Jesus Wept
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Introduction
Introduction
Greetings…
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35 Jesus wept.
There is a lot of speculation about why Jesus wept after all he already knew Lazarus had died.
11 After saying these things, he said to them, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I go to awaken him.”
What can we know biblically concerning Jesus’ weeping here?
Considering Jesus is our perfect example, this passages let us know…
How To Control Emotions
How To Control Emotions
Jesus Had Emotions.
Jesus Had Emotions.
Anger
12 And Jesus entered the temple and drove out all who sold and bought in the temple, and he overturned the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those who sold pigeons. 13 He said to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you make it a den of robbers.”
Compassion
36 When he saw the crowds, he had compassion for them, because they were harassed and helpless, like sheep without a shepherd.
Grief
34 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to it! How often would I have gathered your children together as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you were not willing!
However…
God Controls His Emotions.
God Controls His Emotions.
God is angry but he controls and uses it perfectly.
19 Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; 20 for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.
7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
Summary
Summary
We are created in God’s image (Genesis 1:27), have Christ as our perfect example (1 John 2:6), and therefore are not only created with emotions but shown by Jesus that God does have emotions.
Jesus as our perfect example demonstrates…
How To Use Our Emotions
How To Use Our Emotions
God Rejoices & Weeps With Us.
God Rejoices & Weeps With Us.
Jesus wept, not because he was caught of guard by Lazarus’ death, but because Jesus was their “brother and friend.”
14 You are my friends if you do what I command you.
Hebrews 2:11 (ESV)
11 For he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified all have one source. That is why he is not ashamed to call them brothers
15 Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep.
Summary
Summary
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Conclusion
Conclusion
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1 Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear; 2 but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men.