The Cup That Christ Did Not Want to Drink

In Matthew 26, we can go for reading there. Matthew 26. Jesus Christ spoke in...

Sorry, by Matthew in the garden of Jezsemane. So Jesus Christ is a historian in this garden.

In verse 37, he spoke about Jesus Christ. He began to be sorrowful and very heavy. They said, my soul is sorrowful even to death.

So in that moment, Jesus felt a really sorrow.

It was not only a simple word or a word for Philip the moment. No, he felt a really sorrow because he knew that is appropriate for him.

In Hebrew, we can put a finger in this... because we come back for Matthew. In Hebrew, chapter 5, verse 7, we can read in this verse...

What he felt, says in Hebrew, 5, verse 7, Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications, with behemoths, cries, and tears to him who was able to save him from the dead, and was here because of his gold lefir. So he felt a real sorrow. So we continued in the verse 39, trying to say, It is more easy for me, but I need to speak in English.

So, verse 39 says, Father, oh my Father, if it's possible, let this cup pass for me, nevertheless, not as I will, but you will.

So, I drink my cup in this moment, too.

I put it here for... we remember the cup that Jesus Christ didn't want to drink.

So we're... in the verse 42, he spoke again the words, Oh my Father, if this cup cannot pass away for me, for me, unless I drink it, you will be done. So Jesus Christ didn't want to drink the cup, the cup, but he said, your will be done. So he knew... we need... he drank the cup. And in verse 44, he repeats... well, the Bible says... he said the same words. So he repeats, if possible, pass me this cup, but you will be done. So he's humble.

So today I will try to speak of the three aspects of this cup. So the first one, the first one aspect, or the first one part of this cup, is the physical sacrifice. The physical sacrifice. Jesus Christ didn't want to drink the physical sacrifice, the physical torture and crucifixion and death. Because anyone like to live this moment is physical when we feel some pain or anything is not good for us. So he didn't want to drink the physical torture, but he needed.

The prophecy of Isaiah speaks of the suffering that Jesus Christ had to pass.

So we went to Isaiah 53 verse... well, you can read after that all the passage of the chapter because he speaks...

...the several things needed to live our Lord.

So in Isaiah 53, I read the verse 4.

Surely he has bombed our grief and carried our sorrows. So he carried our sorrow. Any pain we feel sometimes he failed too.

And yet we stumble, him stricken.

Smitten by God and afflict. So you can read after this chapter for preparing for the Passover time. When Claudio says the Passover is coming, maybe we can read in the personal study this chapter and you're better English. You can read better.

But it's important to know what needs to live our Lord.

So Jesus was a perfect holy being, part of the family of God, being next to the Father, living in a perfect way. He didn't need the human to complete the happiness.

But in his big mercy, in his big goodness, he wanted to share this perfect, holy being to the way.

He wanted to share with us. So he created this plan for the human being.

So in Philippians 2, the birds... I read the birds 6. Philippians 2, birds 6, who, being in the form of God, did not consider its robbery to be equal with God.

And in the verse 8, it says, He is obedient to the point of the death and of the death of the cross. He was obedient. And he is obedient to the point of the death.

He has opportunity for... well, we often claim to think the two things human, for don't follow God. We hold on to our properties, jobs, friends, personal desires, not like Jesus, because Jesus Christ had the opportunity to be a king in John 6, 15.

Therefore, when Jesus Christ perceived that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, so the people wanted to make Jesus Christ a king, a real king, with... He departed again to the mountain by himself alone. So his purpose in the earth is not to be a human king. He preferred to be alone because he knows what happened with him after this moment. So he has the opportunity to be a king, but they prefer not.

This was not sometimes a pleasure for the God the Father either. Either having all the power, he had to see how his son, his loved one, was humiliated for the sinners by the same people that they were saving. The same people that were saving were speaking bad things about Jesus Christ, another. Well, the physical sorrow was the first part of that cup that Jesus Christ didn't want to drink.

So the physical sorrow. So the second part of this cup is taking over the sins of the sin, of making and showing himself like a sinner before his father. So taking over the sins of the making and showing himself like a sinner before his father. So other difficult times had to leave Jesus Christ was to take all the sins of the mankind, the fact that he took the blame for each of the lies, each of the arrogance, each of the murders, each of the perversions, each of the sinners, all the sins in this world.

So I want to read, but all we can go for Psalm 51. Psalm 51, when the King David understands his sins, because the prophet Natan showed his several sins, and he understands, he wrote the Psalm 51, and also it's the the Psalm 31, so when you sing other times this Psalm, do you remember what the feeling, the King David with this Psalm, because he feels very dirty, because he is a sinner, he was a sinner. So Jesus Christ in this moment feels the same, because he needs to carry all the sins in his body for sacrifice, and he feels dirty for us, because it's our sin.

So in the verse 1, it says, Have mercy open me, so have mercy, because I am a sinner. He wrote the King David. In the verse 2, watch me, watch me, because I am a sinner, I am dirty, watch me, please God. So in the verse 3, my transgressions and my sin is always before me. So he feels very sad, very sorrowful, because he feels dirty with the sin that he made.

