We read in John's gospel that when Christ came into this world of darkness, he came to his own, but his own received him not.

Before the raising of Lazarus, Jesus famously went. In many English translations, it's the shortest verse in the Bible, simply reading Jesus' wet.

But did you know that's not the only time that he cried?

Hi, I'm Nathan W. Bingham, and thank you for joining us today for this Sunday edition of Renewing Your Mind.

Jesus wept before Lazarus was raised, but he also wept over Jerusalem, knowing that this city would soon fall.

As R.C. Sproul continues preaching through the gospel of Luke, today he retells this waiting moment in the ministry of Jesus, and the warning that each of us should heed.

Here's Dr. Sproul.

Well this morning we're going to continue our study of the gospel according to St. Luke, we're in chapter 19, and I will be reading from verse 41 through verse 48.

And I ask the congregation, please, to stand for the reading of the Word of God.

And when he drawn near and saw the city, he wept over it, saying, would that you, even you, had known on this day, the things that make for peace.

But now they are hidden from your eyes.

And the days will come upon you when your enemies will set up a barricade around you and surround you and hem you in on every side.

And tear you down to the ground, you and your children within you, and they will not leave one stone upon another in you, because you did not know the time

of your visitation. And he entered the temple and began to drive out those who sold saying to them, it is written, my house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers.

And he was teaching daily in the temple, in the chief priest and the scribes, and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him.

But they did not find anything that they could do for all the people were hanging on his Word.

Again, we are blessed to receive this Word superintendent by God, the Holy Spirit, and inspired also by him.

This is the unbornish Word of God. And I pray that you will receive it as such, and that the Lord will give you ears to hear His Word. Please be seated.

Let us pray. Our Father and our God again, we beseech you to have mercy upon us, to draw near unto us, that we may give heed to the truth of your Word, and that you who inspired this original text might work through it to open our hearts to its truth.

Where we ask it in Jesus name. Amen.

In our last time together, we looked at the account of Jesus triumphal entry into Jerusalem, and this text then picks up in the following verse, after Jesus had responded to the rebuke of the Pharisees when he said that if his disciples would be silence the very stones,

would cry out, and now our Lord, as we read, drew near and saw the city.

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