Teachings – Christ’s Victory in the Garden

CHRIST’S VICTORY IN THE GARDEN

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WHERE ARE WE

And Christ’s victory – hallelujah! What can be said? In Pastor’s shortest discourse, there is not much to write here that you haven’t heard in the audiobook. With God’s acceptance, we’ll stop here. 

SCRIPTURE

1 Corinthians 15:54-57, ESV 

“When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.”
“O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”
The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.”

CHRIST’S VICTORY IN THE GARDEN
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Again, I defer you to the  listening of the audiobook. Because of its brevity, I did not select any passages for publication here. However, I will share with you from the book the poem that Pastor shared in his discourse:

“Were the whole realm of nature mine,
That were a present far too small;
Love so amazing, so divine,
Demands my soul, my life, my all.”

THOUGHT GOING FORWARD

Oh, death, where is your sting? There came that point in the garden when Iscariot, the Pharisee, and Roman soldiers approached Jesus, that He was calm and possessed a deep profound peace. Pastor suggested that Jesus was at such a calm that when he acknowledged being whom they sought, they fell back in awe and reverence. Astounded. Why? His calm. His tremors and agony had passed for He knew what was about to happen was the will of His Father.

IN TRIBUTE TO SPURGEON’S LOVE OF SHORT RYHMES

The will of the Father once known and accepted,
is followed by peace and grace.
In quiet confidence, no fear detected,
He accepted God’s will, He set His face.