Sermon Details
- Pastor Name: Jonathan Cornell
- Date & Time: October 13, 2013 | 10:00am
In his final hours, Jesus begins to see the actual horror of death. Like a chasm in front of him, panic sets in. Something happened there that shocked the unshockable Son of God. So what does he do? Jesus prays. “Abba,” (the most gentle and intimate name for God in all the scriptures) “Father, if there is anyway that this mission can be taken from me, will you do it?”
Jesus, in his moment of deepest despair and worry, prays. What makes Jesus such a compelling figure and man with whom we can relate is that his response to something unthinkably frightening is the same as ours.
You don’t need to pretend that the diagnosis, or the economic instability, or the threat of losing something or someone close to you is not scary. It is. In this moment when Jesus was apart from all the others except Peter, James, and John, Jesus prayed because he was scared.
And yet God’s answer to Jesus’ cry of desperation came back “no.” The truth of the Bible is that there are times when the prayers that are expressed by God’s people come back denied.
Download the entire transcript: Mark 14 32-36 Answered Prayers request denied
