Shabbat Shalom, everyone. Please open your Bibles to the Gospel of Mark. We are studying today in Mark 14:27-52. Please follow me as we read. And Yeshua saith unto them, All ye shall be offended because of me this night. For it is written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered. But after that I am risen, I will go before you into Galilee. But Peter said unto him, All shall be offended, yet will not I. And Yeshua saith unto him, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, even in this night, Before the cock crow twice, Thou shalt deny me thrice. But he spake the more vehemently, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee in any wise.

Likewise also said they all. And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane. And he saith to his disciples, Sit ye here, while I shall pray. And he taketh with him Peter and James and John, And he began to be so amazed, And to be very heavy. And he saith unto them, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful unto death, Tarry ye here and watch. And he went forward a little, And fell on the ground, And prayed that if it were possible, The hour might pass away from him. He said, Abba, Father, All things are possible unto thee. Take away this cup from me. Nevertheless, not what I will, But what thou wilt.

And he cometh, And he findeth them sleeping. And he saith unto Peter, Simon, Sleepest thou? Couldn't not thou watch one hour? Watch ye and pray, Lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, But the flesh is weak. And again he went away, And prayed and spake the same words. And when he returned, He found them sleep again. For their eyes were heavy, Neither wist they what to answer him. And he cometh the third time. And he saith unto them, Sleep on now, And take your rest. It is enough. The hour is come. Behold, The Son of Man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Rise up, Let us go. Lo, He that betrayeth me is at hand. And immediately, And immediately, While he had spake, Cometh Judas, One of the twelve, And with him great multitude, With swords and staves, From the chief priests, And the scribes, And the elders. And he that betrayed him, Had given them a token, Saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, The same is he. Take him, And lead him away safely. And as soon as he was come, He goeth straightway to him, And saith, Master, Master. And he kissed him. And they laid their hands on him, And took him. And one of them, That stood by, Drew a sword, And smote a servant of the high priest, And cut off his ear.

And Yeshua answered and said unto them, Are ye come out as against a thief, With swords and with staves, To take me? I was daily with you in the temple, Teaching, And ye took me not, But the scripture must be fulfilled. And they all forsook him, And fled. And there followed him a certain young man, Having a linen cloth, Cast about his naked body. And the young man laid hold on him. And he left the linen cloth, And he fled from them naked. And I am stopping here, With this fifty-second verse. Now this is a very moving chapter, To remind you, Beloved brothers and sisters, That Jesus, Yeshua the Messiah, Is being presented in the Gospel of Mark, As the servant of Jehovah, As the servant of the Lord.

Amazing to see the reason, That he came from heaven. He came in order, That he will accomplish the work of redemption. You and I needed forgiveness of sins. And therefore, The Father sent the Son, To become the Savior of this world. In the plan of God, In the eternity past, The triune Godhead, Made a commitment, Made a commitment, And a decision, To send the Messiah down to this world, In order that you and I, Will be redeemed, If we only trust, In the work of God, The Son, Who became a man, And died for us, On the shameful cross. And here, Beloved brothers and sisters, Mark is presenting before us, The anticipation, Of the Lord Jesus, The Lord Yeshua the Messiah, As he was approaching, And arriving to the garden of Gethsemane, Gatshmanim, This garden, He was anticipating his death for us, On that shameful cross.

He was heading faithfully, Remember we read earlier, As a flint, He set his face as a flint, As a solid rock, To go all the way to the altar, To the cross, Where he is going to become, The Messiah, The Savior, And the Redeemer. And so here, In this passage we read today, We can see the agony, The sorrows, That he has experienced in his soul, This is Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, As he was anticipating, Just a little bit later on, When he will die, For the sin of this world, The whole question of sin, Is going to be laid upon him, Soon, Very soon, After a few hours, From the time, That he finds himself here.

Now to remind you, If you remember, Beloved brothers and sisters, He just finished, He just finished, To celebrate, Passover, With his disciples, That very evening, On the 14th day, Of the month of Nisan, Yeshua, Was celebrating, Pesach, With his disciples, In the upper room, We read it, In verse 22, On, And as he was celebrating, Pesach, Passover, He was introducing, What is known today, As the Lord's Supper, He was introducing, The new covenant, The Brit HaChadasha, And if you remember, He said to them, In verse 23, And 24, He took the cup, And when he had given thanks, He gave it to them, And they all drank of it, And he said unto them, Verse

24, This is my blood, Of the new covenant, Which is shed for many, He took the cup, One of the four cups, The cup of redemption, Which represented, His shed blood, Which will be shed, Not too long, Hours after, He took that, And he says, This is the cup, Of the Brit HaChadasha, Of the new covenant, Which is shed for many, And you can just imagine, He was just anticipating now, That he is going to have, To lay down his life, He is going to have to die, He is going to have to make, A Brit HaChadasha, A new covenant, That was promised to Israel, Our people of old, In Jeremiah chapter 31, Many years

earlier, That the Messiah will come, And all of us, Who have broken, The old covenant, This is the law, He is going to introduce, A new covenant, The Brit HaChadasha, And how he is going, To accomplish, A new covenant, He will have to give, His body, He will have to shed, His blood, He will have to become, A sacrifice, A kapara, A kaporet, For the whole, Nations of the world, And so as he, Finished, With the celebration, Of Pesach, And the introduction, Of the Brit HaChadasha, The new covenant, They all together, Sung him, They sung, As it says here, In verse 26, This is the last verse, In our previous, Meeting together, And when they

had sung, A hymn, The word for hymn here, Comes from the Hebrew word, Hallel, Hallel is a singular, For hallelu, Or tehilim, Or praise, These are the psalms, That is, Even up till today, Our own families, Would sing, At the end of Passover, Very normal, Very part of the celebration, Of Pesach, Is the singing, Of the Hallel Psalm, Psalm, Psalm 113, To 118, And especially, Beloved brothers, And sisters, In that, Hallel songs, That they were singing together, In Psalm, 118, We have, The psalmist of Israel, Anticipating, The coming day, When the Messiah, Will come, And he will, Become, The redeemer of Israel, And the savior of the world, In Psalm 118, Verse 22, We read,

