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Guest (Male): Do you have a passion for the place God has put you? Jesus had a heart for the city the Father had sent him to, Jerusalem. Turn to the Gospel of Luke and listen in as we discuss how Jesus loved the city of Jerusalem.

Mark: Welcome to Every Last Word, a radio and internet program with Dr. Philip Ryken, teaching the whole Bible to change your whole life. Today we're continuing our studies in Luke. We'll be seeing what really gets Jesus' blood moving. It's both compassion and anger. What would the right response be for Christians when they see sin and pain in the places that they live or at work or even within their family?

Dr. Philip Ryken: You know, that's a question everyone deals with eventually, Mark. And often times, I think people's first impulse is to try to give some kind of explanation or answer to the problem of pain in a fallen world. But maybe the best first response is the same one that Jesus had and we'll see it in today's passage from the Gospel of Luke. You know, when our Lord saw people lost and in pain, his response was to weep for them. And as we listen to today's message, let's have it be our hope and our prayer that we will come to have the same heart for the lost that Jesus had.

Mark: Well Phil, many who are suffering might find the message of the health and wealth gospel very appealing. What should our response be when we're confronted with this false gospel?

Dr. Philip Ryken: Mark, I'm glad that you called it a false gospel because the health and wealth gospel says that the good news is that God will give us material prosperity in this life. But that's not the good news and it's not something that God has actually promised. And rather than turning Jesus into some kind of a commodity that will give you a better life, Jesus has taught us a very different way to live and it begins with taking up our cross and following him. My prayer for today's message, Mark, is that it will help people follow in the footsteps of a suffering savior.

Mark: Thank you Phil. Let's turn in our Bibles now to Luke chapter 19, verse 41 through chapter 20, verse 8 and listen to Dr. Ryken.

Dr. Philip Ryken: Please turn in your Bibles to the Gospel of Luke, chapter 19, where this week we consider chapter 19, verse 41 through verse 8 of chapter 20, Jesus in Jerusalem. For many decades now, a growing movement of Chinese Christians has had a burning passion to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ back to Jerusalem. These are men and women who believe that they have been called by God to proclaim the gospel to some 5,000 unreached people groups along the old silk road between China and Jerusalem, the ancient city where Christianity began with the crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

One of the first men to have this vision was Uncle Simon Zhao, an evangelist who was imprisoned by the communists for preaching the gospel and languished there for more than three decades. And as he suffered his dream of going back to Jerusalem almost died. And yet when Uncle Simon was released, he began testifying to his vision of going back to Jerusalem and a new generation of Chinese Christians committed themselves to complete the work that others had only just begun. And Uncle Simon taught them this missionary song:

Jerusalem is in my dreams. Jerusalem is in my tears. I looked for you and found you in Jesus’ nail-scarred hands. Jesus came to destroy the chains of death. He came to open the path to glory. Let’s hurry to fulfill the promise of God.

Now that is a song full of compassion for the lost with a bold vision for doing the work of the gospel. And I suppose that few Christians anywhere have anything like the life or death passion that our Chinese brothers and sisters have for reaching the lost and for building the city of God. And if you ask where did they get that passion, I suppose the answer is that they have the passion that flows from the heart of Jesus himself, the savior of love, who first went to Jerusalem to suffer and to die before rising again with life for the world.

With the triumphant entrance that Jesus has made to Jerusalem on the first Palm Sunday, we begin what many Christians call Passion Week, the passion of the Christ. And this word passion comes from the Latin word for suffering. And so the expression Passion Week refers to that suffering that Jesus endured on his way to Calvary culminating with the cross. The passion of the Christ is his death by crucifixion. And yet in English, we often use the word passion in a different way. We use it, the dictionary says, to refer to any ardent affection, to any intense driving feeling or conviction.

