Just east of the old city of
Jerusalem is the Kidron Valley.
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At the edge of the Kidron
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and progressing up
to the Mount of Olives
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lies the Garden of Gethsemane.
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When we think
of the word garden,
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we often think of
a bunch of flowers
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or a small patch of vegetables.
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But in the Middle
East, garden can mean
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grove or vineyard as well.
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Growing in this
garden were olive trees.
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Gethsemane means an oil press.
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Right here or within a few
hundred yards of this very spot
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Jesus was
baptized in the same way
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everyone who follows
Him must be baptized.
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Hey, guys, something
is wrong with this report.
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Jesus wasn't baptized
here that was at the Jordon.
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Did somebody swap my pages?
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You need water for baptism.
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Today's study may not cause
any "Thunder in the Holy Land"
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and it certainly won't cause the
department of tourism to change
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any of the signs
directing us to Gethsemane
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as the baptismal site of Jesus.
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But for all those who
have chosen to embrace
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the wonderful love of Jesus,
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I hope it will cause some
serious thunder in our hearts
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because Gethsemane is indeed,
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the very site of
Jesus' baptism in a cup.
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Our study today begins
with a session of worship
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and then a prayer request
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by two of Jesus'
disciples and their mother.
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"Then came to him the
mother of Zebedee's children
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with her sons, worshipping him,
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and desiring a
certain thing of him.
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And he said unto
her, What wilt thou?
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She saith unto him, Grant
that these my two sons may sit,
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the one on thy right
hand, and the other on my left,
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in thy kingdom.
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But Jesus answered and
said, Ye know not what ye ask.
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Are ye able to drink of
the cup that I shall drink of,
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and to be baptized with the
baptism that I am baptized with?
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They say unto him, We are able.
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And he saith unto them, Ye
shall drink indeed of my cup,
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and be baptized with the
baptism I am baptized with,
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but to sit on my right hand, and
on my left, is not mine to give,
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but it shall be given to them
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for whom it is
prepared of my Father."
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As we look at
the words of Jesus,
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He says twice that there is
a baptism I am baptized with.
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The tense of I am
is present continuous.
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Jesus is talking about a
baptism that is happening now
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in the present
and it's on going.
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Now I'm going to
ask an obvious question,
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but before I do we need to look
at one more verse, Luke 12:50.
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Here Jesus is again
talking about His baptism
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and notice the
tense in this verse
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is different
from the last verse.
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"But I have a
baptism to be baptized with,
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and how am I straitened
till it be accomplished!"
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To be is future tense.
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So here is the
expanded question.
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When was Jesus baptized?
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Was it at his
baptism in the Jordan River
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with John the
Baptist, past tense?
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Or was it something
happening in the here
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and now on a daily basis,
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present continuous
tense as Jesus portrayed
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to James and
John and their mother?
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Or was it yet to be in
the future as Jesus shared
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with His
disciples in Luke 12:50.
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The answer to this question will
also solve Andrea's quandary.
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Let's join our reporters along
the foot of the Mount of Olives
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in the Kidron Valley.
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Jesus clearly talked
about a present tense
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and a future tense baptism.
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But rarely understand what
He was actually getting at,
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we first need to understand the
meaning of the word baptized.
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The word baptized comes
from the Greek word baptidzo
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and it means to
immerse, or to submerge.
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It's an industrial word
used in the textile mills.
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A large vat was put in place for
dyeing wool or linen et cetera.
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The material was then
baptidzo or fully submerged
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to render it a
completely new color.
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And perhaps the
clearest example that shows
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the meaning of the
word baptidzo is a text
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from the Greek
poet and physician
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Nicander who
lived around 200 B.C.
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It's a recipe for
making of all things, pickles.
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This recipe is
helpful to understand baptism
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because it uses
the word baptidzo
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and its root word bapto.
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Nicander says
that to make a pickle
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the vegetable
should first be dipped
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or bapto into boiling water.
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And then baptized or baptidzo
in the vinegar solution.
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Now both verbs concern
the immersing of vegetables
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in a solution, but
the first is temporary.
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The second the act of
baptizing the vegetable
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produces a permanent
change whether dyeing cloth
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or preserving cucumbers
there's a complete change
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transformation when
a baptism takes place.
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And so it was with
Jesus at His baptism.
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Well, what was
baptism as defined by Jesus?
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Jesus interprets the baptism He
is talking about in Luke 9:23.
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"And he said to them all,
If any man will come after me,
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let him deny himself,
and take up his cross daily,
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and follow me."
