really scorching words Jesus fires at the religious leaders & teachers of his day. but it was all spoken out of LOVE!
check it out:
"O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! See! Your house is left to you desolate; for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’"
a. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem: Luke 19:41 tells us that Jesus wept as He looked over the city of Jerusalem, contemplated its coming judgment, and said these words. Jesus wanted to protect them from the terrible judgment that will follow their rejection of Him.
i. It is written that Jesus wept two times: here, at the pain of knowing what would befall those who reject Him, and at Lazurus’ tomb, weeping at the power and pain of death.
i. This heartfelt cry is another way to see that Jesus didn’t hate these men He rebuked so strongly. His heart broke for them. When we sin, God does not hate us, He genuinely weeps for us, knowing that in every way, our sin and rebellion only destroys our life.
iii. May we share God’s broken heart for a lost humanity!
.. wow, O Abba really exposed my hardened, UNcompassionate heart :”(
far too often i show i really couldn't care less if people live & die rejecting Christ by my passivity towards them . . . i don't speak up ... i do hold back .. i give in to fear ...
I'm gonna spend some time out to wait on Him, cry out to Him to do the necessary radical heart surgery in me!! .. that my heart be broken over what breaks His heart!
please pray for me?
~thanks~!
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