Part One

Jesus was sorely tempted in the Garden. How fitting that he faced and overcame in a garden the same temptation the first Adam succumbed to, in a garden - the temptation to exalt his will over the Father's. His reply must also become ours - NOT MY WILL BUT THINE BE DONE
Essentially, Jesus was tempted with the same temptation we are all faced with, perhaps the greatest temptation of all - to abandon our calling from God. To quit our God ordained destiny. To exalt our will over God's, which is Satan's original and continuing sin.
Jesus was called to be crucified on our behalf - so are we. He was physically crucified, we must sacrifice our souls. We must willingly lay down our wills, our souls and die to our fleshly, carnal desires in order that we may live. This is the true born-again process - from selfishness to selflessness, from childish to childlike, from carnality to holiness.
Unless a seed falls (Jn:12:24) willingly lies down and dies (1 Cor:15:31) it cannot be transformed into it's God ordained destiny - it cannot become "much fruit". It will never fulfill it's original reason for being created. Only when our old man (sin filled,  self willed man) dies can our new man (Holy Spirit filled, Father's will fulfilling) live.
Romans 12:2 speaks of this transformation, likening it to a chrysalis, the transformation a butterfly goes through. It looks nothing like it's former self and it is no longer earth bound (flesh bound) but it can fly! When we are transformed into the image of Christ we break free of our flesh's lusts and desires and we become (spiritually) like the angels or as scripture puts it, like birds. We can soar and fly far above earthly things to our hearts delight (Rev:19:17).
Too many churches are full of caterpillars pretending to be butterfly's (some don't bother to pretend, having no idea that they aren't butterfly's, deceived into believing they are who they should be while remaining caterpillars). If anyone makes it to butterfly status they'll fly away from the religious mess most churches have become. When the jail is shaken and the prisoner is freed - they leave! So Pastors (or whatever your leaders calls themselves) in their all encompassing drive to keep people in their seats, will not allow that kind of spiritual freedom in their midst. Who knows, if one soul should be transformed and set on fire with the liberty the Holy Spirit brings, they might free others. Can't have that. Especially if they are anointed by the Holy Spirit's presence within them and the Pastor isn't. This will expose the Pastor as a fraud, so the threat must be removed. Yes, the usual response to someone with God's presence alive within them is to kick them out of the church because the Holy Spirit leads us and guides us into all truth! Those who are filled with the Holy Spirit will clearly see the religious bondage they were in, they will see the truth about their church and how much the people are being deceived,  We are told to "quench not the spirit" precisely because so many do just that.
The poor souls caught in this type of religious bondage, caterpillars all, are precisely the ones Jesus came to set free when he announced publicly his ministry on earth - "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable year of the Lord".
(a bit of balance, there are very humble Pastors who have the opposite problem of pride, their churches do not give them enough respect and authority. We need a balance between the two).
Pastors jealously clinging to their positions, making sure all are subject to their will alone sounds so fleshly and carnal because it is. Instead of esteeming other's more highly than themselves, many Pastors esteem themselves more highly than everyone else in the congregation. They must not realize it was never God's will to exalt one man over all others in the church but rather that he (God) himself would be their head - using only men who are so filled with the Holy Spirit that they do not put forth their own will but the Father's alone, whom have a complete absence of fleshly ego and desires for attention and power over the people. "You have many teachers but not many fathers" Paul declared. This lament is so true today. So many attend a Bible college where they learn to use their minds to lead God's people instead of attending the "School of the Holy Spirit" where they are taught to lead with their hearts first. They believe that teaching is the primary function of a leader of God's people, teaching by speaking primarily, teaching using logic and the understanding of men, instead of becoming fathers whose hearts are broken and fully given in love to their children, who will lay down their very lives for their children, whose goal in life is to see their children succeed and surpass them, not have them continue to remain in their own home (church) and never become parents for themselves, leaving and going forth and starting their own family (congregation)

Part two soon....