All Powerful Jesus Grace to His Disciples Mercy to All
All Powerful Jesus Jesus initiates Who is it you want? No recognition Jesus of Nazareth Jesus answers I am (He). Their REACTION drew back and fell to the ground Why such a strange reaction? Is this significant?
All Powerful Jesus The significance is profound. Moses at the burning bush Form of the verb to be Could have been taken as Jehovah (YHVH) or Yahweh Philippians 2:9-11
Philippians 2:9-11 (NASB) 9 For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, 10 so that at the name of Jesus EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, 11 and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
All Powerful Jesus The significance is profound. Moses at the burning bush Form of the verb to be Could have been taken as Jehovah (YHVH) or Yahweh Philippians 2:9-11 Being arrested is in great contrast with Jesus glory and power.
All Powerful Jesus Jesus life is a great contrast, a paradox. A picture of human weakness in His birth and yet the power of angelic announcement Born of poor and lowly means and yet kings came a great distance to present rich gifts At His baptism, He identifies with us in our repentance of sin yet He was sinless and declared so from heaven. His exhaustion causes Him to fall asleep in a boat and yet He awakens to calm the storm.
All Powerful Jesus Jesus life is a great contrast, a paradox - cont. He weeps at the death of His friend Lazarus and then calls him forth from the grave. He prays to have this cup removed from Him and then overpowers His enemies with His presence and gives Himself into their hands. Jesus shows He is God manifest in the flesh! Jesus shows His death is voluntary! Jesus also shows that all involved in His arrest were without excuse!
Grace to His Disciples Jesus also asks that if they came to arrest Him, there was no need to arrest His disciples John 6:39; 17:12. We know that they were going to arrest others Mark 14:51-52.
Mark 14:51-52 (NASB) 51 A young man was following Him, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body; and they seized him. 52 But he pulled free of the linen sheet and escaped naked.
Grace to His Disciples Jesus also asks that if they came to arrest Him, there was no need to arrest His disciples John 6:39; 17:12. We know that they were going to arrest others Mark 14:51-52. By John saying this again, he is transferring the protection of the disciples to all of us.
Grace to His Disciples How does Jesus exercise this persevering grace toward those who believe in Him? Changing darkness into light Hebrews 7:25
Hebrews 7:25 (NASB) 25 Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
Grace to His Disciples How does Jesus exercise this persevering grace toward those who believe in Him? Changing darkness into light Hebrews 7:25 Guarding our spiritual deposit 2 Tim. 1:12
2 Timothy 1:12 (NASB) 12 For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.
Grace to His Disciples How does Jesus exercise this persevering grace toward those who believe in Him? Changing darkness into light Hebrews 7:25 Guarding our spiritual deposit 2 Tim. 1:12 Seeing us through temptation and weakness Hebrews 2:18
Hebrews 2:18 (NASB) 18 For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.
Grace to His Disciples How does Jesus exercise this persevering grace toward those who believe in Him? Changing darkness into light Hebrews 7:25 Guarding our spiritual deposit 2 Tim. 1:12 Seeing us through temptation and weakness Hebrews 2:18 Transforming our bodies Philippians 3:20-21
Philippians 3:20-21 (NASB) 20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ; 21 who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.
Grace to His Disciples How does Jesus exercise this persevering grace toward those who believe in Him? Changing darkness into light Hebrews 7:25 Guarding our spiritual deposit 2 Tim. 1:12 Seeing us through temptation and weakness Hebrews 2:18 Transforming our bodies Philippians 3:20-21 Bringing us into God s presence without spot or blemish Jude 24-25
Jude 24-25 (NASB) 24 Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, 25 to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.
Mercy to All Malchus ducks to avoid decapitation and loses his ear. Jesus heals Malchus Luke 22:51. Jesus rebukes Peter John 18:11. The cup the Father gives me The cup of salvation Psalm 116:13
Psalm 116:13 (NASB) 13 I shall lift up the cup of salvation And call upon the name of the LORD
Mercy to All Malchus ducks to avoid decapitation and loses his ear. Jesus heals Malchus Luke 22:51. Jesus rebukes Peter John 18:11. The cup the Father gives me The cup of salvation Psalm 116:13 The cup of God s wrath or tribulation Matthew 26:39
Matthew 26:39 (NASB) 39 And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.
Application Who is in charge of your life? Who is in charge of the world around you? Are you drinking the cup of salvation or the cup of wrath and tribulation?
Conclusion There are two cups: the cup of salvation and the cup of God s wrath. Those who drink the cup of salvation by God s grace will drink of it only because Jesus drank the cup of God s wrath in their place. Everyone drinks of a cup! From which cup will you drink?