Jesus Wept

JESUS WEPT OUT OF LOVE

Jesus wept at the tomb of Lazarus , Jesus wept in the Garden of Gethsemene, and ⁷ many more times that were not recorded. However, there is no ot

her Day quite so significant to the people of Israel as the one we find in Luke 19:41.

Jesus Wept As Rejected King

We are given Jesus reply to the Pharisees who told Jesus to rebuke the people who were saying, "Blessed is the KING who comes in the name of the Lord," in verse forty, "I tell you, if they remain silent, the very stones will cry out.”

Dear reader, there are those times when God allows, indeed God demands that people speak what does not fill their heart as it should. It is a word spoken that condemns people, it does not save them. Indeed, the stones would cry out as a symbol of the kind of heart the people possess. They possesses hearts of stone.

In Israel, more than a millennia passed since the elders took it upon themselves to ask for a human king to replace their strong faithful God from being King over them.

Jesus Wept As Rejected God

On that particular Day when Jesus Wept, prophecy was fulfilled in the person of Jesus Christ. Israel was condemned for idolatry, the first of the Ten Commandments carved in stone, and the sin that gives permission to every other sin that people commit.

Jesus spoke in His weeping. "As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes."

In His weeping Jesus revealed the condemnation of sin upon all generations who reject God's plan for reconciliation and peace between sinful people and the One, True, and Holy Creator, Redeemer, and Friends to those who repent and believe.

Jesus Wept As Rejected Peace

“If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God." (Luke 19:42-44)

What would have brought Israel peace?

The prophet Isaiah said it this way in chapter 53, and and was quoted in (Acts 8:26–40; 1 Peter 2:21–25)I

"Who has believed our message? And to whom has the arm of the LORD been revealed. He grew up before Him like a tender shoot, and like a root out of dry ground. He had no stately form or majesty to attract us, no beauty that we should desire Him. He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.

Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him, and by His stripes we are healed. We all like sheep have gone astray. each one has turned to his own way; and the LORD has laid upon Him the iniquity of us all."

Israel got Jesus all wrong. He healed their nation, but when the leaders arrested Him and subjected Him to a trial and accused Him before Rome, they saw Him as guilty, and by so doing, they saw themselves as guiltless. Alas, their peace was lost, and all hope of a substitutionary innocence was misunderstood.

Jesus Wept For Rejected Christians

Suffering for Christ is common among God's people and in that suffering God is glorified. God's children may face loving discipline Martyrdom and with it a greater resurrection. However, even Christian people, if they are Christian people in name only, will face the wrath of God from the rejected Jesus. Their will be no prayers for them, as Jesus does not pray for the world but those whom. the Father has given Him, (John 17:9)