1. Reasons to Weep
Jeremiah 13:15-17

2. Jeremiah 13:15-17
15 Hear and give ear: Do not be proud, For the Lord has spoken. 16 Give glory to the Lord your God Before He causes darkness, And before your feet stumble On the dark mountains, And while you are looking for light, He turns it into the shadow of death And makes it dense darkness.

3. Jeremiah 13:15-17
17 But if you will not hear it, My soul will weep in secret for your pride; My eyes will weep bitterly And run down with tears, Because the Lord's flock has been taken captive.

4. 2 Corinthians 2:4
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you, with many tears, not that you should be grieved, but that you might know the love which I have so abundantly for you.

5. The Christian Never Rejoices Over the Sinner

6. The Christian rejoices over repentance not condemnation of the sinner
Now I rejoice, not that you were made sorry, but that your sorrow led to repentance. For you were made sorry in a godly manner, that you might suffer loss from us in nothing.
2 Corinthians 7:9

7. To rejoice over the condemned is to blaspheme
God’s desire for man.
Therefore I exhort first of all that supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks be made for all men, 2 for kings and all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence. 3 For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior,

8. To rejoice over the condemned is to blaspheme
God’s desire for man.
4 who desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth. 5 For there is one God and one Mediator between God and men, the Man Christ Jesus, 6 who gave Himself a ransom for all, to be testified in due time,
1 Timothy 2:1-6

9. To rejoice over the condemned is to blaspheme
God’s desire for man.
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Behold and see If there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
Which has been brought on me, Which the Lord has inflicted In the day of His fierce anger.
Lamentations 1:12

10. How Does God respond to the lost?

11. He pleaded with them?
21 “Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. 22 Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’

12. He pleaded with them?
23 And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’
Matthew 7:21-23

13. Christ Wept Over the Lost
“O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the one who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing! 38 See! Your house is left to you desolate;

14. Christ Wept Over the Lost
39 for I say to you, you shall see Me no more till you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’ ”
Matthew 23:37-39

15. Lessons For Us Today

16. We Must Have a Deep Concern for the Unrepentant Soul
1. Our concern moves us to deep concern.
2. We mourn over their rebellion and do not rejoice.

17. Remember Christ & Jeremiah
Christ & Jeremiah wept over the lost.
They set an example of the sorrow we should have over those in sin

18. Conclusion
The lost must have a deep remorse over their sin and we should have deep remorse over the lost.
“Now, therefore,” says the Lord, “Turn to Me with all your heart, With fasting, with weeping, and with mourning.”
Joel 2:12