Gethsemane’s Burning Cup - Luke 22:41-44

Summary
Pastor David preaches on Gethsemane, revealing that Jesus was not asking to avoid the cup of wrath, but praying that after drinking it fully, He would not remain in it forever. He unpacks the depth of Christ’s agony—not in the decision to obey, but in the fear of being eternally forsaken—showing that the prayer was heard and resurrection was assured.

Transcript
Morning, Soli please open your Bibles this morning to the gospel of Luke into the 22nd chapter. Luke chapter 22, we are going to spend some time this morning in Gethsemane on this Palm Sunday. Since we will not, even though we will be together on Friday evening, I wanna direct our attention towards that day. Luke chapter 22, I wanna read beginning in verse 41. "And he withdrew from them about a stone's throw and knelt down and prayed, saying, 'Father, if you are willing remove this cup for me, nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done.' And there appeared to him an angel from heaven, strengthening him, and being in agony, he prayed more earnestly, and his sweat became like great drops of blood falling to the ground." This is the word of the Lord. You may be seated. Our Father in heaven, as we come to peer into the Garden of Gethsemane on this Lord's day, may we not be found to be like the disciples asleep, either asleep physically or asleep spiritually. May you awaken us this morning, both in body and soul, so that as we peer into the Garden of Gethsemane into the depths of mystery and deep darkness and great challenge and unfathomable things, you would give us eyes to see our Savior, our champion, our hero, saying yes, where the first Adam said no, and saying no, where the first Adam said yes. Lord, this is the other Garden and the other cup, and I pray that you'd lead us to it this morning. In Jesus' name we pray, and amen. As we follow Jesus this morning with his disciples to the Mount of Olives, to Gethsemane, to the other Garden, which is known as the oil press, which is what Gethsemane means, the place where oil from the Garden was pressed out, the Olives were pressed out, and all of oil was made. This is a place that we don't meet for the first time with Jesus. Jesus regularly goes to this Garden. This is a regular part of the life of Jesus. It's his custom to go here and find rest and refreshment and prayer and communion with his Father and his disciples. This is like a home away from home for Jesus. If you have a spot somewhere in your life where you go to to pray, where you go to be quiet with the Lord, where you go to maybe take somebody with you to have a conversation, this is that place for Jesus. If you look at verse 39, it says, "And he came out and went as was his custom to the Mount of Olives." This is not something new for Jesus. This is a regular place for Jesus to go. As a matter of fact, if you look forward to the Gospel of John and to the 18th chapter, listen to these words. When Jesus had spoken these words, he went out with the disciples across the Brook Kidron where there was a Garden which he and his disciples entered. Now Judas who betrayed him also knew the place for Jesus often met there with his disciples. So this Garden is something where Jesus has spent a lot of time with his disciples, a lot of time praying with them, a lot of time teaching them, and you'll notice Judas knew the place. When Judas left the upper room, when Judas left the last supper to go make the betrayal, Jesus didn't run and hide. Jesus went to a place where Judas exactly knew where he was and Jesus put himself there because he intended on meeting the moment and not escaping the moment that was coming. And this Garden that had been such a haven now becomes a place of conflict because now the dark shadow of Golgotha hangs over this place. But even though it does, Jesus faces it head on. In the words of R.A. Finlayson, "Gethysmony is not a field for the intellect, "it is a sanctuary for faith." There was, or transacted something that brings us completely out of our depth. As we come to Gethsemane, we're out of our depth. We just can't go here. We can only just peel the surface because it would be too much for us to see if you consider what it was for him to have blood drain from his head. It's incredible. Donald MacLeod said, "This is not the road less traveled. "It is the road never traveled." Never traveled before and never traveled since. This is the cup of one man, the Son of God. Church, please understand, you do not have Gethsemane's. And I do not have Gethsemane's. It is wrong to talk about the Gethsemane of your life. There has been only one Gethsemane because there's only one cup that had to be drunk and it was not going to be drunk by God's people. And so Gethsemane is not about our little struggle moments. It is literally about the salvation of the world is at stake in the garden. There is one Gethsemane and this is it. You see, Jesus had already put a cup to the lips of his disciples in the upper room, a cup that he did not drink. If you'll notice that Jesus passed that cup around the room, he never drank it himself. Well, what he passed around the room that night in the upper room was a cup that he didn't drink but his disciples drank of. It was a cup of salvation and a cup of forgiveness. And Jesus doesn't drink that because he's going to move on to a different cup that he would drink so that that cup that he gave his disciples