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Ep. 171 - Exploring What Happened in the Garden of Gethsemane · The Living Waters Podcast

• 1:04
  Ray Comfort: I had my Gethsemane experience two weeks after I saved.
• 1:07
  Ray Comfort: Mark seems to have had his in 1994.
• 1:10
  Ray Comfort: Remember you were saying you just laid it all out.
• 1:13
  Ray Comfort: You just sweat drops of blood.
• 1:15
  Ray Comfort: You say I'm giving up the battle not my will, but yours to be done.
• 1:19
  Ray Comfort: And I think it happened to me two weeks after I saved, once the dust had settled and I began to become aware of what had actually happened, that I'd found immortality, everlasting life.
• 1:29
  Ray Comfort: This wasn't something to be trifled with.
• 1:31
  Ray Comfort: This wasn't just a change of lifestyle or a new sport.
• 1:34
  Ray Comfort: This was something worthy of my life being dedicated to.
• 1:38
  Ray Comfort: And that's what I did in that moment And that was my Gethsemane experience.
• 1:42
  Ray Comfort: Not my will, but yours to be done.
• 1:48
  Emeal Zwayne: Way down in the jungle where nobody goes.
• 1:51
  Emeal Zwayne: There's a boogie woogie washing woman washing her clothes, with a rub-a-dub here and a rub-a-dub there.
• 1:57
  Emeal Zwayne: There's a boogie woogie washer woman washing her clothes.
• 2:01
  Oscar Navarro: Scotty, if you can just cut that.
• 2:03
  Emeal Zwayne: Just eradicate it.
• 2:04
  Emeal Zwayne: Camp songs Oh, I love camp songs.
• 2:07
  Ray Comfort: Is that from the 1980s?
• 2:09
  Ray Comfort: advertising something?
• 2:10
  Emeal Zwayne: No, it was a camp song.
• 2:12
  Emeal Zwayne: When I was in high school I did ROP.
• 2:16
  Emeal Zwayne: You guys remember ROP?
• 2:17
  Emeal Zwayne: Nope, ROP classes.
• 2:19
  Oscar Navarro: Oh yeah, yeah, military ROP That's.
• 2:21
  Emeal Zwayne: ROTC, Oh pretend.
• 2:23
  Oscar Navarro: ROP.
• 2:23
  Mark Spence: The crop classes.
• 2:24
  Mark Spence: What's that?
• 2:25
  Mark Spence: The crop classes?
• 2:26
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, they do different things, Like they would teach you.
• 2:28
  Emeal Zwayne: so I did an ROP class in recreational leadership.
• 2:31
  Emeal Zwayne: And so remember, after you got kicked out of high school this is after I got born again and then got back in and then did one of those.
• 2:39
  Emeal Zwayne: Did you guys remember outdoor science school Science camp Sixth grade.
• 2:43
  Mark Spence: Yeah, the sun just went on this.
• 2:44
  Mark Spence: Did you do that, Mark?
• 2:45
  Mark Spence: No, no, no, no Yeah anyway, i loved it.
• 2:48
  Emeal Zwayne: But I remember the camp songs, man.
• 2:52
  Emeal Zwayne: You guys remember the one in the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion's lead to the night.
• 2:58
  Oscar Navarro: That's a Disney song isn't it, it's a Disney one.
• 3:00
  Mark Spence: Yeah, that's not a camp song Oh yo, yo yo or whatever.
• 3:02
  Mark Spence: You don't have to do that.
• 3:02
  Mark Spence: That's Lion King.
• 3:03
  Mark Spence: that's Lion King, is it?
• 3:05
  Mark Spence: Or I'm just a bill sitting here on Capitol.
• 3:08
  Oscar Navarro: Hill.
• 3:08
  Oscar Navarro: What was that Rock and roll?
• 3:10
  Oscar Navarro: what is that called?
• 3:11
  Oscar Navarro: I don't remember That show.
• 3:13
  Mark Spence: I'm just a bill, i'm just a bill, You guys know before.
• 3:16
  Oscar Navarro: Capitol Hill be same with the train one.
• 3:19
  Emeal Zwayne: Remember What are these Conjunction, conjunction?
• 3:22
  Emeal Zwayne: What's your function?
• 3:23
  Emeal Zwayne: That's right.
• 3:24
  Emeal Zwayne: Have you heard of?
• 3:25
  Ray Comfort: these, but it's good for you to feel like I feel.
• 3:30
  Mark Spence: Ray just left the building.
• 3:31
  Emeal Zwayne: But there's something about camps, man, did you guys grow up camping, going to camps?
• 3:37
  Emeal Zwayne: I did Church camps, you did Ray.
• 3:40
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, when I was really little, my parents used to take me camping and I loved it.
• 3:43
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, You really loved it.
• 3:44
  Emeal Zwayne: I loved it.
• 3:45
  Emeal Zwayne: As a kid I wanted to be like a camp counselor.
• 3:49
  Emeal Zwayne: Before I decided to go into ministry I thought, oh, that would be so cool.
• 3:52
  Emeal Zwayne: But when I went on that outdoor science school as a counselor, they made me change my I love Jesus shirt that I was wearing around camp Big old I the heart Jesus shirt, and it didn't even dawn on me.
• 4:07
  Emeal Zwayne: They kept, like the leaders kept, and then finally, one of the That was the secular camp.
• 4:11
  Ray Comfort: You said, oh okay.
• 4:12
  Emeal Zwayne: Hey, you need to take that off.
• 4:14
  Emeal Zwayne: I wanted to fight it.
• 4:15
  Emeal Zwayne: So, not legal.
• 4:16
  Emeal Zwayne: I wanted to fight it.
• 4:17
  Emeal Zwayne: It probably isn't, is it?
• 4:18
  Oscar Navarro: You going to sushi tonight right here?
• 4:20
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, What did the bee say to the sushi?
• 4:23
  Ray Comfort: Wasabi Ha ha ha ha.
• 4:27
  Emeal Zwayne: Did you look that up?
• 4:28
  Emeal Zwayne: Oscar Straight from the heart.
• 4:30
  Emeal Zwayne: right Yeah, we got to get Ray to eat sushi.
• 4:34
  Mark Spence: I ate in Japan.
• 4:35
  Ray Comfort: I ate in Japan, went with mom.
• 4:36
  Mark Spence: He likes to sushi.
• 4:36
  Mark Spence: Well done.
• 4:37
  Ray Comfort: It's really, it's lady food.
• 4:38
  Ray Comfort: Give me a steak.
• 4:40
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, sushi is glorious.
• 4:42
  Emeal Zwayne: Mark, when did you finally surrender your life to sushi?
• 4:46
  Mark Spence: Well, I've missed out on many sushi encounters.
• 4:48
  Emeal Zwayne: When you think back.
• 4:49
  Mark Spence: With you and Trent and Aaron and Matt.
• 4:51
  Mark Spence: You guys all liked it and I just was not into it.
• 4:54
  Mark Spence: I didn't understand it in the texture.
• 4:56
  Mark Spence: When was it that it just finally?
• 4:57
  Ray Comfort: clicked.
• 4:57
  Mark Spence: Well it slowly.
• 4:58
  Mark Spence: I started with California rolls, Which truth be told.
• 5:01
  Emeal Zwayne: I don't think is it Speaking of rolls.
• 5:02
  Emeal Zwayne: Why you rolling your eyes, ray?
• 5:03
  Ray Comfort: Because it's seaweed wrapped around rice.
• 5:05
  Emeal Zwayne: And you were thinking about it.
• 5:06
  Mark Spence: Ooh, yeah, I think my mouth you haven't even seen Delicious, delicious, but like a rainbow roll.
• 5:10
  Mark Spence: Yeah, Really really good roll, that's my favorite.
• 5:12
  Mark Spence: Wow, how woke.
• 5:13
  Mark Spence: Oh, that's what I get.
• 5:15
  Ray Comfort: Oh man, that's what I get.
• 5:17
  Emeal Zwayne: The rainbow.
• 5:18
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, because you get so many different types of fish.
• 5:20
  Mark Spence: My daughter, ella, loves rainbow rolls.
