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Monday, January 14, 2013

"Jesus Does the Will of the Father"

 
Matthew 26:42-43: Again, a second time, he went away and prayed, saying O my Father, if this cup cannot pass away from Me unless I drink it, Your will be done. And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.
The utter resignation of Jesus to the Father's will shines out in all these closing experiences involved in the time our Savior spent in Gethsemane. While the horror of becoming the great sin offering, being made sin for us, overwhelmed tHis human soul and spirit, yet, as we have seen, He was perfectly subject to the divine will, and had no thought of turning aside. There are depths here that our minds can neve fathom, but all is perfection on His part. Jesus knew exactly what the cup was that He was to drink. Knowing also that there was no other way by which He could become the Captain of our salvation (Hebrews 2:10), He faced the ordeal unflinchingly in order that God might be glorified, and sinful men saved from judgment.
Remember, the cup was not simply death or physical suffering. It was the fierced indignation of the Lord against sin, which filled that cup about to be presented by the Father to His holy Son, that caused the bitter agony of soul which so affected His body that the bloody sweat was forced through the pores of His skin.
In the Old Testament, there are several references to the "cup" of God's wrath. In Psalm 11:6, it is reserved for the wicked. In Psalm 75:8, it is a cup of divine indignation. In Isaiah 51:17 it is the cup of trembling; and in Jeremiah 25:15 it is the cup of the Lord's fury. All of this, and more, was involved in the cup which our Lord had to drink in order that we might have the cup of salvation come to our lips (Psalm 116:13).
The agony that Jesus experienced in the Garden of Gethsemane was a fitting prelude to the darkness He would experience on the Cross. The One who had no sin became sin for us that we might become the righteousness of God. That is Good News for us, that is the Gospel. Share with someone today the Gospel. Not only will you be a blessing to the Kingdom of God, but you will be blessed personally. Jesus paid it all, all to Him we owe! Let's live like we mean that.

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