What does this scripture mean?

[js_cat3391]

Does anyone know why Jesus said these things when he was praying in the garden of Gethsemane?

Matthew 26:39 And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.”

or Luke 22:42
“Father, if thou art willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.”

Thanks

 

[SonSearcher]

Does anyone know why Jesus said these things when he was praying in the garden of Gethsemane?

Matthew 26:39 And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.”

or Luke 22:42
“Father, if thou art willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.”

Thanks

He is humbly confession and communing with God one last time. Please God I am ready for this (he foresee his passion) but please if it is your will take this burden and give it to someone else. He never refuses his mission.

Also it is an instruction to us. Regardless of our will, it is God’s will that needs to be done.

 

[R_C]

Does anyone know why Jesus said these things when he was praying in the garden of Gethsemane?

Matthew 26:39 And going a little farther he fell on his face and prayed, “My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.”

or Luke 22:42
“Father, if thou art willing, remove this cup from me; nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.”

Thanks

Because He didn’t want to suffer and die!

He did it out of sheer love. It matters none that He could take his life back. Nobody wants to suffer or die, and God does not like suffering. Christ embraced it because it was necessary - and we do the same, out of love.

As for the will, this refers to the hypostatic union of the human and divine nature in Christ. As He speaks to the Father, He reaffirms the prevalence of the divine will in him over the human will - same reason He said: “the Son can do nothing by himself; he can do only what he sees his Father doing”. And as for how can this be since Jesus is God, it goes back to the generation of the Divine Person of the Son from the Father…we could very briefly say that “the Son or Word proceeds from the Father by intellectual generation, that is, the Son, being the thought or Word of the Father, is a perfect image of himself, all the while not separate or distinct from the Father”.

 

[MichaelHowling]

Keep in mind. One of the MOST beautiful parts of His sacrifice is that He willed to be fully human (as well as God) as He did it.

He wouold have been CRAZY if He wasint scared of being slowly and brutally murdered. Our God is not insane. He was perfectly human, like us **in all things **but sin. If He came to suffer in His Godhead …any God could handle that. What would we have gleaned from that? What lessons would we have learned? What hope would that have given? How would we have learned to be victorious and risen above the misery of life.How would any real love been expressed?

How would our humanity have been redeemed … if only a God would have went through the motions of the cross.

But no, we have a God who is fully human!

The sacrifice can be considered redemtive, enlightening and meaningful…because it really cost Him. We see this cost manifested in His real, understandable fear in the garden.

By being in human form

 

[js_cat3391]

thanks.