See this strange sight!',
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"Being in agony!" Luke 22:44
Beloved, let us visit Gethsemane this morning, and see this strange sight! Here is our divine substitute, the only-begotten Son of God, the brightness of Jehovah's glory, and the express image of His person—groaning on the cold ground, and baptised in blood!
He is deeply distressed and troubled.
His heart is filled with horror—and His mind with dread!
His soul is troubled, tossed with tempests and not comforted.
He is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death.
The sorrows of death encompass Him, and the pains of hell have gotten hold upon Him.
His heart like wax is melted within Him.
He sweats blood.
He cries aloud, with an exceeding bitter cry, and His heart fails Him. It is the hour and power of darkness.
Our sins meet upon Him!
His soul is made an offering for our sins!
It has pleased Jehovah to bruise Him!
Was ever any sorrow like unto His sorrow?
HE IS IN AGONY! Here . . .
our sins are punished,
our iniquities are expiated,
our justification is procured.
Oh, to love Jesus—even to an agony!
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