Ian, I think you totally miss-read what Christ was saying with "not as I will, but as You will" (Matt 26:39), He is affirming, as He always did "Your (the Father's) will be done." He certainly knew the source of His power
John 6:38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
Jesus was going through turmoil and also acknowledged that "the flesh is weak" (verse 41), not that He would give in to the Flesh, He was NOT carnal!
But I believe this shows us that, even though He was God, He was fully man, subject to all the pain and agony that was rapidly approaching. This struggle He went through is proof that His suffering was as real as ours are.
Think about this, do you have to 'force' your right arm to do what you want it to do? The Father and Son are ONE... Jesus could no more go against His Father's will than your limb can, it's just an impossibility! Everything is through Christ, but FROM the Father.
1Cor 8:6 yet for us there is one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we for Him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and through whom we live.
John 10:18 No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of Myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This command I have received from My Father."
John 10:25 Jesus answered them, "I told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father's name, they bear witness of Me.
John 10:30 I and My Father are one."
John 10:32 Jesus answered them, "Many good works I have shown you from My Father. For which of those works do you stone Me?"
John 10:37 If I do not do the works of My Father, do not believe Me;
v. 38 but if I do, though you do not believe Me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in Me, and I in Him."
mercy, peace and love
Kat