The Agony of the Cross: What Did Jesus Fear? - Daniel Gachuki

In this first sermon from the 2023 Rooted Conference in Kikuyu, Kenya, Daniel Gachuki walks us through Jesus' intensely sorrowful final hours. For in Gethsemane Jesus prays to God in anguish, entreating God to take the cup from him. Yet as he draws near death, Jesus doesn’t ask for his own will to be done but God's.
Here we see one of Isaiah's prophecies in its fullest: a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. But why was he in anguish? How are we meant to understand Jesus' intense agony?
#Shepherd #anguish #Gethsemane
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TIMESTAMPS: TOPICS COVERED
0:00 - Bible Reading
4:22 - Luke's Focus on Jesus
7:34 - Jesus is the Concerned Shepherd
22:32 - Jesus is the Compliant Servant
30:19 - The Cup Jesus Drinks
39:30 - The Agony of Gethsemane
42:21 - What it Means For Us
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TOP QUOTES:
"A God this good deserves our deepest love."
"Before Jesus can surrender his body on Golgotha, he must surrender his will in Gethsemane."
"He could not take away his gaze from his disciples on the darkest night of his life. How much more now when he sits enthroned in Heaven."
"God has every right to forsake sinners, but there is one that became sin and was forsaken on our behalf."
"The Father distills all the fury of hell and he puts it in this cup and he puts this cup on the lips of his Son."
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