A Teardrop from Heaven

My text today can be found in the gospel of Luke in chapter 19 You can turn in your Bibles there now friends We will be in verses 35 through 44 and I want to read us a striking passage of scripture as it describes Jesus Riding on a donkey Making his triumphal entry into the city of Jerusalem Here now is the word of God and made the Spirit of the Lord attend the reading of his holy word And they brought him to Jesus and they cast their garments upon the cult and they set Jesus thereon and as he went they spread their clothes in the way 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 saying Blessed be the King that cometh in the name of the Lord peace in heaven and glory in the highest 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 And when he was come near he beheld the city and wept over it Saying if thou hast known Even thou at least in this day the things which belong unto that peace But now they are hid from thine eyes For the day shall come upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee Encompass thee round and keep thee in on every side and shall lay thee even with the ground And thy children within thee and they should not leave thee one stone upon another Because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation Picturing your minds friends that incredible scene There is the Son of Man in all his humility riding upon a donkey with the multitude around him as he Slowly descends the Mount of Olives down that dusty winding road the people around him the multitude of his followers his disciples the text says and While they are smiling and laughing and shouting and rejoicing He weeps He wept He was weeping over the missed opportunity of a people who knew not the time of their visitation The king of kings rides into the heart of the city to be rejected betrayed arrested falsely accused spat upon mocked Cruelly beaten and then sends to die as a common criminal on a cruel and noble cross Outside the gates of the city which he loved with a broken heart That's the sad scene friends I want you to keep in your mind as we ponder the sad scene of this sin-soaked world today Let us first look at England England who gave us our printed Bible gave us the genius of the Puritans Gave us Whitfield and the Wesley's Bunyan and Spurgeon England who sent out missionaries all over the globe to spread the gospel men like Hudson Taylor and C.T. Studd Look at the sad scene of England now as she stands spiritually barren Her church is nearly empty and everything spiritual on a sad decline Is Jesus weeping over England of today? I wonder Now take a look at Scotland the land of great preaching The land of the Covenanters the land of John Knox and Samuel Rutherford Scotland the scene is so many revivals and look how she lays in room now Her once vital Kirk's closed from disuser vacant from abandonment Go visit Edinburgh and Glasgow and see the sad spiritual scene that will meet your eye Is Jesus weeping over Scotland today? I wonder Now take a look at Wales the land of revival Oh Wales gave us Evan Roberts and the Welsh revival Paul for revival which touched the entire globe Wales birth mighty preachers like Griffith Jones and how Harris and Christmas Evans Look at Wales today in sad spiritual decline is Jesus weeping over Wales today wonder Look at proud and rich America who is poor and bankrupt Spiritually the land of the Great Awakening the land of Jonathan Edwards and a Zahel Nettleton and DL Moody Sam Jones and Mordecai ham Come look at the apostate church in America today is Jesus weeping over America I wonder I could mention other nations once mighty for the spread of the gospel But the entire sad lot is affected with the falling away predicted in my Bible before Christ's return Today in many of our churches We will have laughter and rejoicing as we do Sunday morning worship as usual And while we sing and laugh I can almost see a teardrop fall from heaven Let us pray