Sometime during the early hours of Good Friday morning, somewhere on the Mount of Olives, probably in a processing area called Gethsemane, Jesus uttered a full Lord’s prayer.

The true Lord’s prayer is a model prayer in its own right, one we should supremely admire and stridently follow.

When the world gets into the church there will be trouble. When the church goes into the world there will be trouble. Forty-five times the New Testament calls this theological conflict “tribulation,” including three occasions when it is referred to as “great tribulation.”  

What is so sweet about sorrow? That’s the question Jesus disciples had in mind on their last night together. They had left the upper room and Jesus was about to leave them. The next stop would be the garden of Gethsemane. There was time for a few final words and a prayer before betrayal, denial, and death.

There is one true and living God who has revealed Himself in three persons. The Holy Spirit is God in the third person.

“He Hate Me” is the name Jesus took during the talk He had with His disciples on the way from the Upper Room to the Garden of Gethsemane. Jesus was the victim of a terrible hate campaign that was about to come to a cruel end.

Few things are finer than sitting down to a dinner with people you love. At the Last Supper, Jesus was joined by the twelve disciples, though one exited early to ply his trade as a traitor.

To know God is to love Him. And, to love God is to obey Him. Obedience without love is cold legalism. Love without obedience is hot hypocrisy.

Do you believe in God? An atheist would answer, “No,” for by definition he or she is a person who believes there is no God, or even gods for that matter. 

Jesus was unlike any other person who ever lived. He had the capacity to be both God and man. As such the Lord faced His final hours like He faced every moment of His earthly life, as a man of God and as God come to man.