would have the meaning that it would and carry with it the salvation that it would. But as Jesus is considering this cup and he is here in the oil press, he is here answering for what our first Adam did in the garden as the last Adam. A change comes over Jesus. A change that had begun a little earlier but now is palpable in the face of the disciples. Matthew describes it this way and he began to be sorrowful and troubled. And he said, "My soul is very sorrowful even to death." And he fell on his face. We are not even at the cross yet. And something is so overwhelming, the soul of Jesus at this point that he's on the verge of death before he's supposed to die. He's on the verge of death before the cross itself. Mark says it this way, "Greatly distressed and troubled. "My soul is very sorrowful even to death." And he fell on the ground. So whatever this is is crushing Jesus even before the cross. Whatever this is is pressing like the oil press on Jesus even before he gets to the nails scarred hands. Luke has it this way in verse 41. He went from them about a stone's throw and he knelt down and prayed. And then in verse 44 it says, "And his sweat became like drops of blood "falling to the ground." What must this be that's happening in Gethsemane that Jesus would almost die before he's supposed to die? That the pressure upon him would be so great that his sweat would be like great drops of blood that he would fall on the ground and his soul would cast over as his body casts over where he is very distressed and sorrowful where he is in agony. And all of this in a familiar place that had never brought any of this before. A place that had only brought comfort. A place that had only brought consolation and communion. Now brings this type of conflict and pressure upon the soul of Jesus. Well the answer is because the contents of the cup that Jesus is about to drink are becoming clearer to him. Now that he's handed the cup to the disciples on that night knowing that he must move towards the cup that he must drink. That cup described over and over and over again in the Old Testament as a cup of God's wrath and fury against sin and against sinners. Jesus now having that cup clearly before him must in a sense drink that cup before he drinks that cup. He must say yes to that cup before he goes and drinks that cup. And as we come to verse 42, verse 42, Jesus prays this, Father if you are willing remove this cup from me. It is not my will but yours be done. You see church it is the will of the Father. Not only that Jesus drink the cup but that that cup is to be removed after Jesus drinks it. It is the will of the Son to drink the cup but to have it removed after he drinks it. Jesus is under the full assault of darkness in every way as he enters the garden. And as Jesus faces down the contents of this cup which bring him to the brink of death before the hour we must remember that all hell is in this cup. This cup is on fire. It's a burning cup. It's more than a bitter cup. And as Jesus comes to see this there's something that's obscured for him. And what's obscured for him is how long will he have to stay under this cup? What is the duration of the cup? Will it pass by? Will it be removed? Or will he drink it and remain drinking it? World without end. Will this cup remain and remain and remain? Or is there something out the other side for him? You see in order for us to understand what Jesus is going through here we have to look at some context in some other places so we don't read this passage wrongly. I've heard many, many people unfold this passage and do it in such a way as if Jesus is waffling here and the Father's waffling here and I don't think that's what's going on at all. I think Jesus is resolved here and there's something else going on that we oftentimes miss. And so turn with me over for a minute to John chapter 12, John chapter 12. When we read in John chapter 12 concerning this hour in this moment Jesus is absolutely resolved to drink this cup. He is absolutely resolved to meet this hour. Look at John chapter 12 and verses 27 and 28 echoing the language that we have in Gethsemane. Now my soul is troubled. What shall I say? Father, save me from this hour. He's asking the question. When the time comes, am I gonna be asked? Am I gonna ask this question? Save me from this hour? No. But for this purpose I have come to this hour. Father, glorify your name that a voice came from heaven. I have glorified it and will glorify it again. Jesus is resolved to drink the cup. Jesus is resolute in drinking the cup. Jesus will not be asked. He will not ask to be saved from the cup. It is the very purpose for which he has come is to meet this very hour. And now that the hour is upon him, he's not asking for the hour to be removed. He's asking for it to not remain, you see. Not remain is an eternal hour. In Luke chapter 12 and verse 50, it says this regarding the resolve of Jesus to go to the cross. Luke chapter 12 and verse 50 says this, I have a baptism to be baptized with and how great is my distress until it is accomplished. Jesus recognizes what's before him. A baptism like no other baptism on the cross. And he is in earnest and distress and he must accomplish this. He is resolved to accomplish it, not to ask the Father to save him from that hour, but for that's the reason why he even came. And I think oftentimes we forget these words that come out of Matthew chapter 16. Turn with me