The Cup
Mark 14:32-36
Part of MARK—The Surprising News About Jesus
January 30, 2023

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THE CUP
Mark 14:32-36 | 01/29/2023


Job 21:20, Habakkuk 2:16, Ezekiel 23:32-34, Mark 1:11

WHAT’S UP WITH THE WRATH OF GOD?
If you want a loving God, you have to have a God who can get

.

If God is loving and good, he must be angry at

; angry enough to do something about it.

If you don’t believe in a God of wrath and anger, then you have no idea of your own personal

.

JESUS IN THE FACE OF COMING SUFFERING:
Jesus is wrestling, but

in love.

As horrible as the cup is, He knows that his immediate desire (to be

) must bow before his ultimate desire (to spare ).

In Jesus, the

of God both demonstrates and swallows up the of God so that you can be in a restored with God.

PASSAGE

Mark 14:32-36
32 They went to a place called Gethsemane, and Jesus said to his disciples, “Sit here while I pray.” 33 He took Peter, James and John along with him, and he began to be deeply distressed and troubled. 34 “My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death,” he said to them. “Stay here and keep watch.”

35 Going a little farther, he fell to the ground and prayed that if possible the hour might pass from him. 36 “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”