Jesus contemplating his suffering sweats profusely. Hematidrosis is a rare, but very real, medical condition that causes one’s sweat to contain blood. The sweat glands are surrounded by tiny blood vessels that can constrict and then dilate to the point of rupture, causing blood to effuse into the sweat glands.

In The Garden Sweating Plasma(At the oil press)

The Gospel of Mark: 14: 32-52, The Garden of Gethsemane

Katherine shares her first-hand account of Christ struggling in the Garden of the Gethsemane as He weighed impending death.

Vision of Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane

Mark’s account of Jesus in Gethsemane, 14:32-42, vividly illustrates what the heart of Romans 8 is getting at. In fact, the only time Jesus uses the Aramaic, Abba, Father, is in Mark 14:36. 

Paul, in Romans 8:15, links these two scenes together as Jesus imprints a vocational pattern of lament for the state of the world, in labor pains, until His final return.

The whole created order groans for the final consummation of God's Kingdom coming to earth. Not only the whole world, but we ourselves groan as we wait eagerly for the restoration of all things. Likewise, the Spirit groans with inarticulation sounds beyond words for the same end. 

Our vocation of groaning is a lament to be continued until the final eschaton of all things made new. We suffer with him in groaning laments in the Spirit. 

Romans 8:28, in context, provides a synergy, a participation in the Spirit as we intercede, as we lament, we find ourselves in union with God in our sufferings. 

Two excellent translations of Romans 8:28:

NT Wright
We know, in fact, that God works all things together for good with those who love him, who are called according to his purpose. 

RSV    
‘In everything God works for good with those who love him.’    

God is the subject here, not all things. God works with us who love him. The Sovereign Lord works all things together with us, i.e, in us, who love God. 

He is with us in our sufferings. He helps us in our weaknesses of knowing how to pray as we ought. He will never leave us nor forsake us. Amen.

11. Laments of Cosmic Groaning in The Spirit - Rom. 8.12-28 - Fr. Michael Flowers 08.11.24

Weekly Sermons from St. Aidan's Anglican Church. We are a member of the ACNA (Anglican Church of North America. We are in the Anglican Diocese of the Upper Midwest. Visit us in person and check out our website at www.staidanskc.org.

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