228: Nathan Lewis – Lamentations: The Man That Has Seen Affliction

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Welcome to good for selfie and
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I’m Levi and I’m Chris and I’m
Brian, thank you for joining us

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this week.
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We post a new episode of the
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intro before.
Hand to kind of set the stage

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for the talk.
You’re about to listen to and

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now let’s talk more about this
week’s talk

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for this week.
We’re listening to a class that

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was given by brother Nathan
Lewis at the winter Bible School

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in New Zealand back in 2021.
This is the third class from the

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series.
He gave their on the topic of

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Lamentations entitled, the man
that has seen Affliction, what I

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really appreciate about this
class in particular, what is

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brother, Nathan is, reminding us
of the perspective that we take

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when dealing with trials and
struggles that we’re facing in

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our life.
The entire series is taking a

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really deep look at the book of
Lamentations.

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And I found it to be helpful to
understand the book in general,

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understand the flow of how the
book fits together with the

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story of Jeremiah and Really
enjoyed listening to, it will

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include in the show notes, the
link to brother Nathan slides.

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Yet, some really excellent
slides for all five classes as

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well as having the entire series
posted on the extended version

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of the podcast.
If you’re interested in hearing

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at all.
What I appreciated most about it

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is, it’s just a good reminder of
the way that we look at and put

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the perspective that we have
when we’re going through

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difficult times.
And that we need to focus on the

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good that God has put in our
lives rather than on the He’s

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and remember that.
Even when we face those

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difficult times, those things
are there to help us to grow and

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encourage us to become better
reflection of God’s character

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rather than the reflection of
our own desires.

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This class, the entire series
was a recommendation that

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somebody had sent in shortly.
After the winter Bible School

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concluded, they recommend it
very highly, I’m sorry, it took

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us to the better part of a year
to get to it, but I agree with

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the recommendation.
I think this was spectacular

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class.
I hope you enjoyed this.

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Cooler one.
And that you listen to the

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entire series because it is also
excellent.

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So as always, thank you for
everyone who listens and sends

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in comments and suggestions,
please continue to send those in

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and I hope you enjoy this class
by brother, Nathan Lewis on the

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book of Lamentations titled.
The man that has seen affliction

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Welcome back to Lamentations
this morning Jeremiah’s

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masterpieces on the meaning of
suffering, the value of

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Affliction and this morning we
come to the very heart and

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center of the book.
The verses that we know and love

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from Lamentations chapter 3.
And the man that has seen

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Affliction, the one who can see
through the incomprehensible fog

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who can see past the smoking
ruins.

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The Destroyed families, the
lives, torn apart to the reason

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why.
So this morning we hope to go

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from how could this be too?
Why has this happened?

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You remember in our study
yesterday that we delved into

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the hopelessness and the
Blackness of Lamentations

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chapters 1 and 2, where the
people were floundering around.

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Amidst the chaos trying to make
sense of all of this pain They

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realized too late that everyone
had abandoned them in their hour

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of need the Babylonian swept in
and the parties, the good times,

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the friends evaporated even God
had gone because with God at the

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center of their hearts and minds
and worship and lives due to was

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the beauty of Israel.
God’s princess, his wife But

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without God at the center, they
would just like the Babylonians

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naked widowed childless
humiliated and broken.

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And yet, we saw towards the end
of chapter 2, inklings of hope.

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You will remember 2:13 for they
breach is great, like the see

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who can heal thee.
We have the very first hint that

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God could heal this Emptiness.
That he could be not just the

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cause of the problem but the
solution as well.

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He could heal the bruise, the
Grievous wound in their souls.

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If only as we read in verse 19,
they could lift up their hands

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towards him.
And it is out of this

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overwhelming, Blackness this
foggy despair, the desolation of

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chapters 1 and 2 with just a
stirring of Hope on the horizon.

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That a man of chapter 3, emerges
Survivor to answer their

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questions and to tell them in
chapter 3 and verse 41 that we

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need to not just lift up our
hands towards him as chapter 2

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and verse 19.
It said, but our hearts as As

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well.
The solution is going to need

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not just our words, but our
hearts, but God has promised to

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heal those as well if we turn to
him.

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And so now this morning as we
come to the man that has seen

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Affliction, Jeremiah is going to
lay aside his narrators quill

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and he’s going to sit down to
write a personal Soliloquy of

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sorrow and in Perspective pathos
filled chapter that describes

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his own position of loneliness
and suffering, amidst the

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devastation.
And we don’t have time this

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morning to go through how
Jeremiah is a type of Christ and

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how Lamentations points forward
to Christ.

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But I have two handouts out the
front up the front here.

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So feel free to Avail yourselves
of those at the end and in your

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own time, you can examine those
eyes.

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But clearly Jeremiah and
especially chapter 3 is going to

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greatly typify.
The work of Messiah, our Lord,

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Jesus Christ.
And the first point that he

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wants to make in chapter 3, is
that he’s no different to the

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rest of the nation.
He has seen Affliction by the

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rod of yahweh’s Roth verse one
in verses 1 to 20, is really all

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about how this man has
experienced.

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All the heartache and pain of
the nation.

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He was not exempt.
He was not aloof, he was not

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separate from the people.
He was not different or

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protected from the Troubles by
God this man Jeremiah and the

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first instance, but clearly
Messiah himself in the ultimate

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sense.
Has experienced all the misery

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of the nation.
The Jerusalem bible has 4 verse

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1.
I am the man that is familiar

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with misery.
Look at this.

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This is a summary of
Lamentations 3 and Lamentations

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1 and 2 because the man of
chapter 3 has experienced

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everything that the nation
experienced in chapters 1 and 2.

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He experienced God’s anger He
felt like God was destroying his

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body and his bones.
He felt he judged and devoured.

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Roundabout, he felt like no one
was answering.

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He felt like God was destroying
like a more rewarding animal.

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He felt desolate.
He felt like God was bending his

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bow and shooting arrows at him
in verse 14.

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He felt mocked by those around
him.

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He experienced bitterness he sat
and Sack cloth and Ashes.

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He felt no rest or peace in his
mind.

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His strength failed.
If he felt alone, he felt that

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God had shown no pity.
Tears flowed like Rivers.

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He felt swallowed up in the
waters.

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Covered his head.
The experiences of the man of

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chapter 3 are identical to the
experiences of the nation and

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chapters 1 and 2.
In this man is at pains to tell

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us.
Did he came to share our

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weakness?
That he was not different or

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detached from the nation.
God didn’t shelter or protect

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him, especially in, still, ate
him.

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From misery from Missouri.
He learned obedience as it says,

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in Hebrews 5 and verse 8 by the
things, which he suffered just

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as the nation experienced the
the correcting Rod as Isaiah 10.

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Verse 5 puts it.
The sorrow Babylonian Rod of

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mine anger.
So Christ would Perience,

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chastening and suffering, he
would be acquainted with grief

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and sorrow.
He was a representative of the

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human race.
This man can only lend us his

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strength because he first came
and shared our weakness.

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He identifies in every way with
all of our pain, there’s nothing

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that Christ experienced brothers
and sisters, that is beyond our

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experience or nothing.
We’ve experienced that he has

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not He was with the nation in
all of their heartache, you

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know, that’s an amazing thought,
isn’t it?

