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Jesus' Moods
Let us look at the
moods--at the personage--of Jesus. See
his humanity! See his holiness! Behold the man Jesus!
Let us look at Jesus':
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Love
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Sorrow
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Attitude
upon his return
I.
We see Jesus' love in so many encounters with people of his time.
A.
He had the ability to love people instantly.
Mark 10:17 As Jesus started on his way, a man ran up to him and fell on his knees before him.
"Good teacher," he asked, "what must I do to inherit eternal
life?" (NIV)
Mark 10:18 "Why do you call me
good?" Jesus answered. "No one is good--except God alone. (NIV)
Mark 10:19 You
know the commandments: `Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do
not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.'"
Mark 10:20 "Teacher," he
declared, "all these I have kept since I was a boy."
Mark 10:21 Jesus looked at him and loved
him. "One thing you lack," he said. "Go, sell everything you
have and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come,
follow me."
Mark 10:22 At this
the man's face fell. He went away sad, because he had great wealth.
Mark 10:23 Jesus looked around and said to
his disciples, "How hard it is for the rich to enter the
What an ability our Lord had! To look at a person with
all of his imperfections and shortcomings and still love him just as he was. Will
B.
He showed this kind of mood to the woman at the well.
John 4:4 Now
he had to go through
John 4:5 So he
came to a town in
John 4:6 Jacob's well was there, and
Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, sat down by the well. It was about the
sixth hour.
John 4:7 When a Samaritan woman came
to draw water, Jesus said to her, "Will you give
me a drink?"
John 4:8 (His disciples had gone into the
town to buy food.)
John 4:9 The Samaritan woman said to
him, "You are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a
drink?" (For Jews do not associate with Samaritans.)
John 4:10 Jesus answered her, "If
you knew the gift of God and who it is that asks you for a drink, you would
have asked him and he would have given you living water."
John 4:11 "Sir," the woman
said, "you have nothing to draw with and the well
is deep. Where can you get this living water?
John 4:12 Are you greater than our father
Jacob, who gave us the well and drank from it himself, as did also his sons and
his flocks and herds?"
John 4:13 Jesus answered,
"Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again,
John 4:14 but whoever drinks the water
I give him will never thirst. Indeed,
the water I give him will become in him a spring of water welling up to eternal
life."
John 4:15 The
woman said to him, "Sir, give me this water so that I won't get thirsty
and have to keep coming here to draw water."
John 4:16 He told her, "Go, call
your husband and come back."
John 4:17 "I have no
husband," she replied. Jesus said to her, "You are right when you say
you have no husband.
John 4:18 The
fact is, you have had five husbands, and the man you now have is not your
husband. What you have just said is quite true."
John 4:19 "Sir," the woman
said, "I can see that you are a prophet.
John 4:20 Our
fathers worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that the place where we
must worship is in
John 4:21 Jesus declared, "Believe
me, woman, a time is coming when you will worship the Father neither on this
mountain nor in
John 4:22 You Samaritans worship what
you do not know; we worship what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews.
John 4:23 Yet
a time is coming and has now come when the true worshipers will worship the
Father in spirit and truth, for they are the kind of worshipers the Father
seeks.
John 4:24 God is spirit, and his
worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth."
John 4:25 The
woman said, "I know that Messiah" (called Christ) "is coming.
When he comes, he will explain everything to us."
Jesus opens his heart and his
personality to this woman at the well--a sinner who was living in
fornication. He did not condone the sin,
but he loved the sinner. He looked at
her and wanted to give her the information that she needed so that she could
live with him forever.
C.
He looks at you with the same mood.
1.
It is not the will of the Father that any should perish, but that all
should come to repentance (II Peter 3:9).
2.
He loves you with all of your shortcomings and faults. He wishes that you would live a better
life--He knows that you would be better for it if you would. He pleads with you to accept Him now, even as
he has accepted you. But you need to know
that He will not stand at the door and knock always. Today is the day of salvation.
II. See Jesus' sorrow.
A.
His sorrow was not for the kinds of things that the world is usually
sorry for. He was not sorry that he did
not have great possessions or that not everyone approved of his actions. He sorrowed of the effects of sin.
B.
At the death of Lazarus, he wept because of the sentence that sin had
pronounced upon man, the sentence of death.
Yet we see his reluctance to move to save his friend Lazarus from death.
C.