The week that Jesus died was a Passion Week in this sense as well. For if ever there was an ardent affection, it was the love that Jesus had for lost people in the city. And if ever there was an intense conviction, it was the zeal that Jesus had for the worship of God. And as we begin to enter Passion Week and see Jesus weeping over Jerusalem, cleansing the temple and defending there his own authority, we see a man of perfect passion. Not a sentimental man, but a man who did cry about the things that broke his loving heart. Not an ill-tempered man, and yet a man who was angry about hypocrisy and injustice. And in the intensity of his emotions as we see them in the scriptures, we are seeing the true and perfect humanity of Jesus Christ.

So consider then his great love for the lost people of the city and his great zeal for the worship of the house of God. And then having seen those things, we'll see the way that people responded to this very passionate man. Notice then his concern first for the city of God, his love for lost people in the city. You see in verse 41 that as Jesus drew near and saw the city, he wept over it. Oh, it would have seemed like a day of triumph for Jesus, making his ascent to Jerusalem with the crowds cheering his praise. But as the holy city came into view, Jesus lifted a loud lament. His soul was grieving for the rejection of his people and for the judgment they would suffer for their sins.

What a dramatic contrast it was between what people were saying and what Jesus was feeling. Jesus was riding into Jerusalem on a donkey, a symbol of royal peace, and people were singing his praises. They were calling him their king. And yet Jesus rightly perceived that they didn't know who he really was. And so he wept. They were cheering, but he was crying.

And he said in verse 42, "Would that you, even you had known on this day the things that make for peace. But now they are hidden from your eyes." Jesus here is weeping not for himself, not for himself because people are rejecting him, but he is weeping for them with compassion for lost sinners who wouldn't or couldn't see who he was. Here he was coming to them with the peace of salvation, but the things that make for peace, as Jesus called them, they were not receiving these things.

The things that make for peace with God are faith and repentance. They are surrender and submission to the royal lordship of Jesus Christ. But the people couldn't see it. Oh, they were so close to Jesus. They could almost reach out and touch him, and yet they didn't recognize his true identity as the suffering savior. And so Jesus wept for them. Is anything sadder than someone who comes close to touching Jesus, but never grabs hold of him by faith? It broke the savior's heart.

And it broke his heart partly because he knew how much they would suffer for rejecting his grace. And this only added to his sorrow. He wasn't just grieving for their rejection, but also for the suffering he knew it would bring. Listen to these words of judgment for the days will come upon you. Jesus said, beginning in verse 43, "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 with you. And they will not leave one stone upon another in you because you did not know the time of your visitation."

And all of these words came true. With perfect foreknowledge, the Son of God was prophesying what would happen when Jerusalem was conquered by the Romans in the year 70. The city was indeed surrounded. The general Titus set up his siege works around the walls of the city. The stones of the city were torn down. The temple was destroyed. The streets ran red with the blood of children. Josephus tells us that when the general saw the destruction, he threw his arms heavenward and uttered a mighty groan.

And all of this happened just the way that Jesus said it would according to the justice of God. Understand that God is perfectly righteous. He is supremely worthy of our worship. And if we will not receive him as our God and our king, then we will be guilty for the failure we have to give him the full honor that he deserves. It's especially true when it comes to our relationship with Jesus Christ. Our response to Jesus, that is what brought doom upon the city of Jerusalem.

And so let me ask you, do you acknowledge Jesus Christ as the king? Is his kingship evident in the choices that you are making with what you do with your body, with how you spend your money, with the way you treat your family, with what you do in your daily work? You see, if we do not honor Christ as our king, we will be lost when the judgment comes, just like the people of Jerusalem. And how sad it is when some people get close enough to see Jesus, but never actually receive him as their savior, never worship him as their king, and never therefore reach the joys of heaven. It was so sad that it made Jesus weep.

Never imagine that God is unmoved by the sufferings of lost sinners. Here you see his compassion in Christ. Jesus knew that judgment was coming. He was the second person of the Trinity. He had divinely ordained the destruction of this city. Nevertheless, he wept to see the day. And his tears teach us to mourn for a world that is lost in sin. As you weep for the people you love who don't know Jesus, understand that Jesus knows your sorrow.