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If you think just for a moment
that maybe just maybe The book

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of Jeremiah which is like a
catalog of Jeremiah sufferings

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was just to establish the
credentials of the man who is

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now going to write this chapter.
And give us the meaning behind

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all of the pain.
No one could claim that the

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Survivor didn’t really
understand.

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He is familiar with misery.
Oh he didn’t sin like the rest

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of the nation.
He was not suffering as a

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punishment for his sins.
We read in verse 52 that his

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enemies.
Chase him without cause and God

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himself pleads his cause in
verses 58 259.

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He is not abandoned God like the
rest of the nation but he is

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still touched by the feelings of
their infirmities.

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Here is a man who was just like
us And just to highlight a few

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aspects of his suffering from
the first few verses especially

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just look at this man.
This man who has seen Affliction

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verse 4 tells us My Flesh and my
skin.

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Has he made old literally it
means wasted away worn out.

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It’s the same word used of Sarah
in Genesis 18 and verse 12 when

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she was too old to Bear
children.

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It’s the same, you word used of
the gibeonites clothing and

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Joshua 9 and verse 13.
It was fully worn out.

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This man had aged before his
time.

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He was literally so acquainted
with grief that he was

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physically worn out as Isaiah
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In verse 14 says his visit was
marred more than any other man.

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And John chapter 8, they look at
him and say up there, not yet

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fifty years old and he’s only
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This man is worn out by his
misery and Why has Affliction?

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He’s a Survivor but only just,
and if there was any doubt that

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his experiences mirrored, the
nation’s look at verse 7.

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He has hedged me about that.
I cannot get out.

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He has made my chain heavy and
the word.

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Chained.
Literally means Fitters of

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brass.
It’s exactly the same word as

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second of Kings, 25 and verse.
Evan wins, either Kaya and no

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doubt.
The other slaves were bound with

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Fetters of brass and marched off
as captives into Babylon.

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This man was no different to the
rest of the nation.

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His Fiddler’s of brass his human
nature would just as heavy, just

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as painful.
Here was a man who could

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represent.
The nation for his misery was

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just the same.
Look at verses 10 and 11.

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He was on to me is a beer lying
in wait and is a lion and secret

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places.
His turned aside my ways and

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pulled me in pieces.
He’s made me desolate.

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He’s a man who felt like he was
being ambushed in mauled by an

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animal.
A wild animal a lion or a beer

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do you know that God had
promised to the nation in Hosea,

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13 and verses 7 and 8.
Eight.

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I will be unto them as a lion.
I will meet them as a beer

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bereaved of her whelps.
I will devour them like a lion.

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And here, this man feels exactly
the same.

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His experience was identical to
what?

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God promised, the nation would
experience in Hosea, 13, verses,

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7, and 8.
He’s just like them.

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He’s at pains to tell us in the
first 20 verses of this chapter.

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Messiah is I’m just like the
rest of the nation, look at

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verses 12 to 13.
He hath bent his bow sit me as a

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mark for for the arrow.
If cause the arrows of his

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quiver to enter into my reins,
he felt hunted by God himself.

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Just as in Chapter 2 and in
verse 4 God had bent his bow to

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shoot arrows of displeasure at
the nation.

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Now in chapter 3 in verses 12 to
13 his bent his bow to shoot it.

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This man in fact the word Mark
in verse 12 is usually

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translated prison.
He has set me as a prison for

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his arrows.
None of these arrows are coming

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out.
Out that all going to stay in

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his body like a prison, the
arrows into into his reins and

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some 38 verse 2 says, they
Narrows stick fast in me.

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They hand press with me saw.
He feels hunted persecuted

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tormented smitten of God and
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In fact, this man of
Lamentations 3 is none other

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than the man.
Anne of Isaiah’s suffering

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Servant Song in Isaiah 53 and
I’d like you to come back there.

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Isaiah 53.
Look at this.

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They can be no doubt that the
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who was seen.
Affliction is exactly the same

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man as Isaiah 53, who is smitten
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Because when we come to Isaiah
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his visages mad.
He was going to age before his

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time in Isaiah, 53 and verse 2.
There was no for more beauty

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that we should desire him.
He was going to be despised and

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rejected of men.
He was going to be a man of

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Sorrows acquainted with grief
stricken smitten Afflicted,

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wounded, bruised depressed.
Sorry oppressed but silent

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nonetheless He would be taken
from Justice cut off from the

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land of the living.
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a, but these are there’s
something very interesting in

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Isaiah 53, isn’t there?
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what we want to look at this
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Who’s stricken smitten Afflicted
yet?

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It pleased Yahweh to bruise him.
There was a purpose, there was

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an objective, a grand reason for
all of this misery and

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suffering, and look what we read
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Verse 10 of Isaiah 53, yet it
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He hath put him to grief when
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offering for sin, he shall see
his seed.

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He shall prolong his days and
the pleasure of Yahweh shall

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prosper in his hand, he shall
see all the travail of his soul

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and shall be satisfied by his
knowledge.

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Shall my righteous servant
justify many for he shall bear

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their iniquities.
There was a satisfaction

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attached to travail.
What was that?

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Was their meaning to all this
pain is there?

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Hope beyond the tears?
Maybe, maybe if these men are

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the same, the same man, he can
answer these questions for us

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Messiah suffered its so much.
But he emerged Us fide.

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Then maybe he should he can
share his secrets with us.

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Because if Lamentations to in
verse 13 ask the question.

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They bruise is great who can
heal thee Then Isaiah 53 and

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verse 5 is going to answer that
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As it says in the margin, are we
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Maybe this man has the answers
to the questions that we want

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that.
We need the meaning to

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suffering.
There has to be satisfaction.

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There has to be something at the
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The pleasure of Yahweh would
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man’s knowledge, he would teach
many of the meaning of

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suffering.
So let us come back.

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Now to Lamentations and chapter
3 and for the rest of this

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morning, we really want to focus
in on verses 17 to 40 and look

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at Durham eyes inspired
perspective on suffering and

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Messiahs.
Perspective on suffering.

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Not how could this happen, but
why did this happen?

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The meaning behind the misery.
Now Lamentations 3 and verse 17

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concludes the first section of
the chapter, where, as we have

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said, this man identifies with
the experiences and the horror

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and the grief of the nation, but
look How It Ends.

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Verse 17, there has removed my
soul far off from piece.

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I forget prosperity.
I forget Prosperity, he had

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forgotten everything.
That was good as the word

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Prosperity has in the margin.
There was only chaos privation

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and suffering that remained in
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By the time he got to verse 17.
Everything good had been

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forgotten.
And you know, it’s tempting to

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feel like this isn’t it when we
are suffering and troubles seem

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to be overwhelming us?
Sometimes all we can think of is

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ourselves.
Look at verses 18 to 20 and I

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said my strength and my hope is
perished from Yahweh,

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remembering my misery, my
Affliction, the womb would end

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the goal, my soul, hath them
still in remembrance and his Old

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in me when we are overwhelmed,
when we are troubled and

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distraught, we lose perspective,
and our world, everything very

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quickly, shrinks down to my
Affliction, my misery, my

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wormwood and Gall, it’s all
about me and how I am suffering.

