Class 3 from this series was used for GCT Episode 228.
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Study three this morning,
Lamentations the meaning of
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Study three this morning,
Lamentations the meaning of
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suffering and tonight’s or
today’s subject.
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The man had seen a flexion by
the Matthew.
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Thanks for the Wayne and good
morning, my dear brothers and
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sisters in our Lord.
Jesus Christ and welcome back to
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Lamentations this morning
Jeremiah’s Masterpiece on the
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meaning of suffering, the value
of Affliction and this morning
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we come to the very heart and
center of the book.
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The verses that we know and love
from Lamentations chapter 3.
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And the man that has seen
Affliction, the one who can see
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through the incomprehensible,
fog who can see past the smoking
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ruins, the destroyed families,
the lives torn apart to the
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reason why So this morning, we
hope to go from how could this
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be to why has this happened?
And you remember in a study
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yesterday that we delved into
the hopelessness in the
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Blackness of Lamentations
chapters 1 and 2.
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Whether people were floundering
around amidst the chaos trying
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to make sense of all of this
pain They realized too late that
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everyone had abandoned them in
their hour of need the
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Babylonian swept in and the
parties, the good times, the
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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
were just like the Babylonians
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naked widowed childless
humiliated in broken and get we
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saw towards the end of chapter
two.
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Inklings of hope.
You will remember 2:13 for they
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breach is great, like the see
who can heal thee.
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We have the very first hint that
God could heal this awful.
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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 one and two with just a
stirring of Hope on the horizon
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that the 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 Well,
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the solution is going to need
not just our words but our
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hearts but God has promised to
heal those as well if we turn to
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him.
And so now this morning as we
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come to the man that has seen
Affliction, Jeremiah is going to
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lay aside his narrators quill.
And he’s going to sit down to
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write a personal Soliloquy of
Sorrow.
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An introspective pathos filled
chapter that describes his own
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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.
But clearly Jeremiah and
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especially chapter 3 is going to
greatly typify.
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The work of Messiah, our Lord
Jesus Christ. and the first
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point that he wants to make, In
chapter 3 is that he’s no
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different to the rest of the
nation.
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He has seen Affliction by the
rod of yahweh’s Roth verse one
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in verses 1 to 20, is really all
about how this man has
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experienced.
All the heartache and pain of
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the nation.
He was not exempt.
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He was not aloof He was not
separate from the people.
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He was not different or
protected from the Troubles by
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God this man Jeremiah and the
first instance, but clearly
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Messiah himself in the ultimate
sense.
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Has experienced all the misery
of the nation.
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The Jerusalem bible has 4 verse
1.
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I am the man that is familiar
with misery.
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Look at this.
This is a summary of
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Lamentations 3 and Lamentations
1 and 2 because the man of
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chapter 3 has experienced
everything that the nation
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experienced in chapters 1 and 2.
He experienced God’s anger He
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felt like God was destroying his
body and his bones.
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He felt hedged and devoured,
roundabout.
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He felt like no one was
answering.
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He felt like God was destroying
like a marauding animal.
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He felt desolate, he felt like
God was bending his bow and
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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 sackcloth 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 in
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chapters 1 and 2.
In this man is at pains to tell
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us that he came to share our
weakness.
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That he was not different or
detached from the nation.
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God didn’t shelter or protect
him.
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Especially insulate him, from
measure, it from misery, he
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learned obedience as it says, in
Hebrews 5 and verse 8, by the
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things, which he suffered just
as the nation experienced the
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the correcting Rod as Isaiah 10
verse 5 puts it, the asaro
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Babylonian Rod of 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.
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There’s nothing that Christ
experienced brothers and
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sisters, that is beyond our
experience, or nothing with
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experience that he has not.
He was with the nation in all of
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their heartache, you know,
that’s an amazing thought, isn’t
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it?
If you think just for a moment
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that maybe just maybe The book
of Jeremiah which is like a
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catalog of Jeremiah sufferings
was just to establish the
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credentials of the man who is
now going to write this chapter.
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And give us the meaning behind
all of the pain.
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No one could claim that this
Survivor didn’t really
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understand.
He is familiar with misery.
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Oh, he didn’t sin like the rest
of the nation.
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He was not suffering as a
punishment for his sins.
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We read in verse 52 that his
enemies.
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Chase him without cause and God
himself pleads his cause in
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verses 58 259.
He has not abandoned God like
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the rest of the nation but he is
still touched by the feelings of
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their infirmities.
Here is a man who was just like
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us And just to highlight a few
aspects of his suffering from
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the first few verses especially
just look at this man.
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This man who has seen Affliction
verse 4 tells us My Flesh and my
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skin.
Has he made old literally it
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means wasted away worn out.
It’s the same word used of Sarah
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in Genesis 18 in Verse 12, when
she was too old to Bear
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children.
It’s the same Hue, word used of
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the gibeonites clothing and
Joshua 9 and verse 13.
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It was fully worn out.
This man had aged before his
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time.
He was literally so acquainted
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with grief that he was
physically worn out as Isaiah
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52.
In verse 14, says, his visit, a
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judge was marred more than any
other man in John.
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Chapter 8, they look at him and
say up there, not get 50 years
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old and he’s only 33.
This man is worn out by his
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misery and by his Affliction,
he’s a Survivor but only just
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and if there was any doubt that
his experiences mirrored, the
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nation’s look at verse 7, he has
hedged me about that.
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I cannot get out.
He has made my chain heavy and
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the word chain literally means
Fitters of brass.
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It’s exactly the same way.
Word, as second of Kings, 25 and
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verse 7 wins, either Kaya and no
doubt.
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The other slaves were bound with
Fetters of brass and marched off
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as captives into Babylon.
This man was no different to the
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rest of the nation.
His Fitters of brass his human
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nature.