When was the last time that you cried tears of real concern for people who don't know Christ, especially people who are lost in the city? Jesus looked out, he saw a whole city in need and he was moved with compassion. What is your response to lost people in the city? J.C. Ryle said, "We know but little of true Christianity if we do not feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people. A lazy indifference about the spiritual state of others may doubtless save us much trouble. To care nothing whether our neighbors are going to heaven or hell is no doubt the way of the world. But this attitude," says Ryle, "is very unlike Christ."

Well, that is for sure, isn't it? If we are indifferent to the spiritual state of those around us, if we care little whether our neighbors are going to heaven or hell, that is not the way of Christ. No, we are called to have the passion that Jesus had for people who are lost in their sin. And when you see the passion of Christ, the thing to do is to pray for the spirit to give you the heart of Christ so that you will share in that passion for lost sinners.

Now, if Jesus had a crying passion for the lost, he also had this: a consuming zeal for the worship of God. And we see this in the second part of this passage as Jesus enters the temple and begins to drive out those who sold and to say to them, verse 46, "It is written, my house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers." Now understand that in coming to the temple, Jesus was coming to a building of magnificent splendor, the crowning jewel of Jerusalem. King Herod had in recent days spent vast sums of money to renovate the temple complex. And with its massive stones of dazzling white marble, it was one of the most beautiful buildings in the world.

And it was also a building of profound spiritual significance. The temple was the place of Israel's pilgrimage, the center of Jewish religion. It was the dwelling place of God on earth. It was the very place where God had promised to meet with his people. It was the house of God. And yet the temple had become a place of religious corruption. And going to the temple, Jesus really was going to the source of Israel's spiritual problems. And we could probably say the same thing today, that if Jesus comes to the church, he's coming to the very source of spiritual problems.

And what he found there made him extremely angry. Matthew tells us, this is Matthew chapter 21, that Jesus threw chairs and overturned tables. And Mark tells us in his account that Jesus wouldn't even let people come or go. He stopped everything that was happening in the temple. Luke's account is somewhat more restrained. He says in verse 45 that Jesus began to drive out those who sold. But this too was an act of spiritual violence. The verb for driving out is the same forceful verb used elsewhere in the gospels for the casting out of demons. Jesus was there to make a clean sweep. He came to clean the house of God.

What was it that made him so angry? Well, obviously his outrage had something to do with buying and selling. It was almost Passover and tens of thousands of pilgrims were thronging into the city, all of them needing unblemished animals to bring as sacrifices in the temple. All of the men needed half shekels to pay the temple tax and needed it in the local currency. And as you can imagine, it all required a good deal of buying and selling and money-changing. The exchange rates were high. Travelers were at the mercy of big city prices at a major tourist event. You know how these things go.

It was very big business. And it was all under the financial control of the high priest. In fact, the historian Josephus rather cynically calls the high priest of Jesus' day "the great procurer of money." And seeing all of this buying and selling in the house of God made Jesus angry. Oh, how he hated to see his Father's house turned into a marketplace. How he hated the commercialization of religion.

And to understand why, I think we get a very helpful explanation from David Gooding's commentary on the Gospel of Luke. He says, "Somebody, of course, had to sell the required sheep and birds to would-be worshippers. But these sales should have been left to secular trade, unassociated with the sacred precincts of the temple. For the temple authorities not only to allow this trading to go on in the temple courts, but to profit from the sales themselves was scandalous. Instead of helping men worship God, they were turning their priesthood into a commercial monopoly in order to make financial profit out of men's quest for God."

And thus Gooding goes on to say, "They robbed men, for how can they experience the free gift of salvation through men bent on making money out of their spiritual need? And they also robbed God, treating God's people not as God's possession, but as a market to which they had exclusive rights." And of course, the same thing happens today whenever ministry is done for the money. Now, of course, it takes money to do certain kinds of ministry and there are godly ways to encourage the voluntary support of Christian work through financial giving. But Christ is not a commodity. His gospel is not for sale. And when therefore we see Jesus on a t-shirt or watch the health and wealth teaching on television or hear about churches turning into virtual shopping malls, we're witnessing something that is an affront to the holiness of Jesus Christ.

