What Makes Jesus Cry?

Luke 19:41-44

Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it, ⁴² saying, "If you had known, even you, especially in this your day, the things that make for your peace! But now they are hidden from your eyes.  ⁴³ For days will come upon you when your enemies will build an embankment around you, surround you and close you in on every side,  ⁴⁴ and level you, and your children within you, to the ground; and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not know the time of your visitation."

What Makes Jesus Cry?

They missed their “time of visitation” – the moment that makes for “Peace”

Shalom: peace, prosperity, success, health, completeness, contentment, harmony

• Nothing missing, nothing broken

Not only lost Shalom, Lost the Future

Jer 29:11.  For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.  NIV

We must cooperate with the Time 

 

2 Types of Time:

Chrónos: The measure of the succession of minutes and event.

Kairós:  Appropriate or opportune time; proper season

Times at which certain foreordained events take place. 

A period influenced by something. A period of opportunity

God designates certain times to accomplish certain things

•  Gal 6:9.  Let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.

God gives us understanding & discernment of the times:  

Sons of Issachar knew what should be done in certain times

He scolds us when we don’t understand & discern the times:

Matt 16:2-3

He answered and said to them, "When it is evening you say, 'It will be fair weather, for the sky is red'; ³ and in the morning, 'It will be foul weather today, for the sky is red and threatening.' Hypocrites! You know how to discern the face of the sky, but you cannot discern the signs of the times.

Some things happen in due season 

• ·       Gal 4:4.  When the fullness of the time had come, God sent forth His Son,
• ·       Rom 5:6.  In due time Christ died for the ungodly.

Time is pregnant – full, due – with something

Some things happen in new season

When God “sets” the time for something to happen

          Everything is orchestrated for that moment

We must cooperate with that moment

          We must seize the moment – we cannot delay

Esther 4:14.  For if you remain completely silent at this time, relief and deliverance will arise for the Jews from another place, but you and your father's house will perish.

Yet who knows whether you have come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

• What if Esther had let fear take over?
• What if she had talked herself out of it?

We must Seize the Day

John 9:4.  I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.

This is not a time for waiting

          This is a time to make that move

God has set the opportune moment – set up the divine intersection

God has orchestrated everything to be in order for a specific time and place

          And we don’t show up

It breaks Jesus’ heart when we miss our moment

          He Weeps – not just tears.  He wails, openly grieves

Can’t talk ourselves out of what’s in our spirit, what’s in our hand, in our heart

Eccl 3:17.  For there is a time there for every purpose and for every work."

  This is your day!

This is your time!

Redeem the time, because the days are evil.  Eph 5:16

Heb 3:12-15.  Today, when you hear His voice, harden not your heart