Was Jesus Truly Raised From the Dead?

The Resurrection of the Son of God and the Sovereignty of God

So much to say. So I'm gonna read from the bulletin the notes. I think it's important to emphasize. I wrote today. We celebrate the event that marked the calendar of the world in a way that will never be forgotten the resurrection of the Son of God.

Religious leaders have come and gone the impressive and qualified teachers throughout all the ages have entered History wowed their audiences and then disappeared into the mists of time only to be thought of perhaps in rare and limited moments.

History is large. It's scope. Incomprehensible to be remembered at all is quite a feat. Jesus disabled history's forgetfulness. How did one man with no army no internet? No Twitter? No Facebook? No personal publishing company?

No printing press and virtually no money intrude upon the memory of humanity in such an irresistible and unshakable way. It's because he did the one thing that nobody has ever been able to do and in themselves never will.

Jesus conquered death death our great enemy. It signaled the new creation. It alerted the enemy of our souls to the assurance of his demise. That's why we're here today. That's what we talk about today when we talk about the resurrection of the Son of God.

You see this isn't a question according to the scriptures that we can lay aside as something that I don't need to make a decision on. I Have good news for you and bad news. The fact that you're in this room today.

The Bible says that God Does whatever he pleases he does according to his will and the host of heaven and among the inhabitants of the earth. Nobody can stay his hand and say what have you done? The Bible teaches that God is the ultimate that he is fully sovereign.

He's a God of love a God of grace and compassion and understanding that his ways are all higher than our ways. That we can't even begin to comprehend with our three-pound brains as little ants in this universe.

We can't begin to comprehend this God. But the Bible says that he is so sovereign that you and I think that we are planning our way. That we decided maybe today to come to church. Why. Because it's Resurrection Sunday.

It's Easter. I have to come to church and we all dressed a little nice today. What do you guys think? Right? This is me dressing up right? And so God's even sovereign over this guys. We think we're planning our way.

I'll come to church today and and this is the good and the bad news. Either way, it wasn't you who made the ultimate decision that you'd be sitting in this seat today. Now this isn't a game a preacher is playing with you.

This is the truth of Scripture you can accept it or not. We have the objective revelation of God that says that God does whatever he pleases that he directs your paths and so this moment is either a moment of grace and love from God upon unworthy and unsuspecting people or It's a moment.

Another moment of testimony to the fact that we are so rebellious in ourselves. And so don't want God that even when he draws us into a place where his love and mercy is proclaimed. We turn away from him and we reject his message.

Jesus' Claims to Divinity and the Great Problem of Sin and Death

You see that's Where we're at when you think about the resurrection of the Son of God. Jesus won't let us. He just will not let us relegate him to the place of good teacher moral man or just one of the prophets.

Jesus says some hard things. John chapter 80 says unless you believe I go a me he quotes the Old Testament the Septuagint the Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. It's the part you already all know.

I mean.

There's been movies made about it cartoons even the Prince of Egypt like we know these. The story of the burning bush and when he says who shall I say sent me. And then God gives Moses his name. He says ah, yeah, I am.

That I am I am as God's name. They knew God I am. God was God is God will always be God is I am. He's not like the false gods of men. Men who become gods or created gods. He's not like the world's pagan deities.

He's the I am the eternal one the one that is from everlasting into Everlasting. He's the sovereign one. And Jesus says with his claims Unless you believe a go a me I am you will die in your sins. And the Jews knew well what he was saying in John chapter 8 because he says before Abraham was a go a me I am and they picked up stones to kill him.

They knew what he was saying. They're Jewish. They know God's name and they picked up stones to kill him. Jesus says later I and the father are one they pick up stones to kill him again in John 10. And he says to them many good works have I shown you from the father for which of these do you stone me and they?

Said for your good works. We don't stone you but for blasphemy that you being a man make yourself God. They knew what he was saying and you have to think about Jesus perspective. He says to people the greatest commandment is Shema Yisrael Yahweh Eloheinu Yahweh Echad Hero Israel the Lord our God the Lord is one.

Jesus affirms the testimony of the Bible. There is only one eternal God and yet of course Jesus calls Himself God. Jesus takes the prerogatives of God. Jesus receives worship and Jesus takes the identity the Titles the worship the prerogative of God, and he tells people that if you have him you have life.

