The Father's Cup

Yesterday, Good Friday, I listened to this sermon by Rick Gamache, pastor at Sovereign Grace Fellowship in Bloomington, MN. It's a narrative, depicting the events on the Crucifixion of Jesus. It's so good. So powerful. Not very long. Please take a listen! Here are some quotes that I quickly jotted down while listening:

"God claimed to be God; and it was called blasphemy."

"I will drink from this cup, Father...so that your glory may be vindicated & my name may be

glorified & so that the sheep that you have given me will see your glory and enjoy it forever. I will drink on behalf of our rescue mission."

"[Peter] denied the friend of friends...the friend of sinner...[yet] Jesus held Peter in the gaze of eternal love."

"Wine mixed with myrrh, a mild narcotic to dull the pain is given to Jesus...[but] Jesus is meant to feel all the pain, so he hands the cup back this is not the cup from Father."

"Their (Jesus and the centurion nailing him to the cross) eyes meet eternal love shines forth again and the centurion is undone.He looks away and lifts his hammer. In that moment, Jesus hears his own word of power...the word of power that holds the merciful centurion in existence, the word of power that causes the hammer to be...he's speaking it all into being, the soldiers, the priests, the thieves, the friends, the mothers, brothers, mob, the wooden beam, the spikes, the thorns, the ground beneath him and the dark clouds gathering above them. If he ceases to speak, they will all cease to be. But he wills that they remain."

"Jesus designed the median nerves in His arms that are working perfectly now. The pain shoots up those nerves and explodes in his skull as the cross beam is set in place."