B538-We Should Know God Is Best For Us

Now this is one of the greatest climaxes in Jesus’ ministry. The cross started here in His prayer. Why should the Lord Jesus be struggling? Holding the cup before the Father and saying, ‘Father, if it be Your will, let this cup pass from Me.’ Why is there a struggle? He knew that He would be raised from the dead in three days time. He even prophesied that to His disciples in Matthew 16, He says that the Son of Man will be betrayed and He will be delivered to the gentiles and they will crucify Him. After three days He will be resurrected from the dead. He knew He would be resurrected from the dead. That was not the problem but as He took that cup in His hand, that cup represented the cup of sin. Love does not mean doing what you like. Love means doing what God like and God’s will. This is the beauty of God’s love. There was no beauty in anyone of us. We were all sinners. There was no beauty in men. We were called enemies of God yet Jesus Christ held the cup that represents our situation, deliverance from sin. He is going to become sin for us. Why did He struggle? He prayed three times and this is very unusual of Him. He said, ‘Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me.’ Why the struggle? He knew He was going to be resurrected in three days time when He died. If you know that when you are killed you are going to be raised after three days, you won’t be bothered about being killed. Jesus knew it but there was something else. As He held that cup in His hands, that cup represented sin that He is going to partake upon Himself. That was the struggle. He knew no sin. He has never told a lie in His life. He has never committed any sin. Not in His thoughts, not in His words, not in His actions. Now He was going to take sin upon Himself. That cup represented the sins of the world that He is going to take upon Himself. The death on the cross. Him becoming sin. So there was s tremendous struggle in His life. He was not afraid of physical pain. There were many other people who had died on the cross before Jesus. Crucifixion was a normal execution process of the Romans Empire. PLEASE REPLY TO MY EMAIL DJWELLS97@YAHOO.COM