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Luke 19 gives us a powerful picture of Jesus making his final entry into Jerusalem. The image is of Christ approaching the city on a donkey to shouts of praise from great throngs. He started at the Mount of Olives, and the closer he got to the city gate the larger the crowds grew. Soon the people were casting down their garments before him, waving palm branches and crying, “He’s here! The hour has come for the king of Israel to arrive. Peace has come to Jerusalem. Finally, the kingdom is here!”
Why was there such rejoicing, such loud hosannas? “Because they thought that the kingdom of God should immediately appear” (Luke 19:11). In the people’s minds, Jesus heralded the arrival of God’s promised “kingdom on earth.”
Yet this didn’t mean they trusted him as their Messiah. Their only thought was that God’s reign had begun: “Goodbye, Roman rule! There will be no more wars, because our king will rise up with a sword and cut down every enemy. We’re going to see peace in Jerusalem and in Israel, with no more bondage, no more food shortages. God has finally sent his expected king.”
No one on the scene that day expected what would happen next. As Jesus came down the mount and the multitudes shouted his praises, he looked out over Jerusalem - and he broke down weeping. “When he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it” (Luke 19:41). Here was God himself in flesh, weeping!
A weeping God is inconceivable to an unbelieving world.
The concept of a weeping God is despicable to the minds of the wicked: “God crying? Why would anyone want a deity that shows weakness?”
Yet weeping is exactly what Jesus did here. The reason for his tears? It was the people’s blatant unbelief. You may think, “But these crowds were singing praises to him, shouting hosannas. That doesn’t sound like unbelief to me.” Yet Scripture tells us Jesus knew what was in men’s hearts. And the fact is, these same crowds would be hardened with murderous unbelief toward him in just a short time.
It was at this incredible moment in Israel’s history that Jesus cried out in anguish over the people’s hardness: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!” (Matthew 23:37).
Remember, these were the same multitudes who had seen Jesus do incredible works in their midst. Blind eyes were opened, deaf ears could hear, the crippled walked, the dead were raised - and the crowds had witnessed it all. Yet, in spite of such living proof of every Old Testament prophecy about the Messiah - in spite of the prophetic words these crowds supposedly hallowed - they would harden their hearts in unbelief.
Jesus was saying to these people, in essence, “I gave you miracles, signs, wonders. I met your needs, healed your illnesses and fed you miraculously. I’ve given you every example of love the Father represents. But you have rejected that love.”
As Jesus looked out over the city, he foresaw the awful cost of such hardness of heart. Yet he wasn’t willing that a single person among those crowds should perish. He loved them still, and we hear that love in his tearful words: “Behold, your house is left unto you desolate” (Matthew 23:38).
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About David Wilkerson
David Wilkerson was the Founding Pastor of Times Square Church in New York City. He was called to New York in 1958 to minister to gang members and drug addicts, as told in the best-selling book, The Cross and the Switchblade.
In 1987, David Wilkerson returned to "the crossroads of the world" to establish Times Square Church. As a pastor of the church, he faithfully led this congregation, delivering powerful biblical messages that encourage righteous living and complete reliance on God.
David Wilkerson had a strong burden to encourage and strengthen pastors throughout the world. From 1999 to 2008, he traveled around the globe holding conferences for Christian ministers.
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