• 5:22
  Mark Spence: Yeah, absolutely loves it.
• 5:23
  Oscar Navarro: I love straight sashimi.
• 5:25
  Mark Spence: Yeah, yeah, you stick away from the rice.
• 5:28
  Oscar Navarro: I'll do some, but most of it like 80% of my order is sashimi.
• 5:32
  Mark Spence: Give me the fish, Just not like a large chunk of it, but whatever cut up really kind of smaller, medium to large size kids What?
• 5:39
  Emeal Zwayne: what Ray's getting bored here Come in and get me, get me Vaughn.
• 5:44
  Ray Comfort: In and out.
• 5:46
  Emeal Zwayne: I love to sneak sushi and a raised cereal bowl, have him pour milk over and just not know what he's eating.
• 5:52
  Ray Comfort: But raise the almost, yeah, i thought you were off the cereal.
• 5:54
  Oscar Navarro: I'm back.
• 5:55
  Oscar Navarro: Oh yeah, right I found.
• 5:56
  Ray Comfort: I found some cereal thrown in the towel.
• 5:58
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, i know I'm a wagon or I couldn't eat cereal because it wasn't good for me.
• 6:03
  Emeal Zwayne: Is it the cereal or is it?
• 6:04
  Ray Comfort: but I found I drink raw milk, which is really good.
• 6:06
  Ray Comfort: It isn't past your eyes, it goes straight to your mouth regular milk yeah, it's regular raw milk and It's good and then so I've got some cereals that I can eat.
• 6:17
  Ray Comfort: So I drown in cereal every day.
• 6:18
  Ray Comfort: Crunch No.
• 6:20
  Oscar Navarro: So, if you, what is your favorite cereal like, given that you eat it?
• 6:23
  Ray Comfort: because I haven't had it for years.
• 6:25
  Oscar Navarro: So what are you?
• 6:25
  Ray Comfort: subtle.
• 6:26
  Ray Comfort: For Wait a bit, you've seen, you've would have seen that Ray Why?
• 6:28
  Emeal Zwayne: not in years.
• 6:29
  Emeal Zwayne: Like have one bowl.
• 6:31
  Ray Comfort: I get instant heartburn Oh straight after instant.
• 6:34
  Mark Spence: Well, so it's a week by the palette Ray.
• 6:38
  Emeal Zwayne: How many boxes did you get?
• 6:39
  Ray Comfort: it was 240?
• 6:40
  Ray Comfort: You did really.
• 6:41
  Ray Comfort: Atheist on my a face book page was saying you liar.
• 6:50
  Ray Comfort: I had to take a picture of the palette of cereal and send it to.
• 6:54
  Mark Spence: That is so, you Extreme measures but what is the cereal of choice that you like?
• 6:58
  Mark Spence: now We do mix.
• 6:59
  Mark Spence: Oh, now I can't remember what it is So the in.
• 7:03
  Mark Spence: Minnesota we had the Mall of America.
• 7:05
  Mark Spence: They had a cereal store.
• 7:07
  Mark Spence: It was like There about a month ago or so and I told my daughter we have to go to the cereal place.
• 7:15
  Mark Spence: It's so great and I'm looking around, i'm looking around.
• 7:17
  Mark Spence: I couldn't find it anywhere And I looked it up and said it's been out of business for more than 10 years.
• 7:22
  Ray Comfort: I really want to, years ago, start a cereal like restaurant, but what you do is you have live cows hanging from the ceiling and you just reach up and straight into the Well, julia last night was talking about will she open the cupboards and saw frosted flakes in there and just Ah, sorry to scream it, and we're talking about how that stuff must have cocaine in it.
• 7:41
  Mark Spence: Something something about sugar flakes.
• 7:44
  Mark Spence: I used to put sugar on my frosted.
• 7:48
  Ray Comfort: That's so great.
• 7:48
  Ray Comfort: It's like putting salt on salt water.
• 7:51
  Oscar Navarro: I was all about the cinnamon toast crunch, No we still are at our house.
• 7:55
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah.
• 7:56
  Emeal Zwayne: Frosted flakes was my first encounter with like America.
• 8:01
  Emeal Zwayne: I remember the.
• 8:02
  Emeal Zwayne: Distinct memory, you I'm coming from home us every day and you know whatever?
• 8:08
  Emeal Zwayne: and all of a sudden I taste this glory of fresh pure sugar.
• 8:11
  Mark Spence: Did you not have to?
• 8:12
  Emeal Zwayne: cereal and live it on?
• 8:13
  Emeal Zwayne: probably not.
• 8:14
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, we'd eat, like saying goats, curdled milk.
• 8:19
  Mark Spence: That with olives.
• 8:19
  Emeal Zwayne: I don't know Camel.
• 8:23
  Mark Spence: Camel with milk?
• 8:24
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, yeah, would you like some frosted camel?
• 8:27
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, but but you think frosted flakes so stupid.
• 8:29
  Emeal Zwayne: What is it?
• 8:30
  Emeal Zwayne: It's a stupid little flake with some sugar on it.
• 8:32
  Emeal Zwayne: There's nothing to it.
• 8:33
  Ray Comfort: Well, that's actually manner if you look up manner and see the description of manner in the other testimates definitely frosted flakes.
• 8:42
  Oscar Navarro: If you see the description it was sweet, and it was a flake.
• 8:45
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, buckle down, yeah all right, friends, enough of the stupidity which you're probably immune to by now.
• 8:52
  Emeal Zwayne: Anyway, here's a comment from Hello friends.
• 8:55
  Emeal Zwayne: No, that's not again.
• 8:56
  Emeal Zwayne: No name Oscar.
• 8:58
  Emeal Zwayne: My name is Joseph.
• 9:00
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh sorry.
• 9:01
  Oscar Navarro: I'm sorry.
• 9:01
  Oscar Navarro: Would you like to repent?
• 9:03
  Emeal Zwayne: Apologize on national.
• 9:04
  Emeal Zwayne: Televised podcast my name is Joseph Aaron and I want to tell you how you have helped my everyday walk with Christ, but I can't.
• 9:12
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm just kidding.
• 9:14
  Emeal Zwayne: You guys have inspired me to preach the gospel.
• 9:16
  Emeal Zwayne: At the beginning of the year, i resolved to memorize the gospel of John and I went to living waterscom and purchased 100 copies of the gospel of John to give to 100 people that I talked to about the good news.
• 9:27
  Emeal Zwayne: Keep up the good work, joseph.
• 9:29
  Emeal Zwayne: Joseph, praise the lord.
• 9:32
  Emeal Zwayne: Write us and tell us once you've memorized John, and if you do that and we see the comment, we'll read it on air and celebrate with you the gospel John.
• 9:41
  Emeal Zwayne: That was the first gospel I tried to memorize as a new believer.
• 9:44
  Mark Spence: Wow.
• 9:44
  Emeal Zwayne: I got as far as almost in the end of chapter three, as far as in, and then I quit because I was trying to memorize every verse and its reference And it got very monotonous, so I do it differently.
• 9:56
  Emeal Zwayne: in what version?
• 9:58
  Mark Spence: I knew American standard In the beginning.
• 10:03
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, All right.
• 10:04
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• 10:09
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• 10:11
  Ray Comfort: I am Seriously I think What product do we have to do mug?
• 10:16
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• 10:17
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• 10:18
  Emeal Zwayne: How to make sure god hears your prayers.
• 10:21
  Emeal Zwayne: Book Ray why did you write this?
• 10:25
  Ray Comfort: I have no idea.
• 10:27
  Emeal Zwayne: Something that day that was one of those four books.
• 10:29
  Emeal Zwayne: Was this one of your last books ever?
• 10:30
  Emeal Zwayne: There was the last book, yes.
• 10:33
  Ray Comfort: Gotta keep you in.
• 10:36
  Emeal Zwayne: Uh yeah, in this book, ray comfort exposes biblical truths revealing how the fear of the lord is key To entering god's holy presence and receiving his blessings whether or not god hears your prayers Doesn't matter at all.
• 10:46
  Ray Comfort: Until you're hanging over a thousand foot cliff by your teeth.
