What is in the Cup - Matthew 26:36-46

1:41And he went a little beyond them and fell on his face and prayed, saying, My father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me, yet not as I will, but as you will. Verse 39. We read that, verse 42. He went away again a second time and prayed, saying, My Father, if this cannot pass away, unless I drink it, your will be done. Glance down to verse 44. And then he left them. And he went away and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more. Matthew didn't have the need or didn't sense the need to say exactly the same thing that Jesus had prayed. He just said he went away again, and that was the third time that he prayed that same prayer. Well, what was it that he was praying? What was in the cup? That's the question tonight. What was in the cup?

2:59About a month ago. I preached, if you were here on a Sunday morning, I preached from Ephesians chapter 5, verse 21 about submission within the church, that we should submit to one another. And as I continued to look at that passage and to teach more in Sunday school class at 9 o'clock, on Sunday mornings, I asked the question: well, is there a good example of submission within the Trinity, within the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit? And so I did some searching. I did some research on that. I thought if I was going to teach on the whole idea of the hallmarks of a godly family in terms of submission, I wanted to understand a little bit more about how the Son submitted to the Father. I wanted to know how the Son submitted to the Spirit. I wanted to know how the Spirit submitted to the Son. And so, if we have a good example for how that works itself out in the Trinity, wouldn't we have a great example for how to live the hallmarks of a godly family? Well, that set me on this month-long study of the Trinity and the submission of the Trinity within itself.

4:09And today is one of those first messages that I've really grappled with. And I hadn't intended on making this that particular message. I was looking for a message that would fit well with Good Friday. And this happens to be that one. Last week at the Shepherds' Conference in California, Tom and I were. Privileged to be there along with Nathan Giesenslag, and we heard this question posed several times from different speakers. What's in the cup? What's in the cup? And I ask you, what's in the cup? Do you know what's in the cup? We're going to find out tonight if you don't know.

4:49I'm going to answer that question, but we're going to see the contents of that cup, how the contents of that cup drove Jesus to suffering and to implore the Father to please, Father, take this away from me. Yet not as I will, but your will be done. He prayed that prayer, even your will be done, knowing that it would end in crucifixion. That was God's will, and he wanted God's will. What are we looking at tonight? Let me just advance the slide here a little bit.

5:29The big idea is this: as we look at the slide, so that you can appreciate your redemption in Christ. I want you to see the contents of the cup comes secondary to submitting to the Father's will, even if it means suffering. The contents of the cup come secondary to the Father's will, even if it means suffering. You're going to see in this text. Some repetition, in fact, a lot of repetition. If you haven't seen it already, I'm sure many of you have read this many times on your own. Let me just tell you about the repetition you're going to see. I'm just going to list them. There are words about praying and prayer that appear five times. There are words expressing grief that appear three times. The words watching and watch appear another three times. Sleeping and sleep appears three times. The Father's will be done appears three times.

6:34Jesus directly addresses the Father occurs three times, and there's no direct verbal answer from the Father. Lastly, Jesus directly addresses people four times. And you know what? Matthew doesn't record their responses, which leads us to believe they probably didn't say anything. Maybe. It's possible. Let's just read the whole text. We started just with a few passages, but let's read the whole thing and get it in context. I'm going to start again in verse 36 and make my way to verse 46. Again, this is just moments before Jesus is arrested in the garden. Here's what Matthew pens so long ago, verse 36. Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane and said to his disciples, Sit here while I go over there to pray. And he took with him. Peter, the two sons of Zebedee, and began to be grieved and distressed. Then he said to them, My soul is deeply grieved to the point of death. Remain here and keep watch with me. And he went a little while a little beyond them, and he fell on his face and prayed, saying, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me, yet not as I will, but as you will. And then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and said to Peter, So, you men could not keep watch with me for an hour? Keep watching and praying, that you may not enter into temptation. The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. And he went away again a second time and prayed, My Father, if this cannot pass away unless I drink it, your will be done. Again he came and found them sleeping and their eyes were heavy. And he left them again and went away and prayed a third time, saying the same thing once more. Then he came to the disciples and said to them, Are you still sleeping and resting? Behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of Man is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. Get up, let us be going. Behold, or look, the one who betrays me is at hand. In other words, he's right here. He's amongst us. I would say this: that as you can see, suffering well involves three principles for suffering. Submitting to God's will. Suffering well involves three principles for submitting to the Father's will. We would say that preparation is important. Jesus not only prepared himself, but he prepared others.

