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Disagree, agree, or have a question: Contact us through the contact page on our website; http://www.biblebulldog.com PASTOR WILLIAM'S BOOKS: https://www.amazon.com/stores/William-Shifflett/author/B005H0F1GG Matthew 26:39 - And going a little farther He fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.” In Gethsemane, Jesus comes to the moment when He must drink that cup. The hour had come. The full horrors of sin and guilt are now present­ed to Him. He is under the shadow of the cross. He wrestles with this. He wrestles in prayer so intense that He fell upon His face on the ground and sweat great drops of blood. What is this cup? Do Christians have an appropriate fear of the wrath of God? Has sin blinded us, so we do not see what sin deserves? “What Jesus recoils from here is not an anticipation of the physical pain associated with crucifixion. Rather it’s a pain infinitely greater – the agony of being abandoned by His Father.” --- Was there something greater to Him in this, something greater even than the dread of God’s holy wrath? He had come to do the will of the Father. Was it for this pur­pose that Jesus came into the world? Psalm 116:13 - I will lift up the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord, “Today you and I find ourselves with another cup in our hands. It’s the cup of salvation.” God’s holy eye still sees the vileness of our sin, yet in Christ there is no condemnation. Romans 8:31-37 - What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? 32 He who did not spare his own Son but gave Him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? 33 Who shall bring any charge against God's elect? It is God who justifies. 34 Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written,“For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.