2024-03-27- When The Son of God Surrendered in the Garden

The speaker hopes to be helpful and asks for God's assistance. They greet familiar faces in the audience and express gratitude for their presence. The speaker mentions a young preacher who is doing well and praises the younger generation for their dedication to God. They discuss the importance of surrendering to God's will. The speaker examines the struggle and pain Jesus experienced in the garden of Gethsemane before his crucifixion. They emphasize the significance of Jesus' sacrifice and encourage the audience to reflect on its meaning. The speaker also mentions their own desire to deepen their relationship with God. I sure hope that we can be a help to you right here tonight and these next couple of nights. I need the Lord to help us and stand with us, amen. Good to see everyone here. It's certainly good to see Sister Harper here. She's a friend. We try to think of her and pray for her and her family every day. We appreciate them. All the home folk, we're glad you're here. So good to be with Brother Anthony. I asked Brother Tim, I said, is Brother Anthony going to be here? He said, he better be. So I appreciate them being here. Got him out of trouble. Amen. I got to be with them a few times when he was a pastor. His family sure has grown up and doing a great work for the Lord. I was talking to Brother Randall Nicholson. Brother Randall's down in Georgia. We got to talking about young preachers. He said, I'll tell you about a young preacher, he said, he's really doing good. Who's that, Brother Randall? He said, Brother Jameson. He said, that young man is on fire for the Lord. Amen. It's so good to see all these young folks working and reaching for God. Amen. Amen. You pray for us. I'd like to be of help to you here tonight. Brother Tim talking about us being sick. I've asked the Lord, Brother Tim, you probably relate to this. I've asked God to help me to know how to preach. Sister Pam told me sometimes, she said, honey, you just need to stand up there and talk. I said, show me how it's done, would you? But I'd like to do more than talk. I wouldn't mind to talk as long as I could get anointed to talk. But I'd like to take my time tonight. I'd like to be of help to you. Look with us to the book of Mark, chapter 14, and we'll ease into this. I realize this is a holy week. A lot is going on this week. A lot going on this week years ago. A lot that was going on years ago this week, this week and figure, had a lot to do with you being here tonight. Amen. Mark, chapter 14, verse number 32. And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane. And he saith to his disciples, sit ye here while I shall pray. And he taketh with him Peter and James and John and began to be sore amazed and to be very heavy. And saith unto them, my soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death. Carry ye here and watch. And he went forward a little and fell on the ground and prayed that if it were possible the hour might pass from him. And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee. Take away this cup from me. Nevertheless, not what I will, but thou wilt. Amen. Would you stretch your hand back to God and ask the Lord to help us here tonight. Father, I'd love for you to help me, Lord. I pray, God, that you'd visit with us right here for just a little while. I really need you, Lord, to stand by me. Such a great congregation here. I need you, Lord, as much as anybody does. I pray that you'd help us, God. I pray that you'd visit with us, Lord. I pray that you would talk to us, God, and help us, Lord, to be strong in this last day. Let the church say, Amen. I want to preach tonight, if the Lord would help me, along these lines, if God would help me, on when God surrendered in the garden. When the Son of God surrendered in the garden. Amen. The writer of the book of Hebrews, Scripture says this in chapter 10, he said, Then said I, Lo, I come, in the volume of the book it is written of me, To do thy will, O God. Amen. He came to do His will. This book was written of him, written about him, and it perpetually speaks of his delighted obedience to the Father. It was never, ever a question in anyone's mind that the Lord, He came to do the will of God. I feel like that he was as much in subjection as Isaac was to Abraham. When Abraham carried and took his son up on the mountain, when you go back in the book of the beginnings and read that, it's a typology. I don't know how it all happened. Brother Tim will probably explain it to you. I feel like that there was no fight that took place. I believe that whenever that father, if he explained however it came to them terms, looked to me like there had to be some kind of conversation took place there. But I believe Isaac just surrendered to his father. Amen. And that's the way that the Lord had all this life. He was delighted to do His will. One of the writers even kind of compared it as a sheep before the struggle. One place in St. John's Gospel, the Lord said, I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. And so for all of these years, and you Bible readers can help me here, you remember, I feel like that this started, Brother