9:14While suffering, let others know that you're concerned for them, and he expressed his concern for them. And third, while suffering, don't lose sight of your primary goal. Let's drill into each one of these. First, the first principle to submitting to the Father's will is preparation for suffering. So let's watch how the Master Himself prepared not only himself, but others for his suffering. In his preparation for suffering, Jesus engaged two entities: he engaged the Father and He engaged people. The Father and people. First, He engaged people. His 11 disciples were near him, but he brought three of them closer to the place of his selected, well, the place of his prayer where he selected. Luke tells us in the parallel account that Jesus was about a stone's throw away from these three. A stone's throw is not that far. Certainly they could see him, or at least they could hear him. He was weeping.

10:19Maybe they couldn't see him. It was in the middle of the night, but I'm sure they could hear him. He was close to them. That's the idea. In his preparation for suffering, Jesus. Jesus told these disciples no less than three times to do two things, watch and pray. Watch and pray. They knew what to watch for because Jesus warned them that he was going to be crucified. There was going to have to be something they'd have to watch for. And the words watch and pray frequently appear in Scripture as synonymous terms, watching and praying. Keep praying. He's telling them, pray for me. I'm going to suffer here. It seems reasonable, doesn't it? Don't you want people praying for you in your most serious times of hurt and need and grieving?

11:04Listen, when you're faced with grief and distress, you need to ask your fellow Christians, your brothers and sisters, to pray for you. I asked Debbie several times this week, please pray. This is tough watching what Jesus went through. I wish I could stand here and tell you everything I looked at in the text. We don't have time for that. You have to look at it on your own, in addition to what we're saying here. So Jesus wanted them to pray. Why would Jesus want them to watch and pray? What should they be watching and praying for if it's not for those who would arrest him or watching and praying for Jesus? What are they to look out for? What are they to pray about?

11:49We need to recognize this text comes just a few hours after the Lord's Supper. They just had the Lord's Supper, the last Passover, the first communion. The disciples knew that Jesus was about to suffer. And another account close to this one, in Luke 22, 15, just about maybe six hours earlier, Jesus tells his disciples, he says, I have earnestly desired to eat the Passover with you before I suffer. Again, the disciples knew that the hour was imminent. Matthew chapter 26, just go back to the beginning of chapter 26 in your Bibles there, and we're going to look at verse 1 and 2 here.

12:37Matthew writes these words. He says, Then Jesus had finished all these words, and he says to his disciples, You know, literally, you have been knowing that after two days the Passover is coming, and the Son of Man is to be handed over for what? Crucifixion. And here they are in the garden sleeping, not watching and praying. Then just one day later at the Passover meal, Jesus told his disciples that one of them, one of them amongst their own midst, was about to betray him. Would you turn with me to John 14?

13:16John 14, a few hours before the Passover meal, Jesus prepared his disciples in John 14. A few hours before the Passover meal, he prepares them, and here's what he tells us. Told him. John 14, 26. Here's the Trinity in his prayer. He says, But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, there you are, Father, Son, Holy Spirit, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I said to you. Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Don't let your hearts be troubled. Don't let it be fearful. And here they are. They're afraid in the garden. They're so scared that they can do nothing but sleep. You'll see that in the text here in a minute. Verse 28. He says, You have heard that I said to you, I go away and I will come. If you loved me, you would have rejoiced because I go to the Father. For the Father is greater than I. Now, I've told you before it happens, so that when it happens, you may believe.

14:25They're expecting this. They should be expecting this. Back to Matthew 26. You see, keeping with the point, he's preparing his disciples for his suffering. He wants them to be on the alert. The fact that Jesus knew that he was about to be slaughtered and that they would deny him tells us what they need to be watching and praying about. Glance back over at Matthew 26 again, verse 30 through 34. Just a few verses up from our main text here, and it adds. Just a little more clarity in what I'm saying about this preparation. Verse 30, and after singing a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives. Then Jesus said to them, You will all fall away because of me this night. In other words, be prepared.

