# Jesus Weeps on Palm Sunday

Category: Special Seasons
Key Passage: Luke 19
Speaker: Paul Chisgar
Date: April 13, 2025

Turn your Bibles, if you would, to Luke chapter 19. Luke chapter 19. We are going to start with one verse there to get us going. We will go back to earlier in the chapter and go verse by verse leading up to this verse, just to get us started. I mentioned earlier, this is Palm Sunday. This week starts the week that Jesus was crucified. It is a special time. We will read a little bit about when Jesus comes into Jerusalem. We call it Palm Sunday because they took some of the palm branches and laid them down on the road in front of him as he rode in on that donkey. Kind of like red carpet treatment, if you will. He is coming in as a king.

We are going to start a little broad, just talk about Palm Sunday, and narrow it down to really one truth I felt like the Lord would have us focus on. There are so many things we could get out of this Palm Sunday. We may just touch on a thing or two, but we are trying to get down to one thing. So stick with me while we are getting there.

By the way, all four Gospels give an account of Palm Sunday: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. We did this a couple of Sundays ago. Help me out. All the Gospels talk about Jesus’ life here on earth, but from a little different angle coming in. Matthew describes Jesus as a king, king, king of the Jews. Good. Mark describes him as a servant. Good, good. Luke describes him as a man; he became a man. John describes him as what? Deity. He was God in flesh.

We are really going to look at Luke’s account because it shows the humanity of Christ, though that is not really what we are trying to get to. But maybe if you have read your Bible through a time or two, it might be interesting to read your Bible through chronologically. The thing I like about reading my Bible through chronologically—I’m not doing it this year, but when I do it—is that sometimes these stories in the Gospels, you will see all four accounts at the same time. That is interesting. You will get a little different angle; they never contradict, they complement each other, but you will see different things about it. So just a thought there. But we are in Luke, and it really just shows the humanity and this human side, if you will, especially on this Palm Sunday as he is riding. Something I think is often overlooked about that day, and I want us to focus on it here. We will get to it. We will probably be there about three hours from now. We will get to that one point.

And would you please stand if you are able to as we try to show the Word of God respect, Luke 19, in one verse, verse number 41. This is what we will end up on in a bit. Verse number 41, Luke 19:41: “And when He, Jesus, was come near, He beheld the city and what?” And wept over it. Often I think that is missed about Palm Sunday as he is coming in. He wept over the city, over the people that were there. Just a bit. We are going to look at that: The Weeping of Jesus on Palm Sunday. It will take us a little while to get there; that is where we end up here in just a minute.

Would you pray with me that God would speak to us about the truth we are going to get into in a minute here? Father, Lord, I pray that you would help us to have a heart like yours. Lord, would you, in a significant way through your Spirit and your Word, the preaching of it, show us and share with us your heart, and Lord, your love for people? Help us to see that. Make it real to us. And Lord, well, thank you for what you do. Father, we ask for this in the name of Jesus. We are asking, Father. Amen. Thank you so much for standing. You may be seated.

The story really kind of gets going about Palm Sunday. Jesus is traveling. He is getting closer to Jerusalem. He is passing through Bethany and Bethphage, and over by the Mount of Olives, he is about to enter into Jerusalem, over to the temple. And he sends two of his apostles. He says, “Hey, fellas,” he said, “I want you to go over to this little village over there, and I want you to get—there is going to be a mother donkey, and there is going to be a baby donkey. And I want you to get these donkeys and bring them to me.”

And they are kind of like, “Okay, well, what do we do if they say something to us? We are stealing their vehicles,” you know. And Jesus said, “Hey, tell them the Lord has need.” Sometimes we read it a hundred times, and it does not mean a big deal. But just think about that. I mean, donkeys were what helped them bear burdens, and they were transportation also. So you are talking about a Chevy Silverado pickup truck. Come on. You know, got a truck that will help you move, you know, and transportation. And Jesus says, “Go over there and just get the truck. Just get it. Hotwire it, do it—just get it.”

