15.2 Drinking the Cup
© 2015 Christ Revealed Bible Institute
Christ I have been crucified with – I live, but no longer I, He lives, however, in me Christ – even more than that, the NOW I live in all the sphere of flesh exists only inside the sphere of the I live faith of the Son of God – this One having loved me, this One having traded Himself for me (Galatians 2:20, as it really reads).In the same way that Adam traded his self as the image of God for the self of the serpent, the image of outward show, in that exact way Jesus traded His Self as that same image of God for our false selves gone, that His Self would be our only life. The question before us is how and where and when Jesus made that trade. But even more than that, how we were there to make that trade with Him.
Paul’s Gospel
The other apostles understood Jesus as Savior, having done something incredible for us. Paul gave us an entirely different view of Jesus, Jesus as first Savior, yes, but that same Jesus, now, as Salvation. Paul’s Jesus lives in Person in fullness inside of us – by faith. And Paul’s gospel places you and me entirely, in all that we are, our sin, our flesh, our self, entirely into that Lamb, that Person, that Salvation, in all that He is. Entirely into His Gethsemane, entirely into His death, entirely into His burial, entirely into His Resurrection.
And then Paul’s gospel places that same Jesus entirely into us.
The Cup and the Joy
Take this Cup away from Me! Jesus’ agony in Gethsemane. Here am I and the children whom God has given Me (Hebrews 2:13). – When He rose up from prayer (Luke 22:45). For the Joy that was set before Him, Jesus endured the cross, despising (thinking nothing of) the shame (Hebrews 12:2).
Somewhere in the heart of a Man, the Cup of Agony turned into the Joy set before Him. Inside that transition, Jesus said, “Here I am and Daniel is here with Me. (Put your own name in the blank.) Gethsemane was utterly, intensely, personal. It was the personal intentions of a Man that turned you and me from dregs to Joy.
Sorrowful
Jesus drank the Father’s Cup, a wine cup in the Greek. We must know what that means.
He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. Then He said to them, "My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death.”
Matthew undoubtedly wrote in Aramaic, but there is no Aramaic script from the original, and thus we must settle for the Greek words that Matthew’s gospel would have been translated into during his lifetime. (from www.biblehub.com)
Lupeo Ademeneo Perilupos
Sorrowful Deeply distressed Exceedingly sorrowful
Travail
- lupeó: to distress, to grieve. I pain, I grieve, I vex.
- lypéō (from lýpē, "deep grief") – to experience deep, emotional pain (sadness), i.e. severe sorrow (grief). (lypéō) is very intense and hence even used of the pain of childbirth.
- démoneó: to be distressed. I feel fear, I lack courage, I am distressed, I am troubled.
- perilupos: very sad. I am very sorrowful, I am greatly grieved.
- perílypos (an adjective, derived from perí, "encompassing" and lýpē, "sorrow") – properly, being sorrowful "all-around," i.e. engulfed in sorrow.
Agony
Luke, writing in Greek, used the Greek word: agónia.
- agónia: a contest, great fear. (Properly the feeling of the athlete before a contest), great fear, terror of death; anxiety, agony.
- agōnía – the brand of struggle that emphasizes felt pressure, i.e. experienced in an intensely personal way (used only in Luke 22:44).
- Agony (from Webster’s 1926): 1. Extreme pain of mind; anguish; paroxysm of grief; specifically, the sufferings of Christ in Gethsemane. 3. The last struggle of life; death struggle. 4. Extreme bodily pain, such as that which causes writhing or contortions; torment; torture.
Agony is an English word because of Gethsemane. Here is what we must understand. Jesus was not wrestling in agony over the coming visible events of the day. Jesus is the boldest heart and the mightiest warrior that ever walked this earth. Yes, all great and true warriors know fear before the battle begins. But no great warrior wastes time wrestling with fear. Rather, he holds it in check and sets his eyes on the task ahead.
Jesus is the revelation of the Father. Something far, far larger is taking place in His soul, His psuche, His self.
The Travail of God
Jesus is every Word God speaks. Jesus is the revelation of the Father, that is, God’s appearance inside the creation. Jesus is showing us the very agony and travail of Father God. And He is showing us that agony as a very personal and human man.
It is not the next 9 hours set before Jesus. It is the next 3000 years. It is not the death and resurrection of one man set before Him, but the death and resurrection of the universe, including you and including me.
I Was There!
… so as to create in Himself one new man (Ephesians 2:15). The new creation exists out from the words Jesus speaks as the All-speaking of God, but it is formed only inside the heart of a Man on His knees in agony.
Jesus drank His Father’s Cup. Jesus drank you and me into Himself; He became us.
I was there! I, Daniel Yordy, I was there inside of Him. When Jesus said, “Not My will, but Thine be done,” He was speaking as the very end of Adam. And I, Daniel Yordy , I was there inside of Him, literally and actually. I was speaking those words.
Called by Name
To Him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear His voice; and He calls His own sheep by name and leads them out (John 10:3). Here am I and the children whom You have given Me.
There on His knees, just before He rose up from prayer, Jesus called me by name, “Daniel, come into Me,” and led me out of the old and into Himself. Before I was ever conceived in my mother’s womb, Jesus had already called me by name into Himself. I have never lived anywhere else and neither have you. You and I were conceived first inside the Heart of a Man.
One Tree Only
Jesus, on His knees in Gethsemane, replicated the same experience of Adam as Adam stood between two trees. There is one large difference, however. Jesus saw only one tree. Jesus knew only Life. We must eliminate ALL thought of “transaction theology” from our minds, the idea that “Jesus made a transaction with the Father to “appease” the Father’s demand for punishment.”
Jesus did NOT choose between two trees!!! – Never! Jesus chose to take the entire creation back into Himself as the sustaining Word, that the old might die and all those in the old, each one by name, might come alive in the new inside His heart, inside of Christ.
Willingness of Heart
Jesus drank the Cup. Jesus drank you and me into Himself. By drinking us into Himself, you and I became an essential part of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now we drink Jesus into ourselves. Jesus becomes us. But Jesus cannot become us, that is, we CANNOT drink Jesus into ourselves as He commanded us to do, unless Jesus WILLINGLY offers His life to us as our very own. What is the one thing that takes us up the tree of life to eat of its fruit? One thing only. – Willingness of heart.
Jesus and I together, there on our knees, said to our Father, “Not My will, but Yours be done,” the faith of the Son of God.
My Proof
And as Jesus and I spoke those words together, there in that moment, the false, false separation of Adam ceased forever. When Jesus and I rose to our feet, Adam was forever silent. From that moment on until right now today, every step that Jesus and I took through the Atonement, and every step we take today, we step only inside of Father, Father directing our every step. We trust utterly in the God whom we know ONLY as the One always arising from our shared Heart.
You want proof that I was there speaking those words inside of Jesus? Here is my proof. My faith, the very faith of Jesus, the only faith in which I live.
Turned into Joy
Jesus and I are one. Jesus does not “believe”; He knows. And that absolute knowledge is the Substance and the faith in which I live.
There is no part of Jesus that is not found in us; there is no part of us not found in Jesus, including our sin and our shame. There is no part of us not filled with Jesus Himself in Person; there is no part of Jesus in which we are not found.
And all of this, every bit of it, happened as a Man rose to His feet from Gethsemane. As the dregs of the Father’s Cup turned into the Joy burning inside the Heart of all Desire.