15:20For it is written, I will strike down the shepherd and the sheep of the flock will be scattered. But after I have been raised, I will go ahead of you to Galilee. Remember, we looked at that just a few weeks ago in Matthew 28. He told them to go to Galilee for a purpose. What was the purpose? To give them the great commission, the great command, to make disciples. Verse 33, but Peter said to him, Even though all may fall away because of you, I will never fall away.

15:52Peter. Verse 34, Jesus said to him, I can just see it now, him looking him right in the eyes. Peter, truly I say to you, this very night before a rooster crows, you will deny me three times. He's preparing his people. These disciples, they knew. They knew that Jesus was about to be crucified, and they knew that they are going to fall away from him that very night. But you know what? Jesus told them to watch and pray. Five times. Five times. And Luke tells us, in Luke, Jesus tells us, tells them to pray that they don't enter into temptation, but instead, what do we see them doing in the garden? He wants them praying that they don't enter temptation, but what they're doing in the garden, they're sleeping. They should have been watching and praying. And so he confronts them three times.

17:01They said they wouldn't deny Jesus. All of them did, not just Peter. But signs of their denial tell a different story. They are indifferent to Jesus' grief and his distress and even their own temptation to deny him. Did they forget that Jesus said, you all deny me? Their apathy ultimately leads to giving in to their temptation to deny Christ. Look at verse 41, Matthew chapter 26. Here we see that their verbiage, their spirit, was willing to watch and pray for their master. They said, oh, we'll do it. We won't deny you. But their flesh, get this, their flesh was weak to the point of temptation.

17:54They gave in to temptation. Talk is cheap. Actions are louder than words. Jesus, we won't deny you. We'll fall asleep on you. They denied him. Isn't that the net result of what happens when you and I fail to pray in our most difficult times, our most difficult, confusing circumstances? Isn't that the hour to pray our hardest, to engage the support of others to pray with us? We should be seeing the example that Jesus sets for those of us who are grief-stricken.

18:36Look, he's about to be arrested. He's about to be tried and crucified. He wants his best friends there with him. In verse 38, verse 38, his grief is so profound that it would have killed him, the text tells us, if it hadn't been for an angel that came to strengthen him. You don't see that in Matthew, but you see it in Matthew chapter, or excuse me, Luke 22, 43. He's praying, Father, take this cup from me. And God sends an angel to strengthen him. Well, he was indeed a man of sorrows. We see it here in the garden. 700 years earlier, approximately Isaiah puts it this way.

19:19Isaiah wrote these words. He was despised and forsaken of men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with much grief, and like one. From whom men hide their face, he was despised, and we did not esteem him. We see neither the father nor men verbally responding to Jesus in the garden. I said that earlier. I want you to see it for yourself. And yet, while men ignored Jesus, the father's silence, I don't want you to miss this. The father's silence in the garden was the answer to prayer that Jesus was asking for.

20:02Let me transition this a little bit here. So, in the preparation for suffering, Jesus engages people without much help from them. So, now let's see how he engages the father. Glance back at verse 39. We see Jesus engaging the father in verse 39, and we read these words. And he went a little beyond them and fell on his face and prayed, saying, My father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me, yet not my will, but your will be done.

20:39I want you to zero in on a couple of words there. Just two simple words, if and pass. If and pass in verse 39, underline them, highlight them, do what you do just to recognize them. The word if indicates a tender, if sort of a polite plea to the Father, and the word pass is an imperative command. Isn't that interesting? I want you to see the picture here. Jesus is laid out on his face, and he politely, he tenderly is pleading with Abba, Father.

21:13That's what Luke, or excuse me, Mark says in 14:36 in the parallel account. He's pleading, Abba, Father. Please, please remove this cup. And it's a command. It's a command. He's pleading with this Father. You must remove this cup. You ever pray like this? You ever just had it and you don't know where to turn? You don't know what to do? You get on your face and you say, please, Father, not my will, but your will. The limitations to our English language, they fail to tell us what Jesus is really saying here, and that is that he already knows the Father can't give an affirmative, yes, I'll remove the cup.

