Jesus willing endured the horrors and shame of the cross.

John interweaves the account of Jesus standing sinless before the Jewish leaders with Peter’s three denials of Christ, thus highlighting his and our desperate need for Jesus’ substitutionary death for sinners.

Jesus is God and willingly chose to go to the cross and drink the cup of God’s wrath in full so that His followers would not have to.

God keeps his promises.

A crucial component of the “very good” of Genesis 1:31 is seen in God’s provision of a wife/helpmate for the man (Gen. 2:18-25). This one-flesh union between one man and one woman is the pattern for all subsequent marriages and was in fact designed from the very beginning to point people to the union between Christ and His Bride (Eph. 5:22-32)

Be the church, by laying down your life for the sake of the gospel.

Work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for His good pleasure.

Living in Exile and longing for the New Jerusalem, we sing and we pray for our Lord and Christ to put all things right and usher in His promised and consummated Kingdom.

Christians must fixate their minds on things above, since they’ve died with Christ and are now hidden safely with Him until that last day when they’ll be revealed with Him in glory.