WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:17.059 It shows us that God has not just arrived, but has personally entered into the sorrow 00:00:17.059 --> 00:00:18.920 and brokenness of our world. 00:00:20.780 --> 00:00:27.620 Tonight we're looking at Mark 14, starting in verse 32, where Jesus, after eating the 00:00:27.620 --> 00:00:32.840 Passover with his disciples, comes with them to the Garden of Gethsemane. 00:00:33.939 --> 00:00:37.000 So let's pick up there in verse 32. 00:00:39.900 --> 00:00:45.400 Mark writes, and they went to a place called Gethsemane, and he, that is Jesus, said to his 00:00:45.400 --> 00:00:47.200 disciples, sit here while I pray. 00:00:47.980 --> 00:00:54.400 And he took with him Peter and James and John, and began to be greatly distressed and troubled. 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:59.119 And he said to them, my soul is very sorrowful even to death. 00:00:59.460 --> 00:01:00.839 Remain here and watch. 00:01:01.799 --> 00:01:06.319 And going a little farther, he fell on the ground and prayed that if it were possible, the hour 00:01:06.319 --> 00:01:07.439 might pass from him. 00:01:08.299 --> 00:01:12.819 And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible for you. 00:01:13.700 --> 00:01:18.680 Remove this cup from me, yet not what I will, but what you will. 00:01:18.680 --> 00:01:22.440 And he came and found them sleeping. 00:01:23.060 --> 00:01:25.660 And he said to Peter, Simon, are you asleep? 00:01:26.620 --> 00:01:28.420 Could you not watch one hour? 00:01:29.160 --> 00:01:32.540 Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. 00:01:32.700 --> 00:01:35.640 The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak. 00:01:36.700 --> 00:01:39.160 And again he went away and prayed, saying the same words. 00:01:40.360 --> 00:01:44.500 And again he came and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy, and they did not 00:01:44.500 --> 00:01:45.560 know what to answer him. 00:01:45.560 --> 00:01:51.340 And he came the third time and said to them, are you still sleeping? 00:01:51.840 --> 00:01:54.400 And taking your rest, it is enough. 00:01:55.240 --> 00:01:56.480 The hour has come. 00:01:57.600 --> 00:02:01.579 The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners. 00:02:03.980 --> 00:02:09.759 Jesus' prayer in the garden is the prelude to everything that's about to happen. 00:02:11.000 --> 00:02:14.539 Jesus is about to enter into the hour, as he calls it, of his passion. 00:02:14.539 --> 00:02:16.859 And he fully knows what he's headed into. 00:02:17.199 --> 00:02:21.780 Three times in chapter 8, and then again in chapter 9, and chapter 10, he told his disciples 00:02:21.780 --> 00:02:22.840 what was going to happen. 00:02:23.500 --> 00:02:29.199 He even said that this was the very reason why he had come, to give his life as a ransom 00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:29.819 for many. 00:02:31.799 --> 00:02:37.919 But as we look at this scene, you know, it's shocking that Jesus, he isn't facing his death 00:02:37.919 --> 00:02:39.959 like so many other heroes. 00:02:39.960 --> 00:02:46.060 Think of, if you remember the story of Socrates, how does Socrates meet death? 00:02:47.060 --> 00:02:52.020 Conversing with his friends, sort of gladly taking the hemlock, ready to pass on to the 00:02:52.020 --> 00:02:52.580 other world. 00:02:53.080 --> 00:02:57.560 Or think of all the war stories of great men charging into battle fearlessly. 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:06.939 And yet here is Jesus, distressed, troubled, Mark says, sorrowful, even to death, we're 00:03:06.939 --> 00:03:07.259 told. 00:03:09.420 --> 00:03:13.879 Now on the one hand, isn't it a mark of the reliability of the Gospels that they describe 00:03:13.879 --> 00:03:14.680 Jesus this way? 00:03:14.939 --> 00:03:20.620 Who would want to remember their great leader trembling in fear before meeting his great 00:03:20.620 --> 00:03:20.980 hour? 00:03:20.979 --> 00:03:26.139 And yet that is exactly what Jesus in his humanity faced, and the Gospel writers tell 00:03:26.139 --> 00:03:27.239 it faithfully. 00:03:29.339 --> 00:03:34.159 But on the other hand, isn't this trembling of Jesus also a mark, not just of the reliability 00:03:34.159 --> 00:03:40.539 of the Gospel account, but also of the dreadful path that lay before Jesus? 00:03:40.539 --> 00:03:54.379 In his prayer, Jesus speaks of the cup, which throughout the Old Testament was a symbol, a symbol not of celebration, a symbol not of merrymaking, but a symbol actually 00:03:54.379 --> 00:04:03.359 of God's just judgment, that it's something that those who had rejected him would have to drink to the dregs. 00:04:03.360 --> 00:04:23.580 Jesus trembles in the garden, not just because physical death lay before him, but that in death, he would be bearing the cup, drinking the cup of God's awful and right wrath against sin. 00:04:25.740 --> 00:04:29.699 And Jesus, in his human will, we see here, pours out his heart to the Father. 00:04:29.699 --> 00:04:32.500 If possible, remove this cup from me. 00:04:32.500 --> 00:04:34.860 He trembles before its prospect. 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:43.720 But then he prays, yet, not what I will, but what you will. 00:04:45.579 --> 00:04:54.560 Even though what lies ahead causes Jesus to tremble, still he submits his will to the Father's will in love and in trust. 00:04:54.560 --> 00:05:04.480 And if you think about it, isn't this exactly what our first parents, isn't this exactly what Adam failed to do in the story of the Garden of Eden? 00:05:05.420 --> 00:05:10.500 Isn't it Adam who essentially says, not your will, God, but my will be done? 00:05:10.500 --> 00:05:15.980 And isn't that exactly the way in which humanity has played itself out ever since? 00:05:18.220 --> 00:05:25.339 But now here in another garden, Jesus has come to reverse humanity's fate. 00:05:25.339 --> 00:05:30.519 To say, not what I will, but what you will, God. 00:05:33.879 --> 00:05:39.120 And while all this is going on, Jesus' closest disciples and friends, 00:05:39.599 --> 00:05:42.339 the inner three, Peter and James and John, 00:05:42.339 --> 00:05:46.560 as Jesus is in the grips of his hour, 00:05:47.560 --> 00:05:49.759 when he needs their comfort the most, 00:05:49.959 --> 00:05:50.879 what are they doing? 00:05:51.959 --> 00:05:52.819 Falling asleep. 00:05:54.979 --> 00:05:56.239 They're drifting off, 00:05:57.379 --> 00:05:58.979 leaving him alone with his sorrow. 00:05:58.980 --> 00:06:04.100 Which is all an omen of what's about to happen. 00:06:04.480 --> 00:06:08.100 Jesus comes to the sleeping disciples a third time and says in verse 42, 00:06:08.240 --> 00:06:09.240 let's pick up the story there, 00:06:09.319 --> 00:06:10.980 rise, he says, let us be going. 00:06:11.460 --> 00:06:13.540 See, my betrayer is at hand. 00:06:14.360 --> 00:06:16.000 And immediately while he was speaking, 00:06:16.120 --> 00:06:17.460 Judas came, one of the twelve, 00:06:17.560 --> 00:06:19.819 and with him a crowd with swords and clubs 00:06:19.819 --> 00:06:22.240 from the chief priests and the scribes and the elders. 00:06:22.600 --> 00:06:24.360 Now the betrayer had given them a sign saying, 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:26.759 the one I will kiss is the man. 00:06:27.240 --> 00:06:28.939 Seize him and lead him away. 00:06:28.980 --> 00:06:29.540 Under guard. 00:06:30.879 --> 00:06:33.080 And when he came, he went up to him at once and said, 00:06:33.160 --> 00:06:33.420 Rabbi. 00:06:33.939 --> 00:06:34.960 And he kissed him. 00:06:35.700 --> 00:06:38.460 And they laid hands on him and seized him. 00:06:39.819 --> 00:06:41.439 But one of those who stood by, 00:06:41.900 --> 00:06:44.420 drew his sword and struck the servant of the high priest 00:06:44.420 --> 00:06:45.200 and cut off his ear. 00:06:45.259 --> 00:06:46.040 And Jesus said to them, 00:06:46.280 --> 00:06:48.420 have you come out as against a robber 00:06:48.420 --> 00:06:50.759 with swords and clubs to capture me? 00:06:50.980 --> 00:06:53.759 Day after day, I was with you in the temple teaching 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:55.220 and you did not seize me. 00:06:55.980 --> 00:06:57.740 But let the scriptures be fulfilled. 00:06:58.980 --> 00:07:01.480 And they all left him and fled. 00:07:01.480 --> 00:07:06.300 And a young man followed him with nothing but a linen cloth about his body 00:07:06.300 --> 00:07:07.220 and they seized him. 00:07:07.439 --> 00:07:10.680 But he left the linen cloth and ran away naked. 00:07:10.680 --> 00:07:16.160 So it begins with Jesus being betrayed. 00:07:17.439 --> 00:07:18.819 By one of his own disciples, 00:07:18.939 --> 00:07:19.740 one of the twelve, 00:07:20.740 --> 00:07:23.160 a friend that he had spent three years with. 00:07:23.160 --> 00:07:29.720 But then lest we think too good of ourselves, 00:07:30.480 --> 00:07:33.760 we're shown that he's abandoned by all the rest. 00:07:35.760 --> 00:07:39.960 In this telling, Mark uses the word seize again and again. 