Below is the transcript from Mark Driscoll's sermon on Jesus praying in the garden of Gethsemane. It is part 3 of a 5 part series on prayer by Driscoll. This is not an easy teaching, as Driscoll notes--it is about a painful time for Christ. Below is a link to the audio version, and there is also a video of the sermon. In Christ..

http://download.marshill.com/files/2008/08/03/20080803_the-gethsemane-prayer_sd_audio.mp3

When Jesus prayed in the Garden of Gethsemane, he was at the hardest point of his earthly life. In anguish, pain, and desperation we see God the Son pray to God the Father asking that God would take away the suffering he was about to experience, and ended his prayer with an essential phrase that every Christian must understand‚ "not my will, but yours, be done". We can pray and ask our Father for the things we desire, but at the end of the day we must understand that His will is what's best for our joy and His glory.

Howdy Mars Hill. If you're new, my name is Mark, one of the pastors here at the church. One quick announcement, before we get to work in Matthew 26, if you've got a Bible you can go to Matthew 26.

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