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Not Without Courage · Bayside Davis Podcast

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SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the B-side Davies Podcast.
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SPEAKER_00: You are now listening to our current teaching series.
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SPEAKER_01: Matthew 26, I'm gonna pick up in verse 31.
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SPEAKER_01: Then Jesus told them, This very night, you will all fall away on account of me, for it is written, I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.
0:30
SPEAKER_01: But after I have risen, I will go ahead of you into Galilee.
0:34
SPEAKER_01: Peter replied, Even if all fall away on account of you, I never will.
0:42
SPEAKER_01: Truly I tell you, Jesus answered, This very night before the rooster crows, you will disown me three times.
0:49
SPEAKER_01: But Peter declared, Even if I have to die with you, I will never disown you.
0:54
SPEAKER_01: And all other disciples said the same thing.
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SPEAKER_01: Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane.
1:06
SPEAKER_01: First Corinthians chapter 16, verse 13 says, Be courageous.
1:15
SPEAKER_01: What is courage?
1:16
SPEAKER_01: I found a great definition of courage.
1:18
SPEAKER_01: You may want to write this down.
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SPEAKER_01: Courage is the inner commitment to pursue a worthwhile goal without giving up hope.
1:27
SPEAKER_01: I'll say that again.
1:29
SPEAKER_01: Courage is the inner commitment to pursue a worthwhile goal without giving up hope.
1:37
SPEAKER_01: I was reading a bunch on courage this week and I found two great quotes.
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SPEAKER_01: One is just for Doug.
1:43
SPEAKER_01: This one's for you, Doug, by the great Walt Disney.
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SPEAKER_01: All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them.
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SPEAKER_01: Rolf Waldo Emerson said, a hero is no braver than any other man, but he is braver for five minutes longer.
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SPEAKER_01: That might be the distance or the time gap between somebody who is not courageous and who is courageous.
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SPEAKER_01: Just five minutes more of being committed to something that God is doing, even though there might be adversity or fear or uncomfortableness in that reality.
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SPEAKER_01: I love that.
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SPEAKER_01: Just five more minutes might be the time that you need to have courage in what God is doing.
2:33
SPEAKER_01: Think about the biblical narrative.
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SPEAKER_01: The entire story of the Bible are stories of human beings like us who had courage for God.
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SPEAKER_01: Moses.
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SPEAKER_01: Moses had courage to tell Pharaoh, let my people go, the most powerful person on the face of the earth.
2:51
SPEAKER_01: And then Moses was just a shepherd in the desert.
2:54
SPEAKER_01: Joshua had courage to believe that God had given the people of God the promised land when everyone was afraid to go in.
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SPEAKER_01: Jeremiah had courage to preach repentance to a nation who had been rebellion to God for 40 years.
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SPEAKER_01: He got up every week and said, Repent and turn to God, and nobody listened, but he still had courage to be faithful to his calling.
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SPEAKER_01: Paul had courage to do ministry, to defend his faith and preach the gospel even to people who wanted to kill him for what he was doing.
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SPEAKER_01: And over and over in the Bible, we are told the people of God are a people of courage.
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SPEAKER_01: Listen to these verses, Deuteronomy 31, verse 6.
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SPEAKER_01: Be strong and courageous.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you.
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SPEAKER_01: He will never leave you nor forsake you.
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SPEAKER_01: Joshua chapter 1, verse 7 says, Be strong and very courageous.
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SPEAKER_01: Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.
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SPEAKER_01: Joshua 1 9 says, Have I not commanded you, be strong and courageous.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like God's trying to get something into us.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
4:25
SPEAKER_01: Let me just read one more, just for the sake of emphasis.
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SPEAKER_01: 1 Chronicles 22, verse 13, be strong and courageous.
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SPEAKER_01: Do not be afraid or discouraged.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's just a few of the verses that say the same thing over and over and over again in the Bible.
4:47
SPEAKER_01: When God moves, he uses people who step out in courage.