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And why is this happening to me?
And Messiahs answer is If we are

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forgetting the good then
remember the good.

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Recall the good refocus outside
of ourselves verse 21 is it

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says– in the margin, make our
heart return to the good.

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So if we forget verse 17, Then
we need to remember verse 19.

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Have them in remembrance verse
20, recall to mind verse 21, see

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the point.
When Trials come in our lives.

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And how often is this true?
Sometimes the present just

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doesn’t make sense.
And the future seems too distant

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and intangible and the only
concrete Touchstone we have is

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the past.
What God is doing right now.

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Seems incomprehensible in the
Kingdom.

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The future just seems too far
away.

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The only thing that is real is
what God has already done.

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And this man asks us to remember
the past.

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That’s why but ancestors, we
have the memorials On Sunday

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morning it’s not come and
partake of something that looks

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forward to the kingdom.
It’s remember what God has

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already done.
And if we were to ask the

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question, what do we need to
remember?

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What do we need to recall to
mind?

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The answer is verse 22 and 23.
God’s character yahweh’s.

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Mercy verse 22.
Yahweh’s compassion verse 22.

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Yahweh’s faithfulness verse 23.
Yahweh’s goodness verse 25 and

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look at the emphasis on the
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If we forget the good verse What
Messiah reminds us of is the

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goodness of God, verse 25, the
goodness of God, verse 26, the

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goodness of God verse 27.
Remember God’s goodness and his

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character, we can’t miss the
point.

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Can we This is a key to
overcoming at issues with

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suffering.
We’ve got to remember God’s

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character now.
Why does Jeremiah focus our

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minds on this one thing on God’s
character and the answer is that

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he is drawing inspiration from
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Another man who was overwhelmed
with trouble and to pull himself

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out of the Blackness, he did
exactly that and that man was

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David.
Now I want you to draw your

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attention to one verse that we
skipped over earlier and that is

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verse 6.
Verse 6 of Lamentations three

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C’s, he has set me in Dark
Places as they that be dead of

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old.
And you may not have realized,

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but actually the whole of verse
6 is a direct quotation, as the

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margin, says of eyes of Psalm
143 and verse 3, and Jeremiah is

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going to lift a verse right.
Out of a Psalm of David to

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explain how he feels.
So let’s go there to Psalm 143

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because embedded in, this Psalm
is the inspiration for

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Jeremiah’s explanation on
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Psalm 143.
Now, in actual fact, some 143 is

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connected with some 142, they
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One Psalm we can see that
because if you want to put a

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splash of color, in some 142,
verse 3, It says, when my spirit

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was overwhelmed with in me and
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verse 4 it says therefore is my
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So Sam 142 and Psalm 143 are
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time.
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When David feels overwhelmed,
overwhelmed the background Uh,

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this Psalm is probably first of
Samuel 24, when David was

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desperately running from Saul
hiding in caves different caves

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every night, hundreds of men
under his control, he’s in

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trouble fleeing for his life.
It was all too difficult.

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We read in Psalm 142 and verse
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Nobody would offer him Comfort.
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persecuted.
He feels like he’s imprisoned

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verse 7.
And out of this suffering, this

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Blackness that engulfed, his
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We read Psalm 143 in verse 34.
The enemy hath persecuted.

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My soul he is smitten my life
down to the ground.

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He hath made me to dwell in
darkness.

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Is those that have been long
dead.

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So Jeremiah quotes verse 3 in
Lamentations 3 and verse 6, word

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for word.
Clearly his mind was here and as

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it turns out, there are a few
Illusions in Lamentations, 32,

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Isaac, to Psalm 142 and 143. 43.
Because David here in the psalm,

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felt caught in the snare.
Inverse for Refuge or hope had

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perished from him.
He felt imprisoned, as we said,

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in verse 7, he was set and Dark
Places his heart within him was

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desolate.
He felt like he was one that

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went was going down into the
dungeon.

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It was too difficult for David
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But then, what happens in the
psalm is that he starts to

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become more positive.
He stops to say, things like

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that.
Yahweh is my portion.

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He admits in Psalm 143, in verse
24 in thy sight shall no man

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living be justified.
He admits that no man living

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Should really receive goodness
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And finally, He gets to this
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We suddenly we read in verse 5,
I remember I remember the days

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of old I remember and if we were
to ask, what does David

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remember?
The answer is when we go through

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some 142 and 143 is exactly what
Jeremiah is, going to ask us to

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remember in Lamentations 3, read
with me some 143 God’s

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faithfulness verse 1 God’s
loving-kindness verse 8 cause me

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to hear thy loving-kindness in
the morning.

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We just that phrase come from in
Lamentations it comes right from

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here some 143 in verse 8.
This teen lead me into the land

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of uprightness for thy spirit is
good verse 1.

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He remembers God’s
righteousness, verse 11, God’s

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righteousness, verse 12, his
Mercy, what does David remember?

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In Psalm 142 and 143, specially
some 143, he recalls, to his

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mind, God’s good character.
So, why does Jeremiah quote from

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the psalm?
Because David, although

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physically exhausted.
And emotionally overwhelmed, was

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able to drag himself up out of
the pit of despair and see,

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meaning behind his suffering.
Regain a true perspective.

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Restore his mental health
because of one thing.

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His remembrance of the character
of God and Jeremiah using David

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for his inspiration.
Does exactly the same.

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So, come back now to
Lamentations and chapter 3 and

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Cy, the character of God is so
critical to a true and balanced

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and fear and godly perspective
on our suffering.

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Why does God’s good character?
Make sense.

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Of everything.
Well, I think this is what

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happens when we forget the good
when we forget, what is good?

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As we saw in verse 17, we lose
perspective and we start to

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focus all on ourselves.
We have this view that I deserve

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a good life.
And so when we suffer, we often

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experience three main ways of
thinking.

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The first one is we get angry.
and we say, Life seems unfair.

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It’s not fear.
God is to blame and we blame

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God.
Maybe maybe overtly or perhaps

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just in the back of our minds.
What else can we do when

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suffering comes our way, or
sometimes we get frustrated and

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we say it’s too hard and I give
up how many times have we seen

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that when when suffering comes
into the life of a brother or

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sister and it’s just all too
difficult to come to the meeting

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and they lose faith, and leave
the truth.

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It’s too hard.
Right.

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That’s the Thorns, the
difficulties of life.

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Or we experience doubt and we
say it’s all too confusing and I

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can’t seem to see how God hears
and when were in this situation,

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we need to remember the good
because God’s good character

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puts all of this into the right
perspective.

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So, what we want to just do now
is run through briefly.

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Verses 22 to 39 to establish
Jeremiah’s perspective and the

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meaning that we can find in
suffering, these are the verses

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that we know.
So well from Lamentations and

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hopefully now we can see a
little more clearly with a

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sit-in, the overall flow of the
book.

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The first part of this next
section is going to describe

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what God’s character means.
If we’re to remember God’s

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character, then that means that
Us.

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And when we come to verses 33
239, it will describe the

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logical implications of our
Understanding God’s character.

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So this first section that we’re
going to look at is verses 22 to

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32 and then by logical
implication verses 33 to 40.

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So what’s the first thing that
we read in verse 22?