to Matthew chapter 16. I'm setting up a context so that we can see what Jesus is actually saying in Gethsemane. Matthew chapter 16, verses 21 through 23. From that time on, Jesus began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem and must suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes and be killed and on the third day be raised. And Peter took him aside and rebuked him saying, "Far be it from you, Lord, this shall never happen to you." But he turned and said to Peter, "Get behind me, Satan. You are a stumbling block to me, for you are not setting your mind on the things of God, but on the things of man." Peter here makes it clear that maybe there's another way to do this than go to the cross and be killed. And Jesus says that's satanic thinking that would have aid the cross. Satanic thinking that would have aid the cross. So I submit to you based on John chapter 12, Luke chapter 12 and Matthew chapter 16, that what Jesus is not asking in the garden is to not drink the cup. He's not waffling there at all. And as a matter of fact, I think we read things in sometimes that we think are there but are not there. And I wanna remind you of the way that this works because it's difficult sometimes to handle this in relationship to the hypostatic union of Jesus whereby he is both fully God and fully man, two natures united in one person. And it's really, really important. I was talking to my wife about this yesterday at a friend of mine and I'm not gonna say who or where, but just on the web who was saying some things about this very passage. And I would love to have a conversation with him to move him from some of her heresy that he was talking about. Because it's very, very easy for us to deal wrongly with Jesus at times. And it's a challenge and we have to think carefully about these things. But if you remember in John chapter six, Jesus said this, "I have not come to do my own will, "but the will of him who set me." Now when Jesus says that, "I have not come to do my own will, "but the will of him who set me." Do you hear that as Jesus has his own will, the father has a will, they're clashing, but Jesus is gonna go ahead and submit to the father's will. That's not the way we hear that. And rightly so, we shouldn't hear it that way. What Jesus is saying is that in his humanity and the incarnation, he has not come to do his own will. He does not have his own agenda. He does not have his own plan. He does not have his own purpose. In his humanity, it's all about the father's plan, the father's purpose, the father's will. My food, Jesus says, is to do the will of him who sent me. So throughout the life of Jesus, it's not that he has a will that's contrary to the father's will, is that he has a human will like we do. That he consistently and regularly is submitting to the father's will as the father's will is revealed to him. In other words, Jesus can say in his humanity, this is not my plan. This is not my purpose. This is not my gig. I'm getting it from the father. And when I get it, I say yes to it. That's what he means when he says that. And so it's really important when we put all of that together, and the fact that Hebrews 12 tells us that Jesus went to the cross for what? You know? For the joy set before him, he endured the cross. And so when we put all of those passages together, when we come to Gethsemane, all of this is in the mix. All of this is in the mix with respect to what Jesus is saying here. But something's going on because Jesus is suffocating to death. He is resolved. He is in distress to accomplish it. He is going to move through and drink the cup, but he's suffocating to death here. And Jesus has one great concern and it's not drinking the cup. He's resolute. Listen to what Spurgeon said. I figure if I get a good Baptist to back me up on this and give me a good shape, right? Jeremy, thank you. And not just any Baptist, the Baptist, right? Charles Spurgeon bearded and occasionally resembles me. Spurgeon said, "I'm fully persuaded "that such a supposition would reflect upon the Savior "a dishonor. "It does not seem to be consistent "with the character of our blessed Lord, "even as man to suppose that he desired "that the final cup of his sufferings "would pass away from him at all. "It just doesn't seem to be with the character of Christ "that he would look for a way around." The cup, Spurgeon says, and I agree. And so as we come to verse 42 of Luke then, what's being said? "Father, if you are willing, "remove this cup from me." There's two ways to consider this. One, he's asking for it to be removed so he does not have to drink it, which we've already concluded is not possible. He's resolved. The other one is for it to be removed after he drinks it. And the reason for that is, is that Jesus does not want God's wrath to rest upon him permanently. Right? Have you ever asked for something to be removed after the fact I just want this after it's done to go away? We do it all the time. We say it all the time. We go through something and we just want this to pass. We go through something, we just want this to be removed on the other side. This is what Jesus is saying here. And it's in line with the Father's will. If you are willing, in the Greek this is a first class conditional that assumes that what Jesus is praying is being answered by the Father. Father, if you are willing, remove this cup. The Father is going to be willing to remove the