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Jesusin the garden of Gethsemane. Paul gives us doctrine, based upon this prayer in Philippians 2.
And there appeared an angel unto him from Heaven, strengthening him.He needed help to face what He would go through. We need to rely on God to help us when we need it.
And being in an agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.He was in stress beyond anything any of us have been through and His solution was to pray.
Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God: But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men: And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
humbled himself. No matter what we go through, it is only for a short time.
became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross. He was living as a literal physical man and knew that God the Father knew and understood things that even he did not know and understand. He demonstrated true Biblical faith by His obedience no matter what was the command.
mind. which is the same way of thinking and the same attitude.
Wherefore God also hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth; And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.We are commanded to do
workbased upon the belief that
it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure. God decides what is best even if it is a death on the cross.
But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren.).