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Luke 19:41‑44
Weeping Over Jerusalem
We must not speak of the end of the wicked harshly, flippantly or smugly.
Rather, there should be holy grief.
We should learn to weep as Jesus wept.
Bible teacher Paul Rees tells of two ministers who were living in London at the height of the blitz when German warplanes were wreaking destruction on the city every night.
The bombing was frightful.
Thousands of innocent people were being killed.
One minister looked at the crater left by a bomb blast, a place where a house had once stood, and said, “Oh, how I hate Hitler.
I wish I could be God for just ten minutes.”
The other replied, “Friend, if you were God for ten minutes, I wouldn't want to be in your universe for ten seconds.”
The second had the spirit of Jesus.
Rev. Fernando Vangioni, an Associate Evangelist with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Team, tells the story of an incident which occurred near the conclusion of a crusade in South America.
A woman came up to him and asked for his help the following night.
She said, “Tomorrow night I am bringing a girl with me whom I would like you to talk to.
She is very young, but she has gone through some terrible things.
About two years ago she went to New York City because people told her it would mean a beautiful new life.
But it wasn't that for her.
She fell in with bad company, particularly immoral men who used her shamefully.
They passed her around.
Her dreams were shattered.
Not long ago she came home, and she is very bitter.
I have been trying to get her to come to the meetings, but she has refused until this moment.
Finally, she said, ‘All right, I'll go once on the condition that you won't ask me again.’
So, I am bringing her tomorrow.
It may be the only chance she will have to hear the gospel.
Will you speak to her after the service?”
Mr. Vangioni said he would speak with the young woman, and on the next evening he was looking for her as he preached.
He saw her in the back, next to the woman who had brought her.
After the service ended he went to the back, was introduced and began to talk to the girl about the gospel.
She was hostile.
“Don't preach to me,” she said.
There is not a great deal anybody can do in a situation like that.
So Mr. Vangioni stopped talking and sad, “Well, do you mind if I pray for you?”
“You can pray all you like,” she said, “but I won't listen.”
He began to pray.
And, as he prayed, there was something about the girl's sad life revealed in her hard, hard face that touched him deeply.
Tears began to run down his cheeks and he became quite choked up.
At last he stopped.
There was nothing he could add.
“All right, you can go now,” he said finally.
Her reply was marvellous.
“No,” the girl said, “I won't go.
You can preach to me now.
No man has ever cried for me before.”
Are you a Christian?
Are you concerned for others?
Do you know they are perishing?
How can you not be moved for them?
Jesus wept for Jerusalem.
Should we not weep for our cities?
Is there nothing about Edmonton that might cause us to weep?
About Calgary?
About Vancouver?
Or Saskatoon?
Or Winnipeg?
Or Toronto?
Or Montreal?
Or Halifax?
Or any great city?
Even if your conformity to Christ is not sufficiently advanced to cause you to weep for a city, can you not weep for just one somebody who is perishing?
A parent?
A child?
A neighbour?
A friend?
Jesus Wept because the People Were Precious To God.
Why do we weep?
What situations cause us to weep? Have you given thought to an answer to the question?
People weep in frustration.
There is no evidence that Jesus ever wept in frustration.
People weep in pain.
Though suffering massive pain in His crucifixion there is not a hint that Jesus wept at the onslaught of anguish which He experienced on the cross.
People weep because of compassion, because of sorrow, because of love.
If we focus on reasons such as this we come close to understanding why Jesus wept.
Jesus had passed through Jericho.
There he encountered a man named Zacchaeus who had heard of Jesus.
Climbing into a sycamore tree this despised tax collector was startled to have the Lord Christ address him: Zacchaeus, come down immediately [*Luke 19:5*].
Believing that Jesus was the Messiah, Zacchaeus was converted.
The man who had formerly been motivated by his love of money was suddenly and completely motivated by the desire to honour God.
Jesus’ pronouncement of his transformation is insightful.
Today salvation has come to this house, because this man, too, is a son of Abraham.
For the Son of Man came to seek and to save what was lost [*Luke 19:9,10*].
Jesus seized that opportunity to relate a parable, a means of teaching for which He was justly famous.
He told the parable of the ten minas, a story of how different servants parlayed what was entrusted to their keeping into yet more for the Master… that is all save one servant.
One servant tried to hide the mina entrusted to him, only to have his motives exposed and suffer censure.
The key to understanding this parable is the words of the master who applies a frightful standard to the slothful servant.
The master says /I will judge you by your own words, you wicked servant/ [*Luke 19:22*]!
Great privilege imposes great responsibility and no people had enjoyed greater privilege to that date then had the people of Israel.
The stage was set to call a slothful people to account.
I suggest that Jesus wept out of love.
Christ the Son of God loved His ancient people, but the love of God is too great to be restricted to one nation.
The verse which every child learns early in Sunday School addresses this truth.
You will recall *John 3:16*.
For God so loved the world that He gave His One and Only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life.
God does not love this world system, for it is an enmity with Him.
God does not love this contaminated, dying world; but God does love those who inhabit this world and the evidence of His love is that He gave His Son as a sacrifice for the sin of all mankind.
Thus Christ revealed the love of God through His tears.
The tears which Jesus wept were the tears of God and each reflected an infinity of love.
In the hours preceding Jesus’ tears falling over Jerusalem we are witnesses to exceptional events … a bad man is saved and good people are condemned.
Preparing to enter Jerusalem Jesus arranged to ride into the city on a donkey’s colt.
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