Jesus Weeps (John 11:28-37)

Jesus Weeps 

Introduction: The Bell at Saint Bernard Pass 

We often need a bell that leads us to the we solely find in Jesus Christ!

Mary and Martha

Mary and Martha were two different women, but both were deeply affected by .

Even the thoughtful that at the feet of Jesus often, at times, have their minds in the theological because of grief. 

Some criticize Mary in this passage because it seems like she is . 

As Mary spoke to Jesus, she was in — we shouldn’t take it as there is a break between verses 32 and 33. 

It is even in our grief, to charge God with wrongdoing by . 

At this moment, Mary needed to know that Jesus for her!

Does God have Passions? 

How do we understand passages that seem to speak of God having ?

The problem: Are God’s actions on His emotions like ours often are?

When we take things , we get emotional, and when we get emotional, we make poor !

2 Samuel 6:6-8

Are we to take this OT story as an example of God being emotionally?

Obviously, God is not emotionally ….

1 Samuel 15:29; James 1:17

What would defile the Ark is not the of the earth but the of man.

Anthropomorphic language: A literary device where God is given characteristics. 

We are people deeply affected by emotions, and we cannot treat the same way. 

Divine Impassibility: “God does not experience emotional changes either from within or [is He] effected  by his relationship to creation.” ~ Samuel Renihan

“The Lord our God is but one living and true God; whose subsistence is in and of himself, infinite in being and perfection; whose essence cannot be comprehended by any but himself; a most pure spirit, invisible, without body, parts, or passions.” ~Second London Baptist Confession 

Affections: “Affections in the general are these movings of the rational soul, whereby the heart is sensibly carried out upon good or evil; so as to embrace the one, or refuse the other.” ~William Bridge 

Samuel Renihan: Affections are the motions of the soul worked out through the body.

Are Passions the same thing as affections?

Martha, for example, wasn’t only sad (affection), but she was overwhelmed by grief (passion). 

When it comes to God, we shouldn’t think of Him as having or passions but as unchanging ! 

Jesus’ in no way diminishes His Godness! 

What we see in Jesus is not a display of (as we have defined it) but of God perfectly moved. 

Jesus cared about these women, and he loved Lazarus — and just as He perfectly cared for them — He perfectly cares for you as well!

Hebrews 4:14-16