• 10:48
  Ray Comfort: You're upside down in a Severe turbulence in a plane.
• 10:52
  Ray Comfort: That's when you need to know if god hears your prayers.
• 10:54
  Ray Comfort: No atheists and foxholes.
• 10:56
  Ray Comfort: Huh, there's no atheists and turbulence.
• 10:59
  Emeal Zwayne: Hmm, what would that seem like?
• 11:00
  Emeal Zwayne: the praying in mid air as you fall to the ground?
• 11:04
  Mark Spence: What is the prayer?
• 11:04
  Mark Spence: You know, daniel.
• 11:05
  Mark Spence: Your son said um, danny comfort, oh, excuse me.
• 11:09
  Mark Spence: He said mark, you know what You know.
• 11:11
  Mark Spence: There was a point where I realized you were a christian.
• 11:13
  Mark Spence: Now, bear in mind, we've been working together for several years.
• 11:17
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, we all had doubts, mark.
• 11:18
  Emeal Zwayne: But we.
• 11:18
  Mark Spence: We were on our way to one of our transformed conferences and we hit some severe turbulence, So much so where the plane took like a little dive down and I thought we were going down And so I yelled on the plane.
• 11:31
  Mark Spence: I said let's do this.
• 11:35
  Ray Comfort: And daniel was sitting right behind me.
• 11:36
  Ray Comfort: He's all you know.
• 11:37
  Mark Spence: I think mark is a christian.
• 11:40
  Ray Comfort: Mark.
• 11:40
  Ray Comfort: I know it's not sorry, i, just before we change subject.
• 11:43
  Ray Comfort: What do you normally yell?
• 11:44
  Ray Comfort: It's normally we're gonna die, isn't it?
• 11:47
  Mark Spence: Oh, yeah, or oh no, we're gonna die, I wouldn't raise traveling too close to the car in front of us or something.
• 11:52
  Mark Spence: Boy, i have to be the one driving This is what I've noticed.
• 11:57
  Emeal Zwayne: Yes, right mark.
• 11:58
  Emeal Zwayne: How did you give out tracks in japan?
• 12:00
  Mark Spence: Oh, i, should you say this is not culturally, since I mean you have to be culturally sensitive because of the culture, right, and so I wanted to look it up.
• 12:09
  Mark Spence: I'll head to get the accent No, right?
• 12:12
  Mark Spence: And then it goes like this Did you get one of these?
• 12:20
  Emeal Zwayne: Just like that, yeah and then you know the speakers.
• 12:23
  Mark Spence: Your throat starts to bleed after that.
• 12:26
  Ray Comfort: We couldn't give out tracks in japan and tokyo until, like we did some magic, it's a mess.
• 12:30
  Ray Comfort: I did a little bit of magic.
• 12:31
  Ray Comfort: We had crowds just saying, oh, take anything you got was amazing.
• 12:34
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh Sushi tracks.
• 12:35
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh that's what we need sushi tracks.
• 12:38
  Emeal Zwayne: All right, friends, today We're going to go into the garden, the garden of mark and ray distraction.
• 12:48
  Emeal Zwayne: That's the garden.
• 12:49
  Emeal Zwayne: What are you doing?
• 12:52
  Ray Comfort: My microphone's been on all this time And it's me recording everything we say in the text it's about mccurdy Even says did you get one of these somewhere?
• 13:03
  Ray Comfort: I, i bit it.
• 13:05
  Ray Comfort: I don't know how to stop that on.
• 13:07
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, turn off anyways, back to the podcast.
• 13:10
  Emeal Zwayne: Today We're going into the garden of gethsemane.
• 13:14
  Emeal Zwayne: Does it conjure up pray?
• 13:17
  Ray Comfort: I preach the gospel in the garden of gethsemane.
• 13:20
  Oscar Navarro: It's one of the highlights of my life?
• 13:21
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, because we had the cameras rolling, we were going to record something and they didn't have it completely ready, so the cameras pointed me.
• 13:28
  Ray Comfort: I had this couple sitting there, though Obviously weren't christians by the look of them.
• 13:31
  Ray Comfort: I don't know how you can tell, and so I went through the whole gospel to the camera out loud, in the garden of gethsemane.
• 13:37
  Emeal Zwayne: It was a great story Yeah, I was there like this plants and that there's really weird looking trees.
• 13:42
  Emeal Zwayne: Olive trees, yeah, the houses of years old, yeah, old olive trees that they, they believe.
• 13:46
  Emeal Zwayne: some of them date back to the, to the time of christ.
• 13:49
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, it's this one that scott carved in it.
• 13:51
  Ray Comfort: I was here, peter, and then I left.
• 13:55
  Emeal Zwayne: But ray remember how gnarly seen my ear.
• 13:57
  Emeal Zwayne: Ray, remember remember how gnarly those trees were, though like I mean that's what I'm saying.
• 14:06
  Emeal Zwayne: They're all twisted and and ah you met gnarly, like the literal, like gnarly bro.
• 14:11
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, no, they were.
• 14:12
  Ray Comfort: Yeah twisted.
• 14:13
  Ray Comfort: It looked like they could run after you and kill you.
• 14:15
  Ray Comfort: Interesting.
• 14:15
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, yeah, but but I've never been.
• 14:18
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh you got, oh you've never been in.
• 14:23
  Ray Comfort: Galilee.
• 14:24
  Ray Comfort: We hate to go into traditional sites.
• 14:25
  Ray Comfort: They did yeah, you'd be driving in the the guide say that was the way to call it.
• 14:30
  Ray Comfort: He would say this is traditional site, which means we don't know if Jesus was here.
• 14:35
  Emeal Zwayne: So I didn't want to go there.
• 14:36
  Emeal Zwayne: That's why I love places like the Sea of Galilee.
• 14:38
  Oscar Navarro: You know, you're near Jerusalem.
• 14:40
  Oscar Navarro: It's definitely my bucket list.
• 14:41
  Oscar Navarro: Oh, you got to go.
• 14:42
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, I mean it was a yeah.
• 14:45
  Mark Spence: I've been three times mark Okay you loved Israel.
• 14:47
  Mark Spence: Yeah, it was great It's.
• 14:49
  Mark Spence: You know, it's been said that two weeks in Israel is the equivalent of a full semester at Bible College Because it puts everything in its proper perspective, geographically especially right if you're going on the Sea of Galilee, heading over to Decapolis, the 10 cities, everything, the Mount of Olives I can see your you're facing, and Then you have, i mean, everything.
• 15:08
  Mark Spence: It just kind of.
• 15:10
  Emeal Zwayne: Together for you.
• 15:11
  Mark Spence: Everything's just visual in the head.
• 15:13
  Emeal Zwayne: Just make sure when you go there you drink from Jacob's well.
• 15:17
  Ray Comfort: Israel is Opening a preacher's nightmare, because everywhere there's stones.
• 15:21
  Ray Comfort: Oh yeah, waiting to pound.
• 15:23
  Emeal Zwayne: Jerusalem, jerusalem.
• 15:25
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh yeah, you who stone the prophets.
• 15:26
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah boy, what were we thinking, ray?
• 15:29
  Ray Comfort: When was it been you who the way?
• 15:31
  Emeal Zwayne: Ben Yehuda.
• 15:32
  Ray Comfort: Street.
• 15:32
  Ray Comfort: You were the.
• 15:32
  Ray Comfort: You're the same one I just followed.
• 15:35
  Mark Spence: Oh, that was insane How long were you sick for after drinking that water?
• 15:38
  Mark Spence: two weeks.
• 15:39
  Ray Comfort: No, it wasn't two weeks, but it was there a room to rest your trip.
• 15:41
  Emeal Zwayne: Drink water from this well, from a spoon that or whatever, it was a ladle that like billions of people use were you thirsty.
• 15:51
  Ray Comfort: They'd get thrown down there.
• 15:52
  Emeal Zwayne: We got caught up like idiots in the moment.
• 15:55
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, the guy said this is the well, i can't imagine you getting caught up, samaritan?
• 15:59
  Oscar Navarro: well that.
• 15:59
  Ray Comfort: Jesus drank from you want to drink?