If you don't have him you don't have life, but the wrath of God abides in you. You see Jesus comes, and he says that he answers our greatest problem. What are our greatest problems. The Bible says our greatest problems are sin and death.

It's been our story from the very beginning. This seems like such a simple message, right? I mean you come to church on Easter, and you hear the story of Jesus and for some of us. We're jaded to it. I had to confess that.

It's something you have to war against as a creature right becoming jaded to Transcendent and majestic and beautiful truths just becoming jaded to it like yeah, I'm saved I'm forgiven. God's washed away all my sins.

Like it's nothing like it's just no big deal that the creator of the entire Cosmos who is holy and just in all of his ways who will always do right? Who is the sovereign the one that I have offended at almost every moment of my life that he?

Condescended took on flesh in the person of Christ and chased down this rebel and he took upon himself. The punishment that was due to me that he took the wrath of God in my place and that he died and gave his life.

Up, and then he conquered that death raised from the dead. And then he gives me the gift of eternal life at no cost living water that he just pours into my mouth. Hands that are emptying with nothing to bring with nothing.

But shame and brokenness and unrighteousness this God comes in to my life, and he forgives me of all my sins. I Confess we get jaded to those things we hear about sin and death and the cross. And if you've been under the hearing of the gospel raised in church or been in church for a while you get jaded to those truths.

But Jesus says this is your fundamental enemy sin and death. Sin separates us from God and death is the Consequence for all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God. The wages of sin is death.

Of course we know from Scripture. There are two ways to look at that one the wages of sin the consequence what I earned from my rebellion Against my creator who created me for delight and fellowship and worship in him.

To enjoy him forever. The wage that I earn is death that spiritual death first and foremost. I'm dead. We're dead. We're spiritually alienated from God, but not merely Sick not just distant not just not doing well with God.

Like we don't have a tift going with God. We have a war with God. The Bible says that we are hostile dead in our sins and trespasses. Helpless sinners ungodly wicked these are the words that the Bible uses to describe you and I.

The relationship is not good in that death that we have is Spiritual death and of course, we know the consequence of a world at war with God is also physical death. So what are our great enemies we know?

Think about what you've seen in the news just in the last month. It's almost like I thought why I'll probably give some examples today because that would probably be helpful if I gave some solid examples.

But it I don't have to give examples, you know. You know how awful this world is and how broken it is. You know that when you turn the news on or you're scrolling through your feed in the morning and you wake up to that awful news story you hear about that couple that hurt their child or you hear about the school shooting or you hear about the politician who is found doing something immoral and stealing money or when you hear about a bad father or a bad mother or you Hear about a rape or a molestation or you hear about all the things that you hear about in this world.

You know that our world is broken. You know the reaction of every human being it's amazing out. We were at the temple. How is it this week it was last it was it was the week before last and I ran into a guy who was a Latter-day Saint for his whole life and he started investigating things and he realized That it was not true that Joseph was lying that the church was false that it preached a false message.

Now unfortunately what happened with him has happened to so many people today. It's so heartbreaking is they realized that and then they just sort of abandoned all truth. Like maybe there is no truth.

Maybe there is. Maybe God didn't speak. Maybe he hasn't spoken. How do I know I can trust Jesus if I can't trust this man? And this man went off into agnosticism Atheism and I began to talk to him and kind of challenged where he's at.

He's not in Christ. He now he will not come to Christ and begin to challenge him as amazing because he's saying there's no God and we evolved From the goo and you know, we're just ultimately in a purposeless universe.

But but what was amazing is that even this man who says that okay? All this was false false religion and I agree with it. Yes, it was and so I'm gonna abandon all of that. So maybe there's no such thing as ultimate truth.

That's what he said and maybe there really isn't any reason to believe that we can do science in this world because yeah. We don't know it's all time and chance acting on matter and yet there are no objectives in this world.

There's no right and wrong. There's no evil and as we begin to talk he started telling me about all the things that were wrong with me and With the world and all the evil in the world and I said, oh wait.

So there is evil in the world and he says but yes, but no. But yes, but no, but you see that's the crazy thing that happens to us as image bearers of God. We don't want God, but we can't help seeing the world the way that God does.

We all feel the same way the same hurt and pain and brokenness when we see sin and crime all around us. We know what sin is and we know what death is. I see a lot of adults in this room today. And so I know that in a room this size you're well aware of and acquainted with Our great enemy, which is death.

