Road to Redemption - A Tear Filled Trip - 2/24/08
Sermon: An Experience in Gethsemane
Text: Mark 14:32-42
Outline:
I. The Gathering wave of evil (vv.32-36)
A. A time of retreat
B. A time of agony
C. A time of pleading
II. The Great need for friends (vv.37-40)
A. An amiable request
B. A fatigue filled failure
III. The Grand time of testing begins (vv.41, 42)
A. The time has come
B. Let us go
Paragraph Flow
32(A)They came to a place named Gethsemane;
and He said to His disciples,
“Sit here until I have prayed.”
33And He took with Him Peter and James and John,
and began to be very (B)distressed and troubled. 34And He said to them,
“(C)My soul is deeply grieved
to the point of death;
remain here and keep watch.”
35And He went a little beyond them, and
fell to the ground and
began to pray that if it were possible,
(D)the hour might pass Him by.36
And He was saying,
“(E)Abba! Father!
All things are possible for You;
remove this cup from Me; (F)
yet not what I will, but what You will.”
37And He came and found them sleeping, and
said to Peter,
“Simon, are you asleep?
Could you not keep watch for one hour? 38″
(G)Keep watching and praying
that you may not come into temptation;
the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
39Again He went away and
prayed,
saying the same words.
40And again He came and found them sleeping,
for their eyes were very heavy; and
they did not know what to answer Him.
41And He came the third time, and
said to them,
“Are you still sleeping and resting?
It is enough; (H)the hour has come;
behold, the Son of Man is being betrayed
into the hands of sinners.42
“Get up, let us be going;
behold, the one who betrays Me is at hand!”