22:12Don't we see what's happening here? There is no such thing as an unanswered prayer. Jesus knows the Father's answer before he asks the question. The answer is no. Jesus, no. It's not possible to remove this cup. People need to be redeemed. 2,000 years from now, people in BCS need to be redeemed. Now, watch this. The only way to avoid the cup. I want you to hear this. The only way for Jesus to avoid the cup is for him to refuse to take it.

22:54That's not submission. That's rebellion. Jesus is God, and he's not going to reject the Father. That's not an option because he came to seek and save what? The loss. That's why he's there. The cup is necessary. What's in the cup? What's in the cup? God's wrath is in the cup. God's wrath that is intended for all of us, not just one person, is intended for all those who reject Christ, is in the cup. Isaiah chapter 51.

23:38The cup is the chalice of God's anger. That's what's in the cup. Jeremiah 25, 15, the cup is called the wine of the wrath of God's hand. Ezekiel chapter 23. This is a cup of horror and desolation. Desolation. You can turn there if you want. I'm going to read from Revelation chapter 14, verses 9 through 10. And here's what we read in that passage. If anyone worships the beast or his image and his image and receives a mark on his forehead or on his hand, he also will drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is mixed to full strength in the cup of his anger. And he will be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels and in the presence of the Lamb.

24:42You will either drink of this cup for eternity because you reject Christ, or Jesus will have already consumed it for you 2,000 years ago. Either way, the cup that is holding God's wrath will be consumed. But is it consumed by the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who paid the price for you? Or will you high-handedly reject God and drink that cup yourself? John 3:36 puts it this way, same chapter as John 3:16. He who believes in the Son has eternal life, but he who does not obey the Son of God shall not see life. But what? The wrath of God abides on him.

25:26Since Jesus knows the plan of redemption includes the cross. He prays a second prayer in Matthew 26, 39. I would say, do you see it? Do you see the second prayer there? The second prayer is yet another imperative command. Father, you must take this cup away from me. But then he prays, but not my will, your will must be done. Puts the prayer on high beam, doesn't it? We're focused on what is God's will. Matthew 6, Jesus taught his people how to pray. Jesus demands for God's will from heaven to be done on earth, even if it means his own crucifixion. Do you remember Matthew 6, we call it the Lord's Prayer? It's really the disciples' prayer. He's teaching them how to pray. He says, Pray then in this way, Our Father who is in heaven, hallowed be your name. Verse 10, your kingdom come, your will be done.

26:31Just like in Matthew 26, 39, on earth as it is in heaven. This is the model for our prayers. God, I want what you want in my life. Jesus perfectly submitted to the Father's will. What the Father's will was in heaven was for Jesus to be crucified on earth. Wow. I want you to understand something here. Turn again to John 18. It's God's will for Jesus to consume the wrath that's contained in that cup. And nothing's going to stop Jesus from doing that. He's God. He's in the Trinity, and he will submit to the Father.

27:23Nothing's going to stop him, not even Peter is going to stop him. John 18, 10. Simon Peter then, having a sword, this is in the garden after the arrest, drew it and struck the high priest's slave and cut off his ear. And the slave's name was Malchus. So Jesus said to Peter, put away the sword back in its sheath. The cup. Do you hear that? The cup which the Father has given me. Where did the cup come from? The Father gave it to me, Jesus says. He says to Peter, Shall I not drink it?

28:00This is my cup to drink, Peter. God the Father has answered my prayer, and I must drink it. John MacArthur, talking about this passage, he says this, this cup symbolized the suffering Jesus would endure on the cross, the cup of God's fury vented against all the sins of mankind, which the Son would take upon himself as a sacrificial Lamb of God. About an hour after praying, Jesus ends his first rounds of prayers and he checks on his three closest disciples. And how far away were they? Stone's throw. They were close.

28:47Only to find them sawing logs. They were fast asleep. They weren't watching and praying. Jesus was faithful to prepare them, not just himself for suffering, but to prepare them, his closest disciples. Well, there's a second principle for submitting to the Father's will. And it's this. While suffering, let others know you are concerned for them. You see that in verses 40 through 41. Why should they watch and pray? That's the question. Why should they be watching and praying? Is there something important going on here?