00:07:40.060 --> 00:07:40.860 Did you notice that? 00:07:40.860 --> 00:07:44.900 As the crowd has come to lay their hands on Jesus, 00:07:45.139 --> 00:07:46.280 to seize him, 00:07:46.580 --> 00:07:48.180 ironically and tragically, 00:07:48.379 --> 00:07:50.379 in their act of taking hold of him, 00:07:50.720 --> 00:07:53.660 Jesus becomes more and more and more alone, 00:07:54.319 --> 00:07:55.980 betrayed and abandoned. 00:07:55.980 --> 00:08:00.120 And after all he had done throughout his ministry, 00:08:00.480 --> 00:08:01.560 in broad daylight, 00:08:02.160 --> 00:08:05.120 that they might truly grasp who he is, 00:08:06.540 --> 00:08:08.680 they come instead in the middle of the night 00:08:08.680 --> 00:08:13.140 to seize him and drag him away to the authorities. 00:08:15.520 --> 00:08:20.020 Now Mark is the only gospel to include the detail of the young man 00:08:20.020 --> 00:08:21.840 who runs away naked. 00:08:21.839 --> 00:08:25.759 And I wonder if he includes it because it represents 00:08:25.759 --> 00:08:28.599 the shame of the scene so well. 00:08:30.579 --> 00:08:33.059 And Mark actually leaves this young man anonymous, 00:08:33.379 --> 00:08:33.959 nameless, 00:08:34.360 --> 00:08:38.120 as if to say that what was true of this young man 00:08:38.120 --> 00:08:39.759 was true of all of them. 00:08:40.339 --> 00:08:42.339 They all ran away in shame. 00:08:44.439 --> 00:08:47.259 And indeed I wonder if Mark leaves this young man nameless 00:08:47.259 --> 00:08:49.799 to provoke us to search our own hearts. 00:08:51.840 --> 00:08:54.379 Do you see yourself in this young man? 00:08:55.899 --> 00:08:58.160 Given the option of identifying with Jesus, 00:08:58.560 --> 00:09:01.899 how often have we abandoned him instead? 00:09:04.600 --> 00:09:06.639 How often have we made our shameless 00:09:06.639 --> 00:09:09.160 and shameful flight away? 00:09:11.560 --> 00:09:13.460 The prophet Amos wrote, 00:09:14.220 --> 00:09:16.320 hundreds of years before Jesus came, 00:09:16.440 --> 00:09:18.400 even the bravest of warriors 00:09:18.400 --> 00:09:21.019 will flee naked on that day. 00:09:21.840 --> 00:09:24.379 And the apostle Paul wrote, 00:09:24.780 --> 00:09:25.860 there's no one righteous, 00:09:26.300 --> 00:09:27.440 not even one. 00:09:28.220 --> 00:09:29.320 All have turned away. 00:09:32.540 --> 00:09:33.639 And yet, 00:09:33.960 --> 00:09:37.720 as we look at Jesus in the midst of the garden, 00:09:38.840 --> 00:09:42.860 as his friends all turn faithless and run, 00:09:44.200 --> 00:09:45.280 he remains faithful. 00:09:45.279 --> 00:09:48.959 Let the scriptures be fulfilled, 00:09:49.079 --> 00:09:49.539 he says. 00:09:50.059 --> 00:09:50.399 You see, 00:09:50.500 --> 00:09:50.980 God 00:09:50.980 --> 00:09:53.579 had planned it this way. 00:09:54.980 --> 00:09:57.019 This was why he had come. 00:09:58.019 --> 00:10:00.079 As his betrayer sees him 00:10:00.079 --> 00:10:01.319 and the rest flee, 00:10:01.500 --> 00:10:04.299 Jesus himself keeps a firm grip 00:10:04.299 --> 00:10:06.379 on the will of his father. 00:10:06.379 --> 00:10:10.539 even as they lead him 00:10:10.539 --> 00:10:12.240 to be condemned. 00:10:14.059 --> 00:10:15.580 Look again at verse 53. 00:10:15.860 --> 00:10:16.899 Let's pick it up from here. 00:10:16.980 --> 00:10:17.820 And they led Jesus 00:10:17.820 --> 00:10:19.500 to the high priest. 00:10:20.759 --> 00:10:21.820 And all the chief priests 00:10:21.820 --> 00:10:22.299 and the elders 00:10:22.299 --> 00:10:23.179 and the scribes 00:10:23.179 --> 00:10:23.840 came together. 00:10:24.519 --> 00:10:25.840 And Peter had followed him 00:10:25.840 --> 00:10:26.320 at a distance 00:10:26.320 --> 00:10:27.299 right into the courtyard 00:10:27.299 --> 00:10:28.100 of the high priest. 00:10:28.340 --> 00:10:29.820 And as he was sitting with the guards 00:10:29.820 --> 00:10:30.919 and warming himself 00:10:30.919 --> 00:10:31.460 at the fire. 00:10:31.460 --> 00:10:33.820 Now the chief priests 00:10:33.820 --> 00:10:34.540 and the whole council 00:10:34.540 --> 00:10:35.780 were seeking testimony 00:10:35.780 --> 00:10:36.540 against Jesus 00:10:36.540 --> 00:10:37.440 to put him to death, 00:10:37.620 --> 00:10:38.720 but they found none. 00:10:39.560 --> 00:10:40.860 For many bore false witness 00:10:40.860 --> 00:10:41.420 against him, 00:10:41.460 --> 00:10:42.160 but their testimony 00:10:42.160 --> 00:10:43.100 did not agree. 00:10:43.360 --> 00:10:44.379 And some stood up 00:10:44.379 --> 00:10:45.420 and bore false witness 00:10:45.420 --> 00:10:45.900 against him, 00:10:45.960 --> 00:10:46.120 saying, 00:10:46.379 --> 00:10:47.160 We heard him say, 00:10:47.259 --> 00:10:48.440 I will destroy this temple 00:10:48.440 --> 00:10:49.300 that is made with hands, 00:10:49.340 --> 00:10:49.980 and in three days 00:10:49.980 --> 00:10:50.660 I will build another 00:10:50.660 --> 00:10:51.540 not made with hands. 00:10:51.759 --> 00:10:52.780 Yet even about this 00:10:52.780 --> 00:10:53.379 their testimony 00:10:53.379 --> 00:10:54.200 did not agree. 00:10:55.440 --> 00:10:56.340 And the high priest 00:10:56.340 --> 00:10:57.300 stood up in the midst 00:10:57.300 --> 00:10:58.240 and asked Jesus, 00:10:59.240 --> 00:11:00.740 Have you no answer to make? 00:11:01.460 --> 00:11:02.940 What is it that these men 00:11:02.940 --> 00:11:04.440 testify against you? 00:11:05.519 --> 00:11:06.820 But he remained silent 00:11:06.820 --> 00:11:08.340 and made no answer. 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:10.800 Again the high priest 00:11:10.800 --> 00:11:11.180 asked him, 00:11:11.420 --> 00:11:12.620 Are you the Christ, 00:11:12.820 --> 00:11:14.460 the Son of the Blessed? 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:16.379 And Jesus said, 00:11:17.300 --> 00:11:18.000 I am. 00:11:18.660 --> 00:11:19.460 And you will see 00:11:19.460 --> 00:11:20.420 the Son of Man 00:11:20.420 --> 00:11:22.080 seated at the right hand 00:11:22.080 --> 00:11:22.600 of power 00:11:22.600 --> 00:11:24.000 and coming with 00:11:24.000 --> 00:11:24.900 the clouds of heaven. 00:11:26.300 --> 00:11:27.280 And the high priest 00:11:27.280 --> 00:11:28.200 tore his garments 00:11:28.200 --> 00:11:29.320 and said, 00:11:29.800 --> 00:11:31.060 What further witnesses 00:11:31.059 --> 00:11:31.839 do we need? 00:11:32.319 --> 00:11:33.239 You have heard 00:11:33.239 --> 00:11:33.979 his blasphemy. 00:11:34.519 --> 00:11:35.519 What is your decision? 00:11:36.579 --> 00:11:37.979 And they all condemned him 00:11:37.979 --> 00:11:38.959 as deserving death. 00:11:39.719 --> 00:11:40.519 And some began 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:41.539 to spit on him 00:11:41.539 --> 00:11:43.199 and to cover his face 00:11:43.199 --> 00:11:44.659 and to strike him, 00:11:45.119 --> 00:11:45.639 saying to him, 00:11:45.719 --> 00:11:46.299 Prophesy. 00:11:47.579 --> 00:11:48.319 And the guards 00:11:48.319 --> 00:11:48.979 received him 00:11:48.979 --> 00:11:49.679 with blows. 00:11:53.679 --> 00:11:55.079 The scene now shifts 00:11:55.079 --> 00:11:57.099 from the Garden of Gethsemane 00:11:57.100 --> 00:11:58.700 to the house 00:11:58.700 --> 00:11:59.500 to the high priest. 00:12:00.779 --> 00:12:02.159 And under the cover of night 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:03.960 in a gross 00:12:03.960 --> 00:12:05.560 miscarriage of justice, 00:12:06.740 --> 00:12:07.659 Jesus is condemned. 00:12:09.519 --> 00:12:10.120 And again, 00:12:10.180 --> 00:12:10.779 in Mark's telling 00:12:10.779 --> 00:12:11.279 of the event, 00:12:11.360 --> 00:12:11.960 he brings out 00:12:11.960 --> 00:12:12.580 another theme 00:12:12.580 --> 00:12:13.279 and this theme 00:12:13.279 --> 00:12:14.379 is the theme 00:12:14.379 --> 00:12:15.100 of testimony 00:12:15.100 --> 00:12:16.320 or witness. 00:12:16.700 --> 00:12:17.540 Again and again, 00:12:18.000 --> 00:12:19.019 Mark points out 00:12:19.019 --> 00:12:20.060 the false testimony 00:12:20.060 --> 00:12:21.840 and the conflicting testimony. 00:12:22.800 --> 00:12:23.399 And at first, 00:12:23.480 --> 00:12:24.320 Jesus is silent 00:12:24.320 --> 00:12:25.460 knowing that anything 00:12:25.460 --> 00:12:26.200 he says 00:12:26.200 --> 00:12:27.080 is just going to be 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:28.180 thrown back in his face 00:12:28.180 --> 00:12:29.160 and used against him. 00:12:29.300 --> 00:12:30.300 Until the high priest 00:12:30.300 --> 00:12:31.600 asks him point blank, 00:12:31.960 --> 00:12:33.840 Are you the Christ? 00:12:33.960 --> 00:12:34.860 The Son of the Blessed? 00:12:34.940 --> 00:12:35.780 The Son of God? 00:12:37.260 --> 00:12:38.480 And in that moment, 00:12:39.500 --> 00:12:40.680 when his accusers 00:12:40.680 --> 00:12:42.140 are bearing down 00:12:42.140 --> 00:12:44.820 with their fangs 00:12:44.820 --> 00:12:46.080 ready to sink in, 00:12:46.160 --> 00:12:47.100 with their swords 00:12:47.100 --> 00:12:49.140 sharpened to strike, 00:12:49.860 --> 00:12:50.520 when they're ready 00:12:50.520 --> 00:12:52.780 to cast their verdict 00:12:52.779 --> 00:12:54.459 over his life, 00:12:56.339 --> 00:12:56.980 Jesus gives 00:12:56.980 --> 00:12:57.839 his own testimony, 00:12:58.299 --> 00:12:59.159 his own witness. 00:13:01.360 --> 00:13:02.139 And you see, 00:13:02.220 --> 00:13:02.419 friends, 00:13:02.519 --> 00:13:02.919 Jesus is, 00:13:03.039 --> 00:13:03.980 Jesus is 00:13:03.980 --> 00:13:06.220 the faithful witness. 