{"id":940,"date":"2023-01-29T22:00:24","date_gmt":"2023-01-29T22:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/228-nathan-lewis-lamentations-the-man-that-has-seen-affliction\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T23:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T23:50:17","slug":"228-nathan-lewis-lamentations-the-man-that-has-seen-affliction","status":"publish","type":"podcast","link":"https:\/\/goodchristadelphiantalks.com\/index.php\/podcast\/228-nathan-lewis-lamentations-the-man-that-has-seen-affliction\/","title":{"rendered":"228: Nathan Lewis – Lamentations: The Man That Has Seen Affliction"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week we are listening to a class by Brother Nathan Lewis that is entitled “The Man That Has Seen Affliction” from the series on Lamentations that he taught at the New Zealand Winter Bible School in 2021. For the slides from Bro. Nathan’s class, check the link HERE<\/p>\n

We hope this strengthens your Faith and brightens your day!<\/p>\n

Thank you for listening, God bless, and talk to you next week.<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome to good for selfie and
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\nnow let’s talk more about this
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\nfor this week.
\nWe’re listening to a class that <\/p>\n

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\nwas given by brother Nathan
\nLewis at the winter Bible School<\/p>\n

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\nin New Zealand back in 2021.
\nThis is the third class from the<\/p>\n

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\nseries.
\nHe gave their on the topic of <\/p>\n

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\nLamentations entitled, the man
\nthat has seen Affliction, what I<\/p>\n

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\nreally appreciate about this
\nclass in particular, what is <\/p>\n

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\nbrother, Nathan is, reminding us
\nof the perspective that we take <\/p>\n

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\nwhen dealing with trials and
\nstruggles that we’re facing in <\/p>\n

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\nour life.
\nThe entire series is taking a <\/p>\n

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\nreally deep look at the book of
\nLamentations. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd I found it to be helpful to
\nunderstand the book in general, <\/p>\n

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\nunderstand the flow of how the
\nbook fits together with the <\/p>\n

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\nstory of Jeremiah and Really
\nenjoyed listening to, it will <\/p>\n

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\ninclude in the show notes, the
\nlink to brother Nathan slides. <\/p>\n

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\nYet, some really excellent
\nslides for all five classes as <\/p>\n

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\nwell as having the entire series
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\nof the podcast.
\nIf you’re interested in hearing <\/p>\n

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\nat all.
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\nthe way that we look at and put <\/p>\n

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\nthe perspective that we have
\nwhen we’re going through <\/p>\n

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\ndifficult times.
\nAnd that we need to focus on the<\/p>\n

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\ngood that God has put in our
\nlives rather than on the He’s <\/p>\n

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\nand remember that.
\nEven when we face those <\/p>\n

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\ndifficult times, those things
\nare there to help us to grow and<\/p>\n

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\nencourage us to become better
\nreflection of God’s character <\/p>\n

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\nrather than the reflection of
\nour own desires. <\/p>\n

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\nThis class, the entire series
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\nsomebody had sent in shortly.
\nAfter the winter Bible School <\/p>\n

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\nconcluded, they recommend it
\nvery highly, I’m sorry, it took <\/p>\n

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\nus to the better part of a year
\nto get to it, but I agree with <\/p>\n

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\nthe recommendation.
\nI think this was spectacular <\/p>\n

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\nclass.
\nI hope you enjoyed this. <\/p>\n

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\nCooler one.
\nAnd that you listen to the <\/p>\n

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\nentire series because it is also
\nexcellent. <\/p>\n

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\nSo as always, thank you for
\neveryone who listens and sends <\/p>\n

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\nin comments and suggestions,
\nplease continue to send those in<\/p>\n

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\nand I hope you enjoy this class
\nby brother, Nathan Lewis on the <\/p>\n

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\nbook of Lamentations titled.
\nThe man that has seen affliction<\/p>\n

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\nWelcome back to Lamentations
\nthis morning Jeremiah’s <\/p>\n

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\nmasterpieces on the meaning of
\nsuffering, the value of <\/p>\n

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\nAffliction and this morning we
\ncome to the very heart and <\/p>\n

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\ncenter of the book.
\nThe verses that we know and love<\/p>\n

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\nfrom Lamentations chapter 3.
\nAnd the man that has seen <\/p>\n

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\nAffliction, the one who can see
\nthrough the incomprehensible fog<\/p>\n

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\nwho can see past the smoking
\nruins. <\/p>\n

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\nThe Destroyed families, the
\nlives, torn apart to the reason <\/p>\n

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\nwhy.
\nSo this morning we hope to go <\/p>\n

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\nfrom how could this be too?
\nWhy has this happened? <\/p>\n

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\nYou remember in our study
\nyesterday that we delved into <\/p>\n

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\nthe hopelessness and the
\nBlackness of Lamentations <\/p>\n

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\nchapters 1 and 2, where the
\npeople were floundering around. <\/p>\n

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\nAmidst the chaos trying to make
\nsense of all of this pain They <\/p>\n

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\nrealized too late that everyone
\nhad abandoned them in their hour<\/p>\n

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\nof need the Babylonian swept in
\nand the parties, the good times,<\/p>\n

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\nthe friends evaporated even God
\nhad gone because with God at the<\/p>\n

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\ncenter of their hearts and minds
\nand worship and lives due to was<\/p>\n

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\nthe beauty of Israel.
\nGod’s princess, his wife But <\/p>\n

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\nwithout God at the center, they
\nwould just like the Babylonians <\/p>\n

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\nnaked widowed childless
\nhumiliated and broken. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd yet, we saw towards the end
\nof chapter 2, inklings of hope. <\/p>\n

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\nYou will remember 2:13 for they
\nbreach is great, like the see <\/p>\n

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\nwho can heal thee.
\nWe have the very first hint that<\/p>\n

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\nGod could heal this Emptiness.
\nThat he could be not just the <\/p>\n

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\ncause of the problem but the
\nsolution as well. <\/p>\n

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\nHe could heal the bruise, the
\nGrievous wound in their souls. <\/p>\n

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\nIf only as we read in verse 19,
\nthey could lift up their hands <\/p>\n

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\ntowards him.
\nAnd it is out of this <\/p>\n

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\noverwhelming, Blackness this
\nfoggy despair, the desolation of<\/p>\n

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\nchapters 1 and 2 with just a
\nstirring of Hope on the horizon.<\/p>\n

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\nThat a man of chapter 3, emerges
\nSurvivor to answer their <\/p>\n

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\nquestions and to tell them in
\nchapter 3 and verse 41 that we <\/p>\n

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\nneed to not just lift up our
\nhands towards him as chapter 2 <\/p>\n

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\nand verse 19.
\nIt said, but our hearts as As <\/p>\n

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\nwell.
\nThe solution is going to need <\/p>\n

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\nnot just our words, but our
\nhearts, but God has promised to <\/p>\n

