Esau

turn your Bibles to Hebrews chapter 11 Hebrews chapter 11 we've been doing a series called broken and In this passage in Hebrews chapter 11 is what we have sometimes called God's Hall of Fame these are all the great men and women of the Bible and just a little bit of uh uh uh kind of their it's like putting a picture up on the wall and saying here's the Great Men here's the great woman of the Bible here's the great men and women of faith and and yet what we want to see in this passage and understand is that every one of these men and every one of these women women were broken people uh they were people that uh failed they were people that had sin in their lives they were people that

struggled with their own personality their own sin nature and yet even in their Brokenness God was able to use them and God would heal their Brokenness as well and so this is such an encouraging passage to me as I look at these people and say well if God could use them then maybe there's hope for me as well now when God presents him in Hebrews chapter 11 he really gives us a a a a good picture of each of these individuals but when you go back and look at their lives you can see that every one of them they had a failure they had some sin they had some problems in their life and and we're trying to learn from both the the negative and the positive so we don't make the same mistakes and that we

can also learn from them and how to be great men men and women of Faith as well and so today what we're going to do is we're going to take a little side Journey off out of the Hall of Fame and we're going to go into the Hall of infamous into the Hall of infamy and it's Hebrews chap 11 every one of these people even though again they had mistakes they made and they had failures they had sin uh God was still able to use them and give them credit and and yet uh there's uh there's one I want to look at today last week we looked at Hebrews chapter 11 and verse number 21 it says by faith Jacob when he was a dying blessed both the sons of Joseph and worshiped uh leaning upon the top of his staff

and the thing we learned about Jacob last week is Jacob was a schemer always trying to figure out how to make things work and even when he was supposedly trusting in God he was still trying to scheme and make it all work out and uh and so often that's the way we are I know that I am that way and I have to learn to really have faith in God and not try to make it work for God but to trust him uh but uh with Jacob also is his brother Esau and his brother Esau is not in Hebrews chapter 11 he's not one of the Great Men of Faith but we do read about him in the next chapter and that's chapter 12 so if you'll turn over there in chapter 12 and look at verses number 12-1 17 Hebrews 12 and: 12-1 17 it

says wherefore lift up the hands which hang down and the feeble knees and make straight paths for your feet lest that which should be lame be turned out of the way but let it rather be healed follow peace with all men and Holiness without which no man shall see the Lord looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God lest any root of bitterness bringing up trouble you and thereby many be defiled lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau who for one morsel of meat sold his Birthright for you know how that afterward when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected for he found no place for repentance though he sought it carefully with tears let's bow for prayer

father we pray as we open up this passes and open up the life of Esau Lord that we can learn from his life as well learn from his mistakes Lord he was not listed as a man of Faith a great man of Faith uh there are some good things about his life and we want to learn from those as well but we don't to learn from his mistakes so we don't make those same mistakes teach us father for which in Jesus name we pray amen if you look at verse number 17 it says for you know that how that afterward when he would have inherited blessing was rejected for he found no place of repentance though he sought it carefully with tears now if you remember right Esau was the story Esau was the man's man he was the

Hunter he was the outdoors man he was the big tough buff guy and he was a man's man but yet Esa cried I I think one of our problem as men especially is a lot of times we we we don't cry and and there is a time for Tears there's a times that tears are appropriate as well and here Esau in trying to get back his Blessing he even wept tears of sorrow and uh and you know those tears are important in in Psalms chapter 56 and verse number 8 the Bible says Thou tellest my wanderings put thou my tears into thy bottle are they not in thy book now when you read that you say put thou my tears into thy bottle you might not understand exactly what that means but back in that day uh they used to have what

are called Tear bottles now this is one that would be more like from the early 17 1800s sometime in the early history of America uh but they would have a little bottle that they would collect their tears in and sometimes that bottle in the olden days back in the Bible days that bottle would be a little bottle hanging on a necklace around them and so when a husband would go off to War uh the wife would keep that bottle and every time she cried missing her husband she' collect those tears in the bottle and it was just a way of saying that I I I've been thinking about you and and a remembrance of you and that I cried a lot for you while you were gone and the Bible says that God collects our

