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Jerusalem, to pray. On the side of the hill was a garden called Gethsemane, where Jesus liked especially to go. There He could be alone to talk to God. Jesus had no home of His own where He could go into a room and close the door and talk quietly to God and receive strength from Him. Always in the city and on the coun try roads, people crowded around Him to hear what He had to tell; so it was that when He was tired and needed God’s help, He would come to the quiet of this garden. How much He needed God’s help on this night 1 When they reached the garden, Jesus left His disciples and told them to pray-—■ to pray that they should have strength when they were tempted. Then He went- a little farther and knelt and prayed, for He greatly needed the heavenly Father’s comfort. Jesus knew what was soon to happen, He knew that soon He was to die,* that the sins of the world might be placed upon Him. It seemed almost more than He could bear. Was there no other way to save the people? No, He Himself had to bear our sins in His own body on the cross. How dearly He loved us! As He faced suffering and death for our sakes, Jesus was able to pray, “Not my will, but thine, be done.” And God sent an angel to comfort Jesus as He prayed. Object Lesson B a n d a g es a n d B l e s s in g s Objects : Two pieces of bandage about a yard long. (Starch one heavily.) Lesson : How many of you boys and girls have been taught something about First Aid? Look at these two pieces of bandage! What is the difference between them ? “One is stiff, and the other is not.” You are right. Which do you think a doctor would use in dressing a wound? Yes, of course he would use the one that was. not stiff. The difference in these two pieces of bandage is not in their size or color, but in the fact that one bends easily, while the other refuses to bend. In looking at this good bandage, I am reminded of Christ in the Garden of Geth semane. He knew that God wanted Him to be crucified the next day for the sins of the world, and He said, “Not my will, but thine, be done.” He allowed Himself to be shaped according to the will of God, even though it meant death on Calvary’s cross. Is it any wonder that God so greatly used His Son, Jesus Christ? Because Christ was willing to do God’s will and die for others, God has used Him greatly in binding the broken-hearted. You boys and girls who are Christians are like one or the other of these bandages. If you are like the stiff one, God will not use you; but if you are like the other, He will be able to use you in the service of Christ, helping to bind up the broken hearted. The first thing we should do is to say with Christ, “Not my will, but thine, be done,’’ and then God will surely use us.
Points and Problems 1. “When he was at the place . . .” (Lk. 22:40). Verse 39 suggests that Christ was in the habit of coming to this particu lar garden, as is indicated by the phrase, “as he was wont.” This was so well known that Judas knew exactly where to find Him when he came to betray Him. “Judas . . . knew the place” (John 18:2). What a dreadful commentary upon the man I It was evidently a “place” of prayer and fel lowship. Many times, we may suppose, the Lord had led Judas with the other disciples to this place. And now Judas will turn the place of fellowship into the place of be trayal. On the other hand, it is a silent tribute to the Lord that Judas knew where to find Him at that hour of the night. If you wanted to find certain professing Christians on Wednesday evening, you would never think of going to the prayer meeting. 2. Notice that He asks His disciples, to “pray” for themselves, lest they enter into temptation. How blessed! Although He is about to enter a great crisis of spiritual struggle, He thinks first of His disciples, not of Himself. 3. It is also very significant that at no time during this experience does He ask the disciples to pray for Him. He asks, them to “watch” with Him (Matt. 26:38), and wistfully rebukes them for their fail ure, but He never asks for their prayers on His own behalf. This preparation for the cross, like the cross itself, is an expe rience which He must pass through alone. 4. As to the agony of Gethsemane, the words of David Brown are so rich that I reproduce them here. “The bitterness of death is past. He has anticipated and re hearsed His final conflict, and won the victory—now on the theater of an invin cible will, as then on the arena of the cross. 'I will suffer,’ is. the grand result of Geth semane. ‘It is finished,’ is the shout that bursts from the cross. The Will without the Deed had been all in vain; but His; work was consummated when He carried the now manifested Will into the palpable Deed, ‘by the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all’” (Heb. 10:10). Golden Text Illustration Men cannot pray long unless they pray in the spirit of Augustine Lord, grant that I may never seek to bend the straight to the crooked, that is, Thy will to mine;- but that I may ever bend the crooked to the straight, that is / my will to Thine-— that Thy will may be done and Thy king dom come.”— R obert E. S pe e r . When Jesus Prayed in the Garden L u k e 22: 39-46 Memory Verse: “Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven” (Matt. 6:10). Approach: Our story today tells us more of what happened on that sad night when Jesus met with His disciples for His
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last supper before He was to go to the cross. After the sup per was finished and Judas, who was to send the soldiers to take Jesus, had left, Jesus t ook Hi s eleven disciples and went to the Mount of Olives. Lesson S t o r y : Many times during
the past three years Jesus had gone to this hill near the edge of the city of
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