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All right. Today Matthew 26, verse 38 and 39. Then he said to them, my soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch with me. And going a little further, he fell on his face and prayed, saying, father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. We are looking at the character traits of Jesus, and today we are landing on the trait in which we see Jesus's willingness to do as his father wills, even to the point of death. In this passage, we see Jesus being compliant, agreeable, submissive to an authority far greater than himself. When I look around the world today, it's pretty evident that we can see evil at work. Pretty much, I believe, maybe like no other time that we might be able to recall in our lifetime. But we have fostered a culture that really rewards the self, and the self is unwilling to bend. It is greedy. It is undermining the entire structure of God's design for mankind. And this is no different than the apostle Paul ever faced when he preached the gospel. This is evidence here in Philippians two. He says, do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourself. Look each of you not only to your own interest, but to the interests of others. He had to tell people, get out of your own self and notice the people around you. Well, when you look at the world today, do you see anybody who acts in that way? Do they act out of selfish ambition? We celebrate that in this world. Do they count others as more important than than themselves? No we don't. Do you see people looking out for other's interests or for themselves? The level of selfishness can be quite grotesque. Surely it's an offense to the Lord, and we need to repent of that. James put it this way. It's about desire. He says you desire and you do not have. So you murder, you covet, you cannot obtain. So you fight and you quarrel. You see, this is the trouble with with us. He says, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Where do we stand on this? How do we go about our day? Are we willfully submitting our life to the creator and being in his will? Or is it that we just want what we want? We can choose to be the image bearer of God, created for a purpose, and that brings glory to God through the living of our own life out before the world. But you see, the thing is, Christ went to the cross for us. It's not so that we can live our best life. It was so that we can be redeemed. And then out of that knowledge of being redeemed in the salvation that we have, that we would do good. Now you are to live a life that's in the construct of the creator's design, with a promise of a perfected life in the presence of the time to come. You see, Jesus didn't die for our selfishness. He died to redeem us of our sin.

All right. Today Matthew 26, verse 38 and 39. Then he said to them, my soul is very sorrowful, even to death. Remain here and watch with me. And going a little further, he fell on his face and prayed, saying, father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. We are looking at the character traits of Jesus, and today we are landing on the trait in which we see Jesus's willingness to do as his father wills, even to the point of death. In this passage, we see Jesus being compliant, agreeable, submissive to an authority far greater than himself. When I look around the world today, it's pretty evident that we can see evil at work. Pretty much, I believe, maybe like no other time that we might be able to recall in our lifetime. But we have fostered a culture that really rewards the self, and the self is unwilling to bend. It is greedy. It is undermining the entire structure of God's design for mankind. And this is no different than the apostle Paul ever faced when he preached the gospel. This is evidence here in Philippians two. He says, do nothing out of selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourself. Look each of you not only to your own interest, but to the interests of others. He had to tell people, get out of your own self and notice the people around you. Well, when you look at the world today, do you see anybody who acts in that way? Do they act out of selfish ambition? We celebrate that in this world. Do they count others as more important than than themselves? No we don't. Do you see people looking out for other's interests or for themselves? The level of selfishness can be quite grotesque. Surely it's an offense to the Lord, and we need to repent of that. James put it this way. It's about desire. He says you desire and you do not have. So you murder, you covet, you cannot obtain. So you fight and you quarrel. You see, this is the trouble with with us. He says, do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Where do we stand on this? How do we go about our day? Are we willfully submitting our life to the creator and being in his will? Or is it that we just want what we want? We can choose to be the image bearer of God, created for a purpose, and that brings glory to God through the living of our own life out before the world. But you see, the thing is, Christ went to the cross for us. It's not so that we can live our best life. It was so that we can be redeemed. And then out of that knowledge of being redeemed in the salvation that we have, that we would do good. Now you are to live a life that's in the construct of the creator's design, with a promise of a perfected life in the presence of the time to come. You see, Jesus didn't die for our selfishness. He died to redeem us of our sin.