tears in a bottle that God sees every tear that comes down your cheek and then Hebrews 12 and: 13 as as uh we read the passage there look at what it says it says wherefore let him lift up the hands which the hangeth down and the feeble knees and make straight paths for your feet lest that which is lame be turned out of the way and let it rather be healed you know when I read those two verses you know what I think of depression you know your feeble hands are hanging down your knees are all weak just kind of moping around and and crying because you're depressed and we have a real problem in our society they with depression and and Esau was depressed because he had lost the birthright something

very very important to them back in that day and and he had sold it away and and he' missed the blessing because of the deception of his brother and he was wondering what's going to happen to me and you know you ever you ever feel like you're drowning in your tears you ever feel like that I want you to put a marker in Hebrews chapter 12 we'll come back there but go over to Psalms chapter 88 Psalms chapter 88 and verse number 177 I I think almost everybody in this room has had a point in your life where you f felt like you were just going to drown in your tears maybe it's when you lost somebody you love maybe it was when you were sick and in pain or or maybe it was when some other great

catastrophe happened or maybe it wasn't a time of depression and just all you could do is cry and it just felt like you were going to be lost and drowned in those tears in Psalms chapter 88 and verse number 17 the Bible says they came round about me daily like water they compassed me about out all together he said my tears they just kind of over were flooding over me and they were drowning me and sometimes we can feel like we're drowning in our tears if we feel like that sorrow comes wave after wave if you ever been out in the ocean you know you got the waves coming in and you get hit by a wave and knocked over and then about time you're about ready to stand up again and get on your feet

another wave comes and knocks you over and it just keeps happening again and again and again isn't that way life feels like sometimes isn't it feel like sometimes that it's just like one thing after another after another just keeps hitting me and and I just I just I'm tired of crying and and you know uh maybe you're looking at your bottle of tears and you're saying well how big is my bottle in Psalms chapter 80 and verse number five Psalms chapter 80 and verse number five it says Thou Feed Us them with the bread of tears and givest them tears to drink in great measures and and maybe your bottle is like this picture up here maybe instead of a small medium or large I think they got the picture

coming up maybe instead of a small medium or large you got one of those super siiz bottles you know uh one about this big and that's where all your tears are collected you just got so many tears that you've been collecting it it just feels overwhelming it feels like how can I take any more of this it just seems like it's just one thing after another after another and it just keeps on coming and and sometimes it feels like nobody's there doesn't it go over to Psalms chapter 142 Psalms chapter 142 and look at Verses 4 and five Psalms 142 and veres 4 and 5 he says I looked at my right hand and beheld but there was no man that would know me Refuge failed me no man cared for my soul I Cried unto

thee Oh Lord and said Thou Art my refuge and my portion in the land of the living it it just sometimes it feels like that there's nobody that cares there's nobody that cares that I I would cry myself to sleep every night there's nobody that cares that I wake up in the morning and I'm just uh depressed there's nobody that cares that I'm struggling right now and and there are many times in our life now there are people that do care and and I find that it's one of a couple things a lot of times people care but they don't know it's because you're crying in your own room at home and and they don't know what's going on in your life they don't know what you're going through and so how can they care

for you if they don't know what's happening to you and I believe that when you're going through a difficult time your life you need to let others know and ask him can you pray for me and I need to be encouraged I need know somebody that cares for me right now and and that's good to do and then other people they do know what's going on they just don't know what to do uh you know especially us men when when when our wives start crying we don't know what to do we haven't figured that out yet uh when I asked my wife to marry her we were driving down from her parents home through through a snowstorm and and um it was really slippery and and everything and and uh she was getting really worried and

