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Jeremiah chapter 25, verse 15.

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel, said to me,

take from my hand this cup of the wine of wrath

and make all the nations to whom I send you drink it.

This is a really important image for understanding what Jesus did on the cross.

Here in Jeremiah 2515, God says, here is a cup that is filled with the wine of my wrath. So that's an image. We see it in

different places. In the Old Testament and the New Testament, you see this in different prophets.

And then you see this in Revelation. Revelation 14, we see the wine press of God's fury. So this

picture of a cup that is filled with the wrath of God do sin.

And the whole point here in Jeremiah 25 is these nations who have rebelled against God are going

to experience the wrath of his judgment that they deserve in their sinfulness.

So that's the picture in the Old Testament and really all throughout scripture. We have this picture of a cup symbolizing wrath and judgment. So when you

come to the New Testament and you see Jesus preparing to go to the cross and he's in the Garden of

Gatsimony, what is he praying? Father, if it is possible, let this what pass from me?

This cup pass from me.

What is this cup?

This cup represents the wine of God's wrath do sin,

the judgment do sinners. Why is Jesus sweating blood in the Garden of

Gassimony? Because he knows he is about to drink down the wine of God's wrath, do sinners. He's

about to take the judgment. Do you and me and sinners all over the world, he's about to take it on himself.

He's about to drink the cup of the wine of God's rightful wrath do sin.

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