cup after he drinks it. Not before he drinks it. John Rogers says, "Jesus willingly drinks the cup, "but asks that the cup passes away after he tastes it." Jesus asked that he not drink the cup eternally, but rather that the Father resurrect him. And it's a request that the Father grants. And so this is a matter of duration, not drinking. Jesus doesn't come to the Gethsemane moment and say, "I'm not sure I want to drink this." He comes to the Gethsemane moment, knowing he wants to drink it, but he does not want to remain under it. Which makes sense. I mean, I want you guys to consider this. Consider how important this is, right? Jesus goes to the cross and he cries out, "Eloi, Eloi, lamosa bactini, my God, my God, "why have you forsaken me?" You think he wants to stay in that condition? Right? You think Jesus wants to go to the cross, receive the forsakenness of the Father and what that means and say, "Ah, I'm good to remain here for the rest of my life, "for the rest of days." No, notice he cries out to the Father. Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. There's no, Jesus is not obscured in terms of his relationship to the Father at this moment in Gethsemane. He's not questioning whether or not the Father is still a Father to him. When you cry out, "Father," like this, notice the cry of dereliction is, "My God, my God." Here in the garden, the filial relationship holds. My Father, he cries out. In this crisis moment, the mutual love of the Father and the Son holds. The love that binds them binds their wills, but the consideration of Jesus, of the indefinite loss of the active enjoyment of his Father's love. You see, that's what happened at the cross. The Trinity was not cracked at the cross. Please, people. When the Father turned his face away, there was not a split in the Trinity. That is troubling doctrinally. It is in his humanity that Jesus experienced while the love of the Father remained for his Son and while the love of the Son remained for his Father on the cross, Jesus experienced a temporary loss of the enjoyment of his Father's love that he had always known his entire life. He experienced a temporary holding off of an active sense of the Father's delight in him as an obedient son, which he had had his entire life. John Owen said that Jesus gave up the comforting influences of God on the one hand while he was exposed to the unmitigated wrath of God on the other hand. And so as Jesus goes under that cry of dereliction, giving up on the one hand, the comforting influences of the Father's delight and love and joy and fellowship that he had with him and his humanity. And on the other side, he's exposed to the unending cup of wrath in that moment. That's what Jesus experiences. He doesn't want to stay there. He can't imagine living without the Father's face, without the Father's love, the enjoyment and active sense of his Father's delight and love in him. And that's what he would give up for a short time on the cross. He who knew no sin would be made sin. So he would be treated as the sinner and not as the son. And that's what he would do for us in the cry of dereliction. And he can't imagine that cup remaining on him and to be cut off from his relationship of Father and son that he had had his life, but he's willing to undergo it for us and he does not want to remain in that position you see. An unending exposure he cannot consider at all. And it deepens what happens on the cross. It deepens what happens against simony for us because Jesus is willing to take it. Jesus is willing to drink the cup. He just wants it to be removed at some point in time and there'd be resurrection on the other side. You see, Jesus embraced his vocation. He said, "No one takes my life from me. I willingly lay down my life for the sheep in John 10. I'm gonna drink it all, but to drink it without resurrection." It's too much of a thought for him. And that's obscured for him in the garden. Craig Blazing, you'll notice I'm quoting a lot of people that you understand that I'm just not the only guy that believes this. I'm doing this on purpose. Either you can group me with the people you don't agree with, but at least I'm with a group. Craig Blazing said this, he said, "Jesus is concerned when the hour comes is that time will stop and he will forever be in that hour. He will forever be in that hour. He does not want to forever be in the hour of forsakenness. He does not want to forever be in the hour of drinking the cup of his father's fury and wrath against sinners and sin." There's a beautiful verse in Hebrews chapter five that tells us that this prayer of Jesus was heard. It's beautiful, Hebrews chapter five and verse seven. I love this. It doesn't say that Jesus was told no. I take this as a commentary on Gethsemane here. And so if Jesus' prayer is answered, Father, if you are willing to remove this cup from me, I think it argues in favor of the interpretation that it's not about whether Jesus drinks, it's about whether or not the cup remains. So in Hebrews five, seven, it says, "In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications with loud cries and tears." That's exactly where we are in Gethsemane. "With loud cries and tears to him who was able to save him from death, but no, the father said, you gotta die." Now that's not what it says. It says, "To him who was able to save him from death, what, to save him from the cross?" No, no, not to save him from the cross, but to save him from a death that remains death, you see. A death that remains death. To save him from death, and what does the Bible say? And he was heard. He was heard because of his reverence. God heard his prayer. Father, if you were willing, save me from this cup. He was heard because of his reverence. He was saved from the cup after he drank the cup. Remove this cup, let it pass by. After I drink it, he was heard. And of course, this is the father's plan, and so he submits his will to it. If we go back to Luke chapter 22, this is exactly what happens. Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me. The father is willing, he will remove the cup. After it drinks, it is not my will, but yours that is to be done. This is all your plan, Father, and I'm gonna submit myself to it. I submit myself fully to it in every way. Thomas Weiney said this, Jesus, son of God, as man, always needs to conform his human will to the divine will of the Father, which in his agony, in Gethsemane, in his prayer, he is configuring his human filial will to the will of his Father in heaven. That's exactly what Jesus is doing. I have not come to do my own will, but the will of him who sent me. This is the Father's plan, and I'm in full submission to it. Not my will, but the Father's will be done. And so as we move on, the result of this willingness to drink the cup, but this prayer for the cup to be removed on the other side and the submission of the Son's will to the Father's will, it's at that point under the suffocation that Jesus is facing through the clarity of the cup that he sees, that verse 43 happens, and there appeared to him an angel from heaven strengthening him. Jesus is at this point where the weight of what is happening is so great that there is the possibility that he collapses before death. And so an angel is dispatched from heaven, just like they were in the temptation, to come and to strengthen him to finish an angel from heaven strengthening him. You see that? That there be no death before death. An angel is dispatched to minister to Christ in his humanity as he himself is bearing under the load of the visibility of the cup that he is saying yes to. It requires an angel to strengthen him, but I want you to notice that when the angel strengthens him, things don't get better, things get worse. Right? Because we don't need strength after the fact. We need strength for the thing. So this is what caught my eye when I was reading this passage in my office one day, and I turned to Lucas and I said, "Lucas, after the angel comes, "it's not as though Jesus goes, oh, and it's relief. "It's absolutely the opposite of what happens. "After the angel comes and strengthening him, "strengthens Jesus, things ramp up, things amp up." Look at the next verse. And being in agony, well, wait a minute, the angel's there, right? Because the angel is not there to relieve Jesus. The angel is there to strengthen him to finish, to press in, okay? Again, I always gotta think of my sister-in-law, Andrea, when I think about things like this, 'cause if she's always doing her running and her marathons and her 10ks and others of you are too, Jen does and other, Courtney and Erin and Lori, others do, I just walk a K every once in a while, somewhere in there, I'm sure I did. But I can't imagine getting to that point where like your body is shutting down. Like it's reached the end, but you are not at the end yet. And so all of a sudden there's just a wee bit of refreshment that comes from whether it's a shot of Gatorade or whatever the honey things you're eating and drinking now on the side. And then the pressing in of the final three or four miles that then puts the body into some type of significant agony and even greater pressure to finish. That's what's going on here. When the angel comes to strengthen Jesus, Jesus doesn't step back, he leans in to what's coming. That word agony there is actually, it is a word from the, it's an athletic term actually. It's a Greek term for the athletic. It's only used here in the Bible. This form of the word is only used in this spot. Jesus takes up an athletic agony of pressing to finish the race. And he does that, notice this by the strength that comes on from the angel, but then he presses in and how does he run this race by praying? It says, "And being in agony, he prayed more earnestly." He went even deeper into prayer, went in even deeper into conflict with what he was facing and the clarity there. So much so that like when the oil press, presses the olives together and squeezes and crushes the olives so that oil comes out, the pressure of the moment of Jesus moving in to the will of God to finish the race that was before him, pressed him so much that it was as if drops of blood fell to the ground, sweat like drops of blood when he was pressed in the olive press. You see, this is humanity at the point of highest strain, pushing through in prayer, tethered to the father's love with an inward pressure that pulsates out as he embraces the cup. It is as if the blood is shed before the blood is shed. And that is Jesus staying there and pressing forward and leaning in to finish the race that you couldn't finish because you can't drink this cup. Because you see at the end of this race is not a cup of salvation for Jesus. And it's not a cup of celebration. It's a cup of judgment and wrath. That's what's waiting for him. Remove this cup from me after I drink