she started crying and so I thought you know um that trip I'd asked her dad if I could marry her and he said yes and I was going to wait and do this later but I thought well maybe I can just go and ask her marry me now and that'll help her stop crying so I pulled into a parking lot and uh pulled over there and I I turned her I said will you marry me and she said yes and she started crying more so I I've given up on that a long time ago figuring out how did what to do when people are crying it it's hard to figure out what to do what can I do do I do I cry with you you know the best thing is to weep with them that weep but you know sometimes it feels like there's just nobody that cares there's

nobody that understands but God does God cares and God understands what we're going through and he is there with us uh go to Psalms chapter 56 Psalms chapter 56 and look at verses 9-2 Psalms chapter 56: 9-12 when I cry unto thee then shall mine enemies turn back this I know for God is for me in God will I praise His word in the Lord will I praise His word in God have I put put my trust and I will not be afraid what man can do unto me and in verse number 12 thy vows thy vows are upon me oh God I will render Praises unto thee and so we need to know that even when it feels like nobody else cares and nobody else is there God does care and God is there and God is even collecting your tears into a

bottle and he every one of them is is is precious to him and and just need to turn to God if you've got nowhere else to turn to and and you know what we do so often often is we instead of bottling up our tears we bottle up our grief and our pain we we bottle all theide of us and we hold on to it instead of dealing with it instead of letting it out and and dealing with it in Ecclesiastes chapter 3 and verse number one it says to everything there is a season and a time to every purpose under the heaven and then verse number four is a time to weep and a time to laugh a time to mourn a time to dance and there is a time to cry there is a time to weep tears there is a time to let let all of that

grief and and all that pain to LIT it out and to deal with it and not try to hold it inside of you um Esau in Genesis chapter 27 verse 41 it says and Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing where withth his father blessed him and Esau said in his heart the days of M for my father at hand then will I slay my brother Jacob in other words he he was so angry and so mad at Jacob that he says soon as my dad dies then I'm going to kill Jacob I'm going to take his life and and he took all of that anger and all of that all that sin and all the problems he was going through and he bottled up theide of it and let it build up to the point he was ready to kill his own brother uh go back to Hebrews chap

12 and look at verse number 15 Hebrews 12 verse number 15 the Bible says looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God lest any root of bitterness bringing up trouble you and thereby many to be defiled when you hold on to that anger when you hold on to that bitterness when you hold on to that depression or whatever else it might be when you hold on to it it's just going to build up inside of you and it's going to it's going to turn into things you don't want it to turn into and so you cannot bottle up your grief and your pain you know emotions are good in James chapter 1 ver1 17 the Bible says every good gift and every perfect gift is from above and cometh down from the Father of

Lights with whom there is no variableness neither shadow of turning and and and emotions are a gift from God and and it's both the the good emotions and the bad emotions the emotion of Love is certainly a gift from God but the the other emotions are well are given to us for God for a purpose for a reason and they're good gifts and the problem is is when we let the gift get out of control when we let the gift control us emotions control us rather than us control the emotions emotions are Are Spiritual and emotional relief valve they let off all that pressure that's built up inside of it and that's why it's good every once a while to have a good cry that's why it's good to maybe let those

tears come that's why it's good to to uh to to to deal with that that emotion and not let it build up inside of you you see either you control your emotions or they will control you and 1st Samuel chapter 1 and verses 5-7 if you want to turn back over there 1st Samuel chapter 1 and verses 5-7 1st Samuel's right before 2 Samuel and it comes right before 1 and second Kings in 1 and 2 Chronicles so if you get to a first and second you're probably pretty close uh 1st Samuel 1 and verse number five it says but onto Hannah he gave a worthy portion for he loved her but the Lord had shut up her womb Hannah could not have a baby and for a a many woman that's a terrible thing and a a very painful

