03/28/21 JESUS WAS HEARD a DASH-CAM MESSAGE

03/28/21 JESUS WAS HEARD a DASH-CAM MESSAGE

(this is the way I introduced the re-posting of my the video)
This is not study, but a quick comment on the reason for Jesus praying in the Garden that "this cup" pass from Him. The cup was not DEATH ON THE CROSS. The cup that He feared was DEATH IN THE GARDEN, WHICH WOULD KEEP HIM FROM THE CROSS.

I am about to post an updated version of my JESUS DID NOT FEAR OR FLEE THE CROSS article. It is a very in depth study. However, this is a short, simple, quick DASH-CAM MESSAGE I did a few years ago.

I have held this view since Bible College days (or longer). There have been a few Biblical issues or practices that I changed during or right after Bible College years because I studied what the Bible had to say about them (such as Biblical holiness, Christian peace making, war, civil disobedience, the absurd belief that Jesus became actual sin on the cross, which should be translated "sin offering") but in all my study I have never seen the Biblical support for the strange belief that Jesus ever tried to escape, the cross.

JESUS DID NOT FEAR OR FLEE DEATH ON THE CROSS. He even said that He was about to die but He prayed that He would not die in the Garden AND HE WAS HEARD by the Father. He was so thoroughly spent that He thought He was about to die in the Garden and therefore it seemed obvious that He would not make it to the cross. He did not want to come short of the cross. Still, if it was the will of the Father for Him to die in the Garden, Jesus was willing and submitted to the Father. He did not understand how His death in the Garden would serve the Father, but He was willing, even TO DIE IN THE GARDEN. (By the way, theoretically, death in the Garden MIGHT NOT HAVE precluded His death on the cross, but that is an entirely different issue).

This is why we are told that Jesus LEARNED OBEDIENCE. Jesus intended to die on the cross, but in submission to the Father He prayed, NEVERTHELESS, not my will, but thine be done. And HE WAS HEARD by the Father and the Father saved Him from DEATH IN THE Garden. The Father sent an angel to STRENGTHEN (restore, heal, rescue) Jesus from obvious impending death.

Hebrews 5:6-9
6 As he saith also in another place, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec.
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;
8 Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered;
9 And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him;

(here is the original comment I posted with the video)
JESUS WAS HEARD
Hebrews 5:7
7 Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

During the time of Jesus earthly life and ministry. Jesus still has a human body, because His resurrected body was glorified, as we will also be glorified in our resurrected bodies.

Jesus faced extreme trials, which depleted His physical strength, such as His time of testing in the wilderness (Mt. 4:1-11), His prayer in the Garden (Mt. 26:36-39; Lk. 22:39-45), and His beating and crucifixion (Mk. 15:33-37).

Jesus had faced violent mobs and Satanic attacks before, trying to keep Him from the cross. In fact, Satan probably tried to have the baby Jesus aborted. We know that Herod tried to kill the infant Jesus. Satan tried to kill Jesus during the wilderness temptations. Jesus always escaped assassination. But in the Garden He thought He was about to die. This appeared to be an attack He would not escape or survive (Mk. 14:34), at which time Jesus called on the Father to let THIS CUP pass from me.

While "cup" is a term used in reference to the death of Christ on the cross, it was also used in other situations. When Jesus realized He was about to die in the Garden, He cried out to the Father to LET THIS CUP PASS FROM ME. Jesus did not want to die in the Garden. Jesus wanted to make it to the cross, in order to be the promised Sacrifice.

Jesus, as a man, was not turning from His lifelong mission of death on the cross. Jesus, as the eternal God was not turning from His eternal mission to die on the cross. He feared (a natural and normal fear) that He body would not survive the Garden. He feared (in His weakened state and in His emotional upheaval (sweating drops of blood) that He would not make it to the cross.

It was at this time Jesus prayed, asking the Father to let this cup pass from Him.

Our passage in Hebrews 5:7 says that He was heard. Not only did the Father hear Jesus, the Father granted Jesus request. The cup of death passed from Jesus in the Garden. He was so physically tormented and spent that the angels came to Him, strengthening Him.

The Father saved Jesus from physical death in the Garden and granted Him His intended goal of dying on the cross.

Even on the cross Satan tried to thwart the plan of God by tempting Jesus to come down from the cross. Jesus could have called the angels to His side, but He did not.

Even after Jesus was buried the devil tried to hide the facts of the death and resurrection by spreading the lie that Jesus had been stolen away by His disciples.

Jesus feared death in the Garden, not death on the cross.