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If there is a single
truth that Jesus taught
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that caused folks to reject
Him as messiah this is it.
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And death to self would
never make Wall Street a profit.
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No, and death to self has
never sold well even in church.
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But did others understand
this teaching of Jesus?
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Well, Levi, John the
Baptist certainly understood.
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In Luke 3:7-8 we read,
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"Then said he to the multitude
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that came forth to
be baptized of him...
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Bring forth therefore
fruits worthy of repentance."
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For the masses of people
that meant don't be selfish.
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If you have excess share it.
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That will cost you time and
you will slim down your closet,
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but self does not need as
much as it thinks it does.
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For the tax
collectors, that meant
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not charging more
than they were supposed to.
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Self doesn't need money
if it means taking money
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that doesn't belong to you.
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For the soldiers, it
meant doing violence to no man.
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Telling the truth and
being content with their wages.
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And the Apostle Paul clearly
understood what Jesus meant
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when He wrote to
the folks in Corinth.
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Telling them that he was,
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"Always bearing
about in the body
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the dying of the Lord Jesus,
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that the life also of Jesus
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might be made
manifest in our body.
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For we which live are
always delivered unto death
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for Jesus' sake, that
the life also of Jesus
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might be made
manifest in our mortal flesh."
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What constant dying
was Paul talking about?
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The same dying Jesus
talked about in Luke 9:23.
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"Death to self
and living for God."
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Paul made it clear how often
death to self must take place.
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"I die daily. Be not deceived,
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evil communications
corrupt good manners."
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Evil communication is
not just using a curse word.
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We're gonna engage
in evil communication
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just by saying something like
I got to do what's right for me.
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But Jesus our
example died to self
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and did what His
father wanted Him to do.
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He did what was right for us.
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That you got to look
out for number one mentality
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is another evil communication
that Jesus rejected.
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This rejection of
self, this embrace of love
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which is the principle of
giving what is needed most
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is the cup that Jesus was
talking about in Matthew 20
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and it's the same baptism
that Jesus was committed to.
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To willingly lose one's life
that is to choose death to self,
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to choose Christ's will in place
of your own doesn't seem normal,
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but it's the only way to
save your life in the end.
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And this was not
just a teaching of Jesus
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it was the life He lived.
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Okay, I think I see
where this is going.
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Jesus was a real
person, a real human being.
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He was fully man.
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He had thoughts,
feelings, and preferences.
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He walked in our skin
and thus knows our pain,
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our suffering,
sadness and heartache.
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Through the gift of
prophecy and through Revelation
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Jesus knew that the
Father sent Him here
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to die on behalf of
sinful and ungrateful man.
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He knew in advance that
He was going to be betrayed
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by one of His own disciples.
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He already knew that
the rest of His disciples
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would abandon Him at His arrest.
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And He knew Peter
would swear with an oath
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that he didn't even know Him.
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All of this foreknowledge
brought to the heart of Jesus
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great emotional
pain and distress.
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And as He went into
the Garden of Gethsemane
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He told His disciples,
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"My soul is exceeding
sorrowful, even unto death,
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tarry ye hear,
and watch with me."
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This sorrow was even unto death.
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To give you a true picture
of where He was emotionally,
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look at Luke 22:44,
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"And being in an agony
He prayed more earnestly
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and His sweat was as it
were great drops of blood
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falling down to the ground."
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He wasn't just emotionally
troubled, he was in agony.
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Come.
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Meet a man who knows
your pain, heartache,
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suffering, sorrows and burdens.
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No matter what you've
experienced by way of loss,
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pain, tragedy or grief.
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He has tasted it too
with one important difference.
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It wasn't just
inflicted upon Him.
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He chose to come to live for us,
to die for us, by dying to self.
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He chose to give up His desires,
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His wishes if His
Father so directed.
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He didn't say I got to look out
for number one or I have to do
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what's right for me or I
don't feel like doing that.
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You see, He knows
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that the only way out of this
snakepit of sin called earth
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is through complete
and total death to self.
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The symbol of baptism
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is going down under the
water and coming back up.
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But what true
baptism is, is dying to self
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and letting Christ
live in you and through you.
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If you want to follow
Jesus in that experience,
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there is a prayer
you must often pray.
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It's the same
prayer Jesus prayed
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at His baptism in the garden.
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You can read it in Mark 14:36.
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"And He said, Abba, Father,
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all things are
possible unto thee,
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take away this cup from me,
nevertheless not what I will,
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but what thou wilt."