Would just as heavy just as
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painful.
Here was a man who could
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represent the nation for his
misery was just the same.
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Look at verses 10 and 11.
He was on to me is a beer lying
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in wait.
And as a lion and secret places,
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his turned aside, my ways pulled
me in pieces, he’s made me
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desolate.
He’s a man who felt like he was
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being ambushed in mauled by an
animal.
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A wild animal a lion or a beer.
Do you know that God had
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promised to the nation in Hosea?
13 and verses 7 and 8.
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I 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.
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Look at verses 12 to 13.
He hath bent his bow, sit me as
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a mark for for the arrow youth
cause the arrows of his quiver
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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 that all going to stay in
his body.
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Like a prison, the arrows into
his reins and some 38 verse 2
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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
afflicted.
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In fact, this man of
Lamentations 3 is none, other
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than the man of Isaiah’s
suffering, Servant Song in
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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
man of Lamentations 3, the man
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who was seen.
Affliction is exactly the same
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man as Isaiah 53, who is smitten
of God and afflicted.
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Because when we come to Isaiah
53, Messiah was going to have
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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.
It pleased Yahweh to bruise him.
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Hi.
But these are, there’s something
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very interesting in Isaiah 53,
isn’t there?
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Because it gets to the nub of
what we want to look at this
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morning, here’s a man.
Who’s stricken smitten Afflicted
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yet?
It pleased Yahweh to bruise him.
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There was a purpose, there was
an objective, a grand reason for
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all of this misery and
suffering, and look what we read
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in verse 10 of Isaiah 53.
Yet it pleased Yahweh to bruise
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him.
He hath put him to grief when
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thou shalt make his soul an
offering for sin, he shall see
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his seed.
He shall prolong his days and
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the pleasure of Yahweh shall
prosper in his hand, he shall
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see all the travail of his soul
and shall be satisfied.
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By his knowledge, shall my
righteous servant justify many
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for he shall bear their
iniquities.
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There was a satisfaction
attached to travail.
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What was that?
Was their meaning, to all this
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pain is there?
Hope beyond the tears?
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Maybe, maybe if these men are
the same, the same man, he can
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answer these questions for us.
If Messiah suffered so much.
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He emerged satisfied.
Then maybe he should he can
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share his secrets with us.
Because if Lamentations to in
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verse 13 ask the question.
They bruise is great who can
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heal thee Then Isaiah 53 and
verse 5 is going to answer that
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question with his bruises.
As it says in the margin, are we
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healed?
Maybe this man has the answers
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to the questions that we want
that.
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We need the meaning to
suffering.
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There has to be satisfaction.
There has to be something at the
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end of this hard Road.
The pleasure of Yahweh would
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prosper in his hand and by this
man’s knowledge, he would teach
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many of the meaning of
suffering.
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So let us come back.
Now to Lamentations and chapter
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3 and for the rest of this
morning, we really want to focus
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in on verses 17 to 40 and look
at Durham eyes inspired
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perspective on suffering and
Messiahs.
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Perspective on suffering.
Not how could this happen, but
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why did this happen?
The meaning behind the misery.
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Now Lamentations 3 and verse 17
concludes the first section of
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the chapter where, as we’ve
said, this man identifies with
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the experiences and the horror
and the grief of the nation, but
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look How It Ends.
Verse 17, there has removed my
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soul far off from piece.
I forget prosperity.
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I forget Prosperity, he had
forgotten everything.
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That was good as the word
Prosperity has in the margin.
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There was only chaos privation
and suffering that remained in
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this man’s mind.
By the time he got to verse 17.
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Everything good had been
forgotten.
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And you know, it’s tempting to
feel like this, isn’t it?
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When we are suffering and
troubles seem to be overwhelming
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us?
Sometimes all we can think of is
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ourselves.
Look at verses 18 to 20.
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And I 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 is
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humbled in me.
When we are overwhelmed, when we
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are troubled and distraught, we
lose perspective, and our world,
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everything very quickly shrinks
down to my Affliction, my
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misery, my wormwood in goal.
It’s all about me and how I’m
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suffering.
And why is this happening to me?
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and Messiahs answer is that if
we are forgetting the good,
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Then.
Remember the good?
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Recall the good refocus outside
of ourselves, verse 21 as 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, that’s why for the
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sisters.
We have the memorials on Sunday
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morning.
It’s not come and partake of
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something that looks forward to
the kingdom.
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It’s remember what God has
already done.
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And if we were to ask the
question, what do we need to
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remember?
What do we need to recall to
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mind?
The answer is verse 22 and 23.
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God’s character.
Yahweh’s Mercy verse 22,
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yahweh’s compassion verse 22,
yahweh’s faithfulness verse 23,
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yahweh’s goodness verse 25 and
look at the emphasis on the
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goodness of God’s character.
If we forget the good verse 17,
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what Messiah reminds us of is
the The goodness of God, verse
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25, the goodness of God, verse
26, the goodness of God, verse
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27, remembered God’s goodness,
and his character.
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We can’t miss the point.
Can we This is a key to
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overcoming at issues with
suffering.
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We’ve got to remember God’s
character now.
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Why does Jeremiah focus our
minds on this one thing on God’s
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character?
And the answer is That he is
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drawing inspiration from another
man.
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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.
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And that man was David Now, I
want you to draw your attention
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to one verse that we skipped
over earlier and that is verse
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6.
Verse 6 of Lamentations. 3 says
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he hath set me in Dark Places as
they that be dead of old.
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And you may not have realized,
but actually the whole of verse
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6 is a direct quotation, as the
margin, says of eyes of Psalm
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143 and verse 3.
And Jeremiah is going to lift a
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verse right out of a Psalm of
David to explain how he feels.
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So let’s go there to some 143
because embedded in, this Psalm
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is the inspiration for
Jeremiah’s explanation on
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suffering.
