A unique perspective on the the garden and the ressurection angels.

All credit to my pastor for this, I have to share with you what he preached on Sunday, I hope you are as encouraged as I was!

1. The Garden

At the garden Christ's agony and dread would have been something we'll never comprehend.

No matter what event you've dreaded waiting for it doesn’t come close to what Christ had to dread- all of the dread of humanity, anticipating the worst of situations, from every age of the earth couldn't compare to the dread Christ felt in the garden.

For soon Christ (God the Son), who had already stooped down from an infinitely glorious heaven to become a man ( Philippians 2:6–8) for the sake of us wretched sinners would soon have God the Father's wrath poured out on Him on the cross.

All those countless hells that were rightfully meant for us all were poured out on Christ!

Let us use this to remember the seriousness of our sin and that no sin is "trivial" and let us use this to grow in humility and in gratitude that the eternal, infinitely glorious Christ, God the Son, left heaven to become a man for our pitiful sinful state.

2. The Angels

There were two angels sitting at the empty tomb of Christ after His ressurection right? An easy enough fact to overlook.

Qyestion- But rather than being in heaven surely celebrating the return of their Lord in His ressurected, glorious state, why did Christ (God the Son) send them to earth rather than have them at the celebrations which would have surely been going on? (Revelation 5:11–12)

Answer- to show that in His glorified, ressurected state He still loves and cares for His church and He used two angel ministers to show this. (Hebrews 1:14)

What an encouragement for us true believers to grow in love for our local church, other believers and more importantly Christ Himself!