00:13:06.459 --> 00:13:07.339 When everyone else 00:13:07.339 --> 00:13:08.679 has spun the truth 00:13:08.679 --> 00:13:10.220 and uttered lies, 00:13:10.659 --> 00:13:11.199 he says, 00:13:11.699 --> 00:13:12.299 I am. 00:13:12.799 --> 00:13:13.600 And you will see 00:13:13.600 --> 00:13:14.419 the Son of Man 00:13:14.419 --> 00:13:15.919 seated at the right hand 00:13:15.919 --> 00:13:16.419 of power 00:13:16.419 --> 00:13:17.879 coming with the clouds 00:13:17.879 --> 00:13:18.319 of heaven. 00:13:19.720 --> 00:13:20.740 And in saying that, 00:13:20.839 --> 00:13:21.779 Jesus is taking 00:13:21.779 --> 00:13:23.179 two of the most 00:13:23.179 --> 00:13:24.759 potent texts 00:13:24.759 --> 00:13:26.000 about the Messiah 00:13:26.000 --> 00:13:26.879 in the Old Testament, 00:13:27.100 --> 00:13:27.899 the long-awaited 00:13:27.899 --> 00:13:28.699 coming King, 00:13:28.899 --> 00:13:29.720 the one who was supposed 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:30.399 to bring the hope 00:13:30.399 --> 00:13:30.879 of Israel, 00:13:31.199 --> 00:13:31.779 Jesus is taking 00:13:31.779 --> 00:13:32.500 two of the most 00:13:32.500 --> 00:13:33.179 potent texts, 00:13:33.500 --> 00:13:34.039 the two that make 00:13:34.039 --> 00:13:34.559 some of the most 00:13:34.559 --> 00:13:36.339 boldest claims 00:13:36.339 --> 00:13:37.579 about the Messiah's 00:13:37.579 --> 00:13:38.480 relationship to the 00:13:38.480 --> 00:13:39.579 one true God 00:13:39.579 --> 00:13:40.439 and says, 00:13:40.620 --> 00:13:42.039 that's who I am. 00:13:46.819 --> 00:13:47.559 And of course, 00:13:47.620 --> 00:13:48.600 the irony here 00:13:48.600 --> 00:13:50.180 is thick 00:13:50.180 --> 00:13:50.980 indeed. 00:13:52.560 --> 00:13:53.040 Jesus, 00:13:53.980 --> 00:13:55.180 the one who is 00:13:55.180 --> 00:13:55.920 the world's 00:13:55.920 --> 00:13:56.920 rightful judge, 00:13:57.920 --> 00:13:59.139 being judged. 00:14:01.920 --> 00:14:03.100 How quick 00:14:03.100 --> 00:14:03.920 we are 00:14:03.920 --> 00:14:05.740 to cast 00:14:05.740 --> 00:14:07.120 our verdict 00:14:07.120 --> 00:14:08.420 over God 00:14:08.420 --> 00:14:10.779 when we ought 00:14:10.779 --> 00:14:11.759 to be more concerned 00:14:11.759 --> 00:14:12.899 about God's verdict 00:14:12.899 --> 00:14:13.960 over us. 00:14:13.960 --> 00:14:16.480 how often 00:14:16.480 --> 00:14:17.400 we sit 00:14:17.400 --> 00:14:18.139 in judgment 00:14:18.139 --> 00:14:20.620 when really 00:14:20.620 --> 00:14:22.180 it's we 00:14:22.180 --> 00:14:23.160 who are on trial 00:14:23.160 --> 00:14:25.280 before our 00:14:25.280 --> 00:14:25.780 living 00:14:25.780 --> 00:14:26.940 and holy God. 00:14:32.620 --> 00:14:33.580 But the deep 00:14:33.580 --> 00:14:34.320 irony of the scene 00:14:34.320 --> 00:14:34.940 quickly turns 00:14:34.940 --> 00:14:35.560 to tragedy 00:14:35.560 --> 00:14:37.800 as Mark 00:14:37.800 --> 00:14:38.460 turns back 00:14:38.460 --> 00:14:38.980 to Peter 00:14:38.980 --> 00:14:40.280 who had followed 00:14:40.280 --> 00:14:40.980 at a distance 00:14:40.980 --> 00:14:41.680 right into the 00:14:41.680 --> 00:14:42.240 high priest's 00:14:42.240 --> 00:14:42.639 courtyard. 00:14:43.820 --> 00:14:44.740 Verse 66, 00:14:44.980 --> 00:14:45.580 and as Peter 00:14:45.580 --> 00:14:46.460 was below 00:14:46.460 --> 00:14:47.159 in the courtyard, 00:14:47.960 --> 00:14:48.360 one of the 00:14:48.360 --> 00:14:49.019 servant girls 00:14:49.019 --> 00:14:49.539 of the high 00:14:49.539 --> 00:14:50.259 priest came 00:14:50.259 --> 00:14:51.940 and seeing 00:14:51.940 --> 00:14:52.639 Peter warming 00:14:52.639 --> 00:14:53.279 himself, 00:14:53.440 --> 00:14:53.960 she looked at 00:14:53.960 --> 00:14:54.620 him and said, 00:14:55.039 --> 00:14:56.360 you also 00:14:56.360 --> 00:14:56.779 were with 00:14:56.779 --> 00:14:57.440 the Nazarene, 00:14:57.539 --> 00:14:57.779 Jesus. 00:14:58.779 --> 00:14:59.720 But he denied 00:14:59.720 --> 00:14:59.960 it, 00:15:00.039 --> 00:15:00.320 saying, 00:15:00.680 --> 00:15:01.539 I neither know 00:15:01.539 --> 00:15:02.360 nor understand 00:15:02.360 --> 00:15:03.060 what you mean. 00:15:03.960 --> 00:15:04.539 And he went 00:15:04.539 --> 00:15:04.980 out into the 00:15:04.980 --> 00:15:05.259 gateway 00:15:05.259 --> 00:15:06.779 and the rooster 00:15:06.779 --> 00:15:07.279 crowed. 00:15:08.399 --> 00:15:09.180 And the servant 00:15:09.180 --> 00:15:09.960 girl saw him 00:15:09.960 --> 00:15:10.960 and began again 00:15:10.960 --> 00:15:11.680 to say to the 00:15:11.679 --> 00:15:12.259 bystanders, 00:15:12.359 --> 00:15:13.239 this man is 00:15:13.239 --> 00:15:13.699 one of them. 00:15:14.699 --> 00:15:15.219 But again, 00:15:15.259 --> 00:15:15.859 he denied it. 00:15:17.199 --> 00:15:17.899 And after a 00:15:17.899 --> 00:15:18.239 little while, 00:15:18.279 --> 00:15:19.059 the bystanders 00:15:19.059 --> 00:15:19.620 again said to 00:15:19.620 --> 00:15:19.759 Peter, 00:15:19.859 --> 00:15:20.359 certainly you 00:15:20.359 --> 00:15:20.939 are one of 00:15:20.939 --> 00:15:21.079 them, 00:15:21.159 --> 00:15:21.459 for you're 00:15:21.459 --> 00:15:22.219 a Galilean. 00:15:23.000 --> 00:15:23.819 But he began 00:15:23.819 --> 00:15:24.419 to invoke 00:15:24.419 --> 00:15:25.219 a curse on 00:15:25.219 --> 00:15:25.839 himself and 00:15:25.839 --> 00:15:26.699 to swear, 00:15:27.339 --> 00:15:28.099 I do not 00:15:28.099 --> 00:15:28.579 know this 00:15:28.579 --> 00:15:29.139 man of whom 00:15:29.139 --> 00:15:29.679 you speak. 00:15:31.319 --> 00:15:32.079 And immediately 00:15:32.079 --> 00:15:32.579 the rooster 00:15:32.579 --> 00:15:33.159 crowed a 00:15:33.159 --> 00:15:33.779 second time. 00:15:34.779 --> 00:15:35.159 And Peter 00:15:35.159 --> 00:15:35.879 remembered how 00:15:35.879 --> 00:15:36.500 Jesus had 00:15:36.500 --> 00:15:37.059 said to him, 00:15:37.879 --> 00:15:38.479 before the 00:15:38.479 --> 00:15:39.079 rooster crows 00:15:39.079 --> 00:15:39.500 twice, 00:15:39.620 --> 00:15:40.199 you will deny 00:15:40.199 --> 00:15:40.620 me three 00:15:40.620 --> 00:15:41.179 times. 00:15:41.679 --> 00:15:42.959 And he 00:15:42.959 --> 00:15:43.559 broke down 00:15:43.559 --> 00:15:45.219 and wept. 00:15:49.319 --> 00:15:50.219 It's hard to 00:15:50.219 --> 00:15:51.239 imagine a 00:15:51.239 --> 00:15:51.919 more poignant 00:15:51.919 --> 00:15:53.539 scene in the 00:15:53.539 --> 00:15:54.079 Gospels. 00:15:55.639 --> 00:15:56.539 And again, 00:15:56.599 --> 00:15:57.159 isn't it another 00:15:57.159 --> 00:15:58.259 mark of the 00:15:58.259 --> 00:15:59.239 authenticity of 00:15:59.239 --> 00:15:59.859 the reliability 00:15:59.859 --> 00:16:01.139 of these texts 00:16:01.139 --> 00:16:01.759 that we have? 00:16:02.500 --> 00:16:03.219 Certainly no 00:16:03.219 --> 00:16:04.159 follower of Jesus 00:16:04.159 --> 00:16:04.819 would have made 00:16:04.819 --> 00:16:05.859 up such a 00:16:05.859 --> 00:16:07.259 humiliating story 00:16:07.259 --> 00:16:08.159 about one of 00:16:08.159 --> 00:16:08.599 their key 00:16:08.599 --> 00:16:09.620 followers and 00:16:09.620 --> 00:16:10.299 published it for 00:16:10.299 --> 00:16:10.799 all the world 00:16:10.799 --> 00:16:12.039 to read unless 00:16:12.039 --> 00:16:12.559 it actually 00:16:12.559 --> 00:16:13.059 happened. 00:16:15.439 --> 00:16:16.139 But you see, 00:16:16.199 --> 00:16:16.599 more than just 00:16:16.599 --> 00:16:16.979 that, 00:16:18.079 --> 00:16:18.939 isn't Peter's 00:16:18.939 --> 00:16:20.399 denial the 00:16:20.399 --> 00:16:21.179 final wound? 00:16:22.459 --> 00:16:23.120 Jesus has been 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:23.620 betrayed, 00:16:24.519 --> 00:16:24.919 abandoned, 00:16:25.719 --> 00:16:26.299 condemned, 00:16:26.839 --> 00:16:27.759 and now 00:16:27.759 --> 00:16:29.219 denied. 00:16:29.220 --> 00:16:29.279 God. 00:16:31.279 --> 00:16:32.180 While Jesus is 00:16:32.180 --> 00:16:33.500 bearing true 00:16:33.500 --> 00:16:34.300 witness to his 00:16:34.300 --> 00:16:34.800 identity, 00:16:36.259 --> 00:16:37.580 witness that 00:16:37.580 --> 00:16:38.460 will lead to a 00:16:38.460 --> 00:16:39.720 certain execution, 00:16:41.300 --> 00:16:41.660 Peter, 00:16:42.700 --> 00:16:43.300 perhaps one of 00:16:43.300 --> 00:16:43.960 Jesus' closest 00:16:43.960 --> 00:16:44.540 friends on 00:16:44.540 --> 00:16:44.840 earth, 00:16:45.840 --> 00:16:47.279 is denying him 00:16:47.279 --> 00:16:47.800 in the courtyard. 00:16:47.799 --> 00:16:55.379 So what are we 00:16:55.379 --> 00:16:56.479 to make of 00:16:56.479 --> 00:16:57.179 this passage? 00:16:59.079 --> 00:17:00.179 We often sing a 00:17:00.179 --> 00:17:00.679 hymn here at 00:17:00.679 --> 00:17:01.240 Trinity about 00:17:01.240 --> 00:17:01.839 Jesus that 00:17:01.839 --> 00:17:02.719 begins like this, 00:17:03.419 --> 00:17:04.379 Man of 00:17:04.379 --> 00:17:05.039 sorrows, 00:17:05.619 --> 00:17:06.359 what a name 00:17:06.359 --> 00:17:08.079 for the Son 00:17:08.079 --> 00:17:08.740 of God 00:17:08.740 --> 00:17:09.500 who came. 00:17:11.460 --> 00:17:12.180 In our passage 00:17:12.180 --> 00:17:12.940 tonight, we begin 00:17:12.940 --> 00:17:14.059 to see the 00:17:14.059 --> 00:17:15.359 depth of this 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:15.720 sorrow. 