Psalm 143.
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Now, in actual fact, some 143 is
connected with some 142, they
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are in actual Fact.
One Psalm we can see that
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because if you want to put a
splash of color, in some 142,
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verse 3, It says when my spirit
was overwhelmed with in me and
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women come to Psalm 143 in verse
4, it says therefore is my
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spirit overwhelmed within me so
some 142 and some 143 are
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connected and it’s describing a
time.
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Why?
When David feels overwhelmed,
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overwhelmed, the background for
this.
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A 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
4, that Refuge failed him.
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Nobody would offer him Comfort.
He’s depressed, the six, he’s
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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
soul.
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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
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the ground.
He hath made me to dwell in
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darkness as 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 it turns out There
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are a few Illusions in
Lamentations 3 to Isaac to Psalm
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142 and 143.
Because David here in the psalm,
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felt caught in a 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 in Dark
Places as 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
at this time.
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Then what happens in the psalm
is that he starts to become more
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positive.
He starts to say things like
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Yahweh is my portion.
He admits in Psalm 143, in verse
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24 in thy sight shall no man
living be justified.
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He admits that no man living
Should really receive goodness
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from God.
And finally, he gets to this
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point where suddenly we read in
verse 5, I remember I remember
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the days of old I remember and
if we were to ask, what does
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David 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 gods.
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Faithfulness verse 1.
God’s loving-kindness verse 8
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cause me 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 of
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uprightness for thy spirit is
good.
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Verse 1.
He remembers God’s
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righteousness, verse 11, God’s
righteousness, verse 12, his
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Mercy, what does David remember?
In Psalm 142 and 143, especially
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some 143, he recalls to his
mind, God’s good character.
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So, why does Jeremiah quote from
this Psalm?
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Because David, although
physically exhausted.
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And emotionally overwhelmed, was
able to drag himself up out of
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the pit of despair and see,
meaning behind his suffering.
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Regain a true perspective.
Restore his mental health
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because of one thing.
His remembrance of the character
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of God in Jeremiah using David
for his inspiration, does
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exactly the same.
It’s a come back now to
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Lamentations and chapter 3 and
Cy, the character of God is so
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critical to a true and balanced
and fear and godly perspective
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on our suffering.
Why does God’s good character?
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Make sense 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 verses,
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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 this.
And when we come to verses 33 to
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39, it will describe the logical
implications of our
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Understanding God’s character.
So this first section that we’re
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going to look at is verses 22 to
32 and then by logical
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implication verses 33 to 40.
So what’s the first thing that
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we read in verse 22?
It is of yahweh’s mercies that
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we are not consumed because his
compassion’s fail, not God’s
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character is the Touchstone for
suffering for the right
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perspective because it never
changes.
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Goes Captain, 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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reliable.
And in God’s character is
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described in Ezekiel. 34 is
overwhelmingly merciful.
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Overwhelmingly full of goodness.
Merciful gracious.
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Long-suffering abundant in
goodness and Truth.
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Keeping Mercy for thousands
forgiving iniquity,
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transgression and sin. and if we
were to just pause and think how
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we would feel if a god described
himself as sometimes unfair,
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often unsympathetic partially
cruel sometimes heartless,
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vengeful callous and different.
Uncaring impatient overly
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demanding.
Vindictive.
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How would we feel about God?
We know what his character is.
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These are the things which are
the solid rock in our lives.
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They might be characteristics.
Those things like being
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vengeful, or cruel, or
unsympathetic that we might like
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to ascribe to God and our
difficult moment.
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It’s not the absolute reality is
it?
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God has overwhelmingly good.
Overwhelmingly good.
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So that actually everyday
suffering or not, we live by his
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Mercy.
We read this in verse 23.
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His compassion’s fail not, they
are new every morning when we
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think God has forgotten us
forever.
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We need to be remaining reminded
that while we sleep.
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He is preparing, fresh Mercy,
fresh compassion for us some 121
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verses 3 to 4 says that the god
that keeps Israel.
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Slumbers not know sleeps the
whole time that the nation is
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asleep.
During the night.
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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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It’s his trust in God.
A God, who is preparing fresh
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energy, fresh strength and
breath for him while he is
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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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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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00:36:11,900 –> 00:36:13,000
positions.
Yes.
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Look at Jeremiah.
He’s found his inheritance, he’s
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00:36:20,900 –> 00:36:23,200
found his position in, who is
it?
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It’s God himself.
What a remarkable difference in
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00:36:28,200 –> 00:36:31,700
perspective.
This is 25 to 26.
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00:36:31,700 –> 00:36:37,000
Tells us that even when we might
not understand, or we might not
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00:36:37,000 –> 00:36:42,700
see the big picture that there
is goodness attached to waiting.
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To developing patience God’s.
Timetable may require our
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00:36:48,800 –> 00:36:55,400
patients It’s all, it’s not all
about us.
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It’s all about actually waiting
for him, his timing, his plan,
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Isaiah 25, and verse 9 says, it
shall be said in that day load.
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This is our God.
We have waited for him.
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00:37:10,200 –> 00:37:13,000
We have waited for him, he will
save us.
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00:37:13,500 –> 00:37:18,800
So suffering is not about us.
It’s about waiting for God’s
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timing for his plan.
And the sooner in life.
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00:37:23,600 –> 00:37:30,200
Verse 27, we realized this the
bidder It is good for a man that
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he bear the Yoke in his youth,
the sooner in life, we realize
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that we need to wait for God’s
solution his salvation.
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Then the list of Our Lives, we
will waste futilely chasing our
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own solution.
The yolk can’t be Grievous.
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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.
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00:38:09,100 –> 00:38:15,100
To his salvation will only make
our lives easier that a burden
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shared with him as much more
than a burden.
