Inherit our Lord Jesus’ Struggles

Identity: Covenant: you have to find out how your struggles have to do with the covenant Seek His Will -> Different Struggle => Pray in Spirit Heb 4:14-16 I = Me Heb 5:7 1. Our Lord Jesus Struggles 1) Days: 33 years (living in flesh) 2) Climax: Gethsemane 2. How did the Lord Jesus Christ struggle? 1) Desperate pleading with intense ferventness 2) True Concern: (1) Glory of God = Will of God (2) Righteousness / Holiness of God: ways of Gospel (3) People of God 3. Making Jesus’ struggle my struggle Heb 12:1-2, 5-7, 10-11 1) Lay aside the struggle that is so familiar (carnal, earthly, typical) (1) Weight / Burden of life (2) Sin that easily entangles 2) Author and Perfecter of our faith: Jesus Christ = Spirit of God interceding 3) Fix our eyes on Him - Scorn the shame of the cross 4) Joy of victory: Scorn the shame of the cross 5) Endure hardship as discipline