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The cup

Want to read what must be one of the most frightening chapters in the Bible?
Then read Jeremiah 25.
There is a cup filled with the wine of God’s wrath.
It is for those who have not listened to God even though He has spoken many times to them.
It is for those who have committed sinful ways.
It is for those who worship idols.
It is filled, a full measure of His wrath, “complete destruction … everlasting ruin” v9
It is banishment, v10.
It is disaster, v32.
There will be weeping and wailing, v34.
Can you drink from this cup? (Matthew 20:22)
The disciples of Jesus did drink from the cup of suffering, many of them dying as martyrs. The disciples of Jesus still drink from the cup of Jesus. As they do they mirror Jesus who drank the full measure. But the cup Jesus drank was not only that of suffering, the pain of torture, of being crucified and it was not only mental distress of the rejection from His own people.
The cup Jesus drank was this cup of Jeremiah 25. He endured spiritual suffering for coming under the wrath of God for the sins of the whole world.
Because of Jesus we will not drink the cup filled with the wine of God’s wrath. Jesus drank it for us. Instead He offers a new cup; a cup of a new covenant, a cup of forgiveness and grace.
Let us drink.