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00:38:18,300 –> 00:38:24,500
Halved God’s character has the
ability to change how we think
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about suffering.
Because it’s not about us.
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It’s about him and his character
being developed in us.
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00:38:32,400 –> 00:38:37,000
Look at verse 28, once this
character is recalled to mind.
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Do you know what its effect is
in our lives?
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Our mouths closed.
We stop complaining.
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We stop murmuring.
We stop whinging and moaning
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about how tough this is for me.
And we quietly.
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00:38:56,600 –> 00:39:05,300
Wait verse 26, We keep silence
verse 28, we put our mouths in
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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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our Heavenly father’s ever
patient compassion.
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We put our mouths, our words,
our complaints in the dust, his
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mercies and his compassion’s.
Does righteousness, humble and
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00:39:28,800 –> 00:39:33,500
silencer.
This man in verse 29 is so
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obedient that he will be R,
whatever God chooses to put upon
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00:39:39,400 –> 00:39:43,800
him without complaint because he
knows that it is only of
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yahweh’s mercies that we even
draw breath.
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He’ll take whatever punishment,
whatever suffering, whatever,
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persecution God’s, gracious ways
will think necessary.
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Look at verse 30.
He giveth his cheek to him,
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that’s my tooth him.
He’s filled with reproach.
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Here’s a man who’s not seeking
to avoid more suffering.
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Here’s a man who’s happy to
accept, what an absolutely
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righteous.
God will bring upon him.
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What an amazing perspective and
he does all of this because of
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verse 31 to 32 the very heart
and soul of the whole book of
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Lamentations.
It’s because he knows from God’s
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character that Yahweh will not
cast off.
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Forever.
But though, he cause grief.
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00:40:33,300 –> 00:40:35,700
Yet.
Will he have compassion
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according to the multitude of
his mercies?
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00:40:41,500 –> 00:40:48,200
Suffering is God’s opportunity
to show Mercy to show compassion
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00:40:49,000 –> 00:40:52,800
to reveal himself, it’s not
forever.
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00:40:54,000 –> 00:40:57,300
It all it will always come to an
end.
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00:40:59,700 –> 00:41:03,600
It’s God’s way of showing
himself.
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00:41:04,300 –> 00:41:07,400
Do you know, lung Young’s
literal translation says for
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00:41:07,400 –> 00:41:15,800
verse 32, for though.
He Afflicted yet, he hath pitied
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And this is the answer to one
of.
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We saw yesterday the themes of
hopelessness from chapter 2.
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Remember we read in Chapter 2
and verse 2 and he hath not
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pitied verse 17 and he hath not
pitied verse 21.
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And there is no pity.
And here we have.
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The answer God didn’t pity.
Well, actually, he does, he does
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pity.
He has to, it’s his character to
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be plenteous in Mercy.
So hidden away here in the heart
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of the book of Lamentations is
the reason for the atonement.
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God causes grief.
So that he might show
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compassion.
The reason suffering comes
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brothers and sisters in our
lives is so that we can see the
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richness of God’s character.
So God can reveal himself to us.
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This is all the power of God’s
character to change our
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perspective.
And this whole section begins in
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verse 22, with mercy and ends in
verse 32, with Mercy Mercy.
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Bookends this little section,
Ian.
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This is all about the vital
importance of remembering
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bringing to mind.
The amazing character of our
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heavenly father.
Now there are a whole raft of
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00:42:53,500 –> 00:42:58,300
implications that logically flow
from a consideration of God’s
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character and that’s verses 33
to 39. because by logical
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implication, when we come to
verse 33, We read this.
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Because of God’s character.
He does not afflict willingly,
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nor grieve the children of men,
God never scenes suffering
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00:43:25,300 –> 00:43:31,000
without an excellent reason.
Chastening is necessary but it
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00:43:31,000 –> 00:43:34,500
does not give God pleasure.
He doesn’t send.
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00:43:34,500 –> 00:43:37,900
Suffering is the margin says
from his heart.
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00:43:38,500 –> 00:43:43,200
He’s not vindictive or cruel.
There is always an excellent
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00:43:43,200 –> 00:43:45,700
reason although we may not know
why.
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00:43:47,500 –> 00:43:54,000
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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00:43:57,500 –> 00:44:04,300
So that we are not crushed.
God might bruise But he will
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00:44:04,300 –> 00:44:07,900
never crush us.
Crushing is for the seed of the
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serpent, they will always be a
way of Escape.
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Even our Lord Jesus Christ or of
Christ, it is said a bruised.
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Reed, will he not break?
It’s God’s design that we are
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bruised, but never broken, never
crushed.
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Investors 35 to 36.
We find that God is Not and
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00:44:36,200 –> 00:44:43,900
cannot be unfair.
Verse 35 or misleading verse 36.
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God will not turn aside the
right of a man before the face
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of the most high or he will not
mislead or subvert a man in his
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00:44:53,600 –> 00:44:59,200
cause for this Yahweh approve
Earth, not By virtue of his
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00:44:59,200 –> 00:45:02,900
perfect character, it would be
impossible for God, to be
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00:45:02,900 –> 00:45:08,400
unfair, or to be deliberately
misleading verse 36.
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00:45:09,800 –> 00:45:15,300
Verse 37 is going to tell us
that he controls everything.
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00:45:15,800 –> 00:45:21,300
And to question his judgment is
to doubt his promises, his word,
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00:45:21,700 –> 00:45:29,100
his power and his character.
Who is he that saith and it
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00:45:29,100 –> 00:45:32,900
cometh to pass when Yahweh
commandeth it.
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Not if God Is Watching The
Sparrows brother and sisters and
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controlling the destiny of the
nation’s, then verse 37 is
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00:45:40,000 –> 00:45:44,100
saying that there is no such
thing as good luck.
