Jesus Walked in Spiritual Misfortune

The misfortunes of Jesus life-walk included physical and emotional suffering.  This week we look at how He also was called upon to endure spiritual misfortune.

Following the Passover observance in the upper room, Jesus and the disciples trek to the Mt. of Olives and come to the Garden of Gethsemane.  It is here that Jesus will encounter the magnitude of spiritual misfortune, the “cup,” which the Father is giving Him to drink.  To what is Jesus referring when He asks the Father to relieve Him of drinking that cup?  What is the cup Jesus will drink if it is the Father’s will?   What is the cup which agonizes His soul and from which He would rather not drink? 

In this study we will discover that the term “cup:”

• Is used as a metaphor for one’s individual fate or life position.  As such it can reference positive happenings held in life’s situations.  It can also be used when describing negative circumstances into which one’s life falls.  And it is even used to reference death itself as a fate all must encounter.
• The cup Jesus is asked to drink also holds the a curse.  The curse of the Law.
• Jesus’ cup also involves a cross.  A cross which was filled to the brim with agony, aloneness, and acceptance.
• Yet, the cup Jesus was willing to drink also represents a cure.  Not a healing but a cure for human sin.

Jesus drank a cup.  A cup that agonized His spirit.  A cup that contained His life purpose and painful objective.  A cup the was filled with the ugliness of a curse.  A cup containing a cross.   And a cup that would bring about a cure.

The objective of this lesson is to help the listener comprehend that Jesus drank a dreadful cup, a cup each of us should have drunk ourselves.  Jesus took that cup from the Father’s hands, swallowed all that was detestable, consumed all its contents leaving it completely empty.  Then He filled the cup with His curing life-blood and extended to us, in His own nail-scarred-hands, a new cup – a cup of blessing!

Are you drinking from that cup of blessing?  If not why not?  What possible reason is there for continuing to drink the dregs of destruction when Jesus offers a cup of celebration and life?  If we can help you enjoy that new cup, the cup of salvation,  please send us a message by using the “contact us” tab on our home page.

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