Rev Mendez Sermons & Notes

Sunday Nov 20 2022 Last Sunday of the Church Year Prop.20   Rev. Arturo Mendez Sermon Text: Luke 23:27-43 SermonTheme: Following Jesus is a Mourn and Lament? Or Hope and Joy ?         27  And there followed him a great multitude of the people and of women who were mourning and lamenting for him.  28  But turning to them Jesus said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.  29  For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’  30  Then they will begin to say to the mountains, ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills, ‘Cover us.’  31  For if they do these things when the wood is green, what will happen when it is dry?” Why do we begin to follow Jesus? Perhaps we have begun to follow it because we want to receive some favor from Him or because we are in pain and struggles, a lot of the best thing would be to follow Him for Hope and Joy, which I think is the