Satan Tempts Jesus to Walk Away from the Cross? (TMF:634)

Thursday, April 27, 2017
Peace to Live By: Satan Tempts Jesus to Walk Away from the Cross? (TMF:634) - Daniel Litton
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       Now if we go to the Garden of Gethsemane, in Matthew chapter 26, before Jesus was arrested, Jesus was taking in the full realization of all that was about to take place. He even said to Peter, James, and John, ““My soul is very sorrowful, even to death” (Matthew 26:38, ESV). Now, it could be that Satan was tempting Jesus to walk away from the cross, since Jesus knew what was going to happen. And Jesus prays to God and asks him to take the cup of the cross away from him. He asks God if there is a way everyone in the world can have a chance at being saved without him going to the cross. But God knew that there was no other alternative, and Jesus was obedient to the Father, to the point of death, even death on a Roman cross, as the Apostle Paul talked about in Philippians 2:8. If Jesus hadn’t gone to the cross, you, me, and everyone in the world would have been condemned. But despite the unbelievable suffering the stood before him, he went to the cross for all of us. He despised the shame, as the writer of Hebrews has told us (see Hebrews 12:2). He knew the joy that would be his afterward.