The morning Manna will be provided at 6am. Thanks.
Studying In the Crucible with Christ in the
SSnet.org series Lesson 13, may the Holy Spirit be the speaker to your heart.
The Topic today is: "The bitter cup Christ had to
drink” in Morning Manna of the Sabbath School Lesson In the Crucible with
Christ”.
The Opening Hymn will be 229 "Spirit of the Living
God"
The Sabbath School Quarterly, downloadable from SSnet.org
in the Teacher's Edition is on page 169 and for the laymen edition or Standard
Edition, on page 110.
The SSnet.org site allows anyone, anywhere to read the
lesson in their own language. Choose your own language to see God speaking also
to your heart.
Why do you not click on this now?
---https://absg.adventist.org/pdf.php?file=2022:3Q:SE:PDFs:EAQ322_13.pdf
---For those who are unfamiliar to the suffering of
Christ the last day of His earthly life, He went to a garden Gethsemane, just
east of the Temple to pray during the night.
---Some disciples like Peter went with him, but they were
sleepy.
---A great Event was going to happen that same day, and
the saints were sleeping with a Laodicean sleep! Holy snores. So they thought.
---They thought they were near Christ, so they can sleep
peacefully. How self-deceit they were.
---They were near to hear Him pray but He prayed a
distance from them. They slept peacefully not realizing that Roman soldiers are
coming.
---Ellen White focused on the content of Christ’s prayer here
in the Garden.
---Keep in mind that from the Garden of Gethsemane, they
are going for a series of Court sessions and then mob attacks followed by crucifixion
and death at 3pm on Friday.
---Christ knew that He is going to die and knew very well
how it is going to happen since Isaiah 53 explained it very clearly.
---He knew of all the Messianic passages that were packed
in the Old Testament suitcase by the Holy Spirit explaining the manner of His
final sufferings.
---Almost everything that happened from this point on,
was written in one-line phrases somewhere in the Old Testament.
---Jesus was the fulfillment of a predicted prophecy.
---How He was to die and the time of His death were all
explained by the prophets like Daniel in Daniel 9:24-27.
---He knew in the Trinity and as part thereof in His
divinity that there was no escape from this bitter cup He was to drink, but in
His humanity, cut off or separated from His divinity, in utter dependency, He thought that if there is a chance of bypassing, let it be, but not let it
also be.
---Sometimes humans are also given the bitter cup to
drink but not without divine assistance or divine involvement.