00:17:15.720 --> 00:17:15.839 sorrow. 00:17:16.839 --> 00:17:17.500 This text 00:17:17.500 --> 00:17:18.160 shows us that 00:17:18.160 --> 00:17:18.940 in his passion, 00:17:19.079 --> 00:17:19.960 Jesus experiences 00:17:19.960 --> 00:17:20.600 not just the 00:17:20.600 --> 00:17:21.500 physical pain 00:17:21.500 --> 00:17:22.980 of the cross 00:17:22.980 --> 00:17:23.579 and the beating 00:17:23.579 --> 00:17:24.480 and the spitting, 00:17:25.000 --> 00:17:26.759 but even the 00:17:26.759 --> 00:17:27.960 full depths of 00:17:27.960 --> 00:17:29.339 relational and 00:17:29.339 --> 00:17:30.700 emotional pain 00:17:30.700 --> 00:17:31.460 and sorrow. 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:34.860 I wonder 00:17:34.860 --> 00:17:35.319 tonight, 00:17:35.620 --> 00:17:36.600 as we've come 00:17:36.600 --> 00:17:37.039 here for 00:17:37.039 --> 00:17:37.480 worship, 00:17:38.759 --> 00:17:40.559 have you been 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:41.000 betrayed? 00:17:43.660 --> 00:17:44.600 Have you been 00:17:44.600 --> 00:17:45.480 abandoned ever? 00:17:45.720 --> 00:17:47.779 Have you ever 00:17:47.779 --> 00:17:48.400 been falsely 00:17:48.400 --> 00:17:48.819 condemned? 00:17:51.539 --> 00:17:52.200 Have you ever 00:17:52.200 --> 00:17:52.779 been denied? 00:17:55.839 --> 00:17:56.319 Friends, 00:17:56.360 --> 00:17:56.839 what this text 00:17:56.839 --> 00:17:57.440 is telling us 00:17:57.440 --> 00:17:58.039 is that Jesus 00:17:58.039 --> 00:18:00.180 knows exactly 00:18:00.180 --> 00:18:01.819 what you are 00:18:01.819 --> 00:18:02.420 going through. 00:18:03.480 --> 00:18:04.779 That he drank 00:18:04.779 --> 00:18:06.039 that cup 00:18:06.039 --> 00:18:07.420 to the full 00:18:07.420 --> 00:18:08.539 for you 00:18:08.539 --> 00:18:09.900 so that he 00:18:09.900 --> 00:18:10.440 might know 00:18:10.440 --> 00:18:10.980 you 00:18:10.980 --> 00:18:11.799 and so that 00:18:11.799 --> 00:18:12.539 you might be 00:18:12.539 --> 00:18:13.640 fully known. 00:18:13.640 --> 00:18:13.740 God. 00:18:16.540 --> 00:18:17.040 Now, 00:18:17.240 --> 00:18:18.420 take what we 00:18:18.420 --> 00:18:19.780 see of Jesus 00:18:19.780 --> 00:18:21.020 in this passage 00:18:21.020 --> 00:18:22.400 and hold it up 00:18:22.400 --> 00:18:23.000 to your 00:18:23.000 --> 00:18:23.920 understanding of 00:18:23.920 --> 00:18:24.620 who God is. 00:18:25.360 --> 00:18:26.080 Is your God 00:18:26.080 --> 00:18:26.560 distant? 00:18:27.420 --> 00:18:28.080 Is he 00:18:28.080 --> 00:18:28.900 uninvolved? 00:18:28.960 --> 00:18:29.220 Is he 00:18:29.220 --> 00:18:30.280 unconcerned? 00:18:30.380 --> 00:18:30.740 Is he 00:18:30.740 --> 00:18:31.240 unaware? 00:18:31.240 --> 00:18:31.440 anywhere? 00:18:32.980 --> 00:18:33.980 And then 00:18:33.980 --> 00:18:35.380 consider the 00:18:35.380 --> 00:18:36.440 God that we 00:18:36.440 --> 00:18:37.819 know in 00:18:37.819 --> 00:18:38.299 Jesus, 00:18:38.620 --> 00:18:40.099 who enters 00:18:40.099 --> 00:18:40.759 into the most 00:18:40.759 --> 00:18:41.559 horrible of 00:18:41.559 --> 00:18:42.519 earthly exclusion 00:18:42.519 --> 00:18:43.720 and sorrow 00:18:43.720 --> 00:18:44.940 out of love 00:18:44.940 --> 00:18:46.079 for his lost 00:18:46.079 --> 00:18:46.640 creation. 00:18:47.920 --> 00:18:49.200 And though it's 00:18:49.200 --> 00:18:49.740 shocking, 00:18:49.960 --> 00:18:50.319 though it's 00:18:50.319 --> 00:18:51.279 hard to wrap 00:18:51.279 --> 00:18:51.980 our minds 00:18:51.980 --> 00:18:53.019 around a 00:18:53.019 --> 00:18:54.740 suffering God, 00:18:55.900 --> 00:18:57.440 consider it. 00:18:57.440 --> 00:19:00.380 what other 00:19:00.380 --> 00:19:01.680 God is 00:19:01.680 --> 00:19:02.940 worthy of 00:19:02.940 --> 00:19:03.460 worship? 00:19:04.460 --> 00:19:05.320 In a world 00:19:05.320 --> 00:19:06.100 of brokenness 00:19:06.100 --> 00:19:06.680 and pain 00:19:06.680 --> 00:19:07.420 and sorrow 00:19:07.420 --> 00:19:08.200 and exclusion 00:19:08.200 --> 00:19:09.140 and abandonment 00:19:09.140 --> 00:19:09.740 and betrayal 00:19:09.740 --> 00:19:10.700 and denial, 00:19:11.080 --> 00:19:11.740 what other 00:19:11.740 --> 00:19:12.920 God would 00:19:12.920 --> 00:19:13.420 you worship 00:19:13.420 --> 00:19:14.059 other than 00:19:14.059 --> 00:19:14.420 the one 00:19:14.420 --> 00:19:14.759 who knows 00:19:14.759 --> 00:19:15.559 exactly 00:19:15.559 --> 00:19:16.600 what that 00:19:16.600 --> 00:19:17.080 means? 00:19:19.600 --> 00:19:20.600 And friends, 00:19:21.519 --> 00:19:21.860 Christianity 00:19:21.860 --> 00:19:22.620 is the only 00:19:22.620 --> 00:19:23.360 game in town 00:19:23.360 --> 00:19:23.900 when it 00:19:23.900 --> 00:19:24.240 comes to 00:19:24.240 --> 00:19:24.500 that. 00:19:24.500 --> 00:19:28.880 There is 00:19:28.880 --> 00:19:29.519 no pain 00:19:29.519 --> 00:19:30.599 that you 00:19:30.599 --> 00:19:31.279 have felt 00:19:31.279 --> 00:19:32.319 or will 00:19:32.319 --> 00:19:32.720 feel 00:19:32.720 --> 00:19:34.059 that God 00:19:34.059 --> 00:19:34.660 himself 00:19:34.660 --> 00:19:35.380 does not 00:19:35.380 --> 00:19:35.980 know 00:19:35.980 --> 00:19:36.960 from the 00:19:36.960 --> 00:19:37.619 inside 00:19:37.619 --> 00:19:38.500 in a 00:19:38.500 --> 00:19:39.220 personal way. 00:19:39.599 --> 00:19:39.839 There is 00:19:39.839 --> 00:19:40.720 no tearing 00:19:40.720 --> 00:19:41.660 of the 00:19:41.660 --> 00:19:42.140 heart 00:19:42.140 --> 00:19:42.859 that Jesus 00:19:42.859 --> 00:19:43.440 himself 00:19:43.440 --> 00:19:43.960 has not 00:19:43.960 --> 00:19:44.279 felt. 00:19:45.059 --> 00:19:45.759 So when 00:19:45.759 --> 00:19:46.180 you draw 00:19:46.180 --> 00:19:46.839 near to 00:19:46.839 --> 00:19:47.200 him, 00:19:47.400 --> 00:19:47.819 when you 00:19:47.819 --> 00:19:48.380 go to 00:19:48.380 --> 00:19:49.039 him in 00:19:49.039 --> 00:19:49.299 prayer, 00:19:49.559 --> 00:19:50.460 don't think 00:19:50.460 --> 00:19:51.000 that he 00:19:51.000 --> 00:19:51.380 can't 00:19:51.380 --> 00:19:51.799 understand 00:19:51.799 --> 00:19:52.119 you. 00:19:52.359 --> 00:19:52.599 Don't 00:19:52.599 --> 00:19:52.940 think that 00:19:52.940 --> 00:19:53.119 you're 00:19:53.119 --> 00:19:53.700 knocking 00:19:53.700 --> 00:19:54.400 on a 00:19:54.400 --> 00:19:55.080 brick wall 00:19:55.080 --> 00:19:55.559 of heaven 00:19:55.559 --> 00:19:56.100 and the 00:19:56.100 --> 00:19:56.840 doors never 00:19:56.840 --> 00:19:57.259 open. 00:19:57.380 --> 00:19:57.660 Don't 00:19:57.660 --> 00:19:58.519 think that 00:19:58.519 --> 00:19:59.340 this God 00:19:59.340 --> 00:20:00.019 can't 00:20:00.019 --> 00:20:00.480 comfort 00:20:00.480 --> 00:20:00.860 you. 00:20:03.759 --> 00:20:04.580 In the 00:20:04.580 --> 00:20:05.019 Psalms, 00:20:05.299 --> 00:20:06.539 we read 00:20:06.539 --> 00:20:06.840 some just 00:20:06.840 --> 00:20:07.460 amazing 00:20:07.460 --> 00:20:07.900 verses, 00:20:08.700 --> 00:20:09.160 like this 00:20:09.160 --> 00:20:09.480 one from 00:20:09.480 --> 00:20:10.259 Psalm 34, 00:20:10.640 --> 00:20:10.980 the Lord 00:20:10.980 --> 00:20:11.680 is near 00:20:11.680 --> 00:20:12.420 to the 00:20:12.420 --> 00:20:13.059 brokenhearted 00:20:13.059 --> 00:20:14.759 and saves 00:20:14.759 --> 00:20:15.400 the crushed 00:20:15.400 --> 00:20:16.000 in spirit. 00:20:16.700 --> 00:20:17.059 And again, 00:20:17.140 --> 00:20:18.039 in Psalm 147, 00:20:18.120 --> 00:20:18.500 the psalmist 00:20:18.500 --> 00:20:18.840 writes, 00:20:19.279 --> 00:20:19.980 he heals 00:20:19.980 --> 00:20:20.799 the brokenhearted 00:20:20.799 --> 00:20:22.420 and binds 00:20:22.420 --> 00:20:22.819 up their 00:20:22.819 --> 00:20:23.340 wounds. 00:20:23.700 --> 00:20:27.779 And we 00:20:27.779 --> 00:20:28.519 see now, 00:20:29.440 --> 00:20:29.900 in light 00:20:29.900 --> 00:20:30.140 of the 00:20:30.140 --> 00:20:30.680 cross, 00:20:31.539 --> 00:20:32.200 in light 00:20:32.200 --> 00:20:32.620 of Jesus' 00:20:32.860 --> 00:20:33.319 passion, 00:20:33.480 --> 00:20:33.720 in light 00:20:33.720 --> 00:20:34.000 of the 00:20:34.000 --> 00:20:34.380 garden, 00:20:34.980 --> 00:20:36.660 how this 00:20:36.660 --> 00:20:36.960 can be 00:20:36.960 --> 00:20:37.259 true. 00:20:38.580 --> 00:20:39.360 In Jesus, 00:20:39.539 --> 00:20:40.200 God has 00:20:40.200 --> 00:20:40.799 truly come 00:20:40.799 --> 00:20:41.160 near to 00:20:41.160 --> 00:20:41.840 the brokenhearted 00:20:41.840 --> 00:20:43.759 and he's 00:20:43.759 --> 00:20:44.259 come near 00:20:44.259 --> 00:20:45.480 to heal 00:20:45.480 --> 00:20:47.539 because he 00:20:47.539 --> 00:20:47.920 too was 00:20:47.920 --> 00:20:48.660 broken and 00:20:48.660 --> 00:20:49.100 betrayed 00:20:49.100 --> 00:20:50.360 and abandoned 00:20:50.360 --> 00:20:51.500 and condemned 00:20:51.500 --> 00:20:52.819 and denied. 00:20:55.140 --> 00:20:55.839 Man of 00:20:55.839 --> 00:20:56.400 sorrows, 00:20:57.539 --> 00:20:58.339 what a 00:20:58.339 --> 00:20:58.660 name 00:20:58.660 --> 00:21:00.500 for the 00:21:00.500 --> 00:21:00.859 Son of 00:21:00.859 --> 00:21:01.319 God who 00:21:01.319 --> 00:21:01.619 came. 00:21:05.140 --> 00:21:05.740 But the 00:21:05.740 --> 00:21:06.299 verse continues, 00:21:06.380 --> 00:21:06.819 doesn't it? 00:21:08.099 --> 00:21:08.759 Ruined 00:21:08.759 --> 00:21:09.839 sinners 00:21:09.839 --> 00:21:11.039 to 00:21:11.039 --> 00:21:11.819 reclaim. 