Redeemed in the Garden

Those Who Walk With God in the Garden!
The Redeemed of the Lord!

Jesus went out as usual to the Mount of Olives and His disciples followed Him. Luke 22: 39

Ever wonder why Jesus kept going to the Mount of Olives?
I kept wondering why He didn’t go to a house, or a hotel.
For if Mary—when she was going to give birth to Jesus we learn there was no room in the inn for them—then there were inn’s, hotels during Jesus’s lifetime.

So why was He always sleeping in the Mount of Olives, the garden.

I was looking at this book of Hebrews words with the beautiful picture an olive tree on it.

It looked rugged, like I imagine the garden of Eden, lush wild, full of trees and safety.

And it hit me.
Jesus was and is our Redeemer.

And He was redeeming us in the garden, where sin entered by disobedience, of Adam and Eve.
So He redeemed humankind by obeying God in the garden—the Mount of Olives—letting Judas betray Him and the people arrest Him, giving up Himself to death.

We see that He did this same thing for Peter.
For Peter had denied Jesus three times, outside by a fire.
So Jesus redeemed Peter three times, outside by a fire.

So People like my wonderful brothers, exquisite detail-oriented police officers who follow the letter of the law will ask, so what, why does that matter?

Because the enemy is called the accuser, in some translations it means lawyer.
If any teeny tiny little bit of the law is trespassed, then a case can be thrown out by an opposing lawyer.

So Since God is perfect and the enemy is looking to find any slip, any imperfection to call it out, God made sure to prove He is perfect.

Not that He needs to, because He is God.
He can do what He wants.

But in His loving mercy that we would know that He is God, that Jesus was perfect and really did pay for everything at the cross, He includes complete perfection in the details of our redemption.

The Garden of Eden Redeemed, Mankind redeemed in the garden.

May we know that we know that we know, Jesus was and Is perfect, that everything He does is perfect.

May we know that we know that we know that Jesus is really who He says He is.

May we know that we know that in that knowledge we can trust everything He said and did.

love kathlynn