The Prayer and Salvation Part 1

Prophecies taught down through the centuries clearly speak of JESUS as the Messiah. The words of Isaiah and Psalms testify of Salvation through CHRIST, the Lamb slain before the foundation of the world.

John 5:39 ...These are the Scriptures that testify about Me.

Luke 22:37 “It is written: ‘And He was numbered with the transgressors’; and I tell you that this must be fulfilled in Me. Yes, what is written about Me is reaching its fulfillment.”

Colossians 1:13-22 For He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son He loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. He is the image of the invisible GOD, the firstborn over all creation. For by Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rulers or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. And He is the head of the body, the church; He is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything He might have the supremacy. For GOD was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through His blood, shed on the cross. Once you were alienated from GOD and were enemies in your minds because of your evil behavior.
But now He has reconciled you by CHRIST's physical body through death to present you holy in His sight, without blemish and free from accusation.

JESUS spent His whole ministry teaching, “I am the Door, if any man enters in by Me, he shall be saved.” (John 10:9) “I am the Way, the truth, and the Life, no man comes to the Father except by Me.”
(John 14:6)

Then JESUS said to His disciples, “If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me.
(Matthew 16:24)

JESUS replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified.
I tell you the truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. (John 12:24)

JESUS took on a very specific role. He came to do the will of the Father, which was to take on a body and be made the one sacrifice which could take care of our sin. But it was not forced on Him unwillingly. It was the plan of the Godhead— Father, Son, and Spirit, made in complete true unity in ages before time, for the love of the creation which He Himself made.

Philippians 2:6-8 says Who, being in very nature GOD, did not consider equality with GOD something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death – even death on a cross!

“For I did not speak of My own accord, but the Father who sent Me commanded Me what to say and how to say it. I know that His command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told Me to say.” (John 12:49-50)

“I tell you the truth, the Son can do nothing by Himself; He can do only what He sees His Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son does also.” (John 5:19)

GOD made Him who had no sin to be a sin offering for us, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of GOD. (2Corthinians 5:21)

The words I say to you are not just My own. Rather, it is the Father, living in Me, who is doing His Work.” (John 14:10)

By Myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and My judgment is just, for I seek not to please Myself but Him who sent Me. (John 5:31)

“If I testify about Myself, My testimony is not valid. Romans (14:23)

In Exodus 21:5-6 it says, “But if the servant declares, ‘I love my master. I and my wife and children do not want to go free,’ then the master must take him before the judges. He shall take him to the door post and pierce his ear with an awl. Then the servant will be this master’s servant for life.”

In Psalm 40:6-8 JESUS refers to this when He says to the Father,
“Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, But My ears You have pierced; burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require. Then I said, “Here I am, I have come— it is written about Me in the scroll, in the volume of the book, it is written of Me. I desire to do Your will O My GOD, Your law is written within My heart.”

This ear piercing is mentioned in Isaiah 50:5-7,
The sovereign LORD has opened My ears (pierced) and I have not been rebellious; I have not drawn back. I have offered My back to those who beat Me, My cheeks to those who pulled out My beard; I did not hide My face from mocking and spitting. Because the Sovereign LORD helps Me, I will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set My face like flint, and I know I will not be put to shame.

In Ps. 40: 6-8 JESUS said to GOD “I am your loyal willing servant and I have come to do Your will. nothing else matters. I am like a slave voluntarily serving the master for life. ”

JESUS said to GOD the Father and us, “My ears You have pierced. I want to write it down so that all will know that I am only a servant to GOD the Father.” In John 14:31 JESUS said “the world must know that I love the Father and I will do exactly what the Father tells Me to do.” In Hebrews 10:7 He says “I have come to do Your will.”

A true servant has no will of his own, only the master’s will is important. That may cause the servant pain and suffering but he doesn’t stop, he keeps doing what master says because he loves the master and will do anything he asks.

JESUS is saying here, because of My great love for the Father, I have no will of My own. I have come to be a servant of the Father only. JESUS never usurped the Father’s role. If He had Satan would have been able to say, “See He’s not a servant! He is making His own demands! He’s a phony! He’s liar!”

