#508 The Cup that Crystallizes Part 1
THROW OFF every encumbrance, throw off whatever the mass that bends or bulges by its load, throw off this burden or hindrance, and the sin that so easily entangles us as a competitor thwarting the racer in every direction, and run with cheerful endurance the race set before us fixing our eyes, attentively considering Jesus, the chief leader and finisher of our faith… Hebrews 12:1-2
The author, source and finisher of our faith demonstrated how he threw off anything that would get in the way of his obedience to the will of the Father, as he faithfully drank of the Cup that was poured out for him. Of coarse he did not have sin within himself, but he did have temptations and challenges regarding his focus and his choices.
“…He resolutely set his face to go to Jerusalem.” Luke 9:51; 18:31-33
“From that time Jesus Christ began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, ‘God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to you.’ But he turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; for you are not setting your mind of God’s interests, but man’s.” Matthew 16:21-23
“Although he was a Son, he learned obedience form the things which he suffered.” Hebrews 5:8 He chose to attentively hearken to the voice and will of His Father; he chose to delight in His will. In Isaiah 50:4 he is prophetically described as praying “awaken my ear to listen as a disciple.” NASB
As we attentively consider him we are inspired by his faithfulness even to the death of the cross, and the complete love for and faith in the Father that made this obedience possible. Philippians 2:8; Psalm 40:8; John 4:34
“The best illustrations of this true faith, this continuous confidence in God, is found, as we should expect, in our dear Redeemer's experiences and their narrative. Realizing that he was in the world for the purpose of serving the divine plan, he realized also continually the supervision of divine wisdom in respect to all his affairs: consequently he not only went to the Father frequently in prayer, and went to the Word of the Lord for guidance, but every experience through which he passed, and all the opposition with which he met, he recognized as being under the divine supervision. He knew that he was fully consecrated to the Father, and seeking not his own will but the will of him that sent him; he knew consequently that the Father's providential care was superintending all the affairs of his life. R2351
There is so much blessing in attentively considering him and what made it possible for him to drink the cup: how he focused on the joy set before him, how he endured the cross, and how he disesteemed the shame. Hebrews 12:2
THROW OFF every encumbrance, throw off whatever the mass that bends or bulges by its load, throw off this burden or hindrance, and the sin that so easily entangles us as a competitor thwarting the racer in every direction, and run with cheerful endurance the race set before us fixing our eyes, attentively considering Jesus, the chief leader and finisher of our faith… Hebrews 12:1-2
The author, source and finisher of our faith demonstrated how he threw off anything that would get in the way of his obedience to the will of the Father, as he faithfully drank of the Cup that was poured out for him. Of coarse he did not have sin within himself, but he did have temptations and challenges regarding his focus and his choices.
“…He resolutely set his face to go to Jerusalem.” Luke 9:51; 18:31-33
“From that time Jesus Christ began to show his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and suffer many things from the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised up on the third day. And Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him, saying, ‘God forbid it, Lord! This shall never happen to you.’ But he turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; for you are not setting your mind of God’s interests, but man’s.” Matthew 16:21-23
“Although he was a Son, he learned obedience form the things which he suffered.” Hebrews 5:8 He chose to attentively hearken to the voice and will of His Father; he chose to delight in His will. In Isaiah 50:4 he is prophetically described as praying “awaken my ear to listen as a disciple.” NASB
As we attentively consider him we are inspired by his faithfulness even to the death of the cross, and the complete love for and faith in the Father that made this obedience possible. Philippians 2:8; Psalm 40:8; John 4:34
“The best illustrations of this true faith, this continuous confidence in God, is found, as we should expect, in our dear Redeemer's experiences and their narrative. Realizing that he was in the world for the purpose of serving the divine plan, he realized also continually the supervision of divine wisdom in respect to all his affairs: consequently he not only went to the Father frequently in prayer, and went to the Word of the Lord for guidance, but every experience through which he passed, and all the opposition with which he met, he recognized as being under the divine supervision. He knew that he was fully consecrated to the Father, and seeking not his own will but the will of him that sent him; he knew consequently that the Father's providential care was superintending all the affairs of his life. R2351
There is so much blessing in attentively considering him and what made it possible for him to drink the cup: how he focused on the joy set before him, how he endured the cross, and how he disesteemed the shame. Hebrews 12:2
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