4:54
SPEAKER_01: And obviously, this is a season of courage for us because we're saying the last 30 years of Bayside, all 10 churches and 20 plus thousand people are a part of Bayside.
5:05
SPEAKER_01: We're saying we don't want to just be known by our past history.
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SPEAKER_01: We want to be known by our future history.
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SPEAKER_01: We don't want to just be a people that share the gospel and see people saved and lives change and cities change for Jesus in the past.
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SPEAKER_01: We want to see that in the future.
5:24
SPEAKER_01: So we've been answering the question: what are the core elements of a move of God?
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SPEAKER_01: Here they all are if you haven't written them down.
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SPEAKER_01: Week one was vision, week two was faith, week three is prayer, week four was sacrifice, week five was all of us together, everyone or God's people, and then week six is courage.
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SPEAKER_01: You've never seen a move of God without courage.
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SPEAKER_01: You've never seen God shape a generation or future generations without courage.
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SPEAKER_01: But you're gonna see two things in our story this morning.
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SPEAKER_01: You're gonna see false courage and real courage.
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SPEAKER_01: You're gonna see fear leading to a lack of courage and faith leading to the reality of courage.
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SPEAKER_01: And let me just paint the picture of the storyline or the context here.
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SPEAKER_01: In the verses I read, verses 31 through 35, Jesus predicts his death and resurrection.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus talks about how he's gonna be struck as the shepherd and he's gonna rise again in verse 32.
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SPEAKER_01: And then Peter, who was always saying things before he thought about what he was saying, denies Jesus' words.
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SPEAKER_01: He's like, You're the Messiah, the Son of the Living God in chapter 16, and then in chapter 26, he's like, I don't want to listen to what you're saying.
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SPEAKER_01: That's kind of like us, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Like one day we're like, Yes, you are my savior, the son of the living God, and then a week later we're like, uh, I don't want to believe those words.
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SPEAKER_01: So he denies Jesus' words, and then Jesus is like, No, Peter, you're gonna be the one who disowns me three times.
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SPEAKER_01: And then what does Peter do in verse 35?
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SPEAKER_01: Peter says, Jesus, I'm never gonna disown you.
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SPEAKER_01: I will die as a martyr before I disown you.
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SPEAKER_01: So that's the lead up to our story.
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SPEAKER_01: Then the Bible says, then, after this conversation about the death and resurrection, and Peter's like, I'll never, no, I don't want you to say these words, and then Jesus' like, no, it's gonna be you, and then Peter's like, I'll die before I do that.
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SPEAKER_01: Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane.
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SPEAKER_01: There's three movements in this story, which is one of the most important stories in the entirety of the Bible.
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SPEAKER_01: The first movement is verse 36, the setting.
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SPEAKER_01: The setting.
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SPEAKER_01: And the Bible says the setting is in a place called Gethsemane.
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SPEAKER_01: And Jesus had brought 11 disciples, not 12, because Judas is already out of the picture.
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SPEAKER_01: Judas is going to the religious authorities to betray and disown Jesus right now.
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SPEAKER_01: So it's 11 disciples traveling with Jesus to a place called Gethsemane.
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SPEAKER_01: Gethsemane in the original language means oil press, which is kind of fitting for this moment in history, and I'll get to that in a minute.
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SPEAKER_01: Gethsemane was on the slope of the Mount of Olives, overlooking the temple, the hub, the center of worship for the people of God in the Old Testament times.
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SPEAKER_01: So you would be up on this hill overlooking the place of worship, the place of sacrifice and offerings and singings and religious festivals in Israel.
9:03
SPEAKER_01: And you just walk down the hill and walk across the street and you would be at the temple.
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SPEAKER_01: And this was a spot that Jesus frequented with his disciples.
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SPEAKER_01: He would go there for prayer with them, he would go there to rest with them, he would go there just to spend time with them and fellowship and relationship building.