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\nheal those as well if we turn to
\nhim. <\/p>\n

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\nAnd so now this morning as we
\ncome to the man that has seen <\/p>\n

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\nAffliction, Jeremiah is going to
\nlay aside his narrators quill <\/p>\n

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\nand he’s going to sit down to
\nwrite a personal Soliloquy of <\/p>\n

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\nsorrow and in Perspective pathos
\nfilled chapter that describes <\/p>\n

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\nhis own position of loneliness
\nand suffering, amidst the <\/p>\n

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\ndevastation.
\nAnd we don’t have time this <\/p>\n

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\nmorning to go through how
\nJeremiah is a type of Christ and<\/p>\n

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\nhow Lamentations points forward
\nto Christ. <\/p>\n

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\nBut I have two handouts out the
\nfront up the front here. <\/p>\n

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\nSo feel free to Avail yourselves
\nof those at the end and in your <\/p>\n

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\nown time, you can examine those
\neyes. <\/p>\n

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\nBut clearly Jeremiah and
\nespecially chapter 3 is going to<\/p>\n

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\ngreatly typify.
\nThe work of Messiah, our Lord, <\/p>\n

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\nJesus Christ.
\nAnd the first point that he <\/p>\n

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\nwants to make in chapter 3, is
\nthat he’s no different to the <\/p>\n

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\nrest of the nation.
\nHe has seen Affliction by the <\/p>\n

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\nrod of yahweh’s Roth verse one
\nin verses 1 to 20, is really all<\/p>\n

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\nabout how this man has
\nexperienced. <\/p>\n

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\nAll the heartache and pain of
\nthe nation. <\/p>\n

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\nHe was not exempt.
\nHe was not aloof, he was not <\/p>\n

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\nseparate from the people.
\nHe was not different or <\/p>\n

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\nprotected from the Troubles by
\nGod this man Jeremiah and the <\/p>\n

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\nfirst instance, but clearly
\nMessiah himself in the ultimate <\/p>\n

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\nsense.
\nHas experienced all the misery <\/p>\n

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\nof the nation.
\nThe Jerusalem bible has 4 verse <\/p>\n

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\n1.
\nI am the man that is familiar <\/p>\n

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\nwith misery.
\nLook at this. <\/p>\n

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\nThis is a summary of
\nLamentations 3 and Lamentations <\/p>\n

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\n1 and 2 because the man of
\nchapter 3 has experienced <\/p>\n

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\neverything that the nation
\nexperienced in chapters 1 and 2.<\/p>\n

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\nHe experienced God’s anger He
\nfelt like God was destroying his<\/p>\n

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\nbody and his bones.
\nHe felt he judged and devoured. <\/p>\n

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\nRoundabout, he felt like no one
\nwas answering. <\/p>\n

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\nHe felt like God was destroying
\nlike a more rewarding animal. <\/p>\n

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\nHe felt desolate.
\nHe felt like God was bending his<\/p>\n

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\nbow and shooting arrows at him
\nin verse 14. <\/p>\n

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\nHe felt mocked by those around
\nhim. <\/p>\n

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\nHe experienced bitterness he sat
\nand Sack cloth and Ashes. <\/p>\n

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\nHe felt no rest or peace in his
\nmind. <\/p>\n

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\nHis strength failed.
\nIf he felt alone, he felt that <\/p>\n

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\nGod had shown no pity.
\nTears flowed like Rivers. <\/p>\n

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\nHe felt swallowed up in the
\nwaters. <\/p>\n

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\nCovered his head.
\nThe experiences of the man of <\/p>\n

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\nchapter 3 are identical to the
\nexperiences of the nation and <\/p>\n

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\nchapters 1 and 2.
\nIn this man is at pains to tell <\/p>\n

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\nus.
\nDid he came to share our <\/p>\n

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\nweakness?
\nThat he was not different or <\/p>\n

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\ndetached from the nation.
\nGod didn’t shelter or protect <\/p>\n

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\nhim, especially in, still, ate
\nhim. <\/p>\n

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\nFrom misery from Missouri.
\nHe learned obedience as it says,<\/p>\n

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\nin Hebrews 5 and verse 8 by the
\nthings, which he suffered just <\/p>\n

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\nas the nation experienced the
\nthe correcting Rod as Isaiah 10.<\/p>\n

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\nVerse 5 puts it.
\nThe sorrow Babylonian Rod of <\/p>\n

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\nmine anger.
\nSo Christ would Perience, <\/p>\n

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\nchastening and suffering, he
\nwould be acquainted with grief <\/p>\n

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\nand sorrow.
\nHe was a representative of the <\/p>\n

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\nhuman race.
\nThis man can only lend us his <\/p>\n

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\nstrength because he first came
\nand shared our weakness. <\/p>\n

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\nHe identifies in every way with
\nall of our pain, there’s nothing<\/p>\n

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\nthat Christ experienced brothers
\nand sisters, that is beyond our <\/p>\n

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\nexperience or nothing.
\nWe’ve experienced that he has <\/p>\n

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\nnot He was with the nation in
\nall of their heartache, you <\/p>\n

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\nknow, that’s an amazing thought,
\nisn’t it? <\/p>\n

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\nIf you think just for a moment
\nthat maybe just maybe The book <\/p>\n

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\nof Jeremiah which is like a
\ncatalog of Jeremiah sufferings <\/p>\n

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\nwas just to establish the
\ncredentials of the man who is <\/p>\n

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\nnow going to write this chapter.
\nAnd give us the meaning behind <\/p>\n

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\nall of the pain.
\nNo one could claim that the <\/p>\n

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\nSurvivor didn’t really
\nunderstand. <\/p>\n

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\nHe is familiar with misery.
\nOh he didn’t sin like the rest <\/p>\n

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\nof the nation.
\nHe was not suffering as a <\/p>\n

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\npunishment for his sins.
\nWe read in verse 52 that his <\/p>\n

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\nenemies.
\nChase him without cause and God <\/p>\n

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\nhimself pleads his cause in
\nverses 58 259. <\/p>\n

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\nHe is not abandoned God like the
\nrest of the nation but he is <\/p>\n

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\nstill touched by the feelings of
\ntheir infirmities. <\/p>\n

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\nHere is a man who was just like
\nus And just to highlight a few <\/p>\n

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\naspects of his suffering from
\nthe first few verses especially <\/p>\n

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\njust look at this man.
\nThis man who has seen Affliction<\/p>\n

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\n00:11:34,300 –> 00:11:39,100
\nverse 4 tells us My Flesh and my
\nskin. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:39,800 –> 00:11:47,800
\nHas he made old literally it
\nmeans wasted away worn out. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:48,300 –> 00:11:54,000
\nIt’s the same word used of Sarah
\nin Genesis 18 and verse 12 when <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:54,000 –> 00:11:56,500
\nshe was too old to Bear
\nchildren. <\/p>\n