It's coming for us all. It's on its way to all of us. It might be sooner than later. We like to pretend that it's not we like to hide death from ourselves in this particular generation. We hide death really well from ourselves.

It's amazing. Actually if you go to some of these old Christian nations in The West for example Ireland you really can't drive around Ireland without seeing cemeteries everywhere. Right and some people that are say American tourists over in Ireland people are visiting.

They may not like that or be comfortable like you that's kind of eerie like there's graveyards Everywhere and one thing that's really interesting too, and this happens a lot too in the south in the United States.

Is.

The graveyards are at the churches, you know I'm saying you ever seen that you ever go to the you go to like, Kentucky and you see like the churches. And they just got graves from like the last, you know four generations.

It's like, you know, let's go to church and hang out with all the dead people. It's like. So I think you know, we don't like that as Americans so what about we want to sanitize it so I Think in our culture.

We're like, I don't want to go to church and think about a bunch of dead bodies. Hanging out around me. And so what do we do? We sanitize it we put the cemeteries in a nice cozy place that we none of us have to look at right.

Let's let's keep them away from us. So we don't have to watch it. See it. See the procession. We don't want to have that in our view. We want to distract ourselves as much from death as we possibly can but death it comes for all of us Individually and in our lives with our loved ones.

And Jesus answers the ultimate problem that we have sin and death and what Paul is describing here in first Corinthians 15 is That Jesus we saw him. We were eyewitnesses to Jesus to his resurrection and it's powerful because he summarizes in a time Where hostile witnesses could have been brought forth to challenge his testimony.

He summarizes the substance of the message of the gospel Jesus whole reason for coming to seek and save that which was lost to deal with our problem of sin and alienation from God. Rebellion and it's amazing because in first Corinthians 15 Notice what he says to people who are denying that a resurrection could even happen he's saying to them if Christ isn't raised from the dead then you're still in your sins.

If there's no resurrection for the dead if Jesus didn't rise physically from the dead if that body that was mutilated and Pierced through and hung on that tree and then buried in a grave if he didn't rise Physically really actually from the dead.

He says then we are most to be pitied. He says and we are found to be liars. Because we're claiming that God raised Jesus from the dead when in fact he didn't and we're still in our sins. But I want to point to you point out to you what he says here.

He says I Delivered to you verse 3 as a first importance what I also received that Christ died For our sins in accordance with the Scriptures note that wording in accordance with the Scriptures. This is not a novelty.

This isn't something coming into history and Surprising us with something that we never thought was going to happen. He says in accordance with the Scriptures. This was God's plan. That he was buried that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures again no novelty here.

No shocking private revelation, by the way, just a side note. I don't want to go on a tangent. But it's an interesting side note to make that all the religious cults and man-made religions in the world that come about Always come about on the same basis private secret revelation right a guy goes off into the woods and Someone appears to him, but it's this private revelation not witnessed by everybody private revelation.

It's secret knowledge that I have that I'm in control of I'm the authority. That happens time and time again. But what Paul says here is That the message of Jesus is something that was broadcast.

Throughout the world.

It's something that everybody can reach for and grab hold of. It was something that touched the dirt in the world and the air that We breathe. It was something that touched people who were failures spiritually not wise and not strong.

It's one thing the Bible does that other man-made religious texts don't do it. Tells the truth about your heroes. All of our heroes in the Bible all screw-ups. Completely they are boneheads liars thieves murderers.

Adulterers, who are they? Heroes, right? That's what the Bible does. It tells the truth like think about it for a second. He's telling this in a time again when hostile witnesses could have been brought forth.

To challenge the message of the early Apostles and look at the first person that he mentions. He was raised from the dead according with in accordance with the scriptures and that he appeared to see fuss or campus Peter.

What's Peter famous for? Denying Jesus three times when Jesus needed a most he's oh he appeared to see fuss like you must think like it's under his breath and he appeared to See fuss right to see fuss then to the twelve.

Who were they?

Just the ones that ran away from him. Like they were terrified like they didn't know him. Then he appeared to more than 500 brothers at one time most of whom are still alive. Though some have fallen asleep, you know what that's saying.

Here's the Apostle Paul a persecutor of the church who hates Christians who sees Jesus alive from the dead. He turns his whole life over to Jesus. This is him in the first century Calling the world to the mat.