Anthony, probably as a young man. I know whenever that he got away from his parents and they came and found him in the temple. And he said, no you're not, that I must be about my father's business. That's what I came here for. And so I don't think that nowhere in his earthly life did it ever cross his mind, some way, some day I'm going to get out of this. I believe that he always knew that this is what I'm here for. But did you hear as we tried to read to you tonight, it seemed like when we come to this actual hour here, that it seemed like that there's a struggle that takes place in the Son of God. I don't want you to read into this something that's not there, but I'd like for you, if I could, I'd like to help you maybe to stir up your pure mind to get you to see what it really costed him in order for me and you to have this right tonight to be saved. I started out this year and I'm not much for making New Year's resolutions. I'm not preaching against that. Don't nobody get offended here. But Brother Tim, I made up in my mind this year if I could have a resolve. I've been serving the Lord since I was 12 years old and I'll soon be 56. I've been serving the Lord a long time. But I made up in my mind if there's any way that I could this year, I'd like to get to know Him better than I ever have before. I've felt His presence. I've been baptized in the Holy Ghost. I've had Him to move on me. I've shouted. I've ran. How about all the things that Pentecostal people do? But I'd really like to get to know Him. I'd really like to get acquainted with Him. Could you say amen? So when I get to reading this, I get to see almost into His personal feelings. And it changes my perspective about my walk with Him. I thought about as Brother Jameson started singing tonight and he was singing that first song and I can't get it right, but one of them verses said something about, we'll meet the One that saved us. I wonder how that will really be. I'm not here, Brother Tim, to try to dramatize things, but I don't know, maybe in your mind you're going to run all over heaven and just shout and hoot and holler and have a good time. I'm not opposed to that. But when I really get to looking into the Scriptures here and I hear the struggle that this man called Jesus, what He went through, amen, in order for me to have the right to be saved, it changes my perspective on some things. I got to looking at it, amen, and all four of the Gospels tells, amen, Acts said it, called it His passion, amen. Amen. That's what they talked about in Acts chapter 1 and verse 3. His passion. I wonder again what that was. I looked that up in the Strong's, that word passion. And the Strong's Concordance said this, painful experience. And so when I get to thinking about how that all these Gospels tells of His painful experience, could I preach to me and you tonight, church, it caused Him some pain. This was not something that He did lightly that day in that garden. It was not a walk in the park. It was not a picnic. There was such a heaviness, such a price, that this Savior paid for me and you. I'd like to preach to you tonight. I'd like for every child of God to begin to consider what took place over 2,000 years ago. Amen. Could I just say it this way this week here? Amen. That would entail me and you aware that we did not have to die lost. He meant this painful experience that He took. He meant, our text said, He meant, and they came to a place. Amen. He meant over in the book of Mark or Matthew again, they came to a place. Amen. In the book of Luke, Luke said it like this. He said, and when He was at the place. Amen. John recorded and said that Judas knew the place, for oft times he resorted thither. Amen. I wondered, Brother Anthony, did he go there? Amen. Did he go there and pray? Did he go there and talk to the Father? Amen. There's something about it. Amen. If he did, and he did go there oft times, his disciples probably never really realized. He meant what all was taking place. He meant, but could I tell you, when we come here with the Lord, when we read this text, and it said, and they came to a place, which is called Gethsemane. Do you realize he has walked his last free mile? Come on now. I said he's walked his last free mile. Amen. From here to the ending of his life, there's no more joy that will ever come into his soul. Amen. Never again, amen, will the crowds throng him. Amen. Never again will they look at him as the great physician. Amen. Oh, hallelujah. Amen. The miracles has passed. Those days is over now. Amen. He'll never turn no more water into wine. Here in just a matter of a few moments, amen, his disciples will flee and forsake him. And he knows all this. Can you say amen? Well, hallelujah. Amen. And even his father will forsake him. It feels like the hymn as he hangs on that cross. I don't know if I can do any good tonight. I'd like to get you to understand. When he came here, amen, did you catch it? It said he took Peter, James, and John. Amen. I believe that he is craving friendship. I believe he is craving fellowship. I'm fixing to go in to this hour. I'm fixing to enter into this time of extreme pain. Amen. And I'm needing somebody close