Welcome to the Vood Church podcast. Are you experiencing sorrow, grief, heartache, disappointment,

and the midst of our crisis? God is near. In the final week of our collection,

Christ and Crisis, we examine the shortest verse in the Bible. Jesus wept. In this message,

God grief, Pastor Rich Wilperson Jr. shares how Jesus is acquainted with our tears. If

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podcast. Now let's see into the message. If you have a Bible, go ahead and reach for it.

John chapter 11 is where I want you to turn. John chapter 11, team did such a good

job, man. Aren't we blessed? We're so blessed weekend and week out. Too many

people to thank. So many people serve and to make this place feel like a home and I

just have a deep sense of gratitude in my heart today to be a part of it. I've

also got some friends up on the stage helping me preach today. It makes some noise for

the preaching corner over here. They turned y'all into a choir. They turned y'all into

the note takers and everyone's watching you. So be careful. Don't screw it up. Don't

screw this up. Don't screw this up. I'm kidding with y'all. John chapter 11 is where I want

us to look for a few moments and this is what the Bible says. It's starting in verse

32. 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. And when Jesus saw her

weeping and the Jews who had come along with her also were weeping, he was deeply moved

in spirit and troubled. Verse 34, where have you laid him? He asked. Come and see, Lord,

they replied. Verse 35, Jesus wept. Then the Jews said, see how he loved him. But some

of them said, could not he who opened the eyes of the blind have kept this man from dying

and today I want to take these five verses if we can and I want to use it as a foundation

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