Ultimately, he says this Jesus appeared to see fuss then to the twelve and then he appeared to more than 500 eyewitnesses at one time. He says most of whom are still alive. What's he saying? You don't believe me.

Go ask them.

If you don't believe see fuss the 12.

You don't believe me. Go ask the people who saw him alive at one time. Then he appeared to James. Why I mentioned James. Well, I think a lot of reasons but James is interesting because James was Jesus half-brother.

And you know about the account in Jesus life where Jesus is ministering right and they're like Jesus your mother and your brother and your sisters your brothers sisters are outside and Jesus says who are my mother and brothers and sisters those who do the will of God.

But at one point his family is kind of weirded out for some reason by all of the chaos. Surrounding Jesus and they're kind of like asking Jesus like come home Jesus. This is getting kind of crazy, right?

Just I mean you got to give James some grace as I've often said James has a brother who's going around telling everybody he's God. They're like, hey James and that your brother. Telling everyone he's the Savior of the whole world and he's God in the flesh, you know.

So James, you know obviously had a hard time in this but not after the resurrection. James gave up his life was thrown off the peak of the temple and beat. With clubs for his faith in his brother as God and Savior, but he says he appeared to James.

Then to all the Apostles last of all as to one untimely born. He appeared to me. This is the Apostle Paul reaching into actual history saying Jesus is alive from the dead and if he is not alive, this is a sham.

It's false. It's a lie. Don't believe it. Here's what you need to understand about the message of Jesus.

Eyewitness Testimony, the Resurrection, and the Meaning of John 11

Jesus.

Claimed to be God in the flesh. The Savior of the world. Coming to seek and save that which was lost. The physician who wasn't coming. Who are well but for people who but for people who were sick and.

The message of the Bible is that truth matters. Jesus says that he is the way he's the truth. And the Bible says in its own terms if it's not true reject him if Jesus isn't alive from the dead then we are most to be pitied.

We are liars. It's a fraud. This is coming from the mouths of those Who first sent this message off into the world? They're saying if he's not really alive from the dead if he didn't come out of that grave in glorious Splendor if I didn't touch him then don't believe me.

I'm a liar. But that wasn't their testimony. They said no. He's alive from the dead. You don't believe me. Go ask him go ask her go ask the 500 go ask this guy over here. He touched him remember him. He walked on the road with him.

He ate fish with him. He got to hug him. They would just point to the eyewitnesses in that day. That's the message of the New Testament and Jesus, of course Gives us this glimpse of God's heart. Towards death and sin our great enemy.

I want you to go to that text here John chapter 11. I want you to see. If you haven't seen it before I think it's spectacular, but I want you to see How Jesus confronts death remember that the Bible teaches there's only one God.

And yet it calls the Father God it calls the Son God it calls the Holy Spirit God and yet it never Confuses the persons and never says that Jesus is the Father or that the Father is the Holy Spirit. It teaches that there are three distinct persons co-equal co-eternal one God by nature the three persons sharing the one nature of God and yet this this moment.

Here is Jesus who is God eternally God who always existed with the Father. He's walking among us John 11 and. And what's amazing is that and this is I just so wish I could have witnessed this. I mean, we'll get to taste it.

We yes as Christians. We'll get to taste and see obviously for all eternity with God but I just can't even imagine what this would have been like because we have the benefit of hindsight and 2 ,000 years of the church and exploring the scriptures and knowing about Jesus.

These guys are just walking with Jesus for three and a half years three and a half years. Right. I mean like I don't know where Jesus appears and he calls him sovereignly calls him Peter. Come here James John Thomas come here like in there following Jesus and they just get to see it all taking place like oh my goodness.

They were blind and now they see right and oh my goodness this girl. She was dead really dead for days and Jesus raised her from the dead. You guys aren't gonna believe what we just saw. That's a little girl.

She was dead and Jesus just said little girl arise and she in front of her parents. She came to life and then well, then what happened? What happened? Jesus said give her something to eat. I like she was hungry like just weird things like that all this they get to taste and see this.

But now you have this moment where all this glorious Stuff is happening where God is walking among us as a man a real man not half God half man not some sort of glowing man a real man with pimples and stomach aches and Maybe who caught the flu and and who could bleed and who got hungry like a real man and then now they have this moment where Lazarus dies somebody that Jesus loved like in this fallen world.