by. I don't mind to tell you. Brother Tim made reference to me having some health issues when I was in the hospital. Brother Tim, amen, for 36 years. Sister Pam and I have been close. But I heard her tell somebody the other day, she said, we've always been together, just the two of us. But when we came through this, it's like we was connected at the hip. We didn't want one to be away or out of sight of the other. I believe the Lord knew. I'm fixing to go through some things. And he desired that these men that he loved would be close by him. Come on now. He began to talk to them. The Bible said he began to be sore, amazed, and to be very heavy. It began to wear on him. It began to get a hold of him. I feel like Jesus, as his countenance could have been, even through his life, he could have had a pleasant expression. I believe little children even would have enjoyed coming and climbing up in his lap. Even I believe he could have talked to them. I believe they would have loved him. But can you see this begin to change? The heaviness. You ever had something in the future that you dreaded? You ever had something you had to do that you just really knew? I'd really dread going down that route. Could I preach to you that the Lord, he did not look forward even to becoming, even what he was fixing to become, and to deal with all that he was going to deal with? Can you say amen? Amen. The writer of the Hebrews talked about how he offered up strong crying with tears. We just read that sometimes. Glance through it and go our way. I was in a hardware store Tuesday and the lady there that was checking out the products that they was getting, she said, you know, we've been reading the Bible this week. I thought you were supposed to do it all the time. Come on now. Isn't it amazing how that we just kind of breeze by that? But could you go with me tonight and hear him as he gets down on his face? He's gone as far as he can. He begins to cry and plead with the Lord. Lord God, if there's any way, if there's another way, come on, somebody say amen. I feel like that it wasn't so much that he was worried or concerned about dying. He knew that he would resurrect again. Then what was it, preacher, that really began to work on him? Amen. I feel like that this holy Son of God, He dreaded becoming sin for this world. Can somebody say amen? You don't understand with me here tonight. He meant all that he went through. He meant even in the book of Luke, it talked about how that he fell on the ground. He was agonizing so greatly that his sweat began to turn and change as it was great drops of blood as he was searching and trying. You don't realize what all he's fighting. He meant me and you deal. And I don't want to binge you right here. We deal with some of the most simplest. He meant off-the-cuff simplest things. And it knocks us in the creek. He meant for Brother Joseph he was dealing. He meant with all of hell and all the humanity, sin of humanity. I don't know if you realize this or not, but could I tell you that the Lord, He meant there in that garden of Gethsemane, I know you know this, but it was an isle of prayers. There the Lord Jesus, He trod the wrath of God's winepress alone. He meant nobody. He meant the stair going to go with him. You remember the story? Them men when he came back, they're asleep. Can you not watch one hour? I needed somebody to be with me. I needed somebody to help me. I needed somebody to stand by me. But there's nobody there. He meant Jesus felt the pain of the fury of the cup of God's wrath. Come on now. Even Isaiah said it like this. It pleased the Lord to bruise Him. Not only was He dealing, He meant with being forsaken. Not only was He dealing with those earthly friends fleeing. Not only was He dealing, He meant with all the sins of this world. He meant but He is dealing. He meant with the wrath of God. I don't know if you're understanding me or not. He meant but He is a dread in that. Him and the Father had always been in fellowship. He meant they had always been. The God of the heavens had always spoke to His Son. And whatever He told Him, that's what He does. Come on now. He meant but this time, I'm down here and I feel forsaken. I'm down here. I'm becoming an offering. He meant it did not start on the cross. It started in Gethsemane. I know He died on Golgotha. But in Gethsemane, He began to break. He began to crush Him. He began to feel the effects of what it would cost Him to save me and you. Could you raise your hands? Worship Him. Oh, hallelujah. Oh, hallelujah. I won't preach long tonight, but listen to me. I want to ask you tonight. Do you really realize what He did for you? Come on now. Do you really realize what He did for you? You couldn't save yourself. You couldn't pull yourself through. Come on here. At the best, if we're not careful, just a little bit of self-righteousness will enter in. Preacher, I'm so-and-so's child. Preacher, I didn't go out yonder in the depths of sin. I wasn't in the jail cell just to carry like some of them. He meant I can have that testimony too, but I do not ever want to forget what it costed Him to save a wretch like me. And I feel like if I'm going to reach that one in that