And I can imagine, “Whoa, man.” And they obey, praise the Lord. God’s will does not always make sense to us people, maybe. God knows a little bit better than you and I, though, you know. Just obey. And so they went. “Sure not. What are you doing still in my truck? I am still making payments on that thing,” you know. And he said, “Well, Jesus, the Savior, the Lord needs it.” They said, “All right, take it.”

And they bring it back. And then not the mother donkey, but the little one—nobody ever rode on him. And they put some clothes. It kind of makes you think there was no saddle or anything. They did not want Jesus just to sit on it. So they put some clothes, kind of like for a saddle, on top of the baby donkey. And the Bible says they put Jesus—they helped him up—and Jesus sat on that baby donkey.

By the way, he was fulfilling Zechariah 9:9. Jesus, in his first coming, he fulfilled about 300 prophecies just in his first coming. There are many, many more he will fulfill when he comes in his second coming. By the way, this time he comes humbly, on a baby donkey. Next time he will come in military power on a white horse, amen. He is going to say, “This is my place. Get out of here, old devil.” He is going to thump him on the back of his head and put him down where he belongs, amen.

But this is his first coming. He is coming humbly, and he is riding on this baby donkey. And as he is coming down into Jerusalem, they are putting their clothes on the little trail. Can you imagine that? They are throwing, taking their coats off. By the way, the men were not wearing peak shirts back there, I guarantee you. Somewhere in there, I haven’t found yet, but it is in there, you know. And they are putting their coats down and, you know, just giving him royal treatment. I mean that royal treatment. They are cutting down the palm trees and branches and putting them on the ground. And he is riding into Jerusalem. It is very significant.

He is presenting himself as king. He is king. And he is presenting himself to Jerusalem, to the Jewish people there, and other people that were there also that day. It is a special day. They did not fully get it. They wanted Jesus to be the king politically and overthrow the Roman oppression. Jesus says, “I have something bigger and better than that plan. I want to be your personal king, and you live in my kingdom forever and ever and ever. That is my plan.” He came to die, and that is what he is leading up to: the cross. Palm Sunday was, but they did not get all that. Some, I think, did, but not all of them.

Now look down in verse number 37. We are just going to go verse by verse, trying to get down to verse number 41. Luke 19:37. All right, you are there. 37: “And when he was come nigh, even now at the descent of the Mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen.”

Can you imagine probably hundreds, maybe even thousands there? And they rejoice. Here is our king. We have been waiting for our king. He is here, praising Jesus. It is a wonderful thing. I love it. I love it very much so. By the way, when we get to heaven, we are going to be doing a whole lot of that going on, amen. That is what is going on.

But notice what he said there. It is very interesting in that last part of verse number 37: “…praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works that they had seen.” They had seen so much, but one of the major things, I think they are talking about, remember what Jesus had done just a little bit ago to a man named Lazarus? Remember that? In fact, it was so significant: Lazarus died, was dead four days, and then Jesus came along and raised him from the dead. And that was so significant. That spread around. I mean, you talk about fake news—no, this is real news.

I mean, it was on Instagram, it was on TikTok, TikTok, TikTok, it was on Facebook, all of them. It was on everything, you know. It was on all of them. And to the point that the enemies of Jesus not only wanted to kill Jesus, but actually they were talking about killing Lazarus also. Man, we cannot argue. I mean, everybody knows this guy was dead. I mean, they went to his funeral, and Jesus raised him to life. And so, man, that was just building the attention of people towards Jesus. This man raises people from the dead. See, Lazarus, that guy was dead. That is what is going on. And they saw that, and they are saying, “Hey, our king is here. What a king!” It is amazing. By the way, he is what a king, amen. Well, he is.

Look at verse number 38, verse number 38: “Saying, Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord: peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.” Wonderful. I think probably quoting from Psalm 118, if I remember right, quoting from that, and the king is here. It is a prophetic verse over there in Psalms.

But look over here; keep your finger there. Look over in Matthew 21. We will look at the same account, but a different angle. It gives us a little bit more detail. Specifically, Matthew describes Jesus as a king and his coming in, presenting himself as a king. So let us look at this real quickly here. We are going somewhere. Hang with me. Do not lose me during the introduction. We are getting there. Matthew 21. Look at verse number nine. If you are there, would you say amen? Good. You are working out. I appreciate that.

