Vineyard Church of Knox County
In The Garden: Crisis, The Crucial Turning Point
Sermon Audio from Sunday, April 4, 2004 — Kirtene and I, well, Kirtene, my wife, keeps a flower garden.
Gardens are a significant setting (as are mountains, rivers, and deserts) in the Bible. It is in a Garden that God creates and places humanity. Paradise, heaven is described as a beautiful garden in the Book of Revelation. And next week we will consider the events that took place in the garden of the tomb of Jesus. Today, we focus on the events that took place the night that Jesus was arrested, the night he spent in prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane. One author wrote of the importance of these events, "The Garden of Gethsemane is a place of ultimate anguish of suffering and betrayal, of arrest and violence. It shares something important with the original Paradise, though: it is a sacred space within which a radical decision is made that reverses the course of human history." It is this radical decision that we want to study this morning.