The stones, Which the builders, Refuse, Is become, The head, Stone, Of the corner, This is the Lord's doing, It is marvelous, In our eyes, Verse 24, This is the day, Which the Lord has made, We will rejoice, And be glad in it, This is the day, The day, Not only an ordinary day, The day, Where God, Have appointed, For the Messiah, To give his life, As a ransom, For many, Where Yeshua, The Messiah, Was already, Pre, Planned it, In eternity, Pass, Where he is going, To come, And to become, A sacrifice, For the sin, Of this world, This is the Lord's doing, It's not man's doing, It is marvelous, In our eyes, God have planned,

That the Messiah, Will come, And he will, Provide redemption, This is the day, That the Lord, Has made, We will rejoice, And be glad, In it, And why, We can rejoice, Why Israel said, We can rejoice, Because then, The Redeemer, Have paid the price, For sin, And their sins, Will be forgiven, And all the sacrifices, That were given, In all their time, Which were shy, Of good things, To come, Where the Messiah, Have finally come, He was the one, That removed, Completely, The sin, Of this world, And you remember, What we read, Blessed is he, That cometh, In the name of the Lord, This is part of, Psalm 118, The Hallel, Psalm, That was sung,

On Pesach, On Passover, As they were singing, Together, Before Yeshua, Went with them, Into the garden, Of Gethsemane, It says here, In verse 27, Bind the sacrifice, With cords, Even unto the horn, Of the altar, And then we read, In the last verse, It says, Oh give thanks, Unto the Lord, For he is good, For his mercy, And doeth forever, Beloved brothers, And sisters, You and I, Were not there, But had we have been there, We also will have, Very little appreciation, Of what Yeshua, Was anticipating, He knew, His word, He knew, God's scripture, He wrote, The word of God, He had given it, To the people of Israel, To put this together, And he

knew, That the day, Is approaching, And he is going, To be taken, And to suffer, On a shameful altar, On the cross, To become, The savior, Of this world, So we read together, In verse 26, Of Mark chapter 14, That after they sang, The Hallel Psalms, They went out, To the Mount of Olives, And you can just see them, Walking down, From Mount Moriah, All the way down, Crossing the brook, Of Kidron, Climbing up, To Mount of Olives, And right in the lower section, Of Mount of Olives, Harazetim, We have a garden, That is called, Today, Gan Gat Shmanim, In English, It says, The Garden of Gethsemane, Comes from the Hebrew word, The Gat Shmanim,

There is a place there, Where the olive press, Was set, Many olive trees, Were there, And they were crushing, The olives, And they were producing, The oil, That was for the people of Israel, To use, So notice that, It says here, In verse 27, On the way, Crossing the Kidron Valley, Climbing towards the mountain of olive, In verse 27, And verse 28, Yeshua, Yeshua, Spake of the approaching, Desertion of everybody, That will leave him alone, In a time, That he will experience, The shameful death, On the cross, And so you notice, What it says, In verse 27, And verse 28, And Yeshua saith unto them, Notice how amazing, That even though, He was here on

earth, Rejected by man, Yet he was in control, Of all the affairs, Here in this world, He said to them, All you, Speaking to his disciples, All of you shall be offended, Because of me, This night, And then he said, It is written, Because he knew his scripture, Which he gave to our forefathers, The people of Israel, He said, It is written, And of course, He is quoting, What Zechariah said, Many, many years earlier, I will smite the shepherd, And the sheep shall be scattered, But after that I am risen, I will go before you, Into Galilee, In other words, Yeshua, The Messiah, Is saying to those, Followers of him, His disciples, He says, Wait

a minute, We just finished, To celebrate Passover, I just introduced, The new covenant, The Brit HaKadasha, And I told you, It was going to happen to me, Very soon, But I am telling you, Dear, Followers of mine, Disciples, I know very well, That all of you, Not some of you, But all of you, Shall be offended, Because of me, Even tonight, Even tonight, This night, And then he is quoting, What Zechariah said, Zechariah, In chapter 13, In verse 7, Quoted, Or mentioned, The word of the Lord, He says, Will smite the shepherd, In fact, The word I, Is not mentioned, In Zechariah, But Yeshua, Is adding it here, Smite the shepherd, And the sheep, Shall

be scattered, And here you see, The Messiah, Applying this, To himself, He is the good shepherd, Who would give his life, For the sheep, You remember, What we read earlier, In other passages, My sheep, Hear my voice, John 10, And they, Hear my voice, And I know, Then I will give unto them, Eternal life, And they shall never perish, He said many, Many times, When he was speaking, To his disciples, He was that good shepherd, He was that great shepherd, He was that chief shepherd, But he says, You will see, Disciples of mine, That the shepherd, Will be smitten, And all the sheep, Will be scattered away, He was anticipating, The time, When he going

