2. Carpe Diem
(Seize the Day!)
A Spiritual Growth
Initiative for 2014
The Bible cannot be our authority ...
Our “polaris” ... Our reference point for life
IF we do not KNOW it and if we are not
seeking to APPLY it!
9. Jesus’ Final Steps
A mind boggling prediction (vv. 27-31)
A soul wrenching prayer (vv. 32-42)
A heartbreaking betrayal (vv. 43-52)
10. A mind boggling prediction (vv. 27-31)
Mark 14:26
And when they had sung a hymn, they
went out to the Mount of Olives.
11. Mark 14:27-28
And Jesus said to them, “You will all fall
away, for it is written, ‘I will strike the
shepherd, and the sheep will be
scattered.’ But after I am raised up, I will
go before you to Galilee.”
12. Mark 14:29
Peter said to him, “Even though they all
fall away, I will not.”
Mark 14:30
And Jesus said to him, “Truly, I tell you,
this very night, before the rooster crows
twice, you will deny me three times.”
13. Mark 14:31
But he said emphatically, “If I must die
with you, I will not deny you.” And they
all said the same.
14. Jesus’ Final Steps
A mind boggling prediction (vv. 27-31)
A soul wrenching prayer (vv. 32-42)
15. A soul wrenching prayer (vv. 32-42)
Mark 14:32
And they went to a place called
Gethsemane. And he said to his disciples,
“Sit here while I pray.”
16. A soul wrenching prayer (vv. 32-42)
Mark 14:33
And he took with him Peter and James
and John, and began to be greatly
distressed and troubled. And he said to
them, “My soul is very sorrowful, even
to death. Remain here and watch.”
18. A soul wrenching prayer (vv. 32-42)
Mark 14:36
And he said, “Abba, Father, all things are
possible for you. Remove this cup from
me. Yet not what I will, but what you
will.”
19. A soul wrenching prayer (vv. 32-42)
Note several things about this prayer:
- Jesus addresses God as “Abba”
- He acknowledges that God as God is able
to do anything that he desires to do
- Jesus asks that the cup he is about to
drink be removed
20. A soul wrenching prayer (vv. 32-42)
R. Kent
Hughes
“First, it was a cup full of sin.
Jesus saw all the brutality of a
thousand ‘Killing Fields’ – all the
whoring of earthly civilizations –
blasphemy and profanity – a cup
brimming with jealousy, hatred,
covetousness – which he MUST
DRINK! And Jesus recoiled.”
21. A soul wrenching prayer (vv. 32-42)
“Second, he saw that it was a cup full of
wrath. As sin-bearer, he became the object
of the Father’s holy wrath against sin. The
drinking made Jesus a curse. Galatians 3:13
states that “Christ redeemed us from the
curse of the law by becoming a curse for us,
for it is written ‘Cursed is everyone who is
hung on a tree.’” Gazing into the cup, Jesus
saw Hell opened for him, and he staggered at
the thought!” (R. Kent Hughes)
22. A soul wrenching prayer (vv. 32-42)
Jesus was looking at drinking a cup
filled to overflowing with
man’s sin
and
God’s wrath!
23. A soul wrenching prayer (vv. 32-42)
“Daddy, if there is any other way to
fulfill your plan . . . make it so and let
me out of this!”
“Yet not what I will, but what you will.”
24. A soul wrenching prayer (vv. 32-42)
Mark 14:38
Watch and pray that you may not enter
into temptation. The spirit indeed is
willing, but the flesh is weak.
25. A soul wrenching prayer (vv. 32-42)
Mark 14:41-42
And he came the third time and said to
them, “Are you still sleeping and taking
your rest? It is enough; the hour has
come. The Son of Man is betrayed into the
hands of sinners. Rise, let us be going;
see, my betrayer is at hand.”
26. A heartbreaking betrayal (vv. 43-52)
Mark 14:43
And immediately, while he was still
speaking, Judas came, one of the twelve,
and with him a crowd with swords and
clubs, from the chief priests and the
scribes and the elders.
27. A heartbreaking betrayal (vv. 43-52)
Mark 14:44-45
Now the betrayer had given them a sign,
saying, “The one I will kiss is the man.
Seize him and lead him away under
guard.” And when he came, he went up to
him at once and said, “Rabbi!” And
he kissed him.
“to kiss fervently,
to kiss affectionately”
28. A heartbreaking betrayal (vv. 43-52)
Mark 14:46-47
And they laid hands on him and seized
him. But one of those who stood by drew
his sword and struck the servant of the
high priest and cut off his ear.
29. A heartbreaking betrayal (vv. 43-52)
Mark 14:48-49
And Jesus said to them, “Have you come
out as against a robber, with swords and
clubs to capture me? Day after day I was
with you in the temple teaching, and you
did not seize me. But let the Scriptures
be fulfilled.”
30. A heartbreaking betrayal (vv. 43-52)
Mark 14:50-52
And they all left him and fled. And a
young man followed him, with nothing
but a linen cloth about his body. And they
seized him, but he left the linen cloth and
ran away naked.
31. Jesus’ Final Steps
(Mark 14:227-52)
A mind boggling prediction (vv. 27-31)
A soul wrenching prayer (vv. 32-42)
A heartbreaking betrayal (vv. 43-52)
32. Today’s Takeaway
Jesus Christ in his suffering endured far
more than we could ever imagine.
Mark 14:33
“My soul is very sorrowful, even to death.”
33. Today’s Takeaway
Jesus Christ in his suffering endured far
more than we could ever imagine.
Yet he endured willingly the suffering
before him. He faced it with a calmness of
spirit that is unbelievable!
How was he
able to do so?
34. Today’s Takeaway
He was able to do so for this reason: his
highest value in life was to do the will of
His Father!
“Not my will but YOURS be done!”
35. Today’s Takeaway
He was able to do so for this reason: his
highest value in life was to do the will of
His Father!
“Not my will but YOURS be done!”
36. Today’s Takeaway
John 4:34
Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the
will of him who sent me and to
accomplish his work.”
John 6:38
“For I have come down from heaven, not
to do my own will but the will of
him who sent me.”
37. Today’s Takeaway
Is your greatest value in life to do the will of
your Father in heaven, no matter what it
might cost you?
There is no higher calling in this life than to
be called to do the will of the God who made
us, the God who saves us, and the God who
keeps us in this life and the life to come!
Are you ready to follow in the footsteps of
Jesus and say,
“Your will, not mine, be done!”
