1. A TALE OF TWO GARDENS 1. AUTHENTICITY 2. JESUS FACES A UNIQUE DEATH (DEEPLY DISTRESSED, TROUBLED) 3. THE WRATH OF GOD

2. A TALE OF TWO GARDENS Jesus Christ, all his life because he’d had this wonderful relationship with the Father, whenever he turned to the Father in prayer, heaven opened and love flooded his life. That’s how he was able to face what he was facing. But in the garden of Gethsemane, what was so absolutely stunning and so shocking to him was he turned to the Father and instead, hell opened up. The abyss, the chasm, the nothingness of the cup.

3. A TALE OF TWO GARDENS Malcolm said essentially, “I just don’t like this idea of an angry God, a God who’s personally angry.” He says, “I like to think of God as just more like a live electrical wire. A live electrical wire doesn’t get angry. If you break the rules of electricity, it shocks you. So if you break the rules of God’s justice, it shocks you somehow, but I don’t like this idea that God gets personally angry.”