to be taken, And be brought to the cross, When everyone, Will go against him, When he will be, There on that shameful cross, And his flock, His sheep, Going to be scattered, Because the shepherd, Is being smitten, But the sheep, Because of fear, Will be scattered, Scattered abroad, But he promised them, You see how beautiful, Here in verse 28, He says, But after that, I am risen, I will go before you, Unto the Galil, He says, Listen, Even though I, And you notice that, He's teaching his disciples, That which you and I, Need to learn, Every day afresh, That a shepherd, Had to be smitten, He had to die, Beloved brothers and sisters, He mentioned

it earlier, The son of man, Must suffer by the hand of man, Be taken by the Gentiles, And then eventually, They will kill him, But he will rise, On the third day, He had to die, He had to give his life, A ransom, For many, But he also promised, His resurrection, After this, I am risen, He said, I will go before you, Into Galilee, And he is directing them, To his resurrection, That even though, They may be discouraged, Because of his soon, Time to be taken, To the altar, To die, Eventually, He will rise again, And he will go ahead of them, Into Galilee, And there, They will meet him, In the north of Israel,

Now, As he said it, Beloved brothers and sisters, He is immediately after, Showing us, Here, And actually, We have learned from this, The apostle Peter, How quickly, One can have such a self, Confidence, Instead of really recognizing, That in the flesh, In our own self, There dwelleth no good thing, Peter, You notice that in verse 29, Peter, Notice he is very self-confident, And you notice, He is now comparing himself, With the others, He said in verse 29, He said, Although all shall be offended, Yet will not I, In other words, He is kind of saying to the Lord, You know, I know these people, They will be offended, But me?

Oh no Lord, I am never going to be offended, And the word here, For offended, Is coming really, From the Greek, To stumble, In Hebrew, We call it, Ekashel, Lehikashel, To stumble, Because of the person, Of the Messiah, Of Jesus, Of Yeshua, The Messiah, He says, All of you, He said to them, In verse 27, All of you shall be offended, Because of me, Peter is saying to him, In verse 29, Although all shall be offended, Yet will not I, The Messiah, You know, He loved the Lord, We don't doubt it, That Shimon, Petros, Love Yeshua, The Messiah, Very much, But he, Like we, Many times, Assume, That no, It's not going to be possible,

That I'm wrong, That I will stumble, To stumble, He trusted, In his own ability, To follow Yeshua, The Messiah, And not to stumble, Like Yeshua said, About everyone, Earlier, In verse 27, And that's why, He had this self, Confidence here, In this verse, Beloved brothers and sisters, Verse 29, And by the way, You will notice, That all the four Gospels, Mentioned the fact, That Peter, Was very strong, In his confidence, In himself, That he will not deny, The Lord, How many times, We made promises, To Yeshua, The Messiah, And we said to him, Oh Lord, I'm going to do this for you, If you're only going to give me that, If you're going to only

allow me, To achieve one thing, Or another, Oh I will go for you, I will do everything for you, Blessed Lord, We made those promises, Peter have here this self, Confidence, Instead of saying, Lord help me, I know I cannot trust myself, I need you to have mercy on me, To help me, So I will follow after you, Peter said, In verse 29, Even all will be offended, Yet I will not be offended, So notice what the Lord, Is saying to him, Immediately, In this verse 30, Yeshua said unto him, Notice this verse, Verily I say unto thee, That this day, Even in this night, Before the cock crow twice, Thou shalt deny me, Three

times, Peter, Let me tell you, I know your heart, I know your condition, I know everything about you, Peter, And I want to tell you, Peter, Today, And then he narrowed this, No, no, no, not only today, Tonight, Peter, And then he narrows it even down, He says, Not only tonight, He says, Peter, Even before the cock will crow twice, You will already deny me three times.

In other words, What the Lord is really saying to Peter, Peter, I know you more than you know yourself. You know, That's why David, The king of Israel, When he prayed to the Lord, He asked the Lord to search his own heart. In Psalm 139, David said, Oh Lord, thou hast searched my heart and know me. You know is my down sitting and mine uprising. You understand my thoughts afar off. In other words, David wanted that the Lord will search his own heart, Because he himself didn't know his own heart. Like you and I, We don't even know our own heart. We think we do. But the Lord knows our heart far better than you and I know even our own hearts.

Search me, O Lord, And know my heart. Try me and know my thoughts, David said, And lead me in a way everlasting. In other words, But I realize that I don't even know my own heart. And David indeed asked this in prayer. But here, Peter, He said, You notice that he had such a confidence in himself. Brothers and sisters, Listen, This is teaching us an amazing lesson. We cannot trust the human nature of our own. We need to trust God and we need to ask the Lord to help us. We cannot trust ourselves. We can trust the Lord, Yeshua, the Messiah. Many of the promises that we have made to God, we fail in keeping.

And the Lord knows that. And so notice that after Yeshua said to him, This day! No, no, not this day! This night! Not even this night! Before even the day will come! Much earlier! You will deny me already three times before the rooster will crow three times. And by the way, that interesting cock, That expression in English, Often times we say about this person or another, He is very cocky. That word for cock came from here. It's self-confidence. A person becomes very cocky, Very trusting in himself or in herself, As if he or she are able to accomplish everything. And here we learn from this word, Is that don't be cocky.