29:24Jesus tells them in verse 41. Isn't this interesting? He's concerned about them. He's concerned about them, not what he's about to face. Or the emphasis is on what he's concerned about them. Verse 41, so that they might not enter into temptation. Look, I want you watching and praying, Jesus says, because I don't want you entering into temptation. Temptation, the word is parismos in the Greek. It's a parismos temptation, or a parismos test, which is a test to pass or fail. Peter and the other disciples said they would. Deny Christ. Well, now's their chance. Pray that you don't. You're going to enter into temptation to deny me. Satan has asked that I allow him to sift Peter like wheat.

30:12Out of Jesus' deep concern, he wants them to pass the test. Peter knows he's going to deny Jesus before the rooster crows. Perhaps prayer could keep him out of trouble. Perhaps prayer and watching could keep him out of the trouble that he's in. At that moment, at that moment, his sleep was more important than denying the Savior. The lesson's clear that Jesus valued his disciples' prayer, and he values your prayer. He values your prayer even more when you're struggling, when you're hurt, and when you're in pain, he wants you to pray.

30:56He wants them to petition the Father to keep from the temptation to denying the Son. Do you remember how Jesus taught his disciples to pray? He said, Do not lead them into temptation, didn't he? But what? Deliver them from the evil one. Satan wants to sift them like wheat. You ever wonder how serious Jesus was about praying? We know from Luke 22:42, he says, Father, if you're willing, Remove this cup from me, yet not my will, but yours be done. It's a parallel account. But notice what Luke adds to his account, what his account is in this gospel. He says, Now an angel from heaven appeared to him, strengthening him. Jesus prayed, Lord, take this cup from me. And he says, An angel came to strengthen him.

31:49Jesus demands the Father's will, and what happens? The Father strengthens him. Notice that Jesus' prayer changes things. In verse 44 of that passage, and being in agony, he was praying very fervently. He prayed for the cup to go away, but instead he was strengthened, and he prayed even more fervently. It's so that sweat became like drops of blood falling down to the ground. That's how hard he was praying. That's how serious Jesus was about prayer. We see what happens next in that Luke passage, verse 45. When he arose from prayer, he came to the disciples and found them sleeping from sorrow.

32:36You ever been so mentally drained, so mentally drained from your worries in life that your coping method is just to go to sleep? Who hasn't been there? They knew what was coming. They knew that he was going to be arrested. Well, that only added fuel to the fire. There's a lesson to be learned here. You're living on the ragged edge of life. And when you're trafficking in moments of great despair, delay the cravings to sleep and pray and watch, do whatever it takes to get with the Father.

33:16So you need to prepare to suffer in accordance with God's will. Yes, but you also need to engage the support of others to pray for you. You also need to be concerned about their well-being too. And that's what discipleship is all about here. We're starting this new process, partners one-on-one. This is where our body is going to come together. We're going to be praying for one another, caring for one another. How else would you ask people to pray if you don't know them? Back in Matthew 26, 42, there's a third principle for submitting to the Father's will.

33:49You can see it on the screen there. While suffering, don't lose sight of your primary goal. What was Jesus' primary goal? Well, his primary goal was submission to the Father. His primary goal was to submit to the Father's desires. The Father's will at that point was to strengthen Jesus. He strengthened him, and he could pray even more fervently. So Jesus, after encouraging the disciples, continues to plead with the Father to remove the cup of wrath intended for God's elect who are not yet redeemed. He keeps demanding the Father's will be done.

34:31Do you remember Luke 22? Puts the pieces here together. He told Peter again that he wanted to, the devil wanted to sift him like wheat. So Jesus continues praying that his faith would not fail. He continues praying that he would not give in to this temptation, this attack from the enemy, so that Peter's, when Peter's faith returns, the text tells us, so that he can strengthen his brothers. He's saying, Peter, yeah, you're going to deny me, but you will be strengthened. And I want you to strengthen your brothers in Christ. Do you know when you fail at life, when you fail in your walk with Christ, he strengthens you, you get back on track. He wants you to encourage your other brothers and sisters in Christ who are going through the same thing. He's telling them, encourage, telling Peter, encourage the others. Jesus wants his people to pass the test. He wants you praying. He wants you watching, not sleeping. Yeah, you need to get sleep. But those most serious moments engage the Lord and engage others to pray for you. He wants God's will for you. What's God's will? To not give in to the temptation to deny him, whether by word or by deed. He wants you to strengthen and encourage others. Again, partners one-on-one. You'll hear more about this as time goes by. So, in verse 42, Jesus prays for the Father's will, and immediately he checks on the men. They're in verse 42. He checks on them. What are they doing? They're sleeping.

