“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, not my will but yours be done.” Luke 22: 42

Then going out he went, as was his custom, to the Mount of Olives, and the disciples followed him. When he arrived at the place he said to them, “Pray that you may not undergo the test.” After withdrawing about a stone’s throw from them and kneeling, he prayed, saying, “Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, not my will but yours be done.” And to strengthen him an angel from heaven appeared to him. He was in such agony and he prayed so fervently that his sweat became like drops of blood falling on the ground. When he rose from prayer and returned to his disciples, he found them sleeping from grief. He said to them, “Why are you sleeping? Get up and pray that you may not undergo the test.” 

luke 22: 39-46 

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“Father, if you are willing, take this cup away from me; still, not my will but yours be done.”

why would God our Father will the agonizing, humiliating, and excruciating torture and death of His sinless Son?

Jesus is rejected, betrayed, unlawfully accused, unlawfully arrested, unlawfully charged, unlawfully tried, unlawfully convicted, unlawfully sentenced to death, is mercilessly tortured, and dies nailed to a cross. the sinless Son of God takes the just punishment for our sins on Himself so that we can enter the kingdom of God.

why would God our Father will the torture and death of His sinless Son?
answer: because God our Father loves us.

mind-numbing, isn't it?

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