Matthew 21, look at verse number nine: “And the multitudes that went before and that followed cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord; Hosanna in the highest.” I think some of them understood who Jesus was: He is the Son of David, He is the Messiah. I think some of them got it. He is wonderful.

And they are praising him. Look at the next verse, verse number 10: “And when he was coming to Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?” Thousands. All the city. Everybody is just in an uproar. What is going on? Who is this? Now we are not just talking about the disciples. Now we are talking about all Jerusalem, all Jerusalem. Before it was talking about the disciples. Now it is all Jerusalem. Help me out. Are y’all with me this morning? Come on, y’all are here? We are going, so we have to travel quickly. All right, we do not want to be here until 3 p.m. We have fried chicken somewhere. Come on. We have to move along.

Look at this next verse, verse number 11, Matthew 21:11: “And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.” Now hang on for just a second. Jesus was a prophet, but yea, much more than a prophet. He was the Messiah, see? Not only this, but notice what they are saying: “Jesus the prophet of—where? Of Nazareth of Galilee?” Galilee is a region up there where Nazareth was. Now wait a second. Where was Jesus born at? Nazareth? No, where was he born at?

Yeah, they do not really have all this quite right. I understand he grew up in Nazareth, but he is Jesus that was born in Bethlehem, and that was significant because the Messiah was, as the seed of David, that was born in the city of David, Bethlehem, that little shepherd village down there, see. And so it was like a mixed crowd. I think some of them got it, but some of them said, “Well, he is a great man, and he is a prophet, but he is from Nazareth.”

And, you know, it was just like they did not get it. In fact, y’all listen, these same people in just a couple of days, the majority of this city, Jerusalem, turned on the Messiah. Remember what they were chanting a couple of days later? “Crucify! Crucify! Crucify! Crucify!” Many, many of them did not get it. They were like, “Jesus, we want you to set up your throne now and overthrow Rome and be our political king.” Jesus says, “No, no, that will come one day, but right now I want to be your personal king. I am coming to bleed and die for your sins.”

And the multitudes, they did not get it. They were like, “Oh, he is a prophet.” Oh, he is much more than a prophet. He is the Messiah, the Savior of the world. They did not fully get it all.

Now let us go back over to Luke, if you would, please. We are going somewhere. Luke 19, back over there. He got your finger there. Hopefully you did not cut it off and leave it there like I did. But back over in Luke 19, and look in verse number 39: “And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.”

And he answered and said unto them, “I tell you that if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.” That is interesting. Here is an interesting thought. I will leave this up to some of you scientists out there. But some scientists are now saying that rocks record things, and if you have the right instrument, you can actually get the voices or the sounds out of the rocks. Very interesting. There is some stuff on the internet about it. You can study it out, come to your opinion. I do not know. But Jesus is saying, “Hey, look, if these people did not praise me, I am the Creator, and my creation would praise me.”

By the way, one day we are going to hear all creation. We will hear it all—all creation, even the rocks praising Jesus one day. That is what Jesus is talking about there. He said, “Hey, this is my day. It is prophetic. I am marching into Jerusalem, and not everybody is going to get it.” He said, “This is the day. They are going to praise me some today for it. It is going to be much more in the future, would it not?” That is what is going on.

Let us keep reading here. Let us keep reading. We are getting close to where we are going to… We just read verse… Oh, now we are here. Verse number 41. We have already read it: “And when he was come near, he beheld the city and what?” And wept over it.

Never forget Palm Sunday. You see all the pictures. How many of you have got a picture in your… You have seen a picture of Jesus riding in on the donkey? How many of you got… You have got a picture in your mind of that? You see the picture of that? Look it up. Look it up. I thought about putting it on the screen, but you would be looking at me, you know. But this is… But remember on that day, by the way, Matthew does not describe this. Mark does not. John does not. But the humanity of Christ—Luke talks about Jesus weeping. Not the whole time, I would not think, but he is weeping.

