Mar. 22 2026 | Traditional Worship | Unashamed Boldness Week 6, Matthew 26:36–46

This moment teaches us something powerful. True courage is not loud. True courage is not running into the fire. True true courage is not running towards a dangerous situation. Sometimes courage looks like kneeling in the dark and whispering. God, I don't understand. God, I I I really don't wanna go through this. God, this is gonna hurt. But I trust you. Not my will, but yours. [00:59:33] (38 seconds)  #QuietCourage

In Eden, Adam faced a choice, God's will or his own will. And Adam chose himself. He told God, my will not yours. And sin entered into the world. But thousands of years later, in another garden, another Adam faced another decision and Jesus chose differently. Thank God. He said, not my will but yours. The first Adam brought sin into the world. The second Adam brought a pathway of salvation. [00:58:56] (37 seconds)  #SecondAdamSalvation

Blood mixes with sweat and Jesus is literally bleeding under the pressure of this moment. Just like an olive press squeezes out the oil. This press is doing its work on Jesus. Jesus returns a third time. Guess what he finds? Can anybody guess? They're sleeping again. They're still asleep. But something has changed. The struggle is over. The old Jesus seems to be back. The struggle is over. Not the cross, but the decision. [00:57:37] (40 seconds)  #SurrenderOverStruggle

And that sentence tells us something important. Jesus is not pretending the cross is gonna be an easy task for him. He is being honest with the father. Is there another way, Abba? Is is there another path we can take? Is there is there another solution to saving humanity where I'm not separated from you? But then comes the sentence that changed history. Yet not as I will but as you will. [00:54:56] (37 seconds)  #NotMyWillButYours

Did you notice the shift? Did you did you did you hear the difference in the prayer? The first prayer he said, if it's possible. The second prayer he says, if it's not possible. You see the wrestling that he's doing with with his father right now is turning into surrendering. And Luke gives us additional details. He says, his sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground. It's medically proven that under extreme stress, tiny capillaries beneath your skin can burst. [00:56:57] (40 seconds)  #FromWrestlingToSurrender

In the ancient world, olives were placed into a stone basin and crushed under extremely heavy beams. Slowly, steadily, the pressure increases until the olives break and the oil flows out of them. It's messy. It's it it was it was crushing. It was pressure. And and that is exactly what this night will become for Jesus. The Garden Of Gethsemane will become the place where his godliness and humanity will be pressed. [00:48:43] (39 seconds)  #OlivePressSymbol

Those words are stronger than they appear. The Greek language describes a person overwhelmed with emotion and dis in distress. Crushed with grief like an olive, shaken to his core. Then Jesus says something that most must have stunned them. My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death. This is not the calm composed Jesus that they knew for three years. [00:52:06] (37 seconds)  #CrushedWithSorrow

And why did he take these three with him? Because these three had seen things that the others hadn't. They saw Jesus raise Jarius' daughter. They saw the transfiguration when Jesus Jesus glory shone like the sun. They had seen Jesus at his most powerful. But tonight, tonight's gonna be different. Tonight, they will see Jesus at his most vulnerable. Matthew writes again, he began to be sorrowful and troubled. [00:51:27] (39 seconds)  #FromGloryToVulnerability