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SPEAKER_01: And he was there, he was there to pray at this moment.
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SPEAKER_01: This is right before he is betrayed and crucified on a cross.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, in Gethsemane, olive oil press, it were olive, uh, this was a place where olive oil was extracted from olive crops.
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SPEAKER_01: And olive oil in the ancient world was used for lamps, it was used for medicine, it was used for food and like cooking.
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SPEAKER_01: So who cooks with olive oil today?
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SPEAKER_01: It's one of the good things.
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SPEAKER_01: Most of you, who cooks with coconut oil?
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SPEAKER_01: Not many of you.
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SPEAKER_01: Who cooks with bad seed oils?
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SPEAKER_01: Hopefully, nobody raised their hand.
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SPEAKER_01: Avocado oil?
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SPEAKER_01: Okay, a lot of you.
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SPEAKER_01: That's amazing.
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SPEAKER_01: We're a healthy church.
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SPEAKER_01: Stay away from those seed oils.
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SPEAKER_01: But olive oil was important in the ancient world as it is today.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, olive oil was extracted in many ways.
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SPEAKER_01: Some people would use an olive press which would crush the olives and extract the oil.
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SPEAKER_01: Other people, you you see these in Israel today.
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SPEAKER_01: Some people would have this like round, like wooden structure, and they would just stomp.
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SPEAKER_01: They would take off their socks.
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SPEAKER_01: Not in the ancient world, they didn't have socks, but they'd take off their shoes and they just stomp on the olives and it extracts the oil.
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SPEAKER_01: And then also in the ancient world, there were these bags, cloth bags, where you would take the olives and you just start smashing them together and it would extract the oil out of the bags.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, this is an appropriate picture.
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SPEAKER_01: The only way to extract the olive oil from the olives was to crush them.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus is about to go to the cross and be crushed, as Isaiah 53 says.
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SPEAKER_01: He's in this place and he's praying in Gethsemane.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, I've been to Gethsemane.
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SPEAKER_01: It's incredible.
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SPEAKER_01: We went inside of Gethsemane where the olive trees are, where Jesus would have been praying, and you literally are there, and you're sitting on this hill, this slope, and you're looking at the temple in Jerusalem, which was the place where God's presence was.
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SPEAKER_01: And Jesus was present on earth.
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SPEAKER_01: The very Son of the living God, present.
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SPEAKER_01: God, the second person of the Trinity, God the Son, was present on earth, and he was about to be crushed.
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SPEAKER_01: And he's at a place that was known for crushing.
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SPEAKER_01: Notice what happens next, verses 37 and 38, the setting Gethsemane and the sorrow.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus begins to anticipate the cross, verses 37 and 38.
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SPEAKER_01: He says to them in verse 36, sit here while I go over there and pray.
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SPEAKER_01: Verse 37.
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SPEAKER_01: He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled.
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SPEAKER_01: Then he said to them, My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death.
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SPEAKER_01: Like this is a big deal.
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SPEAKER_01: For Jesus to say, My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point that I feel like I'm gonna die is a big deal.
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SPEAKER_01: Notice what he says at the end of here.
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SPEAKER_01: He says to his three friends who he brought into this olive grove with him to pray, stay here.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus is gonna go somewhere else, stay here, and keep watch with me.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus goes inside.
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SPEAKER_01: He takes 11 disciples there, but he goes inside with his inner circle.
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SPEAKER_01: Peter, James, and John.
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SPEAKER_01: Maybe you don't know what an inner circle is.
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SPEAKER_01: It's your besties, it's your squad, it's your fam.
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SPEAKER_01: It's your people, your crew.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus had spheres of relationships.
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SPEAKER_01: He had his inner circle.
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SPEAKER_01: That was Peter, James, and John.
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SPEAKER_01: He had his 12 disciples, he had the 70 disciples, and then he had the crowds of people that were always gathering alongside of him when he was doing ministry and teaching.