jail cell, Brother Anthony, I can no longer lean on what I learned traditionally. I can no longer lean on what I've picked up along the gospel trail. He meant if I'm going to reach this generation, I've got to learn Him. That's where Apostle Paul was. He meant do you realize what it took? He meant for Him to surrender. He meant that me and you could be saved. I can tell you this. When we really realize that, there'll be nobody, son, have to try to get us to worship. Oh, hallelujah. When we realize even what He bore, even how low He got, I realize we're tired. I'm not scolding. I'm not fussing. I found out it's better to preach to than to preach on. Come on now. He meant so tonight. But when we really get there, there's times, even as the preacher said, we may think it's too straight. We may think it's too hard. We may think He requires too much of us. But could I tell you, when my mind goes back to that lonely garden and I see that figure and that broken man as he sweats and he toils and he gets so low that there has to come an angel and strengthen him by cutting him out. I say, God, I want to praise You. I want to give You the glory. Oh, can you worship Him right here? Listen. We seem to forget. Listen. He did not have to do any of this to prove He was the Son of God. But Michael, He was already the Son of God. He was the Son of God before He ever left the throne room. Come on now. That's all I want you to have right now. He was God's Son all along. But we seem to forget what He'd done for us. I don't want to bore you here, but listen. For as much then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same, that through death He might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil, and deliver them who through fear of death and all their lifetime subject to bondage. Oh, verily, He took not on Him the nature of angels, but He took on Him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore, in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren that He might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God to make reconciliation for the sins of the people Oh, hallelujah! Even how can Jesus Why can He say Even come boldly unto the throne of grace and you can obtain mercy and find grace to help Even listen Even who is that that stands that sits on the right hand of God Even that advocate Jesus Christ Why is He there? Father, I know what they've been through I know what they're walking through And I'm here today to try to help them Come on now Even He is merciful Even He is faithful Can you say amen? Even when I look at Him Even not only do I glory Even on the cross Not only do I glory On Easter morning But when I think about the gospel In the garden And what He went through And I could be saved And He bore my sins And that blood trail But it did not start Just on the cross But that blood trail My God! It started in Gethsemane You could have tracked Him Out of that garden His garments were stained with blood That was a holy blood That was a pure blood That was a blood That would take away The sin of the world Come on now Oh, He cried for you You hear me? He cried for you He cried for you It pleased Him When you sang I feel like praising Praising Him It pleased Him This great pastor made reference That God looked down through time And said He might need this Preacher and his wife here in Clarkson God looked all the way down Through time We believe that He knows all things He knew, Brother Tim That there'd be some young ladies Right here in this building tonight That would say I feel like Praising Praising Him Come on now And I feel like You might have heard What they told about this man Might have been a preacher Said that he saw a veteran Sitting on the side of the road When I heard this story Sister Val I thought about Brother Don Harper Said that old veteran was sitting there You know how some of them pitiful looks Sitting there Looked like down on his luck Said this guy Sitting over there kind of off to the side Said he walked over to that old veteran Stuck his hand out And he said thank you sir For what you've done for me Said that old veteran squared them shoulders back Big smile come on his face Then he said You was worth it Oh you ain't hearing me I feel like the Lord would say Hey man I cried in that garden I gave everything I had in that garden I felt like I couldn't go In that garden Even for a brief moment in time I asked the Father If there's any way possible Would you let this cup And he may have pushed it away Would you let this pass from me But he took that cup And he drank that cup And tonight Hey man he says You was worth it Oh hallelujah Hey man here tonight In the house of God I feel like telling you Hey man the Lord said you're worth every bit of it From the entering into Jerusalem The Bible said It came to pass When the time was come That he should be received up That he set his face Steadfast to go to Jerusalem His flesh saying When you go there you know you're going to die But I'm going When you go there you're going to suffer But I'm going When you go there you know they're going to forsake you But I'm going Oh hallelujah And he made up in his mind From the entering into Jerusalem