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\n00:11:57,700 –> 00:12:01,800
\nIt’s the same, you word used of
\nthe gibeonites clothing and <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:01,800 –> 00:12:06,300
\nJoshua 9 and verse 13.
\nIt was fully worn out. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:07,400 –> 00:12:10,400
\nThis man had aged before his
\ntime. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:11,200 –> 00:12:15,000
\nHe was literally so acquainted
\nwith grief that he was <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:15,400 –> 00:12:19,100
\nphysically worn out as Isaiah
\n52. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:19,100 –> 00:12:24,600
\nIn verse 14 says his visit was
\nmarred more than any other man. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:25,300 –> 00:12:29,000
\nAnd John chapter 8, they look at
\nhim and say up there, not yet <\/p>\n

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\nfifty years old and he’s only
\n33. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:33,600 –> 00:12:38,200
\nThis man is worn out by his
\nmisery and Why has Affliction? <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:39,100 –> 00:12:45,400
\nHe’s a Survivor but only just,
\nand if there was any doubt that <\/p>\n

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\nhis experiences mirrored, the
\nnation’s look at verse 7. <\/p>\n

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\nHe has hedged me about that.
\nI cannot get out. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:53,700 –> 00:12:57,900
\nHe has made my chain heavy and
\nthe word. <\/p>\n

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\n00:12:57,900 –> 00:13:00,600
\nChained.
\nLiterally means Fitters of <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:00,600 –> 00:13:04,800
\nbrass.
\nIt’s exactly the same word as <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:04,800 –> 00:13:10,500
\nsecond of Kings, 25 and verse.
\nEvan wins, either Kaya and no <\/p>\n

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\ndoubt.
\nThe other slaves were bound with<\/p>\n

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\n00:13:13,200 –> 00:13:18,700
\nFetters of brass and marched off
\nas captives into Babylon. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:19,800 –> 00:13:23,300
\nThis man was no different to the
\nrest of the nation. <\/p>\n

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\nHis Fiddler’s of brass his human
\nnature would just as heavy, just<\/p>\n

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\nas painful.
\nHere was a man who could <\/p>\n

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\nrepresent.
\nThe nation for his misery was <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:37,900 –> 00:13:42,000
\njust the same.
\nLook at verses 10 and 11. <\/p>\n

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\nHe was on to me is a beer lying
\nin wait and is a lion and secret<\/p>\n

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\nplaces.
\nHis turned aside my ways and <\/p>\n

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\npulled me in pieces.
\nHe’s made me desolate. <\/p>\n

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\n00:13:56,500 –> 00:14:01,700
\nHe’s a man who felt like he was
\nbeing ambushed in mauled by an <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:01,700 –> 00:14:06,500
\nanimal.
\nA wild animal a lion or a beer <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:06,800 –> 00:14:10,500
\ndo you know that God had
\npromised to the nation in Hosea,<\/p>\n

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\n00:14:10,500 –> 00:14:12,800
\n13 and verses 7 and 8.
\nEight. <\/p>\n

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\nI will be unto them as a lion.
\nI will meet them as a beer <\/p>\n

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\nbereaved of her whelps.
\nI will devour them like a lion. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:22,200 –> 00:14:25,600
\nAnd here, this man feels exactly
\nthe same. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:25,900 –> 00:14:30,000
\nHis experience was identical to
\nwhat? <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:30,000 –> 00:14:35,000
\nGod promised, the nation would
\nexperience in Hosea, 13, verses,<\/p>\n

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\n00:14:35,500 –> 00:14:38,000
\n7, and 8.
\nHe’s just like them. <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:38,300 –> 00:14:42,300
\nHe’s at pains to tell us in the
\nfirst 20 verses of this chapter.<\/p>\n

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\n00:14:42,900 –> 00:14:48,500
\nMessiah is I’m just like the
\nrest of the nation, look at <\/p>\n

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\n00:14:48,500 –> 00:14:53,400
\nverses 12 to 13.
\nHe hath bent his bow sit me as a<\/p>\n

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\nmark for for the arrow.
\nIf cause the arrows of his <\/p>\n

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\nquiver to enter into my reins,
\nhe felt hunted by God himself. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:03,700 –> 00:15:10,500
\nJust as in Chapter 2 and in
\nverse 4 God had bent his bow to <\/p>\n

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\nshoot arrows of displeasure at
\nthe nation. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:13,300 –> 00:15:17,700
\nNow in chapter 3 in verses 12 to
\n13 his bent his bow to shoot it.<\/p>\n

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\nThis man in fact the word Mark
\nin verse 12 is usually <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:24,000 –> 00:15:30,200
\ntranslated prison.
\nHe has set me as a prison for <\/p>\n

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\nhis arrows.
\nNone of these arrows are coming <\/p>\n

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\nout.
\nOut that all going to stay in <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:34,900 –> 00:15:40,800
\nhis body like a prison, the
\narrows into into his reins and <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:40,800 –> 00:15:45,900
\nsome 38 verse 2 says, they
\nNarrows stick fast in me. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:46,500 –> 00:15:52,100
\nThey hand press with me saw.
\nHe feels hunted persecuted <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:52,400 –> 00:15:56,400
\ntormented smitten of God and
\nAfflicted. <\/p>\n

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\n00:15:57,400 –> 00:16:01,500
\nIn fact, this man of
\nLamentations 3 is none other <\/p>\n

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\nthan the man.
\nAnne of Isaiah’s suffering <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:05,100 –> 00:16:09,500
\nServant Song in Isaiah 53 and
\nI’d like you to come back there.<\/p>\n

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\nIsaiah 53.
\nLook at this. <\/p>\n

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\nThey can be no doubt that the
\nman of Lamentations 3, the man <\/p>\n

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\nwho was seen.
\nAffliction is exactly the same <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:26,800 –> 00:16:32,900
\nman as Isaiah 53, who is smitten
\nof God and afflicted. <\/p>\n

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\n00:16:37,900 –> 00:16:42,300
\nBecause when we come to Isaiah
\n53, Messiah was going to have <\/p>\n

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\nhis visages mad.
\nHe was going to age before his <\/p>\n

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\ntime in Isaiah, 53 and verse 2.
\nThere was no for more beauty <\/p>\n

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\nthat we should desire him.
\nHe was going to be despised and <\/p>\n

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\nrejected of men.
\nHe was going to be a man of <\/p>\n

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\nSorrows acquainted with grief
\nstricken smitten Afflicted, <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:06,599 –> 00:17:13,200
\nwounded, bruised depressed.
\nSorry oppressed but silent <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:13,200 –> 00:17:18,800
\nnonetheless He would be taken
\nfrom Justice cut off from the <\/p>\n

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\nland of the living.
\nIt pleased Yahweh to bruise him <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:27,300 –> 00:17:30,000
\na, but these are there’s
\nsomething very interesting in <\/p>\n