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00:45:45,100 –> 00:45:49,300
Or bad luck in the lives of his
Saints.
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00:45:50,100 –> 00:45:53,500
Nothing happens without his
approval and control.
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And so, to question our
suffering is either to say That
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God is not in control.
Or perhaps worse that God is
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doing a lousy job because I
think I deserve better
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treatment, he doesn’t understand
all the facts.
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His omnipotence wisdom is
questionable.
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He has dubious judgment about
what his bid best for me.
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That’s really what we’re saying
when we Christian God.
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The RSV has, who has commanded
it and it came to pass unless
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00:46:31,200 –> 00:46:35,900
the Lord hath ordained it.
We’re not in a position.
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Are we brothers and sisters to
question God’s ways?
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00:46:40,400 –> 00:46:45,700
He’s never made a mistake.
Amos 3 in verse 6 is shall there
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00:46:45,700 –> 00:46:48,100
be evil in the city and Yahweh
hath?
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00:46:48,100 –> 00:46:52,100
Not done it?
Who are we to question him?
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00:46:52,300 –> 00:46:55,200
Who we to question his
chastening hand?
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00:46:55,200 –> 00:47:00,700
The pressure of The Potter’s
hands on the clay. you know, we
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00:47:00,700 –> 00:47:06,000
job The example, James uses of a
righteous suffer, a lost
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everything.
It says he sinned, not nor
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00:47:10,500 –> 00:47:15,600
charged god with Folly Job. 1
verse 22, he understood who was
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in control.
He might not have understood,
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why?
He might have been greatly hurt
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greatly suffering but he never
ever charged god with Folly.
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He never ever said that God’s
judgment was dubious or he
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00:47:30,100 –> 00:47:32,200
wasn’t in control or he could
have done it.
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Get a job.
And so now, in verse 39, the
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section is going to come to a
climax.
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Where it says wherefore Duff a
living man.
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00:47:45,500 –> 00:47:49,900
Complain a man for the
punishment of his sins.
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00:47:51,100 –> 00:47:56,800
In fact so lowly is our status
compared to him and his power
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that if we are alive and the
wages of sin is death, then we
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have not been rightly
reimbursed.
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00:48:08,400 –> 00:48:13,900
If God is unfair, it’s because
he errs on the side of Mercy.
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00:48:13,900 –> 00:48:16,400
Not judgment.
What an amazing perspective.
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00:48:17,100 –> 00:48:21,400
You think about as sufferings
everyday to think?
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00:48:22,100 –> 00:48:25,900
Well if God was making a
mistake, it’s the mistake really
595
00:48:25,900 –> 00:48:28,900
is keeping us alive because
that’s something we definitely
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00:48:28,900 –> 00:48:32,000
don’t deserve.
We need to be grateful, we need
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00:48:32,000 –> 00:48:36,300
to be to put, aside our
complaints, put our mouths in
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00:48:36,300 –> 00:48:39,000
the dust.
We are nothing without him.
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00:48:39,900 –> 00:48:42,600
So far from complaining, about
our suffering.
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00:48:43,500 –> 00:48:47,700
We need to be grateful that God
isn’t giving us what we deserve.
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00:48:47,700 –> 00:48:49,500
This is quite a different
perspective.
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00:48:50,100 –> 00:48:53,000
I’m not saying it’s easy, but
I’m saying, it’s quite a
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00:48:53,000 –> 00:48:57,200
different perspective, isn’t it?
That Jeremiah and Messiah gives
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00:48:57,200 –> 00:49:00,100
us.
So, look how Jeremiah answers.
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00:49:00,400 –> 00:49:05,700
Our original problems with God,
when we lose perspective, When
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00:49:05,700 –> 00:49:10,400
we forget the good, what about
this problem of anger?
607
00:49:11,200 –> 00:49:18,500
When we say it’s all unfair and
God is to blame Lamentations is
608
00:49:18,500 –> 00:49:23,400
going to tell us.
If God was to be fear, we’d be
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00:49:23,400 –> 00:49:30,500
dead.
Verse 22 and verse 39, and God’s
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00:49:30,500 –> 00:49:36,700
ways and his goodness are not to
be questioned verses 37 to 38.
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00:49:36,900 –> 00:49:41,400
God never makes mistakes.
It’s not unfair, we can’t get
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00:49:41,400 –> 00:49:46,100
angry with God’s decisions.
What if we experienced
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00:49:46,100 –> 00:49:49,400
frustration, we say it’s too
hard.
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00:49:49,600 –> 00:49:54,900
We want to give up limitations
three C’s suffering is only for
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00:49:54,900 –> 00:49:59,100
a time and it’s so that God can
show compassion.
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00:49:59,300 –> 00:50:04,300
And you know what, all we need
to do is just last one day,
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00:50:04,400 –> 00:50:07,200
because his compassion’s are new
Every Morning.
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00:50:07,600 –> 00:50:11,200
Verse 23, we don’t need to
overcome suffering for the rest
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of our lives today.
We just need to overcome it
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00:50:14,100 –> 00:50:17,200
today.
Day to just get through one day
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00:50:17,500 –> 00:50:23,800
at a time and what about doubt
when we say it’s confusing, God
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00:50:23,800 –> 00:50:28,500
doesn’t care.
Lamentations says, God’s ways,
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00:50:28,500 –> 00:50:33,000
might not make sense at the
time, but God does care.
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And because of his character, he
cannot afflict willingly or
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00:50:38,200 –> 00:50:41,300
without purpose.
It’s impossible for him to do
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00:50:41,300 –> 00:50:44,300
such a thing to have a righteous
character.
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Like that, it’s impossible.
So this is Lamentations answers.
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00:50:51,400 –> 00:50:56,400
Jeremiah’s answers under
inspiration to the three main
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ways of thinking that we have
when we experience suffering,
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00:51:01,100 –> 00:51:07,200
anger, frustration and doubt.