Like it's almost like they're probably like just sort of like walking on clouds at times. Like I'm hanging out with the guy who's gonna literally save the world Jew and Gentile all the tribes people's tongues nations languages.

They're coming and it's through this guy and he's got like this almost magical powers, right? He's raising people all this stuff and then like all of a sudden reality. Sets in. We're still in a fallen world.

There's still sickness sin disease and death. It's still all around us because Lazarus is dead. I want you to see it. John chapter 11. How does Jesus respond to sin and death? Verse 17. Lazarus is dead now Jesus purposefully waits to go to Lazarus on Purpose he waits until he's really really dead that you should know this too.

It's not in the text, but Knowing what they believed in this day. There were superstitions in this day that believed that your spirit sort of hung around.

For like a couple days.

So like when somebody died like their spirit was sort of hanging out and maybe maybe that spirit could come back or you can communicate With it, but the spirits would have hung around for a couple of days and Jesus Purposefully waits until the day where they believed that it was too late.

Now the spirits just gone.

So.

Verse 17. Now when Jesus came he found that Lazarus had already been in the tomb four days. Bethany was near Jerusalem about two miles off and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them concerning their brother.

Real this is like this is this is the stuff of life, right? This is people grieving at a funeral. And so when Martha heard that Jesus was coming she went and met him, but Mary remained seated in the house.

Martha said to Jesus Lord if you'd been here, my brother would not have died. Now stop you gotta stop for a second. It's so easy for us to get all mellow-headed when we read the Bible and forget the fact that these are real people with dirt and tears on their face.

Now here's a woman who's hurting you know the.

Absolute.

Stunning power and defeat of death. It's just such a sick feeling. It's such a Helpless hopeless feeling.

For unbelievers.

For believers, there's hope. But you know that shock it hurts so bad. And so she says. You got to hear the words of a grieving person at a funeral. If he had been here, my brother would not have died.

But even now I know that whatever you ask from God God will give you. Jesus said to her Your brother will rise again. Now Martha's knows her theology now. So she knows about what the Bible says about the end of history and the final resurrection.

And so Martha said to him. I know that he'll rise again in the resurrection on the last day. I know there's gonna be a last day. I know there's gonna be a final judgment. I know my brother's gonna rise again on the last day.

That's what she's saying. Jesus said to her. Breaks right through it. All he says I am The resurrection and the life. Whoever believes in me though he die. Yet shall he live and everyone who lives and believes in me shall never die.

Do you believe this?

She said to him. Yes, Lord I believe that you are the Christ the Son of God who is coming into the world. Now stop for a second. That's so unreal. The claims of Jesus you can't put these in the mouth of somebody who's just a mere man, it's such unbelievable arrogance haughtiness craziness.

Jesus says this whoever believes in me though he die yet shall he live. So Jesus is saying everyone who trusts in me Everybody who trusts in me if he dies, he's gonna live. I Have an answer to that ultimate problem and then this beautiful one right here and everyone who lives and believes in me You'll never die Christians you're never gonna die.

You shed this for a moment you close your eyes and that's why I have to say this when I said hopeless. That's how the Bible describes unbelievers without God and without hope in this world. Do you notice a difference between a Christian funeral and An unbeliever's funeral.

It's.

Dark, it is stark and I had never honestly wanted to be asked to do the funeral for someone who wasn't a believer and Years ago. I was asked to do the funeral for someone that I had just seen. He was a patient at the hospital.

I was working at he was not a believer. I sat with this young man. I gave him the gospel. I told him You need to turn to Christ. He can free you and give you eternal life. You need to turn for your life of sin and brokenness and shame.

What is this addiction doing for you? And we had conversations. He was a sweet boy and apparently he really liked me. But he never turned to Christ. His mom called me after I had just seen him and she said they found his dead body in The garage.

He got out of the hospital and he shot up some heroin. He had a hot dose and so he died and she said would you please do his funeral?

I.

Wanted to say no. I Wanted to say no. I'm just a man. I'm not perfect. I'm not super strong with things like that. You guys many of you know me. I Can get quite emotional and I didn't know if it'd be good for them if I did the funeral.

It'd be kind of bad for them. I might not be able to. I Might not be able to handle it. But she said he spoke so highly of you pastor Jeff. He just really loved you and I would just be so grateful if you did the funeral.