By the way, three times the Bible records Jesus weeping. Hebrews 5 talks about it, I think over there, Hebrews 5:7, is talking about Jesus when he was in the garden weeping. And then how many know the shortest verse in all the Bible? Can you say it out loud? Let me hear. We go. Yeah, if you go into a Bible memorization contest, get that one first before somebody else. It is easy. What is it? John 11:35, “Jesus wept.”

Actually, the Greek word translated “wept” is different than the Greek word here. John 11:35 is over there at Lazarus’ funeral, and I do not think of his crying because Lazarus is dead. He knew he was about to raise him from the dead. He was crying for all the people that were hurting, sisters and all that. “Jesus wept.” That Greek word has to do with just he shed some tears. This Greek word here is stronger. He was weeping. Let me read for you what Strong’s Concordance—he is not always right, but Strong’s Concordance describes the Greek word like this: “to wail and weep.” I mean, it was not like you just shed a little tear coming into Jerusalem. He was weeping. He was, if you will, boo-hooing.

And what in the world? Why is it Jesus’ Palm Sunday? He is riding into Jerusalem. He is presenting himself as king. By the way, as a whole, they rejected him. Sometimes we say the Triumphal Entry. I understand what they are trying to say, but technically I do not know how triumphant it was because they rejected him as a whole. But what is he weeping about? Let us read the next two verses, and it describes a little bit about what Jesus is weeping about. Then we will try to get to a… preaching a little bit.

You know, it is interesting. This is a little side note, but if we have any young preachers or older preachers, amen—I am teasing a little bit—but, you know, the Bible says, “Preach the word.” But it does not finish that verse, and it says, “reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long-suffering.” I have got a lot of preaching today, but not a lot of the reproving, rebuking, exhorting. And that is what the Bible teaches you do. Well, let us get to it, all right? Y’all still with me out there? Amen. Anybody tired out there? No, I am saying a little tired. Anybody allergies have been getting you?

All right, we are going to take a coffee break. I will go get coffee and come back here. Amen. Have a line at Dunkin’ on us over there. Let us keep going. We are in verse 42. Verse 42. Why is Jesus weeping? He tells us. Verse 42, he is weeping now, saying, can you imagine Jesus crying as he says this? “If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things which belong unto thy peace! But now they are hid from thine eyes. For the days shall come upon thee, that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee, and compass thee round, and keep thee in on every side.”

It says, “Oh, ho.” They rejected Jesus that day, and Jesus knew about 37 years down the road. Israel had been rebelling against Rome at this point for about four years, and Rome had it kind of up to here. They were fed up. And they sent this general in there, Titus, and he laid siege all the way around Jerusalem. Nobody came in or out. He was trying to starve them out. He was defeating them. And, boy, they got it. I mean, eventually Titus marched in there and just slaughtered thousands and thousands of Jewish people, even their children. Not everyone, but many of them, many of them taken as slaves.

But watch, watch—that is what it is talking about. Verse number 44: “And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee: they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.” By the way, let me kind of finish that before we get to the heart of the matter. They say historians tell us what happened: not one stone upon another. How did that happen? Well, they say when the Roman army kind of marched in there, some say they took some of the olive trees and they lit them on fire in there, and it boiled the oil, and it just burned and burned, and specifically in the temple there. And all that burning, you know what happens to gold if it gets too hot? What happens to the gold? It melts. And all that gold in the temple never just melted, and it seeped down in between the cracks of the stones. They had carpet squares there? No, I am joking about that part there. By the way, praise the Lord, Mark Gates has put new carpet squares where there were stains. Does not the carpet look a lot better? He did a wonderful job, and I appreciate it.

But this gold, it seeped down in between the cracks. And then when they came in there, those Roman soldiers, they said, “Man, we heard there is a lot of gold. Where did all that gold go to after the fire had gone out?” And it somehow leaked down into the rocks. So they actually took every stone—not one stone, just like Jesus said, not one stone upon another—because they threw all those rocks out, and they got their knives out and everything, and they are getting that gold out of there. And it was fulfilled what Jesus had said there.

