Hey, what's going on everybody? This is Pastor Chad, and thanks so much for listening to our

podcasts. We are thrilled to have you on the journey with us. Thank you so much for rating

our podcasts and reviewing our podcast that helps so much and means the world to me and to our team.

I also want to say thank you so much to our team that helps put all this together. Okay, so this week is part two of a series that we're in called

Garden and the Grave. Garden and the Grave really is a journey from the Garden of Gessimity to the empty tomb.

This is exciting because part two of this series really is the journey to the cross.

Jesus has just exited the Garden of Gessimity.

He has been betrayed by Judas.

And we're going to journey today. We're going to

journey through this podcast and see all of the different things he faced on his way to the

cross. The journey of the cross for Jesus is much like your journey in life. It is filled with

betrayal. It has moments of rejection.

There are those that rise against you to strip you of all the credibility you've worked your

whole life to gain. And yet, there are some in your life that are standing on the sidelines that God is saying,

I need to add them into your journey. I need to add them into your story.

The journey to the cross is beautiful to me because it represents self-denial.

It represents a servant leader in such humility. Only our God can give us a perfect

model of what a journey truly looks like. And I say that as we survey his journey to the cross,

that we don't just take notes of what his journey look like, but we allow his spirit to give us the power we need to fulfill our journey.

Right from the garden, Jesus is immediately captured by his betrayer.

In fact, that's kind of when he picks all the guys up and he says,

hey, enough sleeping, my betrayer. In fact, that's kind of when he picks all the guys up and he says, hey,

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