In this Good Friday sermon, Ray Dillard sets before us the cup of God’s wrath, takes us to the cross where Jesus drank it on our behalf, and then points us to … the other cup. Dr. Ray Dillard, now with the Lord, was a beloved professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary. He was co-author of one of the most widely-used Old Testament introductions in print.

I suppose if we were to find the passages in the Bible most familiar to us, Matthew 26:1-46 would have to rank very high among them. Jesus prepares for death. He is anointed and then betrayed. He and His disciples eat their last supper together, and bread and wine represent Jesus’ body and blood. Jesus prays in the garden. We celebrate these passages again and again in the church. We read them with some frequency. Yet I wonder how many times you have read through the account of what takes place in the garden of Gethsemane without stopping to think exactly what it was that Jesus was praying about.

Download the complete sermon (PDF from Journal of Biblical Counseling 18:1, Fall 1999)