Identity: Covenant: you have to find out how your struggles have to do with the covenantSeek His Will->Different Struggle

=> Pray in Spirit

Heb 4:14-16

I = Me

Heb 5:7

1. Our Lord Jesus Struggles

1) Days: 33 years (living in flesh)

2) Climax: Gethsemane

2. How did the Lord Jesus Christ struggle?

1) Desperate pleading with intense ferventness

2) True Concern:

(1) Glory of God = Will of God

(2) Righteousness / Holiness of God: ways of Gospel

(3) People of God

3. Making Jesus’ struggle my struggle

Heb 12:1-2, 5-7, 10-11

1) Lay aside the struggle that is so familiar (carnal, earthly, typical)(1) Weight / Burden of life(2) Sin that easily entangles

2) Author and Perfecter of our faith: Jesus Christ = Spirit of God interceding

3) Fix our eyes on Him - Scorn the shame of the cross

4) Joy of victory: Scorn the shame of the cross

5) Endure hardship as discipline