• 16:04
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh boy, anyways, so yeah, sushi Ray.
• 16:08
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, Jesus didn't eat sushi.
• 16:10
  Ray Comfort: And then we went to the Dead Sea easy and had a great time there.
• 16:14
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, yeah, don't remind me, ray.
• 16:16
  Emeal Zwayne: All right, let's go to the garden.
• 16:17
  Emeal Zwayne: Let's go to the garden.
• 16:19
  Emeal Zwayne: So, garden of Gethsemane.
• 16:20
  Emeal Zwayne: This is obviously the scene of Jesus great travail, just before he heads to the cross, right after Passover, where we find the famous Last Supper scene.
• 16:32
  Emeal Zwayne: This is a dark moment.
• 16:34
  Emeal Zwayne: This is a very tumultuous, turmoil filled scene in the life of Jesus, and we actually find this in all the gospel, even Gospels.
• 16:45
  Emeal Zwayne: Even John cites it, so it's found in Matthew 26 and Mark 14, luke 22 and then John 18, right, all right, yeah, hmm, hmm, hmm, we need to get that.
• 16:55
  Emeal Zwayne: We really do so.
• 16:58
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, guys, it's a dark, foreboding time and I'd love to just open it up for anyone who wants to jump.
• 17:04
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, i say must have been frightening for the disciples, because Jesus was so utterly Confident and filled with faith and suddenly sweating drops of blood and being fearful and trembling.
• 17:14
  Ray Comfort: It must have been very disconcerting for them.
• 17:17
  Ray Comfort: What I like to think of is that I had my Gethsemane experience two weeks after I saved.
• 17:23
  Ray Comfort: Mark seems to have had his in 1994.
• 17:26
  Ray Comfort: Remember you were saying you just laid it all out.
• 17:29
  Ray Comfort: You just said you just sweat drops of blood.
• 17:31
  Ray Comfort: You say I'm giving up the battle.
• 17:33
  Ray Comfort: Not my will, but yours be done.
• 17:35
  Ray Comfort: And I think it happened to me two weeks after I saved, once the dust had settled and I began to become Aware of what had actually happened, that I'd found immortality, everlasting life.
• 17:45
  Ray Comfort: This wasn't something to be trifled with.
• 17:47
  Ray Comfort: This wasn't just a change of lifestyle or a new sport.
• 17:50
  Ray Comfort: This was Something worthy of my life being dedicated to, and that's what I did in that moment And that was my Gethsemane experience.
• 17:58
  Ray Comfort: Not my will, but yours.
• 17:59
  Ray Comfort: Be done, wow.
• 18:01
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, yeah.
• 18:02
  Emeal Zwayne: And let's look at how it opens up.
• 18:04
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, let's look at the, the account in Matthew 26, beginning in verse 36.
• 18:09
  Emeal Zwayne: It says in Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane and said to the disciples sit here, wow, i go and pray over there.
• 18:17
  Emeal Zwayne: And he took with him Peter and the two sons of debaite and he began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed.
• 18:24
  Emeal Zwayne: Then he said to them my soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death.
• 18:29
  Emeal Zwayne: Stay here and watch with me.
• 18:32
  Emeal Zwayne: We don't typically Envision Jesus getting this candid with the disciples, right?
• 18:38
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, this is the God of the universe, the creator of the heavens and the earth, the one who spoke and all things leapt into existence.
• 18:43
  Emeal Zwayne: And he's looking at these men that he made, that he fashioned and formed with his own hand, and he's telling them I am sorrowful, i'm deeply distressed, even unto death.
• 18:56
  Emeal Zwayne: What was going on there, oscar?
• 18:59
  Oscar Navarro: Well, first, let me I love the way you just described that like the creator of these disciples is Jesus and they're seeing him.
• 19:06
  Oscar Navarro: You know, i think us as as Children of parents, there's often a time in which We we see our dads, like for the first time, cry, or we see our dads get cancer, and it's like this Hero of our childhood.
• 19:21
  Oscar Navarro: There's basically a moment, i think, in most kids childhoods, when they realize their dad is not Superman, their dad is human, really, and this is this is.
• 19:31
  Oscar Navarro: I think this moment in the scriptures Puts the incarnation of Christ on display, just as much as trying to wrap your head around the reality that he was a baby in need of care.
• 19:43
  Oscar Navarro: Because, you know, we like there was kind of a joke that was mentioned when you cleared your throat in the last episode.
• 19:49
  Oscar Navarro: You know it was like, oh, you know, jesus would never do that.
• 19:51
  Oscar Navarro: Actually, jesus did clear his throat, jesus did get sick, jesus did have dirt under his nails, jesus likely stubbed his toe.
• 20:00
  Oscar Navarro: You know Jesus was human as much as he was God, 100% of both.
• 20:07
  Oscar Navarro: It's important that we keep that balance less we fall into heresy and in this moment We see that on display.
• 20:16
  Oscar Navarro: We see him looking at and what he's looking at that causes this, this bleeding, this pain, this suffering, is really important, because Here's here's to answer your question.
• 20:28
  Oscar Navarro: So many people have died for their faith.
• 20:31
  Oscar Navarro: The Maccabees had died for their faith a few years before Jesus came under the scene.
• 20:35
  Oscar Navarro: Jesus disciples themselves will die for their faith and since then, many Christians have died for their faith.
• 20:41
  Oscar Navarro: And when those people are dying for their faith, they're looking at the suffering, they're looking at the pain that they're about to face.
• 20:49
  Oscar Navarro: But what does Jesus say in his prayer?
• 20:51
  Oscar Navarro: He does not say take this pain for me.
• 20:53
  Oscar Navarro: He does not say take this suffering for me.
• 20:56
  Oscar Navarro: He does not say take the nails for me.
• 20:59
  Oscar Navarro: He says take this cup.
• 21:02
  Oscar Navarro: The thing that brought Jesus so much angst in that moment Isn't that he was looking at his physical death.
• 21:10
  Oscar Navarro: So much as that, he was looking at the fullness of the wrath of God That every saved human deserves, and he knew he was facing it.
• 21:22
  Oscar Navarro: It was gonna be laid upon him.
• 21:24
  Oscar Navarro: The prayer take this cup is such an important indication as to what he was facing in this moment.
• 21:33
  Ray Comfort: Wow, wow yeah so that had happened, we'd have no hope in our death.
• 21:38
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, And you think of the endurance of Christ.
• 21:42
  Emeal Zwayne: Through this.
• 21:43
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, scripture tells us for the joy set before him in Hebrews for the joy set before him, he endured the cross.
• 21:51
  Ray Comfort: He saw this podcast.
• 21:56
  Mark Spence: Is that the cross or the hope He would?
• 21:58
  Emeal Zwayne: have said I'm not going.
• 21:59
  Ray Comfort: Father, not if it results in these And the.
• 22:02
  Oscar Navarro: Lord says yeah I can understand that.
• 22:03
  Oscar Navarro: Take this podcast from me.
• 22:06
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, but the joy set before him, Mark, what would that entail?
• 22:11
  Emeal Zwayne: The joy set before him, I mean, that's what enabled him to endure all of this, You know.
• 22:17
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, Jesus was no wimp.
• 22:18
  Emeal Zwayne: Of course there was the physical pain that was coming, but it wasn't that that was causing him distress, you know.
• 22:24
  Emeal Zwayne: But yet he endured it for something greater.
• 22:27
  Mark Spence: Yeah, well, i agree with the commentators that say the joy that was set before him was that fellowship that he was going to have, that the people were going to be able to have with him.
• 22:37
  Mark Spence: The joy that was set before him was this unimaginable relationship between the creator and the creation, that people were going to be able to fellowship with a God who knows what is happening in the center of Saturn.
• 22:51
  Mark Spence: right, it's beyond our imagination, but that is the joy that we as believers are.
• 22:58
  Mark Spence: the joy that was set before him That when Jesus took the cup of the cursed and pressed it to his lips and he drank it till every drop was gone, he did it so that we now can taste and see that he is good, that he is a good God, a good and gracious Father, a good and gracious God.