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SPEAKER_01: But he brings his closest friends, his squad, his besties into this moment with him.
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SPEAKER_01: And it is of value to note that Jesus did not enter this moment alone.
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SPEAKER_01: A lot of us, when we're in a season of suffering and we're anticipating a moment of suffering, we go into isolation.
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SPEAKER_01: We detach from our friends and our closest relationships.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus knew that he needed people in his hardest moment.
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SPEAKER_01: How much more do we need people in our hardest moments?
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SPEAKER_01: Isolation is the worst decision you and I can make in the hardest moments of life.
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SPEAKER_01: The best decision you and I can make in the hardest moments of life is to bring your besties, your squad, your church family into that moment with you.
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SPEAKER_01: People who are depressed, people who are struggling with anxiety, people who are dealing with grief.
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SPEAKER_01: The tendency is to retreat and detach.
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SPEAKER_01: You will never heal and find the strength that you need to walk through that season in isolation.
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SPEAKER_01: It's not the way you're created, it's not the way you're wired.
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SPEAKER_01: You're not wired to do things alone and to go through hard things in life alone.
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SPEAKER_01: You're wired to do it in community.
15:39
SPEAKER_01: By the way, Roy, it's your birthday, isn't it?
15:42
SPEAKER_01: Is it 75 today?
15:45
SPEAKER_01: Somebody told me.
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SPEAKER_01: Happy birthday.
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SPEAKER_01: See, we need people like you.
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SPEAKER_01: And you need people like us, maybe.
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SPEAKER_01: In 75 years, you probably learned through all seasons of life, you need people with you when you're facing the mountains of life.
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SPEAKER_01: Oh, thank you.
16:10
SPEAKER_01: Happy birthday.
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SPEAKER_01: Send in love your way.
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SPEAKER_01: So, Jesus, he brings Peter, James, and John.
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SPEAKER_01: And I want you to notice the descriptive nature of what he says.
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SPEAKER_01: These are really important words.
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SPEAKER_01: If you're a note-taker, write these down.
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SPEAKER_01: If you're not, write them down anyways.
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SPEAKER_01: Notice four things that happened to Jesus in the garden, verse 38.
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SPEAKER_01: Notice the first word, verse 37, pardon me.
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SPEAKER_01: Sorrowful.
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SPEAKER_01: Mark that in your Bible, underline that in your Bible, note that in your Bible, highlight that in your Bible.
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SPEAKER_01: Sorrowful.
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SPEAKER_01: The term is lupeo.
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SPEAKER_01: It means to experience sadness or distress in your soul or to grieve.
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SPEAKER_01: The word comes from a root word that means pain, is the idea of mental and emotional anguish.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus was feeling mental and emotional anguish in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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SPEAKER_01: Notice the second word, verse 37.
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SPEAKER_01: Troubled.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus was sorrowful, Jesus was troubled.
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SPEAKER_01: This is also an interesting word.
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SPEAKER_01: This means literally to be in anxiety or to be distressed or to feel troubled in your soul.
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SPEAKER_01: Adamaneo is the term.
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SPEAKER_01: Some would render this in some context to almost be without hope.
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SPEAKER_01: When's the last time you thought of Jesus as feeling anxiety and distressed and troubled?
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SPEAKER_01: Of course so.
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SPEAKER_01: Some people, when they talk about anxiety in Christian context, they always talk about it as though it's sinful.
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SPEAKER_01: That would be a very limited and myopic perspective on what the Bible says about anxiety.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus is sinless.
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SPEAKER_01: And Jesus feels anxiety in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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SPEAKER_01: Which means that there are situations in life where physiologically our body is going to feel the weight of the moment.
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SPEAKER_01: And that's not sinful, that's just the reality of human suffering.
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SPEAKER_01: So Jesus felt deep distress or anxiety in this moment.
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SPEAKER_01: Notice the third term, verse 38, overwhelmed.
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SPEAKER_01: You ever feel overwhelmed?
