Waterbrooke Christian Church

Jesus set his face to journey toward Jerusalem. He is going to the city in order to seek and save the lost by dying at Calvary. That is the trajectory of Luke’s Gospel. Last week, we saw Jesus coming down the Mount of Olives riding on a donkey.   The people celebrate him as the King of Israel. And now, the moment has come. Jesus finally enters Jerusalem. But celebration turns into lamentation. When Jesus sees the city, he bursts into tears. The city is consumed with war and corruption. The temple is profaned by ritualism, discrimination, and idolatry. And Israel’s religious leaders are consumed with power and pride. As a result, Jesus predicts the city’s near-future destruction because they are blind to the things that make for peace and because they reject Jesus as their King of Peace.   How did it come to this? Israel was supposed to be a beacon of peace and light before the Lord and among all the nations. But any serious reader of the Bible knows that Israel fails the Lord by turning after idols again and