So if we were to put this
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00:51:07,200 –> 00:51:14,100
another way and ask the
question, why do we suffer Dean,
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00:51:14,100 –> 00:51:19,200
this is what Lamentations sees
is it because God doesn’t care.
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00:51:20,500 –> 00:51:25,700
Verse 32.
And the answer is no, is it
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00:51:25,700 –> 00:51:30,200
because God gets pleasure from
seeing us suffer in the answer
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00:51:30,200 –> 00:51:35,100
from verse 33 is?
No, is it because God wants to
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00:51:35,100 –> 00:51:39,800
crush us verse 34 in the answer
is, no, is it?
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00:51:39,800 –> 00:51:46,600
Because God wants to confuse us?
The answer from verse 35 to 36,
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00:51:46,600 –> 00:51:49,000
is no.
Is it because?
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00:51:49,300 –> 00:51:52,900
Well, it’s just a result of time
and chance verse 37.
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00:51:53,400 –> 00:51:58,400
The answer is no.
Why do we suffer?
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00:52:00,100 –> 00:52:03,900
We suffer because their
characters need to be changed
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00:52:03,900 –> 00:52:09,700
verse 26, so that God can reveal
himself verse 32.
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00:52:10,600 –> 00:52:15,400
And to give us a chance to turn
verse 40.
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00:52:15,700 –> 00:52:18,800
And when you think about it, all
of these bottom three answers
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are really all about, perfecting
our characters.
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00:52:22,800 –> 00:52:27,800
We have to change from selfish
impatient self-reliant.
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00:52:28,100 –> 00:52:34,800
Deluded sinners.
Two selfless, patient.
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00:52:34,900 –> 00:52:40,100
Trusting faithful Saints in
suffering, is God’s means of
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00:52:40,400 –> 00:52:45,600
achieving this transformation.
How else would we become humble
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or patient or trusting or
obedient?
651
00:52:50,300 –> 00:52:54,700
Unless we had to experience
difficult times where we were
652
00:52:54,700 –> 00:53:00,800
put under pressure and we learnt
patience or trust or humility we
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00:53:00,800 –> 00:53:04,700
suffer because because God
desperately wants us to be like
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00:53:04,700 –> 00:53:08,400
him to be like his son and he
won’t give up.
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00:53:08,900 –> 00:53:12,800
He won’t give up on us.
We are being conformed As Romans
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00:53:12,800 –> 00:53:16,600
8, verse Verse 29 says,
conformed by pressure to the
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00:53:16,600 –> 00:53:23,200
image of his son.
He wants his character to be our
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00:53:23,200 –> 00:53:25,400
character.
And you know what?
659
00:53:26,500 –> 00:53:30,100
It’s hard work, doesn’t happen
easy?
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00:53:30,800 –> 00:53:35,300
There’s a lot of pressure that’s
needed and finally we are
661
00:53:35,300 –> 00:53:39,100
conformed into that beautiful
vessel that he desires.
662
00:53:39,800 –> 00:53:41,900
Look at the example of our Lord
Jesus Christ.
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00:53:41,900 –> 00:53:45,800
We won’t go there but you
remember the words from Hebrews
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00:53:45,800 –> 00:53:51,700
5 yet though he were a son yet
learned he obedience by the
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00:53:51,700 –> 00:53:54,900
things which he suffered.
We don’t often think about this,
666
00:53:54,900 –> 00:53:59,700
do we?
Why did christ suffer?
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00:54:01,700 –> 00:54:05,700
Why did christ suffer is?
Certainly wasn’t for the reason
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00:54:05,700 –> 00:54:09,800
of verse 39.
A man is suffering as a
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00:54:09,800 –> 00:54:13,800
punishment for his sins because
he was sinless.
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00:54:14,100 –> 00:54:21,400
So what was he learning?
Obedience Hebrews 5 verse 9 goes
671
00:54:21,400 –> 00:54:26,100
on to say, and being made
perfect.
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00:54:26,100 –> 00:54:30,600
Our Lord was not born perfect.
He was made perfect by
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00:54:30,600 –> 00:54:33,500
suffering, and that suffering
developed character.
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00:54:33,900 –> 00:54:37,700
Unlike us, he never sinned in
the process but it was a
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00:54:37,700 –> 00:54:42,100
learning process as he fully
grasped and reflected from a
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00:54:42,100 –> 00:54:45,900
young boy into a man, the
character of his father.
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00:54:47,100 –> 00:54:50,500
In fact, the die glocke has in
Hebrews 5.
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00:54:51,100 –> 00:54:54,400
It doesn’t say yet though.
He were a son.
679
00:54:54,900 –> 00:55:00,800
It says, because he was a son.
That’s why he needed to suffer.
680
00:55:00,800 –> 00:55:04,600
Because that was the teaching
ground by which he might absorb
681
00:55:04,600 –> 00:55:07,700
the character of his heavenly
father.
682
00:55:08,500 –> 00:55:11,000
So, why do we think it will be
different for any of us?
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00:55:11,500 –> 00:55:15,900
If Christ was sinless?
And he still had to suffer to
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00:55:15,900 –> 00:55:18,900
perfect his character to be
conformed, to his father’s
685
00:55:18,900 –> 00:55:20,900
image.
Why do we think it will be any
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00:55:20,900 –> 00:55:23,700
different in our lives?
Why do we have this view?
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00:55:24,100 –> 00:55:27,500
That will be like, will be.
We weren’t, we won’t have to go
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00:55:27,500 –> 00:55:29,500
through suffering.
That’ll be something that we get
689
00:55:29,500 –> 00:55:32,200
to avoid because we’re more
faithful than the people in the
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00:55:32,200 –> 00:55:35,300
world.