Now that is specifics of it. I want to get a little bit to the broader picture. What was Jesus weeping about? What was Jesus crying about? Can I just put it this way? He was crying over the people there. He knew what was about to happen to many of them. They would just be slaughtered.

If I am not careful, and I am told about me, and I was convicted by this message a little bit myself, but if I am not careful, I will lose just the busyness of the ministry and the years and years. If I am not careful, I will lose my burden for people. I have a book on my desk. I bought it a year ago at a conference, and the title of it is How to Pastor. And one of our men that were counting money came back and said, “Look, Pastor, you know, you have been pastoring 25 years. Do not you think you know how to pastor now?” you know. I said, “The shame is I have had that book for a year and I have not read one page yet.” But I have been to it for a long time.

I remember when I was young in the ministry, I preached one of my first funerals. I do not know. It was not my first, but a little bit into it. And I remember I went to… It was Ellis Funeral Home. Anybody know Ellis Funeral Home up in Nashville? Back in the day, that was one. Everybody was using it way back years ago. Not so much anymore. But Ellis Funeral Home, and I remember there, I remember the funeral home people in front of the family, how polite and kind and concerned they looked. And then right around the corner, I would watch them because I was the preacher, and the preacher, you know, you are with them sometimes at the back. I would see them just, man, they just like that—they start laughing and joking. And I will be honest, at first I thought, “Man, these hypocrites. They do not care about anybody.” They go around the corner, boom, they just change.

But now I have been doing it for years, and I can feel… I could do that. I have just been there so many times. I think last time I checked, pushing 100 funerals that I preached and whatnot. And I do not say that bragging, but here is what I am saying: If I am not careful, I will lose my burden for people. It becomes routine. It becomes just a ritual. Jesus, even though he had the burden of the world on his shoulders, had never lost his burden over people. He was still weeping over those people in Jerusalem. It was not about necessarily Jesus as far as a person. Yes, about him being the Savior. Yes, about them believing in him. But Jesus was still so burdened over that city and over the people there. He was crying for people.

Hey, let me ask you here for a minute. If I look right here a second here, when is the last time you cried because you were so burdened and you cared about somebody else so much? If we are not careful, we are just all about me, me, me, and my life and how good it is. By the way, it was real good for Jesus at that moment. They were putting palm leaves and their clothes down on the trail. He was riding on a donkey. By the way, the donkey—that is what kings rode on. But Jesus was still burdened about the people on a good day of his life. I am so wrapped up in my life, everything is wonderful, that I will not take the time to care about somebody else. Jesus was focused on people.

By the way, that new building, praise the Lord, God is going to give us that. I am excited about that, but it is not about a new building. It is about people getting reached in the new building, and that is what it is about. Too often, we say we have got great crowds and numbers, and yet nobody gets saved, and nobody gets helped, and nobody gets loved on. That is what it ought to be about: people. Jesus is weeping over the people. He is still concerned about them.

I witnessed a man. We were out of town. I had the privilege of witnessing to a man. He was so kind. Good man. And it is like he is listening to every word. Summer long line, right at the very end, but it just clicked. He said, “No,” he said, “thank you.” He said, “Thank you for your passion. Thank you for telling me.” I kind of changed gears. “Hey, well, you can get saved today on your own. Would you promise me before you go to bed tonight you get saved? You would ask Jesus to save you,” so on and so on. And he said, “Well, maybe.” And I was thankful. I have been burdened about that man. And I said… He said, “Well, thank you for all that and whatnot.” And I said, I told myself, “Well, I would like to see you in heaven one day.”

If I am not careful, I will lose that burden for people. It just becomes kind of duty and ritual. Hey, friend, there are souls that are going to go to heaven forever, that they are going to burn in hell forever and ever. It is about people, friend. Jesus was burdened over the people. You see him marching in, everything is going his way, but he is taking the time. And he says, “I know it is going to happen to these people here. They are going to have swords put in them. They are going to have their heads cut off.” And Jesus, he was burdened over people. Have we lost, in our professional Christianity of the day and time, have we lost our burden over people? It is about people, friend. It is not about numbers. Oh, it is about numbers if those numbers truly represent people. I am for numbers all day long. But if it is not numbers, then I can say, “Well, we had such and such and we did this,” and all there is to it. It ought to be about people, friends. Do not lose it.

