{"id":4353,"date":"2011-04-05T04:56:24","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T12:56:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wordpress\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2011-04-05T06:21:11","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T14:21:11","slug":"his-agony-and-our-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=4353","title":{"rendered":"His Agony and Our Access"},"content":{"rendered":"

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April 05. 2011<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples . . . . \u2019Stay here and watch with Me\u2019 \u2014Matthew 26:36, 38<\/div>\n
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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.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u00a0Hebrews 9:11-15<\/a>). Read the record of His agony in Gethsemane in light of His earlier wilderness temptation\u2014 \u201c. . . the devil . . . departed from Him until an opportune time\u201d (Luke 4:13<\/a>). In Gethsemane, Satan came back and was overthrown again. Satan\u2019s final assault against our Lord as the Son of Man<\/em> was in Gethsemane.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>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<\/em>. 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

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April 5, 2011<\/p>\n

Journal Entry for Today<\/p>\n

Lord, like many others, I suspect, I take my \u201cspiritual temperature\u201d based on my feelings. If I \u201cfeel\u201d close to You then I am close to You. If I \u201cfeel\u201d sanctified then I think that perhaps I am sanctified.\u00a0 If I \u201cfeel\u201d a warm glow and am emotionally drawn to call on you, with tears in my eyes\u00a0and your name on my lips, I \u201cfeel\u201d like I am connected. But as I think about my emotional swings, and my capacity to misinterpret and misunderstand, it occurs to me that I should not be so daring as to leave my sense of connection to my emotions or feelings.<\/p>\n

And God says\u2026\u201dOn the boat, the disciples cried out during the storm on the boat. Were they in any more or less peril as they cried out? When Peter denied Christ out of his fear, was Christ any less the Messiah? When Mary and Martha cried out to Jesus that their brother would have lived if Jesus had been there\u2026..did their brother come alive anyway, in spite of their feelings? You trust your fickle, undependable and chaotic feelings to gauge my whereabouts in your life, over My word. How do you \u201cfeel\u201d about my promise to never leave you or forsake you; or the promise that nothing can separate you from MY love? What part of my promise to meet all your needs is untrue or conditional on your goodness? \u201c<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cBe in the word, recall and write my promises on your heart, and find Me there, not in your feelings.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

April 05. 2011 Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples . . . . \u2019Stay here and watch with Me\u2019 \u2014Matthew 26:36, 38 \u00a0 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353"}],"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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4353"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4376,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4353\/revisions\/4376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}