Know, God will always bring it
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00:55:35,300 –> 00:55:39,800
into our lives, in all of our
Lives because he wants to
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00:55:39,800 –> 00:55:43,100
develop his character in us.
And in actual fact, when we read
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00:55:43,100 –> 00:55:47,000
John chapter, 215, what does he
do to the to the tree?
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00:55:47,000 –> 00:55:51,400
That brings forth fruit, he
prunes it even more that it
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00:55:51,400 –> 00:55:55,700
might bring forth more fruit,
perhaps the more Godly we live,
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00:55:55,700 –> 00:55:59,100
the more we absorb God’s
character, the more suffering we
697
00:55:59,100 –> 00:56:02,700
can expect.
Because we believe that God is
698
00:56:02,700 –> 00:56:07,900
working in US.
Suffering is essential.
699
00:56:08,000 –> 00:56:10,800
It’s the door through which we
enter the kingdom.
700
00:56:10,800 –> 00:56:14,700
We know these quotations, we
must through much tribulation
701
00:56:15,100 –> 00:56:20,400
enter into the kingdom of God.
for verily, when we were with
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00:56:20,400 –> 00:56:26,500
you, we told you before that we
should suffer tribulation That
703
00:56:26,500 –> 00:56:30,100
you may be counted worthy of the
kingdom of God for which she
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00:56:30,100 –> 00:56:32,800
also suffer.
Yay.
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00:56:32,800 –> 00:56:36,500
And all that will live Godly in
Christ Jesus shall suffer
706
00:56:36,500 –> 00:56:39,800
persecution.
The reason why we suffer is so
707
00:56:39,800 –> 00:56:42,200
that Christ will be formed in
us.
708
00:56:42,200 –> 00:56:47,500
It’s not an optional process.
It’s God’s method of achieving a
709
00:56:47,500 –> 00:56:51,100
family likeness Look at this
perspective.
710
00:56:51,100 –> 00:56:54,900
Now we can count it as a
blessing because it proves to us
711
00:56:54,900 –> 00:57:00,100
that God is conforming us.
He is in our lives, he does care
712
00:57:00,300 –> 00:57:05,400
he loves us and therefore as
Hebrews 13 and verse 6 says he
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00:57:05,400 –> 00:57:10,800
chastens every son or daughter,
he receives suffering, makes us
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00:57:11,000 –> 00:57:13,400
legitimate members of his
family.
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00:57:13,400 –> 00:57:19,100
What an honor, what an honor to
be illegitimate son or daughter?
716
00:57:19,600 –> 00:57:22,000
Of the Living.
God, this is not Affliction
717
00:57:22,000 –> 00:57:26,100
without purpose or misery.
Without meaning, this is an
718
00:57:26,100 –> 00:57:29,200
essential part of our
discipleship.
719
00:57:29,900 –> 00:57:34,400
In the true disciple can see
God’s mercies everywhere, even
720
00:57:34,400 –> 00:57:40,800
in their suffering. so now we
can see how if we forget the
721
00:57:40,800 –> 00:57:47,300
good and we lose perspective and
we focus selfishly on ourselves
722
00:57:47,500 –> 00:57:53,100
how far off being we can be We
have this view that we deserve a
723
00:57:53,100 –> 00:57:56,000
good life and therefore
suffering is God’s fault
724
00:57:56,100 –> 00:58:01,300
suffering is God’s blessing.
To lead us.
725
00:58:02,500 –> 00:58:07,800
To the glaring word in
Lamentations 3, that we have not
726
00:58:07,800 –> 00:58:13,300
mentioned yet.
Why do we suffer?
727
00:58:14,600 –> 00:58:19,900
And the answer is that all of
these bottom three reasons, lead
728
00:58:19,900 –> 00:58:24,100
us to Hope.
God doesn’t bring misery
729
00:58:24,100 –> 00:58:27,100
brothers and sisters, he offers
hope.
730
00:58:28,100 –> 00:58:32,600
There’s a vast difference in
those two perspectives, the
731
00:58:32,600 –> 00:58:35,900
purpose of suffering.
Look at this Romans chapter 5
732
00:58:36,100 –> 00:58:41,800
and not only so but we glory in
tribulations also knowing that
733
00:58:41,800 –> 00:58:46,700
tribulation worketh patience and
patience experience and
734
00:58:46,700 –> 00:58:51,500
experience.
Hope the purpose of tribulation
735
00:58:51,800 –> 00:58:56,800
is to lead us to Hope and look
at Lamentations chapter 3
736
00:58:56,900 –> 00:59:01,600
because the word Loop occurs
five times in the chapter and
737
00:59:01,600 –> 00:59:06,300
that all tightly clustered
around the remembrance of God’s
738
00:59:06,300 –> 00:59:10,900
character.
Verses 18 to 29, is the
739
00:59:10,900 –> 00:59:16,100
progression of Hope and it
begins with the mention of
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00:59:16,100 –> 00:59:19,100
yahweh’s name.
For the first time in the
741
00:59:19,100 –> 00:59:24,900
chapter.
In Lamentations 3, in verse 18,
742
00:59:25,500 –> 00:59:30,200
we read my hope is perished from
Yahweh.
743
00:59:30,800 –> 00:59:34,000
Jeremiah’s hope seems to be
dead.
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00:59:35,200 –> 00:59:39,100
But when we come forwards to
verse 21, we read this.
745
00:59:39,100 –> 00:59:45,200
I recall to my mind, therefore I
have hope hope glimmers as a
746
00:59:45,200 –> 00:59:50,900
possibility in verse 24, Yahweh
is my portion.
747
00:59:51,200 –> 00:59:56,800
Therefore I will hope hope is a
gift that comes fresh every
748
00:59:56,800 –> 01:00:02,100
morning verse 26.