I will never forget years ago in our last building, a storefront. A lady, her husband was not saved. And we were preaching about “God is a big God, how big is your God?” And God got a hold of her heart that morning, and she came down. She came down over here, and I have been raised in church for my life, but I have never seen anything like this all my life. I mean, I am 35 years old, and I have never seen anything like this. Wish… But she was praying for her husband, and she started weeping. I am talking about not just crying. I am talking about weeping. It was not a big auditorium, but I remember a big old fellow back over this way here; you could hear her weeping. I am just talking about weeping and wailing. And people are crying. That big fellow, he started crying. I am just… People crying all over the auditorium because this lady was weeping for her husband to be saved. Have we lost that?

Are you that burdened about your neighbor? Are you that burdened about your parents? Are you that burdened about your coworkers? Are you burdened about your children or grandchildren or maybe your spouse? By the way, her husband got cancer a little bit later on. He was so hardened. He just… Many preachers have tried to lead him to the Lord, but God had heard her prayers. He got cancer. And before he passed—of course, before he passed—but she woke up in the middle of the night just in time to see him over on his knees in the bedroom asking Jesus to be his Savior. My wife often says about her husband, “He came to church a pass.” She said, “I have never seen a countenance change so much from before salvation.” Just amazing the difference. But someone was burdened. Someone was burdened. I fear we are losing it.

I am so thankful my Savior did not lose his burden for people. That is part of the formula of having effective ministry: a love for people. Let me read for the verse. We won’t look over there for a second time. Psalm 126, verse number six: “He that goeth forth and weepeth…” Notice that. “…bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” Jesus is crying on his triumphant entry. He is weeping, weeping, weeping. Why? He saw those people. He was burdened for them. He knew what was going to happen to him.

I remember going to a Soul Winner conference years ago, up in Walkertown, North Carolina. I am sure some of you have been there before. And I do not know, I would say several thousand people there. Bobby Robertson was the host pastor. He is in heaven now. He was up in years at that point. And just a dear old brother, just a humble man of God. And I remember one of the preachers there… a picture of a couple thousand people there, I am sure, between the guest preachers and then the host church. That church ran about 3,000. I do not know how many thousands were there at this conference. And one of the preachers from out of state had gotten sick. Can I remember what had happened? And he ended up in the hospital.

And I watched Brother Bobby Robertson. He was letting the Soul Winner conference come in there and host their convention and whatnot. But he was the host pastor, whatnot. And I remember Brother Bobby getting up often. And everything is so busy and all these thousands of people. But Brother Bobby, just about every time I watched, he would get up and he said, “Let us pray for Brother So-and-so. He is in the hospital.” All the business of that. And the next day he said, “Hey, let us pray for So-and-so. I went to visit him in the hospital. He needs our prayers.” Now, I thought, “I would like to be like that. I like to love people like that.” I am truly burdened about people. It is not a show, it is not an ad, not doing it in front of everybody to try to be all that, but you truly care about people. Have we lost a burden for people? Jesus was weeping. It was great for him, but he had not lost his burden for people.

It is interesting. The Bible says, “Rejoice with those that rejoice and weep with them that weep.” It is so important. We are going to run out of time here. Y’all are all right for a little bit? Can you all… You are all still awake out there? If your neighbor is sleeping, poke them in the eyeballs, please. Three students, put your hand there. Hey, let me ask you. Let us get real for a second here. How much of your conversation is about yourself? Do not get quiet on me. When is the last time you focused on everybody else? You know the middle letter of pride is P-R-I-D. Can I say something here? The world does not revolve around you. Stop focusing on yourself all the time and care about somebody else.

“Well, I got problems.” Honey, let me say, everybody has problems. I am not saying do not take care of your problem, friends. What about everybody around you? It may be a spouse, it may be a child, it may be a coworker, and they are dying for somebody to truly care about them. Okay, your life is going good. Be thankful, be grateful, but how about caring about somebody else’s life? Oh, if we are not careful, will these just lose that care for other people?

