Hello, thank you for joining me today for Give Him 15.

The title of our post today is,

Redemption began in Gethsemini.

Leaving there, he went as he so often did to Mount Olives.

The disciples followed him when they arrived at the place, he said,

Pray that you don't enter into temptation.

The place, spoken of by Luke, was Githsemini.

It had become Christ's favorite place of prayer. Notice the phrase

as he so often did. This is how Judas, who had left the last supper early, knew where to take

the soldiers to find him. Christ would spend three hours there that

night agonizing over the ordeal he was facing. During this time, he would wrestle with his natural

human desire for this cup of suffering to pass from him.

Father, if you are willing, remove this cup from me.

Yet not my will, but yours be done.

The agony of these three hours was horrific, much worse than most people realize.

Luke tells us Christ started this time of prayer on his knees.

Matthew adds that he eventually fell on his face in agony.

Mark added that he fell repeatedly.

In other words, Christ would kneel, then fall on his face.

He would rise to his feet again, only to fall once more, first to his knees, then

onto his face. At one point the agony of what he was experiencing, as well as the knowledge

of what was coming, became so great that the capillaries in his face burst, and blood mixed with sweat oozed through the pores of his skin.

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