00:21:12.960 --> 00:21:13.480 Hallelujah. 00:21:14.000 --> 00:21:14.740 Praise God. 00:21:15.700 --> 00:21:16.099 What a 00:21:16.099 --> 00:21:16.339 Savior. 00:21:17.539 --> 00:21:17.759 You see, 00:21:17.819 --> 00:21:17.940 friends, 00:21:17.940 --> 00:21:18.759 Jesus drank 00:21:18.759 --> 00:21:19.880 this cup, 00:21:20.180 --> 00:21:21.019 not just 00:21:21.019 --> 00:21:22.320 to sympathize 00:21:22.320 --> 00:21:23.160 with sufferers, 00:21:23.240 --> 00:21:24.080 glorious as that 00:21:24.080 --> 00:21:24.480 is, 00:21:24.680 --> 00:21:26.160 but also to 00:21:26.160 --> 00:21:27.200 save the 00:21:27.200 --> 00:21:27.539 sinful 00:21:27.539 --> 00:21:28.960 and to 00:21:28.960 --> 00:21:29.759 reclaim 00:21:29.759 --> 00:21:31.039 the ruined. 00:21:32.759 --> 00:21:33.100 After all, 00:21:33.120 --> 00:21:33.700 don't you see, 00:21:34.220 --> 00:21:34.980 as you read this 00:21:34.980 --> 00:21:35.460 text, 00:21:35.460 --> 00:21:35.500 Christ, 00:21:36.079 --> 00:21:37.500 it's we 00:21:37.500 --> 00:21:37.860 who have 00:21:37.860 --> 00:21:38.180 betrayed 00:21:38.180 --> 00:21:38.660 God 00:21:38.660 --> 00:21:40.640 when 00:21:40.640 --> 00:21:40.980 something 00:21:40.980 --> 00:21:41.279 more 00:21:41.279 --> 00:21:41.880 immediately 00:21:41.880 --> 00:21:42.860 pleasurable 00:21:42.860 --> 00:21:43.579 presents 00:21:43.579 --> 00:21:44.180 itself. 00:21:46.940 --> 00:21:47.720 It's we 00:21:47.720 --> 00:21:47.980 who have 00:21:47.980 --> 00:21:48.539 abandoned 00:21:48.539 --> 00:21:49.019 him 00:21:49.019 --> 00:21:50.960 when the 00:21:50.960 --> 00:21:51.400 following 00:21:51.400 --> 00:21:52.600 gets costly. 00:21:53.960 --> 00:21:54.700 It's we 00:21:54.700 --> 00:21:55.259 who have 00:21:55.259 --> 00:21:55.680 sought to 00:21:55.680 --> 00:21:56.539 condemn him 00:21:56.539 --> 00:21:57.220 when we 00:21:57.220 --> 00:21:57.880 decided he 00:21:57.880 --> 00:21:58.140 ought to 00:21:58.140 --> 00:21:58.420 have done 00:21:58.420 --> 00:21:58.740 things 00:21:58.740 --> 00:21:59.220 differently 00:21:59.220 --> 00:22:00.000 in my 00:22:00.000 --> 00:22:00.460 life. 00:22:02.700 --> 00:22:03.420 It's even 00:22:03.420 --> 00:22:03.759 we who 00:22:03.759 --> 00:22:04.279 have denied 00:22:04.279 --> 00:22:04.600 him 00:22:04.599 --> 00:22:05.579 when the 00:22:05.579 --> 00:22:06.059 pressure of 00:22:06.059 --> 00:22:06.519 the world 00:22:06.519 --> 00:22:07.119 of friends 00:22:07.119 --> 00:22:07.919 and co-workers 00:22:07.919 --> 00:22:08.719 and colleagues 00:22:08.719 --> 00:22:09.480 presses in. 00:22:11.619 --> 00:22:12.299 And wouldn't 00:22:12.299 --> 00:22:12.899 it be right, 00:22:13.159 --> 00:22:13.659 wouldn't it be 00:22:13.659 --> 00:22:15.179 justice that 00:22:15.179 --> 00:22:15.740 would say, 00:22:16.699 --> 00:22:16.919 let the 00:22:16.919 --> 00:22:17.699 betrayers be 00:22:17.699 --> 00:22:18.139 betrayed, 00:22:18.579 --> 00:22:20.119 let the 00:22:20.119 --> 00:22:21.079 abandoners be 00:22:21.079 --> 00:22:21.539 abandoned, 00:22:21.679 --> 00:22:22.019 let the 00:22:22.019 --> 00:22:22.879 condemners be 00:22:22.879 --> 00:22:23.219 condemned, 00:22:23.480 --> 00:22:23.799 let the 00:22:23.799 --> 00:22:25.019 deniers be 00:22:25.019 --> 00:22:25.519 denied. 00:22:28.359 --> 00:22:28.959 Isn't that 00:22:28.959 --> 00:22:29.240 how your 00:22:29.240 --> 00:22:29.619 heart works? 00:22:29.639 --> 00:22:30.019 I know that's 00:22:30.019 --> 00:22:30.359 how my 00:22:30.359 --> 00:22:30.919 heart works. 00:22:31.699 --> 00:22:32.240 It's easy 00:22:32.240 --> 00:22:32.719 to forgive 00:22:32.719 --> 00:22:33.159 someone who 00:22:33.159 --> 00:22:33.619 breaks your 00:22:33.619 --> 00:22:34.099 things, 00:22:34.199 --> 00:22:34.439 right? 00:22:34.599 --> 00:22:37.659 But not 00:22:37.659 --> 00:22:38.099 so when 00:22:38.099 --> 00:22:38.639 someone breaks 00:22:38.639 --> 00:22:39.119 your heart. 00:22:41.439 --> 00:22:42.159 They get 00:22:42.159 --> 00:22:42.399 what they 00:22:42.399 --> 00:22:42.799 deserve. 00:22:46.679 --> 00:22:47.579 But instead 00:22:47.579 --> 00:22:48.439 Jesus comes 00:22:48.439 --> 00:22:50.259 and is 00:22:50.259 --> 00:22:50.699 betrayed 00:22:50.699 --> 00:22:51.839 and is 00:22:51.839 --> 00:22:52.299 abandoned 00:22:52.299 --> 00:22:53.740 and is 00:22:53.740 --> 00:22:54.219 condemned 00:22:54.219 --> 00:22:55.839 and is 00:22:55.839 --> 00:22:56.039 even 00:22:56.039 --> 00:22:56.539 denied 00:22:56.539 --> 00:22:58.759 so that 00:22:58.759 --> 00:22:59.379 those 00:22:59.379 --> 00:23:00.539 who deserve 00:23:00.539 --> 00:23:01.359 those things 00:23:01.359 --> 00:23:02.899 never 00:23:02.899 --> 00:23:03.439 ultimately 00:23:03.440 --> 00:23:03.900 have to 00:23:03.900 --> 00:23:04.160 be. 00:23:05.860 --> 00:23:06.460 He's 00:23:06.460 --> 00:23:06.799 betrayed 00:23:06.799 --> 00:23:07.160 so that 00:23:07.160 --> 00:23:07.680 all who 00:23:07.680 --> 00:23:08.140 believe in 00:23:08.140 --> 00:23:08.460 him 00:23:08.460 --> 00:23:09.279 can be 00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:09.700 accepted. 00:23:10.500 --> 00:23:11.240 He takes 00:23:11.240 --> 00:23:12.120 our curse 00:23:12.120 --> 00:23:12.820 so we 00:23:12.820 --> 00:23:13.279 can receive 00:23:13.279 --> 00:23:14.480 his blessing. 00:23:14.539 --> 00:23:14.759 Don't you 00:23:14.759 --> 00:23:15.039 see from 00:23:15.039 --> 00:23:15.500 the garden 00:23:15.500 --> 00:23:16.180 of Gethsemane 00:23:16.180 --> 00:23:16.720 and from 00:23:16.720 --> 00:23:17.200 the house 00:23:17.200 --> 00:23:17.460 of the 00:23:17.460 --> 00:23:18.039 high priest 00:23:18.039 --> 00:23:19.240 rings out 00:23:19.240 --> 00:23:19.960 the good 00:23:19.960 --> 00:23:20.480 news of 00:23:20.480 --> 00:23:21.000 the gospel. 00:23:21.840 --> 00:23:22.320 Christ is 00:23:22.320 --> 00:23:22.799 taking the 00:23:22.799 --> 00:23:23.580 cup of 00:23:23.580 --> 00:23:24.180 sorrow so 00:23:24.180 --> 00:23:24.539 that you 00:23:24.539 --> 00:23:25.039 and I 00:23:25.039 --> 00:23:25.700 can take 00:23:25.700 --> 00:23:26.220 the cup 00:23:26.220 --> 00:23:26.559 of his 00:23:26.559 --> 00:23:27.940 joy so 00:23:27.940 --> 00:23:29.180 that abandoners 00:23:29.180 --> 00:23:29.860 can be 00:23:29.860 --> 00:23:30.920 counted as 00:23:30.920 --> 00:23:32.019 faithful friends 00:23:32.019 --> 00:23:32.480 in the eyes 00:23:32.480 --> 00:23:32.900 of God 00:23:32.900 --> 00:23:34.759 so that 00:23:34.759 --> 00:23:35.060 those who 00:23:35.060 --> 00:23:35.779 have denied 00:23:35.779 --> 00:23:36.539 him can 00:23:36.539 --> 00:23:37.220 be counted 00:23:37.220 --> 00:23:38.120 in Christ 00:23:38.120 --> 00:23:39.120 as those 00:23:39.120 --> 00:23:39.600 who are 00:23:39.600 --> 00:23:40.600 faithful and 00:23:40.600 --> 00:23:40.940 true. 00:23:43.820 --> 00:23:44.259 Friends, 00:23:44.300 --> 00:23:44.740 this is what 00:23:44.740 --> 00:23:45.580 Holy Week is 00:23:45.580 --> 00:23:46.039 all about. 00:23:46.180 --> 00:23:46.539 This is what 00:23:46.539 --> 00:23:47.200 Easter is all 00:23:47.200 --> 00:23:47.340 about. 00:23:47.440 --> 00:23:47.700 This is what 00:23:47.700 --> 00:23:48.400 Christianity is 00:23:48.400 --> 00:23:48.680 all about. 00:23:48.980 --> 00:23:49.440 This is what 00:23:49.440 --> 00:23:50.140 the world 00:23:50.140 --> 00:23:50.960 is about. 00:23:51.500 --> 00:23:52.039 This is what 00:23:52.039 --> 00:23:53.140 God is about. 00:23:54.620 --> 00:23:55.259 That he 00:23:55.259 --> 00:23:55.720 bears our 00:23:55.720 --> 00:23:57.880 cross so 00:23:57.880 --> 00:23:58.480 that we can 00:23:58.480 --> 00:23:58.940 share in his 00:23:58.940 --> 00:23:59.440 resurrection 00:23:59.440 --> 00:24:00.980 and so 00:24:00.980 --> 00:24:01.400 that God's 00:24:01.400 --> 00:24:02.580 glorious grace 00:24:02.580 --> 00:24:03.500 will be 00:24:03.500 --> 00:24:04.240 demonstrated 00:24:04.240 --> 00:24:05.420 for all 00:24:05.420 --> 00:24:05.900 eternity. 00:24:09.580 --> 00:24:10.299 Man of 00:24:10.299 --> 00:24:10.680 sorrows, 00:24:10.799 --> 00:24:11.340 what a name 00:24:11.340 --> 00:24:11.940 for the 00:24:11.940 --> 00:24:12.240 Son of 00:24:12.240 --> 00:24:12.720 God who 00:24:12.720 --> 00:24:13.100 came, 00:24:14.299 --> 00:24:14.700 ruined 00:24:14.700 --> 00:24:15.440 sinners 00:24:15.440 --> 00:24:16.340 to reclaim. 00:24:17.740 --> 00:24:18.160 Hallelujah. 00:24:19.019 --> 00:24:19.299 Praise 00:24:19.299 --> 00:24:19.700 God. 00:24:20.720 --> 00:24:21.080 What a 00:24:21.080 --> 00:24:21.320 Savior. 00:24:22.779 --> 00:24:23.340 Let's 00:24:23.340 --> 00:24:23.539 pray. 00:24:23.539 --> 00:24:23.620 Amen. 00:24:23.620 --> 00:24:23.660 Amen. 00:24:23.660 --> 00:24:23.740 Amen. 00:24:23.740 --> 00:24:23.779 Amen. 00:24:23.779 --> 00:24:23.799 Amen. 00:24:23.799 --> 00:24:25.660 Amen. 00:24:25.660 --> 00:24:25.700 Amen. 00:24:25.700 --> 00:24:27.660 Amen. 00:24:27.660 --> 00:24:27.700 Amen. 00:24:27.700 --> 00:24:27.740 Amen. 00:24:27.740 --> 00:24:27.779 Amen. 00:24:27.779 --> 00:24:28.779 Amen. 00:24:28.779 --> 00:24:29.420 Amen. 