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Locked within the passage that was just read to us is one of the biggest text in all of the Bible.
I think it would be a good idea for us to memorize it together – tonight.
It is good to have Bible passages memorized because when times are tough, they can give us or others encouragement.
However, some Christians use Bible text when they shouldn’t.
Sometimes Christians use Bible text to try and comfort someone who is going through hard times or showing them that they just need to have more faith.
Either way, sometimes it is just better off not to throw a Bible verse at someone hurting, it is better just to be a ministry of presence – be there to comfort them.
After all, it is easy to misunderstand a person’s emotional brokenness, and we can’t always fix them.
Not to mention we don’t always know what exactly is causing them to be emotionally broken at that specific moment.
There are people out there that seem to wake up on the wrong side of the bed every other day but after the day starts they are happy go lucky people.
And then there are those who seem to be happy go lucky, but out of the blue, it’s like someone turned a garden hose on and shoved it in their ear to where the tears are coming out every orifice of their face.
Now I know that is none of you in here.
Everyone always wakes up on the right side of the bed, and no one in here just starts profusely crying and has no idea why – Right?
😊 (FCF) However, misunderstanding broken emotions results in broken actions.
Rather your emotions are caused by anxiety, anger, depression they are hard to understand and the Bible passage we are about to memorize together might give us some insight on how to handle these emotions – when someone you know experiences them, because it wouldn’t be you.
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So, are you ready to try to memorize one of the biggest passages in all the Bible – it will be up on the screen, so you can follow along.
Text:
“Jesus wept.”
Although this sentence only has two words in it, it does have a subject and a verb; not to mention there are volumes of books written on this passage.
I know this might sound funny coming out of my mouth, but you don’t need a bunch of words to say a lot.
Sermon Structure:
But here is what we are going to do to understand some of what this passage teaches.
We are going to answer 1 question, then see what we can learn from that answer.
Then, based on that teaching we are going to grab the future hope and bring it into our present reality.
Hopefully, this will give us some encouragement and equip us to deal with people who have woke up on the wrong side of the bed.
Then we will break out into our groups.
So, what is that question?
What caused Jesus to weep?
Sub-intro:
But before we do that I am going to point out a few things within the context.
So, Jesus was in this debate with the Jewish leaders because they wanted him to be truthful about who he was, and he said that “The Father and I are one” – meaning that – He is God.
Then the Jews picked up stones to stone him.
But Jesus miraculously escaped and went to where he was originally baptized.
Now at this point, Jesus was just hanging out with his bros.
And because Lazarus got sick, Martha and Mary sent a runner to find Jesus and bring him back to heal his dear friend.
Now we know that Jesus loved Lazarus because the runner said, “Lord he whom you Love is ill.”
Then Jesus turned to the runner and said, “This illness does not lead to death.
It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it” and then he just went on teaching.
Then a couple of days went by and Jesus in his Divine self-knew that Lazarus had died, so he told the disciples that they needed to go back to the area that the Jews wanted to stone him because Lazarus has fallen asleep.
Now I can just imagine what this looked like; the disciples were a lot like us – kind of slow at times and missing the point.
I can just imagine Peter saying:
Well Lord, um, if he has fallen asleep and he is sick it’s probably better for us to just hang here and pray for him.
I mean, after all, we’ve got like 5,000 people following us around, and that’s not counting women and children.
If we go to see Lazarus, there is going to be so much noise, and I know when I am sick I just want it nice and quiet.
Not to mention the Jews just wanted to stone you.”
And then after what I can just imagine as a sigh of frustration, Then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus has died, and for your sake, I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe.
But let us go to him.”
How do you like that for being sensitive?
Well, Thomas, got in an emotional uproar and was like “Let’s go die with him.”
So, there they all went; off to what they thought were their impending death.
Now Jesus gets to the village and has some fantastic conversations with Martha (but we are not going to get into all of that, it’s good stuff, and I encourage to read and study that section, but for the sake of time we are going to skip that.
So, here we are, Jesus sends Martha to get Mary, and now we are at this gigantic verse “Jesus wept.”
Body:
(T.S.) What caused Jesus to weep (v.35)?
We want to answer this question because as followers of Jesus the things that stir him up should stir us up.
The emotional responses of others can easily be misunderstood.
Look at
33 When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.
34 And he said, “Where have you laid him?”
They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” 35 Jesus wept.
36 So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!”
Notice how the text says Jesus saw Mary weeping and the Jews weeping, that it caused him to be so “deeply moved” that he “wept.”
This isn’t just a tear or two; this is the floodgates opening.
Every orifice of his face would have had some kind of fluid coming out of it.
Even the Jews who wanted to stone him seen his emotions.
When it says that he was so deeply moved that he wept; does this deeply moved mean because the people around him were weeping it all hit him at once?
He just realized how much he was going to miss his friend.
It can’t be, there has got to be something else going on here.
After all, Jesus knew that Lazarus has died and that he was going to raise him from the dead – because he said so in v. 14 before they even left.
So, what’s going on here?
The key to understanding this situation is understanding what the word “Deeply moved” means.
Sometimes, people cry when they are sad.
Sometimes people cry when they are mad.
Sometimes they cry when they are glad.
Misunderstanding emotions are not something that we have time for right now!
(T.S.) What caused Jesus to weep?
Was he deeply moved because he was glad – his tears were tears of joy.
After all, in v.4 Jesus said, “This illness does not lead to death.
It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
Then in v.15 he wasn’t worried about the people 2000 years later who are so sensitive, and he said, “Lazarus has died, and for your sake, I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe.”
I want you to understand, that when Jesus said for “your sake” and “that you may believe” the “you” is plural.
And although it is hard to differentiate singular from plural in English it’s not hard in Greek – it is quite clear.
In English, we make up words like ya’ll, youns guys.
Now why that is important is because Jesus wasn’t just talking to his disciples at that time.
He was also talking about the Jews that didn’t believe in him.
Furthermore, he was talking you.
Okay, let’s get back on track.
We know that although it is true that Jesus does sympathize with us, he didn’t weep because the people around him were weeping and it made him realize that he was going to miss Lazarus.
Now he might have been weeping because he was glad.
But I am not quite ready to stand my ground on that argument.
It just doesn’t seem to fit Jesus’ personality when you search the scriptures.
So, let’s look for a different alternative before we jump on the “he was glad wagon.”
Like I said earlier, the key to understanding what made Jesus weep, is understanding what deeply moved means.
(T.S.) Could being “deeply moved” be a combination of sorrow and gladness.
The word that is translated to “deeply moved” means indignation.
By definition, it means angered, scolded, warned.
Look at for another example of what indignation means.
But when Jesus saw it, he was indignant and said to them, “Let the children come to me; do not hinder them, for to such belongs the kingdom of God.
The children wanted to come close to Jesus, but the disciples were not letting them, they were rebuking the children.
This not only made Jesus mad, but it brought him sorrow.
In other words, Jesus was angered.
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