JUST MORE RELIGIOUS NONSENSE!
"Jesus man, your crazy" <jesus_man_help_yourself@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> race.
>
> He suffers this affliction and this desertion in the horror of night.
>
> I believe that Jesus never complained but on this single occasion; but
> then
> He complained as if he could no longer bear His extreme suffering. "My
> soul
> is sorrowful, even unto death."
>
> Jesus seeks companionship and comfort from men. This is the sole
occasion
> in
> all His life, as it seems to me. But He receives it not, for His
disciples
> are asleep. Jesus will be in agony even to the end of the world. We must
> not
> sleep during that time.
>
> Jesus, in the midst of this universal desertion, including that of His
own
> friends chosen to watch with Him, finding them asleep, is vexed because
of
> the danger to which they expose, not Him, but themselves; He cautions
them
> for their own safety and their own good, with a sincere tenderness for
> them
> during their ingratitude, and warns them that the spirit is willing and
> the
> flesh weak.
>
> Jesus, finding them still asleep, without being restrained by any
> consideration for themselves or for Him, has the kindness not to waken
> them
> and leaves them in repose.
>
> Jesus prays, uncertain of the will of His Father, and fears death; but,
> when
> He knows it, He goes forward to offer Himself to death. Eamus.96
Processit
> (John).[97]
>
> Jesus asked of men and was not heard.
>
> Jesus, while His disciples slept, wrought their salvation. He has
wrought
> that of each of the righteous while they slept, both in their
nothingness
> before their birth, and in their sins after their birth.
>
> He prays only once that the cup pass away, and then with submission; and
> twice that it come if necessary.
>
> Jesus is weary.
>
> Jesus, seeing all His friends asleep and all His enemies wakeful,
commits
> Himself entirely to His Father.
>
> Jesus does not regard in Judas his enmity, but the order of God, which
He
> loves and admits, since He calls him friend.
>
> Jesus tears Himself away from His di
>
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