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\nIsaiah 53, isn’t there?
\nBecause it gets to the nub of <\/p>\n

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\nwhat we want to look at this
\nmorning, here’s a man. <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:35,400 –> 00:17:38,900
\nWho’s stricken smitten Afflicted
\nyet? <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:38,900 –> 00:17:45,700
\nIt pleased Yahweh to bruise him.
\nThere was a purpose, there was <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:45,700 –> 00:17:49,300
\nan objective, a grand reason for
\nall of this misery and <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:49,300 –> 00:17:51,100
\nsuffering, and look what we read
\nin verse. <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:51,200 –> 00:17:57,400
\nVerse 10 of Isaiah 53, yet it
\npleased Yahweh to bruise him. <\/p>\n

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\n00:17:57,800 –> 00:18:02,100
\nHe hath put him to grief when
\nthou shalt make his soul an <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:02,100 –> 00:18:05,700
\noffering for sin, he shall see
\nhis seed. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:06,000 –> 00:18:09,900
\nHe shall prolong his days and
\nthe pleasure of Yahweh shall <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:09,900 –> 00:18:16,400
\nprosper in his hand, he shall
\nsee all the travail of his soul <\/p>\n

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\nand shall be satisfied by his
\nknowledge. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:21,400 –> 00:18:25,900
\nShall my righteous servant
\njustify many for he shall bear <\/p>\n

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\ntheir iniquities.
\nThere was a satisfaction <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:30,200 –> 00:18:34,000
\nattached to travail.
\nWhat was that? <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:34,600 –> 00:18:37,900
\nWas their meaning to all this
\npain is there? <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:37,900 –> 00:18:42,300
\nHope beyond the tears?
\nMaybe, maybe if these men are <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:42,300 –> 00:18:46,400
\nthe same, the same man, he can
\nanswer these questions for us <\/p>\n

255
\n00:18:46,600 –> 00:18:51,800
\nMessiah suffered its so much.
\nBut he emerged Us fide. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:53,100 –> 00:18:57,100
\nThen maybe he should he can
\nshare his secrets with us. <\/p>\n

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\n00:18:57,500 –> 00:19:01,500
\nBecause if Lamentations to in
\nverse 13 ask the question. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:01,800 –> 00:19:09,200
\nThey bruise is great who can
\nheal thee Then Isaiah 53 and <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:09,200 –> 00:19:15,800
\nverse 5 is going to answer that
\nquestion with his bruises. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:17,100 –> 00:19:20,400
\nAs it says in the margin, are we
\nhealed? <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:20,400 –> 00:19:26,400
\nMaybe this man has the answers
\nto the questions that we want <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:26,500 –> 00:19:29,600
\nthat.
\nWe need the meaning to <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:29,600 –> 00:19:33,300
\nsuffering.
\nThere has to be satisfaction. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:34,300 –> 00:19:38,700
\nThere has to be something at the
\nend of this hard Road. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:38,700 –> 00:19:43,100
\nThe pleasure of Yahweh would
\nprosper in his hand and by this <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:43,100 –> 00:19:46,500
\nman’s knowledge, he would teach
\nmany of the meaning of <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:46,500 –> 00:19:48,100
\nsuffering.
\nSo let us come back. <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:48,100 –> 00:19:51,900
\nNow to Lamentations and chapter
\n3 and for the rest of this <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:51,900 –> 00:19:58,400
\nmorning, we really want to focus
\nin on verses 17 to 40 and look <\/p>\n

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\n00:19:58,400 –> 00:20:02,400
\nat Durham eyes inspired
\nperspective on suffering and <\/p>\n

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\nMessiahs.
\nPerspective on suffering. <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:07,500 –> 00:20:12,300
\nNot how could this happen, but
\nwhy did this happen? <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:13,600 –> 00:20:19,400
\nThe meaning behind the misery.
\nNow Lamentations 3 and verse 17 <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:19,400 –> 00:20:24,700
\nconcludes the first section of
\nthe chapter, where, as we have <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:24,700 –> 00:20:29,100
\nsaid, this man identifies with
\nthe experiences and the horror <\/p>\n

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\nand the grief of the nation, but
\nlook How It Ends. <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:32,300 –> 00:20:38,700
\nVerse 17, there has removed my
\nsoul far off from piece. <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:40,300 –> 00:20:47,600
\nI forget prosperity.
\nI forget Prosperity, he had <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:47,600 –> 00:20:50,600
\nforgotten everything.
\nThat was good as the word <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:50,600 –> 00:20:55,500
\nProsperity has in the margin.
\nThere was only chaos privation <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:55,700 –> 00:20:59,100
\nand suffering that remained in
\nthis man’s mind. <\/p>\n

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\n00:20:59,100 –> 00:21:04,900
\nBy the time he got to verse 17.
\nEverything good had been <\/p>\n

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\nforgotten.
\nAnd you know, it’s tempting to <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:08,200 –> 00:21:12,400
\nfeel like this isn’t it when we
\nare suffering and troubles seem <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:12,400 –> 00:21:17,100
\nto be overwhelming us?
\nSometimes all we can think of is<\/p>\n

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\n00:21:17,100 –> 00:21:21,500
\nourselves.
\nLook at verses 18 to 20 and I <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:21,500 –> 00:21:27,000
\nsaid my strength and my hope is
\nperished from Yahweh, <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:27,000 –> 00:21:32,800
\nremembering my misery, my
\nAffliction, the womb would end <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:32,800 –> 00:21:37,000
\nthe goal, my soul, hath them
\nstill in remembrance and his Old<\/p>\n

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\n00:21:37,000 –> 00:21:42,200
\nin me when we are overwhelmed,
\nwhen we are troubled and <\/p>\n

291
\n00:21:42,200 –> 00:21:48,400
\ndistraught, we lose perspective,
\nand our world, everything very <\/p>\n

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\n00:21:48,400 –> 00:21:55,200
\nquickly, shrinks down to my
\nAffliction, my misery, my <\/p>\n

293
\n00:21:55,200 –> 00:21:59,600
\nwormwood and Gall, it’s all
\nabout me and how I am suffering.<\/p>\n

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\n00:21:59,700 –> 00:22:07,900
\nAnd why is this happening to me?
\nAnd Messiahs answer is If we are<\/p>\n

295
\n00:22:07,900 –> 00:22:16,300
\nforgetting the good then
\nremember the good. <\/p>\n

296
\n00:22:17,400 –> 00:22:25,900
\nRecall the good refocus outside
\nof ourselves verse 21 is it <\/p>\n

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\n00:22:25,900 –> 00:22:31,300
\nsays– in the margin, make our
\nheart return to the good. <\/p>\n

298
\n00:22:31,500 –> 00:22:42,000
\nSo if we forget verse 17, Then
\nwe need to remember verse 19. <\/p>\n

299
\n00:22:42,800 –> 00:22:52,900
\nHave them in remembrance verse
\n20, recall to mind verse 21, see<\/p>\n