thing and and and she was depressed about it she was upset about it in verse number six and her adversary also provoked her sore for to make her fret because the Lord had shut up her womb and he did so year by year when she went up into the house of the Lord so she he provoked her there therefore she wept and she did not eat I mean she got so depressed and she bottled up inside of her and she held on to that depression and and that bitterness and that anger and it got to the point she couldn't eat she couldn't sleep she couldn't do anything and that's what we do so often if we don't control our emotions then our emotions are going to control us now I understand that people don't always do or

say the right thing when you're emotional I understand that uh especially again ladies we as husbands we're not real good at that Hannah's husband the way he dealt with it look at verse number eight then said Elna her husband to her Hannah why weepest thou and why eatest thou not why is thy heart grieved am not I better to thee than 10 Sons I I mean I I think right there she probably started crying more don't you think I think yeah that's part of the problem I've got you you know and uh you know he didn't say the right thing he didn't do the right thing and and so often we fail to say or do the right thing and many times we can even be part of the problem you know elkel was part of the

problem not only did they not able to have children so what was his solution go out and marry a second wife who had uh all her kids and then he gave portions to all our kids and and that's the right thing to do but you can imagine she she's he's given all these toys and stuff to her you know elness kids and and and and and and Hannah's thinking I don't have any you know he just made the problem worse and so often that's what happens isn't it it seems like that people make the problem worse they they don't help but you've got to realize that people don't always say the right things and sometimes your tears can be misunderstood later on in 1 Samuel we won't read these verses verse 10 through1

17 uh the Eli the priest saw her weeping and he thought she was drunk and he rebuked her and you know sometimes people don't don't always understand and they sometimes say or think the wrong things when you're depressed and you're going through problems in your life and I understand that but you know what there are a lot of people that do care and there are a lot of people that if you'll just tell them what you need and and let them know that you're struggling they want to be there for you to help you and if you're one of those people trying to help the best thing you could do is just to be there it's not what you say it's not what you do it's the fact that you're there and you care that's

what's most important but we also need to remember that God understands and and God is there and and it is good to find someone to cry with by the way in Romans 12 and: 15 it says Rejoice with them that do rejoice and weep with them that weep and and you need to find someone in your life that you can just have a good cry with that will just cry with you and weep with you but most important you need to call out to God the Bible says in Mark chapter 9 verse 24 and straightway the Father the child cried out and said with tears Lord I believe help thou my unbelief and whatever you're going through in your life whatever you're struggling with in your life those tears need to be tears that are

crying crying out to God and say God I need you right now I I need you to come and to meet my need I need you to come and and be there I need to know your very presence I need to know your power I need to know your peace God right now and to cry out to the Lord but let me ask you a question how much are your tears worth how much are your tears worth remember I said that they would bottle up the tears so if we bottled your tears and put them on the market today how much would they be worth go over to Hebrews chapter 12 again if you would Hebrews chapter 12 you know uh one of the things I think is amazing is bottled water it it's just an amazing way to make money to sell people something

that's free H isn't that amazing and what's amazing me too is there are all different prices you can go down to Costco or Sams and you can buy one of these bottles like this one right here for 25 cents that's not too bad0 cents for a bottle of water they got the machines right there and you just go pop a quarter in you got a bottle of water we were we went to Sam's the other day and before we went downstairs to Sams we went upstairs and ate at a new place called Teryaki something up on the second floor of Sam's and uh we went there to eat and we wanted water and they said well we don't give free cups of water so we had to buy this exact bottle of water the same one you're looking at right

here for $2.79 the one we could walk downstairs and buy for a quarter upstairs cost us $22.79 I to the store the other day and looked on the shelf and there are bottles of water anywhere from like a dollar something all the way up to $5 and something it's all water it's all water so what makes the $5 bottle of water worth more than the 25 cent bottle of water you know why why is it 279 upstairs and 25 cents downstairs so when you look at Hebrews chapter 12 look at verses 15-1 17 he says looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble you and thereby many be defiled lest there be any fornicator or profane person as Esau who for one

