ApologiaJAMS - Kevin Hass - Jesus Wept
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Pastor Kevin Hass of By Grace Community Church shares the real reason that Jesus Wept before Lazarus' tomb and it's not what you might think.
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- Jesus sees her weeping, and he sees the Jews who had come with her also weeping, wailing.
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- He was, in this moment, deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled.
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- The idea that John is trying to capture in this word, in this phrase, is very layered.
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- It's incredibly complicated and intricate. There's some deep sigh, there's some groan or confession or some image of this leaking out of him.
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- Where does Jesus's weeping come from? The best
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- I can give you is that we should translate deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled as raging indignation.
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- He sees the wailing, and he takes in the grief and the anguish and the sorrow to such a degree that rage wells up inside him.
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- Anger fills him. He sees their pain, he sees their grief, and he sees their loss, and he enters into it to such a degree that it reminds him of his truest and most central purpose—to defeat death.
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- Because he's overcome by the effects of death and the tyranny of this misery, he enters into it with a love -embedded rage of indignation.
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- This is not as it should be. There is nothing pure or normal or natural about death.
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- Death itself is God's greatest adversary. And the one who wields death is the one that Jesus has come to eradicate and destroy.
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- And we are the reward that he reaps when he brings his foe to death.
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- The intensity and fire, the fury of the rage that wells inside him, is restrained.
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- He holds it back and expresses the simpler form, the easier form of tears.
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- Jesus looks death in his face as his truest opponent, as his real adversary.
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- I love how Calvin said it. He's the champion. This is a pre -game fight.
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- This is the boxer who's throwing punches and getting ready to go to war. Is he good enough?
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- Is he powerful enough? Yes. Yes, that's his power. Yes, that's his glory.
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- Yes, that's his goodness. He conquers death and the one who wields death.
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- So yes, the Lord commanded the corpse to rise and it does.