300
\n00:22:52,900 –> 00:22:57,800
\nthe point.
\nWhen Trials come in our lives. <\/p>\n

301
\n00:22:57,900 –> 00:23:02,600
\nAnd how often is this true?
\nSometimes the present just <\/p>\n

302
\n00:23:02,600 –> 00:23:08,300
\ndoesn’t make sense.
\nAnd the future seems too distant<\/p>\n

303
\n00:23:08,400 –> 00:23:14,200
\nand intangible and the only
\nconcrete Touchstone we have is <\/p>\n

304
\n00:23:14,200 –> 00:23:18,400
\nthe past.
\nWhat God is doing right now. <\/p>\n

305
\n00:23:18,400 –> 00:23:20,600
\nSeems incomprehensible in the
\nKingdom. <\/p>\n

306
\n00:23:20,600 –> 00:23:22,900
\nThe future just seems too far
\naway. <\/p>\n

307
\n00:23:23,300 –> 00:23:28,100
\nThe only thing that is real is
\nwhat God has already done. <\/p>\n

308
\n00:23:28,400 –> 00:23:33,600
\nAnd this man asks us to remember
\nthe past. <\/p>\n

309
\n00:23:33,700 –> 00:23:39,700
\nThat’s why but ancestors, we
\nhave the memorials On Sunday <\/p>\n

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\n00:23:39,700 –> 00:23:43,200
\nmorning it’s not come and
\npartake of something that looks <\/p>\n

311
\n00:23:43,200 –> 00:23:47,300
\nforward to the kingdom.
\nIt’s remember what God has <\/p>\n

312
\n00:23:47,500 –> 00:23:51,300
\nalready done.
\nAnd if we were to ask the <\/p>\n

313
\n00:23:51,300 –> 00:23:54,900
\nquestion, what do we need to
\nremember? <\/p>\n

314
\n00:23:55,900 –> 00:23:58,200
\nWhat do we need to recall to
\nmind? <\/p>\n

315
\n00:23:58,400 –> 00:24:07,500
\nThe answer is verse 22 and 23.
\nGod’s character yahweh’s. <\/p>\n

316
\n00:24:07,500 –> 00:24:14,000
\nMercy verse 22.
\nYahweh’s compassion verse 22. <\/p>\n

317
\n00:24:14,800 –> 00:24:25,700
\nYahweh’s faithfulness verse 23.
\nYahweh’s goodness verse 25 and <\/p>\n

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\n00:24:25,700 –> 00:24:29,900
\nlook at the emphasis on the
\ngoodness of God’s character. <\/p>\n

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\n00:24:30,000 –> 00:24:36,600
\nIf we forget the good verse What
\nMessiah reminds us of is the <\/p>\n

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\n00:24:36,600 –> 00:24:43,700
\ngoodness of God, verse 25, the
\ngoodness of God, verse 26, the <\/p>\n

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\n00:24:43,700 –> 00:24:48,800
\ngoodness of God verse 27.
\nRemember God’s goodness and his <\/p>\n

322
\n00:24:48,800 –> 00:24:50,900
\ncharacter, we can’t miss the
\npoint. <\/p>\n

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\n00:24:50,900 –> 00:24:57,700
\nCan we This is a key to
\novercoming at issues with <\/p>\n

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\n00:24:57,700 –> 00:25:02,400
\nsuffering.
\nWe’ve got to remember God’s <\/p>\n

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\n00:25:02,400 –> 00:25:05,500
\ncharacter now.
\nWhy does Jeremiah focus our <\/p>\n

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\n00:25:05,500 –> 00:25:12,600
\nminds on this one thing on God’s
\ncharacter and the answer is that<\/p>\n

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\n00:25:12,600 –> 00:25:16,600
\nhe is drawing inspiration from
\nanother man. <\/p>\n

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\n00:25:17,600 –> 00:25:23,300
\nAnother man who was overwhelmed
\nwith trouble and to pull himself<\/p>\n

329
\n00:25:23,300 –> 00:25:29,700
\nout of the Blackness, he did
\nexactly that and that man was <\/p>\n

330
\n00:25:30,300 –> 00:25:33,800
\nDavid.
\nNow I want you to draw your <\/p>\n

331
\n00:25:33,800 –> 00:25:39,000
\nattention to one verse that we
\nskipped over earlier and that is<\/p>\n

332
\n00:25:39,200 –> 00:25:44,100
\nverse 6.
\nVerse 6 of Lamentations three <\/p>\n

333
\n00:25:44,100 –> 00:25:51,500
\nC’s, he has set me in Dark
\nPlaces as they that be dead of <\/p>\n

334
\n00:25:51,500 –> 00:25:55,300
\nold.
\nAnd you may not have realized, <\/p>\n

335
\n00:25:55,300 –> 00:26:00,800
\nbut actually the whole of verse
\n6 is a direct quotation, as the <\/p>\n

336
\n00:26:00,800 –> 00:26:08,700
\nmargin, says of eyes of Psalm
\n143 and verse 3, and Jeremiah is<\/p>\n

337
\n00:26:08,700 –> 00:26:13,600
\ngoing to lift a verse right.
\nOut of a Psalm of David to <\/p>\n

338
\n00:26:13,600 –> 00:26:19,300
\nexplain how he feels.
\nSo let’s go there to Psalm 143 <\/p>\n

339
\n00:26:19,300 –> 00:26:23,800
\nbecause embedded in, this Psalm
\nis the inspiration for <\/p>\n

340
\n00:26:23,800 –> 00:26:26,600
\nJeremiah’s explanation on
\nsuffering. <\/p>\n

341
\n00:26:28,000 –> 00:26:35,400
\nPsalm 143.
\nNow, in actual fact, some 143 is<\/p>\n

342
\n00:26:35,400 –> 00:26:41,300
\nconnected with some 142, they
\nare in actual Fact. <\/p>\n

343
\n00:26:41,300 –> 00:26:45,700
\nOne Psalm we can see that
\nbecause if you want to put a <\/p>\n

344
\n00:26:45,700 –> 00:26:56,100
\nsplash of color, in some 142,
\nverse 3, It says, when my spirit<\/p>\n

345
\n00:26:56,100 –> 00:27:02,000
\nwas overwhelmed with in me and
\nwhen we come to Psalm 143 in <\/p>\n

346
\n00:27:02,000 –> 00:27:09,500
\nverse 4 it says therefore is my
\nspirit overwhelmed within me. <\/p>\n

347
\n00:27:09,800 –> 00:27:15,800
\nSo Sam 142 and Psalm 143 are
\nconnected and it’s describing a <\/p>\n

348
\n00:27:15,800 –> 00:27:17,000
\ntime.
\nWhy? <\/p>\n

349
\n00:27:17,000 –> 00:27:22,400
\nWhen David feels overwhelmed,
\noverwhelmed the background Uh, <\/p>\n

