Thinking of Jesus's final time in the Garden of Gethsemane, by the way Gethsemane means "oil press or olive press". I used to wonder: How long I'd live and whether or not I'd want to know the day I'd die. Many grocery items have an expiration date, some around the neck or top or bottom of the product. What if God put our expiration date on our necks. Imagine looking at it in the mirror, every day. Hmm is that a 2 or a 5, a 0 or 8. If you have a cantankerous co-worker, who is always a thorn in your side, would you try to get a glimpse of their expiration date? (Just kidding). And when it got close to your expiration date, would you run up your credit card bill, thinking you were putting something over on the credit card company, but really leaving your debt for a family member to clean up. I would imagine, some of the unsaved folks might be knocking on some church doors only to find they are closed or locked. Then maybe frantically searching for a Christian who could show them how to secure their salvation. Now that would be fear, afraid of their final destination. Fear could also grip those who have only played with Jesus, now they are unsure. But if you are a true believer, you know where you are going. Why not be like the ancients, who called their family together and blessed them, then went home. I would expect knowing when you were going to die, would create some anxious moments. Jesus knew the day and time. Many times Jesus would say, it is not my time or not my hour. But in John 12:23-24 He says: “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name!” Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” Jesus not only knew the day and time, but He knew how. He knew what He had to face, the betrayal, the denial, the abandonment, the beatings, the crucifixion and the cross. No wonder he was troubled (deeply distressed), because of this tremendous pressure (remember Gethsemane meaning). Some martyrs were defiant when they were put to death, but Jesus wasn't. Matthew 12:34b tells us "For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks". So what was in abundance in Jesus's heart? (Luke 23:34) And Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do." Jesus didn't want what they were doing to Him to be held against them at judgement time, so He asked the Father to forgive them. Can you grasp the love of Jesus and the Father? Romans 8:38-39 "For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."