• 23:18
  Mark Spence: We talk about how, when somebody gets born again, there's fire insurance, but Christianity is so much more than fire insurance.
• 23:25
  Mark Spence: It's so much more than just getting out of hell and into heaven, that we are called into a relationship, and I think that that is missing in the midst of an evangelistic call.
• 23:37
  Mark Spence: We just think, well, great, i'm no longer going to hell.
• 23:40
  Mark Spence: Right, it's a ticket.
• 23:41
  Mark Spence: Yeah, it's that ticket into heaven.
• 23:43
  Mark Spence: Jesus is my password.
• 23:44
  Mark Spence: But no, that's not why Jesus came.
• 23:48
  Mark Spence: Jesus didn't come just to not allow people to go to hell We are called into.
• 23:53
  Mark Spence: Come into the holy of holy, that place where God dwells, and not leave that place to fellowship with God himself.
• 24:02
  Mark Spence: We are that joy that was set before him.
• 24:05
  Mark Spence: And so we see in scripture that when Jesus was inside the garden and he was sweating drops of blood I was reading a commentator earlier today that said that it was at that place of death, that there was a very good chance that Jesus would have died at that moment if the angel was not sent to strengthen him, that there is nothing more that can vex the soul than when you're at that place, in your extremities, where blood is actually coming out of your capillaries or coming out of the pores.
• 24:41
  Mark Spence: It was not possible.
• 24:42
  Mark Spence: We will never experience that, we'll never see that, we'll never understand that, that this is the great mystery, when the Father literally had to blink for the first time and take his eyes off of the second person of the Trinity to allow that wrath to fully come down upon the Son of Man, the Son of God Easy.
• 25:01
  Oscar Navarro: Can you walk us through?
• 25:03
  Oscar Navarro: Many people will ask was him?
• 25:05
  Oscar Navarro: his sweat turned to blood, is that metaphorical?
• 25:08
  Oscar Navarro: Can that actually happen?
• 25:09
  Oscar Navarro: Can you get into the details of that?
• 25:11
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah Well, it's an actual metal cold term called hematrodosis And it's, as Mark alluded to, something that happens in very rare instances of extreme, extreme anguish and distress.
• 25:24
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, think about it.
• 25:25
  Emeal Zwayne: We've all gone through times like that, when we've been distressed in our lives, the daintest Yes.
• 25:31
  Emeal Zwayne: Or we've seen people who are distressed.
• 25:33
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, look, i've seen, unfortunately, martyrs who are about to be beheaded by Muslim captors.
• 25:40
  Emeal Zwayne: You know and those videos have played I haven't seen them sweat great drops of blood before they were beheaded.
• 25:45
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, how much more torturous can it be to think I'm about to have my head severed But yet it didn't happen.
• 25:53
  Emeal Zwayne: So it's really rare, but it's a real medical condition that can actually happen And that just shows the degree to which Christ was in distress.
• 26:04
  Emeal Zwayne: And again it highlights for us the reality of the humanity of Christ, that it wasn't some illusion that he became a man.
• 26:13
  Emeal Zwayne: He clothed himself, robed himself in human flesh, became poor in doing that, so that he can go to that cross, give his life that we might become spiritually rich in him, and that's just beyond description.
• 26:28
  Emeal Zwayne: So let's move forward now to what happens.
• 26:31
  Emeal Zwayne: Then It says he went a little farther and fell on his face, praying and praying.
• 26:38
  Emeal Zwayne: oh Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me, but then, ray, nevertheless not as I will, but as you will speak to the significance of those words.
• 26:51
  Ray Comfort: Well, i'd like to give a quote from Charles Spurgeon.
• 26:54
  Ray Comfort: Yes, that's what we're talking about, and I hope I don't fluff this because it's so beautiful.
• 26:57
  Ray Comfort: To 12, no to 11 only was the privilege given to enter Gethsemane and see this great sight.
• 27:04
  Ray Comfort: Out of the 11, eight were left at some distance.
• 27:08
  Ray Comfort: They had fellowship, but not of that intimate sort to which the men greatly beloved are admitted.
• 27:14
  Ray Comfort: Only three highly favored ones, who had been with him in the Mount of Transfiguration and had witnessed the life-giving miracle in the house of Jairus.
• 27:21
  Ray Comfort: Only these three could approach the veil of his mysterious sorrow.
• 27:25
  Ray Comfort: Within that veil, even there, these must not intrude.
• 27:29
  Ray Comfort: A stone's cast distance must be left between He must tread the wine press alone, and of the people there must be none with him.
• 27:38
  Ray Comfort: Isn't that powerful?
• 27:40
  Ray Comfort: So powerful, just cutting them back, back, you go, back, you go.
• 27:43
  Ray Comfort: This must be done alone.
• 27:44
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, it's heavy.
• 27:45
  Emeal Zwayne: And yet, Ray, he had asked if there's any possible way for the cup to pass, that it would, but then he uttered those words not my will, but yours be done.
• 27:54
  Mark Spence: I wouldn't have said the last words, adam said the same thing, if you would inside the garden to some degree, but with the twist not thy will but my will be done.
• 28:04
  Mark Spence: He excused himself from the marching call of God, and because of that we are born into the Adamic nature.
• 28:14
  Emeal Zwayne: Wow.
• 28:14
  Emeal Zwayne: The second, adam, takes it in a different direction.
• 28:17
  Ray Comfort: I asked if you took a breath, which means there's something coming Here.
• 28:20
  Ray Comfort: It comes the breath.
• 28:20
  Ray Comfort: Who, who, who, who, God.
• 28:21
  Oscar Navarro: God, this prayer.
• 28:24
  Oscar Navarro: I talked before about the incarnation and not forgetting that he's fully human, and yet this prayer has also reminded us that he's fully divine, that he's a part of the trinity.
• 28:34
  Oscar Navarro: Because this prayer is not a prayer against God, it's not a prayer questioning God, it's a prayer to God.
• 28:41
  Oscar Navarro: But it's also a prayer that recognizes the suffering of the plan.
• 28:45
  Oscar Navarro: But it also recognizes the sovereignty of the plan.
• 28:49
  Oscar Navarro: And the way in which he prays could only be the prayer of a Trinitarian son to a Trinitarian father.
• 28:58
  Oscar Navarro: And the way the commentator from my commentary says it.
• 29:02
  Oscar Navarro: He says like this he only prays, he does not demand, he does not advance any claims, he does not lay upon God any conditions, he does not reserve any future obedience, he simply prays.
• 29:16
  Emeal Zwayne: Wow, i love that.
• 29:18
  Emeal Zwayne: And what a prayer.
• 29:19
  Emeal Zwayne: You know that is.
• 29:21
  Emeal Zwayne: And ultimately, this is the very heart of the believer.
• 29:26
  Emeal Zwayne: When the believer is spiritually minded, you know, like Jesus said to Peter, you're not mindful of the things of God, but of the things of man.
• 29:34
  Emeal Zwayne: When we're mindful of the things of God, the automatic utterance that will come from our lips is ultimately not my will but yours to be done.
• 29:42
  Emeal Zwayne: But because my will is self-centered, my will is the easy road.
• 29:49
  Emeal Zwayne: My will is anything but the path that leads to the cross, which is what Self-mortification, death to self.
• 29:58
  Emeal Zwayne: But His will will include things that we won't necessarily want to choose for ourselves, but that will never allow us to grow in the ways that we should if we don't go through them.
• 30:10
  Emeal Zwayne: And so ultimately, a Christian says as much as I may want this out of the other, i want what you want, lord, because my life is yours.
• 30:16
  Ray Comfort: CS Lewis said in Gethsemane, the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him.
• 30:23
  Ray Comfort: That did not, Which is very powerful, isn't it?
• 30:26
  Ray Comfort: You'd think Jesus would have had sway with the Father in that sense.
• 30:29
  Ray Comfort: But often we pray for certain things that just don't happen because it's not God's sovereign will.
• 30:34
  Ray Comfort: He looks to the future.
• 30:35
  Ray Comfort: Who would have guessed what was going to happen?
• 30:37
  Ray Comfort: And disciples certainly didn't.
