Your Saviour’s Place of prayer
Text: Luke 22:39-46
Luke 21:36-37 … “But stay awake at all times, praying that you may have strength to escape all these things that are going to take place, and to stand before the Son of Man.” And every day he was teaching in the temple, but at night he went out and lodged on the mount called Olivet.
PRAYER WAS YOUR SAVIOUR’S PLACE OF:
1) SUBMISSION (v42)
Is 51:17:
Wake yourself, wake yourself,
stand up, O Jerusalem,
you who have drunk from the hand of the LORD
the cup of his wrath,
who have drunk to the dregs
the bowl, the cup of staggering.
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Matt 26:39
And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will.”
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Phillip Ryken: “This was a sacred space within which a radical decision is made that reverses the course of human history.”
PRAYER WAS YOUR SAVIOUR’S PLACE OF:
2) AGONY (v43-44)
BB Warfield:
“In these supreme moments our Lord sounded the ultimate depths of human anguish.… The scope of these sufferings was very broad, embracing that whole series of painful emotions which runs from a consternation that is appalled dismay, through a despondency which is almost despair, to a sense of well-nigh complete desolation. In the presence of this mental anguish the physical tortures of the crucifixion retire into the background, and we may well believe that our Lord, though he died on the cross, yet died not of the cross, but of a broken heart, that is to say, of the strain of his mental suffering.”
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Jn 19:33-34 … But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs. But one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear, and at once there came out blood and water.
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Matt 26:27b-28 … “Drink of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins.”
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Phil Ryken:
“When we see the blood on his sweaty brow, it is almost as precious to us as the blood he shed on the cross, because here in the garden we see how much Jesus suffered in choosing to die for our sins—a choice he made over against his own will.”
PRAYER WAS YOUR SAVIOUR’S PLACE OF:
3) RISING (45-46)
I.H. Marshall (in the New Bible Commentary): Only the one who had prayed remained strong during the next few hours.
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Luke 23:34a … And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”
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Luke 23:46 … Then Jesus, calling out with a loud voice, said, “Father, into your hands I commit my spirit!” And having said this he breathed his last.
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