350
\n00:27:22,408 –> 00:27:27,400
\nthis Psalm is probably first of
\nSamuel 24, when David was <\/p>\n

351
\n00:27:27,400 –> 00:27:31,600
\ndesperately running from Saul
\nhiding in caves different caves <\/p>\n

352
\n00:27:31,600 –> 00:27:35,900
\nevery night, hundreds of men
\nunder his control, he’s in <\/p>\n

353
\n00:27:36,000 –> 00:27:40,600
\ntrouble fleeing for his life.
\nIt was all too difficult. <\/p>\n

354
\n00:27:40,700 –> 00:27:45,600
\nWe read in Psalm 142 and verse
\n4, that Refuge failed him. <\/p>\n

355
\n00:27:46,700 –> 00:27:51,200
\nNobody would offer him Comfort.
\nHe’s depressed, the six, he’s <\/p>\n

356
\n00:27:51,200 –> 00:27:54,300
\npersecuted.
\nHe feels like he’s imprisoned <\/p>\n

357
\n00:27:54,400 –> 00:27:58,100
\nverse 7.
\nAnd out of this suffering, this <\/p>\n

358
\n00:27:58,100 –> 00:28:00,500
\nBlackness that engulfed, his
\nsoul. <\/p>\n

359
\n00:28:00,900 –> 00:28:08,600
\nWe read Psalm 143 in verse 34.
\nThe enemy hath persecuted. <\/p>\n

360
\n00:28:08,600 –> 00:28:12,800
\nMy soul he is smitten my life
\ndown to the ground. <\/p>\n

361
\n00:28:13,300 –> 00:28:16,300
\nHe hath made me to dwell in
\ndarkness. <\/p>\n

362
\n00:28:17,200 –> 00:28:21,400
\nIs those that have been long
\ndead. <\/p>\n

363
\n00:28:22,300 –> 00:28:29,700
\nSo Jeremiah quotes verse 3 in
\nLamentations 3 and verse 6, word<\/p>\n

364
\n00:28:30,200 –> 00:28:35,400
\nfor word.
\nClearly his mind was here and as<\/p>\n

365
\n00:28:35,400 –> 00:28:41,700
\nit turns out, there are a few
\nIllusions in Lamentations, 32, <\/p>\n

366
\n00:28:42,200 –> 00:28:52,200
\nIsaac, to Psalm 142 and 143. 43.
\nBecause David here in the psalm,<\/p>\n

367
\n00:28:53,100 –> 00:28:59,900
\nfelt caught in the snare.
\nInverse for Refuge or hope had <\/p>\n

368
\n00:28:59,900 –> 00:29:02,800
\nperished from him.
\nHe felt imprisoned, as we said, <\/p>\n

369
\n00:29:02,800 –> 00:29:09,000
\nin verse 7, he was set and Dark
\nPlaces his heart within him was <\/p>\n

370
\n00:29:09,000 –> 00:29:12,000
\ndesolate.
\nHe felt like he was one that <\/p>\n

371
\n00:29:12,000 –> 00:29:14,100
\nwent was going down into the
\ndungeon. <\/p>\n

372
\n00:29:14,200 –> 00:29:16,800
\nIt was too difficult for David
\nat this time. <\/p>\n

373
\n00:29:19,300 –> 00:29:25,000
\nBut then, what happens in the
\npsalm is that he starts to <\/p>\n

374
\n00:29:25,000 –> 00:29:31,000
\nbecome more positive.
\nHe stops to say, things like <\/p>\n

375
\n00:29:31,600 –> 00:29:34,200
\nthat.
\nYahweh is my portion. <\/p>\n

376
\n00:29:35,700 –> 00:29:44,400
\nHe admits in Psalm 143, in verse
\n24 in thy sight shall no man <\/p>\n

377
\n00:29:44,400 –> 00:29:49,500
\nliving be justified.
\nHe admits that no man living <\/p>\n

378
\n00:29:50,700 –> 00:29:54,100
\nShould really receive goodness
\nfrom God. <\/p>\n

379
\n00:29:54,800 –> 00:29:59,100
\nAnd finally, He gets to this
\npoint. <\/p>\n

380
\n00:29:59,100 –> 00:30:05,900
\nWe suddenly we read in verse 5,
\nI remember I remember the days <\/p>\n

381
\n00:30:05,900 –> 00:30:11,400
\nof old I remember and if we were
\nto ask, what does David <\/p>\n

382
\n00:30:11,400 –> 00:30:15,600
\nremember?
\nThe answer is when we go through<\/p>\n

383
\n00:30:15,600 –> 00:30:24,700
\nsome 142 and 143 is exactly what
\nJeremiah is, going to ask us to <\/p>\n

384
\n00:30:24,700 –> 00:30:30,900
\nremember in Lamentations 3, read
\nwith me some 143 God’s <\/p>\n

385
\n00:30:32,000 –> 00:30:40,500
\nfaithfulness verse 1 God’s
\nloving-kindness verse 8 cause me<\/p>\n

386
\n00:30:40,500 –> 00:30:43,900
\nto hear thy loving-kindness in
\nthe morning. <\/p>\n

387
\n00:30:44,100 –> 00:30:48,600
\nWe just that phrase come from in
\nLamentations it comes right from<\/p>\n

388
\n00:30:48,600 –> 00:30:58,800
\nhere some 143 in verse 8.
\nThis teen lead me into the land <\/p>\n

389
\n00:30:58,800 –> 00:31:04,500
\nof uprightness for thy spirit is
\ngood verse 1. <\/p>\n

390
\n00:31:04,500 –> 00:31:08,400
\nHe remembers God’s
\nrighteousness, verse 11, God’s <\/p>\n

391
\n00:31:08,400 –> 00:31:14,500
\nrighteousness, verse 12, his
\nMercy, what does David remember?<\/p>\n

392
\n00:31:15,700 –> 00:31:23,200
\nIn Psalm 142 and 143, specially
\nsome 143, he recalls, to his <\/p>\n

393
\n00:31:23,200 –> 00:31:30,200
\nmind, God’s good character.
\nSo, why does Jeremiah quote from<\/p>\n

394
\n00:31:30,200 –> 00:31:33,000
\nthe psalm?
\nBecause David, although <\/p>\n

395
\n00:31:33,000 –> 00:31:36,200
\nphysically exhausted.
\nAnd emotionally overwhelmed, was<\/p>\n

396
\n00:31:36,300 –> 00:31:41,100
\nable to drag himself up out of
\nthe pit of despair and see, <\/p>\n

397
\n00:31:41,100 –> 00:31:45,100
\nmeaning behind his suffering.
\nRegain a true perspective. <\/p>\n

398
\n00:31:45,500 –> 00:31:48,700
\nRestore his mental health
\nbecause of one thing. <\/p>\n

