Andrew Wommack Devotional 6 November 2023 – His Fathomless Pain

Andrew Wommack Devotional 6 November 2023 – His Fathomless Pain

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Topic: His Fathomless Pain

Luke 22:44: ‘And being in agony he prayed more earnestly: and his sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.’

LUKE 22:43-44

Interestingly, Luke is the only one of the gospel writers to mention that Jesus’ sweat was a significant drop of blood. This is probably because Luke was a physician (Col. 4:14), which had special significance to him.

There have been documented cases of people actually sweating drops of blood under extreme emotional pressure. This might explain why Luke is the only writer to mention the angel strengthening Jesus. Just as when Jesus encountered Satan during His forty days of fasting and temptation in the wilderness, and the angels ministered unto Him (Mk. 1:13), so here, He needed supernatural strength to endure His sufferings.

The use of the words ‘as it were’ also means that the sweat of Jesus was only comparable to blood in consistency or size. Still, it certainly underscores the effect Jesus’ agony had on His physical body.

Jesus’ sufferings for us were more than just physical. In the garden, before He suffered physically, He suffered emotionally, almost to the point of death. As Luke records, an angel had to come and give Him strength, or the emotional struggle alone would have killed Him.

All that Jesus did was motivated solely by love. It was for the joy that was set before Him that He endured going to the cross. He didn’t do what He did to save us out of pity or a sense of obligation as our Creator. He did it because He loves us.

This message was written by The Association of Related Ministries International (ARMI) and is an extension of Andrew Wommack Ministries (AWM). ARMI is a unique partnership committed to providing resources to help like-minded ministers succeed in a spirit of excellence and to draw from the experience and expertise of both the AWM and Charis Bible College staff. (www.awmi.net).

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