morsel of meat sold his Birthright for you know how that afterwards when he would have inherited the blessing he was rejected for he found no place of repentance though he sought it carefully with tears in other words Esau's tears had no value he wept bitterly but nothing changed so those tears were not worth anything and I think there's some tears that have great value but there's some tears I wouldn't give you two cents for because they're not tears of Sorrow they're tears of sorry go over to 2 Corinthians chapter 7 the book of 2 Corinthians chapter 7 and look at verses 8- 11 2 Corinthians chapter 7 and verses 8- 11 2 Corinthians 7:8 the Bible says for though I made you sorry with the

letter Paul had written them a letter and had to rebuke them for a number of things and really ball them out and tell them what they were doing wrong and he felt bad about it he says for though though I made you sorry with a letter I do not repent though I did repent I I'm sorry I had to rebuke you but I I I needed to do that I'm I'm not sorry that I did because you needed to be told you were wrong okay okay and for for I perceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry though were but for a season now Rejoice not that you were made sorry but that you sorrowed to repentance for you were made sorry after a Godly manner that you might receive damag by us in nothing for Godly sorrow work

repentance to Salvation not to be repented of but the sorrow of the world worketh death for behold the self-same thing that you sorrowed after a Godly sword what carefulness it wrought in you y what clearing of yourself yay what indign yay What Fear yay what vinant desire yay what Zeal yay what revenge in all things you have proved yourself to be clear in this manner you see he said you didn't just you you weren't just sorry but you had Godly sorrow see feeling bad is not godly sorrow feeling bad is not godly sorrow if you'll turn over to Genesis chapter 27 Genesis chapter 27 and look at verses number 34-38 Genesis CH 27 and verses 34-38 and when Esau heard the words of his father he cried

with great and exceeding bitter cry and said unto his father bless me even me also oh my father he said thy brother came with subtlety and hath taken away thy blessing he said is it not rightly named Jacob for he has supplanted me these two times he took away my Birthright and behold now he had taken away my blessing he said how hast thou not rece received a blessing from for me reserved a blessing for me and and Isaac answered and said unto Esau behold I have made him the Lord and all his brother have I given to him the Ser thy servants with corn and wine have I sustained him and what shall I do now unto thee my son see he he wept and he cried he felt bad that he had lost the blessing but

he was just sorry he didn't have sorrow see sorry is I'm sorry has happened I'm sorry I have to pay the consequences I'm even sorry that I hurt you but sorrow brings repentance sorrow brings change as we read back in in 2 Corinthians chapter 7 behold the self same thing that you're sorrowed after a Godly sword what carefulness it wrought in you yay what clearing of yourselves yay what indignation yay What Fear yay what V and desire yay what Zeal what revenge and all these things things you ever proved yourself see there was a change of heart there was I just want to get this right I I I don't want to hold back anymore I'm not going to try to sugarcoat this anymore I was wrong and and I need

forgiveness and I need to get right with you and I need to get right with God and there's a Godly sorrow not just I'm sorry I got caught not just I'm sorry I got in trouble not just I'm sorry I lost this opportunity I'm not just not even just I'm sorry I hurt you but I'm sorry I was wrong would you forgive me and see that's what never happened with Esau and that's why his tears were of no value you see he wanted to blame Jacob and Jacob clearly did some things that were wrong there's no question about that and he wanted to blame Jacob instead of himself who was it that sold his Birthright for a bowl of soup Esau Esau is the one that made the proposal Esau is the one that said I want to do

this he's the one that gave it up you see in in Hebrews 12:16 lest there be any fornicator or profane person the word profane means that they just don't value this and he didn't value God's blessings he didn't value his Birthright and he sold it for a bowl of soup and and he wasn't angry at himself he was angry at Jacob and yes Jacob was wrong there's no question about that but he was not taking responsibility because true sorrow does not blame everybody else yes you're wrong but that doesn't excuse my behavior that doesn't excuse what I've got to do and and I can't change you but I can change me and that's where it has to start and that's where Esau failed so how long are you going to stay