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It is of yahweh’s mercies that
we are not.

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Not consumed because his
compassion’s fail not God’s

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00:35:27,100 –> 00:35:30,100
character.
Is the Touchstone for suffering

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00:35:30,100 –> 00:35:33,500
for the right perspective
because it never changes.

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God’s character never changes.
It’s the unchangeable thing in a

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sea of feelings, God’s character
is a fact, it’s solid and

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00:35:44,000 –> 00:35:49,200
reliable and in God’s character
as described in Ezekiel. 34 is

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overwhelmingly, merciful
overwhelmingly full of goodness.

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00:35:56,400 –> 00:36:02,100
Merciful gracious long-suffering
abundant in goodness and Truth.

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Keeping Mercy for thousands.
Forgiving iniquity transgression

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and sin.
And if we were to just pause and

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think how we would feel if a god
described himself as sometimes

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00:36:17,900 –> 00:36:25,500
unfair, often unsympathetic
partially cruel sometimes

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00:36:25,500 –> 00:36:29,400
heartless, vengeful callous and
different.

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00:36:29,400 –> 00:36:33,100
Uncaring impatient overly
demanding.

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Vindictive.
How would we feel about God?

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We know what his character is.
These are the things which are

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the solid rock and our lives.
They might be characteristics.

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Those things like being
vengeful, or cruel, or

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unsympathetic that we might like
to ascribe to God and our

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00:36:51,900 –> 00:36:54,100
difficult moments.
But it’s not the absolute

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reality is it?
God has overwhelmingly good.

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Overwhelmingly good.
So that actually everyday

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00:37:02,700 –> 00:37:05,700
suffering or not, we live by his
Mercy.

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We read this in verse 23, his
compassion’s fail not, they are

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new every morning when we think
God has forgotten us forever.

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We need to be reminded that
while we sleep.

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He is preparing, fresh Mercy,
fresh compassion, for us some

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00:37:31,500 –> 00:37:38,700
121 verses 3 to 4 says that the
god, that keeps Israel Slumbers

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not nor sleeps the whole time
that the nation is asleep.

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During the night, he is keeping
in guarding their lives.

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So when everything feels like
it’s lost this man.

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Puts his trust in God.
A God, who is preparing fresh

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energy.
Fresh strength and breath for

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him while he is asleep.
Verse 24, we read Yahweh is my

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portion.
Seth, my soul.

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Therefore, will I hope in him
actually this is the meaning of

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Jeremiah’s.
Father’s name.

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Jeremiah, the son of hilkiah,
Yahweh is my portion or

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inheritance and all around him
all around him.

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00:38:25,800 –> 00:38:29,500
The nation had lost their
portion, had lost their

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inheritance, their homes, their
families, their lives, their

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positions.
Look at Jeremiah.

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He’s found his inheritance, he’s
found his position.

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And who is it?
It’s God himself.

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What a remarkable difference in
perspective versus 25 to 26

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00:38:53,400 –> 00:38:58,700
tells us that even when we might
not understand, or we might not

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see the big picture that there
is goodness attached to waiting.

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To developing patients.
God’s timetable may require our

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patients.
It’s all, it’s not all about us.

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It’s all about actually waiting
for him.

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00:39:21,000 –> 00:39:27,300
His timing, his plan, Isaiah 25,
and verse 9 says, it shall be

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said in that day load.
This is our God.

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We have waited for him.
We have waited for him.

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He will save us.
So suffering is not about us.

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00:39:38,500 –> 00:39:42,600
It’s about waiting for God’s
timing for his plan.

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And the sooner in life.
Verse 27, we realize this the

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00:39:48,600 –> 00:39:54,400
bidder It is good for a man that
he bear the Yoke in his youth,

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00:39:55,000 –> 00:39:58,300
the sooner and life.
We realize that we need to wait

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00:39:58,300 –> 00:40:01,400
for God’s solution.
His salvation.

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The in the list of Our Lives, we
will waste futilely chasing our

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00:40:06,400 –> 00:40:10,000
own solution.
A yoke, can’t be Grievous.

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00:40:10,700 –> 00:40:14,300
It can’t be heavy.
If it’s God’s salvation, that’s

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what the vs.
Saying.

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Take my yoke upon you and learn
of me for my yoke is easy.

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Easy and my burden, it’s light.
He was a man who understood that

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yoking ourselves to God’s way to
his character, to his salvation

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00:40:32,400 –> 00:40:38,100
will only make our lives easier
that a burden shared with him as

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much more than a burden.
Halved God’s character has the

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ability to change how we think
about suffering because it’s not

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00:40:49,500 –> 00:40:53,800
about us, it’s about him and his
character being developed in us.

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Look at verse 28, Once this
character is recalled to mind,

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do you know what its effect is
and our lives?

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00:41:03,400 –> 00:41:09,500
Our mouths closed.
We stop complaining.

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00:41:10,500 –> 00:41:14,000
We stop murmuring.
We stop whinging, and moaning

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00:41:14,000 –> 00:41:18,300
about how tough this is for me
and we quietly.

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00:41:18,300 –> 00:41:27,000
Wait verse 26, we keep silence
verse 28, we put our mouths in

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00:41:27,000 –> 00:41:31,300
the dust, verse 29 and verse 29
is the point.

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We all must come to when we
consider our own foolishness and

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00:41:36,300 –> 00:41:39,500
our heavenly father Has ever
patient compassion.

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00:41:39,500 –> 00:41:44,800
We put our mouths, our words,
our complaints in the dust, his

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00:41:44,800 –> 00:41:48,900
mercies and his compassion’s and
does righteousness.

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00:41:49,000 –> 00:41:55,200
Humble and silence us.
This man in verse 29 is so

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00:41:55,200 –> 00:42:01,100
obedient that he will be R,
whatever God chooses to put upon

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00:42:01,100 –> 00:42:05,500
him without complaint because he
knows that it is only of

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00:42:05,500 –> 00:42:08,000
yahweh’s mercies that we even
draw breath.

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He’ll take whatever punishment,
whatever suffering, whatever,

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00:42:11,700 –> 00:42:17,600
persecution God’s, gracious ways
will think necessary.

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00:42:18,300 –> 00:42:22,400
Look at verse 30.
He giveth his cheek to him,

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00:42:22,400 –> 00:42:25,700
that’s my tooth him.
He’s filled with reproach.

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He’s a man who’s not seeking to
avoid more suffering.

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He is a man who’s happy to
accept, what an absolutely

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00:42:34,100 –> 00:42:35,700
righteous.
God will bring upon him.

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00:42:35,700 –> 00:42:39,400
What an amazing perspective and
he does all of this because of

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00:42:39,400 –> 00:42:43,500
verse 31 to 32 the very heart
and soul of the whole book of

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00:42:43,500 –> 00:42:46,900
Lamentations.
It’s because he knows from God’s

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00:42:46,900 –> 00:42:49,800
character that Yahweh will not
cast.

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00:42:49,900 –> 00:42:55,700
Off forever.
But though, he cause grief Yet.