399
\n00:31:49,900 –> 00:31:55,300
\nHis remembrance of the character
\nof God and Jeremiah using David <\/p>\n

400
\n00:31:55,300 –> 00:31:58,600
\nfor his inspiration.
\nDoes exactly the same. <\/p>\n

401
\n00:31:59,600 –> 00:32:03,700
\nSo, come back now to
\nLamentations and chapter 3 and <\/p>\n

402
\n00:32:03,700 –> 00:32:11,100
\nCy, the character of God is so
\ncritical to a true and balanced <\/p>\n

403
\n00:32:11,800 –> 00:32:16,400
\nand fear and godly perspective
\non our suffering. <\/p>\n

404
\n00:32:16,400 –> 00:32:19,500
\nWhy does God’s good character?
\nMake sense. <\/p>\n

405
\n00:32:20,300 –> 00:32:27,300
\nOf everything.
\nWell, I think this is what <\/p>\n

406
\n00:32:27,300 –> 00:32:35,400
\nhappens when we forget the good
\nwhen we forget, what is good? <\/p>\n

407
\n00:32:35,400 –> 00:32:41,000
\nAs we saw in verse 17, we lose
\nperspective and we start to <\/p>\n

408
\n00:32:41,000 –> 00:32:46,500
\nfocus all on ourselves.
\nWe have this view that I deserve<\/p>\n

409
\n00:32:46,500 –> 00:32:52,400
\na good life.
\nAnd so when we suffer, we often <\/p>\n

410
\n00:32:52,400 –> 00:32:56,100
\nexperience three main ways of
\nthinking. <\/p>\n

411
\n00:32:56,900 –> 00:33:06,400
\nThe first one is we get angry.
\nand we say, Life seems unfair. <\/p>\n

412
\n00:33:07,700 –> 00:33:12,800
\nIt’s not fear.
\nGod is to blame and we blame <\/p>\n

413
\n00:33:12,800 –> 00:33:17,300
\nGod.
\nMaybe maybe overtly or perhaps <\/p>\n

414
\n00:33:17,300 –> 00:33:22,700
\njust in the back of our minds.
\nWhat else can we do when <\/p>\n

415
\n00:33:22,700 –> 00:33:27,400
\nsuffering comes our way, or
\nsometimes we get frustrated and <\/p>\n

416
\n00:33:27,400 –> 00:33:34,100
\nwe say it’s too hard and I give
\nup how many times have we seen <\/p>\n

417
\n00:33:34,100 –> 00:33:37,700
\nthat when when suffering comes
\ninto the life of a brother or <\/p>\n

418
\n00:33:37,700 –> 00:33:41,400
\nsister and it’s just all too
\ndifficult to come to the meeting<\/p>\n

419
\n00:33:41,400 –> 00:33:43,900
\nand they lose faith, and leave
\nthe truth. <\/p>\n

420
\n00:33:44,000 –> 00:33:46,700
\nIt’s too hard.
\nRight. <\/p>\n

421
\n00:33:46,700 –> 00:33:50,100
\nThat’s the Thorns, the
\ndifficulties of life. <\/p>\n

422
\n00:33:52,000 –> 00:34:00,200
\nOr we experience doubt and we
\nsay it’s all too confusing and I<\/p>\n

423
\n00:34:00,200 –> 00:34:07,400
\ncan’t seem to see how God hears
\nand when were in this situation,<\/p>\n

424
\n00:34:08,199 –> 00:34:12,500
\nwe need to remember the good
\nbecause God’s good character <\/p>\n

425
\n00:34:12,500 –> 00:34:16,800
\nputs all of this into the right
\nperspective. <\/p>\n

426
\n00:34:17,800 –> 00:34:21,600
\nSo, what we want to just do now
\nis run through briefly. <\/p>\n

427
\n00:34:21,800 –> 00:34:29,900
\nVerses 22 to 39 to establish
\nJeremiah’s perspective and the <\/p>\n

428
\n00:34:29,900 –> 00:34:32,800
\nmeaning that we can find in
\nsuffering, these are the verses <\/p>\n

429
\n00:34:32,800 –> 00:34:35,100
\nthat we know.
\nSo well from Lamentations and <\/p>\n

430
\n00:34:35,100 –> 00:34:38,900
\nhopefully now we can see a
\nlittle more clearly with a <\/p>\n

431
\n00:34:38,900 –> 00:34:41,100
\nsit-in, the overall flow of the
\nbook. <\/p>\n

432
\n00:34:41,100 –> 00:34:46,199
\nThe first part of this next
\nsection is going to describe <\/p>\n

433
\n00:34:46,199 –> 00:34:50,300
\nwhat God’s character means.
\nIf we’re to remember God’s <\/p>\n

434
\n00:34:50,300 –> 00:34:52,300
\ncharacter, then that means that
\nUs. <\/p>\n

435
\n00:34:52,600 –> 00:34:58,200
\nAnd when we come to verses 33
\n239, it will describe the <\/p>\n

436
\n00:34:58,200 –> 00:35:03,500
\nlogical implications of our
\nUnderstanding God’s character. <\/p>\n

437
\n00:35:04,000 –> 00:35:07,900
\nSo this first section that we’re
\ngoing to look at is verses 22 to<\/p>\n

438
\n00:35:07,900 –> 00:35:14,600
\n32 and then by logical
\nimplication verses 33 to 40. <\/p>\n

439
\n00:35:15,300 –> 00:35:18,300
\nSo what’s the first thing that
\nwe read in verse 22? <\/p>\n

440
\n00:35:18,500 –> 00:35:21,600
\nIt is of yahweh’s mercies that
\nwe are not. <\/p>\n

441
\n00:35:21,700 –> 00:35:27,100
\nNot consumed because his
\ncompassion’s fail not God’s <\/p>\n

442
\n00:35:27,100 –> 00:35:30,100
\ncharacter.
\nIs the Touchstone for suffering <\/p>\n

443
\n00:35:30,100 –> 00:35:33,500
\nfor the right perspective
\nbecause it never changes. <\/p>\n

444
\n00:35:34,500 –> 00:35:38,400
\nGod’s character never changes.
\nIt’s the unchangeable thing in a<\/p>\n

445
\n00:35:38,400 –> 00:35:44,000
\nsea of feelings, God’s character
\nis a fact, it’s solid and <\/p>\n

446
\n00:35:44,000 –> 00:35:49,200
\nreliable and in God’s character
\nas described in Ezekiel. 34 is <\/p>\n

447
\n00:35:49,300 –> 00:35:56,100
\noverwhelmingly, merciful
\noverwhelmingly full of goodness.<\/p>\n

448
\n00:35:56,400 –> 00:36:02,100
\nMerciful gracious long-suffering
\nabundant in goodness and Truth. <\/p>\n

449
\n00:36:02,500 –> 00:36:06,800
\nKeeping Mercy for thousands.
\nForgiving iniquity transgression<\/p>\n

