Gethsemane
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Christ was now standing in a different attitude from that in which He had ever stood before. His suffering can best be described in the words of the prophet, Awake, O sword, against My shepherd, and against the man that is My fellow, saith the Lord of hosts. Zechariah 13:7. As the substitute
And what was to be gained by this sacrifice? How hopeless appeared the guilt and ingratitude of men! In its hardest features Satan pressed the situation upon the Redeemer: The people who claim to be above all others in temporal and spiritual advantages have rejected You.
Behold Him contemplating the price to be paid for the human soul. In His agony He clings to the cold ground, as if to prevent Himself from being drawn farther from God.
The human heart longs for sympathy in suffering....He staggered to the place where He had left His companions. But He finds them asleep....Even Peter was sleeping.....John, the loving disciple who had leaned upon the breast of Jesus, was asleep.
Turning away, Jesus sought again His retreat, and fell prostrate, overcome by the horror of a great darkness. The humanity of the Son of God trembled in that trying. The awful moment had come--that moment which was to decide the destiny of the world. The fate of humanity trembled in the balance. Christ might even now refuse to drink the cup apportioned to guilty man. It was not yet too late. He might wipe the bloody sweat from His brow, and leave man to perish in his iniquity. He might say, Let the transgressor receive the penalty of his sin, and I will go back to My Father. Will the Son of God drink the bitter cup of humiliation and agony?
The words fall tremblingly from the pale lips of Jesus, O My Father, if this cup may not pass away from Me, except I drink it, Thy will be done. Matthew 26:42
IN THE GARDEN performed by MICHAEL CARD