Where do you get that from?
I have to point out that I said more than just that .
But i will expand on what I said before .
Math 26:14 "Watch and pray lest ye enter into temptation: the spirit is indeed willing but the flesh is weak"
ALL temptations from what ever direction they may come from are designed to get the flesh to rule and reign to obey it in the lusts thereof . "The lust of the flesh of the eye and the mind and the pride of life "
When Jesus replied to his mother " Woman what hast thou to do with me ?,seeing that mine hour is not yet come " It was not till the end of the gospel of John does he say "Now is mine hour come " and in another place for this hour came I into the world.
What hour? The hour when wicked men would take Him at their will and do as they would will. according to the scriptures .
The evil hour was upon him ,The weight of the sin of the whole world was bearing down upon his flesh and all the host of hell were bearing their teeth so to speak.For 3 and a half years he had "endured the contradiction of sinners" he had refused to compromise with the world the flesh or the devil. he had overcome every temptation first in the wilderness "for a season" and through out those years of ministry when men by another sort of inspiration if they did but know it , had sought ways to ensnare him and finally sought ways to kill him.
The Lord had walked through this world unspotted undefiled incorruptable and the freest man alive .Who did the will of God and went about doing good despite all opposition and misunderstandings and unbelief . In the very night he was betrayed the cruelest of all by one who sat at table with him at the same night of greatest betrayal he sougth the deepest fellowship. and to the one who was to be tray him he extended still his own bread dipped in his own wine a great honour to the one it is offered to by the Lord of the feast .
It is almost like a man extending his hand in love and fellowship still ,with the knowledge that it is going to be cut off .
By it he showed that nothing would stop him doing the will of the Father .
When it came to the garden he took the 11 and entered into the garden . ALL true born children of God do or can in some measure enter that garden with the Lord with all its suffering and fellowship in prayer "thy kingdom come ,thy will be done .."
But havign taken the 11 he then took Peter James and John a little further . and then he himself went a little further still apart. and prayed .
But not before he had warned them to WATCH and pray .........." Its amazing how often we are able to stay awake to see a film or read a book .But to kneel down to pray we fall asleep or are drowzy in a moment .
"I keep my flesh under" or in subjection said Paul. To what ? His will? No not really but to the Spirit by the Spirit .and kept the flesh in its proper as it were constitutional position.
Why did eh say to watch and pray? Lest ye enter into temptation...." We overcome temptation b y prayer before during and after .
Jesus was a man he had the body of a man it was not corrupted by sin but it was still flesh . The flesh cannot do the will of God .
The flesh cannot overcome temptation and nor could it withstand the monumental pressure that was now upon the Lord .
If the flesh 'ruled ' he would die in the garden . It is reported that for a man to sweat blood you are close to death.
he knew that the spirit is indeed willing but the flesh is weak . For eh also knew "the arm of flesh will fail you" So he prayed that deaths cup would pass from him. With tears and strong crying unto God said Peter .
It was not as some have said that he was now afraid of the cross and death and wanted it to not. he had said nearly from the beginning he had come to die" for the sin of the world " He knew this hour would come and rebuked Peter when he tried to dissuade him of it .
He also knew by the scriptures he could not die in the garden but for the scriptures to be fulfilled he had to die on the cross .
Thus he prayed agonising prayers that the cup of death would pass from him . and Peter sorry Paul said "in the days of his flesh when he ahd offered up prayers and supplications, with strong crying and tears, unto him that was able to save him from death , and was heard in that he feared."
He prayed according to the known will and word of God that the cup of death would pass from him . and it was that knowledge that gave him strength to pray as he did .
If he had not prayed his flesh would have succumbed to death.
But even then though HIS will was to do the will of Him that sent Him. The will of man cannot do the will of God and nor could the Lord endure what had to be endured by his own will.
So he said nevertheless not my will be done but thine .
Meaning that his will was in submission to the Fathers will who was IN him. and thus it was the will of God that was done and could be done not his own.
What sayeth the scriptures? " It is GOD that worketh with in us both to will and to do the will of God ."
The disciples had their own temptations and challenges . But where as the Lord stayed awake and secured the future . The disciples fell asleep and were neither ready or able to face what they were about to face because of it .
The Lord did indceed tread the wine press alone .
If the devil whispers in someones ear well that means he COULD have failed . Then simply reply. But he did not ,Glory to God .
in Christ
gerald