Don't assume that you will not fail. Don't be proud and arrogant, Because otherwise you will find yourself failing every time. And sure enough, beloved brothers and sisters, You can see that Peter haven't yet recognized that, Because in verse 31 of Mark chapter 14, He spake the more vehemently or passionately. And he says, If I should die with thee, I will not deny thee it any wise. He says, Likewise also said they all. In other words, We can point our fingers at Peter, But apparently scripture says that they all said it. Oh no, it's not me. I told you this before, That I remember when there was a gathering, Those who opposed the Gospel, Years ago, In the land of Israel, And there were some Jewish believers, They were there, Who had to experience this opposition.

And you got to commend them, How they stood for Yeshua the Messiah. But I can tell you, It is a fearful thing, When time comes, And you are being opposed, By those who oppose Yeshua the Messiah. All of a sudden you realize, That promise of your faithfulness, Is becoming very shallow. And unless the Lord Yeshua the Messiah, Help you to overcome fear, By His grace, You and I will fail every time. Every time. We are going to see it, In the next passage, Later on, How Peter eventually, Did deny his Messiah, Three times. As we are going to see it, At the end of this chapter.

So, Mark 14, Verses 27 to 31, Yeshua, Inform the disciples, That all of them will desert Him. And Peter, Trusting in himself, Said, I will never do so. And the Lord had to remind him, That he will deny him three times, Before the rooster will even crow two times. Peter needed to learn this lesson, And I am sure the Lord somehow later on, Taught him lessons like you and I, Also need to learn as well today. So now, Beloved brothers and sisters, From verse 32 to verse 52, We see Yeshua's agony, In the garden of Gethsemane. Yeshua's sorrow, In a garden called Gat Shmanim. And so we read now, In the next verses, And I am following now, Here from verse 32, You notice, Here is the first time, That we hear the name Gethsemane.

It says here in verse 32, And they came to a place, Which was named Gethsemane, And he says to his disciples, Sit ye here, While I shall pray. Now let me just pause here for a moment, There is no coincidence here, That they went to a place, That it's called Gethsemane. Again, Gethsemane is really not the right way to say it, As we in Hebrew, In Israel say, It's called really Gat Shmanim, It comes from two Hebrew words, Gat is an olive press, Shmanim is oil, A place where the press is pressing the olive, And the oil is produced. Now, if you understand it, You can just imagine, What happened to the olives, When the press is pressing the olives, Crushing the olives, In order to produce Shman in Hebrew, Oil.

Now it is no coincidence, That in this place, Yeshua had this experience, In a sorrowful experience, In his own period, In this period of time. Why? Because the place, Where the olives is being crushed, And oil is being produced, Remind us, Of what's going to happen to him, Very shortly, When he will have to be crushed, By a holy, And a righteous God, In order to produce redemption, For mankind. And so here you can see, That the name of the location, Here it's called a place, In other passages, In the scripture, In John 18 and verse 1, It is called a garden, A gan, Or gina in Hebrew, In Hebrew, And in that very garden, Yeshua the Messiah, Was there, In this experience, Of his sorrow, In anticipation, Of his death, On the cross, On the tree.

Now let me remind you, Beloved brothers and sisters, He just finished, To celebrate Pesach. Pesach, Was celebrated, On the 14th day, Of the month, Of Nisan, In the evening. And therefore, From here on, He is approaching, The midnight, From 6 p.m. He is celebrating, The Passover, With his disciples, Soon, It's going to be, Midnight, During this night, Time, He will experience, This deliberation, With the Pharisees, And the Sadducees, There, In Jerusalem, And eventually, He's going to be taken, To Pilate, And they're executed, And early, In the morning, Sometime around 9 a.m., He will be crucified, The following day. In other words, In biblical ways, Of accounting, In the very same day, He celebrated Pesach, And in the very same day, He becomes, The Passover lamb.

And so notice, What happened here, He's anticipating, His death, On the cross, On the tree. And so, In verse 32, They enter, Into this garden, Of Gatshmanim, Gatshmanim, The garden, Where, The press, Was pressing, The olives, And oil, Had been, Produced. Then He's telling, To his disciples, In verse 32, Sit ye here, While I shall pray. He asks, All the disciples, To sit, He was going ahead, A little bit further, Were he going to take, Some time, To speak to his father, Before, He's going to be, Captured, And taken, And eventually, Die, On a Roman cross. So in verse, 33 and 34, Yeshua took, His disciples, The three disciples, That often have been, With him.

You might say, The inner circle. It says here, In verse 33, He takes with him, Peter, And James, Yaakov, And John, Yohanan, And he began, To be sore amazed, And to be very heavy. And he saith unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, Unto death. He says, Terry ye here, And watch. He took with him, Those three of them, Of them, That he often, Have taken them, With him. These, Peter, James, And John, Were with Yeshua, The Messiah, On the Mount, Of Transfiguration. Earlier, We read about it, In the Gospel of Mark. Wherever he have gone, Into a special occasion, He took with him, Peter, James, And John.

Shimon, Yaakov, And Yohanan. Peter, James, And John. And with them, He intimately, Share with them, How he feel. And you notice, What he said to them, He began, As it says, He began to be sore amazed. This is troubled. And then he began, To be very heavy. Verse 33, Or distressed. And then he said to them, Notice, He's sharing with them. He wanted, You might say, Them to identify, With him a little bit. Just to identify, With what he's experiencing, Because very, Very shortly, He will end up, To become, The Passover lamb. The sacrifice, For sin. So, He's sharing with them. He's taking them, Close to him, A little bit further.

