“Then said Jesus unto Peter, Put up thy sword into the sheath: the cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it?” — John 18:11
“For in the hand of the Lord there is a cup, and the wine is red; it is full of mixture; and he poureth out of the same: but the dregs thereof, all the wicked of the earth shall wring them out, and drink them.”
— Psalm 75:8
Christian, that cup of wrath is our well-deserved portion for all eternity, but God who is so rich in mercy sent his own Son to drink that cup and endure that punishment in our stead.
Unlike what dispensationalists teach, Christ’s crucifixion and resurrection from the dead was always the first and only plan of salvation for the only true Israel — the Israel of God.[1]
The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it? Jesus asks rhetorically. If He did not, there would be no hope for Peter, or John, or any of us. Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished[2].
Human reason unaided by the Holy Spirit does not understand how the death of Christ guarantees eternal life. But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise[3]… and Jesus says that His hour, the crucifixion, is in fact his triumph and glory, not his defeat.
“The hour is come that the Son of man should be glorified… Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour.[4]”
So there is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus[5], but that cup is still waiting for everyone who rejects the gospel. The wicked spoken of in Psalm 75 are all those who are not ordained to eternal life.[6]
Selah.
Scriptures: [1] Gal 6:16 [2] 1st Cor 15:18 [3] 1st Cor 1:27 [4] John 12: 23,27 [5] Rom 8:1 [6] Acts 13:48
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