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:29.840 Amen. 00:24:29.840 --> 00:24:41.880 Amen. 00:24:41.880 --> 00:24:42.200 Amen. 00:24:42.200 --> 00:24:42.460 Amen. 00:24:42.460 --> 00:24:42.980 Amen. 00:24:42.980 --> 00:24:43.259 Amen. 00:24:43.259 --> 00:24:44.140 Amen. 00:24:44.140 --> 00:24:44.299 Amen. 00:24:45.759 --> 00:24:46.240 Amen. 00:24:46.240 --> 00:24:48.500 Amen. 00:24:48.500 --> 00:24:50.960 word messault, 00:24:51.380 --> 00:24:54.840 Amen. 00:24:55.779 --> 00:24:56.320 Amen. 00:24:57.200 --> 00:24:57.299 Amen. 00:24:57.299 --> 00:24:57.420 Buddy, 00:24:57.420 --> 00:24:57.680 give me a good 00:24:57.680 --> 00:25:09.380 news for us. And may we be willing, Lord, seeing your great mercy to stand for you. 00:25:12.019 --> 00:25:13.660 In your name we pray. Amen. 00:25:17.480 --> 00:25:23.259 We're going to sing a song of meditation and response. Use this time to pray. Use this time 00:25:23.259 --> 00:25:28.720 to connect with the Lord. Use the words of this song. 20 minutes after the sermon, just doing some 00:25:28.720 --> 00:25:34.119 Q&A, trying to interact with this text together. So this is a time for us to ask questions on some 00:25:34.119 --> 00:25:37.019 things we might not have been able to get to or any questions you might have had about the text. 00:25:37.640 --> 00:25:41.779 So we'll take questions. If I don't know the answer to your question or if it seems kind of 00:25:41.779 --> 00:25:46.480 far afield from where we were tonight, I will confess my ignorance or maybe we can talk about 00:25:46.480 --> 00:25:53.240 it afterwards. But yeah, we'll do our best. So why don't we begin? Who has a question? 00:25:53.259 --> 00:25:55.839 Andrew, yeah. 00:25:56.640 --> 00:26:03.240 Can you expand perhaps on why all the gospel writers, Mark includes the story of this young 00:26:03.240 --> 00:26:08.759 guy, like you would think Luke would have done that given the length of Luke's gospel? 00:26:08.920 --> 00:26:12.960 Yeah, yeah. That's a great question. So the question is, why do we think Mark is the only 00:26:12.960 --> 00:26:18.200 one who included the story of this young man who runs away naked, especially when some of 00:26:18.200 --> 00:26:22.519 the other gospels are a lot longer and it seems like they've got more space to include stuff 00:26:22.519 --> 00:26:29.440 like that? You know, ultimately we don't know. Some people think that the young man is actually 00:26:29.440 --> 00:26:38.500 Mark himself. Total speculation, but I guess it's possible. It's a bit of an odd detail, 00:26:38.599 --> 00:26:46.259 isn't it? It's very strange. It's striking too. It's an arresting detail. So one wonders if, 00:26:46.500 --> 00:26:51.519 you know, some of the other gospel writers just choose not to include it because of the other things 00:26:51.519 --> 00:26:56.460 that they felt like they wanted to emphasize in their accounts of Jesus. I mean, remember that 00:26:56.460 --> 00:27:01.720 the gospel accounts are not exhaustive. We don't have in the gospel accounts every single thing 00:27:01.720 --> 00:27:08.599 that Jesus ever said and did. All of the gospel accounts are engineered to present in a compelling 00:27:08.599 --> 00:27:13.259 way the truth about Jesus Christ. So they're all selective and they're all strategic and they're all 00:27:13.259 --> 00:27:16.599 carefully crafted. So yeah, it's a good question. 00:27:19.000 --> 00:27:20.160 Any other questions? Jonathan? 00:27:25.200 --> 00:27:25.400 Yeah. 00:27:30.079 --> 00:27:37.259 Good question. So when Jesus says, not my will, but your will be done, is the implication that Jesus has 00:27:37.259 --> 00:27:41.619 a separate will from the Father. We actually talked about this in Sunday school this morning, 00:27:41.720 --> 00:27:48.279 actually. So there's a really neat conversation throughout the early church about the relationship 00:27:48.279 --> 00:27:53.859 of Jesus's will to the will of the Father. And it seems, and especially as we look at this passage, 00:27:53.980 --> 00:28:00.059 we know that Jesus is fully human and we know that Jesus is fully divine. Two natures in one person. 00:28:00.480 --> 00:28:04.359 That is sort of the biblical teaching and the teaching that the church affirmed throughout the 00:28:04.359 --> 00:28:11.079 ages about who Jesus is. So this question of wills, as you read a passage like this, it seems as if 00:28:11.079 --> 00:28:17.819 Jesus has a fully human will, in addition to a fully divine will. Not just one, but he's got two, 00:28:17.919 --> 00:28:25.979 and that he submits that fully human will to the will of the Father. And that's the real beauty of it, 00:28:26.240 --> 00:28:33.119 that in Jesus's earthly ministry, he's doing everything that we failed to do. 00:28:33.119 --> 00:28:38.939 So all those times, I mean, isn't that our great spiritual battle? That our wills are rebellious? 00:28:39.699 --> 00:28:45.099 That they're disordered? That our passions don't go in the way that God created them to go because 00:28:45.099 --> 00:28:50.859 we've fallen? And Jesus comes and takes on our flesh, and even takes on our will, and says, 00:28:51.119 --> 00:28:55.739 no, I'm going to do it in the right way. So it becomes this great message of hope. 00:28:55.740 --> 00:29:00.420 And as Malcolm pointed out this morning as he was teaching his class, it becomes this awesome 00:29:00.420 --> 00:29:06.079 picture of the future where Jesus is taking us in the new heavens and the new earth as a place 00:29:06.079 --> 00:29:11.259 where our wills, our still totally human wills, are utterly conformed to God, such it will never sin, 00:29:11.900 --> 00:29:16.720 that we'll always love God above all else and do whatever he says, and in that find perfect freedom 00:29:16.720 --> 00:29:22.720 and joy. So this battle that's happening here in the garden has massive significance for our salvation. 00:29:22.720 --> 00:29:27.299 So yeah, so what the church has said is that there are two wills in Jesus, a human will and a divine will. 00:29:28.579 --> 00:29:28.740 Yeah. 00:29:30.740 --> 00:29:32.440 Any other questions? Yes, Kevin. 00:29:34.720 --> 00:29:35.720 Yeah. 00:29:43.720 --> 00:29:43.759 Yeah. 00:29:43.759 --> 00:29:43.859 Yeah. 00:29:44.759 --> 00:29:47.879 Oh, good question. 00:29:48.079 --> 00:29:48.200 Yeah. 00:29:48.200 --> 00:29:52.700 Okay, so, yeah, it's kind of, kind of, it makes sense of that. 00:29:53.039 --> 00:29:53.440 Mm-hmm. 00:29:53.799 --> 00:29:54.279 Yeah. 00:29:57.759 --> 00:29:58.240 Yeah. 00:30:00.559 --> 00:30:01.000 Yep. 00:30:01.579 --> 00:30:02.259 Yeah, right. 00:30:02.720 --> 00:30:02.859 Uh-huh. 00:30:08.440 --> 00:30:08.960 Yeah. 00:30:08.960 --> 00:30:14.759 Yeah, good, good observations, Kevin. 00:30:14.819 --> 00:30:19.779 So the question is, you know, how do these details work out in this scene when the mob comes and the, 00:30:19.980 --> 00:30:22.180 and Judas comes to betray Jesus and hand him over? 00:30:22.460 --> 00:30:27.579 It seems like, right, it seems like at first, uh, so John tells us that the disciple who strikes 00:30:27.579 --> 00:30:31.980 the ear is actually Peter, sort of impetuous Peter, kind of lashing out. 00:30:31.980 --> 00:30:37.980 Uh, and, you know, and we, it, doesn't that fit with the arc of the gospel's narrative, right? 00:30:37.980 --> 00:30:41.740 That the disciples were always sort of trying to figure out, like, okay, Jesus, when are we going 00:30:41.740 --> 00:30:45.799 to start to do the military sort of project that we were expecting you to do? 00:30:46.339 --> 00:30:48.400 Uh, so Peter's like, okay, let's do this. 00:30:48.440 --> 00:30:48.860 Game on. 00:30:49.220 --> 00:30:54.259 Um, but obviously it's, it's immediately futile. 00:30:54.400 --> 00:30:58.920 And in the other gospel accounts, Jesus actually rebukes them for trying to do it and then says, 00:30:59.000 --> 00:31:01.160 no, this is, this is where it's going to go. 00:31:01.960 --> 00:31:04.539 Um, and then I think, I think you're right, Kevin. 00:31:04.539 --> 00:31:11.559 And it's after that point, once, once they see that the die is cast, they all run. 00:31:12.500 --> 00:31:16.480 Um, and of course we know that, that Mark's speaking generally there, because Peter then 00:31:16.480 --> 00:31:18.920 does sort of follow behind at a distance. 00:31:18.920 --> 00:31:22.059 And John's gospel tells us that, that John himself actually fought. 00:31:22.139 --> 00:31:23.859 There was, there were actually two of them in the courtyard. 00:31:24.859 --> 00:31:25.920 Um, so. 00:31:28.000 --> 00:31:28.700 Tyrone, yeah. 00:31:28.700 --> 00:31:28.740 Yeah. 00:31:36.279 --> 00:31:36.680 Yeah. 00:31:37.460 --> 00:31:37.860 Good. 00:31:38.380 --> 00:31:38.559 Good. 00:31:38.640 --> 00:31:39.220 Is that, did Mark? 00:31:39.580 --> 00:31:39.940 Yep. 00:31:40.140 --> 00:31:46.819 So if you look a little earlier in Mark 14, in verse 27, they had just finished up, uh, 00:31:46.819 --> 00:31:50.319 the Passover meal and Jesus had just instituted the Lord's supper communion. 00:31:50.860 --> 00:31:54.440 And then Jesus says to them, you'll all fall away for it's written, I'll strike the shepherd 00:31:54.440 --> 00:31:55.559 and the sheep will be scattered. 00:31:56.140 --> 00:31:56.539 Yeah. 00:31:56.539 --> 00:31:56.619 Yeah. 00:31:57.619 --> 00:31:58.299 That's right. 00:31:59.079 --> 00:32:03.200 So that's, I mean, that's probably one of the scriptures that Jesus has in mind that's 00:32:03.200 --> 00:32:05.019 being fulfilled in that very moment. 