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Not what I want, but
what you want, Father.
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This prayer is so important
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and we can see the
importance of that prayer
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for other
people, for evil people.
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But that prayer was
important for Jesus too.
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Jesus could have been
selfish, bitter or angry.
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After all, He was
misunderstood and mistreated.
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He was accused
of being a bastard.
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He was marked,
flogged and finally crucified.
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With all this
mistreatment you can be sure
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Satan was there suggesting
all kinds of thoughts.
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If Jesus had ever
allowed those suggestions
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to motivate His
thoughts or feelings,
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I can assure you
the outcome of His life
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would have been
very, very different.
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It is apparent that throughout
His life He was always seeking
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God's will, God's heart,
God's thoughts to be His own.
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One clear proof of that
is the night on the lake.
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Jesus was exhausted from a
long day of selfless ministry.
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So He directed His disciples
to send the multitude away
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and then take Him by boat
to the other side of the lake.
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A terrible storm came up
and put their lives in jeopardy,
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but Jesus slept through it.
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Exhaustion will do that.
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Imagine being
awakened by 12 frightened,
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no panic men screaming.
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Don't you care
that we are perishing?
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Now being
awakened in that manner
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from such a sound sleep
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I would think He would
get a surge of adrenaline,
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but He wakes calmly.
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And with just a
word rebukes the winds
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and the waves and the storm
melts away into a gentle calm.
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"And He said unto
them, why are ye so fearful?
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How is it that ye have no faith?
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And they feared exceedingly,
and said one to another,
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what manner of man is
this, that even the wind
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and the sea obey Him?"
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Put yourself in
the place of Jesus,
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would you have woken up calm?
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I've been there
so I know I wouldn't.
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How is it that
Jesus could do this?
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Because He was daily baptized
with the spirit of repentance,
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He was daily dying to self
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and choosing to live
in the will of His Father.
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This made a difference
in every part of His life,
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even in the area of fear.
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He woke up in peace.
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How did He do that?
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Well, one of my
favorite authors once wrote,
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"It is the love of self
that destroys our peace.
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While self is all alive,
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we stand ready continually
to guard it from mortification
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and insult, but
when we are dead,
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and our life is
hid with Christ in God,
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we shall not take
neglects or slights to heart.
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We shall be deaf to reproach
and blind to scorn and insult."
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If we are living in the
center of the Father's will,
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nothing can
happen or will happen
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without His authorization.
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So we never need
to worry or fret.
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Jesus did not, and
we don't need to either
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if we choose the
same faith Jesus chose.
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Trust is the basis for a
successful love relationship
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whether horizontal or vertical.
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And that's why Jesus
could say in John 10:17,
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"Therefore doth
my Father love me,
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because I
willingly lay down my life,
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that I might take it again."
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Now most of us think, His
death happened at the cross
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and that's partially correct.
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It was played out and
finished on the cross,
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but the real death to self?
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The real baptism in a
cup happened the night before
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in the Garden of Gethsemane.
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The olive tree is an evergreen
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that can grow 50 feet tall
and with the spread of 30 feet
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except for a few
diseases that can take it out,
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it's said that the
olive tree will never die.
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Its root system is robust
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and is capable of
regenerating the tree
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even if the above
ground structure is destroyed.
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During the siege of Jerusalem
by the Roman armies in AD 70,
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the Romans cut
all the trees down
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around the city to
help build the siege rams.
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So it's unlikely
that any of the trees
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Jesus prayed
under are still here.
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But here in the
Garden of Gethsemane
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are some trees that
may well have grown up
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from the roots of
those that were here then.
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I wanted you to see the
descendants of these trees
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that witnessed the
great struggle of Jesus.
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Before it was right
here or very near by
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that Jesus was faced
with a grave decision.
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Would He willingly do
what His Father asked of Him?
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Or would He choose
to follow His feelings?
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And this is the same question
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that we are faced
with each and every day.
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Will we keep the Sabbath
that Jesus made for mankind?
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And will we love our enemies
the way that Jesus taught us to?
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Will we humble our proud hearts
and wash one another's feet?
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Will we seek first the Kingdom
of God and His righteousness?
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In this case Jesus was
being asked to die for people
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who didn't
understand or even care.
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Now His fears are awakened
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by the tons of
the demon's whispers.
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God hates sin so much you
will never be with Him again.
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If you die now
you may die forever,
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never to be with
your Father again.
