Troubled

John 12:26-27 – Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me. “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour.

2 Corinthians 5:8,21 – We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord…God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

Philippians 1:23 – I am torn between the two: I desire to depart and be with Christ, which is better by far; but it is more necessary for you that I remain in the body.

Mark 14:36 – “Abba, Father,” he said, “everything is possible for you. Take this cup from me. Yet not what I will, but what you will.”

Application:

• ·         “Away from the body…at home with the Lord” is the situation of believers after death, when they are no longer living in their mortal bodies.
• ·         Being with Christ after death must involve some kind of conscious presence and fellowship.
• ·         Jesus considered praying for God to save Him from this death but refused to do so, because the very reason He had come was to die for sinners.
• ·         What Jesus dreaded was not death as such but the manner of His death as the one who was taking “the sin of the world” upon Himself.
• ·         Christ, the only entirely righteous one, took our sin upon Himself at Calvary and endured the punishment we deserved, namely, death and separation from God. Thus, by a marvelous exchange, He made it possible for us to receive His righteousness and thereby be reconciled to God.

All Scripture verses taken from NIV