But you know, these issues of buying and selling really are symptoms of a deeper problem, a problem in the heart and a problem that is much closer to our own hearts than we would care really to admit. And to see what I mean by that, I think we need to consider carefully these two quotations that Jesus makes from the Old Testament. See what he says in verse 46, "My house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers."

Now, the first part of that quotation comes from the prophet Isaiah. Let me encourage you please to turn in your Bibles to Isaiah chapter 56, and I think you'll understand what Jesus really was saying. It is not simply prayer that is Jesus' concern, although he was greatly concerned about prayer. But notice specifically what is said at the end of verse 7 of Isaiah chapter 56. "My house shall be called a house of prayer for all peoples."

And that last phrase really is quite significant because it really was, I think, the prophet's main concern. Listen again to what Isaiah prophesied beginning with verse 6. "And the foreigners who join themselves to the Lord to minister to him, to love the name of the Lord and to be his servants." And then Isaiah goes on to say in verse 7, "These foreigners I will bring to my holy mountain and I will make them joyful in my house of prayer."

You see, it's an invitation to the nations to come to the temple in the worship of the living God. And Isaiah goes on to say in verse 8, "The Lord God, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says this: I will gather yet others to him besides those already gathered." You see, here is a prophecy about nothing less than the worldwide mission of the gospel. And from the very beginning, from the time that the temple was first built in Jerusalem, this had always been God's intention: his house would be a house of prayer for the nations.

In fact, if you go back and look at the dedication of the temple and see the way that Solomon prayed, he was praying for the nations. This is why the outermost court of the temple was specifically a court for the Gentiles. But let me ask you, who can pray in a marketplace? You see, by buying and selling in that outer court, the money-changers were excluding effectively, excluding Gentiles from the worship of God and they were failing to fulfill their mission to the world. And you see, this is what made Jesus so angry. It wasn't just what the people were doing, the buying and the selling. Yes, he had a concern about that, but it also was what they weren't doing. They weren't reaching the lost. They weren't inviting them in to the worship of God, asking them to join them in their prayers.

And the second part of this quotation was equally condemning. When Jesus said that God's house had become a den of robbers, I think he has in mind something that Jeremiah said. You can see it a few pages later in the scriptures, Jeremiah chapter 7. And here you have the famous temple sermon of the prophet Jeremiah, a sermon preached in the very gates of the temple. And Jeremiah says in verse 11, "Has this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers?"

And that's exactly what the temple had become to those people. It had become for them a den of robbers. You see, the people of that day were robbing God, and this is part of the overall sermon that Jeremiah delivers. They were robbing God by neglecting the poor, by forsaking the widow, and by abandoning the orphan. The sermon has a great concern for justice for the people of the city. And yet in their hypocrisy, the people of that day still came to worship as if they had done nothing wrong, as if you could ignore the needs of people all around you all week and then come to God in worship on Sunday and everything is right between you and God.

You see, in effect, and this is the point of calling it a den of robbers, the temple had become a kind of safe house, a place for criminals to gather for safety from the rest of their criminal activity. It was a den of robbers. And Jesus saw this in his day as well. It made him angry, and rightly so, that in all of their buying and selling, people were neglecting the poor and forgetting the true worship of God.

Now, I think when we see the anger of Jesus Christ, we see where his passion lies. And therefore, if we are followers of Christ, where our passions ought to lie. Here is a savior with a passion for the lost, for reaching people outside the community of faith. Here is a savior with a passion for the poor, for remembering to show mercy to the people society has forgotten. Here is a savior with a passion for prayer, true prayer, for worshipping God with a sincere heart. Here is a savior with a passion for making the life of faith the main business of life.

So what is your passion? What are the things that make your heart beat with concern? What are the things that drive you, that energize you, that motivate you for doing the work of God in the world? Are you inviting the lost to come into your life? Or are your other activities, including perhaps many religious activities, are these activities crowding them out so that there is no entrance for the Gentiles so to speak, for those who are outside the family of faith and yet who need to know Christ as much as anyone?

Are you remembering to do deeds of mercy? Or are you forgetting the poor? Are you actively engaged in the life of private and corporate prayer? Or are you drifting through life like a person without a God? Are you spending your energies buying and selling? Are you making the worship of the church the marketplace for your soul?

