THE GODMAN IN THE GARDEN (44 OF 48)
by Bob Ingle
Scripture: Mark 14:32-52
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The GodMan in the Garden (44 of 48)
Series: The Gospel of Mark
Bob Ingle
Mark 14:32-52
Open your bible to Mark 14. In your daily walk with Jesus, you'll rarely find that He leads you down the resistance free road. Did you know that? Doing that which is easiest is often to the neglect of doing that which is best.
God's Will is rarely easy, but it is always best. God loves to take us off the road of LEAST resistance and onto the road of MUCH resistance because it's there that we find who He is, and who we are to be, and what He's up to in the world, and who we can join in, and most of all we find on the road of MUCH resistance just how desperately we need Him.
There may be no passage in Scripture that teaches this so clearly than the one we look at today. Jesus has been in the upper room with His disciples eating the Passover Lamb and teaching Him that He is the final Lamb of God who will be slain for the sins of the world. They leave the upper room singing hymns of worship to God. But everything is about to change. Life is about to get very, very hard. Mark 14:32-42 (READ). If you can't tell, we are on sacred ground.
Jesus leads His disciples out of the upper room singing and to go to the Garden of Gethsemane to do some praying. John 18:2 says that Jesus came to this garden often with the disciples. It was a place of respite on the outskirts of town away from the masses of people.
'Gethsemane' means olive press. Olives were a crop that had to be pressed and crushed in order to get the precious oil out of them. How appropriate because the Son of God would soon be pressed by His enemies and crushed by His cross, so that His precious blood would be poured out to cover our sin. But before He can surrender His BODY on the cross, He must surrender His WILL to the Father.
I want to suggest to you that Jesus' night in Gethsemane might have been even more difficult than His day on the cross. I don't say that to diminish the cross in any way, but to ...
Series: The Gospel of Mark
Bob Ingle
Mark 14:32-52
Open your bible to Mark 14. In your daily walk with Jesus, you'll rarely find that He leads you down the resistance free road. Did you know that? Doing that which is easiest is often to the neglect of doing that which is best.
God's Will is rarely easy, but it is always best. God loves to take us off the road of LEAST resistance and onto the road of MUCH resistance because it's there that we find who He is, and who we are to be, and what He's up to in the world, and who we can join in, and most of all we find on the road of MUCH resistance just how desperately we need Him.
There may be no passage in Scripture that teaches this so clearly than the one we look at today. Jesus has been in the upper room with His disciples eating the Passover Lamb and teaching Him that He is the final Lamb of God who will be slain for the sins of the world. They leave the upper room singing hymns of worship to God. But everything is about to change. Life is about to get very, very hard. Mark 14:32-42 (READ). If you can't tell, we are on sacred ground.
Jesus leads His disciples out of the upper room singing and to go to the Garden of Gethsemane to do some praying. John 18:2 says that Jesus came to this garden often with the disciples. It was a place of respite on the outskirts of town away from the masses of people.
'Gethsemane' means olive press. Olives were a crop that had to be pressed and crushed in order to get the precious oil out of them. How appropriate because the Son of God would soon be pressed by His enemies and crushed by His cross, so that His precious blood would be poured out to cover our sin. But before He can surrender His BODY on the cross, He must surrender His WILL to the Father.
I want to suggest to you that Jesus' night in Gethsemane might have been even more difficult than His day on the cross. I don't say that to diminish the cross in any way, but to ...
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