Crisis grips Christ; Christ grips his Destiny

1. Gethsemane marks the next step in the three year drift towards the abandonment of Christ.

2. Gethsemane marks a shift in Jesus from controlling his emotions about the horror of the cross to being overwhelmed by them.

3. Gethsemane marks a shift from inner uncertainty to renewed confidence in Jesus’ destiny.

a) The futility of Jesus’ ministry without a cross
b) The promise in Scripture of the joys set before Christ Jesus

4. In what sense Jesus desired a way that avoided the cross and in what sense he knew there was no way apart from the cross.