45-Mark: "The Body, the Blood and the Garden."

Dec 7, 2025    Pastor Christopher Thompson

In one extraordinary night, Mark 14 shows us the heart of the gospel in motion.

At the table, Jesus takes the Passover bread and cup and declares, “This is My body… this is My blood of the new covenant, shed for many.” The disciples hear the words, but they don’t yet grasp the cost.

Minutes later, they insist they will never fall away.

Then in Gethsemane, their confidence collapses.

They sleep… while Jesus falls to the ground in agony and prays,

“Not what I will, but what You will.”

In this message, Pastor Christopher walks through:

• The meaning of the Lord’s Supper and the New Covenant

• Jesus’ prediction of the disciples’ scattering and Peter’s denial

• The crushing weight of Gethsemane and why Jesus had to drink the cup

• Why our spirit may be willing but our flesh is weak

• What it truly means to “watch and pray”

If you need encouragement, clarity, conviction, or renewal—this passage calls you to remember the cost of salvation, to stay spiritually awake, and to surrender your will to the Father just as Jesus did.