And he's taking, And he's sharing, He says, My soul, Exceeding sorrowful. Even unto death. He says, Wait here with me, For a while. And watch. Now he shared his heart, With the most, You might say, The nearest people to him. Peter, James, And John. Shimon, Yaakov, And Yohanan. And he's, You might say, Pouring his heart, Towards them. He says, You know what? I'm very heavy. I'm really, I'm very troubled. I'm under distress. He's saying to them, You know, My soul, Is exceeding, Very sorrowful. He said, Even unto death. He wanted them to identify, With him in some small way, With the anticipation, That he was going, To become a sacrifice.

Now of course, They could never enter, Into his death. Because, He was the only one, Who could bear sin. But, When he was suffering, When he was anticipating, His sorrows, He wanted others, To sympathize with him. You might say, To identify in, Some small ways, With him. And you know, In the book of Lamentation, Lamentation chapter 1, We read this verse 12, Is it nothing to you, All ye that pass by? Behold, And see if there is any sorrow, Like unto my sorrow, Which is done unto me, Wherewith the Lord has afflicted me, In the day of his fierce anger. You see, Jeremiah, Was speaking of Yerushalayim, That when God judged the city of Yerushalayim, All the people, The neighboring nation, Did not identify with the sorrow, Of the city of Jerusalem.

But prophetically, And typically, It reminds us of the Mashiach Yeshua, Who really said, Is it nothing to you, All ye that pass by? Behold, Behold, And see if there is any sorrow, Like unto my sorrow, Which is done unto me, Wherewith the Lord has afflicted me, In the day of his fierce anger. God is angry with sin. Sin had to be judged, By a holy and a righteous God. And had he not going to judge it, In the person of this perfect sinless man, Yeshua the Messiah, He will have to judge you, And I, And all the people of the world, And all have sinned, And come short of the glory of God.

So Yeshua, Jesus, The Messiah, Take these three men, And he's taking them aside, Further than those, The rest of the disciples, And he's saying to them, My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, Unto death, Stay here, Terry here, Watch with me. Let's take a few minutes, And kind of watch and pray. Identify, Look at what I'm anticipating. He just celebrated Pesach. He just taught them that he had to die. He told them, I am the Mashiach, The purpose I came, Is to give my life a ransom for many. Can you enter in a little bed, To identify with my anticipating death? Is there anyone that will identify with my sorrow?

And you know, It's like us today, Isn't it? We often like to sing about the Messiah who saved us, And what he's going to give us, And how we're going to go to be with him in heaven, And how we're going to rule and reign, But we don't recognize the price that he has to pay. We hardly can enter into the sufferings of the Messiah, In any form and shape. Because we are often, And I'm speaking for myself, So dull, So shallow. And so here in the next verses, After he said this, Notice that in verse 32, 33 and 34, Then in verses 35 and 36, Yeshua, Jesus the Messiah, Is speaking to the Father in prayer, In the garden of Gatshmanim.

Now he always prayed. From the time that he was born, Until the time that he began his ministry, He always was in communication with God the Father. When he began his own ministry, When he was 30 years of age, Until 33 and a half, He always was in prayer, And in communication with the Father. In fact, Mark chapter 1 tells us in verse 35, And in the morning rising up, A great while before day, He went out, And he departed into a solitary place, And there he prayed. He was always a man of prayer, Speaking to his Father, Communication with God the Father. But this time, Beloved brothers and sisters, He is there in the final hours of his life.

And he is in the garden of Gatshmanim, Anticipating his death on the shameful cross. And so the first prayer of the three prayers that we read here, In the garden of Gatshmanim, We find out Yeshua, Is now speaking to the Father. And notice that, He went a little further, Verse 35, And he fell on the ground and he prayed. And notice what he said. If it were possible, That the hour might pass from him, And notice the prayer in verse 36, And he said, Abba, Father, Abba Avi, Abba my Father. All things are possible unto thee. Take away this cup from me. Nevertheless, Not my will, But what you willed.

In other words, He is speaking to his Abba, To his Father, And he is asking him, If it is possible, Take this cup. The cup of God's righteous indignation against sin. Take this cup away from me, He is saying to the Father. If it is possible. He said, But not my will. But thine be done. Now, beloved brothers and sisters, The cup, Is a representation, Of a cup of God's righteous indignation against sin. All have sinned. And the cup is now full. And now that cup of God's righteous indignation against sin, Has to be poured upon the person of this man, By the name of Yeshua from Nazareth.

He is going to have to bear, The sin of this world. Now let me remind you. The reason that he came to this world, Is to do the will of God the Father. To finish his work. But when the moment had arrived, This hour had arrived, And he was anticipating his death on the cross. You might say he was, Shrinking from the experience, The experience, That he was just going to experience, Very soon. And beloved brothers and sisters, Listen to this. Every sin, That was committed in this world, Past, And present, And future, Will be laid upon the person of Yeshua, The Messiah. Not only sins, The result of the sin nature, But the sin.