it. Why does it work back like that? What is it about the cup that Jesus does not want to remain upon him? Why is it that when he's finished drinking it, does he want it removed? He's not trying to escape the cup, but what's in the cup that Jesus, as he faces it, his body shudders, his soul cowers, and his body possibly bleeds before bleeding? Well, because you see, our, what's in that cup is not an infinity of duration and not an eternity of duration because that's, Jesus is asking not to remain there. Not forever, not durative, not on and on and on. For those who go to hell, I hope you understand this, the reason why hell is eternal, the reason why hell is durative, it remains on and on and on, is because the center in hell can never finally and fully pay the wages of sin. The center can't. And because he can't, sin, which itself is against infinite goodness, infinite holiness, and against infinite majesty, the wages for sin against an infinitely holy God are eternal penalties. That's why they are. And so the weight of the sin is counted against what the sin is against, right? So if I jaywalk, the penalty for that is much different than if I commit first degree murder. I can give you no human language. I have nothing in my language bank that can tell you how awfully, terrible, and horrific one sin is against the infinite holiness of God. I don't have words for it. All I know is that those who will receive the punishment for their own sins cannot exhaust the payment for it, which is why hell is eternal. What Jesus is asking for is for that not to remain that way for him, a durative eternal. But guess what that means he's asking for? He's asking for an infinity and an eternality of weight to be in the cup. He's asking for the cup to be an eternal weight of the fury of God's wrath. Whatever that can be, what can an eternal weight be? What can an infinite weight be? That's what's in the cup. Whatever is in the cup is an eternal and infinite weight to pay for all the sinfulness and all the sins of all of God's people who will ever believe in him and enter the new heavens and the new earth. The single center in hell is dealing only with himself. Christ on the cross is dealing with the sinfulness and the sins and the wages of those sins in their eternal need to be punished eternally in that one cup, not for one sinner, but for all sinners who will come to believe in him. Can you imagine what that cup is like? Van Mastricht said it this way, Christ dies an eternal death, not an eternity of death. He wants the cup removed, he doesn't wanna die an eternity of death, but in order for that to happen, that eternity has to be moved into the cup. It's not a matter of eternal versus not eternal. It's a matter of weight versus durative. And Jesus is asking the dirt of to be converted to weight so that inside that cup, he will drink and exhaust all of it for all of those who will come to believe in him. And that will satisfy the wrath of God and the justice of God. It will satisfy the love of God. And if you are found trusting in Christ, it will mean that you are not held liable or accountable for one sin that you ever commit in your life or your sinfulness by way of punishment because Jesus took your liability to the cross and he exhausted it. And then guess what? He didn't stay on the cross. The cup was removed. And he went into the grave, he died. And he went into the grave and on the first day that we're gonna celebrate next week, he came out of the grave. I think this is a better way of seeing Gethsemane. I think it's a deeper way of seeing Gethsemane, a faithful way of harmonizing the passages on Gethsemane to see that Jesus was willing to drink the cup but simply didn't wanna remain under it. And that the Father heard him but it didn't take away from what was in the cup. It actually exacerbated what was in the cup because it all had to be put in there in that space of time that he was gonna drink it in those three hours on Good Friday. And what that means is there's no cup left for you to drink except for one. You do not have to worry about drinking even one drop of this cup. Is that good news? That's good and you gotta smile right there. That's the best, Mr. Walz are gonna be able to smile. You don't have to worry about even a drop of that cup 'cause Jesus drained it to the dregs. So what do we have? Guess what? If Jesus is still drinking the cup then he cannot say it is finished. Right? If he's still drinking the cup he cannot say it is finished but guess what? He said it is finished. And therefore yours is finished. Yours is completed. And so what that means is that because we don't have to drink that cup, we get to lift the one we lift today. Today when you come to the table you're gonna lift the other cup from the other atom in the other garden. And when you lift that cup and you drink that wine down your throat as sure as that wine goes down your throat and you feel it, as sure as you can be assured in your soul that your sins are paid for. And Jesus pushed through Gethsemane to the cross so that you and I might lift up this morning the cup of salvation. Amen. Amen. And Jesus seal unto us your word today and thank you Lord Jesus for drinking that cup so that we might drink the cup of blessing this morning. And so that we might tell the world about this cup of blessing because we tell them about the cup that you drink. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen.