405: Ethan Barrett – Exhortation: New Mercies Every Morning

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To share those now with that I
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the intro for the talk for this
week.

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For this week we’re listening to
an expectation that was given by

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brother Ethan Barrett at the
Mills Bridge Ecclesia in

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Australia in December of 2025.
And the title of his expectation

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is New Mercies Every Morning and
what I.

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Particularly liked about
brother.

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Ethan’s expectation that he gave
is he took a time of the day

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that I know for myself and
potentially for many of you is

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sometimes a struggle first thing
in the morning, waking up,

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getting going, having the right
perspective as you start your

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day groggily.
Maybe you’re waiting to get your

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coffee in, but Brother Ethan
takes that morning and kind of

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reframes it in a way to be a
reminder of God’s amazing

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faithfulness and mercy that
really.

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Tries to get you to reset.
Your mindset.

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For the start of.
The day which then impacts the.

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Way the rest of.
Your day goes.

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So I found this to be a super
encouraging expectation and a

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good reminder.
It’s one that I have written

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down some notes and suggestions
from brother Ethan that I try to

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look at in the morning to try to
be a little more chipper first

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thing in the morning, which
sometimes is a challenge.

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But it is still a encouraging
and good thing to look forward

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to and a reminder to look at
things going on around us as a

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reminder of the power of our God
at work in the world around us.

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So I hope that you find this to
be as encouraging and maybe it

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will perk you up a little bit
the next morning after you

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listen to this one.
So with that, I’m going to turn

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it over.
To our brother.

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Ethan Barrett for his
expectation entitled New Mercies

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every Morning.
I’d like to share with you

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something this afternoon that I
find incredibly hard in my life.

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I’ve never been good at it and I
might even go to the extreme.

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And so that 99% of the time I
hate doing it.

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And I think a good proportion of
you probably know what this is.

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And that is waking up in the
morning.

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I have to have the loudest alarm
there is, otherwise it’s not

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going to be heard.
I have to hit the snooze button

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a few times before I even
consider getting up.

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And after that then I’ve got 10
minutes to get out the door and

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I’m running 100 mile per hour
rushing around and eventually

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get to work on the minute to
start.

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And and then a recent sort of
self reflection of my

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discipleship brought this out
that in a morning, I was just a

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mess and, and I was rushing
around and that left absolutely

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zero time to thank God for the
morning that he had given me the

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breath in my lungs, the sun that
had risen up, my family, my job,

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and the list goes on.
And so I thought I’d do some

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Bible study on mornings and what
it means that God brings the sun

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up each day, that each day that
I wake up, as we wake up, it’s a

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powerful reminder to myself and
us to thank God for what he has

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provided and in effect
resurrected us to another day to

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serve him and looking forward to
the last day in which the Sun of

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righteousness will arise and
those asleep will be raised to

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see him.
And so we find in the Bible when

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we look on this theme of daily
cycles of the sun coming up and

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going back down, it’s linked
with God’s covenant and his

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faithfulness.
So if you turn your Bibles to

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Genesis chapter 8, we come in
after God has wiped the earth

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with the flood to start again,
in effect a renewal of the

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earth.
And God says in verse 21 of

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Genesis chapter 8 and the Lord
smelled a sweet saver.

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And the Lord said in his heart,
I will not again curse the

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ground anymore for man’s sake,
for the imaginations of man’s

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heart is evil from his youth.
Neither will I again smite

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anymore everything living as I
have done.

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And I love that first part God
said in his heart.

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So this is a deep emotion by
God.

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Obviously God doesn’t have a
heart, but it it’s for us to

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make that connection that this
is a deep feeling and, and by

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using the heart, we can relate
to this emotion.

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And he will never curse the
ground or wipe every living

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thing from the earth as he has
done.

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So that’s his promise.
And he goes on to say then in

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verse 22, while the earth remain
sea, time and harvest and cold

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and heat and summer and winter
and day and night shall not

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cease.
So the cycles of the earth, the

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harvest times, the summer and
winter, all these laws of nature

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will never stop.
And God makes that promise.

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And so we are reminded every
year, every day, of God’s deep,

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loving mercy that He knows we
are evil from our youth, yet

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stops judgement on the earth.
And it’s an amazing thought to

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think God set these repetitions
in our life to easily be able to

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pick him out every day and
remember Him.

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We can be wherever in the world,
at whatever time.

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We can be in Cornwall or we can
be in Yorkshire.

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We don’t have to go to a special
building or albeit a certain

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place at a certain time.
He just wants us to look outside

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and see him.
And Solomon too picks up a

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similar theme in his words in
Ecclesiastes.

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Just turn with me there.
So Ecclesiastes, he, he saw that

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life in was all vanity.
Humans just pursue change.

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They, they want new things, they
want new pleasures.

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And this is all vanity and
worthless.

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And he picks up that we need to
focus on God who is unchanging

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and he uses the laws of nature
for this.

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So I’m going to read
Ecclesiastes chapter 1 and the

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1st 11 verses.
So Ecclesiastes chapter 1.

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The words of the preacher, the
son of David King in Jerusalem.

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Vanity of vanities set the
preacher vanity of vanities.

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All is vanity.
What profit hath a man of all

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his labour which he taketh under
the sun?

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One generation passeth away, and
another generation cometh, but

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the earth abideth forever.
The sun also ariseth, and the

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sun goeth down and hasteneth to
his place where he arose.

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The wind goeth towards the
South, and toward and turneth

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about unto the north.
It were with about continually.

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And the wind returneth again
according to his circuits.

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All the rivers run into the sea,
yet the sea is not full unto the

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place from whence the rivers
come, thither they return again.

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All things are full of labour.
Men cannot utter it, man cannot

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utter it.
The eye is not satisfied with

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seeing, nor the ear filled with
hearing.

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The thing that hath been it is
that which shall be, and that

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which is done is that which
shall be done.

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There is no new thing under the
sun.

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Is there anything where of it
might be said?

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See, this is new.
It had, it had been already of

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all time which was before us.
There is no remembrance of

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former things, neither shall
there be any remembrance of

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things that that ought to come
with those that shall come

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after.
So Solomon says, we are

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temporary in effect.
From dust we are, and dust we’ll

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return.
Things that happen in our lives

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that we chase are in the end
worthless.

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And no one remembers what
previous generation did.

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But the earth is forever.
A different version of verse 8

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is easier to get the point from
the new English translation.

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It says all this monotony is
tiresome.

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No one can bear to describe it.
The eye is never satisfied with

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seeing, nor is the ear ever
content with hearing.

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So I understand from these
verses that Solomon is saying

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people look to the laws of
nature and they get bored

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because they never change.
And so because we crave change

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and we crave something new as
humans, we’re never just

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satisfied by looking at it.
God set these regular patterns

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for us.
But yes, consistency is boring.

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And Solomon says the eyes are
not satisfied.

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And, and that word satisfied is
to mean to be full.

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And I want you to hold on to
that idea and we’ll be linking

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it later, that idea to be full,
to be satisfied.

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There is nothing new under the
sun.

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Humans crave new things, but on
Earth, nothing is truly new and

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meaningful.
The only meaningful thing in

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life is the unchanging God who
brings the sun up and go back to

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its place, the wind to
continually follow patterns and

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the water cycle to continue.
And we love talking about the

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weather in England, don’t we?
How, how It’s too hot, or it’s

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too cold, it’s too rainy, it’s
too dark at 5:00.

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But let’s turn it around and say
how amazing everyday is and and

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how it shows that God’s shows
God’s never changing character.

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And this goes hand in hand with
his promises in Jeremiah chapter

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31.
You don’t have to turn there.

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I’m just going to read a couple
verses.

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So in Jeremiah chapter 31, God
uses this unchanging aspect

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about him.
So the laws of nature to link

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with His new covenant with
Israel about Him writing the law

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on their hearts.
So Jeremiah chapter 31 and I’m

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reading verse 35 and 36.
Thus set the Lord which giveth

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the sun for a light by dare, and
the ordinances of the moon and

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of the stars for a light by
night, which divided the sea,

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when the waves thereof roar.
The Lord of hers is His name.

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If those ordinances depart from
before me set the Lord, then the

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seed of Israel also shall cease
from being a nation before me

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forever.
So if the earth stops doing

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these usual patterns, then His
promise to Israel will end up

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and they won’t be a nation.
So we have nature and covenant

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tied together like in Genesis
chapter 8, right to the start,

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God uses nature as a visual aid
for us humans to recognise that

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he is unchanging and so is his
promises.

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And it’s this covenant then that
Israel will never cease as a

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nation that presumably it’s
Jeremiah writes about in

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Lamentations.
So if you turn to Lamentations

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with me, Lamentations is a hard,
it’s an emotional read.

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It’s full of terrible things
that have happened and are

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happening to Judah as they’re
taken into captivity.

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But as the poem works up to a
central point in the book, so

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the central point is chapter 3.
In the middle, we get beautiful

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hope seen by the writer.
So Lamentations chapter 3 and

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reading from verse 16, he hath
also broken my teeth with gravel

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stones, He hath covered me with
ashes, and thou hast removed my

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soul far off from peace.
I forgot prosperity and I said

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my strength and my hope is
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So life is is terrible for them
and that there’s no peace.

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It feels as the the hope God
offered to them is gone, they

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will cease as a nation.
Let’s continue reading from

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verse 19.
Remembering mine affliction and

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my misery, the Wormwood and the
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My soul hath them still in
remembrance, and is humbled in

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me.
This I recall to my mind,

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therefore have I hope.
It is of the Lord’s mercies that

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we are not consumed, because his
compassion’s fail not.

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They are new every morning.
Great is thy faithfulness.

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The Lord is my portion, Seth, my
soul, therefore will I hope in

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Him.
So in all the affliction and

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judgement God is causing them to
go through, Jeremiah remembers

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in his mind the promise that God
gave that they will not be

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consumed, and it is through
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That word compassion is to mean
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So it’s a very deep love, like
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in Genesis chapter 8, it was a
deep compassion that an end to

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the world would not come again,
like the flood.

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And to hear it is the same deep
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that He will keep His promises
because He loves them.

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We read there in verse 23 that
His mercies are new every

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morning.
They are renewed each day and

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faithfulness is the idea of
never changing.

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You know, when God makes a
promise, that’s it.

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It’s stuck.
And each and again, each new

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morning, the sun coming up,
Jeremiah is reminded of that

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promise that they will never
cease to be a nation.

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What did Jeremiah have left?
He had absolutely nothing.

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But they did have one thing, the
sun coming up and going down

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that would never change in their
state.

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They could be still be reminded
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So as the people woke up in the
morning, even though their

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family or maybe their friends
had been killed, even though

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they struggled for food, they
always had a reminder of God’s

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hope to them.
And so whatever situation we are

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in, wherever we are in the
world, our brothers and sisters

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in, in far off countries and
wars and in famines, we all wake

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up and we see the same thing
each and every day.

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The sure mercies of God that we
are not consumed but by the Lord

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Jesus Christ.
We have the hope of the coming

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Kingdom through His death and
His resurrection.

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And so did you notice the link
to Ecclesiastes?

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Solomon said that there was
nothing new under the sun.

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There’s nothing made by humans
that creates substance and

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meaning.
There’s nothing new.

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Well, each day and every day God
gives us something new, His

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mercy and his compassion.
Every day we need new

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forgiveness of sins for what we
do.

