Luke chapter 12, verse 50, Jesus says, I have a baptism to undergo.

And how distressed I am until it is accomplished.

Lord, help me to do this in a way today that honors you well.

We don't have a mindset here that looks for performance even on a day like today we just want to tell the story and worship you just like we do every time we come to get them.

Well, Lord, as we focus today on this event, Calvary and then Resurrection Day,

help me to do this in a way that helps us all. Do it with a little more understanding.

Amen. You can be seated. Thank you.

First thing I want to mention to you was the humanness of the Lord.

You really, a lot of people go through the story of the cross and the events leading up to it, really the whole life of Jesus.

Forgetting that he was very human.

He was just as human as you and I without the sin nature.

He had the feelings.

He knew the pain.

He had the ability to experience rejection, grief, sorrow, fear, hope.

And so when Jesus went through these events,

he didn't just turn some switch

and move into his godness

in a way that this is just a piece of cake

and I can just walk through this because I'm God

and it's no big deal.

In fact, and where I read to you from

is a point in Luke's gospel where a few weeks before the cross,

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