Jesus drank the cup of wrath for all who put their trust in Him.

He drank the cup of wrath for his own, for his sheep. After Jesus gave his new commandment on Monday Thursday, he instituted the sacrament

of the Lord's Supper with his disciples, and when that was finished, they sang a hymn,

and Jesus and his disciples went to the wine press to

Gathemeny.

There in his agony, Jesus confronted a vessel filled with that same wrath of God that had been stored up against

the day of wrath.

That vessel, that cup of wrath that the Father now set before the Son, saying, drink this cup for your people.

Jesus trembled before that vessel filled with divine wrath.

This was no surprise to him, but when the moment came, when his hour arrived, it was almost

more than he could bear.

So he begged the Father with sweat coming from his brow in drops of blood as he wrestled

with the Father saying, Father, please let this cup pass from me. Isn't there any other way?

Please take it back.

Nevertheless, not my will, but yours be done.

And in that hour of agony, such communication occurred between the Father and the Son, that

it was very clear to the Son that the father's answer to his prayer was

no.

You must take it.

You must drink it. And so Jesus took the cup, not that moment in Gassimony.

But several hours later on the tree outside of the city, he drank that cup of the wrath of God to its dregs.

One would think that with that experience of Christ having drunk the fullness of the wrath

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