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SPEAKER_01: Paralupos is the term.
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SPEAKER_01: It means to be crushed by grief, to be very sad, to be profoundly sorrowful.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus was crushed by grief in this moment.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, our Americanized Jesus, we sometimes paint a picture of him that is not reality.
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SPEAKER_01: It's like our Americanized Jesus is like always joyful, hands clapped, happy, happy, happy Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: And the biblical Jesus is full of joy, but also full of sadness and grief sometimes.
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SPEAKER_01: We have mischaracterized Jesus when we only describe his life and emotional state in positive terms.
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SPEAKER_01: And by it, what I mean by that is that he was known, as Isaiah says, a man of sorrows and well acquainted with grief.
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SPEAKER_01: It wasn't just a one-time moment, it is something he felt as he felt the weight of human sin and suffering on earth.
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SPEAKER_01: He didn't sin, but he saw his creation sin.
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SPEAKER_01: But he suffered on behalf of his creation.
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SPEAKER_01: Now there's one element that we don't see here in the Gospel of Matthew.
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SPEAKER_01: It's something that Luke brings to the surface in the Gospel of Luke, chapter 22, verse 44, where it says, He also began to sweat blood.
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SPEAKER_01: So write this down, number four.
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SPEAKER_01: Sorrowful, troubled, overwhelmed, sweating blood.
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SPEAKER_01: I'd have to say this is probably a pretty difficult moment.
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SPEAKER_01: Now for you people in the medical field, uh many scholars and even doctors have done research on this verse and have found in history there there's this rare medical condition called hematrodrosis.
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SPEAKER_01: A lot of medical terms come from Greek, you know that if you're in the medical field.
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SPEAKER_01: Hematrodrosis was a very real, but noted on many instances, medical condition, where somebody was in such deep mental and emotional pain that it caught that was caused by stress or fear or some traumatic experience.
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SPEAKER_01: That literally there would be capillaries that dilate and burst, mingling blood with sweat.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the ultimate pinnacle of emotional and mental anguish.
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SPEAKER_01: That very few, but many have been noted throughout history have experienced.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus anticipating the cross begins to sweat blood.
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SPEAKER_01: Nobody, nobody in human history has felt the weight of human grief, sorrow, and pain like Jesus Christ.
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SPEAKER_01: Nobody.
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SPEAKER_01: Nobody has felt the intensity, the weight of pain like Jesus felt there in the Of Gethsemane, which makes what Jesus does next even more impactful.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to notice the setting, Gethsemane, the sorrow, Jesus is anticipating the cross, verse 37 and 38, and the courage, verses 39 through 46.
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SPEAKER_01: Look in your Bible, verse 39.
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SPEAKER_01: Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed.
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SPEAKER_01: You know there's moments in life that you don't even have the ability to stand up and pray.
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SPEAKER_01: You just fall to the ground and seek the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: He says, My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me.
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SPEAKER_01: Yet not as I will, but as you will.
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SPEAKER_01: Then he returned to the disciples and found them sleeping.
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SPEAKER_01: Kind of like us, right?
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SPEAKER_01: Couldn't you men keep watch with me for one hour?
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SPEAKER_01: He asked Peter.
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SPEAKER_01: Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.
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SPEAKER_01: The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.
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SPEAKER_01: He went away a second time and prayed.
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SPEAKER_01: When he came back, he again found them sleeping.
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SPEAKER_01: Aren't we like the disciples?
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SPEAKER_01: Because their eyes were heavy, meaning they were tired.
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SPEAKER_01: So he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.
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SPEAKER_01: Then he returned to the disciples and said to them, Are you still sleeping and resting?
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SPEAKER_01: Look, the hour has come and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners.
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SPEAKER_01: Rise, let us go.
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SPEAKER_01: Notice a couple things.
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SPEAKER_01: As Jesus is facing the weight of sorrow and he determines to have courage in light of the cross.
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SPEAKER_01: Notice the first thing.