• 30:39
  Emeal Zwayne: And that's the epitome of trust, isn't it?
• 30:42
  Emeal Zwayne: It's.
• 30:42
  Emeal Zwayne: I can't see what's coming, but I understand that the one who declared that it's all going to work out is true, and so I'm going to walk forward and not become undone, because that's really the thing, you know, when we talk about faith and we talk about trusting the Lord, ultimately, what does it mean?
• 31:00
  Emeal Zwayne: I think, ultimately it means not just doing the right thing, but maintaining composure, and what I mean by that is, you know, we can do the right thing kicking and screaming, grumbling, murmuring, complaining, or we can do the right thing with a heart that says Lord, you're worthy of me doing the right thing.
• 31:16
  Emeal Zwayne: You're not asking me to do something that is like horrible and that's going to be destructive Ultimately, even if I can't see a good outcome right before my eyes, that's what it ultimately will be, because it results in your glory and it results in eternal affairs being advanced.
• 31:34
  Emeal Zwayne: So therefore, lord, i'm going to keep that right composure, i mean.
• 31:37
  Emeal Zwayne: That's at least what our cry should be.
• 31:38
  Emeal Zwayne: Help me, god, to have the right heart and attitude.
• 31:41
  Ray Comfort: And seeing over the ridge, seeing past the lion's teeth.
• 31:44
  Mark Spence: Yeah, amen, yeah, i mean it's wise to finish a prayer right And say I think I want this, but nevertheless not my will, your will, you see the bigger picture?
• 31:54
  Mark Spence: you know Blind Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, when Jesus said, what do you want?
• 31:58
  Mark Spence: And he says that I might see spiritually, jesus knew what he wanted.
• 32:01
  Mark Spence: But how much more would have taken place if he would have said and if I could see spiritually.
• 32:05
  Mark Spence: Yeah, you meant physically Yeah if I could see spiritually instead of physically.
• 32:09
  Mark Spence: You know where we have Solomon when he asked for wisdom.
• 32:12
  Mark Spence: What a great prayer.
• 32:12
  Mark Spence: He could have asked for anything.
• 32:15
  Ray Comfort: What would have happened?
• 32:16
  Ray Comfort: He had everything.
• 32:17
  Ray Comfort: He had her.
• 32:18
  Mark Spence: There was nothing left You can't have everything.
• 32:19
  Mark Spence: Yeah, wait, what'd you put up?
• 32:21
  Mark Spence: But what would have happened if Solomon would have said I think I want wisdom to lead these, your people, but, lord, you know better than I do.
• 32:30
  Ray Comfort: You know, you could have said I want more wives.
• 32:32
  Ray Comfort: No boy, no one can serve two masters.
• 32:35
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, right, or 200.
• 32:37
  Ray Comfort: You're in trouble now.
• 32:40
  Emeal Zwayne: Okay.
• 32:40
  Emeal Zwayne: So we see this now.
• 32:41
  Emeal Zwayne: Christ is crying out to the Father.
• 32:43
  Emeal Zwayne: It says in verse 40,.
• 32:44
  Emeal Zwayne: Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping.
• 32:47
  Emeal Zwayne: This is huge, yeah.
• 32:48
  Emeal Zwayne: And said to Peter what I love it, the divine son of God saying what To the disciples What could you not watch with me one hour?
• 32:59
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, watch and pray lest you enter into temptation.
• 33:04
  Mark Spence: And he did enter into temptation and denied the Lord three times.
• 33:06
  Emeal Zwayne: That's right.
• 33:07
  Ray Comfort: So did it say in another gospel, they were sleeping for sorrow.
• 33:10
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, yeah.
• 33:12
  Emeal Zwayne: And then I'll let you jump in, oscar, but let's not forget this.
• 33:15
  Emeal Zwayne: So we touch on it The spirit, indeed, is willing, but the flesh is weak.
• 33:19
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, oscar, go ahead.
• 33:20
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, again, here we are to really illuminate what the New Testament intends, what the author intends to show us.
• 33:27
  Oscar Navarro: We have to understand the Old Testament, especially the Exodus.
• 33:31
  Oscar Navarro: And so we are in Passover week, when this is happening, and remember that God required the Israelites to stay awake, because it was God who stayed awake, that did the work all night long and Passover, saving the firstborn of the Israelites.
• 33:48
  Oscar Navarro: And so Exodus 12, verse 42 is key to understanding, because someone might be like that's so weird.
• 33:54
  Oscar Navarro: Why did they fall asleep?
• 33:55
  Oscar Navarro: I don't get it.
• 33:56
  Oscar Navarro: Listen.
• 33:57
  Oscar Navarro: Exodus 12, verse 42, because the Lord kept vigil to bring them out of Egypt.
• 34:02
  Oscar Navarro: He now commands them on this night, all the Israelites are to keep vigil.
• 34:07
  Oscar Navarro: He was the watchman that stayed up at night to make sure that the firstborn children of Israelites stayed alive, and he asks of them, on this Passover night, to remember my work, your work is to stay up To hear the disciples all fall asleep.
• 34:24
  Oscar Navarro: They didn't keep watch.
• 34:26
  Oscar Navarro: What does this tell us?
• 34:27
  Oscar Navarro: It tells us that the work of salvation is God's alone, that He alone stood awake, that He alone holds the keys of the kingdom, that He alone was going to bring salvation to His disciples and to us.
• 34:42
  Oscar Navarro: They could not play their part, and so He played the part for them.
• 34:48
  Emeal Zwayne: What a touch of grace.
• 34:49
  Emeal Zwayne: And it's easy to overlook that We just kind of focus in on hey, they're falling asleep, they're not praying, but the significance of that and the dynamic of our God's faithfulness, even when we're at.
• 35:03
  Emeal Zwayne: I love it in the word it says and James, if we deny Him, if we are faithless, he remains faithful.
• 35:09
  Emeal Zwayne: He cannot deny Himself.
• 35:10
  Emeal Zwayne: It's like your unfaithfulness is not going to move God and what He is committed to, no matter what, that's good.
• 35:18
  Emeal Zwayne: And so then He comes back a second time.
• 35:21
  Emeal Zwayne: He went away and prayed and saying my Father, if this cup cannot pass away from me unless I drink it, your will be done.
• 35:27
  Emeal Zwayne: And He came and found them asleep again, for their eyes were heavy.
• 35:31
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, again Jesus modeling for us.
• 35:34
  Emeal Zwayne: Right, it's okay to be candid with the Lord.
• 35:37
  Emeal Zwayne: Obviously Jesus knew that He was going to go to the cross.
• 35:41
  Emeal Zwayne: He knew this was going to happen, but in a manner He was sort of displaying the lament in His heart for what was to come and was communing with the Father.
• 35:54
  Ray Comfort: Easy.
• 35:54
  Ray Comfort: How do you think the revelation came to Jesus as a boy that He was the Lamb of God?
• 36:00
  Emeal Zwayne: Boy.
• 36:00
  Emeal Zwayne: That's a good question.
• 36:01
  Emeal Zwayne: I do often wonder what were the dynamics that came to play, because He grew in knowledge and wisdom And the scripture talks about.
• 36:09
  Emeal Zwayne: Was there still, though, that divine knowledge of this is who I am from the very outset?
• 36:15
  Emeal Zwayne: I don't know.
• 36:17
  Mark Spence: But when He was inside the temple and His family went on ahead, he rebuked His family, his parents, saying He's 12.
• 36:26
  Mark Spence: Yeah, 12 years old.
• 36:27
  Mark Spence: They should have known that He was going to be about His Father's business.
• 36:31
  Mark Spence: So there was some sort of communication at least between Jesus and His parents.
• 36:38
  Mark Spence: But yeah, that is an interesting thought and question, a little mind game there as to what took place in the beginning as He grew in that stature To be honest.
• 36:49
  Ray Comfort: He was a little boy looking at the scroll reading Isaiah, and suddenly his eyes become widened as he realized as who he is.
• 36:59
  Mark Spence: Yeah, it's been said that Jesus spent 30 years in preparation for three years in ministry.