You know, the Bible says that now by faith in Christ, our very bodies have become the temple for the Holy Spirit. Here is where the temple is. And the question is, is your inner temple a den of robbers, stealing from the worship of God and maybe from other people in your neglect? Or is that temple a house for prayer, a place for the worship of God? Oh, we can only lament that the sins which made Jesus so angry in Jerusalem are so common in our own lives, in our own church. Rather than having a burden for the lost, a heart for the poor, a soul for prayer, is it not the case so often that we are lazy in our evangelism, greedy in our materialism, stingy with our prayers?

But you know, Jesus came to clean house. And it's important to see how he did it. He did it by teaching the word of God. Jesus didn't just drive people out of the temple, but he claimed the temple for his pulpit and started preaching the good news of his grace. Here it was the last week of his life and how did Jesus spend it? You see it in verse 47. He was teaching daily in the temple. When you think of Jesus preparing for the cross, think of this: Jesus every day in the temple preaching the good news of his grace. There he was in the house of God and he was offering lost people the gospel. He was calling them to show mercy. He was inviting them to pray, all the things that were at the heart of his passion in this Passion Week.

And what is your response to this passionate savior? Well, I think we see two very different responses here and they challenge our own response. There were some people there who didn't want to hear a word of it. See what Luke tells us in verse 47: the chief priests and the scribes and the principal men of the people were seeking to destroy him. Well, of course they were. Because of course they were against everything that Jesus stood for. They were men who were for making money. That's what they were for. But Jesus was also for helping the poor. They were for the saved. But Jesus was also for the lost. They were for going to the house of God, but he was also for worshipping there and for praying there.

And even worse than all of these things from their perspective was this fact: that Jesus was preaching these passions in the very temple that they were trying to control. He was a threat to their whole livelihood. And so it was that they sought to destroy him. You see how they tried to do it at the beginning of chapter 20. Jesus was teaching the people in the temple one day, he was preaching the gospel. Notice that, he was preaching the gospel, the good news. But as he was doing it, the chief priests and the scribes with the elders came up and said to him, "Tell us by what authority you do these things, or who it is that gave you this authority."

And you can see this is quite missing the point, isn't it? The real question about what Jesus was saying was whether or not that gospel was true. But they're turning it into a question about his authority to do it, whether he has a license to preach. When most people in those days taught theology, they did it with reference to the authority of others. You know, it was rabbi this and rabbi that. But here's a man who's preaching obviously by his own authority. And how they resented the way that he preached.

What gave Jesus the right to take over the temple like this? What gave him the right to preach without any kind of permission? Who did he think he was to give the gospel like this, to call the temple a house for prayer? You know, really this is a question that many people have about Jesus: What gives Jesus the right? What gives Jesus the right to tell you what to do with your life? What gives Jesus the right to demand your worship, to tell you what to do with your time and your money? What gives Jesus the right to say that he is the only way to eternal life? Tell us Jesus, by what authority do you claim these things from us?

Well, when the religious leaders asked that question, they were trying to trap Jesus. They were trying to get him on a charge of blasphemy. You see, his whole ministry had been conducted on the basis of his own authority. I mean, you never see Jesus asking permission to perform a miracle, do you? You never see him asking someone else if it's all right if he can preach the kingdom of God. He just did it. He was acting like God incarnate, which of course he was.

And yet this is where the religious leaders thought that they could get him because if Jesus wasn't God, which is what they thought about Jesus, well then he was guilty of blasphemy and that was a capital offense. Here was a man who acted like he had the authority of God, but if he didn't have it, then they could put him to death. Well, Jesus answered their devious question with a question of his own. Oh, he was a great one for responding with questions, wasn't he, Jesus?

He answered them, "I also will ask you a question. Now tell me, was the baptism of John from heaven or from man?" Now, what's the answer to that question? Well, it's a no-brainer, isn't it? We met John the Baptist at the beginning of the gospel. He was the forerunner of the Messiah. He was a man sent from God to prepare the way of the Lord. His baptism obviously was a baptism from heaven, and most people knew that. Most people, I said, except for these scribes and priests. They had rejected John's ministry. In fact, back in chapter 7, Luke told us that they refused to be baptized.