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SPEAKER_01: When he prays this prayer three times, he says, My Father.
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SPEAKER_01: This is significant.
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SPEAKER_01: Sometimes we just read and we miss all of these valuable nuances in Scripture.
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SPEAKER_01: When he says, My Father, he is picturing the intimate relationship that God the Father and God the Son have.
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SPEAKER_01: Co-equal, relational equality, perfect harmony for all of eternity, the Father and the Son always talking to each other.
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SPEAKER_01: And Jesus gives us a window, a picture into that relational harmony as he's there in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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SPEAKER_01: And then he says, If it is possible, may this cup be taken away from me.
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SPEAKER_01: What a prayer.
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SPEAKER_01: I want you to note that he prays this prayer three times.
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SPEAKER_01: Paul, when he was talking about his thorn in the flesh in 2 Corinthians chapter 12, he said, I prayed three times that the Lord would take this away from me.
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SPEAKER_01: There seems to be a pattern in Scripture that three times you're going through a hard moment or you're facing a moment of suffering or you have a physical ailment, that three times there seems to be some sort of motif around that.
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SPEAKER_01: Whether the answer is yes or wait or no, three times.
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SPEAKER_01: So Jesus prays this prayer three times.
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SPEAKER_01: And he says, if it is possible, may this cup be taken away from me.
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SPEAKER_01: Now you might say, rightly so, what is the cup?
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SPEAKER_01: The cup is a Hebrew metaphor used over and over in the Old and New Testament.
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SPEAKER_01: Think about what do you put in your cup, right?
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SPEAKER_01: You got your little mug that you bring out every day, you got your little glass, whatever you use to drink.
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SPEAKER_01: What do you put you wanna know what I put in my cup every day?
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SPEAKER_01: You guys want to know?
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SPEAKER_01: Anyone want to know?
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SPEAKER_01: My cup only has three things.
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SPEAKER_01: Number one, water.
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SPEAKER_01: Number two, I juice beets, carrots, ginger, lemon, greens.
26:06
SPEAKER_01: I have a juicer.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, you put the real, you buy the real vegetables and you go and juice comes out and you drink it, it's amazing.
26:14
SPEAKER_01: Now, if you're a juicer, don't just juice fruit.
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SPEAKER_01: It's gonna, you know, sugar spike.
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SPEAKER_01: Juice greens and vegetables.
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SPEAKER_01: That's the good stuff to put in there.
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SPEAKER_01: Ginger, that's really good for you.
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SPEAKER_01: Uh, and then the third thing I put in my cup, green smoothies.
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SPEAKER_01: That's basically all I drink.
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SPEAKER_01: I drink water, I drink fresh juices, and I drink green smoothies, and that's it.
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SPEAKER_01: That's all that goes in my cup.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know what goes in your cup.
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SPEAKER_01: Diet Coke, Petsy, whatever you like.
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SPEAKER_01: I don't know what you put in your cup.
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SPEAKER_01: But now you know what I drink.
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SPEAKER_01: So if you want to take me out for a drink, you can take me for water, juice, or green smoothies.
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SPEAKER_01: Other than that, I probably won't go.
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SPEAKER_01: But this cup is a metaphor, it's a Hebrew metaphor.
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SPEAKER_01: For an experience.
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SPEAKER_01: And often in Scripture, it's an experience of God's righteous judgment against human wickedness and evil.
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SPEAKER_01: Let me give you a couple examples.
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SPEAKER_01: Psalm 11, verse 6 upon the wicked he will rain coals, fire and brimstone, and a burning wind shall be the portion of their cup.
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SPEAKER_01: You're like, wow, that's encouraging this morning.
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SPEAKER_01: Revelation 14, verse 10, they too will drink the wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into the cup of his wrath.
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SPEAKER_01: This metaphor is often in the context of God's righteous, but may we also note, patient, giving humans opportunity until his patience is done, and the point of time is to pour out his righteous judgment on human wickedness and evil.