I said, oh, I'll do it. I'll do the funeral. Yes, and So I go to this funeral and it's packed out. I mean, I'm telling you this place was shoulder. He was a popular kid 19 years old 20 years old I guess and it's shoulder-to-shoulder in this room.

I mean, it's it's like stuffy in there there are so many people and his and I can I can barely get through to the to the front to actually talk to everybody. And all I remember is I walked in this place and I'm telling you.

It was just this thick.

Feeling.

Hopelessness, I.

Mean you could you could hold it. It was so thick. This place full of people who didn't know God some some believers were there. But you saw people their faces just dull absolutely dull with hopelessness fear.

Worry.

Anxiousness tears wailing and I remember that I go up to the front and his body, I Mean I can almost touch his body from where I was standing and I I look up at everybody in this at this funeral and just I could not.

I Could not. I can't even describe to you the looks in their eyes of absolute utter despair and hopelessness. They had nothing and I remember that I was asking God for days before this funeral. What am I gonna say God?

What am I gonna do? I can't lie about this young man and give stories about precious moments. Dolls and Fat babies on harps on clouds and you know, and all's well and good. I can't lie. I don't know the condition of his soul.

I don't know what happened to this young man before he died. I know nothing and all I do know is that he did not turn to Christ. When I saw him and so all I have now is a room full of people without hope and I just gave him the gospel.

I told him what Christ does for sinners and how he gives life and I remember that I walked away from an experience. And I thought to myself, thank you God. Thank you God. Because now I have experienced death for those who don't know Jesus.

And I'll tell you what I've been to the funerals of Believers who have died and yeah, it hurts. Of course it hurts, but man, is it full of hope? Is it full of just joy and gladness? Knowing this. Whoever lives and believes in me shall not die.

So Jesus says do you believe that she said to him? Yes, Lord. I believe that you are the Christ the Son of God who's coming to the world. Here's how God Handles death in a fallen world. When she said this he went and called her sister Mary in private.

She called her sister Mary. Saying in private the teacher is here and is calling for you and when she heard it She rose quickly and went to him now. Jesus did not yet come into the village but was still in the place where Martha had met with him when the Jews who were with Her in the house consoling her saw Mary rise quickly and go out.

They followed her supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep there a lot of pain in this moment. Now in Mary came to where Jesus was and saw him. She fell at his feet saying to him Lord if you'd been here, my brother would not have died.

Amazing. That they know who Jesus is to such a degree that they actually are saying to him it's up to you. You're the one who's in charge of this. Wow, that's profound. Nobody has ever said that to me in a hospital room.

Ever as a pastor, right show up to the hospital room and someone says pastor Jeff if you had gotten here earlier He wouldn't be so sick. She wouldn't be so sick. No one's ever said that to me because everybody knows the difference between all of us and Jesus and they knew it then well if you'd been here Jesus, he wouldn't have died.

You've got all the power to change all this. When Jesus saw her weeping and the Jews who had come with her also weeping he was deeply moved in his spirit and greatly troubled and he said Where have you laid him?

They said to him Lord come and see and here's that moment. Don't miss it. Jesus wept. So how intimately connected is Jesus? To our story to our sin and our brokenness and our shame because watch you hear a preacher saying Here's our problem sin and God is holy and our shame and our guilt and we're helpless and we're ungodly and you might think for A moment.

Oh, that's an encouraging message. Thanks for that. Appreciate that. Right, like you almost think it's like just this hyper judgmental sort of like debasing thing. But here's the truth Jesus said all that and how does he still feel about broken sinful hostile rebels?

It says that when he enters their experience, he is greatly troubled. He's moved in his spirit and he begins to weep. Now here's what's crazy watch. He wept here not just cried he Wept there is sort of a wailing and a howling and a brokenness here Jesus is doing that kind of cry where you have to catch your breath.

That's how much God is deeply moved over our Brokenness when he sees us hurting and the brokenness and the sin and the death and the consequences. He knew he was gonna raise Lazarus from the dead. He knew it and he's still hurting.

Why. Because he so loves us with such an everlasting deep Full love that even when he knows that he's gonna accomplish this amazing thing. He weeps For us and then this is where it just gets amazing. So the Jews said see how he loved him.