To the Passover Hey man to the garden To Pilate's hall Hey man sent the Herod Hey man sent back the Pilate And on Golgotha's hill He hanged for six hours It was the righteous For the rebellion Oh hallelujah Oh hallelujah I said it was the righteous For the rebels Hey man the Bible said But God commended his love toward us In that while We were yet sinners Christ died For us Oh hallelujah Oh hallelujah Preacher I feel like you need to preach some wholeness I am Thank you That's the best I can do with it He died as a man He died as a friend Rather often If I could ever just get a glimpse In my mind A true vision How much he loved me I'm not here to get into No kind of theological debate I don't know enough to debate I don't know What all this end time world is going to bring But I feel like If we don't scoot out of here pretty quick In the rapture There is a lot of things that can take place You don't have to shut me down It felt like A little on shaky ground It felt like Things a little uncertain in your life Another Another fast song Might not cure that And I'm not against fast singing Another shouting Up and down the aisle Might not fix that But when I get a real good vision And a good understanding Of what he done in that garden for me And all that he went through for me Quit Walk away Turn back After all he did Let me tell you this And I'll be done My dad He was not a loving man He was not a loving man But he was a hard working man And he was a demanding man There's times that he would tell me Things he wanted done around the house As a young boy I felt Dad this Ain't real fair All my buddies is out playing And doing this and that and the other Why do you think it ought to be Required of me to do all this Well Tim When I'd see my dad Leave to go to work In the evening to work The night shift And run an open cow bulldozer Out on a big long ridge above the Cumberland River And it getting down about 10, 11, 12 degrees Sometime 10, 12 below zero And I'd see my little old dad That was about 5 foot 5 And weighed about 120 pounds He'd bundle up I'd get to thinking all That he was doing Just to see that I had a warm place to sleep Just to see I had a Something good to eat It kind of changed my feelings brother Hadn't it Don't you think about all that the Lord's done for me I don't know about you But I feel like if you stacked up All that I've tried to do And compared it to what he did in that garden I'm still coming up so short Can you say amen He surrendered His whole entire will All of heaven Everything He become the outcast He had never been Separated from his father like that And now in the darkness He's crying My God My God Why have you forsaken me And he done all that So me and you could have a right To be saved Could you slip a hand up here tonight Lord Lord Lord we need revival Would you revive again The memory Of Gethsemane Would you revive again That vivid picture In our mind Lord Oh what a Savior Come on just for a minute Could you reach for him They're not throwing their garments In his path now They're not crying Hosanna He's all alone And he's doing all of that For me and you Oh Hallelujah What a Savior Would you like to talk to him tonight Do you think that you owe him A little bit of praise Do you think you owe him A little bit of honor I said it A while ago And But Tim You and Sister Carrie Walked in the same valley I don't want my wife to worry And I don't want to Hurt myself anymore But I feel like He's been so good to me That's why I'm trying to do What I can do I owe it All to him I said I owe it all to him He's been good to me Would you stay with me here tonight If you're able He surrendered his whole life For you So you could be So you could go to heaven So you could have joy In your soul We're not just religious We're saved We're not just better Sister Michelle than the church down the road We're actually born again He He told that angel Told Joseph he said his name Shall be called Emmanuel I could understand God being over me I could understand God directing me I could understand God telling me He said I want to do More than that I want to be with you Amen How about it tonight Would you like to come around these altars Let's talk to the Lord Would you like to come And talk to Him right here He's been good to us I'll stand I'll be a friend To Jesus Until my years Shall end I'll be a friend To Jesus My life for Him I'll stand I'll be a friend To Jesus Until my years Shall end They tried my Lord They tried my Lord And I served With no one to With no one to Defend Within the halls Within the halls Of the palace He stood without He stood without A friend I'll be a friend I'll be a friend To Jesus My life for Him I'll stand I'll be a friend To Jesus Until my years Shall end The world may turn Against Him I'll love Him till The end And while on earth That I live in My Lord shall have My Lord shall have A friend I'll be a friend I'll be a friend To Jesus My life for Him I'll stand I'll be a friend I'll be a friend To Jesus Until my years Shall end Until my years Shall end I'll do what He Do what He Will Until my years Shall end I'll do what He Will Until my years Shall end I'll do what He Will Until my years