Can I say this? Can I say this? Shame on us if the fact of us reaching someone becomes about us. “Look who I reached.” Shame on us. You know the Bible says this: It says, “Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth.” Sometimes they do not need to know how much you know. Sometimes all you know is just as much knowledge stored up that has puffed you up. Hang all that and care for somebody. Amen. Yeah.

Jesus is coming into Jerusalem and is just weeping for the people, for the people. Nine times the New Testament tells us that Jesus had compassion. Four of those times it talks about he was moved with compassion. By the way, all nine times, Jesus, it moved him to action where he did something about the problem. In four of those passages, he uses the word “saw.” Let me read one of those for you. Luke 7:13: “And when the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her, and said unto her, Weep not.” Who have you seen lately? Who have you seen? I mean, when people are talking to you, are you just thinking about what you are going to answer back and what happened to you, and are you listening to people? I mean, just burdened and care about people. I am so thankful. Jesus, right in the middle of everything, Palm Sunday, and he is weeping for the people. Pretty amazing. That is what kind of Savior. By the way, he cared for people that rejected him. For the most part, they were rejecting him, but he still cared.

Oh, think about Palm Sunday. It is wonderful. It is awesome. But don’t forget, Luke tells us a little insight: He was weeping over the city. He knew what was about to happen to him. In our informational age, you know, we can find out anything about anything. You want to fix your car? Google it. You want to fix your toilet? YouTube video about it. You want to fix your hangnail? There is a video about it. You got an ingrown toenail, there is a video about it. I mean, there is information about everything, you know. I mean, what would we do if we didn’t have Google? I don’t know. Let me Google that, you know. And now we got AI. I am learning this new term. What is it? Chat… Chat… G… B… T. What they said. Chat… G… B… T. I am learning this stuff. We got everything. Informational age.

And here is my thing: If we are not careful, we have got all this knowledge and information, and we are losing caring about people, just individual people. Do you love them? Do you care for them? Jesus did. By the way, praise the Lord, I serve a Savior that cares. “Casting all your care upon him, for he careth for you.” Oh, yeah. Never forget, Jesus is riding in. It is a wonderful day. He is presenting himself as king. It is very prophetic. And it is a wonderful, wonderful day. But Jesus says, as a whole, “I know what is going on here, and I look out, I see what is going to happen to you.” And he is weeping for them. He never lost his burden for people.

Bobby Robertson, I mentioned him a while ago. We are going to be done. Ladies, you can put your shoes back on. We are about done. Amen. But Bobby Robertson, he was a great preacher in North Carolina. He told this story, and I remember it fairly well. But he said he had a girl that was coming in, a teenage girl, on one of their buses. Always had a big bus ministry there. And he said she would come. And by the way, she started coming. Praise the Lord, she had a bus captain that brought her Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, you know. But she would come down to the altar every service.

And he said I’ve seen that. He passed her for years and years, years. But he said this one was different. She would come down in every service. She had come down on the altar, and she was crying. And he said I kind of just watched. This girl’s coming every service. She’s crying. And so he had a lot going on, but he asked one of the workers that dealt with… “Hey, what is going on with that girl?” And they said, “Well, as far as we can tell, she’s gotten saved. God’s worked there. But she’s burdened for her mom. She wants her mom to get saved.”

Well, a little while down the line, sure enough, one of the services, the mom came in with that girl, and she sat down and listened to the preacher, and the invitation time came, and she came forward. She asked Jesus Christ to be her Savior. Mom. Brother Bobby was there, and he dealt with her, and he said, “Ma’am, it is so good you came. So glad you got saved and all that, and your daughter has been coming. And we are so glad to have her. We are so glad you got saved.” And this is what the mom said: “Preacher,” she said, “my daughter has been coming. I could take all that. But she has been crying when she prays for me. She has been so burdened.” And she said, “I could get past all the rest of it, but I couldn’t get past her tears.”

