WHAT'S IN THE CUP?

​CAN YOU DRINK FROM THIS CUP?

JOHN18:8-11


As the Lord went away into a private place to pray He called on the Father and asked if He would take away the cup from Him. Jesus had already humbled himself to travel through forty two generations to teach the Word and to show forth His miracles, signs, and wonders. He even gave a time for the gentiles to receive Him just as well. Most often people desire the comfort that’s within the cup and all of the goodly rewards that’s within the cup. However, its often hard to swallow and partake of the pain and the suffering for righteousness sake. Even Jesus asked if it could pass. The purified love of Christ is required to drink of the cup of the Lord…to be self-less…to be after God’s own heart is what keeps you drinking of the Lord’s cup. In the cup is righteous judgment and justice. In the cup is persecution. In the cup is discipline and death of the flesh. Jesus was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities. By His stripes we were healed. Jesus paid the price that we couldn’t pay. In that same cup comes the communion with Jesus and the other saints who were persecuted for righteousness. There is the fellowship; denying of self and taking up your cross and following after him.
The officers searched for Jesus and once they’d found him the disciples were released to go forth to fulfill the Word that He whom the Lord had been given by the Father, He had lost none.
No one pluckest out of the Lord’s hand. There is no power greater than the power of the true and living God. Attempting to fight on behalf of God, Peter drew a weapon. However, the Lord reminds us that our weapons of warfare are not carnal but powerful and mighty to the pulling down of strongholds. He said His Father had given Him the cup and ought He not drink of it? The Lord’s will and purpose must be done. We must let Him reign as the King of Glory in our lives. Each day has been pre-destined even before the foundations of this world. We must eat of the whole loaf of bread which is the Word of God and the whole cup which is the blood of the lamb which was shed to partake we must walk in the Word where the Lord commanded us to present ourselves a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God which is our reasonable service (Rom 12). Some people say that they can drink from the cup when things seem to be going well, yet when the fiery dart starts to pierce the flesh and the trials and tests come to purify us, then it seems like many who said they were all in and sold out for Jesus decided to walk away because He wasn’t worth the death of the flesh. He wasn’t worth suffering for. They say these things with their actions. He said that no one could come to the Father except they be drawn and after making that statement many went away and asked will you do away too? This commitment is not temporary. This is not a consecration that is for a form or fashion. This is not entertainment or propaganda. He really did die and pay the price with His blood to partake with you for eternity. This a commitment to a marriage. This is a lifetime of living sanctified unto the Lord Jesus Christ. The good, the bad, the ugly. Being all things to all men that by all means we may save some. Can you drink of this cup? #allofit  #trust