THURSDAY- 33^rd  WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME –C

Gospel: Luke 19:41-44: If you had only understood the message of peace!

I Reading: 1 Maccabees 2:15-29: We will follow the covenant of our ancestors.

The Dramatic Prediction: Judgement Upon Jerusalem, Lk 19:41-44

This is about the prediction of Jerusalem’s terrible fate and the compassion of Jesus for people doomed to utter destruction. The truth, Scripture is God’s Word that sin dooms a nation, but righteousness exalts a nation and its people.

1. The great love of Jesus for the city (v.41-42)

a. He wept over the city

b. The city had rejected the way of peace; that is, it rejected the Messiah

2. The terrible fate of the city foretold (v.43-44)

a. Was to be encircled

b. was to be utterly destroyed

c. was to be personally judged

3. The cause of the city’s doom (v.44)

(19:41-48) Another Outline: A Look at Jesus

1. The compassion of Jesus (v.41-44)

2. The anger of Jesus (v.45-46)

3. The courage of Jesus (v.47-48)

Thought: Jesus was weeping over the city and its people, weeping because they did not know the way of peace. The people closed their eyes to Jesus and His message of peace. They refused to see Jesus therefore God turned over to their blindness and Jerusalem is doomed to fall as the fate of a nation.

Peace in Greek (eriene) means: to bind together, to join and weave together. It means that one is bound, woven, joined together with himself and with God and with others.

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