1. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
All Powerful Jesus Grace to His Disciples Mercy to All

2. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
All Powerful Jesus
Jesus initiates – “Who is it you want?”
No recognition – “Jesus of Nazareth”
Jesus answers – “I am … (He).”
Their REACTION – “drew back and fell to the ground”
Why such a strange reaction?
Is this significant?

3. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
All Powerful Jesus
The significance is profound.
Moses at the burning bush
Form of the verb “to be”
Could have been taken as Jehovah (YHVH) or Yahweh – Philippians 2:9-11

4. Philippians 2:9-11 (NASB)
9  For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name,
10  so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth,
11  and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

5. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
All Powerful Jesus
The significance is profound.
Moses at the burning bush
Form of the verb “to be”
Could have been taken as Jehovah (YHVH) or Yahweh – Philippians 2:9-11
Being arrested is in great contrast with Jesus’ glory and power.

6. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
All Powerful Jesus
Jesus’ life is a great contrast, a paradox.
A picture of human weakness in His birth and yet the power of angelic announcement
Born of poor and lowly means and yet kings came a great distance to present rich gifts
At His baptism, He identifies with us in our repentance of sin yet He was sinless and declared so from heaven.
His exhaustion causes Him to fall asleep in a boat and yet He awakens to calm the storm.

7. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
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Jesus’ life is a great contrast, a paradox - cont.
He weeps at the death of His friend Lazarus and then calls him forth from the grave.
He prays to have this cup removed from Him and then overpowers His enemies with His presence and gives Himself into their hands.
Jesus shows He is God manifest in the flesh!
Jesus shows His death is voluntary!
Jesus also shows that all involved in His arrest were without excuse!

8. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
Grace to His Disciples
Jesus also asks that if they came to arrest Him, there was no need to arrest His disciples – John 6:39; 17:12.
We know that they were going to arrest others – Mark 14:51-52.

9. Mark 14: (NASB)
51  A young man was following Him, wearing nothing but a linen sheet over his naked body; and they seized him.
52  But he pulled free of the linen sheet and escaped naked.

10. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
Grace to His Disciples
Jesus also asks that if they came to arrest Him, there was no need to arrest His disciples – John 6:39; 17:12.
We know that they were going to arrest others – Mark 14:51-52.
By John saying this again, he is transferring the protection of the disciples to all of us.

11. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
Grace to His Disciples
How does Jesus exercise this persevering grace toward those who believe in Him?
Changing darkness into light – Hebrews 7:25

12. Hebrews 7:25 (NASB)
25  Therefore He is able also to save forever those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.

13. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
Grace to His Disciples
How does Jesus exercise this persevering grace toward those who believe in Him?
Changing darkness into light – Hebrews 7:25
Guarding our spiritual deposit – 2 Tim. 1:12

14. 2 Timothy 1:12 (NASB)
12  For this reason I also suffer these things, but I am not ashamed; for I know whom I have believed and I am convinced that He is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.

15. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
Grace to His Disciples
How does Jesus exercise this persevering grace toward those who believe in Him?
Changing darkness into light – Hebrews 7:25
Guarding our spiritual deposit – 2 Tim. 1:12
Seeing us through temptation and weakness – Hebrews 2:18

16. Hebrews 2:18 (NASB)
18  For since He Himself was tempted in that which He has suffered, He is able to come to the aid of those who are tempted.

17. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
Grace to His Disciples
How does Jesus exercise this persevering grace toward those who believe in Him?
Changing darkness into light – Hebrews 7:25
Guarding our spiritual deposit – 2 Tim. 1:12
Seeing us through temptation and weakness – Hebrews 2:18
Transforming our bodies – Philippians 3:20-21

18. Philippians 3: (NASB)
20  For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
21  who will transform the body of our humble state into conformity with the body of His glory, by the exertion of the power that He has even to subject all things to Himself.

19. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
Grace to His Disciples
How does Jesus exercise this persevering grace toward those who believe in Him?
Changing darkness into light – Hebrews 7:25
Guarding our spiritual deposit – 2 Tim. 1:12
Seeing us through temptation and weakness – Hebrews 2:18
Transforming our bodies – Philippians 3:20-21
Bringing us into God’s presence without spot or blemish – Jude 24-25

20. Jude (NASB)
24  Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy,
25  to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.

21. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
Mercy to All
Malchus ducks to avoid decapitation and loses his ear.
Jesus heals Malchus – Luke 22:51.
Jesus rebukes Peter – John 18:11.
“The cup the Father gives me”
The cup of salvation – Psalm 116:13

22. Psalm 116:13 (NASB)
13 I shall lift up the cup of salvation And call upon the name of the Lord

23. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
Mercy to All
Malchus ducks to avoid decapitation and loses his ear.
Jesus heals Malchus – Luke 22:51.
Jesus rebukes Peter – John 18:11.
“The cup the Father gives me”
The cup of salvation – Psalm 116:13
The cup of God’s wrath or tribulation – Matthew 26:39

24. Matthew 26:39 (NASB)
39  And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, “My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will.”

25. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
Application
Who is in charge of your life?
Who is in charge of the world around you?
Are you drinking the cup of salvation or the cup of wrath and tribulation?

26. Who’s in Charge Anyway? John 18:3-11
Conclusion
There are two cups: the cup of salvation and the cup of God’s wrath.
Those who drink the cup of salvation by God’s grace will drink of it only because Jesus drank the cup of God’s wrath in their place.
Everyone drinks of a cup!
From which cup will you drink?