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Book: Luke
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Luke 13:34,35 O Jerusalem, Jerusalem
I. The journey to Jerusalem.
A. Luke 9:51 "Now when the time had come that He should be
received up, He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem."
B. In 9:53 we are told that the Samaritans would not receive Him
because His face was as though He would go to Jerusalem.
C. In verse 22 "And He went through the cities and villages,
teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem."
LUK 17:11 And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed
through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.
LUK 18:31 Then he took [unto him] the twelve, and said unto them, Behold,
we go up to Jerusalem, and all things that are written by the
prophets concerning the Son of man shall be accomplished.
LUK 19:11 And as they heard these things, he added and spake a parable,
because he was nigh to Jerusalem, and because they thought that
the kingdom of God should immediately appear.
LUK 19:28 And when he had thus spoken, he went before, ascending up to
Jerusalem.
1. He knows that when He comes to Jerusalem that He will
be put to death, as He gives His life as a sacrifice
for man's sin.
2. He knows the pain and torture that He will endure as He
gives His back to the smiters.
3. He knows the shame and the humiliation that awaits Him
as they spit in His face, and beat His face until He is
unrecognizable as a human being, for all of these were
predicted of Him.
4. Thus He goes to Jerusalem according to the determinate
councils in obedience to the will of the Father.
5. Later the disciples recognized that His death was all a
part of God's plan for the redemption of man.
a. Peter said to the crowd, "And you, according to
the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of
God with your wicked hands have crucified and
slain."
b. When the disciples prayed they said concerning
His death, "The people have done whatsoever Thy
hand and Thy counsel have determined to be
done."
6. So He goes to Jerusalem to be despised and rejected by
man.
D. In verse 31 we are told that certain of the Pharisee's
had come to Him threatening Him to get out of the area,
for Herod was going to kill Him. Jesus answered you go
tell that fox that I have work to do today and
tomorrow, and on the third day I will be perfected.
1. Herod was not in control of the timing or His destiny,
He was in perfect control.
2. He has a little more work to be done as He moves on to
Jerusalem.
3. Herod was ruler over the area of the Galilee region,
and Jesus was still in the area that was under Herod's
jurisdiction. But Jesus is not to be killed by Herod,
His death must be accomplished in Jerusalem. "It cannot
be that a prophet should perish outside of Jerusalem."
4. He will not die by the hand of Herod, or in the
territory that is under Herod's jurisdiction.
II. O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who killest the prophets and stonest those who
are sent to thee."
A. Jesus gave a parable of the Lord who went to a far country and
left His vineyard in the care of the husbandmen. When the time
came to receive the fruit of the vineyard, He sent His servant
to collect, but the wicked husbandmen beat the servant and sent
Him away empty. He sent other servants and some they beat and
others they killed, finally He said, "I will send My own Son,
surely they will reverence Him," but they plotted to put Him to
death, hoping to have the vineyard all to themselves.
1. The vineyard is the nation of Israel.
2. The husbandmen are the religious leaders.
3. The servants are the prophets.
4. The Son is Jesus Christ.
5. Concerning the prophets He said that they stoned some
and killed others.
B. When Stephen was giving his defense before the counsel, he
showed them how their illustrious fathers had rejected Joseph
from ruling over them and sought to get rid of him by selling
him to the slave traders going to Egypt, but later in Egypt
they bowed before him begging forgiveness. Also how the first
time their fathers rejected Moses saying who made you to be a
ruler over us, but how that he came back to lead them to the
promised land. Stephen finally asked them, "Which of the
prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain
them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom
ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
C. How did Jesus see Jerusalem?
1. Blind, and resistant to the purposes of God.
2. Worse, rebelling against the purposes of God and
seeking to destroy all who would correct them.
D. What was His desire toward these stubborn rebellious people?
1. I know what my reaction would be. I would be ready to
draw the sword of justice and destroy them. I would
have called for the legion of angels at my disposal to
wipe them out.
2. I can understand the words of David when he said, "Do
not I hate them that hate Thee, O Lord, I hate them
with a complete hatred."
3. I get so riled up when I hear men speak blasphemous
things against God. I pray curses upon them. Like James
and John I want to call down fire from heaven and
consume them.
4. What a far cry that is from the spirit of Jesus who
said, "How often would I have gathered thy children
together as a hen does gather her brood under her wings
but you would not."
5. Perhaps Jesus was thinking of Psalm 17 where David
said, "Keep me as the apple of Your eye, hide me under
the shadow of your wings."
6. Or maybe Psalm 91 "He shall cover thee with His
feathers, and under His wings shalt thou trust."
7. Here is love and grace manifested, for in spite of
their stubborn rebellion, He was still desiring to draw
them to the protection that only He could give to them.
8. He was willing to give them one more chance. The
parable of the barren fig tree in the vineyard verse 6
where the master orders it to be cut down, but the
dresser of the vineyard plea's for one more year to
cultivate it and fertilize it to see if it will produce
fruit, and if not then cut it down.
9. One more chance, the problem is that you do not know if
you are on the last chance. Someday you will hear God's
final call to you to accept His offer of salvation. To
reject that final call is to seal your eternal destiny.
III. The tragic consequences for those who refuse the shelter that He
offers.
A. "Your house is left unto you desolate." You are going to be
driven from the land that God gave to your father Abraham.
1. You will experience what it is to be despised and
rejected by man.
2. This city will be laid to the ground.
3. The temple will be so thoroughly destroyed that not one
stone will be left standing upon another.
4. When Daniel predicted that the Messiah would be cut
off, he declared for the Jews that they would be
dispersed, and unto the end desolations are determined.
5. The Jews have experienced the bloody inquisition, the
holocaust, and even today are being threatened by the
fanatic Moslems who vow their utter destruction.
6. Jeremiah speaks of the last days when their shall come
a time of Jacob's trouble.
7. Daniel tells that they are going to experience a time
of trouble worse than anything in the history of the
nation.
8. Jesus also made reference to this in the context of the
signs of His return to the earth.
MAT 24:21 For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the
beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.
MAT 24:22 And except those days should be shortened, there should no flesh
be saved: but for the elect's sake those days shall be
shortened.
9. Jesus said, "You will not see Me again until you say,
Blessed is He that comes in the name of the Lord. For
their very survival they will have to say, "Blessed is
He who comes in the name of the Lord."
10. We are told that they shall look on Him whom they have
pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns
for an only son.
B. God is very patient and longsuffering.
1. Do not mistake His patience for weakness.
2. Do not mistake His patience as not caring about what
you do, of worse yet approving of what you do.
C. In spite of all that you have done, He desires to gather you
under the protection of His wings. To wash you from the
defilement of your sin, to set your feet on the right path, to
help your life to be fruitful and worthwhile. Won't you come to
Him?
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