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These people are not worth it.
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The cup begins to
tremble in His hands,
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so He prays harder,
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"Saying. Father,
if thou be willing,
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remove this cup from me,
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nevertheless not my
will, but thine, be done."
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He wasn't asking
Father, what is your will?
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He already knew what the
Father was asking of Him.
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He was praying
that His human heart
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which cease to
clammer for deliverance.
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He was praying for the comfort
00:18:14.26\00:18:15.78
that comes from
obedience, born of repentance.
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His prayer for
deliverance goes unanswered.
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The silence of God is deafening.
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The cup trembles in His hands.
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It's a bitter cup full of
the wrath that God has for sin.
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A load of sin from all mankind
begins to snuff out His life.
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But He can't die here.
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He can't die now.
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That would not
fulfill the prophecies.
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So the Father sends an
angel to strengthen Him,
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thus prolonging the
pain of our dear Savior.
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I can see it with
divine imagination
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Jesus on the ground
holding the baptismal cup.
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And there's not
enough room for self
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if you have been
baptized in a cup.
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The self must die
and be left aside.
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If you would be submerged
in true repentant baptism,
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there's no room
for self to live.
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As His life begins to ebb away,
00:19:13.91\00:19:16.18
there in that
darkness of the night,
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a glow begins to form
around the head of Jesus.
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As He looks up through
eyes blurred with tears,
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He sees an angel on the
ground there before Him.
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And with purposeful
intent the angel reaches out
00:19:28.54\00:19:32.77
and folding Christ
weak and trembling hands,
00:19:32.80\00:19:36.74
making steady the spiritual
chalice that bitter cup.
00:19:36.77\00:19:42.01
The angel looks deep
into the eyes of our Savior
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and says, "Drink ye all of it."
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It is hard now but the bitter
must come before the sweet.
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There will be
countless souls in heaven
00:19:53.15\00:19:55.23
who respond to your
gift, your sacrifice
00:19:55.26\00:19:59.12
though all men
should forsake you,
00:19:59.15\00:20:00.74
though it appears your
father has forsaken you.
00:20:00.77\00:20:04.18
You are not alone,
endure by faith, endure.
00:20:04.21\00:20:09.28
And that was the
beginning of the miracle,
00:20:13.32\00:20:16.93
a very real miracle
that can be ours as well.
00:20:16.96\00:20:21.90
I can't imagine the
struggle Jesus went through
00:20:21.93\00:20:24.70
and He did it for
me, He did it for you.
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And a fantastic miracle occurred
right here in the garden.
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The Father actually
granted Him His request.
00:20:30.30\00:20:32.87
Not the first one let
this cup pass from me,
00:20:32.90\00:20:35.71
but the second one, not
my will but thy will be done.
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God anointed Jesus
with the divine nature
00:20:40.50\00:20:42.38
just like He will do
00:20:42.41\00:20:43.78
for every believing
repenting child of God.
00:20:43.81\00:20:46.24
He actually took
Jesus' right brain,
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His emotions, His heart
00:20:48.12\00:20:49.70
and changed them so
that what He really wanted
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was exactly what
His Father wanted.
00:20:52.43\00:20:54.86
Jesus' will was
swallowed up in the will of God.
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There was a gift that
came from the outside,
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from heavenly places
00:21:00.73\00:21:02.47
into the very mind
and heart of Jesus.
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With three biblical
proofs I can confirm
00:21:05.02\00:21:07.17
this miracle took place
right here in Gethsemane.
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These stories prove
that Jesus experienced
00:21:10.21\00:21:12.45
true baptism
and true repentance.
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Torch lights could be seen
coming down from Mount Zion.
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A mob sent from the priests and
elders with swords and clubs.
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His own disciple
Judas was leading them.
00:21:21.88\00:21:24.27
He led them to
Jesus and he kissed Him,
00:21:24.30\00:21:26.70
defending love and friendship.
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If you have ever been betrayed
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then you know how
repugnant that act was.
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Here's the first
proof recorded by Matthew.
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"And Jesus said to him,
'Friend, why have you come?'"
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Jesus called Judas, friend.
00:21:39.46\00:21:42.06
Not friend, but friend.
00:21:42.09\00:21:45.74
This is not natural
human behavior for someone
00:21:45.77\00:21:47.86
who's being betrayed
but it is divine behavior.
00:21:47.89\00:21:51.25
Jesus died to self, to
human thoughts and feelings.
