Palm Sunday: Jesus Began To Weep Series

Instead of choosing to follow Jesus,

many would choose self, many would choose darkness, many would choose to follow lies,

many would choose to die in their trespasses and sins.

Jesus wept because He had come to bring eternal life to all who would repent and trust in Him and their Lord and Saviour, yet He knew many would choose death not life.

Jesus wept because some of the crowd who were shouting “Blessings on the King who comes in the name of the Lord!” would in a few short days be shouting:

“Crucify Him, crucify Him”,

“We will take responsibility for his death—we and our children!”

“His blood be on us and on our children!”

Jesus wept because of those who would never understand the way to peace, real peace, eternal peace.

Jesus wept because He knew that by rejecting Him, people were rejecting the only way,

the only truth,

the only life,

the only one who could save them from their sins.

Jesus wept because He loves those who were lost, He loved and loves you and me and He was willing to die on the cross so that we could be saved.

Jesus sacrificed His life to give us eternal life.

He was a willing sacrifice for all who would believe.

But He has also given us freewill, He has given us choice, we can choose to accept him or choose to reject Him.

As Jesus came closer... He began to weep,

“How I wish today that you of all people would understand the way to peace.”

I believe Jesus still weeps today for the lost.

Jesus gave His life for you, He loves you with an everlasting love.

It is easy for us to talk about the love of God.

It is perhaps more difficult for us to accept God’s love.

Jesus wept out of His love for you and for me.

Jesus went willingly to Jerusalem for you and for me.

Do you love Him?

Have you given your life to Him?

On that Palm Sunday as Jesus journey towards His destiny, I’m not convinced the Disciples knew at that time what God was about to do.

The Disciples missed the real significance of that day.

Later they would understand what was taking place.

For them, the journey to Jerusalem to celebrate Passover would have been one that they had done many times over the years.

For us, perhaps we think we are familiar with the events of Palm Sunday, the betrayal and arrest of Jesus in the Garden, the sham trial, the cruel crucifixion of Christ. Christ’s death and resurrection.

The events of that week can become so familiar that we just go through the motions of celebrating Easter without allowing the truth of these events to touch us.

Do we really get it? Do we really understand?

Do we understand Jesus didn’t just weep for Jerusalem - in His compassion He wept for us, for you and for me.

The crowds on that first Palm Sunday wanted a Warrior King who would bring victory over the Romans, but Jesus is the Saviour King,

He came to die on the cross to bring victory over sin and death for all who would turn to Him as Lord and Saviour.

The crowd that day ignored the truth, have you ignored the truth about Jesus too?

Jesus is the Saviour King who has conquered death, hell and the grave.