00:32:05.980 --> 00:32:07.279 Um, yeah. 00:32:11.899 --> 00:32:13.180 Which is ironic, right? 00:32:13.220 --> 00:32:19.579 Because later when, after the Sanhedrin, the council sort of condemns him, they start mocking 00:32:19.579 --> 00:32:24.500 him and spitting him, saying, prophesy, you know, tell us who hit you. 00:32:24.500 --> 00:32:31.539 And the, the sad irony of that is that everything that's happening is happening exactly like Jesus 00:32:31.539 --> 00:32:32.140 said it would. 00:32:33.099 --> 00:32:39.099 That, that, that Jesus's status as the true prophet of God is held up throughout this whole 00:32:39.099 --> 00:32:41.059 narrative, even while they mock him for it. 00:32:42.980 --> 00:32:45.940 Um, Michael, yeah. 00:32:45.940 --> 00:32:47.539 Yeah. 00:32:47.940 --> 00:32:48.799 Yeah. 00:32:52.279 --> 00:32:52.580 Yeah. 00:32:52.579 --> 00:33:11.980 Oh, yeah, yeah. 00:33:12.139 --> 00:33:13.019 That's a neat connection, yeah. 00:33:13.819 --> 00:33:15.460 Yeah, so Michael's question is, 00:33:15.879 --> 00:33:18.099 why is Jesus so disappointed with him for falling asleep? 00:33:18.179 --> 00:33:20.039 What's he wanting from them in that moment? 00:33:20.039 --> 00:33:22.139 What's he expecting and what's he hoping happens 00:33:22.140 --> 00:33:23.140 in that time? 00:33:26.380 --> 00:33:27.980 Yeah, that's a good question, Michael. 00:33:28.100 --> 00:33:31.640 I think on the surface what he wants is for them 00:33:31.640 --> 00:33:34.440 to just be near to him and pray with him 00:33:34.440 --> 00:33:38.800 just one last time before the events happen, 00:33:38.800 --> 00:33:42.880 before the machinations start turning 00:33:42.880 --> 00:33:43.900 that lead to the cross. 00:33:46.880 --> 00:33:49.360 So, I mean, you see here both sort of 00:33:49.360 --> 00:33:52.120 Jesus' consternation but also his mercy, don't you, 00:33:52.259 --> 00:33:54.020 at the end of verse 38 where he says, 00:33:54.100 --> 00:33:56.340 this spirit indeed is willing but the flesh is weak. 00:33:57.240 --> 00:33:58.360 So even in that moment, 00:33:58.480 --> 00:34:00.380 Jesus is merciful towards these guys 00:34:00.380 --> 00:34:00.920 and yet, 00:34:01.520 --> 00:34:04.100 and yet it's heartbreaking, right? 00:34:04.259 --> 00:34:06.120 That in his hour of need, 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:08.900 they're sleeping. 00:34:08.900 --> 00:34:17.480 There's one Puritan who's written like a 400-page book 00:34:17.480 --> 00:34:19.099 on the phrase watch and pray. 00:34:20.099 --> 00:34:21.480 Just those three words, John Owen. 00:34:22.119 --> 00:34:23.519 It's a whole book on watch and pray, 00:34:23.639 --> 00:34:24.780 so I can recommend that to you. 00:34:24.860 --> 00:34:26.500 I've not read it, but you know, 00:34:26.840 --> 00:34:30.019 if you want something to do over, you know, 00:34:30.099 --> 00:34:32.760 dead week, Michael, you can take up some John Owen. 00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:34.139 So, watch and pray. 00:34:34.859 --> 00:34:35.079 Yeah. 00:34:36.420 --> 00:34:36.819 Kelly. 00:34:36.819 --> 00:34:41.639 I think you said that when Jesus says his statement 00:34:41.639 --> 00:34:42.900 when he's being condemned, 00:34:43.460 --> 00:34:45.199 the Old Testament references. 00:34:45.299 --> 00:34:45.819 Mm-hmm. 00:34:45.940 --> 00:34:47.480 Can you cite that? 00:34:47.599 --> 00:34:49.960 Yeah, so you'll see the Son of Man 00:34:49.960 --> 00:34:51.500 seated at the right hand of power. 00:34:52.159 --> 00:34:54.259 That's an allusion to Psalm 110.1, 00:34:55.219 --> 00:34:57.519 which Jesus actually brought up earlier 00:34:57.519 --> 00:34:59.799 in the temple disputes, if you remember that. 00:34:59.800 --> 00:35:02.560 The Lord says to my Lord, 00:35:02.980 --> 00:35:04.920 sit at my right hand until I make your enemies 00:35:04.920 --> 00:35:05.680 your footstool. 00:35:06.640 --> 00:35:07.420 And Jesus says, 00:35:08.300 --> 00:35:09.660 if the Messiah is David's son, 00:35:09.720 --> 00:35:10.760 how does he call him Lord? 00:35:10.960 --> 00:35:12.120 Sort of provoking them 00:35:12.120 --> 00:35:13.640 to start to get a little deeper 00:35:13.640 --> 00:35:14.900 about the identity of the Messiah. 00:35:15.600 --> 00:35:16.820 And then the second reference 00:35:16.820 --> 00:35:18.840 is the Son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven. 00:35:18.940 --> 00:35:19.800 That's Daniel 7. 00:35:20.740 --> 00:35:23.160 I think 7.14. 00:35:23.920 --> 00:35:24.539 Is that right, Craig? 00:35:24.539 --> 00:35:25.100 7.14? 00:35:25.860 --> 00:35:26.059 Yeah. 00:35:26.679 --> 00:35:28.799 Which is part of Daniel's sort of visions, 00:35:28.920 --> 00:35:29.900 his prophetic visions, 00:35:29.900 --> 00:35:31.759 of how God was going to bring 00:35:31.759 --> 00:35:33.500 his redemptive plans to completion. 00:35:34.139 --> 00:35:35.739 And he has this sort of powerful, 00:35:35.940 --> 00:35:38.319 heavily symbolic vision of the ancient of days, 00:35:38.819 --> 00:35:42.059 sort of the Lord in splendor. 00:35:42.159 --> 00:35:43.819 And then one like the Son of Man 00:35:43.819 --> 00:35:44.799 approaching the throne, 00:35:44.940 --> 00:35:46.360 coming with the clouds of heaven, 00:35:46.819 --> 00:35:47.880 ascending to him. 00:35:49.119 --> 00:35:50.699 So tradition then picked that up 00:35:50.699 --> 00:35:51.799 as a messianic reference. 00:35:51.800 --> 00:35:54.420 So that would be that one. 00:35:54.620 --> 00:35:55.180 It's Daniel 7. 00:35:56.900 --> 00:35:58.940 That's also the one that Jesus has quoted 00:35:58.940 --> 00:36:00.080 in Mark 13, too, 00:36:00.480 --> 00:36:02.960 when he's giving his discourse 00:36:02.960 --> 00:36:04.060 about the destruction of the temple 00:36:04.060 --> 00:36:05.480 and the return of the Son of Man 00:36:05.480 --> 00:36:06.180 and those kinds of things. 00:36:06.220 --> 00:36:07.440 He's referencing Daniel there, too. 00:36:12.140 --> 00:36:13.440 Maybe one or two more questions 00:36:13.440 --> 00:36:14.220 before we close. 00:36:16.019 --> 00:36:16.380 Noelle. 00:36:16.380 --> 00:36:17.380 Yeah. 00:36:17.380 --> 00:36:18.380 I wish you had a question. 00:36:18.380 --> 00:36:18.559 I wish you had a question. 00:36:19.000 --> 00:36:21.099 When you speak about it, 00:36:21.180 --> 00:36:22.519 I should probably get a good idea 00:36:22.519 --> 00:36:25.360 of myself into Jesus' death. 00:36:25.720 --> 00:36:28.440 But you talk about how... 00:36:28.440 --> 00:36:29.260 Yeah. 00:36:29.260 --> 00:36:32.099 Mm-hmm. 00:36:32.099 --> 00:36:32.140 Mm-hmm. 00:36:32.140 --> 00:36:34.200 Mm-hmm. 00:36:34.200 --> 00:36:36.200 Mm-hmm. 00:36:36.200 --> 00:36:41.200 Mm-hmm. 00:36:41.200 --> 00:36:43.200 Mm-hmm. 00:36:43.200 --> 00:36:44.200 Mm-hmm. 00:36:44.200 --> 00:36:45.200 Mm-hmm. 00:36:45.200 --> 00:36:46.200 Mm-hmm. 00:36:46.380 --> 00:36:48.380 Mm-hmm. 00:36:48.380 --> 00:36:49.380 Mm-hmm. 00:36:53.380 --> 00:36:54.380 Mm-hmm. 00:36:56.380 --> 00:36:58.000 Wow, that's a really good question, Noelle. 00:36:58.079 --> 00:36:59.320 So Noelle's question is, 00:36:59.940 --> 00:37:00.720 on the cross, 00:37:00.860 --> 00:37:02.340 Jesus is drinking the cup 00:37:02.340 --> 00:37:04.640 of God's wrath against sin. 00:37:05.260 --> 00:37:05.380 Does that... 00:37:05.980 --> 00:37:07.820 Sort of living post-cross now, 00:37:07.860 --> 00:37:08.380 does that change 00:37:08.900 --> 00:37:10.720 God's sort of general relationship 00:37:10.720 --> 00:37:11.320 with the world? 00:37:11.380 --> 00:37:12.460 Because we see in the Old Testament 00:37:12.460 --> 00:37:12.980 there are moments 00:37:12.980 --> 00:37:14.599 where it seems like God's wrath comes 00:37:14.599 --> 00:37:16.200 in maybe natural ways 00:37:16.199 --> 00:37:17.699 or in specific historical events. 00:37:19.539 --> 00:37:21.000 Maybe a general point 00:37:21.000 --> 00:37:21.839 on that question. 00:37:22.579 --> 00:37:23.399 As Christians, 00:37:23.480 --> 00:37:25.899 we should be incredibly 00:37:25.899 --> 00:37:28.359 reticent 00:37:28.359 --> 00:37:29.199 to identify 00:37:29.759 --> 00:37:32.099 things in nature 00:37:32.099 --> 00:37:32.960 or in history 00:37:32.960 --> 00:37:35.419 as sort of direct, 00:37:35.619 --> 00:37:36.639 wrathful acts of God 00:37:36.639 --> 00:37:37.480 against sin 00:37:37.480 --> 00:37:38.659 without any kind of 00:37:38.659 --> 00:37:39.439 biblical precedent. 00:37:39.440 --> 00:37:39.559 sin. 00:37:40.440 --> 00:37:42.079 I think in a general way, 00:37:42.280 --> 00:37:42.659 yes, 00:37:42.659 --> 00:37:43.599 the world is broken 00:37:43.599 --> 00:37:44.780 and the world is sinful 00:37:44.780 --> 00:37:46.039 and the evil 00:37:46.039 --> 00:37:46.679 and corruption 00:37:46.679 --> 00:37:47.300 and destruction 00:37:47.300 --> 00:37:47.800 that we see 00:37:47.800 --> 00:37:48.960 is a product of that. 00:37:51.039 --> 00:37:52.220 But I think we should be 00:37:52.220 --> 00:37:53.320 very careful to say 00:37:53.320 --> 00:37:54.720 that event happened 00:37:54.720 --> 00:37:55.559 because those people 00:37:55.559 --> 00:37:56.019 did this 00:37:56.019 --> 00:37:56.880 and God was judging them. 00:37:56.960 --> 00:37:57.460 I just don't think 00:37:57.460 --> 00:37:58.380 we have biblical warrant 00:37:58.380 --> 00:37:59.039 to do that. 00:37:59.539 --> 00:38:00.480 And I think the reason 00:38:00.480 --> 00:38:01.200 why the Old Testament 00:38:01.200 --> 00:38:01.679 does that 00:38:01.679 --> 00:38:02.280 is because 00:38:02.280 --> 00:38:03.559 it's God himself 00:38:03.559 --> 00:38:04.460 giving the interpretation 00:38:04.460 --> 00:38:05.240 of the events 00:38:05.240 --> 00:38:05.900 to his people. 