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00:42:55,800 –> 00:42:59,600
Will he have compassion
according to the multitude of

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00:42:59,600 –> 00:43:06,000
his mercies?
Suffering is God’s opportunity

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00:43:06,400 –> 00:43:13,900
to show Mercy to show compassion
to reveal himself, it’s not

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00:43:13,900 –> 00:43:18,300
forever.
It all will always come to an

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00:43:18,300 –> 00:43:24,300
end.
It’s God’s way of showing

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00:43:24,300 –> 00:43:28,000
himself, you know.
Lung Young’s literal translation

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00:43:28,000 –> 00:43:37,500
says, for verse 32, for though,
he Afflicted yet, he hath pitied

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00:43:38,500 –> 00:43:40,000
And this is the answer to one
of.

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00:43:40,300 –> 00:43:44,200
We saw yesterday the themes of
hopelessness from chapter 2.

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00:43:44,400 –> 00:43:49,300
Remember we read in Chapter 2
and verse 2 and he hath not

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00:43:49,300 –> 00:44:01,000
pitied verse 17 and he hath not
pitied verse 21 and there is no

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00:44:01,000 –> 00:44:05,200
pity.
And here we have the answer.

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God didn’t pretty well actually.
He does.

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00:44:09,400 –> 00:44:11,400
He does pity.
He has to.

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00:44:11,500 –> 00:44:14,500
It’s his character to be
plenteous in Mercy.

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00:44:15,400 –> 00:44:19,500
So hidden away here in the heart
of the book of Lamentations is

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00:44:19,800 –> 00:44:27,300
the reason for the atonement.
God causes grief.

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00:44:28,900 –> 00:44:33,300
So that He might show
compassion.

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00:44:34,000 –> 00:44:37,200
The reason suffering comes
brothers and sisters in our

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00:44:37,200 –> 00:44:41,900
lives is so that we can see the
richness of God’s character.

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00:44:42,000 –> 00:44:46,900
So God can reveal himself to us.
This is all the power of God’s

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00:44:46,900 –> 00:44:49,900
character to change our
perspective.

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00:44:50,300 –> 00:44:55,500
And this whole section begins in
verse 22 with mercy and it ends

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00:44:55,500 –> 00:45:02,800
in verse 32, with Mercy Mercy.
Bookends this little sick, This

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00:45:02,800 –> 00:45:06,600
is all about the vital
importance of remembering

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00:45:07,000 –> 00:45:11,300
bringing to mind.
The amazing character of our

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00:45:11,300 –> 00:45:15,200
heavenly father.
Now there are a whole raft of

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00:45:15,200 –> 00:45:20,000
implications that logically flow
from a consideration of God’s

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00:45:20,000 –> 00:45:27,300
character and that’s verses 33
to 39 because by logical

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00:45:27,300 –> 00:45:32,300
implication.
When we come to verse 33, We

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00:45:32,300 –> 00:45:36,100
read this because of God’s
character.

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00:45:37,500 –> 00:45:43,600
She does not afflict willingly.
Nor grieve the children of men.

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God never sins suffering
without.

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00:45:47,600 –> 00:45:53,700
An excellent reason chastening
is necessary, but it does not

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00:45:53,700 –> 00:45:56,200
give God pleasure.
He doesn’t send.

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Suffering is the margin says
from his heart.

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He’s not vindictive or Cruel,
there is always an excellent

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00:46:04,900 –> 00:46:07,500
reason although we may not know
why.

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00:46:09,200 –> 00:46:15,700
In verse 34, we read that it’s
not to crush under his feet, all

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the prisoners of the earth.
God always provides an escape.

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00:46:19,200 –> 00:46:26,000
So that we are not crushed.
God might bruise But he will

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00:46:26,000 –> 00:46:29,700
never crash Us.
Crashing is for the seed of the

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00:46:29,700 –> 00:46:32,300
serpent.
They will always be a way of

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00:46:32,300 –> 00:46:37,000
Escape.
Even our Lord Jesus Christ or of

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Christ, it is said a bruised.
Reed, will he not break?

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00:46:41,500 –> 00:46:48,700
It’s God’s design that we are
bruised, but never broken, never

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00:46:48,700 –> 00:46:55,400
crushed.
In versus 35 to 36, we find that

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God is Not and cannot be unfair.
Verse 35, or misleading verse

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36.
God will not turn aside the

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00:47:08,100 –> 00:47:12,800
right of a man before the face
of the most high or he will not

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00:47:12,800 –> 00:47:18,000
mislead or subvert a man in his
cause for this Yahweh approve

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00:47:18,000 –> 00:47:22,500
Earth, not By virtue of his
perfect character, it would be

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00:47:22,500 –> 00:47:28,500
impossible for God, to be unfair
or to be deliberately misleading

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00:47:29,000 –> 00:47:36,200
verse 36 verse 37 is going to
tell us that he controls

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00:47:36,200 –> 00:47:39,400
everything.
And to question his judgment is

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00:47:39,400 –> 00:47:46,600
to doubt his promises, his word,
his power and his character.

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00:47:48,200 –> 00:47:53,100
Who is he that saith and it
cometh to pass when Yahweh

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00:47:53,500 –> 00:47:56,200
commandeth it.
Not if God Is Watching The

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00:47:56,200 –> 00:47:59,400
Sparrows brother and sisters and
controlling the destiny of the

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00:47:59,400 –> 00:48:03,700
nation’s, then verse 37 is
saying that there is no such

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00:48:03,700 –> 00:48:10,400
thing as good luck.
Or bad luck in the lives of his

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00:48:10,400 –> 00:48:13,600
Saints.
Nothing happens without his

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00:48:13,600 –> 00:48:17,100
approval and control.
And so to question our suffering

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00:48:17,700 –> 00:48:23,200
is either to say that God is not
in control.

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00:48:24,700 –> 00:48:30,600
Or perhaps worse that God is
doing a lousy job because I

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00:48:30,600 –> 00:48:34,100
think I deserve better
treatment, he doesn’t understand

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00:48:34,100 –> 00:48:37,800
all the facts.
His omnipotence wisdom is

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00:48:37,800 –> 00:48:42,300
questionable.
He has dubious judgment about

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00:48:42,300 –> 00:48:45,600
what is best for me.
That’s really what we’re saying

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00:48:45,600 –> 00:48:50,900
when we Christian God.
The RSV has, who has commanded

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00:48:50,900 –> 00:48:55,400
it and it came to pass unless
the Lord hath ordained it.

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We’re not in a position.
Are we brothers and sisters to

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00:48:59,200 –> 00:49:05,100
question God’s ways?
He’s never made a mistake a moss

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00:49:05,100 –> 00:49:09,400
3 and verse 6 is shall there be
evil in the city and Yahweh

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00:49:09,400 –> 00:49:10,800
hath.
Not done it.

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00:49:12,000 –> 00:49:15,500
Who are we to question him?
Who we to question his

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00:49:15,500 –> 00:49:19,100
chastening hand?
The pressure of The Potters

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00:49:19,100 –> 00:49:25,900
hands on the clay jr.
WIN Job the example James uses

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of a righteous suffer, a lost
everything.

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It says he sinned, not nor
charged god with Folly Job. 1

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00:49:34,700 –> 00:49:37,700
verse 22, he understood who was
in control.