bitter or angry in Genesis chapter 33 Genesis chapter 33 and and and verse number 4 Genesis 33 and verse number four it says nissau ran to meet him and embraced him and fell on his neck and kissed him and they wept you remember we talked about last week how Jacob was so scared to go home because he was afraid Esau was going to kill him and he did all those things sending bribes ahead sending his wife children ahead and everything like that and here Esau really Esau forgave Jacob you read the story you read this whole passage here um he seemed excited about Jacob's family when you read the story he's talking about who who's these who's this woman over here who's these kids over here is this

your family I've got nephews and nieces wow that's exciting he was excited about Jacob's family he didn't want the gifts which were really bribes he said no you keep those I don't need those he didn't want the gifts he he he offered protection to Jacob he said listen I know this is your home but you haven't been here a while maybe I should send some of my men with you to protect you I mean that sounds to me like a guy that truly had let go of his bitterness and his anger in fact in Genesis CH 35 and verse 29 Jacob names one of his sons Esau I think they reconciled now here's the problem the good part is that Esau got over it and he forgave his brother but the bad part is it was a little late

and the longer we wait to get over our bitterness and our anger the more we're going to lose and some of you have been waiting a long time to deal with some anger and some bitterness in your life and your tears aren't going to change anything until they're no longer tears of I'm sorry but they're truly tears of Sorrow tears that change you and not try to change the other person you know often tears are our way to change the other person are they not if I cry they're going to feel bad and they're going to do different things but tears really need to be CH about changing me Jacob never really said he was sorry to Esau as far I read through the passages there's no place Jacob says Esau I'm

sorry for stealing your Birthright I'm sorry for for taking the blessing I'm sorry for deceiving you and the family Esau did a better job of reconciliation than Jacob did but it was still too little too late and I believe that God did bless him for it as you go on and read the passage there was some blessings in Esau's life but he didn't get what he could have gotten even though he cried with tears because he never truly repented repentance second Corinthians 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people which are called by my name shall humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked way then will I hear from Heaven over will forgive their sins and heal their land repentance is to

turn from but it's also to turn to I can turn from my sin and not turn to God but I cannot turn to God and not turn away from my sin and repentance is to turn the other direction and stop going the way I've been going in Revelation 214 the Bible says and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes and they shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away no more death in Genesis that in Revelation chapter 21 the Bible says death will be abolished there'll be no more death but you know what here's a great theological truth you want to remember Revelation 21 comes after Revelation chapter 20 and you know what happens

in Revelation Chapter 20 The Great White Throne judgment and people are cast into hell folks the tears are not wiped away until after people are cast into hell and I believe you and I are going to be there at that great great white Throne judgment and we're going to watch our friends our family our neighbors being cast in hell because we didn't cry for them enough here on the earth we didn't care enough about their soul to go and tell them about Jesus you can either cry now or you can cry later Psalms 126: 5 and 6 they that seow in tears shall reap in Joy he that go forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again with rejoicing bringing his sheath with him you can either

cry for the lost now or you can cry as you watch him cast in hell for all eternity the rich man who died and went to hell the first thing he did start crying for his brothers and whether you go to heaven or hell you're going to cry for the lost and those of us going to heaven we need to have tears now for those that are unsaved and pray for them and cry for them that they might get saved there'll be no more pain when we get to heaven I know that some of you are suffering some pain right now physical pain emotional pain uh mental pain you're suffering through things in your life right now but the thing to remember is when we get to heaven there will be no more pain one of the easiest memory

verses of the Bible is John 11:35 how many of you know that verse it's two words what is it Jesus wept Jesus wept I'm so thankful for a lord and a savior who cried for me when I was growing up there was a well-known Christian song that had the title For Those Tears I Died it was a very poyant song and very very moving song but it was wrong Jesus did not die for my tears Jesus died for my sins in 1 Corinthians chapter 15 The Bible's very clear about that he died was buried rose again why did he do all that because we needed to be saved from our sins Romans 3:23 for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God he died for every one of us in this room Romans 6:23 for the wages of sin is