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SPEAKER_01: Now, the reason that's so important is because this is what Jesus is anticipating.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus is about to drink the cup of God's righteous judgment against human sin and evil.
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SPEAKER_01: When Jesus goes to the cross, I want you to take note.
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SPEAKER_01: If you haven't paid attention of anything today, that's okay.
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SPEAKER_01: But pay attention right now.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus' cup that he was about to drink was the righteous judgment of God toward human sin so that he could forgive sinful, imperfect people.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus' cup was becoming the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus' cup was becoming the substitutionary sacrifice.
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SPEAKER_01: In other words, I deserved the judgment of God.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus was perfect.
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SPEAKER_01: I am imperfect.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus was sinless.
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SPEAKER_01: I am sinful.
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SPEAKER_01: And you're like, what does sin mean?
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SPEAKER_01: It means anything we do contrary to the design of God for human flourishing, his creative intent for this world.
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SPEAKER_01: Anything we do outside of the scope and plan and will and person of God.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus' cup was becoming the substitutionary sacrifice for my sin.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus took my sin so he could give me his righteousness.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus' cup was taking upon himself the judgment of God towards sin so that we could be forgiven by a holy and righteous God.
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SPEAKER_01: In other words, Jesus took my worst so he could give me his best.
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SPEAKER_01: Jesus took all my humanity and failures and bad decisions and guilt and shame so that he could give me his love and grace and forgiveness.
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SPEAKER_01: That's worth an amen.
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SPEAKER_01: Isaiah, we need we need a couple amens on spring break.
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SPEAKER_01: You know, spring break is like everybody's napping and vacationing and no, we're not vacationing right now.
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SPEAKER_01: We're seeking the Lord.
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SPEAKER_01: On vacation, might I add for some of you.
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SPEAKER_01: Isaiah 53, 5 and 6, listen to these words.
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SPEAKER_01: But he was pierced for our transgressions.
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SPEAKER_01: He was crushed for our iniquities.
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SPEAKER_01: The punishment that brought us peace was on him.
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SPEAKER_01: And by his wounds we are healed.
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SPEAKER_01: We all like sheep have gone astray.
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SPEAKER_01: Each one of us has turned our own way.
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SPEAKER_01: And the Lord has laid on him, Jesus, the iniquity of us all.
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SPEAKER_01: No wonder Jesus was saying, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me.
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SPEAKER_01: Because post this event, 2 Corinthians 5.21 became a reality.
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SPEAKER_01: God made him, Jesus, who knew no sin, to be sin for us, so that in him, in Jesus, you and I might become the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus.
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SPEAKER_01: Have you believed in Jesus today?
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SPEAKER_01: Have you believed in the Son of God who took all your sin and shame and guilt and failures and regrets upon him so that he could give you his grace, love, forgiveness, and righteousness freely out of the overflow of his nature.
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SPEAKER_01: If you haven't believed in Jesus Christ as the Son of God and your Savior today, believe in Jesus Christ and receive all that he wants to offer you through his death on the cross.
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SPEAKER_01: There is no greater moment in human history than this moment that Jesus would then say these words three times, yet not as I will, but as you will Jesus trusted God in the most difficult moments of his earthly life.
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SPEAKER_01: He knew what awaited him and he affirms the Father's plan as the best plan.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm not sure if we would have the same courage.
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SPEAKER_01: I'm talking for me mainly I don't know you might be amazing and courageous.
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SPEAKER_01: Because I think that we would say something like this not as I will but as you will qualify as long as it's not hard or challenging.
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SPEAKER_01: Or we may say this not as I will but as you will God let me re rewind that that's not what I want to say here's what I want to say not as I will but as I will if you call me to do something outside of my comfort I think that's what many of us would say.
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SPEAKER_01: Because we do it still not as I will God whatever you want me to do.