In Gethsemane, Going a little farther, Jesus fell with His face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from Me. Yet not as I will, but as You will.”
Matthew 26:40

Is JESUS is praying “Take this cross Father GOD from Me. Don’t make Me go through with it—But not My will but Thine,” ?

JESUS had explained to the disciples that He would be killed and raised up in three days and Peter insisted it wouldn’t happen. JESUS instantly rebuked him. Jesus turned and said to Peter, “Get behind Me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to Me; you do not have in mind the things of GOD, but the things of men.” Matthew 16:23
Would JESUS in the garden beg GOD for the same thing that He rebuked Peter for? Of course not.
JESUS continued speaking to His disciples, “If anyone would come after Me, he must deny himself and take up his cross and follow Me. Matthew 16:24
Can you imagine JESUS asking the people of the world to deny themselves and take up their cross and then go begging GOD to let Him out of His?
GOD the Father says, “But My righteous one will live by faith. And if He shrinks back, I will not be pleased with Him.” Hebrew 10:37-38

JESUS said in John 12:27-28, “Now My heart 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. Father Glorify Your name!”
Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it and will glorify it again!” (John 12;30)

JESUS spoke to them gathered and said, “This voice is for your benefit, not Mine. You are going to have the Light just a little while longer. Walk in the Light, before darkness overtakes you... Put your trust in the Light while you have it so that you may become sons of Light. When a man believes in Me, he does not believe in Me only, but in the One who sent Me. When he looks at Me, he sees the One who sent Me. I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who believes in Me should stay in darkness. As for the person who hears My words but does not keep them, I do not judge him. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save it. There is a judge for the one who rejects Me and does not accept My words; that very word which I spoke will condemn him at the last day. For I did not speak of My own accord, but the Father who sent Me commanded Me what to say and how to say it. I know that His command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father has told Me to say. When the Counselor comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father, He will testify about Me. All this I have told you so that you will not go astray. (John 12:35-36,44-50, 15:26)

JESUS spoke this to His disciples just after what we call “the LORD’s Supper. Would He now go to the garden and ask GOD to take the burden of the cross from Him? He just said He must go in order for the HOLY SPIRIT to be able to come to us? How can He now ask to to be released from this commitment?

JESUS now prays to the Father in John 17:2-5,12 Father, the time has come. Glorify Your Son, that Your Son may glorify You. For You granted Him authority over all people that He might give eternal life to all those You have given Him. Now this is eternal life: that they may know You, the only true GOD and JESUS CHRIST, whom You have sent. I have brought You glory on earth by completing the work You gave Me to do. And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world began. I will remain in the world no longer, but they are still in the world, and I am coming to You. HOLY FATHER, protect them by the power of Your name—the name You gave Me–so that they may be one as We are one."

He says that He brings glory to the Father by completing the work that the Father sent Him to do. Can the Father be glorified in Him if He asks to be let out of the cross?

GOD, the HOLY SPIRIT, and JESUS are One and cannot have differing wills. We have only one GOD. Think of it this way. I am one person and yet I am many people. I am a daughter, sister, aunt, cousin, wife, mother. I have many facets but all my parts must agree or I could not continue to live. GOD being infinitely more faceted than my human analogy can fathom, must support His own law, because He is what makes the law.

Matthew 12:25 says, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation.
JESUS replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of GOD.” Luke 9:62 This must include JESUS Himself.

And now, Father, glorify Me in Your presence with the glory I had with You before the world began. (John 17:6)

“Father, I want those You have given Me to be with Me where I am, and to see My glory, the glory You have given Me because You loved Me before the creation of the world. (John 17:5)

JESUS was totally submitted to the Father and never rebelled, resisted, held back or hesitated.

JESUS replied, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for service in the kingdom of GOD.” Luke 9:62

Even in Matthew 4, in the desert, when Satan tests Jesus, JESUS said to him, “Away from Me, Satan! For it is written: ‘Worship the LORD your GOD, and serve Him only. Matthew 4:10

James 1:13-14 When tempted, no one should say, “GOD is tempting me.” For GOD cannot be tempted by evil, nor does He tempt anyone; but each one is tempted when, by his own evil desire, he is drawn away by his own lusts.

So if JESUS in not praying to get out of going to the cross what is He praying for?

(continued on The Prayer and Salvation Part 2)