Jesus Final Week – Friday (2)

Following their Passover observance Jesus and His disciples leave the upper room and journey toward the Garden of Gethsemane.  It is here that Jesus will begin His first trial.  The trial faced is not judicial or legal – it is an inner trial.  Specifically, Jesus will endure a trial of sorrow.

Isaiah had foretold concerning Christ,  “He has no stately form or majesty That we should look upon Him, Nor appearance that we should be attracted to Him.  He was despised and forsaken of men, A man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief…”  Isa. 53:2-3.  Jesus’ life truly was a life sorrows.

This lesson will discuss the sorrow Jesus and the disciples faced in the garden.  They both suffer.  Scripture says the disciples were found “sleeping from sorrow” (Lk. 22:45).   However, the Savior responds to His “sorrow to death” in a much different fashion.   The sleeping disciples allowed their sorrow to empower the attitudes that would cause them all to fall away (Mt. 26:31).   The sorrow-filled Savior would surrender to the Father thus overcoming His sorrow and go without reservation to the cross.  Same sorrow + different responses to their sorrow = different outcome.  One sufferer enjoys victory over sorrow the others become victims of their sorrow.  Who do you imitate when sorrow knocks on your heart?

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