Do Not Weep: A Lesson From a Widow’s Tears

Luke 7:11-17

About the Sermon

A centurion’s servant was healed by a mere word and news is spreading fast. A crowd follows Jesus, and the party stumbles across a funeral. A mother has lost everything. In the midst of all these people, will Jesus even notice this hopeless woman? Should he see her, what might move him to act? On her most devastating of days, the widow’s tears draw our gaze toward the Savior’s heart. Listen as we draw a lesson from the widow’s tears in Luke 7:11-17, that we might have hope in all of life’s circumstances.

About the Series

Luke writes that we may be certain of the things that we have been taught. That is, confident in the good news about Jesus. Apparently some of the things we have been taught are so wonderful they are hard to believe. In his orderly account, Luke announces good news of great reversals in which God humbles the proud and exalts the humble. Peace with God through the forgiveness of sins really is available but on God’s terms. To show us how we must come to him, Luke introduces us to the characters Jesus lifted up and to the proud whom he brought low. In all this he compels us to humbly believe in the Son of the Most High God and to preach this good news of great joy to the end of the earth.
Luke writes that we may be certain of the things that we have been taught. That is, confident in the good news about Jesus. Apparently some of the things we have been taught are so wonderful they are hard to believe. In his orderly account, Luke announces good news of great reversals in which God humbles the proud and exalts the humble. Peace with God through the forgiveness of sins really is available but on God's terms. To show us how we must come to him, Luke introduces us to the characters Jesus lifted up and to the proud whom he brought low. In all this he compels us to humbly believe in the Son of the Most High God and to preach this good news of great joy to the end of the earth.

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