THREE CUPS

Paintings of the Lord's Supper show one cup and one platter. These He shared with His disciples in that Upper Room as they celebrated the Passover Meal for the last time.


But what we don't see is the cup that Jesus drank alone...one that made our salvation possible.


It is the cup that He prayed might be taken away as he cried out to His Father later that evening in the Garden of Gethsemene.


This was the cup not only of the brutal, torturous death on a Roman cross that loomed before Him; but the even greater agony of bearing upon Himself the transgressions of all mankind, of becoming sin on our behalf.


And even more than experiencing the ugliness of sin, He would bear the Father's full wrath for all human iniquity; and because a holy God cannot look upon sin, Jesus would be separated from His father for the only time since eternity past, and He would have to bear this unthinkable burden alone.


Jesus chose to drink this cup of suffering, sin-bearing, and separation so that we can share in the cup of salvation.


Let us stop today and consider....