Jesus Wept

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Jesus Wept
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Jesus Wept

• Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept
  over it, saying, If you had known, even you,
  especially in this your day, the things that make
  for your peace! But now they are hidden from your
  eyes. Luke 1941,42

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Jesus Wept

• For days will come upon you when your enemies
  will build an embankment around you, surround you
  and close you in on every side, and level you,
  and your children within you, to the ground and
  they will not leave in you one stone upon
  another, because you did not know the time of
  your visitation. Luke 1943,44

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Jesus Wept

• Defining wept.
• is used of any loud expression of grief,
  especially in mourning for the dead. (VINES)
• to weep or wail, with emphasis upon the noise
  accompanying the weeping. (Louw and Nidas
  Lexicon

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Jesus Wept

• And the Lord turned and looked at Peter. And
  Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how He had
  said to him, Before the rooster crows, you will
  deny Me three times. So Peter went out and wept
  bitterly. Luke 2261,62

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Jesus Wept

• Then Paul answered, what do you mean by weeping
  and breaking my heart? For I am ready not only to
  be bound, but also to die at Jerusalem for the
  name of the Lord Jesus. Acts 2113

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Why Did Jesus Weep?

• Lost Souls
• But when He saw the multitudes, He was moved
  with compassion for them, because they were weary
  and scattered, like sheep having no shepherd.
  Matthew 936

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Why Did Jesus Weep?

• Lost Souls
• For what profit is it to a man if he gains the
  whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will
  a man give in exchange for his soul? Matthew
  1626

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Why Did Jesus Weep?

• Squandered opportunities
• When once the Master of the house has risen up
  and shut the door, and you begin to stand outside
  and knock at the door, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open
  for us,' and He will answer and say to you, 'I do
  not know you, where you are from,? Luke 1325

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Why Did Jesus Weep?

• Rejected Message
• Therefore, indeed, I send you prophets, wise
  men, and scribes some of them you will kill and
  crucify, and some of them you will scourge in
  your synagogues and persecute from city to city.
  Matthew 2334

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Why Did Jesus Weep?

• Hardened Hearts
• And in them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled,
  which says 'Hearing you will hear and shall not
  understand, and seeing you will see and not
  perceive for the hearts of this people have
  grown dull. Their ears are hard of hearing, and
  their eyes they have closed, lest they should see
  with their eyes and hear with their ears, lest
  they should understand with their hearts and
  turn, so that I should heal them. Matthew
  1314,15

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Why Did Jesus Weep?

• Certain Judgment
• For we must all appear before the judgment seat
  of Christ, that each one may receive the things
  done in the body, according to what he has done,
  whether good or bad. 2 Corinthians 510

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Concluding Thoughts

• Lost Souls
• Squandered Opportunities
• Rejected Message
• Hardened Hearts
• Certain Judgment

• Does Jesus weep when He looks at me?

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Concluding Thoughts

• Do I weep when I look at myself?

• Lost Souls
• Squandered Opportunities
• Rejected Message
• Hardened Hearts
• Certain Judgment