Hey, Jesus cared about people. To the point on Palm Sunday, he is weeping over… Would you bow your heads and close your eyes, please? Heads bowed, eyes closed.

Maybe you hear this morning you say, “Preacher, you know, I’ve kind of lost my love and my care for people too. I need to get that back. I’ve lost a little bit of that. I’m just so wrapped up in my things. I want to get my love and my care, my burden for people.” God spoke to my heart about that. That’s you this morning. You slip your hand up, preacher. I want to get that back. Me too. I don’t want to lose that. I don’t want to be an old, hardened preacher. I want to be a preacher who still loves people at the end of the day. God bless you. Many, many hands, many hands.

Would you do this? Maybe you hear this morning you say, “Preacher, I’m going to start praying: God, give me a heart for people. God, give me a heart for people. I’m going to truly love. I’m going to have true charity. God, give me a heart for people.” I’m going to start praying that. “Lord, share your heart with me for people. Give me a heart for people.” Would you give that to me? I’m going to start praying that. I’m going to start praying that. I’m going to start praying that. I’m going to start praying. That’s you this morning. I’m going to start praying. That’s you this morning. I’m going to start praying. “God, give me a heart for people.” I’m going to start praying. Good, good, good, good. That’s important. Oh, let God develop your heart. That’s so vital, so vital. God bless you. Thank you so very much. Many hands, many hands.

Maybe you hear this morning and say, “You know, I’m so messed up, I think I need to focus on how much God cares about me.” Yeah, by the way, that’s often the start of you caring more for people. I need to focus on how much God loves me and cares about me. I want to care about people, and I will do the best I can. But I believe I need to focus also on God loving me. If that’s you this morning, you slip your hand up, preacher. I need to focus on that. You focus on that. I’ve seen several hands already. God bless you. God bless. That’s vital. That’ll help you to get your needs met by the Lord. You can go just meet other people’s needs. That’s God’s plan. That’s his plan.

Maybe you hear this morning and say, “Preacher, I need to get saved. I need to accept the love of God through Jesus Christ. I need to accept him as my Savior. I never came at the time. I’m just going to settle it. I need to just settle this thing. I need to accept Jesus as my way to heaven. I need to get saved.” If that’s you this morning with heads bowed and eyes closed, just slip your hand up, preacher. I need to get saved. Anybody? I like that. Just slip it up. Just slip it up. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be embarrassed. Anybody? I like that. Hey, Christians, man, let’s… Let’s go shed the love of Christ. Let’s be little Christians shining his care for people. This whole world, they need somebody who cares. Let’s be caring Christians.

Let’s stand, if you would, please. We want to have a word of prayer. You’d be obedient to the Lord. It’d be a good time to come to an old-fashioned altar. “Lord, give me a heart like yours. Give me a heart like yours.” You’ll be obedient to the Lord. Father, thank you in your Word on a busy day, a triumphant day in many ways, that you showed us your heart here in Luke. Help us to be more like you. Help us to love and care and have a right and proper burden for people. Well, well, thank you for what you do. In Jesus’ name we pray. Amen.

Would you be obedient? I don’t spend some time. “Lord, give me your heart. Share your heart with me. Have me to care about people.” They don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care. Oh, let them see the love of Christ. We have the answers. And if we’re not careful, knowledge puffeth up. Others, Lord, others. Let this by matter be… It will show in different ways on different people. Everybody’s going to show it a little differently, but do you care? Do you truly love and care for people? How about your spouse? When’s the last time you listened to them and were burdened about them? How about your children? How about your mom, your dad? Some children sometimes they just need a loving adult to listen with your heart, your mind. Don’t be thinking about what all you’re going to say back. Just listen. Love them for a bit. Care about them in their world.

I’m so glad our church yard sale raised $45,000. Praise the Lord for that. We’re… we’re going to take the extra and uh… Pastor’s wife’s gonna go on vacation and… Oh, I’m joking. I’m…

Original File: Pastor Paul Chisgar ＂Jesus Weeps on Palm Sunday＂- Sunday AM 04⧸13⧸2025 [LPttBB4dqrc]