Tonight we are going to talk about all that was happening around Jesus both during and after his time of prayer in Gethsemane. As He prayed, as He wrestled with His own desires and yielded to His Father’s heart the three friends He took with Him, that He asked to support Him, to watch and pray on His behalf and their own, fell asleep. As they were sleeping and Jesus was praying Judas was betraying Him and the chief priests, scribes and elders were putting together a mob to go and arrest Him. Our last time together we considered Jesus’ travail, the depths of emotion and humanity that He reached as He truly asked the Father to keep Him from the cross, from becoming sin and feeling forsaken so that we could be adopted. In the midst of His travailing Jesus arrived at the word that changed and continues to change everything for us, “nevertheless”. In the midst of how He felt, what He wanted, what He feared and what He was facing Jesus didn’t succumb to any of those things, He endured them so that He could yield to the Father. Galatians 6:9 says “Let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.” Often the only thing standing between us and the fulfillment of God’s purposes in and through our lives is endurance. Jesus teaches us this by His example; He didn’t win the wrestling match, meaning He didn’t get His own way, He endured the emotions, the struggle, the worry, the fear and even the sorrow, until the Father finished His work in and through Him. Tonight we will talk about the sleeping disciples and I want us to be careful not to judge them but to understand them, to see what Jesus saw, to see how kind and generous Jesus was toward them and to be willing to see the places in our lives where we might be sleeping right now. Then we will talk about Judas’ kiss and Jesus’ arrest. These are moments and events that most of us know every detail of so we often move through them quickly, tonight we will take the time to consider what it meant to be kissed by a brother in betrayal rather than affection and we will once again marvel at Jesus’ humility and love as He endured sorrow upon sorrow for the joy that was set before Him.