We'll go to Mark chapter 14, verse 34.

We read there in Mark 14, 34.

And Jesus said unto them,

My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death.

Terry 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 what thou wilt.

This passage, as we enter this section of the Gospel of Mark, we find ourselves in what you might think of in some ways as the Holy of Holies of the Bible.

When we near the cross and Jesus, as he's, you know, at this moment in his life and ministry, it's sobering and it's quite a moment. If you know Christianity and you know

what the Bible teaches about what Jesus's purpose and plan was, you realize this is a huge moment

in the world's history. And we're going to dive into more the primary purpose of what everything's

Jesus talking about. I think on Wednesday night, we're going to look

at the primary purpose, but there's a little bit of a secondary purpose that I'd like to raise

today that oftentimes you may not think about in context of this particular passage. So I'm going to

talk about this in a little different light. And then we'll look at it more in its primary purpose on

Wednesday. But, and we're going to kind of dive into this question that people tend to debate

today. And it's become kind of a mean-spirited debate. And I think sometimes we as Christians

do a good job misrepresenting the heart of the Lord, even though the Lord gives

us very clear directives in his word.

And so that's kind of one of the things we want to talk about.

And we're going to basically focus in on this question.

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