GD: Lesson 25 Class Notes

Mark 14:32-42
- watch, sleep, rest, temptation
- what was Savior feeling?  Heavy - surprised - awestruck at the weight
- shrink not - to not back off or pull away
- this is what he was sent to do - the full measure of his creation

Matt 26:36-46
- He asked his friends to watch - to stay awake - to watch and pray
- Where are we asked to watch?
- to live the gospel
- to watch and listen to the sacrament (prayers)
- how: repenting and remembering
- watch = remember - stay awake - pay attention - to not be pre-occupied
- watch = desire

Watch and Pray least you fall into Temptation
- temptation from what?
- physical weakness
- they needed to stay awake and witness because they were special witnesses of Christ

Physical vs. Spiritual
- your physical bodies are going to give you warnings --> watch!
- Christ: "watch me. watch what I do"

My side note: Desire - does it have to build to be strong enough to overcome the physical weakness?  Do we get find we are giving too much ground, that we get to a point that our desire to not give in in finally strong enough to overcome?

Why did he ask the cup to pass?
- it had to be the will of the Father
- "I love my father so much, I take this cup" DESIRE
- the Savior goes back to the bitter cup three times.
- his love/desire for his father is what caused him to shrink not

Is your faith strong enough to have the cup NOT removed?

Alma 7:11-12
- pains, afflictions & temptations
- sickness
- death
- infirmities

It is worth it.

GD: Lesson 24 Class Notes

Holy Ghost
- bears witness - teaches - testifies of Christ
- John 16:1-15
- Oaks: Holy Ghost leads sincere seekers to repentance

-John 16:13-15
- HG guides to all truth; shows us things that are to come; glorifies the Savior

John 17 The Intercessory Prayer
- Jesus stands between us and God and intercedes

To know God and Jesus Christ
- to have a personal relationship with them
- it is a transformative relationship; it unlocks his power in our lives
- we know him by keeping the commandments
- the degree we know them is the degree that we act like them.

John 17:4-8
- reported to God what he had done
- do we return and report in our prayers?