00:21:51.28\00:21:54.41
And now through
this miracle of God
00:21:54.44\00:21:56.35
He felt about things
the way His Father did
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and He acted accordingly.
00:21:58.82\00:22:00.65
That is what true
baptism is all about.
00:22:00.68\00:22:03.67
To love your enemy,
00:22:03.70\00:22:05.07
to speak kindly to your
betrayer, that's a miracle.
00:22:05.10\00:22:08.59
The second miracle
is found in John 18:10.
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When Peter pulled out his sword
00:22:11.43\00:22:12.80
and cut off the high
priest servant's ear.
00:22:12.83\00:22:14.93
This is the stuff that
every movie is made of,
00:22:14.96\00:22:17.13
there's not an action hero,
not one high drama thriller
00:22:17.16\00:22:20.27
where they don't
use their strength
00:22:20.30\00:22:21.70
and power to deliver self.
00:22:21.73\00:22:24.43
But not Jesus, for Him self
had already died in the garden.
00:22:24.46\00:22:30.04
"Then said Jesus unto Peter,
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put up thy
sword into the sheath,
00:22:31.53\00:22:33.33
the cup which my Father hath
given me, shall I not drink it?"
00:22:33.36\00:22:37.35
Now it's time to go the
cross to drink the bitter cup.
00:22:37.38\00:22:40.80
Instead of
fighting for His own rights,
00:22:40.83\00:22:42.52
for His own life, He
willingly laid it down.
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That's the second miracle.
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The final
miracle came the next day
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as they hung Him on the cross
00:22:50.01\00:22:51.43
and then
gambled for His clothes.
00:22:51.46\00:22:53.52
Instead of
whining, cursing or crying,
00:22:53.55\00:22:56.24
He prayed for those
who were doing him wrong.
00:22:56.27\00:22:59.25
"Then said Jesus,
Father, forgive them
00:22:59.28\00:23:02.34
for they know not what they do."
00:23:02.37\00:23:04.55
Praying for those
who are mistreating you
00:23:04.58\00:23:06.01
is another miracle
that clearly demonstrates
00:23:06.04\00:23:08.63
Jesus' baptism in the garden.
00:23:08.66\00:23:11.09
That's where He
really died to self.
00:23:11.12\00:23:13.46
That's where He
was baptized in a cup.
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The baptismal
service like marriage
00:23:17.30\00:23:19.71
is a beautiful ceremony.
00:23:19.74\00:23:21.53
I've enjoyed
watching many people
00:23:21.56\00:23:23.13
throughout the years
stand before the minister
00:23:23.16\00:23:25.19
and with love in
their eyes and voice
00:23:25.22\00:23:27.07
to make that sound vow, "I do."
00:23:27.10\00:23:30.28
But now I'm coming to realize
00:23:30.31\00:23:31.80
that for the most
part they probably didn't
00:23:31.83\00:23:34.04
fully comprehend what
they were saying, yes, to.
00:23:34.07\00:23:37.08
The same was true for me
00:23:37.11\00:23:38.48
in regard to my
relationship with the Lord.
00:23:38.51\00:23:41.05
At 16 years of age, I
said, "I do to the Lord."
00:23:41.08\00:23:45.47
I was baptized saying,
00:23:45.50\00:23:47.05
yes, to everything I
understood at that time.
00:23:47.08\00:23:50.82
That was five years ago
and as I look at myself then,
00:23:50.85\00:23:54.29
I can't help but smile and
shake my head at my naivety.
00:23:54.32\00:23:58.38
I had much to learn.
00:23:58.41\00:24:01.29
For example, the Bible
says, we're saved by grace.
00:24:01.32\00:24:05.29
I embraced that truth
without fully understanding it
00:24:05.32\00:24:08.24
and then took off down
the non-denominational path.
00:24:08.27\00:24:11.58
But now I've learned that
grace according to Titus 2:12,
00:24:11.61\00:24:16.18
"Teaches us to deny
ungodliness and worldly lusts
00:24:16.21\00:24:20.34
and to live soberly, righteously
and godly in the present age."
00:24:20.37\00:24:26.27
Grace, according
to all of Scripture
00:24:26.30\00:24:29.22
promises to give
us the life of Jesus.
00:24:29.25\00:24:32.44
The life of death to
self and the new life
00:24:32.47\00:24:35.48
that comes with the new heart,
He gives to all who ask for it.
00:24:35.51\00:24:40.38
Now what does that
look like in the real world?