And so for them, this question was far from a no-brainer. I mean, it was a real stumper. It was something they had to think about for a while. And they discussed it with one another, verse 5. "If we say from heaven, he will say why did you not believe in him? But if we say from man, all the people will stone us to death for they are convinced that John was a prophet." Oh, these poor men caught on the horns of this awful dilemma. I mean, they had been trying to trap Jesus, but now they themselves were trapped in a lose-lose situation.

They didn't believe that John's baptism was heaven-sent. And if they said that they did, I mean, it would make people wonder why they themselves were never baptized. And there was a further problem with that. John was the one who said that Jesus was the Christ. If his ministry was from heaven, then why didn't they believe in Jesus? You see, saying that John's baptism came from heaven would be contrary to their whole position on Jesus.

But on the other hand, they couldn't exactly deny his baptism either because if they did that, people would tear them apart. You see, John was gone, but he was not forgotten. And the same people coming to Jesus were some of the ones who loved John the Baptist. And so here these men are trying to discredit Jesus by questioning his authority, but now they're in great danger of publicly discrediting themselves. Too proud to admit they had made a mistake, too people-pleasing to take a stand for what they really believed, they had nothing to say.

And so they said nothing, verse 7. They answered that they didn't know where his baptism came from. And then having won a complete triumph over these accusers, Jesus said to them, "Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things." You see, Jesus was under no obligation to answer a question from people trying to destroy him. But you know, really there was no doubt where his authority came from. He was speaking with the invincible authority of almighty God.

And we may question Jesus as long as we like. We may ask him all of the questions that trouble us in a fallen world, questions we sometimes are tempted to think that even God wouldn't be able to answer. But you will never catch Jesus at a disadvantage. No, the questions that really can't be answered are the ones Jesus has for us. If we refuse to believe that he is the Son of God and the king of heaven and the savior of the world, what answer will you give if you will not believe in Jesus?

You see, rather than questioning Jesus the way that these people did, we should trust him with our very lives, putting our faith in the cross and the empty tomb. And we should respond to Jesus the way that the rest of the people did at the temple. Let me go back to the end of chapter 19 and look at verse 48. Because there, Luke tells us that all the people were hanging on his words.

And when I first saw that translation, I wondered whether perhaps some liberties were being taken with the Greek text. I mean, it sounds like the kind of English expression that wouldn't necessarily really be in the original. And yet you know, that is what Luke said. Literally he said this: all the people hearing hung on him. You see, these people were captivated by the passion that Jesus had for the lost and for the nations, the passion that he had for the worship of God. Whatever Jesus had to say, they wanted to hear it. We would say it like this: they were hanging on his every word.

But if we were to take Luke even more literally, maybe he was saying that they were hanging on Jesus himself, not just on his words, but on him, on his person. All the people hearing hung on him. And it is at least for us a picture of what it means to have a saving relationship with Jesus Christ. Holding onto him by faith, trusting him for your salvation, hanging on him.

What is your response to this passionate, passionate man? Is your heart touched by the tender compassion that Jesus had for lost people in the city? Is your soul moved by the zeal he had for the worship of God? Is your spirit captivated by his vision for reaching the whole world with the message of his grace? Is your mind, is your will ready to surrender to his supreme authority?

Hang onto the words of Jesus. Hang onto Jesus himself. Hang onto him in his death on the cross, in his resurrection from the grave. And when you hang onto him, his passions will become your passions: love for the lost from Jerusalem to the ends of the earth, a heart for prayer, and zeal for the glory of God.

Our Father in heaven, we pray that through the passion of Christ, you would give us his passion for the things that really deserve and demand our passion. Father, we confess we are passionate about the wrong things or maybe not very passionate at all. And Father, we confess that we need the saving grace of Jesus Christ and the renewing work of the Holy Spirit to give us the passion that Jesus had. It's in his name that we ask for it. Amen.

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