Please turn in your Bibles to Matthew, chapter 26.

Matthew, chapter 26, if you have been tracking with us through our teaching series on Matthew's gospel,

you know that we are nearing the focal point of Jesus' death and resurrection, and our teaching text for this morning comes to us from the night before.

Let's stand together for the reading of Scripture.

Matthew, chapter 26, verse 36.

Just open your heart to receive all that God has for all that you are.

Then Jesus went with his disciples to a place called Gethsemane, and he said to them, sit here while I go over there and pray.

He took Peter and the two sons of Zebedee along with him, and he began to be sorrowful and troubled.

Then he said to them, my soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. Stay here, keep watch with me.

Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, my Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me.

Yet not as I will, but as you will. Then he returned to his disciples and he found them sleeping.

Couldn't you men keep watch with me for one hour? He asked Peter, watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.

The Spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. He went away a second time and he prayed, my Father, if it is not possible for this cup to be taken away, unless I drink it, may your will be done.

When he came back, he again found them sleeping because their eyes were heavy, so he left them and went away once more and prayed the third time, saying the same thing.

Then he returned to his disciples and he said to them, are you still sleeping and resting? Look, the hour has come and the Son of Man is delivered into the hands of sinners.

Let us go. Here comes my betrayer. Take a seat.

We got married at 19 and 21 years old. Don't try that at home. In the words of clean bandit, we were just kids.

We are coming up next month in June on our 20th wedding anniversary. I feel like I should get an applause or something.

No, it is not authentic.

While we were dating, T was tired a lot and she just chalked it up to food allergies and gluten sensitivity and all of that.

She was fine for the first few years of our marriage, but when Jude, our firstborn, came along, something turned inside of her body.

As a child, she was bit by a tick and infected with Lyme disease right around the age of six, but wasn't hospitalized and diagnosed until the age of 11.

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