"Jesus Is Betrayed and Arrested"

  "After saying these things, Jesus crossed the Kidron Valley with his disciples and entered a grove of olive trees. Judas, the betrayer, knew this place, because Jesus had often gone there with his disciples. The leading priests and Pharisees had given Judas a contingent of Roman soldiers and Temple guards to accompany him. Now with blazing touches, lanterns, and weapons, they arrived at the olive grove.

 Jesus fully realized all that was going to happen to him, so he stepped forward to meet them. "Who are you looking for?" he asked. 

 "Jesus the Nazarene," they replied. 

 "I AM he," Jesus said. (Judas, who betrayed him, was standing with them.) As Jesus said "I AM he," they all drew back and fell to the ground! Once more he asked them, "Who are you looking for?" 

 And again they replied, "Jesus the Nazarene."

 "I told you that I AM he," Jesus said. "And since I am the one you want, let these others go." He did this to fulfill his own statement: "I did not lose a single one of those you have given me." 

 Then Simon Peter drew a sword and slashed off the right ear of Malchus, the high priest's slave. But Jesus said to Peter, "Put your sword back into its sheath. Shall I not drink from the cup of suffering the Father has given me?"" (John 18:1-11 NLT)

 Getting into some really interesting things, as John shows the boldness of our Lord, in the midst of the more important part of His life. We see, this happening, as something He could have avoided; but it was now His ambition and determination to get it done! When Jesus said, "Not my will, but thine be done," He wasn't speaking out something catchy, He was telling the Father that He was committed to get it done! 

 If you have seen Kirk's movie, "Unstoppable," then you know how important this was to Jesus that He do what the Father sent Him to do. As Kirk points out in his movie, Adam was instructed to take care of the garden; and God said to Adam, "Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it." This might not come thru as strong as Kirk's presentation; mostly because it took the whole movie to make his point; but I will try! 

 There are three points God makes, "Be fruitful, and multiply," is that which means to fill the earth; so He really didn't need to repeat what He said, using the word, "Replenish," which has a 'whole' different meaning, no pun intended! Because that is the basic meaning, 'to be whole,' much like when Jesus asked the lame man, laying by the pool waiting to be healed, "Wilt thou be made whole?" (John 5:6)

 Basically, it is a word that means, to be complete, fulfilled, be armed, to confirm; in essence, it has the meaning that shows Adam the goal God has in mind for him, as he grows his family; and then, God says, "and subdue it," as the means of maintaining order; as if to say, "And Guard It!" As Kirk says in his movie, "Guard it from what?" 

 Adam did not do the most important thing: he did not protect that garden, nor subdue the serpent that betrayed his wife! That is the difference between the first Adam, and the second Adam, Jesus Christ! Jesus came to fulfill and complete that which Adam could not...

"Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come. But not as the offense, so also is the free gift: for if through the offense of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many. And not as it was by one that sinned, so it is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offenses unto justification. For it is by one man's offense death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.) Therefore, as by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life. For by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous. Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound: that as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 5:12-21 KJV)