Remember, John once said, Behold the Lamb of God, Which taketh away the sin. Singular. The root problem. He was going to bear our sins in his body on that cross. And that moment for him, And that moment for him, Was really causing him, You might say, To experience this sorrow in his soul. And he said, And notice this, The first place says, Abba, Father. Abba, Father, He's not repeating himself. He's simply saying, Abba, Avi. Abba is our Hebrew word, When we called our own fathers, And our children call us Abba. Father is Avin, Hebrew, My Father. Abba, My Father, He's saying here. All things are possible unto thee, He says, Take away this cup from me.

Nevertheless, Not my will, But thine be done. There's a verse in Psalm 75 and verse 8. And listen, let me just read you that, For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, And the wine is red. It is full of mixture, And he poureth out of the same. But the dregs thereof, All the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, And drink them. There is a cup in the hand of the Lord. It is a wine, It is red, It is full of mixture. This is the cup of God's righteous indignation against sin. There is no other solution, beloved brothers and sisters, For any human being here in this world, Ever to be right with God, Unless someone will drink that cup on our behalf.

And here Yeshua the Messiah is saying, Father, And you can read it in other Gospels, If it is possible, Take this cup away from me. He was anticipating his suffering on the cross. Where God is going to judge this perfect man, For the sin of this world. And so he prayed to the Father. But you notice how amazing, He knew, That he could not change the program and the plan of God. He knew very well, For this cause I have come to this world, he said. But you see what he said, Yet not my will, but what you will. In other words, God's will, The Father's will, Was that men will be saved, And forgiveness will be provided for the human race.

And if the Messiah will not drink that cup on our behalf, If the Messiah will not be judged on our behalf, You and I will have to bear our own sins. And can you imagine the amount of sins that we have committed? Just think about it. Let's look into your own heart. I look into my own heart. The sin nature that we have. And the many sins that we have committed, From the time we wake up in the morning until the time we go to sleep. All of us have sinned. And if God doesn't have to judge me, Or to judge you for your sins, You and I will be eternally separated from God.

In the lake of fire, judged eternally. That's the cup that Yeshua had to drink. People try to find a way to squeeze in, To be right with God in some human merit, That human work, they keep death, And think that God is so impressed with that. The problem, but we have a sin nature. And sin had to be judged. All, even our righteousness, Isaiah reminded Israel, Are filthy rags in the sight of God. Do you think you or I, Can ever fully please God, In order for Him to accept us into His presence? No, dear friends, dear brothers and sisters, We all needed the Messiah Yeshua, The substitute, The just one, To be punished for us, The unjust, In order that we will be brought to God.

And no wonder, This holy man who never sinned, The eternal Son of God, As man, Speaking to the Abba, To the Father, And says, Father, If it is possible, Take this cup away from me. But he says, Yet, Not my will, But thine be done. He knew very well, He must go, To the shameful cross, To pay, For the sin, Of this world. So let me just continue here, In the next verses. Notice that. Now what happened, Is that after he speaks to the Father, To his Abba, He is now coming back, And what does he find? He finds this man by the name of Shimon, Peter, Who was so confident, That he will never deny the Messiah, Even though everybody else will deny.

And he comes and he finds them, Verse 37 and 38, He found them all sleeping. And he says unto Peter, Simon, Sleepest thou? Couldn't not thou watch for one hour? Watch and pray, He is saying in verse 38, Lest ye enter into temptation, The spirit truly is ready, But the flesh is weak. You know the Lord knows the human nature, The flesh in us. He knows that we might even want to please the Lord. We might say, You know I really want to please you God, But the flesh is weak. The human nature, The old nature of ours, Is so weak, Beloved brothers and sisters, And we cannot trust our own flesh.

There is a verse in John 6, And verse 63, Which says, It is the spirit that quickeneth, The flesh profiteth nothing. Not little, Not little, But the flesh profiteth nothing. Paul the apostle said in Romans chapter 7, And verse 24, O wretched man that I am. And he was in the climax of his spiritual life, When he said that. He didn't say, O wretched man that I was. He says, O wretched man that I am, Even though I am a believer in Yeshua the Messiah, I have this all sinful nature, Which I battle with every day. The spirit is willing. But the flesh is weak. So notice now, Beloved brothers and sisters, In this passage, It's very interesting, When he was crying there, Or speaking to the father, The Hebrew writer later on, Had to explain this to the Hebrew believers, Of first century.

They needed to be reminded, Of the Messiah's experience, In his lifetime. So the writer to the Hebrew believers, In Hebrew chapter 5, Said to them, Notice that in verse 7, About Yeshua, He said to them, Who, Speaking about Jesus, Yeshua the Messiah, In the day of his flesh, When he had offered up prayers, And a supplication, With strong crying, And tears unto him, That was able to save him from death, And he was heard, In that he feared. Though he were a son, He learned obedience, By the things which he had suffered. See the Hebrew writer, Who wrote to early Hebrew believers, Reminded the believers, That in the life of the Messiah here, He offered up prayers, And supplication to God, With strong crying, And with tears.

And to him that was able, To save him from death. But it says he was heard. God did not deliver him from death, But he delivered him out through death, In resurrection, In resurrection, And ascension. But the Messiah had to die. And though he was a son, He learned obedience, By the things which he suffered. Even though he was the eternal son of God, He had to learn obedience, By that which he had experienced, In his suffering here on earth. That's why the Messiah came. And so we read here, In this passage of the first prayer, That he had to God the Father, In the garden of Gatshmanim.

