Why was His soul troubled?.

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(Octavius Winslow, ""http://www.gracegems.org/Winslows/Consider_Jesus.htm" CONSIDER JESUS" 1870)

"My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow 
to the point of death." Mark 14:34

In this lay our Lord's greatest suffering: 
His soul sorrow. Compared with this . . .
the lingering, excruciating tortures of the cross,
the extended limbs,
the quivering nerves,
the bleeding wounds,
the burning thirst;
were, as nothing. 

So long as our blessed Lord endured the gibes 
and insults and calumnies of mere men, not a 
complaint escaped His lips. 

But, when the wrath of God, endured as the 
Substitute of His people, entered within His 
holy soul, then the wail of agony rose strong 
and piercing, "My God, My God, why have 
You forsaken Me?"

Why was His soul troubled? 

He was now bearing sin and, consequently, 
the punishment of sin; the wrath of God 
overwhelming His soul. Divine justice, finding 
the sins of God's elect meeting on His holy soul, 
exacted full payment and inflicted the utmost 
penalty!

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