Jesus did not come to bless our small kingdoms, but to establish His glorious kingdom. This message was given on June 12, 2016 at New City Church in Calgary by Pastor John Ferguson. For more info, please visit: www.newcitychurch.ca

1. A Lament for the City
The Gospel of Luke 13:31-35

2. God Gives Us His Words of Eternal Life
Luke 13:31-35
Found on page 873 in our guest Bibles.
Today’s Scripture:

3. Miss Congeniality
Q: What’s the one most important thing our society needs?

4. Miss Congeniality
Q: What’s the one most important thing our society needs?
A: That would be harsher punishment for parole violators.…

5. Miss Congeniality
Q: What’s the one most important thing our society needs?
A: That would be harsher punishment for parole violators.…
…and world peace!

6. What’s the one
most important
thing our
society needs ?

7. What’s the one
most important
thing you need
for personal peace ?

8. A Lament for the City
The Gospel of Luke 13:31-35

9. 31 At that very hour some Pharisees
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came and said to him, “Get away from
here, for Herod wants to kill you.”

10. 32 And he said to them, “Go and tell
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that fox, ‘Behold, I cast out demons and
perform cures today and tomorrow, and
the third day I finish my course….”

11. 33 “Nevertheless, I must go on my way
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today and tomorrow and the day follow-
ing, for it cannot be that a prophet should
perish apart from Jerusalem….”

12. “They were disobedient and rebelled against you
and cast your law behind their back and
killed your prophets.”
~ Nehemiah 9:26

13. 34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that
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kills the prophets and stones those who
are sent to it….”

14. 34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that
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kills the prophets and stones those who
are sent to it. How often would I have
gathered your children together as a hen
gathers her brood under her wings, and
you were not willing…!”

15. Have mercy on me, O God,
have mercy on me, for in
you my soul takes refuge. I
will take refuge in the
shadow of your wings until
the disaster is passed.
~ Psalm 57:1

16. Because you are my
help, I sing in the
shadow of your wings.
~ Psalm 64:7

17. Israel’s greatest crisis is
coming upon her, and
he’s offering an urgent
summons to repent, to
come his kingdom way,
his way of peace. This is
the only way of avoiding
the disaster which will
otherwise follow her
persistent rebellion.

18. Jesus’ intention now, in
obedience to his vocation,
is to go to Jerusalem, and
like the hen with her
chickens, to take the full
force of that disaster which
he has predicting for the
nation and the Temple.
The one will give himself
on behalf of the many.

19. 34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that
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kills the prophets and stones those who
are sent to it.
gathered your children together as a
hen gathers her brood under her wings,
and you were not willing…!”
How often would I have

20. …God our Saviour, who
desires all people to be
saved and to come to a
knowledge of the truth. For
there is one God and one
mediator between God
and men, the man Christ
Jesus, who gave himself
as a ransom for all. ~ The Apostle Paul in
1 Timothy 2:4-5

21. The Lord is not slow
to fulfill his promise as
some count slowness,
but is patient toward
you, not wishing that
any should perish, but
that all should reach
repentance.
~ The Apostle Peter
in 1 Peter 3:9

22. ~ Jesus of Nazareth in the Gospel of John 5:38-39
“You study the Scriptures diligently because
you think that in them you have eternal life. These
are the very Scriptures that testify about me,
yet you refuse to come to me to have life.”

23. 35 “Behold, your house is forsaken.
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25. And while some were speaking of the temple, how
it was adorned with noble stones and offerings, he
said, ‘As for these things that you see, the days will
come when there will not be left here one stone
upon another that will not be thrown down…. When
you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then
know that its desolation has come near.
~ Jesus of Nazareth in the
Gospel of Luke 21:4-5, 20
“

27. 35 “Behold, your house is forsaken. And
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I tell you, you will not see me again until
you say, ‘Blessed is he who comes in the
name of the Lord.’”

28. Why does Luke record this
account in his historical
biography of Jesus?
Important Question

29. Jesus did not come to bless
our small kingdoms,
but to establish
his glorious kingdom.

30. Lament for yourself.

31. Lament for our city.

32. New City Church,
may you be a people who lament
both for yourself and for your city,
and may you always rejoice in saying,
“Blessed is He who comes
in the name of the Lord.”

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