her, “What do you want?” She said to him, “Say that these two sons of mine are to sit, one at your right hand and one at your left, in your kingdom.” Jesus answered, “You do not know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am to drink?” They said to him, “We are able.”
Now that is the Cup But…
WHAT WAS IN THE CUP?
Who has believed what he has heard from us?
And to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?
For he grew up before him like a young plant,
and like a root out of dry ground;
he had no form or majesty that we should look at him,
and no beauty that we should desire him.
He was despised and rejected by men,
a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief;
and as one from whom men hide their faces
he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Surely he has borne our griefs
and carried our sorrows;
yet we esteemed him stricken,
smitten by God, and afflicted.
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.
All we like sheep have gone astray;
we have turned—every one—to his own way;
and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah spelled out the components of the mixture in the Cup
Shame, Bruises, Pain, Loneliness and hurt, abuse and curses were in the cup mixed up at the right proportions to make a drink so bitter that event the son of Man would say NAW I will pass but never the less your will be done. It was a little bit of everything nasty. It was a double dog dare drink from the fifth grade that never got drank.
It was a Drink call Resurrection
The resurrection was a powerful drink. It affirms the divinity of Jesus Christ, marks the words and deeds of his ministry with God’s seal of approval and opens the way to the future resurrection of believers.
Paul said “Oh to know him in the Power of his resurrection”
Resurrection was a demonstration and proof of God’s power
See we celebrate this day because Jesus drank a drink that we didn’t want to drink and were not fit to drink.
Because of this drink called Resurrection
We are saved
because, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
We have been Justified
He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was as good as dead (since he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered the barrenness of Sarah’s womb.
We Have Hope
If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we are of all people most to be pitied.
We are alive and positioned for greatness
And you were dead in the trespasses and sins
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,
Jesus did all of this while we were yet sinners so though death was an ingredient in the drank it was not the drink.
See we celebrate today what we know as one of the greatest Covenants (or Contracts) was signed in the Blood of Jesus the lamb who was slain and sealed in the His Resurrection Power.
We celebrate the Freedom we have from sin
We celebrate the Joy and hope we now have
We are by no ways here to morn the loss but to celebrate the gain.
And behold, I am sending the promise of my Father upon you. But stay in the city until you are clothed with power from on high.”
We celebrate power
Do you want Power