See Jesus' sorrow and exasperation at trying to reach man.
Matt 23:37 "O Jerusalem,
Matt 23:38 Look, your house is left to
you desolate.
III. What will be His attitude upon his
return?
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Will
he be full of love? Glad to see
everyone?
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Full
of forgiveness to everyone regardless of whether they have obeyed him or not?
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Will
he still be entreating men to put away their sinful ways?
A.
He will be full of love, but his righteousness demands judgment for
those who have not accepted him.
B.
He will not be glad to see everyone.
Those who have rejected him will not be glad to see him either.
C.
The time of forgiveness will be past.
The day of hearing, believing, repenting, confessing Jesus as Lord, and
being
baptized
will be past. All records will be frozen
as of the instant of the last trumpet.
What does the Bible say?
Heb 9:27 Just as man is destined to
die once, and after that to face judgment,
Heb 9:28 so Christ was sacrificed once
to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to
bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
When Jesus comes again he will not be
coming to implore people to accept salvation.
He already did that. When he
comes again, it will be judgment!
2 Thes 1:6
God is just: He will pay back trouble to those who trouble you
2 Thes 1:7
and give relief to you who are troubled, and to us as well. This will happen
when the Lord Jesus is revealed from heaven in blazing fire
with his powerful angels.
2 Thes 1:8
He will punish those who do not know God and do not obey the gospel of our Lord
Jesus.
2 Thes 1:9 They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut
out from the presence of the Lord and from the majesty of his power
2 Thes 1:10
on the day he comes to be glorified in his holy people and to be marveled at
among all those who have believed. This
includes you, because you believed our testimony to you.
2 Thes 1:11
With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may count you
worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may fulfill every
good purpose of yours and every act prompted by your faith.
It is possible to obey the Gospel. We are commanded to do it so it is not
impossible to do it.
Scripture warns again and again about
not being slothful about religious matters.
Matt 21:32 For John came to you to
show you the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax
collectors and the prostitutes did. And even after you saw this, you did not
repent and believe him.
Matt 21:33 "Listen to another
parable: There was a landowner who planted a vineyard. He put a wall around it,
dug a winepress in it and built a
watchtower. Then he rented the vineyard to some farmers and went away on a
journey.
Matt 21:34 When the harvest time
approached, he sent his servants to the tenants to collect his fruit.
Matt 21:35 "The
tenants seized his servants; they beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.
Matt 21:36 Then he sent other servants
to them, more than the first time, and the tenants treated them the same way.
Matt 21:37 Last of all, he sent his
son to them. `They will respect my son,' he said.
Matt 21:38 "But when the tenants
saw the son, they said to each other, `This is the heir. Come, let's kill him
and take his inheritance.'
Matt 21:39 So
they took him and threw him out of the vineyard and killed him.
Matt 21:40 "Therefore, when the
owner of the vineyard comes, what will he do to those tenants?"
Matt 21:41 "He will bring those
wretches to a wretched end," they replied, "and he will rent the
vineyard to other tenants, who will give him his share
of the crop at harvest time."
Matt 21:42 Jesus said to them,
"Have you never read in the Scriptures: "`The stone the builders
rejected has become the capstone; the Lord has
done this, and it is marvelous in our eyes'?
Those who never "got around"
to obeying Jesus will be terrified at His coming.
Rev 6:12 I watched as he opened the sixth
seal. There was a great earthquake. The sun turned black like sackcloth made of
goat hair, the whole moon turned blood red,
Rev 6:13 and the stars in the sky fell to
earth, as late figs drop from a fig tree when shaken by a strong wind.
Rev 6:14 The sky
receded like a scroll, rolling up, and every mountain and island was removed
from its place.
Rev 6:15 Then the kings of the earth, the
princes, the generals, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and every free man
hid in caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
Rev 6:16 They
called to the mountains and the rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the
face of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!
Rev 6:17 For the
great day of their wrath has come, and who can stand?"
Do you want to experience this kind of an attitude
from Jesus in the last day?
Well does the scripture say, "It is a
fearful thing to fall into the hands of a loving God."
Hebrews 10:31. What must you do to avoid
this?
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Hear
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Believe
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Repent
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Confess
Jesus as Lord
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Be
baptized
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Live
the best life you can, asking for forgiveness day by day as you fall short in
some areas.
Be part of Jesus' love. Be part of his happiness. Don't be part of His vengeance.
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