I can honestly say I've driven over the crest of a hill many a times in my travels and seen
the lights of some small little town, some tiny little village of maybe, you know, tiny
by our standards, you know, 1500, 2000, 3000 people.
And I've wept over it and said, God, are these people ever going to get a chance to hear
the gospel?
Is anybody, you know, there's no church there.
There's nobody preaching.
There's nobody going to do any soul winning there.
And you know, Jesus looked at the city and he's not seeing buildings.
He's not weeping about a building falling over to the ground.
He doesn't care about buildings.
I wasn't weeping over city lights, my friend.
I looked at those lights and I realized that every light was a person.
Every door we knock, you say, don't you get tired of, you know, preaching the same message
over and over again for, you know, 14 years of soul winning.
But I'll tell you this, every person you give it to is a new person and it's a real soul.
It's a real human being.
And you know what?
I mean, I honestly, you know, when I'm talking to these people, you know, I love that person.
You know, I mean, don't you feel that way?
You love that, but you want them to be saved.
It's sad when they don't get saved.
You know, when they, when they don't want to hear it, you walk away sorrowful because
you just wish that you'd have the chance to tell them because you, you love people.
And that's how Jesus was.
I mean, he, he wasn't, he's not this cold hearted Calvinist God up in heaven.
Just doesn't care.
Damns everybody to hell.
Doesn't even care.
It's all part is what makes him happy.
It's all part as well.
Yeah.
Someday he'll rejoice over it.
You know, once he's given them a bunch of chances and they just keep rejecting him.
But let me tell you this though.
You know what?
He does care.
He does love the lost.
You know, and the Calvinist will teach, he only loves the elect.
That's not true.
Yes, he loves the saved.
Yes, he loves the children of God.
Yes, he loves the elect, but he also loved the lost and he wept over the loss and he
prayed for the loss and he wanted the loss to be saved.
And when he knew that they weren't going to be saved and he knew that they weren't going
to listen, he wept about it and he was sad about it and he felt bad about it in this
passage in Luke 19.
He sorrowed and wept over the lost.
Well, let me ask you this.
Have you ever wept over the lost?
They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.
It says in verse six, he that goeth forth and weepeth bearing precious seed shall doubtless
come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with them.
Let me ask you this.
Is there any doubt that the one who weeps over lost souls and brings the precious seed
of God's word will come back rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with them?
Is there any doubt about it?
There's no doubt.
He said he will doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.
He says sowing doesn't work.
Sowing always works.
It works when there's a tear in the eye and a Bible in the hand.
It must work.
He didn't say you're going to come back five minutes later bringing your sheaves with you,
but you know what?
You will come again with rejoicing, if not today, then tomorrow, and if not tomorrow,
the day after that, but you will come again rejoicing, bringing your sheaves with you.
Don't tell me sowing doesn't work either.
If sowing doesn't work, then the Bible's not true.
If sowing doesn't work, then the gospel's lost its power.
If sowing doesn't work, then the word of God is no longer the precious seed, and if sowing
doesn't work, then you don't have a tear in your eye.
You don't love people, and you don't care about the lost.
You don't care about the lost.