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He might not have understood,
why he might have Have been

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greatly hurt greatly suffering
but he never ever charged god

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with Folly.
He never ever said that God’s

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00:49:49,900 –> 00:49:53,500
judgment was dubious or he
wasn’t in control or he could

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have done a better job and so
now in verse 39, the section is

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00:49:59,000 –> 00:50:06,300
going to come to a climax.
Where it says wherefore doth a

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living man.
Complain a man for the

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punishment of his sins.
In fact, so lowly is their

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status compared to him and his
power that if we are alive and

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00:50:23,000 –> 00:50:27,600
the wages of sin is death, then
we have not been rightly

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reimbursed.
If God is unfair, it’s because

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he errs on the side of Mercy.
Not judgment.

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What an amazing perspective you
think about our sufferings every

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00:50:41,200 –> 00:50:44,900
day.
To think, well, if God was

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00:50:44,900 –> 00:50:48,600
making a mistake, it’s the
mistake really is keeping us

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00:50:48,600 –> 00:50:51,600
alive, because that’s something
we definitely don’t deserve.

635
00:50:51,600 –> 00:50:56,200
We need to be grateful, we need
to be to put, aside our

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00:50:56,200 –> 00:51:00,200
complaints, put our mouths in
the dust, we are nothing without

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00:51:00,200 –> 00:51:04,300
him so far, from complaining,
about our suffering.

638
00:51:05,200 –> 00:51:09,400
We need to be grateful that God
isn’t giving us what we deserve.

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00:51:09,400 –> 00:51:11,200
This is quite a different
perspective.

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00:51:11,800 –> 00:51:14,700
I’m not saying It’s easy.
But I’m saying, it’s quite a

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00:51:14,700 –> 00:51:18,900
different perspective, isn’t it?
That Jeremiah and Messiah gives

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00:51:18,900 –> 00:51:21,800
us.
So, look how Jeremiah answers.

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00:51:22,100 –> 00:51:27,400
Our original problems with God.
When we lose perspective, when

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00:51:27,400 –> 00:51:32,100
we forget the good, what about
this problem of anger?

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00:51:33,000 –> 00:51:40,200
When we say, it’s all unfair and
God is to blame Lamentations is

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00:51:40,200 –> 00:51:44,900
going to tell us.
If God was to be fear, we would

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00:51:44,908 –> 00:51:52,200
be dead.
Verse 22 and verse 39, and God’s

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00:51:52,200 –> 00:51:58,400
ways and his goodness are not to
be questioned verses 37 to 38.

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00:51:58,600 –> 00:52:03,100
God never makes mistakes.
It’s not unfair, we can’t get

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00:52:03,100 –> 00:52:07,900
angry with God’s decisions.
What if we experienced

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00:52:07,900 –> 00:52:11,100
frustration, we say it’s too
hard.

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00:52:11,300 –> 00:52:16,600
We want to give up limitations
three C’s suffering is only for

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00:52:16,600 –> 00:52:20,800
a time and it’s so that God can
show compassion.

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00:52:21,000 –> 00:52:26,000
And you know what, all we need
to do is just last one day,

655
00:52:26,100 –> 00:52:28,900
because his compassion’s are new
Every Morning.

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00:52:29,300 –> 00:52:32,900
Verse 23, we don’t need to
overcome suffering for the rest

657
00:52:32,900 –> 00:52:35,800
of our lives today.
We just need to overcome it

658
00:52:35,800 –> 00:52:39,400
today.
To just get through one day at a

659
00:52:39,408 –> 00:52:45,500
time and what about doubt when
we say it’s confusing, God

660
00:52:45,500 –> 00:52:50,300
doesn’t care.
Lemon, tations sees God’s ways,

661
00:52:50,300 –> 00:52:54,700
might not make sense at the
time, but God does care.

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00:52:54,700 –> 00:52:59,900
And because of his character, he
cannot afflict willingly, or

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00:52:59,900 –> 00:53:03,000
without purpose.
It’s impossible for him to do

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00:53:03,000 –> 00:53:06,000
such a thing to have a righteous
character.

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00:53:06,200 –> 00:53:13,100
Like that, it’s impossible.
So this is Lamentations answers.

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00:53:13,100 –> 00:53:18,100
Jeremiah’s answers under
inspiration to the three main

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00:53:18,300 –> 00:53:22,800
ways of thinking that we have
when we experience suffering,

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00:53:22,800 –> 00:53:28,900
anger, frustration and doubt.
So if we were to put this

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00:53:28,900 –> 00:53:35,800
another way and ask the
question, why do we suffer then?

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00:53:35,900 –> 00:53:41,000
This is what Lamentations Seas.
Is it because God doesn’t care.

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00:53:42,300 –> 00:53:49,700
Verse 32 and the answer is no.
Is it because God gets pleasure

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00:53:49,800 –> 00:53:53,500
from seeing us suffer in the
answer, from verse 33 is?

673
00:53:53,800 –> 00:53:59,400
No, is it because God wants to
crush us verse 34, and the

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00:53:59,400 –> 00:54:04,000
answer is no, is it?
Because God wants to confuse us,

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00:54:05,100 –> 00:54:09,100
the answer from verse 35 to 36
is known.

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00:54:09,800 –> 00:54:12,300
Is it because?
Well, it’s just a result of time

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00:54:12,300 –> 00:54:19,600
and chance verse 37.
The answer Is no why do we

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00:54:19,600 –> 00:54:23,800
suffer?
We suffer because their

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00:54:23,800 –> 00:54:29,400
characters need to be changed
verse 26, so that God can reveal

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00:54:29,400 –> 00:54:34,600
himself verse 32.
And to give us a chance to turn

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00:54:35,500 –> 00:54:38,800
verse 40.
And when you think about it, all

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00:54:38,800 –> 00:54:42,900
of these bottom three answers
are really all about, perfecting

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00:54:42,900 –> 00:54:46,200
our characters.
We have to change from selfish

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00:54:46,400 –> 00:54:51,400
impatient self-reliant.
Deluded sinners.

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00:54:51,500 –> 00:54:57,400
Yes.
Two selfless, patient, trusting

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00:54:57,400 –> 00:55:03,100
faithful Saints and suffering is
God’s means of achieving this

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00:55:03,100 –> 00:55:07,300
transformation.
How else would we become humble

688
00:55:08,000 –> 00:55:12,000
or patient or trusting or
obedient?

689
00:55:12,000 –> 00:55:16,400
Unless we had to experience
difficult times where we were

690
00:55:16,400 –> 00:55:20,900
put under pressure and we learn
to patients or trust or

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00:55:20,900 –> 00:55:24,400
humility.
We suffer because because God

692
00:55:24,400 –> 00:55:29,200
desperately wants us to be like
him to be like his son and he

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00:55:29,200 –> 00:55:32,300
won’t give up.
He won’t give up on us.

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00:55:32,500 –> 00:55:36,800
We are being conformed As Romans
8 verse Verse 29 says, conformed

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00:55:36,800 –> 00:55:40,100
by pressure to the image of his
son.

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00:55:41,600 –> 00:55:48,500
He wants his character to be our
character and you know what it’s

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00:55:48,500 –> 00:55:51,800
hard.
Work doesn’t happen easy.

