{"id":15439,"date":"2017-04-05T09:38:55","date_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15439"},"modified":"2017-04-05T09:46:28","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T13:46:28","slug":"his-agony-and-our-access-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=15439","title":{"rendered":"His Agony and Our Access"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Lk8ue3qN0hg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples\u2026.&#8221;Stay here and watch with Me.&#8221; \u2014Matthew 26:36, 38<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We can never fully comprehend Christ\u2019s agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, but at least we don\u2019t have to misunderstand it. It is the agony of God and man in one Person, coming face to face with sin. We cannot learn about Gethsemane through personal experience. Gethsemane and Calvary represent something totally unique\u2014 they are the gateway into life for us.<\/p>\n<p>It was not death on the cross that Jesus agonized over in Gethsemane. In fact, He stated very emphatically that He came with the purpose of dying. His concern here was that He might not get through this struggle as the Son of Man. He was confident of getting through it as the Son of God\u2014 Satan could not touch Him there. But Satan\u2019s assault was that our Lord would come through for us on His own solely as the Son of Man. If Jesus had done that, He could not have been our Savior (see Hebrews 9:11-15). Read the record of His agony in Gethsemane in light of His earlier wilderness temptation\u2014 \u201c\u2026the devil\u2026departed from Him until an opportune time\u201d (Luke 4:13). In Gethsemane, Satan came back and was overthrown again. Satan\u2019s final assault against our Lord as the Son of Man was in Gethsemane.<\/p>\n<p>The agony in Gethsemane was the agony of the Son of God in fulfilling His destiny as the Savior of the world. The veil is pulled back here to reveal all that it cost Him to make it possible for us to become sons of God. His agony was the basis for the simplicity of our salvation. The Cross of Christ was a triumph for the Son of Man. It was not only a sign that our Lord had triumphed, but that He had triumphed to save the human race. Because of what the Son of Man went through, every human being has been provided with a way of access into the very presence of God.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples\u2026.&#8221;Stay here and watch with Me.&#8221; \u2014Matthew 26:36, 38 We can never fully comprehend Christ\u2019s agony in the Garden of Gethsemane, but at least we don\u2019t have to misunderstand it. It is the agony of God and man in one Person, coming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15439"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15442,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15439\/revisions\/15442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}