It is good that a man should
749
01:00:02,100 –> 01:00:07,500
both hope and quietly.
Lee wait, hope as a profitable
750
01:00:08,000 –> 01:00:10,900
and good thing.
And finally, by the time we come
751
01:00:10,900 –> 01:00:16,200
to verse 29, if so be there may
be hope the man realizes that
752
01:00:16,200 –> 01:00:22,200
hope is all he’s got This is a
progression of Hope in this
753
01:00:22,200 –> 01:00:26,100
story, the dawning realization
that hope is weird.
754
01:00:26,100 –> 01:00:29,700
God is driving him to at first,
it seems dead.
755
01:00:30,700 –> 01:00:34,600
Then a perspective changes with
the focus on God’s character
756
01:00:34,600 –> 01:00:38,900
rather than on our own misery.
And we realized that hope is all
757
01:00:38,900 –> 01:00:42,200
we have.
And this man who had seen
758
01:00:42,200 –> 01:00:48,000
Affliction understood the vast
difference suffering is not the
759
01:00:48,000 –> 01:00:50,300
indiscriminate.
Imminent, cruelty of unloving
760
01:00:50,300 –> 01:00:55,900
God, but the careful alignment
of consequences for our own sins
761
01:00:56,200 –> 01:00:59,500
that we might desperately grasp,
hold of his hope.
762
01:01:01,400 –> 01:01:07,100
Lamentations 3 is a picture of a
man who’s suffering whose
763
01:01:07,100 –> 01:01:11,600
Affliction lead him to God.
It brought him closer to God.
764
01:01:12,700 –> 01:01:18,000
And in Lamentations 3, he shares
his Secrets, his experience, his
765
01:01:18,000 –> 01:01:23,500
perspective.
Verse 26 says, it is good that a
766
01:01:23,508 –> 01:01:27,800
man should both hope and
quietly.
767
01:01:27,900 –> 01:01:35,700
Wait for What does it say?
Yahushua.
768
01:01:37,300 –> 01:01:40,800
Suffering is to teach us that is
desperately bruised.
769
01:01:40,800 –> 01:01:46,000
And wounded by sin as we are.
We need to wait for Yahweh is
770
01:01:46,000 –> 01:01:50,900
salvation Jesus, the salvation
of Yaya because you see brothers
771
01:01:50,900 –> 01:01:53,300
and sisters.
As we conclude this morning on
772
01:01:53,300 –> 01:01:59,100
the road of life, we are all
attacked by sin and left for
773
01:01:59,100 –> 01:02:01,900
dead.
Our hope is perished, we don’t
774
01:02:01,900 –> 01:02:05,700
have time to look at this in any
detail, but I believe that at
775
01:02:05,700 –> 01:02:10,300
least partially Christ gets his
inspiration for the parable of
776
01:02:10,300 –> 01:02:13,700
the Good Samaritan from the
story of Lamentations.
777
01:02:14,800 –> 01:02:19,200
The man who was from Jerusalem
who was wounded and left for
778
01:02:19,200 –> 01:02:23,700
dead.
Beaten up by enemies and thieves
779
01:02:24,100 –> 01:02:26,600
people pass by on the other
side.
780
01:02:27,000 –> 01:02:32,300
Then someone’s sympathizers
shows, compassion, and mercy,
781
01:02:32,700 –> 01:02:36,100
and redeems his life.
It all comes out of
782
01:02:36,200 –> 01:02:40,100
Lamentations.
Christ’s inspiration for this
783
01:02:40,100 –> 01:02:42,900
little story, he is able to heal
us.
784
01:02:43,300 –> 01:02:47,600
His example can save us, he’s
the Good Samaritan who binds up
785
01:02:47,600 –> 01:02:50,300
our wounds and redeems Our
Lives.
786
01:02:51,100 –> 01:02:55,300
In Lamentations, chapter 3 is
his secret to understanding the
787
01:02:55,300 –> 01:02:58,700
meaning of suffering.
He’s familiar with misery
788
01:02:58,700 –> 01:03:02,200
himself in every form and in
every way.
789
01:03:02,400 –> 01:03:06,100
But he learned obedience by the
things that he suffered, he
790
01:03:06,100 –> 01:03:11,300
forgot himself, he put his own
mouth in the dust, he emptied
791
01:03:11,300 –> 01:03:15,300
himself, but he remembered God’s
character, his compassion’s
792
01:03:15,300 –> 01:03:19,800
every morning and each day.
He grew more and more like him,
793
01:03:20,400 –> 01:03:23,600
maybe.
Perfect by weakness.
794
01:03:24,200 –> 01:03:26,200
Let’s follow him brothers and
sisters.
795
01:03:26,200 –> 01:03:28,100
Let’s put our mouths in the
dust.
796
01:03:28,500 –> 01:03:32,200
It’s thank God that his
compassion’s fail.
797
01:03:32,200 –> 01:03:37,200
Not spend each day hoping that
he will come.
798
01:03:38,000 –> 01:03:41,000
And when the salvation of Yahweh
does, come that he might
799
01:03:41,000 –> 01:03:46,000
recognize us beaten and bruised
by sin as we are as those who
800
01:03:46,200 –> 01:03:50,800
have been conformed to be like
him, people who have allowed his
801
01:03:50,900 –> 01:03:54,400
And hands to bind up their
wounds people who have allowed
802
01:03:54,400 –> 01:03:57,300
his perspective to change their
lives.
803
01:03:58,600 –> 01:04:02,100
Let’s in the words of
Lamentations 3 and verse 40,
804
01:04:02,300 –> 01:04:07,800
search, and try our ways and
turn again to Yahweh and with
805
01:04:07,800 –> 01:04:14,800
gratefulness, lift up our heart,
with our hands to our father in
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01:04:14,800 –> 01:04:15,400
the heavens.
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