Billy Graham -- Charlotte 1958 -- The Lonliness of Character vs. the Lonliness of Sin

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The Prayer in the Garden

³⁶ Then Jesus came with them to a place called Gethsemane, and said to the disciples, “Sit here while I go and pray over there.” ³⁷ And He took with Him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, and He began to be sorrowful and deeply distressed. ³⁸ Then He said to them, “My soul is exceedingly sorrowful, even to death. Stay here and watch with Me.”
³⁹ He went a little farther and fell on His face, and prayed, saying, “O My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as You will.”

Highlights:

• The last 24 hours of Jesus' life were the darkest in the history of the world.

• "Before the triumph, before the crown, before the Kingdom, before the victory, there had to come the suffering, there had to come the Cross." 

• Many times in scripture you find Christ praying all night.

• "Christ wasn't killed by Rome or Israel, the Bible tells us Christ was crucified by you and me; my sins and yours crucified Christ."

• The physical cross weighed 250 pounds.

• Have you helped carry the cross?!?

• Only Jesus could present a sacrifice pleasing to God.

• Moses had to stand alone; Elijah on Mount Carmel had to stand alone.

• The loneliness of character vs. the loneliness of Sin.

• Thousands of our mental problems are the result of spiritual separation from God.

• Rejecting Jesus is the one unpardonable sin.