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They are renewed each day.
And we and we thank God so much

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for this.
It’s it’s not stockpiled, it’s

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renewed each day.
And notice then in verse 25,

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what is our response to knowing
this hope?

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Verse 25 The Lord is good unto
them that wait for him to the

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soul that seeketh him.
It is good that a man should

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birth hope and quietly wait for
the salvation of the Lord.

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It is good for a man that he
bear the yoke in his youth.

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So wait and that’s opposite to
what Solomon said humans are

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like.
We need to slow down, be still

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and know that he is God.
Look to the unchanging laws of

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nature.
Look to his unchanging character

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rather than the ever changing
earthly desires.

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And finally verse 27 we read
there bear the yoke in his

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youth.
Our imaginations are evil from

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our youth.
We got told in in Genesis

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chapter 8 and so it’s at the
start of our lives when we get

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many desires when we are young
to cut them out early.

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It’s a hard time for a disciple
in their youth when the world is

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ever changing to focus on the
unchanging God.

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When Solomon says things can be
boring for our fleshly thinking.

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Again in chapter 12 verse one in
Ecclesiastes he says, Remember

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thy Creator in the days of thy
youth, while the evil days come

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not, nor the years draw nigh,
when thou shalt say, I have no

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pleasure in them.
Although the new living

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translation reads, Don’t let the
excitement of youth cause you to

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forget your Creator.
Honour Him in your youth before

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you grow old and say life is not
pleasant anymore.

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We can easily forget the mercy
of God that He gives us each day

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by being taken by the ever
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Just turn to Psalm chapter 90.
Psalm 90.

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Now this Psalm is a prayer of
Moses seen at the top of my

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page.
And it’s a prayer about the

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greatness of God and the
smallness of man.

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God is timeless, but we are but
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And throughout this Psalm I’ve
coloured in time frames.

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So, for example, God is ever in
verse 2, everlasting to

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everlasting, and we are but a
morning and an evening in in

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verse 5 and 6, or spoken of as
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But just look to verse 14 and
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So Psalm 19 and verse 14.
Thus satisfy us early with Thy

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mercy, that we may rejoice and
be glad all our days.

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Make us glad according to the
days wherein Thou hast afflicted

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us, and the years wherein we
have seen evil.

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So there again the world is
evil, but in the morning the

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Creator set the morning to show
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It’s that daily reminder that we
are not consumed.

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And that word satisfy.
There is again to mean to be

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full.
It’s the same word as we saw in

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Ecclesiastes chapter 1.
And remember that everyone

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thought the unchanging world is
brought is boring and that their

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eyes are not satisfied.
It’s the same word.

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Their eyes were not satisfied.
So we have a contrast.

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Moses is saying he is satisfied.
He is full each morning with

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God’s unchanging nature and his
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But the others are not satisfied
by what God offers.

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They want to pursue earthly
things.

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And that first time that word
satisfied is used is for the

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manner in the wilderness in
Exodus chapter 16 and in Exodus

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chapter 16.
And the children of Israel said,

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God’s brought us into this
wilderness to be killed of

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hunger.
And and so they’re literally

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starving and they had no food.
Yet we read that God provided

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mana for them to save them, to
give them life.

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And in verse 8 of Exodus chapter
16, Moses said, this shall be

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when the Lord shall give you in
the evening flesh to eat, and in

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the morning bread to bread to
the full.

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That word is the same word as
satisfied, for that the Lord

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heareth your murmurings which ye
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And again in verse 12 it says
that in the morning you shall be

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filled with bread.
So it’s the same word there be

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filled to be satisfied, and you
shall know that I am the Lord

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your God.
So the manner showed God’s mercy

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every morning and they were
filled with it physically.

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It was a showcase that God was
not going to let them die in the

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wilderness but give them life
and it is through the bread from

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heaven life is given and they
are reminded each morning,

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reminded of His mercy that
renews every morning.

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The bread renewed each day.
They couldn’t stop pilot.