But Jesus Christ didn't never sin, but he needs to carry our sins, so he feels dirty in this moment, in the cross. So this is the second part. You can read also this chapter before, to Passover, the Psalm 51, because we need to feel dirty, because the Lord Jesus Christ died for us. The third part of this chapter is that the Father doesn't have contact with the sin. So he needs to stay away from Jesus Christ in this moment. When he carries the sins, the Father needs to take away his presence to Jesus Christ. So I want to read, for understanding this relationship, I want to read John 1, the Gospel of John, in the verse 1, says, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.

So, in the beginning was the Word, Jesus Christ is the Word with God. So, from the beginning. And if we read the same book in chapter 17, in verse 22, the last part says that they, so John 17, 22, they may be one, just us, we are one. So they are, they was, and they are only one. So his relationship, their relationship is perfect, because they are one from the beginning. But they need to be separated. In the 24, spoke more about that, they loved me before the foundation of the Word. So, from the beginning, before to the foundation of the Word, before to create the plan, before to the sin, and create the human being, they loved it, and they are only one.

They think the same things, and they work together. So, when Jesus Christ carry our sins, he needs to stay away from the Father. So it's a hard moment.

When you are away, you are away from someone you love, you miss him. And when you cannot talk to him, you, in death, miss him.

So they have a special relationship, always together, I work together, they need to stay away. So it was a hard moment for him.

For me, it's very hard when, in the last day of the feast, of Tabernacle, usually after that feast, you don't see some people from a long period, or sometime for a year, half a year, or maybe for a long period of time, maybe 10 years or 5 years. You feel very sad in this moment when the feast is... maybe you met some people only in the feast. So you spend maybe 7 days or 8 days in the feast, and you create a connection, and you work together in the feast. But after that, you need to stay away. You feel very sorrow. Imagine Jesus Christ with the Father, they always been together, and they need to stay away. So Jesus Christ didn't want to stay away to the Father, but they need to be for us, because for our sins. So it was a hard moment.

In this, the Kim David wrote another prophecy about Jesus Christ in the Psalm 22. In the first verse, the Psalm 22 says, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me? So the Kim David passed for a hard moment, and he felt far away to God. But this is a prophecy, because Jesus Christ says the same words in the cross. Maybe we can review that in Mark, in the Gospel of Mark, in chapter 15.

Verse 34, in the night hour, Jesus Christ cried out with a loud voice, saying, Eloi, Eloi, lama sabaktami, which translated, means, My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? So in the same words that the Kim David wrote 1,000 years ago, so a prophecy is amazing.

The prophecy, Jesus Christ fulfilled the prophecy, but he doesn't say this word only for fulfill the prophecy. He feels God's away with him. He corrects the sins, he feels dirty, and he feels away from his loved father. So it was a hard moment for Jesus Christ. For this reason, he didn't want to take this cup, but he drank. He took this cup for us. We put the focus in us, in the physical things first. What is my sacrifice I made for the church, or what is made for my neighbors or my family, or what I made for my physical problems. But I think that Jesus Christ, the principal reason for don't want to drink the cup is because he didn't want to stay away from Jesus for the Father, because he didn't like to feel alone.

But what we feel when we sing? Do we feel that sense of shame for having turned away from God? We feel away from God? Maybe we need to feel the light of Jesus Christ when we sing, and we need to repent to God, ask for Him for combating His presence, watch us cleaning our bodies, our minds, our souls. Because we need to stay close to God, always. In Jaime, in Jaime 4, James 4, is my book in the Bible, James. In Spanish, the book is called Santiago, always I ask, I'm wondering, because Santiago is different word than Jaime, but it's the same root, so it's the same.

For me, it's Jaime. So, James 4, verse 8. There are near to God, and He will drop near to you. So if we drop near to God, He will. So we need to trust in the relationship with God, we need to make our part, and God will.

So, for the Passover is coming, Jesus Christ needs to death for us, but after death, He rises, so it's good news for us, because He overcome the fight with the death.

It's interesting, it's a new word I learned yesterday, interesting, but there is, after the chapter 22 in Psalms, there is a chapter 23.

Maybe all the people know what say chapter 23, because it's a... maybe someone needs to call, because the conversation is good.

Well, after chapter 22, there is the chapter 23. So, the Lord, the Lord, the shepherd of... no, the Lord is my shepherd.

So, I shall not want. He makes me to lie. Someone is calling. I am busy, sorry.

No, just kidding.

Well, after chapter 22 is a good news, because the Lord help us. The Lord is our shepherd, and the verse 4, I walk through the valley of the chadom of the dead, I will fear no evil, because God is with us. So, we need to trust in God. It's a good news. After chapter 23, so after Jesus Christ died, Jesus Christ rise for us, and for... for share His... His glory with us. So, we are... we are certain that Jesus Christ, after suffering, suffering physical torture, after bearing the sins of the age of us, after being away from God the Father, He overcome the death, and He want the battle for us, and He will share His victory and His truth with us. Just if we have the humility to bend our nets and ask Him every day for... every day forgiveness for our sins, ask Him that we don't want to be away from the Father's love and the Jesus love. He help us. So, thank you for the opportunity to be here, everyone. Thank you for... for hear us. We have the only one way for... to be together, maybe for... don't stay away for a long time. Maybe the next feast, if we keep the commandments, we stay together. Or maybe several feast more... more. Or, if not, we are together in the... in the Kingdom of God.