Family of God: Re: [FamilyofGod] Gethsemane

Amen!

On Mon Apr 18th, 2011 8:41 AM CDT Michael J. Knight wrote:

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>Gethsemane
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>Jesus came to the garden of Gethsemane, feeling a urgent need to pray.
>An overwhelming sense of sorrow, even the sorrow unto death overwhelmed
>His spirit. The sorrow for the death, was not physical death, but by the
>association of His death with sin. His Holy Nature shrunk back from this
>experience. Yet He knew, this was His purpose, His calling. This is why
>He came to earth, just to die for you and me!
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>Jesus was obedient unto death. Oh how this must have laid upon His Pure
>Heart.
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>The burden upon Him was heavy and stressful, and He was aware of what He
>must face ahead. His holy nature recognized the sins of the world that
>were about to be cast upon Him. Overwhelming and dark. Yet He told the
>Father, not my will, but thine be done, and persevered in prayer. The
>Word says he prayed so hard, so fervently, his sweat was as drops of
>blood.
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>I am struck by the thought that after years of discipling, His disciples
>failed Him so often. They often could not perform the miracles needed,
>because their faith was far short of what was needed to perform those
>miracles. They fell asleep on the night He so desperately needed them to
>pray with Him, when he pleaded with them, to stay awake with him. And
>even as He was in jail, being beaten and spit upon, His beloved
>disciples denied they even knew Him. This reminds me so much of how much
>we fail our heavenly Father. Yet His disciples were with him daily and
>even they, had moments they deserted Him.
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>Yet, I am also struck by the fact, that He knew this! And He loved us
>anyway... Hallelujah!
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>Oh how could He love us like this, we are so very unworthy, we fail Him
>again and again, but His arms are always open, willing to forgive, if we
>recognize these sins, and repent of them.
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>And that is why He came. He knew our frame…that we are but dust.
>That we could never keep the law fully, and we were in need of
>redemption. The poverty of our souls was upon Him.
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>This week, it came to mind what sins Jesus had to bear. Every vile
>filthy illness ever known to man was put upon His body at the same time.
>Every filthy, ugly, hidden sin known to man was laid upon Him at the
>same moment. All the filthy child molesters of this world, the rapists,
>the torturers, and the evil of this world became a covering that was
>laid upon Him. He had to bear it all at one time. If you went into a
>hospital tonight, just one hospital, and saw the suffering, and those
>close to death, the horrid disease people go through, multiply that by
>hundreds, and by generations, and by hundreds of years, and all this
>became His burden.
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>Imagine the crimes that you have heard of this century, all that was
>laid upon Him. Imagine just the sins that you have committed, whether in
>public or in private. All these are known to Him. All of this sin,
>darkness and generations of it, from thousands of sinners were laid upon
>Him at once. He did this, so we might have a way out of the sinfulness
>of this world, forgiveness forever, and eternal life... this then, was
>His precious gift to us, salvation through His blood sacrifice upon the
>cruel cross.
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>We cannot bear three burdens at the same time, How could He then bear
>all the burdens, sorrow, evil and sins of the world?
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>Who else would do so great a sacrifice for those who only sought to
>hurt, and live in sin? Who else loved us like this? Would you die for
>every sinner ever known to man? Think on this, would you do it? How
>then could He do it?
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>He did, sacrificially, willingly, humbly, Because He loved us.
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>He willingly went forth with this journey. Even when everyone He loved
>detrayed Him, and left Him alone. His duty was to die for us, and
>nothing could stop that. Jesus faced a journey ahead none of us could
>comprehend, and He would face hell, death and the grave. And He would
>conquer them all. The grave would no longer have victory over our
>bodies. Satan would be defeated, and death would have no sting, for it
>only is the door to eternity with God.
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>Something we cannot conceive of in our minds, the darkness and the
>horror he faced for you and me.
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>For us. For you and me. WE needed the salvation. WE needed a Savior.
>No one ever loved me Like Jesus. There's no other friend so kind as he.
>No one ever took the sin and darkness from me. Oh how much He cared for
>me.
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>Oh Father God, bring us to the cross, make us mindful of our place in
>you. Remind our hearts of that night that you suffered and bled and died
>for our filthy sins. Bring us back to our first love. Remind us life is
>not about us, it is about our journey to you. We were created to praise
>you, and to live for you. Remind us of the cross. Let it never fade from
>our vision. Let us be all you desire each day. Let the words of my
>mouth, and the meditations of my heart, be acceptable in your sight, Oh
>Lord, My strength and my redeemer.
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>Is your all on the altar of sacrifice laid?
>Your heart does the spirit control?
>You can only be blessed, and have peace and sweet rest.
>If you give Him your body and soul.
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>He gave His all, that I might be born fresh and new at that cross.
>Remind me Oh Lord of that cross, let it never fade. Because of your
>death, your blood sacrifice, my sins can be washed white as snow. How
>humbled I am by the very thought of it. I praise your name Precious Lord
>and surrender all I have, and all I will ever be to your will. I confess
>my sins, and receive your salvation, and will follow you all the days of
>my life.
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>In Jesus Precious Name, Amen.
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>The cross, the birthplace of salvation.
>Oh how much He cared for us.
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>Remember
>Only one life, will soon be past,
>Only what is done, for Christ will last.
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>The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the
>communion of the Holy Spirit be with you all. Amen. (2 Corinthians
>13:14)
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>Love & Prayers,
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>Michael J. Knight.
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