“What the Gospels show us, simply, is that in his prayer to the Father, Jesus freely decides to open himself to sin and to God’s rejection of sin. Jesus freely commits himself to the worst that human sinners can do and to the worst that God can do in rejecting sin. Moreover, this free commitment is made, not by Jesus’ human will alone, or by his divine will alone, but by the Son in whom full humanity and divinity are one. Thus, during the passion, and especially on the cross, the Chalcedonian adjectives – inconfusione, immutabiliter, inseparabiliter, indivise – no longer apply only to Jesus. They also apply to the work of God and the work of sinners”
Since I am not preaching this Sunday, I thought I would post one from the vault. This is a Palm/Passion Sunday sermon from a decade ago on Christ in Gethsemane.
+JM