Notice here, In verses 39, 40, And 41, And 42, Here we see, The second, And the third prayer, To the Father. And I'm just reading that. Notice that it says in verse 39, And again, He went away, And he prayed, And he spake the same words. Again, He repeated what he just said, In the earlier prayer, Abba, Father, All things are possible unto thee, Take away this cup from me, Nevertheless, Not what I will, But what thou wilt. He repeated again. And then what happened, In verse 40, He returning, And again what's happened, He's finding again, The disciples sleeping. Their eyes were heavy. Neither wist they, That, To answer unto him.

They didn't know what to say to him, Whatsoever. They were so tired, They were so weak. Remember earlier, They just said, Everybody will deny you, I will not deny you. All will be offended, Not me, Peter said, And the rest of them said, The very same thing. Now the time come, For a little while, To identify, With Yeshua's, Soul experience, Before he went to the cross, They were all sleeping. Then it says, In verse 41 and 42, The third time, That he prayed. Notice, He came the third time. And he says unto them, Sleep on now. Take your rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, The son of man is betrayed, Into the hands of sinners.

Rise. Let us go. Lo, He that betrayeth me, Is at hand. So the three times, Beloved brothers and sisters, He prayed, The very same request from the Father. And he gave him an answer back, The very same answer, Not my will, But thine be done. What an amazing, Amazing experience Yeshua, Had experienced here, In the garden, Of the press, The olive press, That was producing oil. He was pressed, He was, You might say crushed, In anticipation, Of what's going to happen to him, Just a few hours later, And he's going to die, On a shameful Roman cross. And so he said to them, Sleep on now.

Take your own rest. It is enough. The hour has come. Behold, The son of man is betrayed, Unto the hands of sinners. He knew very well, That the time had arrived. That hour that has come, Is now the hour of his capturing, They will capture him, They will take him to Caiaphas, From Caiaphas to Pilate, From Pilate to the cross, And there, He will pay, For the sin, Of this world. Now let's continue on, The next verses. This is the last portion here, We have before us. Now here we find out, That now he, The betrayal, And the arrest of Yeshua, The Messiah. Verse 43 to 52.

Here's what's, Actually is happening. Now he's going to be captured. And so we read, In verse 43, The arrival of Judas, You see, In verse 43, Immediately, While he yet spake. Notice, He knows everything, What's going on. Judas, This is Yehuda Ish Krayot. Judas, One of the twelve, Which was with him, He brought with him, A great multitude, With swords, And staves, From the chief priests, And the scribes, And the elders. And you notice, Here is Judas coming, Remember earlier, In our very same, Chapter, He already spoke, About Judas, And he said to them, That one of you, That sit with us, He's going to betray me.

Verse 18. And here is the one, That betrays, The Lord. So, Judah coming, What does he bring with him? He bring with him, All sort of, You might say, A multitude of people, With swords, And with staves, And they all were sent, By the high priests, And the scribes, And the elders, And he made an arrangement, With them. Notice the arrangement, Very sad. Because in verse 44, We read, That he that betrayed him, Had given them a token, A sign. Here's a sign, How are you going to identify, Who Yeshua is? Here's the sign, That I'm going to give to you, A token, Whomsoever, I shall kiss, The same is he.

Take him, And lead him, Away safely. In other words, He made an agreement, With them, That the one, That I'm going to kiss, Is the one, That you are going to take. He is the man, Who is the one? He is the Yeshua, From Natseret. Now immediately, He tells you, And I, That in order for them, To recognize, Who Yeshua was, Because he was one, Of among our own people. He was an Israeli, He was born in, The land of Israel, He was a Jewish man, Was born to Miriam. He was one, That appealed perhaps, Like one of the disciples. So in order to identify, Who he was, From the others that were there, That were there, Judas, Yehuda Ishkroyot, Had to, Physically, Kiss him, And therefore, The rest of them, Will come and say, Okay, That's the one, That you are going to take.

Now imagine, A kiss, You know, When we think about a kiss, Kiss speak of affection, Kiss, Speaks of, Love relationship, Between one, And another. In fact, If you remember, In biblical days, When Yaakov, Met Rachel, There, When he finally, Have arrived, To his family area, To Laban area, When Yaakov saw Rachel, He kissed her, Out of affection, And love for her. When Joseph, Met his brethren, Who came down from Egypt, After they sold him, To the Ishmaelite, And to the Midianite, He was so much, In love, And forgiving, Attitude towards his own brethren, He kissed all his brethren, That one day sold him. In fact, Psalm 2, And verse 12 says, Kiss the son, Lest he be angry, And you perish from the way.

When you think of kiss, You think of love, And affection, And worship, And adoration, That's what kiss represents. In fact, The New Testament, Teaching us, He said, Kiss each other, With a holy kiss. But here was an unholy kiss. A kiss of a betrayer, Who kissed him, After he sold Yeshua, The Messiah, For 30 pieces of silver, In order that Yeshua, The Messiah, Will be taken safely, And ultimately been crucified, Died on a Roman cross. Can you imagine, Beloved brothers and sisters, Verses 43, 44, There he kissed him, In that kiss, And he identified, Notice that it says here, In verse 45, And as soon as he was come, He goes straightway to him, This is to Yeshua, And he says unto him, Master, Master, Rabbi, Rabbi, And he kissed him.

Can you imagine, You know, Sometimes we say, About one another, When people are very, You might say sneaky, And doing things behind your back, They on the one hand, Kiss you, But on the other hand, Knife you, From the back, That's an expression, That we often use, Can you imagine, To kiss, The Messiah, And betray him? You know, If you read, Other passages, In Matthew chapter 26, And verse 50, Yeshua, The Messiah said to him, He called him friend, He called, Judah friend, When Judah came to the, Garden of Gethsemane, In Luke chapter 22, Verse 47, And 48, He says, You betray me, With a kiss, Judas?

