Meeting Jesus - Encounters that Transform: Garden of Gethsemane

Sermon Series: Meeting Jesus - Encounters that
Transform
Sermon Title: Garden of Gethsemane
Speaker: Cathy Jang

Synopsis: Does Jesus fully and completely understand our
disappointments? In His darkest night, we are able to see that
Jesus intimately and personally understands but also desires us
to walk with Him in our disappointments.

Scripture: Mark 14:32-42

Gethsemane


32 They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his
disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 He took Peter, James and
John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and
troubled. 34 “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of
death,” he said to them. “Stay here and keep watch.”


35 Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that
if possible the hour might pass from him. 36 “Abba,[a] Father,”
he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me.
Yet not what I will, but what you will.”


37 Then he returned to his disciples and found them sleeping.
“Simon,” he said to Peter, “are you asleep? Couldn’t you keep
watch for one hour? 38 Watch and pray so that you will not fall
into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”


39 Once more he went away and prayed the same thing. 40 When he
came back, he again found them sleeping, because their eyes were
heavy. They did not know what to say to him.


41 Returning the third time, he said to them, “Are you still
sleeping and resting? Enough! The hour has come. Look, the Son of
Man is delivered into the hands of sinners. 42 Rise! Let us go!
Here comes my betrayer!”