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It had to be gathered every day
apart from that, that 6th day.

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Turn to John chapter 6 with me
now.

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And the Gospel of John is all
about life, isn’t it?

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The word life is repeated 41
times.

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The other gospels only say a
combined 32 times.

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So we know that we will find it
in John 6 about life in Christ.

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And chapter 6 is the bread
chapter.

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It starts with the feeding of
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And then Jesus tells the
disciples that He is the bread

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that fills them up rather than
the physical bread.

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And so he relates himself to the
manner and how He gives

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everlasting life, not just
sustaining for the day.

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So John chapter 6.
And now we’ve come to verse 47.

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Verily, verily, I say unto you,
heed He that believeth on me

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hath everlasting life.
I am that bread of life.

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Your father’s did eat manna in
the wilderness, and are dead.

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This is the bread which cometh
down from heaven, that a man may

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eat thereof and not die.
I am the living bread which came

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down from heaven.
If any man eat of this bread, he

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shall live forever.
And the bread that I will give

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is my flesh, which I will give
for the life of the world.

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So Christ is the bread who gives
us everlasting life, the bread

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that is provided by God, renewed
every morning.

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His mercy is renewed every
morning in that the forgiveness

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of sins through Christ’s death
and resurrection are new every

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morning.
And we’re reminded, just like

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Genesis chapter 8, just like in
Jeremiah and just like in

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Lamentations, we’re not
consumed, but we have hope

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through Him.
We’re reminded each and every

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day of God’s mercy that we do
not perish, but we have

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everlasting life.
And it’s through the bread and

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wine that we’ve just taken that
reminds us of this amazing

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covenant, the regular pattern of
days.

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Then a reminder of God’s
unchanging, his everlasting

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covenant, that we will not
perish, but we have everlasting

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life through his mercy and
through his Son’s death and

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resurrection.
We’re not going to go there, but

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Psalm 118 is all about God’s
mercy and about not trusting in

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man, but trusting in God, like
Ecclesiastes taught us.

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And I’ll just read these verses
as we close our thoughts.

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So Psalm 118, it starts by
saying, oh, give thanks unto the

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Lord, for He is good because his
mercy endureth forever.

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Let Israel now say that his
mercy endureth forever.

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And then jumping to the later
verses from verse 22, the stone

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which the builders refused is
become the headstone of the

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corner.
This is the Lord’s doing.

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It is marvellous in our eyes.
This is the day which the Lord

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hath made.
We will rejoice and be glad in

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it.
Save now, I beseech thee, O

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Lord, O Lord, I beseech thee,
Send now prosperity.

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Blessed be he that cometh in the
name of the Lord.

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We have blessed you out of the
House of the Lord.

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God is the Lord which has showed
us light.

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Bind the sacrifice with cords,
even unto the horns of the

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altar.
Thou art my God, and I will

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praise thee.
Thou art my God.

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I will exalt thee.
Or give thanks unto the Lord,

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for he is good, for his mercy
endureth forever.

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So I started by saying my
mornings are terrible there, a

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rush there a panic leaving
little to no time for God.

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However, after looking at what
the morning showcases and the

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blessing a new day gives every
morning, I will say this is the

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day that the Lord has made and I
will rejoice and I will be glad

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in it because the sun coming up
is another reminder of God’s

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mercy that is new every morning.
It is His provision of His

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bread, of His Son that we have
remembered, that we are not

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consumed, but we have
everlasting life through him.

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And I pray that we never get
bored of the unchanging God, the

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regular seasons, that the
regular days, but we are always

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satisfied.
We’re always full to the brim of

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God’s mercy each day.
Now in effect, to sum it all up,

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my excitation is to say stop
being so British, for us to stop

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complaining about maybe the days
and the weather, but to praise

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God every day for it.
And we wait patiently together

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for that day to come which will
never end because God’s light

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will fill the world forever.
His promise of His Kingdom is

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here and is fulfilled.
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