• 37:02
  Mark Spence: When we spend three years in preparation ministry for 30 years of ministry, i saw a gentleman who said if you were he was asking the question if you knew you had four years left in life, how would you spend those four years?
• 37:18
  Mark Spence: And I don't think you'll agree with this one, ray, but it was just an interesting thought.
• 37:22
  Mark Spence: He said I would spend the first three years becoming fully equipped on knowing what to say and spend the last year heralding what exactly to say.
• 37:29
  Mark Spence: so I didn't mess things up.
• 37:32
  Ray Comfort: Oh, just keep on doing what I'm doing now.
• 37:34
  Ray Comfort: That's right, Get it Dan.
• 37:36
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, and so then Jesus comes back a third time.
• 37:39
  Emeal Zwayne: So he left them, went away again and prayed a third time, saying the same words.
• 37:43
  Emeal Zwayne: Then he came to his disciples and said to them are you still sleeping and resting?
• 37:47
  Emeal Zwayne: We hold the hour as at hand and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners.
• 37:52
  Emeal Zwayne: Rise, let us be going.
• 37:53
  Emeal Zwayne: See, my betrayer is at hand.
• 37:56
  Emeal Zwayne: What a moment that must have been Remember.
• 37:59
  Emeal Zwayne: Before this.
• 37:59
  Emeal Zwayne: They were having the Passover and Jesus said to them one of you is going to betray me.
• 38:04
  Emeal Zwayne: And they're conversing amongst themselves Like who is it?
• 38:07
  Emeal Zwayne: Is it me?
• 38:07
  Emeal Zwayne: And it's a.
• 38:08
  Emeal Zwayne: Is it me, lord?
• 38:09
  Emeal Zwayne: Is it me?
• 38:09
  Emeal Zwayne: And Mark?
• 38:10
  Emeal Zwayne: you alluded to Judas, teacher, right, rabbi, is it me?
• 38:13
  Emeal Zwayne: But now it's about to be uncovered and I would assume that they're still wondering is it?
• 38:20
  Emeal Zwayne: Who is it?
• 38:21
  Emeal Zwayne: Am I about to do it?
• 38:22
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, peter's gonna learn.
• 38:25
  Emeal Zwayne: He was warned about the denial, like we touched on in one of the podcasts, and he still did it right.
• 38:30
  Emeal Zwayne: So it's like maybe there were other instances of the sort where Jesus would tell them something and they say no, no, lord, and then it happens like okay, we can't even trust ourselves, yeah, and then it's about to go down, but first of all being watchful and praying lest we enter into temptation.
• 38:47
  Emeal Zwayne: How important is this, guys?
• 38:48
  Emeal Zwayne: Being a people on our watch.
• 38:50
  Mark Spence: Yeah, you know, when Jesus was on the mount of transfiguration and he came down with Peter, james and John and they came across the demoniac and they're saying, hey, we are not the demoniac but the person who was demon possessed.
• 38:59
  Mark Spence: And they said we couldn't cast out the demons.
• 39:02
  Mark Spence: And Jesus said, yeah, well, this kind only comes out through prayer and fasting.
• 39:06
  Mark Spence: Jesus was not saying you know what?
• 39:08
  Mark Spence: Go pray, go fast and then come back and perform the deed.
• 39:12
  Mark Spence: No, it was understood that you should have been prayed up already.
• 39:16
  Mark Spence: You should have been fasted up already.
• 39:18
  Mark Spence: Jesus didn't say if you fast.
• 39:20
  Mark Spence: he said when you fast, it was understood that you would have a life of spiritual disciplines and piety in order to do the tasks by which God has called you to do.
• 39:30
  Emeal Zwayne: Wow, Yeah, and.
• 39:32
  Ray Comfort: Ray, you feel hungry, sorry, sushi.
• 39:35
  Emeal Zwayne: There's something that I do in my life that I call preventative prayers, and that is I pray over things in my life that I know I have a tendency to be weakened and to fail in.
• 39:46
  Emeal Zwayne: Like what?
• 39:48
  Ray Comfort: Better to restore to Oscar Pray.
• 39:50
  Ray Comfort: every time I look in the mirror, I have a problem with pride.
• 39:52
  Emeal Zwayne: Yeah, but that's, i think, in keeping with sort of what Jesus is alluding to.
• 39:56
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, pray lest you enter into them, and that's a part of what he taught them to pray, lead us not into temptation.
• 40:01
  Emeal Zwayne: But often we don't have that hard attitude in our spiritual disciplines when it comes to besetting sins or sins that we may fall into, and it's like what Hebrews says you haven't yet been striving to the shedding of blood in your struggle against sin.
• 40:14
  Ray Comfort: Yes, like defensive driving.
• 40:16
  Ray Comfort: If you know what defensive driving is.
• 40:17
  Ray Comfort: It's very intelligent.
• 40:18
  Ray Comfort: It sounds like a pessimist, but what you're looking for is where things can go wrong from every quarter when you're driving.
• 40:24
  Ray Comfort: That can save lives.
• 40:25
  Ray Comfort: If you're driving at 40 miles an hour and there's cars each side of you, you're thinking about a door suddenly swinging open.
• 40:30
  Ray Comfort: What are you gonna do if someone steps out or a kid chases a ball right in front of you?
• 40:34
  Ray Comfort: All that's within your mind And you're ready.
• 40:36
  Ray Comfort: You're watching, Your attitude is awakened to it, And that's what we should be like with sin.
• 40:42
  Ray Comfort: That's good.
• 40:42
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, That's crouching at your door waiting to devour you, but you must master it.
• 40:49
  Ray Comfort: Yeah, so as we start to wrap up, now we get to the Sorry, i can't believe how many people open their car doors actually when you're driving along So close to you and other people actually get out of their car while there's cars zooming about two feet from them, 40 miles an hour and they've got no concern for their lives.
• 41:05
  Ray Comfort: It just drives me crazy.
• 41:06
  Ray Comfort: So I just to get off my chair is carrying easy.
• 41:09
  Mark Spence: Right needs a hug.
• 41:10
  Mark Spence: Yeah, something happening.
• 41:11
  Mark Spence: this morning on the way up I read all the three people.
• 41:14
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, was that a speed bump?
• 41:16
  Oscar Navarro: That was my neighbor.
• 41:18
  Emeal Zwayne: You know I want to jump to John 18.
• 41:20
  Emeal Zwayne: Wow.
• 41:22
  Mark Spence: Mm amen brother.
• 41:25
  Emeal Zwayne: And look at that account.
• 41:26
  Emeal Zwayne: Now for the transition to what happened after all this.
• 41:29
  Emeal Zwayne: It says in verse 18, verse one, john 18, when Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with his disciples over the brookedron where there was a garden, and the disciples entered and Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus often met there with his disciples.
• 41:44
  Emeal Zwayne: And let me just say here for a quick second, i mean imagine being in a place with a lot of sweet memories, you know, and now you're there in this kind of dark scene.
• 41:52
  Emeal Zwayne: It says in Judas, who betrayed him, also knew the place, for Jesus, often met there with his disciples.
• 41:56
  Emeal Zwayne: Then Judas, having received a detachment of troops and officers from the chief priests and Pharisees, came there with lanterns, torches and weapons.
• 42:04
  Emeal Zwayne: Jesus therefore, knowing all things that would come upon him, went forward and said to them who are you seeking?
• 42:09
  Emeal Zwayne: They answered him Jesus of Nazareth.
• 42:11
  Emeal Zwayne: Jesus said to them I am he, and Judas, who betrayed him, also stood with them.
• 42:15
  Emeal Zwayne: Now, when he said to them, i am he, they drew back and fell to the ground.
• 42:20
  Emeal Zwayne: Think about that, for a moment.
• 42:21
  Mark Spence: Jesus said I am.
• 42:23
  Mark Spence: He right, i am.
• 42:24
  Mark Spence: I didn't look it up, but is this in equivalent to ego on me?
• 42:28
  Mark Spence: You know I'm not sure, but what he said I am.
• 42:31
  Mark Spence: He could have said I am and you were You know, knocked him and killed him all, but he didn't do that All the way to the end.
