(Compilation) the Cup - Part 2 — Leonard Ravenhill

Gethsemane and the Cup of Suffering

He went a little further and fell on his face and prayed saying oh my father if it be possible let this cup pass from me. Never less not as I will but as thou wilt. And he cometh to his disciples and finding them sleeping said to Peter What could he not watch when you were now watch and pray that ye enter not into temptation.

Betrayal as an Ingredient in the Cup

What was the cup? Well, I'll tell you what ingredient. One ingredient was it had betrayal in it. The men who swore an allegiance to him when it came to the Crisis they quit. Can he drink of the cup? What's in the cup?

Internal, Mental, and Spiritual Suffering

I believe in that cup that was Internal Suffering. Mental suffering and spiritual suffering. You want to drink the cup. I'm straightened. He says I cannot do anything now. I cannot do anything. There's a baptism.

Gethsemane and the Will of the Father

I have to go through. The Holy Ghost can't come down until I go up. I can't go up until I've done the will of the Father. And he goes through the agony of Gethsemane. He goes through the lonesomeness.

He drank of that cup. I say it was internal. Why? Because you know if I 53 is 11 he says he traveled. Isn't that internal? Deserted by others and in the darkest hour not only deserted by men deserted by God.

Pentecost, Suffering, and Persecution

Can you drink of that cup you want to travel? You see what people are seeking for today's a painless Pentecost. There isn't such a thing. The day of Pentecost was fully kept what happened immediately after Pentecost.

They prospered. Yes, I did. You went to jail. It wasn't prosperity. It was prison pain privation persecution. And then the dishonest are preached on TV today. They're liars. It's in the case of blessing and God will open the windows of heaven on you.

Earthly Wealth and Heavenly Treasure

Jesus goes on to say when that man in the other chapter that we didn't read off when he says settle this dispute between my brother and myself about the Family estate Jesus says may not offer yourself treasure on earth where moth and rust corrupts and thieves break through and steal.

You know the other wealthy Christians will get to heaven bankrupt. And there's a lot of Christians almost bankrupt living poverty. They'd be super millionaires when they get into eternity, but this is the way.

Family Division and the Cost of Following Christ

But if you read in the other version that if you're going to follow the Lord, it's division in the family. Your father or mother will hate you. Jesus comes to the place where his brother said he's insane.

You know people say I want to be like Jesus. I doubt it. You want to get kicked out of your family because you love God? You want to be so true to God that the Thomas comes and doubts you that a Judas tells you.

You really want to be like Jesus, but why don't you practice it? Why don't you have 40 days and 40 nights of fasting? Forget all the paperwork. We make such rash vows. When the temperature is running high in the meeting we make vows vows vows.

Christ's Suffering and the Challenge of the Cross

I'd say the pain was internal. He shall see of the travel of his soul and be satisfied. I'm sure it was Not only internal. I'm sure it was mental pain, I'm sure it was bodily pain. Because it said in that what the fifth chapter of Isaiah say I gave my back to the smiters.

We don't do that we fight back. We don't like somebody to carve us up scorn us ridicule us humiliate us misrepresent us and he got the whole works and Then he never muttered once what did he say he said that When it came to the agony of the cross that men shot out the lip, I don't understand those disciples.

I never will. Why after he came from the judgment hall was going to the cross? Why did they line up on either side of the road and applaud him and say the king? This is the way our King comes into his kingdom.

Instead of that men shut out the lip and scorn and said if God your father let him deliver you. I say again the perennial challenge to a Christian is come down from the cross and save yourself. You made a decision in a missionary meeting.

Returning to Old Vows and Commitments

I'm going to give more money to missions and then something kept and you backed off. I'm going to spend more time with God forget it. You didn't do it. You know when he lied you before he called down the fire.

He went back and he built the old altar. We don't want to go back to old altars to old vows to old commitments. We've always trying to make new thing. God knows. I've been brought them down anyhow in a few weeks.

Wholehearted Discipleship and Drinking the Cup

Christianity has not been weighed in the balances and found one thing. It's been tried found difficult and rejected. It's too tough. There's no part-time service leave all and follow me drink of the cup.