{"id":2882,"date":"2016-04-11T16:05:15","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T16:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/?p=2882"},"modified":"2023-08-29T11:19:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T17:19:22","slug":"take-this-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/baonline.cog7engage.net\/take-this-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Take This Cup&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">by David Kidd<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Have you ever wondered why Jesus prayed, \u201c<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Father, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">(Luke\u00a022:42, NKJV; author\u2019s emphasis)?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">At\u00a0the Lord\u2019s Supper<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">we often emphasize the terrible physical aspect of\u00a0the cup\u00a0of Jesus\u2019 sufferings (the brutal cup): the floggings, the crown of thorns, the nails through Jesus\u2019 hands and feet, and the excruciating pain of hanging on the cross.\u00a0The word we use today to describe the worst kind of pain is <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">excruciating<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It\u2019s interesting how this word has a link with the word\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">crucifixion<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Charles Spurgeon writes:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We know that the greatest . . . pain that the body can endure, is that arising from a bone out of its place. . . . Now when the Lord was raised up upon the cross, and his sacred body hung in the air from the nails, all the joints began to give, so that the bones were parted the one from the other so visibly that, in very truth (as David had prophesied [in Psalm 22:14, 17]) they might tell all his bones, and thus, throughout his whole body, he endured acute torture (<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Treasury of David, Vol. 1<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, p. 343). <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">We can\u2019t be 100 percent sure why Jesus prayed for the cup to be removed, when the cross was always His destiny<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">But if we turn our eyes also toward the non-physical aspects of the cup, we might better understand the horrible extent of the agony Jesus was experiencing. For example,\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the cup<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0was also:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> an\u00a0undeserved cup: Jesus suffered as an innocent man for others;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a\u00a0treacherous cup of rejection: Peter, Judas, all the disciples, His own nation, and His creation deserted and disowned Him;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a\u00a0cup of spiritual warfare: The cup involved Jesus fighting the forces of darkness arrayed against Him (Luke\u00a022:53; Colossians\u00a02:15);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a\u00a0sin-filled cup: Imagine the agony for the holy Christ to take the sins of the world on Himself (2 Corinthians\u00a05:21);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> a\u00a0cup of God\u2019s wrath\u00a0and a curse against Him (Isaiah 53:4; Galatians\u00a03:13);<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> the\u00a0cup of the forsaken: Compare Jesus\u2019 cry of being forsaken with the martyrs who were singing as they burned at the stake. They had the comfort of God and the love of God shed abroad in their hearts. Jesus felt the terror of being abandoned by God.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Glory be to our Lord who never wavered in His willingness to do His Father\u2019s will.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">David Kidd serves the Adelaide, South Australia church. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by David Kidd Have you ever wondered why Jesus prayed, \u201cFather, if it is Your will, take this cup away from Me; nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done\u201d (Luke\u00a022:42, NKJV; author\u2019s emphasis)? 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