death but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ Our Lord he died to save me from the punishment of my sin he died to save me from hell and to give me eternal life he took my pain have you ever wished somebody could take your pain away I remember when I was so sick a few months back and I would just in pain and my wife my wife said to me I wish I could just take the pain for you and I said I don't want you to take this pain but there is somebody who took my pain and that's Jesus in Hebrews chapter 12 and verse number two it says looking onto Jesus the author and the finish of our faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross despising the shame and sat down at

the right hand of the Throne of God he did it not just willingly but he did it joyfully he did it joyfully y he took my pain but I have to believe on him in Romans chapter 10 and verses 9- 10 it say that if thou sh confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and Shall Believe in thine heart that God has raised from the dead Thou shalt be saved for with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation in Romans chapter 10 and verse number 13 it says for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved when I was sick was a lot of pain I mean had body aches and headaches and I was just an Agony I said to the doctor what can I take and she

said well you can try some a I took the alive but I never felt better I took it because I you know was something at least I could do something but I never felt better but you know what God said if you're in pain there's only one cure but you got to take it see if the bottle sits on the shelf and you never take the medicine nothing's going to change and you got to take Jesus as your personal savior John 1:12 but as many as received him to them gave the power to become the sons of God even to them that believe on his name you've got to receive him you got to take that pill you've got to take Jesus Christ as your personal savior the pills can't always take away the pain but Jesus can in Luke

Chapter 19 Verse 41 Jesus not only wept for Jesus wept John 11:35 was when Jesus wept for the for Lazarus when when he was dead and people were all an Agony he wept not for Lazarus wept for all them because they were all in pain but he also wept in Luke Chapter 19 Verse 41 and when he was come near he beheld the city and wept over it when's the last time you stepped out your front door looked down your street at your neighbor's house and cried because they're lost and going to hell when was the last time that you got up one of the Lookouts over here in the mountains of the co out mountains looking down in the city and saying there are people are dying and going to hell when was the last time

you shed a tear for your lost soul folks they that weep will doubtless come with rejoicing we need to cry for the lost but you know what John 11:35 is not the shortest verse in the Bible it's the shortest verse in English but it's not the shortest verse in the Greek language which the New Testament was written in in the Greek language the shortest vers is 1 Thessalonians chapter 5 and verse number 16 Rejoice ever more I think that's so appropriate it's rejoicing we can rejoice in Jesus Christ why because he understands every emotion we ever feel Hebrews chapter 5 Hebrews chapter 4:15 says for we have not a high priest which cannot be touched with the feelings of our infirmities but was in

all points tempted like as we are yet without sin whatever you're feeling today whatever you're struggling with today whatever whatever emotion or pain that you're going through right now you have a savior a high priest that understands that emotion understands that pain understands exactly what you're going through and he's there for you what a great promise go over to James chapter 4 we're going to look at this in one of the passages in close James Chapter 4 verses 7-10 the Bible says submit yourselves therefore to God resist the devil and he will flee from you draw nigh to God and He will draw nigh to you cleanse your hands you Sinners and purify your heart you double-minded be afflicted

and mourn and weep and let your laughter to be turned to mour your joy to heaviness humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord and He Shall lift you up if you want to rejoice in God then maybe you got to weep a little bit maybe there's somebody here today like Esau there's some bitterness some anger there's some sin that you're holding on to and maybe you're sorry but you really haven't had sorrow and you need to turn you're rejoicing into mourning and say God forgive me forgive me for being bitter God forgive me for being angry God forgive me for that sin and instead of being just sorry have Godly sorrow where you repent and change and today you need to realize that without Christ you're going to go to hell and so you need to trust Christ as your savior today