00:24:40.41\00:24:43.44
Well, for me death to self
means giving up the movies,
00:24:43.47\00:24:47.61
the television and the music
00:24:47.64\00:24:49.41
that doesn't bring
me closer to Christ.
00:24:49.44\00:24:52.06
It means giving up
the way I prefer to dress.
00:24:52.09\00:24:54.86
The clothing that brings me
00:24:54.89\00:24:56.26
more attention
than it does my Savior.
00:24:56.29\00:24:58.83
Death to self means
giving up my dream of becoming
00:24:58.86\00:25:01.82
a sought-after
sports broadcaster
00:25:01.85\00:25:04.08
and replacing it with
God's plan for my life.
00:25:04.11\00:25:07.90
It means giving up my
focus on popularity and success
00:25:07.93\00:25:11.78
and caring more
about God's goals.
00:25:11.81\00:25:14.56
And it means
waking up every morning
00:25:14.59\00:25:16.90
and just asking God how
He wants me to spend my day.
00:25:16.93\00:25:19.93
What He wants me to do, to say,
to eat, to think, everything.
00:25:19.96\00:25:24.39
And let me tell you
00:25:24.42\00:25:25.79
Andrea Endries can be a
stubborn person to kill.
00:25:25.82\00:25:29.48
But throughout
the last five years
00:25:29.51\00:25:31.61
God has been guiding me
through my Garden of Gethsemane.
00:25:31.64\00:25:35.47
So today, I'm choosing to
enter that same experience
00:25:35.50\00:25:39.11
of Jesus at the
Jordan, here in Israel.
00:25:39.14\00:25:42.60
The same baptism,
the same repentance
00:25:42.63\00:25:45.58
that leads to
fulfilling all righteousness,
00:25:45.61\00:25:49.18
I'm choosing death to
self and the born again heart
00:25:49.21\00:25:53.36
that leads me to a
new life in Christ.
00:25:53.39\00:25:56.63
Jesus' baptism
at the Jordan River
00:25:59.52\00:26:01.67
was symbolic of what He
did every day of His life.
00:26:01.70\00:26:05.58
He took up His cross daily.
00:26:05.61\00:26:07.71
He died to self daily
00:26:07.74\00:26:09.70
and followed the will
of our Father in heaven.
00:26:09.73\00:26:13.11
The Jordan baptism was symbolic,
00:26:13.14\00:26:15.35
but in the Garden of
Gethsemane it was literal.
00:26:15.38\00:26:19.28
True baptism is not a
sacred right that guarantees you
00:26:19.31\00:26:23.10
a new and happy
life in Christ anymore
00:26:23.13\00:26:26.03
than having a wedding
ceremony guarantees you
00:26:26.06\00:26:28.49
a wonderful and happy marriage.
00:26:28.52\00:26:31.04
Baptism is a sacred ordinance
00:26:31.07\00:26:33.75
that testifies of
your choice to die to self
00:26:33.78\00:26:36.95
and embrace the new
life that Christ provides
00:26:36.98\00:26:40.09
through daily Bible study prayer
00:26:40.12\00:26:42.39
and sharing your faith.
00:26:42.42\00:26:44.46
For baptism to be of any
value we must like Christ,
00:26:44.49\00:26:48.73
allow the Father's
will to be our will,
00:26:48.76\00:26:51.60
even when He
asks the hard thing.
00:26:51.63\00:26:54.28
We must embrace His gift of
repentance and His new heart.
00:26:54.31\00:26:59.05
So who should be baptized?
00:26:59.08\00:27:02.85
Those who are receiving
the new heart of repentance,
00:27:02.88\00:27:06.25
feeling about
things the way God does
00:27:06.28\00:27:08.46
and receiving a changed life.
00:27:08.49\00:27:11.47
Those who are
willing to die to self
00:27:11.50\00:27:13.48
and let Jesus live in them,
00:27:13.51\00:27:16.21
those who believe in
Jesus and His doctrines
00:27:16.24\00:27:19.83
and choose to be followers
00:27:19.86\00:27:21.50
of this repentant
dying to self man.
00:27:21.53\00:27:25.67
Those who wish to become part
of the body of Jesus Christ,
00:27:25.70\00:27:29.98
the church and those who
want to be with Christ now
00:27:30.01\00:27:34.52
and finally
forever with Him in heaven.
00:27:34.55\00:27:38.72
So what about you, friend?
00:27:38.75\00:27:40.78
Would you like to follow Jesus
into a new and abundant life?
00:27:40.81\00:27:45.35