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00:55:52,600 –> 00:55:57,000
There’s a lot of pressure that’s
needed and finally we are

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00:55:57,000 –> 00:56:00,800
conformed into that beautiful
vessel that he desires.

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00:56:01,500 –> 00:56:03,600
Look at the example of our Lord
Jesus Christ.

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00:56:03,600 –> 00:56:06,900
We won’t go there.
But you remember the words from

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00:56:06,900 –> 00:56:11,500
Hebrews 5 yet though, he were a
son yet learned.

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00:56:11,500 –> 00:56:15,000
He obedience by the things which
he suffered.

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00:56:15,200 –> 00:56:17,200
We don’t often think about this,
do we?

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00:56:18,800 –> 00:56:25,200
Why did christ suffer?
Why did christ suffer is?

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00:56:25,200 –> 00:56:28,800
Certainly wasn’t for the reason
of verse 39.

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00:56:29,600 –> 00:56:34,500
A man is suffering as a
punishment for his sins, because

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00:56:34,500 –> 00:56:37,300
he was sinless.
So, what was he learning?

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00:56:38,400 –> 00:56:46,300
Obedience, Hebrews 5 verse 9
goes on to say and being made

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00:56:46,700 –> 00:56:50,000
perfect.
Our Lord was not born perfect.

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00:56:50,000 –> 00:56:52,900
He was made perfect by
suffering.

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00:56:53,100 –> 00:56:57,100
And that suffering develop
character unlike us, he never

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00:56:57,200 –> 00:57:01,600
sinned in the process but it was
a learning process as he fully

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00:57:01,600 –> 00:57:05,600
grasped and reflected from a
young boy into a man, the

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00:57:05,600 –> 00:57:10,700
character of his father.
In fact, the die glocke has in

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00:57:10,900 –> 00:57:14,900
Hebrews 5, it doesn’t say yet
though.

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00:57:14,900 –> 00:57:20,400
He were a son.
It says, because he was a son,

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00:57:20,900 –> 00:57:24,100
that’s why he needed to suffer
because that was Teaching ground

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00:57:24,100 –> 00:57:28,800
by which he might absorb the
character of his heavenly

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00:57:28,800 –> 00:57:31,300
father.
So why do we think it will be

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00:57:31,300 –> 00:57:36,500
different for any of us if
Christ was sinless and he still

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00:57:36,500 –> 00:57:40,000
had to suffer to perfect his
character to be conformed, to

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00:57:40,000 –> 00:57:42,600
his father’s image.
Why do we think it will be any

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00:57:42,600 –> 00:57:45,400
different in our lives?
Why do we have this view?

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00:57:45,800 –> 00:57:49,200
That will be like, will be.
We weren’t, we won’t have to go

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00:57:49,200 –> 00:57:51,200
through suffering.
That’ll be something that we get

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00:57:51,200 –> 00:57:53,000
to avoid because we’re more
faith.

728
00:57:53,100 –> 00:57:54,600
Awful than the people in the
world.

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00:57:54,600 –> 00:57:59,000
Know, God will always bring it
into our lives and all of our

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00:57:59,000 –> 00:58:03,100
Lives because he wants to
develop his character in us.

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00:58:03,200 –> 00:58:07,000
And in actual fact, when we read
John chapter 15, what does he do

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00:58:07,000 –> 00:58:11,500
to the the tree that brings
forth fruit, he prunes it even

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00:58:11,500 –> 00:58:16,300
more that it might bring forth
more fruit, perhaps the more

734
00:58:16,300 –> 00:58:20,100
Godly we live, the more we
absorb God’s character, the more

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00:58:20,100 –> 00:58:24,400
suffering we can expect.
Because we believe that God is

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00:58:24,400 –> 00:58:29,500
working in US, suffering is
essential.

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00:58:29,700 –> 00:58:32,500
It’s the door through which we
enter the kingdom.

738
00:58:32,500 –> 00:58:36,400
We know these quotations, we
must through much tribulation

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00:58:36,800 –> 00:58:40,900
enter into the kingdom of God
for verily.

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00:58:40,900 –> 00:58:45,600
When we were with you, we told
you before that we should suffer

741
00:58:45,600 –> 00:58:50,300
tribulation That you may be
counted worthy of the kingdom of

742
00:58:50,300 –> 00:58:54,500
God for which she also suffer.
Yay.

743
00:58:54,500 –> 00:58:58,200
And all that will live Godly in
Christ Jesus shall suffer

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00:58:58,200 –> 00:59:01,500
persecution.
The reason why we suffer is so

745
00:59:01,500 –> 00:59:03,900
that Christ will be formed in
us.

746
00:59:03,900 –> 00:59:09,100
It’s not an optional process.
It’s God’s method of achieving a

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00:59:09,100 –> 00:59:12,800
family likeness Look at this
perspective.

748
00:59:12,800 –> 00:59:16,500
Now we can count it as a
blessing because it proves to us

749
00:59:16,500 –> 00:59:21,800
that God is conforming us.
He is in our lives, he does care

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00:59:22,000 –> 00:59:27,100
he loves us and therefore as
Hebrews 13 and verse 6 says he

751
00:59:27,100 –> 00:59:32,500
chastens every son or daughter,
he receives suffering, makes us

752
00:59:32,700 –> 00:59:35,100
legitimate members of his
family.

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00:59:35,100 –> 00:59:40,800
What an honor, what an honor to
be illegitimate son or daughter?

754
00:59:41,200 –> 00:59:43,700
Of the Living.
God, this is not Affliction

755
00:59:43,700 –> 00:59:47,800
without purpose or misery.
Without meaning, this is an

756
00:59:47,800 –> 00:59:50,800
essential part of our
discipleship.

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00:59:51,600 –> 00:59:56,100
In the true disciple can see
God’s mercies everywhere, even

758
00:59:56,100 –> 01:00:02,000
in their suffering.
So now we can see how if we

759
01:00:02,000 –> 01:00:07,200
forget the good and we lose
perspective and we focus

760
01:00:07,300 –> 01:00:13,200
selfishly on ourselves how far
off beam we can be we have this

761
01:00:13,200 –> 01:00:17,100
view that we deserve a good life
and therefore suffering is God’s

762
01:00:17,100 –> 01:00:20,400
fault suffering is God’s
blessing.

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01:00:21,600 –> 01:00:29,100
To lead us to the glaring word
in Lamentations 3 that we have

764
01:00:29,100 –> 01:00:35,000
not mentioned yet.
Why do we suffer?

765
01:00:36,300 –> 01:00:41,600
And the answer is that all of
these bottom three reasons, lead

766
01:00:41,600 –> 01:00:45,900
us to Hope.
God doesn’t bring misery

767
01:00:45,900 –> 01:00:48,800
brothers and sisters, he offers
hope.

