Creekside Church, Sunday, February 12, 2023
Jesus Experienced Sorrow Too.
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Creekside Church
660 Conservation Dr, Waterloo, ON N2J 3Z4, Canada
Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday 10:30 AM
He was despised and rejected— a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way. He was despised, and we did not care.
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
Isaiah 53:3-4a NLT
Jesus experienced sorrow too!
Sorrow is an emotion of great sadness associate with deep loss.
Two Bowls:
1. The Bowl of Personal Loss
2. The Bowl of Other Losses
Jesus had two sorrow bowls too.
The first four lines in the passage speak of Jesus’ personal bowl of sorrow.
He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
The last lines two lines in the passage point our Jesus’ sorrow bowl for our the sorrow of others.
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
JESUS’ PERSONAL SORROW:
“My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death”
Matthew 26:38 NIV
And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Luke 22:44 NIV
The sorrow that Jesus faced here was very personal. His loss of a friend in Judas who has sold him for 30 pieces of silver, the price of a slave. The loss of trust in the disciples who cannot even stay awake to pray for him. The loss of affirmation from a crowd who praised him on Palm Sunday and would call out "Crucify him!" on Friday. The loss of his life itself. And we could go on. Jesus knew personal sorrow.
JESUS GETS US. He experienced personal sorrow too.
JESUS SORROWED OVER THE LOSSES OTHERS EXPERIENCED:
When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. “Where have you laid him?” he asked.
“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.
Jesus wept.
John 11:32-35 NIV
“Why is Jesus weeping?”
Jesus is deeply moved in spirit and troubled because others are experiencing sorrow. He is dropping his tears into the second bowl, the bowl of tears for others.
But if he knows, and it is clear from the earlier part of the chapter that he knows he is going to raise Lazarus back to life, why is he weeping?
Jesus will not distance/separate himself from us and our experience here on earth just because there is a better future.
JESUS GETS US. Jesus sorrowed too. He had a personal bowl of tears. But Jesus also sorrows for us even today. You are not alone. Our broken world will be a place of sorrow until the king returns and makes it right.
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried; it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
Isaiah 53:3-4a NLT
Jesus experienced sorrow too!
Sorrow is an emotion of great sadness associate with deep loss.
Two Bowls:
1. The Bowl of Personal Loss
2. The Bowl of Other Losses
Jesus had two sorrow bowls too.
The first four lines in the passage speak of Jesus’ personal bowl of sorrow.
He was despised and rejected—
a man of sorrows, acquainted with deepest grief.
We turned our backs on him and looked the other way.
He was despised, and we did not care.
The last lines two lines in the passage point our Jesus’ sorrow bowl for our the sorrow of others.
Yet it was our weaknesses he carried;
it was our sorrows that weighed him down.
JESUS’ PERSONAL SORROW:
“My soul is overwhelmed with sorrow to the point of death”
Matthew 26:38 NIV
And being in agony, He prayed more earnestly. Then His sweat became like great drops of blood falling down to the ground.
Luke 22:44 NIV
The sorrow that Jesus faced here was very personal. His loss of a friend in Judas who has sold him for 30 pieces of silver, the price of a slave. The loss of trust in the disciples who cannot even stay awake to pray for him. The loss of affirmation from a crowd who praised him on Palm Sunday and would call out "Crucify him!" on Friday. The loss of his life itself. And we could go on. Jesus knew personal sorrow.
JESUS GETS US. He experienced personal sorrow too.
JESUS SORROWED OVER THE LOSSES OTHERS EXPERIENCED:
When Mary reached the place where Jesus was and saw him, she fell at his feet and said, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.”
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come along with her also weeping, he was deeply moved in spirit and troubled. “Where have you laid him?” he asked.
“Come and see, Lord,” they replied.
Jesus wept.
John 11:32-35 NIV
“Why is Jesus weeping?”
Jesus is deeply moved in spirit and troubled because others are experiencing sorrow. He is dropping his tears into the second bowl, the bowl of tears for others.
But if he knows, and it is clear from the earlier part of the chapter that he knows he is going to raise Lazarus back to life, why is he weeping?
Jesus will not distance/separate himself from us and our experience here on earth just because there is a better future.
JESUS GETS US. Jesus sorrowed too. He had a personal bowl of tears. But Jesus also sorrows for us even today. You are not alone. Our broken world will be a place of sorrow until the king returns and makes it right.