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Sermon Audio: What Made Jesus Cry
Speaker: Pastor Val Watkins
Scripture Text: Luke 19:41-44
Duration: 21:45
Size: 9.95 MB
Luke-The Investigative Gospel
What Made Jesus Cry
Luke 19:41-44
There are two instances recorded for us in the Scripture where Jesus cried.
What makes you cry? What sorts of things get to you and cause you to well up with tears?
1. JESUS CRIED… BECAUSE WHEN HIS PEOPLE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY THEY REJECTED IT.
Jesus was making his way to Jerusalem because that’s where the cross was.
The people of Jerusalem were visited by God Himself in the person of Jesus Christ but chose not to accept Him.
Whenever Christians have the opportunity to share the Good News of Jesus’ death, burial and Resurrection with someone who needs to hear it, but they don’t take it, it saddens Jesus.
2. JESUS CRIED… BECAUSE WHEN HIS PEOPLE REJECTED HIM, THEY SUFFERED FOR IT!
They could have had peace, but they missed it. And because they didn’t have peace, they suffered from unhappiness in the present.
People who reject Jesus Christ not only suffer from unhappiness, but also from hopelessness.
Maybe you’re suffering from grief, loneliness, depression, anxiety you need to know this morning that Jesus knows what you’re feeling.
So many of us are caught up in our own knowledge of Jesus Christ, that we can’t seem to stop and see that people all around us don’t know him.
“Let my heart be broken by the things that break the heart of God.”