Marked To Surrender
Marked – Week 41
September 18, 2022
Key Scriptures
Key Points
- Jesus experienced deep distress and sorrow while praying in the garden.
- Jesus asked the Father to take the cup away.
- Jesus submitted to the Father’s will.
- The disciples failed to stay awake and pray and did not keep their promise to go to the cross with Him.
- The disciples failed to keep their promise to not deny Him.
- All of us fall short but God uses our failures to produce a dependence on Him.
- Our “I will” eventually collapses and give opportunities for humility to grow.
- Jesus knows we will fall short.
Discussion Questions
- Discuss a time when you could not follow through with an “I will not”, “I will never”, or “I will always”.
- How have your failures turned into opportunities to meet with God alone.
- Is God actively working on removing independence from your life? Explain.
- Are you in a position to surrender? Explain.