This introduction has always been written at the last moment before I post. Today I sat for an hour before writing this very few words. Thoughts and acknowledgment that ever word imbedded in the actual commentary or in the prequel to the message is to honor God. I pray we look at everything we do in this same light. May God give us grace to praise Him in the smallest of task and unexpected opportunities. May He give us the ability to discern truth in every word and experience.
Extra credit: I have been questioned before not about what I post in this part but rather who. Many have taken the person as what I represent rather than the message. I am sure in all those I use and most likely with little effort myself one can find errors. I pray you never look at any of the men I quote as heroes of faith but rather men used of God. I pray God gives me grace to glorify God with the messages and you the power of discernment. May we separate by the mercy of GodThe Faults of great men, (J.C. Philpot), from the gospel of grace and glory of God.
Jhn 11:35 Jesus wept.
Jhn 11:36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
Jhn 11:37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
Jhn 11:38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
- Was there a difference between Christ groan in vs 38 and weeping in vs 35?
How these tears demonstrated the profound sympathy of the heart of Jesus with us in all the sorrows and trials through which we pass. Had those sisters for a moment questioned the love of Jesus for them and His sympathy with them in their sorrow, how they would be rebuked by these groans and tears! Jesus wept. What tender sympathy and grace! And He is the same today. It is true the surroundings are different, but His heart is the same: Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, and today, and forever. He wept. How we see the reality of His human nature! Yes; it was a perfect human heart. He wept for the sorrow and desolation which sin has brought into the world; and He entered into it as no other could. Oh! What groans and tears! How they tell out the heart of our precious Lord Jesus! He truly loved these tried ones, and they proved it. So shall we if we rest in the same tender, gracious, sympathizing Lord. (C.H.M.)