36:13They're sleeping. Look at verse 43. And again, he came and found them sleeping, and their eyes were heavy. I want you to see something here. There's no direct address. He didn't say, What are you guys doing? He notices them sleeping, and he just goes back. It's like, I'm not going to wake him up. No direct address. Verse 44. And he left them again, and he went away and prayed a third time, saying the same thing one more time. He demands God's will through prayer, and the disciples are still sleeping in verses 45 and through 46. While suffering, Jesus submitted to the Father's primary goal.

37:00His primary goal was to demand that the Father do his will. He's going to take that cup and he's going to drink from it. The Father's will was done, and he drank from that cup, filled with God's wrath. He was our substitute. That wrath was intended for us so that we wouldn't have to. Wow. That's why I struggled through this passage this week. This is hard. He did that for me. Why? For God so loved the world that he gave his only son, that whoever believes in him will not perish, but have everlasting life. He gave his only son. That's why.

37:50I want to read one more passage. Bear with me in Romans chapter 3. I want you to see something in Romans 3, verses 21 through 25. It's a passage of justification by faith. Paul wrote these words. He says, But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets, even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ, for all those who believe, for there is no distinction. For all who have sinned fall short of the glory of God, being justified as a gift by his grace through the redemption which is in Christ Jesus, whom God displayed publicly as a propitiation, as a payment in his blood through faith. This was to demonstrate his righteousness because in the forbearance of God, he passed over the sins previously committed.

38:50It's rare for Debbie and I to be able to worship with our kids in their own church. Well, we got back from Shepherd's Conference. I got back from Shepherd's Conference Saturday. We were able to go to Countryside Bible Church, where Erica and Kyle attend in South Lake Texas. Many of our students here attend that church. And Pastor Tom Pennington preached on this Romans 3 passage, and I took note, very careful note, of what he said a week ago today. Here's what he said about that passage: Wrath was in the cup.

39:24This is the cup of divine wrath that was poured out on him. The wrath of God that should have been poured out on each individual, that is, each and every believer and elect deserved. Every drop of God's wrath that was meant for me was poured out on Jesus. He took it all as a public display from the Father that I deserved. End quote. That's convicting. That's mercy. The wrath in that cup was intended for you and for me.

40:02And he took it for us. So, what have we learned today? The content of the cup is secondary to submitting to the Father's will, even if it means suffering. The content of the cup and your challenges in life, it may be the Father's will for you to go through those things. What else do we learn? Jesus voluntarily submitted to the Father's will, and he drank the cup of God's wrath and Intended for us. You see it on the screen there?

40:36That's what's so good about Good Friday. He took it for us. We've seen the suffering, suffering well involves three principles for submitting to the Father's will. Preparing yourself and preparing for others. Pray and engage others to pray for you. Don't be afraid to ask people to pray. While suffering, let others know that you're concerned for them. He's praying for them not to fall into temptation. And while suffering, don't lose sight of your primary goal. Your primary goal is God's primary goal. Lord, don't give me what I want. I want what you want.

41:12Was it wrong for him to repetitiously pray three times, remove the cup? No. God wants to hear our prayer, and he wants us to know his answer, even if it's a no. It's okay. Well, now that we know what's in the cup, we can be thankful for mercy. We can be thankful that he took it for us. And so now the most appropriate time to just close in prayer and reflect on the fact that he's paid the price already. Father.

41:44Lord, this is a weighty, weighty passage. And you have allowed us to get a closer glimpse at what your Son is. Went through. Your Son loves you, Father. And out of that love, he could do nothing else but submit to you and say, Lord, don't do what I want, do what you want. That's our prayer. Certainly, we'll bring our prayers and our petitions to you, but at the end of the day, Lord, we want nothing more than your will, lest you deliver our will for us to learn some lesson that we don't need to learn.

42:36Jesus, thank you. Thank you for taking the cup. That was due for me to ingest. And we thank you in Christ's name, Father. Amen.