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THE CUP OF CHRIST’S SUFFERING. MATTHEW 26:36-56. MATTHEW 26:36-56. THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE. “Olive Press.” Some of the olive trees are estimated to be 2000 years old!. WHAT IS THE CUP ?. “The cup” --9 TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. TWICE HERE (vv. 39 & 42).
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THE CUP OF CHRIST’S SUFFERING MATTHEW 26:36-56
MATTHEW 26:36-56 • THE GARDEN OF GETHSEMANE. • “Olive Press.” • Some of the olive trees are estimated to be 2000 years old!
WHAT IS THE CUP? • “The cup” --9 TIMES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. • TWICE HERE (vv. 39 & 42). • “My Father, if it is possible , may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”
1. PREMATURE DEATH • 26:38– “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.” • Luke 22:44– “His sweat was like drops of blood falling to the ground.”
1. PREMATURE DEATH • Luke 22:43– “An angel from heaven appeared to him and strengthened him.” • But notice He did not say thank you My prayer is answered, “He prayed more earnestly…” (v. 44).
1. PREMATURE DEATH • Matthew 20:22-23-- Jesus asked James and John, “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” • “We can.” • “You will indeed drink from my cup…”
2. FEAR OF SUFFERING • Jesus knew what was ahead. • Flogging could kill a man. 39 lashes was the limit in Israel, but not for the Romans. • Crucifixion was the most barbaric form of execution. Roman citizens were not allowed to be executed in this manner.
2. FEAR OF SUFFERING • Matt. 26:53– “Do you think I cannot call on my Father, and he will at once put at my disposal more then twelve legions of angels?” • Legion=6,000-7,000. One angel is enough, imagine 72,000-84,000!
Psalm 22:14-18 • “I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint. My heart has turned to wax, it has melted away within me. My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth; …they have pierced my hands and my feet…I can count all my bones; people stare and gloat over me. They divide my garments among them and cast lots for my clothing.”
3. TO BE BETRAYED • Matt. 26:24– “But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”
3. TO BE BETRAYED • But even after Judas betrays Him John 18:11 records, • “Shall I not drink the cup the Father has given me?”
WHAT IS THE CUP? • 1. PREMATURE DEATH • 2. FEAR OF SUFFERING • 3. TO BE BETRAYED
4. TO BE MADE SIN FOR US • 2 Cor. 5:21– “God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
4. TO BE MADE SIN FOR US • 1 Peter 2: 24– “He himself boreour sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.”
4. TO BE MADE SIN FOR US • Isaiah 53:4-6 -- “Surely he took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows… • “He was crushed for our iniquities…” • “The LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.”
4. TO BE MADE SIN FOR US • Psalm 22:1– “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” • Matt. 27:46-- “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”
4. TO BE MADE SIN FOR US • Galatians 3:13– “Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us, for it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
4. TO BE MADE SIN FOR US • Matt. 26:42– “My Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away unless I drink it, may your will be done.”
ROMANS 6:23 • “The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