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01:00:49,800 –> 01:00:54,300
There’s a vast difference in
those two perspectives, the

769
01:00:54,300 –> 01:00:57,600
purpose of suffering.
Look at this Romans chapter 5

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01:00:57,700 –> 01:01:03,500
and not only so but we glory in
tribulations also knowing that

771
01:01:03,500 –> 01:01:08,400
tribulation worketh patience and
patience experience and

772
01:01:08,400 –> 01:01:13,200
experience.
Hope the purpose of tribulation

773
01:01:13,400 –> 01:01:18,500
is to lead us to Hope and look
at Lamentations chapter 3

774
01:01:18,600 –> 01:01:23,300
because the word Hope occurs
five times in the chapter and

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01:01:23,300 –> 01:01:28,000
that all tightly clustered
around the remembrance of God’s

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01:01:28,000 –> 01:01:32,600
character.
Verses 18 to 29, is the

777
01:01:32,600 –> 01:01:37,800
progression of Hope and it
begins with the mention of

778
01:01:37,800 –> 01:01:40,900
yahweh’s name.
For the first time in the

779
01:01:40,900 –> 01:01:46,600
chapter.
In Lamentations 3 and verse 18.

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01:01:47,200 –> 01:01:53,800
We read my hope is pure rushed
from Yahweh, Jeremiah’s hope

781
01:01:54,100 –> 01:01:59,500
seems to be dead, but when we
come forwards to verse 21, we

782
01:01:59,500 –> 01:02:03,600
read this.
I recall to my mind, therefore,

783
01:02:03,600 –> 01:02:07,800
I have hope hope glimmers as a
possibility.

784
01:02:08,600 –> 01:02:12,600
In verse 24.
Yahweh is my portion.

785
01:02:12,900 –> 01:02:18,500
Therefore I will hope hope is a
gift that comes fresh every

786
01:02:18,500 –> 01:02:23,800
morning verse 26.
It is good that a man should

787
01:02:23,800 –> 01:02:30,000
both hope and quietly.
Wait hope is a profitable and

788
01:02:30,000 –> 01:02:32,600
good thing.
And finally by the time we come

789
01:02:32,600 –> 01:02:37,900
to verse 29, if so be there may
be hope the man realizes that

790
01:02:37,900 –> 01:02:43,400
hope is He’s got.
There’s a progression of Hope in

791
01:02:43,400 –> 01:02:47,800
this story, the dawning
realization that hope is weird.

792
01:02:47,800 –> 01:02:51,400
God is driving him to at first,
it seems dead.

793
01:02:52,400 –> 01:02:56,300
Then a perspective changes with
the focus on God’s character

794
01:02:56,300 –> 01:03:00,500
rather than on our own misery.
And we realized that hope is all

795
01:03:00,500 –> 01:03:03,900
we have.
And this man who had seen

796
01:03:03,900 –> 01:03:09,700
Affliction understood the vast
difference suffering is not the

797
01:03:09,700 –> 01:03:12,000
indiscriminate.
Imminent cruelty of a unloving

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01:03:12,000 –> 01:03:15,300
God.
But the careful alignment of

799
01:03:15,300 –> 01:03:19,900
consequences for our own sins
that we might desperately grasp,

800
01:03:19,900 –> 01:03:26,200
hold of his hope.
Lamentations 3 is a picture of a

801
01:03:26,200 –> 01:03:30,700
man who’s suffering whose
Affliction lead him to God.

802
01:03:30,700 –> 01:03:36,600
It brought him closer to God and
in Lamentations 3, he shares his

803
01:03:36,600 –> 01:03:40,800
Secrets, his experience his
perspective.

804
01:03:42,300 –> 01:03:48,400
Verse 26 says, it is good that a
man should both hope and

805
01:03:48,400 –> 01:03:54,500
quietly.
Wait for What does it say?

806
01:03:56,200 –> 01:04:01,200
Yahushua.
Suffering is to teach us that is

807
01:04:01,200 –> 01:04:04,600
desperately bruised.
And wounded by sin as we are.

808
01:04:04,800 –> 01:04:10,700
We need to wait for Yahweh is
salvation Jesus, the salvation

809
01:04:10,700 –> 01:04:13,100
of Yaya because you see brothers
and sisters.

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01:04:13,100 –> 01:04:17,800
As we conclude this morning on
the road of life, we are all

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01:04:17,900 –> 01:04:21,300
attacked by sin and left for
dead.

812
01:04:21,400 –> 01:04:25,400
Our hope is perished, we don’t
have time to look at this in any

813
01:04:25,400 –> 01:04:30,100
detail, but I believe that at
least partially Christ gets his

814
01:04:30,100 –> 01:04:33,500
inspiration for the parable of
the Good Samaritan from the

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01:04:33,508 –> 01:04:39,200
story of Lamentations.
The man who was from Jerusalem

816
01:04:39,500 –> 01:04:44,700
who was wounded and left for
dead beaten up by enemies and

817
01:04:44,700 –> 01:04:48,300
thieves people pass by on the
other side.

818
01:04:48,700 –> 01:04:54,000
Then someone’s sympathizers
shows, compassion, and mercy,

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01:04:54,400 –> 01:04:57,800
and redeems his life.
It all comes out of

820
01:04:57,900 –> 01:05:01,800
Lamentations.
Christ’s inspiration for this

821
01:05:01,800 –> 01:05:04,600
little story, he is able to heal
us.

822
01:05:05,000 –> 01:05:09,300
His example can Save us, he’s
the Good Samaritan who binds up

823
01:05:09,300 –> 01:05:15,100
our wounds and redeems our lives
and Lamentations chapter 3 is

824
01:05:15,100 –> 01:05:18,900
his secret to understanding the
meaning of suffering.

825
01:05:19,100 –> 01:05:23,000
He’s familiar with misery
himself in every form and in

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01:05:23,000 –> 01:05:26,000
every way.
But he learned obedience by the

827
01:05:26,000 –> 01:05:30,500
things that he suffered, he
forgot himself, he put his own

828
01:05:30,600 –> 01:05:34,900
mouth in the dust, he emptied
himself, but he remembered God’s

829
01:05:34,900 –> 01:05:38,000
character.
Is compassion’s every morning

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01:05:38,100 –> 01:05:41,500
and each day.
He grew more and more like him

831
01:05:42,100 –> 01:05:45,200
made.
Perfect by weakness.

832
01:05:45,900 –> 01:05:47,900
Let’s follow him brothers and
sisters.

833
01:05:47,900 –> 01:05:49,800
Let’s put our mouths in the
dust.

834
01:05:50,200 –> 01:05:55,400
It’s thank God that his
compassion’s fail, not, and

835
01:05:55,400 –> 01:05:58,900
spend each day, hoping that he
will come.

836
01:05:59,700 –> 01:06:02,700
And when the salvation of Yahweh
does, come that he might

837
01:06:02,700 –> 01:06:06,100
recognize us beaten and bruised
by sin as we are.

838
01:06:06,200 –> 01:06:10,900
ER, is those who have been
conformed to be like him, people

839
01:06:10,900 –> 01:06:14,500
who have allowed his Healing
Hands to bind up their wounds

840
01:06:14,800 –> 01:06:18,300
people who have allowed his
perspective to change their

841
01:06:18,300 –> 01:06:21,500
lives.
Fleets in the woods of

842
01:06:21,700 –> 01:06:27,500
Lamentations 3 and verse 40,
search, and try our ways and

843
01:06:27,500 –> 01:06:32,200
turn again to Yahweh and with
gratefulness, lift up our heart,

844
01:06:32,200 –> 01:06:37,200
with our hands to our father in
the heavens.

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01:06:53,800 –> 01:06:56,000
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