Look at the low, State, That Judas, Came into, To kiss, The friend, And you remember, What we quoted, Psalm 41, And verse 9, My familiar friend, Who ate my own food, He lifted up his hands, Against me, And here we see it, Happening, In the garden of Gethsemane, In the garden of Gethsemane, So, He kissed him, And they laid their hand, Verse 46, And they took him away, And imagine, Beloved brothers and sisters, He sold him, And now he kissed him, He betrayed Yeshua, The Messiah, And he allowed, The multitude there, To take him, And to lead him away, And so we read, Here in the next verses, One of them, You know, And here,

Just to conclude here, In verses 47, To verse 52, And there we see, The activity of Simon Peter, We don't read his name here, But we know from John, John 18, Verses 10 and 11, That it was, Peter himself, One of them, This is Peter, That stood by, He drew a sword, And he smote the servant, Of the high priest, And he cut off his ear, In other words, Peter was trying, To defend Yeshua, You see, He said, Everyone will betray you, But not I, He slept, In a time of test, Later on, He will deny him, But now, He's trying to fight, And he's taking a sword, And he's trying, He was actually, Probably

aiming for the head, Of that servant, But he cut his ear, Other Gospels, We find out, That Yeshua said to him, Put your sword, In your sheath, He said, The cup which my father, Had given me to drink, Shall I not drink it?

Peter, Do you think, That we're going to fight, And I'm going to fight? No, no, I'm going to submit, To the authority, Of God the Father, He took the ear, He put it back, And he healed the ear, Of the servant, Of the high priest, And he said to them, In verse 48, Yeshua answered, And he said unto them, Are ye come out, Against a thief, With sword, And with staves, To take me, He said, I was daily, With you, In the temple, Teaching, And he took me not, But the scripture, Must be fulfilled, And so, He didn't need Peter, To take anybody's ear out, He knew very well, That he was, Going to be taken, And going to be, Eventually going, To the shameful cross, And you notice, Brothers and sisters, Here is the fulfillment, When that happened, And Yeshua was taken, By the multitude, Who came, With staves, And with swords, We read one of the shortest, Verses here, And they all, Forsook him, And fled, If you would be there, Would you remain, Close to him?

I can assure you, Beloved brothers, And sisters, They all, Forsook him, And fled, All what was told, By the Lord, Already earlier, Quoting Zechariah, Chapter 13, I will smite the shepherd, The sheep shall be scattered, Here is in anticipation, To the time, When he is going, To the cross, Everyone left him, And had gone, They all, Forsook him, And fled, They wanted to preserve, Their lives, But he, Had to give, His life, A ransom, For many, And so how, Amazing, Yeshua, Was like a flint, Going all the way, To accomplish, The work of redemption, And so we find, That everybody left, But he was captured, And he was taken, And you will see, As we

continue, In our study, Later on, What they have done, Unto Yeshua, The Messiah, How he suffered, By the hands of men, But eventually, He suffered, By the hand, Of a holy, And a righteous God, We read, In verse 51, And 52, That there was, Following after him, A certain young man, There was one young man, That followed after him, While the rest, Fled, He had the linen cloth, Cast about his naked body, And the young men, Laid, This is the soldiers, Other young men, Plural, The soldiers, That they laid hold, Of these young men, But he also, Did not want to remain, So what happened, He left, The linen cloth, In their hands, And he

fled, From them, Naked, Now the only, Gospel, That mentioned, This incident, Is the Gospel of Mark, You don't find, This in Matthew, You don't find it, In Luke, And you don't find it, In the Gospel of John, And many, Beloved brothers and sisters, Suggest, That this young man, That is there, Having his linen cloth, About his naked body, Who followed after, Yeshua, And was captured, By the soldiers, Is none other, But Mark himself, Which give us the book, The Gospel of Mark, He, The only one, Of the witness, To this event, None of the others, Mentioned it, And it's very possible, We don't know, That it may be, Mark here, That had been, You might

say, Following after Yeshua, But, He could only go so far, Because, The moment that the soldiers, Put a hand on him, And captured him, He somehow, Left in their hand, This linen, And ran, Even naked, Just not to be captured, By the Roman soldiers, And so, Beloved brothers, And sisters, In, Mark 14, Verses 27, To 52, We see Yeshua, The Lord Yeshua, The Lord Jesus, The Messiah, Is anticipating, His coming, Crucifixion, Death on the, Roman cross, Where he's going to become, The Lamb of God, Which will take away, The sin of the world, And his soul, Was exceedingly, Sorrowful, Even unto death, That he cried, To the Father, And he says, Abba, My Father, Avi,

If it is possible, Take this cup away, From me, But yet, He submitted, To the authority, Of the Father, And he said, Nevertheless, Abba, Nevertheless, Father, Abba, My will, But thine be done, And surely enough, He was taken, And he went, To fulfill, The Father's will, In order to become, Our Redeemer, Our Savior, Our Mashiach, Who was willing, To lay down, His life, For the sin, Of this world, May the Lord, Refresh our hearts, As we are speaking, About this wonderful man, And his name, Is Yeshua, Jesus, The Messiah, May the Lord, Bless, His word.