God’s Wrath and His Will
What was Jesus referring to when He requested Peter within the backyard of Gethsemane, “Shall I not drink the cup that the Father has given me?” We is likely to be vulnerable to assume that the “cup” He talked about symbolized the bodily struggling Christ would meet on the cross—however, as Alistair Begg factors out in his sermon “Shall I Not Drink the Cup?,” He in all probability had one thing much more momentous in thoughts:
Within the agony of the backyard, you keep in mind, Jesus says, “Father, if you’re prepared, let this cup go from me.” Now, the cup to which he refers is an emblem of God’s judgment. It’s the cup of his wrath. You would want to only take your concordance and work on this by yourself to construct up an image of this from the Outdated Testomony. Let me cross-reference simply two locations—one, straightforwardly, in Psalm 75. And within the midst of that psalm, in verse 8, the psalmist says,
For within the hand of the Lord there’s a cup
with foaming wine, effectively blended
and he pours out from it,
and all of the depraved of the earth
shall drain it all the way down to [its] dregs
—that God, in exercising his judgment on wickedness, will pour out the cup of his wrath.
You might have it elsewhere, however let me simply give one different, and that might be in Isaiah and in chapter 51. And the prophet says,
Wake your self, wake your self,
get up, O Jerusalem,
you who’ve drunk from the hand of the Lord
the cup of his wrath,
who’ve drunk to the dregs
the bowl, the cup of staggering.
There may be none to information her
amongst all of the sons she has borne;
there’s none to take her by the hand
amongst all of the sons she has introduced up.
These two issues have occurred to you—
who will console you?—
devastation and destruction, famine and sword;
who will consolation you?
Your sons have fainted;
they lie on the head of each road
like an antelope in a web;
they’re stuffed with the wrath of the Lord,
the rebuke of your God.
So the cup that’s being referenced right here by Jesus is that cup. It’s the cup of God’s wrath. So once we take into consideration Jesus within the backyard saying, “Father, whether it is attainable for this cup to go from me,” we’ve instantly gone mistaken if we expect what he’s saying is solely “I don’t wish to must face the ignominy of this” or “I don’t like the thought of my mates and myself being separated from me” and so forth—“I’m afraid of the physicality of it,” if you happen to like. All of which may be true, however that’s not the difficulty. As a result of the cup that he doesn’t wish to drink is the cup poured out by the Father on all of the wickedness and ungodliness of humanity. Jesus didn’t wish to drink that cup. If you happen to stated, “What’s Jesus’ will?” Jesus’ will was “I don’t wish to drink that cup.” How do we all know that? As a result of he stated it. He stated it.