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SPEAKER_01: But then the moment comes that's hard or uncomfortable and we say but as I will right now because you're asking me to do something that's uncomfortable I kind of think of like the last couple weeks as I was praying I came to our next banquet here with Pastor Ray and Scott 100 people from our church and I've been praying Lord what do you want me to give toward this incredible opportunity for the future of Bayside and Bayside Davis and started God said give this much I actually said that God didn't I was like I'm gonna give this much and I prayed and the Lord's like but I want you to give this much then I went to the Granite Bay Banquet and Ray had me speak and then two of the people speak at the Granite Bay Banquet which was such an honor he was so stirred by what God is doing here at Davis that he we were the only other Bayside that got to speak at that so we shared some of the cool stories of what God was doing here.
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SPEAKER_01: Then I'm sitting there and Ray sharing and Pastor Mark sharing and Brian sharing and the Lord said I want you to add to that number and I'm like okay Lord and then I wrestle with him a little bit maybe it was just the emotion of the moment so I wrestle and went home and I was praying and the Lord's like nope I want you to add to that number and you know that's just one story that's really relevant in my life right now.
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SPEAKER_01: And I just the next week I'd already written a card the next week I wrote a new card with a new number and I just trust the Lord I've been walking with Jesus for over 20 years and I've seen when I listen to what God says it's always a beautiful thing in my life.
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SPEAKER_01: And when I don't it's not great.
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SPEAKER_01: But he gives me grace and he gives me more opportunities to make the right decision the next time I want us to be a people that say not as I will but follow the example of Jesus but as you will God which meant Jesus knew he needed to have courage he goes out and he sees the disciples sleeping.
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SPEAKER_01: They're tired.
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SPEAKER_01: That might be an excuse I'm tired right but Jesus says he teaches them a lesson imagine your besties your most trusted friends your squad your homies whatever you call them now that in your hardest moment they're sleeping.
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SPEAKER_01: They're not available Jesus turns this into a spiritual teaching he says we all have willing spirits we all have a desire to do God's will but we all have weakness in our humanity so he says you need to be spiritually watchful and prayerful now what Jesus does at the end of this story is quite phenomenal he says at verse 45 look the hour has come and the Son of man is delivered into the hands of sinners rise let us go I want those words to reverberate into your thinking because this is the greatest moment of courage in human history none of us will ever felt uh feel the daunting nature of going to the cross and taking the wrath righteous judgment of God for the sins of humanity let alone being crucified in Roman crucifixion which was awful and we will explain that more on Good Friday.
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SPEAKER_01: Don't miss Good Friday it's gonna be amazing I like to call it Black Friday not to be parallel to Black Friday where you go out and buy stuff at 50% off but the the Bible says that the earth turned to darkness.
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SPEAKER_01: It's a dark day or bloody Friday it was the day that Jesus was crucified.
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SPEAKER_01: We call it Good Friday I guess we'd call that in retrospect looking back on what he did but it was really a dark day in human history I want you to write these two things down.
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SPEAKER_01: This is the greatest moment of courage in human history write these two things down number one Jesus had courage to trust God and number two Jesus had courage to face the cross he was resolute he didn't say maybe we should go he says exclamation point rise let us go this is not an invitation to escape it's an invitation of courage to trust and obey God listen to what Hebrews 57 and 8 says during the days of Jesus's life on earth this is a commentary on what we're reading he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him death and he was heard because of his reverent submission though he was he learned obedience from what he suffered the greatest time of obedience to God is not when things are going well.
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SPEAKER_01: It's easy right it's like oh God you know my life is blessed abundant blessings overflowing the greatest time of obedience is during a moment of suffering can I just say God wants to use your life there's an old adage that goes like this without God we can't but without us God will not God wants to use your life what is God calling you to what is God calling us to that we just need to have the courage to trust God in a moment of uncomfortableness a moment of difficulty a moment of suffering a moment of faith a moment where God is calling us to bridge the gap between where we're at and what he's calling us to do we just need to trust him and have the courage to follow him