"The Three C's of Easter: The Choice"

There was clearly a choice here, Jesus could have chosen another path, gone a different direction, listened to the temptation of the devil. So He makes the choice to go the Father, to cry out to Him, to commune with Him so as to help Him to make that right choice. And it is here that He goes and prays and takes His closest earthly friends to pray with Him and spends that intimate time with the Father and where the battle is ultimately won! Satan knew that if Jesus chose the right thing that he was doomed! It was to take my awful sin and the sin of the whole world to the cross and be separated from the Father. It was here that He clearly made the decision to stay the course, and go to the cross. He paid my debt on the cross as we will talk about next week, but clearly the decision and decisive victory was won here in the Garden. Had Jesus chose to ignore the Father’s Call and His life and it certainly was His choice, we would have been doomed! And notice the choice and we will see it even more clearly next week when Satan offers Jesus a choice that was the same during the Temptation in the wilderness through the voice of the Pharisees – come down and then we will believe you. Just as Jesus didn’t, we don’t just conquer Satan one time and then it’s over, it is an everyday choice that we must make to choose to follow Christ and reject Satan and his appeals to our flesh!