THE FATHER'S WILL, THE SON'S OBEDIENCE (4 OF 19)
Scripture: Matthew 26:36-46
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The Father's Will, the Son's Obedience (4 of 19)
Series: Cross Examination
Wyman Richardson
Matthew 26:36-46
Read Matthew 26:36-46
When I was a boy we would sing old hymns out of the hymnbook. One came to mind as I was considering our text. It came to mind the way old things sometimes come to mind: I had not thought of it in forever but, when I thought of it, it was like I had never really forgotten it. I am speaking of Jennie Evelyn Hussey's 1921 hymn, ''Lead Me To Calvary (King of My Life I Crown Thee Now).'' In particular I remember the chorus because it struck me as a boy as somehow curious and poetic. It stayed with me. Here is the first verse and the chorus.
King of my life, I crown Thee now,
Thine shall the glory be:
Lest I forget Thy thorn crowned brow,
Lead me to Calvary.
Lest I forget Gethsemane;
Lest I forget Thine agony;
Lest I forget Thy love for me,
Lead me to Calvary.
Again, that strikes me as an interesting way of putting it, and likely not a way that modern musicians would put it. But there's something poignant and even a bit haunting about that to me. The hymn's stated fear is that we would forget three things: Gethsemane, Thine agony, and Thy love for me. And the solution offered to help us not to forget these three things is one thing: Calvary. The cross helps us to remember Gethsemane, Thine agony, and Thy love for me.
Both present at Gethsemane: Thine agony and Thy love for me.
We continue to approach Calvary, but first, the garden. There are three principle players here: the Lord God above all, the Lord Jesus, God with us, and the disciples. Each demonstrate a powerful component of what was happening as Jesus agonized in the garden.
The will of the Father: the cross.
We first see the Father. Jesus calls out to the Father three times in the garden of Gethsemane.
36 Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, ''Sit here, while I go over there and pray.''
39 A ...
Series: Cross Examination
Wyman Richardson
Matthew 26:36-46
Read Matthew 26:36-46
When I was a boy we would sing old hymns out of the hymnbook. One came to mind as I was considering our text. It came to mind the way old things sometimes come to mind: I had not thought of it in forever but, when I thought of it, it was like I had never really forgotten it. I am speaking of Jennie Evelyn Hussey's 1921 hymn, ''Lead Me To Calvary (King of My Life I Crown Thee Now).'' In particular I remember the chorus because it struck me as a boy as somehow curious and poetic. It stayed with me. Here is the first verse and the chorus.
King of my life, I crown Thee now,
Thine shall the glory be:
Lest I forget Thy thorn crowned brow,
Lead me to Calvary.
Lest I forget Gethsemane;
Lest I forget Thine agony;
Lest I forget Thy love for me,
Lead me to Calvary.
Again, that strikes me as an interesting way of putting it, and likely not a way that modern musicians would put it. But there's something poignant and even a bit haunting about that to me. The hymn's stated fear is that we would forget three things: Gethsemane, Thine agony, and Thy love for me. And the solution offered to help us not to forget these three things is one thing: Calvary. The cross helps us to remember Gethsemane, Thine agony, and Thy love for me.
Both present at Gethsemane: Thine agony and Thy love for me.
We continue to approach Calvary, but first, the garden. There are three principle players here: the Lord God above all, the Lord Jesus, God with us, and the disciples. Each demonstrate a powerful component of what was happening as Jesus agonized in the garden.
The will of the Father: the cross.
We first see the Father. Jesus calls out to the Father three times in the garden of Gethsemane.
36 Then Jesus went with them to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to his disciples, ''Sit here, while I go over there and pray.''
39 A ...
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