00:38:06.680 --> 00:38:06.920 So, 00:38:07.559 --> 00:38:08.680 without that kind of 00:38:08.680 --> 00:38:10.220 God's sort of 00:38:10.220 --> 00:38:11.619 stamped interpretation 00:38:11.619 --> 00:38:12.139 of events, 00:38:12.240 --> 00:38:12.820 I think we should be 00:38:12.820 --> 00:38:13.880 very reticent to do that. 00:38:15.539 --> 00:38:16.460 Your other question, 00:38:16.559 --> 00:38:16.639 though, 00:38:16.680 --> 00:38:17.740 is God's sort of 00:38:17.740 --> 00:38:18.559 fundamental posture 00:38:18.559 --> 00:38:19.119 towards the world 00:38:19.119 --> 00:38:19.820 now changed, 00:38:19.940 --> 00:38:20.079 though, 00:38:20.180 --> 00:38:20.660 because of what 00:38:20.660 --> 00:38:21.420 Jesus has done? 00:38:23.039 --> 00:38:24.039 And I think 00:38:24.039 --> 00:38:24.920 the answer 00:38:24.920 --> 00:38:25.940 where we can be 00:38:25.940 --> 00:38:26.559 on safe ground 00:38:26.559 --> 00:38:27.380 is to say that 00:38:27.380 --> 00:38:29.400 it's very different 00:38:29.400 --> 00:38:30.260 towards those 00:38:30.260 --> 00:38:31.840 who are in Christ. 00:38:33.579 --> 00:38:34.579 And in and through 00:38:34.579 --> 00:38:35.440 the church now, 00:38:35.440 --> 00:38:36.619 that sort of, 00:38:37.119 --> 00:38:38.119 that new covenant 00:38:38.119 --> 00:38:38.800 community 00:38:38.800 --> 00:38:41.059 is now salt 00:38:41.059 --> 00:38:41.579 and light 00:38:41.579 --> 00:38:42.220 in the world 00:38:42.220 --> 00:38:43.679 such that that joy 00:38:43.679 --> 00:38:44.280 and peace 00:38:44.280 --> 00:38:45.079 is now spreading 00:38:45.079 --> 00:38:46.039 as that leaven 00:38:46.039 --> 00:38:46.900 kind of goes out. 00:38:48.360 --> 00:38:49.800 Jesus is very clear 00:38:49.800 --> 00:38:52.340 that just as God 00:38:52.340 --> 00:38:52.880 is king, 00:38:52.960 --> 00:38:53.960 he is also judge. 00:38:54.079 --> 00:38:54.940 So just as he rules 00:38:54.940 --> 00:38:55.320 all things, 00:38:55.400 --> 00:38:56.000 he will judge 00:38:56.000 --> 00:38:56.579 all things. 00:38:57.360 --> 00:38:58.980 But the distinction 00:38:58.980 --> 00:39:00.000 in God's judgment 00:39:00.000 --> 00:39:01.460 is between those 00:39:01.460 --> 00:39:02.139 who have repented 00:39:02.139 --> 00:39:02.519 of sin 00:39:02.519 --> 00:39:02.980 and placed their 00:39:02.980 --> 00:39:03.679 trust in Christ 00:39:03.679 --> 00:39:04.260 and those who 00:39:04.260 --> 00:39:05.340 continue to sort of 00:39:05.340 --> 00:39:07.480 rely on self-righteousness 00:39:07.480 --> 00:39:08.059 for their standing 00:39:08.059 --> 00:39:08.440 with him 00:39:08.440 --> 00:39:09.519 who continue in sin. 00:39:12.340 --> 00:39:13.140 Is that helpful, 00:39:13.260 --> 00:39:13.400 Noelle? 00:39:13.519 --> 00:39:14.780 Is that maybe 00:39:14.780 --> 00:39:15.720 a start to that? 00:39:15.940 --> 00:39:16.100 Yeah. 00:39:17.380 --> 00:39:18.240 One more question. 00:39:18.400 --> 00:39:18.660 Yes? 00:39:18.660 --> 00:39:18.720 Yes? 00:39:18.719 --> 00:39:27.679 It's a little strange. 00:39:27.679 --> 00:39:28.139 I know. 00:39:28.399 --> 00:39:28.719 Yes, 00:39:28.719 --> 00:39:29.959 it seems very arcane, 00:39:30.259 --> 00:39:30.599 doesn't it? 00:39:30.599 --> 00:39:31.359 It seems very sort of 00:39:31.359 --> 00:39:32.659 abstract or confusing. 00:39:33.339 --> 00:39:34.299 Maybe one way 00:39:34.299 --> 00:39:34.859 of saying it 00:39:34.859 --> 00:39:35.619 is to say 00:39:35.619 --> 00:39:36.739 we know that Jesus 00:39:36.739 --> 00:39:38.219 has a fully human nature, 00:39:38.339 --> 00:39:38.519 right, 00:39:38.559 --> 00:39:40.459 and a fully divine nature, 00:39:40.839 --> 00:39:42.839 but he's one person, 00:39:43.419 --> 00:39:43.699 right, 00:39:43.779 --> 00:39:44.899 that there's one person, 00:39:45.000 --> 00:39:45.659 Jesus Christ, 00:39:45.659 --> 00:39:47.559 but it's both 00:39:47.559 --> 00:39:48.199 of these natures 00:39:48.199 --> 00:39:48.679 together. 00:39:49.420 --> 00:39:50.480 And those natures 00:39:50.480 --> 00:39:51.719 never are separated 00:39:51.719 --> 00:39:52.319 in his person, 00:39:52.420 --> 00:39:53.119 but they're never 00:39:53.119 --> 00:39:54.039 confused. 00:39:54.179 --> 00:39:54.719 And what that means 00:39:54.719 --> 00:39:55.539 is they never sort of 00:39:55.539 --> 00:39:56.699 collapse into one another. 00:39:57.460 --> 00:39:58.859 So Jesus has 00:39:58.859 --> 00:40:00.719 a fully human will, 00:40:01.719 --> 00:40:02.539 but he also has 00:40:02.539 --> 00:40:03.739 a fully divine will. 00:40:04.299 --> 00:40:05.839 In his human nature, 00:40:05.940 --> 00:40:07.179 he has a fully human will. 00:40:07.259 --> 00:40:08.219 In his divine nature, 00:40:08.259 --> 00:40:09.460 he has a fully divine will. 00:40:09.799 --> 00:40:10.980 And they interact 00:40:10.980 --> 00:40:11.639 in his person. 00:40:12.099 --> 00:40:12.899 I'd encourage you 00:40:12.899 --> 00:40:13.679 to talk to Malcolm 00:40:13.679 --> 00:40:14.639 after the service 00:40:14.639 --> 00:40:15.159 about that 00:40:15.159 --> 00:40:16.279 because he is 00:40:16.279 --> 00:40:17.179 our resident expert 00:40:17.179 --> 00:40:18.099 on Christology, 00:40:18.699 --> 00:40:19.359 which is sort of 00:40:19.359 --> 00:40:20.279 our understanding 00:40:20.279 --> 00:40:21.159 of who Jesus is 00:40:21.159 --> 00:40:21.759 theologically. 00:40:22.619 --> 00:40:23.639 And he can help you 00:40:23.639 --> 00:40:24.739 more with that afterwards 00:40:24.739 --> 00:40:26.699 if that's not clear enough. 00:40:26.699 --> 00:40:30.159 When I read the Bible, 00:40:30.599 --> 00:40:31.739 I've always seen 00:40:31.739 --> 00:40:34.359 my Father say to me. 00:40:34.599 --> 00:40:34.799 Yeah. 00:40:35.279 --> 00:40:36.440 And also, 00:40:37.039 --> 00:40:37.759 why the Father 00:40:37.759 --> 00:40:39.239 said to Jesus Christ 00:40:39.239 --> 00:40:40.319 is because 00:40:40.319 --> 00:40:42.539 the will of the prophets 00:40:42.539 --> 00:40:43.179 before 00:40:43.179 --> 00:40:44.279 who have only 00:40:44.279 --> 00:40:46.399 Jesus Christ 00:40:46.399 --> 00:40:46.940 is the same. 00:40:47.019 --> 00:40:47.480 That's right. 00:40:47.539 --> 00:40:47.940 That's the way 00:40:47.940 --> 00:40:48.500 of understanding. 00:40:48.919 --> 00:40:49.159 Yeah. 00:40:49.739 --> 00:40:50.219 That's right. 00:40:50.460 --> 00:40:50.679 I would, 00:40:51.000 --> 00:40:52.079 yes and amen. 00:40:52.239 --> 00:40:53.399 That's completely true. 00:40:53.940 --> 00:40:54.960 That Jesus has come 00:40:54.960 --> 00:40:55.799 to accomplish 00:40:55.799 --> 00:40:56.719 the will of his Father 00:40:56.719 --> 00:40:57.739 and to do what 00:40:57.739 --> 00:40:58.859 no one else could do. 00:40:59.139 --> 00:40:59.359 Yeah. 00:40:59.359 --> 00:40:59.460 Yeah. 00:40:59.460 --> 00:40:59.559 Yeah. 00:40:59.559 --> 00:41:09.500 Yeah. 00:41:09.500 --> 00:41:09.619 Yeah. 00:41:09.619 --> 00:41:10.079 Yeah. 00:41:10.079 --> 00:41:10.279 Yeah. 00:41:21.420 --> 00:41:21.960 That's right. 00:41:22.039 --> 00:41:22.239 Yeah. 00:41:22.339 --> 00:41:22.719 That's right. 00:41:22.719 --> 00:41:23.000 Good. 00:41:24.920 --> 00:41:25.319 Yeah. 00:41:25.940 --> 00:41:26.500 That's right. 00:41:26.759 --> 00:41:27.039 That's right. 00:41:27.039 --> 00:41:27.659 That's right. 00:41:28.559 --> 00:41:29.039 Yeah. 00:41:31.219 --> 00:41:31.699 Oh, 00:41:31.779 --> 00:41:34.779 I think that's right. 00:41:34.780 --> 00:41:36.340 I think Jesus is making 00:41:36.340 --> 00:41:38.280 a not so veiled reference 00:41:38.280 --> 00:41:39.220 to himself there 00:41:39.220 --> 00:41:40.519 and saying that 00:41:40.519 --> 00:41:42.080 I'm the one, 00:41:42.220 --> 00:41:43.000 I'm the son 00:41:43.000 --> 00:41:44.120 who's finally come. 00:41:44.720 --> 00:41:45.160 And he doesn't, 00:41:45.280 --> 00:41:45.920 he prophesy there 00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:46.460 that the people 00:41:46.460 --> 00:41:47.240 will reject him. 00:41:47.500 --> 00:41:48.160 And yet, 00:41:48.560 --> 00:41:49.920 even in being rejected, 00:41:50.080 --> 00:41:50.760 God makes him 00:41:50.760 --> 00:41:51.560 the cornerstone 00:41:51.560 --> 00:41:52.840 of a whole new, 00:41:52.980 --> 00:41:53.860 of the whole new 00:41:53.860 --> 00:41:55.060 renewed people of God. 00:41:55.580 --> 00:41:56.720 That even in his rejection, 00:41:56.840 --> 00:41:57.980 God accomplishes his plan 00:41:57.980 --> 00:41:58.760 for our salvation. 00:41:59.360 --> 00:41:59.800 Which, 00:41:59.880 --> 00:42:00.260 that's the beauty 00:42:00.260 --> 00:42:00.740 of the gospel. 00:42:01.620 --> 00:42:01.860 Yeah. 00:42:01.860 --> 00:42:03.840 Let's end there. 00:42:03.920 --> 00:42:05.079 It's already 10 of 8. 00:42:05.860 --> 00:42:06.460 Let's end there. 00:42:06.460 --> 00:42:06.579 Let's end there. 00:42:06.579 --> 00:42:06.700 Let's end there. 00:42:06.700 --> 00:42:06.780 Let's end there.