• 42:38
  Mark Spence: he had a compassion towards people, sheep without a shepherd, and even healing Malchus's ear.
• 42:44
  Mark Spence: You know that last moment that we see, i am, you were gone.
• 42:49
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean talk about meekness to the utter extent.
• 42:53
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean think of what he said to Peter even after he cut off the servants here, my father can send 12 legions of angels.
• 43:00
  Emeal Zwayne: What are you?
• 43:01
  Ray Comfort: thinking So meekness is strength, under control, yeah.
• 43:05
  Emeal Zwayne: And you know, so we see that.
• 43:06
  Emeal Zwayne: So he says I am he and I would have loved to have witnessed what that was like, you know, and which end like being one of the apostles, or being one of the guys that fell over Judas.
• 43:17
  Mark Spence: Judas, malchus, malchus.
• 43:21
  Emeal Zwayne: Then he said again then he asked again who are you seeking?
• 43:24
  Emeal Zwayne: And they said Jesus of Nazareth.
• 43:26
  Emeal Zwayne: Jesus of Nazareth, i told you that I am he.
• 43:27
  Emeal Zwayne: Therefore, if you seek me, let these go their way, that the saying might be fulfilled which he spoke of those whom you gave me, i have lost none.
• 43:35
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, look at that.
• 43:36
  Emeal Zwayne: You know he's thinking of his disciples, the ultimate in heroism.
• 43:42
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, you see, today, like people being heroic in movies and oh y'all, i'll take your place.
• 43:47
  Emeal Zwayne: But you have to understand this is God, not for people he loved, for his enemies, you know, for wretched sinners who deserved his wrath.
• 43:59
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm gonna cover, you know, to let these go.
• 44:01
  Emeal Zwayne: You've got me.
• 44:02
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, you know, no gain to himself, yeah.
• 44:05
  Ray Comfort: I wonder if Peter was aiming at the ear, or was he gonna slice him right through his head?
• 44:09
  Emeal Zwayne: I'm pretty sure he probably was aiming for that.
• 44:11
  Emeal Zwayne: I wouldn't be surprised and he leans over and boom you know he got an earful.
• 44:17
  Oscar Navarro: Yeah, for sure, You know.
• 44:19
  Oscar Navarro: I mean to conclude There's there's three things we can take away.
• 44:25
  Emeal Zwayne: I mean, let's preach a stifle that means we have within 45 minutes.
• 44:28
  Oscar Navarro: To conclude, look, it's the.
• 44:29
  Oscar Navarro: These passages remind us that, first, god is with us Also, that God is for us and that God is at work without us.
• 44:39
  Oscar Navarro: God is with us.
• 44:40
  Oscar Navarro: One thing that we haven't touched on yet is the reality that anybody who's Experiencing struggling or suffering that is like why, when is God gonna do something?
• 44:48
  Oscar Navarro: Why doesn't God do something to stop this from happening?
• 44:51
  Oscar Navarro: these verses remind us that God has Done something, that he let his son suffer To the maximum to drink the fullness of the wrath of God, to experience that suffering and pain so that one day, his people would no longer feel suffering and pain, pain that one day, every tear would be wiped from our eyes and That we would be fully healed.
• 45:15
  Oscar Navarro: And with him, he has done something for us.
• 45:18
  Oscar Navarro: It remind us that God is for us, to the point you just made, and that God is in need of nothing.
• 45:24
  Oscar Navarro: He wasn't lonely, he wasn't without love, he didn't want the attention, he had everything he needed within the Trinity.
• 45:31
  Oscar Navarro: This is a sacrifice With nothing in return.
• 45:36
  Oscar Navarro: He is doing it as an extension of his love and compassion towards Sinners in need.
• 45:42
  Oscar Navarro: That he is in need of nothing and then, like we talked about too, it's God's work without us.
• 45:47
  Oscar Navarro: The fact that they fall asleep is a remembrance to us that God is at work alone in saving sinners, that there is nothing we can add or take away from his finished work on the cross.
• 46:00
  Oscar Navarro: We get to see, repent, believe in the finished work.
• 46:07
  Emeal Zwayne: Amen.
• 46:07
  Emeal Zwayne: Well said, oscar, and look it, as we've been Kind of flies on the wall, if you would, to this scene of Jesus in Gethsemane.
• 46:16
  Emeal Zwayne: Please, on the wall, please.
• 46:18
  Emeal Zwayne: Laos is lice, laos is Lice, lice, lice, please, please.
• 46:24
  Emeal Zwayne: Really witnessing what Jesus did, i want to encourage you to Soak yourselves in the scriptural accounts where we see Jesus living and doing, because it's through those that we really get a glimpse of who our Savior was, and it impacts our life.
• 46:40
  Emeal Zwayne: You know, peter talked about how Jesus left us an example to follow in his footsteps in terms of how he suffered.
• 46:46
  Emeal Zwayne: I want to close with this poem I wrote years ago.
• 46:49
  Emeal Zwayne: I have a valiant hero who one day rescued me.
• 46:52
  Emeal Zwayne: He found me bound and bonded and chose to set me free, although he knew the greatness of the price he'd have to pay.
• 46:58
  Emeal Zwayne: Without a hesitation, he gave his life away.
• 47:01
  Emeal Zwayne: I could not understand it and still I do not know why he treated me as friend when I had treated him as foe.
• 47:06
  Emeal Zwayne: If only you would meet him, you'd see that he is true and he'd become your hero and gladly rescue you.
• 47:13
  Emeal Zwayne: Come now, adore his beauty, observe his pleasant ways, sit silently and listen and fix a steady gaze.
• 47:18
  Emeal Zwayne: Hear him speak his gentle words that calm the raging heart.
• 47:22
  Emeal Zwayne: See him mend and heal the lives that once were torn apart.
• 47:25
  Emeal Zwayne: Hear his sayings of wisdom.
• 47:26
  Emeal Zwayne: See his brilliant joys.
• 47:28
  Emeal Zwayne: Observe the great and violent hate his holy love destroys.
• 47:32
  Emeal Zwayne: Come and see humility that cannot be compared, selfless generosity that gave and never spared.
• 47:37
  Emeal Zwayne: See compassion when he prayed and passion when he wept.
• 47:40
  Emeal Zwayne: See the truly righteousness He constantly displayed.
• 47:43
  Emeal Zwayne: He truly is a hero, and I'm glad that he is mine.
• 47:46
  Emeal Zwayne: Jesus Christ, the king of kings, the Lord of lords divine, i long to be just like him, for surely he is great to follow in his every step and seek to Imitate.
• 47:58
  Emeal Zwayne: Well, and so, friends, i hope that encourages you and reminds you to follow in the footsteps of the Savior.
• 48:05
  Emeal Zwayne: Learn from these lessons here.
• 48:07
  Emeal Zwayne: Be those who cry out to the father in anguish and and sincerity and candidness.
• 48:12
  Emeal Zwayne: Be those who learn to Depend on on the father's will rather than your own.
• 48:18
  Emeal Zwayne: Be those who are willing to sacrifice on behalf of others.
• 48:21
  Ray Comfort: He left us.
• 48:22
  Ray Comfort: An example was by memory, not read.
• 48:24
  Ray Comfort: It's very moving when I see that.
• 48:26
  Ray Comfort: And easy, you got a right to book with your palms And I don't normally like poetry, but your palms are just so oh thank you.
• 48:32
  Emeal Zwayne: Well, hopefully one day.
• 48:33
  Emeal Zwayne: Until then, i'll remain an idiot on the living water spot.
• 48:36
  Emeal Zwayne: Okay, well, friends, that's it.
• 48:39
  Emeal Zwayne: Make sure to check out all this stuff We talked about.
• 48:41
  Emeal Zwayne: I don't have energy to recant it.
• 48:43
  Emeal Zwayne: Recap it all.
• 48:44
  Emeal Zwayne: See, i can't even say it right.
• 48:45
  Emeal Zwayne: Thank you for joining us.
• 48:46
  Emeal Zwayne: We'll see you here next time on the living waters all together.
• 48:51
  Emeal Zwayne: Oh, that was the worst where we have no idea what we're doing.