450
\n00:36:06,800 –> 00:36:11,000
\nand sin.
\nAnd if we were to just pause and<\/p>\n

451
\n00:36:11,000 –> 00:36:17,900
\nthink how we would feel if a god
\ndescribed himself as sometimes <\/p>\n

452
\n00:36:17,900 –> 00:36:25,500
\nunfair, often unsympathetic
\npartially cruel sometimes <\/p>\n

453
\n00:36:25,500 –> 00:36:29,400
\nheartless, vengeful callous and
\ndifferent. <\/p>\n

454
\n00:36:29,400 –> 00:36:33,100
\nUncaring impatient overly
\ndemanding. <\/p>\n

455
\n00:36:33,300 –> 00:36:35,600
\nVindictive.
\nHow would we feel about God? <\/p>\n

456
\n00:36:36,400 –> 00:36:40,000
\nWe know what his character is.
\nThese are the things which are <\/p>\n

457
\n00:36:40,000 –> 00:36:44,000
\nthe solid rock and our lives.
\nThey might be characteristics. <\/p>\n

458
\n00:36:45,000 –> 00:36:48,200
\nThose things like being
\nvengeful, or cruel, or <\/p>\n

459
\n00:36:48,200 –> 00:36:51,600
\nunsympathetic that we might like
\nto ascribe to God and our <\/p>\n

460
\n00:36:51,900 –> 00:36:54,100
\ndifficult moments.
\nBut it’s not the absolute <\/p>\n

461
\n00:36:54,100 –> 00:36:57,300
\nreality is it?
\nGod has overwhelmingly good. <\/p>\n

462
\n00:36:58,700 –> 00:37:02,700
\nOverwhelmingly good.
\nSo that actually everyday <\/p>\n

463
\n00:37:02,700 –> 00:37:05,700
\nsuffering or not, we live by his
\nMercy. <\/p>\n

464
\n00:37:07,000 –> 00:37:13,100
\nWe read this in verse 23, his
\ncompassion’s fail not, they are <\/p>\n

465
\n00:37:13,100 –> 00:37:19,400
\nnew every morning when we think
\nGod has forgotten us forever. <\/p>\n

466
\n00:37:20,600 –> 00:37:24,400
\nWe need to be reminded that
\nwhile we sleep. <\/p>\n

467
\n00:37:25,000 –> 00:37:31,500
\nHe is preparing, fresh Mercy,
\nfresh compassion, for us some <\/p>\n

468
\n00:37:31,500 –> 00:37:38,700
\n121 verses 3 to 4 says that the
\ngod, that keeps Israel Slumbers <\/p>\n

469
\n00:37:38,700 –> 00:37:42,000
\nnot nor sleeps the whole time
\nthat the nation is asleep. <\/p>\n

470
\n00:37:42,000 –> 00:37:46,700
\nDuring the night, he is keeping
\nin guarding their lives. <\/p>\n

471
\n00:37:47,000 –> 00:37:50,200
\nSo when everything feels like
\nit’s lost this man. <\/p>\n

472
\n00:37:50,300 –> 00:37:53,600
\nPuts his trust in God.
\nA God, who is preparing fresh <\/p>\n

473
\n00:37:53,600 –> 00:37:56,700
\nenergy.
\nFresh strength and breath for <\/p>\n

474
\n00:37:56,700 –> 00:38:05,800
\nhim while he is asleep.
\nVerse 24, we read Yahweh is my <\/p>\n

475
\n00:38:05,800 –> 00:38:08,200
\nportion.
\nSeth, my soul. <\/p>\n

476
\n00:38:08,600 –> 00:38:13,600
\nTherefore, will I hope in him
\nactually this is the meaning of <\/p>\n

477
\n00:38:14,200 –> 00:38:16,400
\nJeremiah’s.
\nFather’s name. <\/p>\n

478
\n00:38:17,000 –> 00:38:21,600
\nJeremiah, the son of hilkiah,
\nYahweh is my portion or <\/p>\n

479
\n00:38:21,600 –> 00:38:25,600
\ninheritance and all around him
\nall around him. <\/p>\n

480
\n00:38:25,800 –> 00:38:29,500
\nThe nation had lost their
\nportion, had lost their <\/p>\n

481
\n00:38:29,500 –> 00:38:33,600
\ninheritance, their homes, their
\nfamilies, their lives, their <\/p>\n

482
\n00:38:33,600 –> 00:38:38,600
\npositions.
\nLook at Jeremiah. <\/p>\n

483
\n00:38:40,200 –> 00:38:43,900
\nHe’s found his inheritance, he’s
\nfound his position. <\/p>\n

484
\n00:38:44,000 –> 00:38:46,200
\nAnd who is it?
\nIt’s God himself. <\/p>\n

485
\n00:38:47,100 –> 00:38:53,400
\nWhat a remarkable difference in
\nperspective versus 25 to 26 <\/p>\n

486
\n00:38:53,400 –> 00:38:58,700
\ntells us that even when we might
\nnot understand, or we might not <\/p>\n

487
\n00:38:58,700 –> 00:39:04,400
\nsee the big picture that there
\nis goodness attached to waiting.<\/p>\n

488
\n00:39:05,300 –> 00:39:10,500
\nTo developing patients.
\nGod’s timetable may require our <\/p>\n

489
\n00:39:10,500 –> 00:39:17,100
\npatients.
\nIt’s all, it’s not all about us.<\/p>\n

490
\n00:39:17,500 –> 00:39:20,500
\nIt’s all about actually waiting
\nfor him. <\/p>\n

491
\n00:39:21,000 –> 00:39:27,300
\nHis timing, his plan, Isaiah 25,
\nand verse 9 says, it shall be <\/p>\n

492
\n00:39:27,300 –> 00:39:29,500
\nsaid in that day load.
\nThis is our God. <\/p>\n

493
\n00:39:29,500 –> 00:39:33,500
\nWe have waited for him.
\nWe have waited for him. <\/p>\n

494
\n00:39:33,700 –> 00:39:37,700
\nHe will save us.
\nSo suffering is not about us. <\/p>\n

495
\n00:39:38,500 –> 00:39:42,600
\nIt’s about waiting for God’s
\ntiming for his plan. <\/p>\n

496
\n00:39:44,200 –> 00:39:48,600
\nAnd the sooner in life.
\nVerse 27, we realize this the <\/p>\n

497
\n00:39:48,600 –> 00:39:54,400
\nbidder It is good for a man that
\nhe bear the Yoke in his youth, <\/p>\n

498
\n00:39:55,000 –> 00:39:58,300
\nthe sooner and life.
\nWe realize that we need to wait <\/p>\n

499
\n00:39:58,300 –> 00:40:01,400
\nfor God’s solution.
\nHis salvation. <\/p>\n

500
\n00:40:01,700 –> 00:40:06,400
\nThe in the list of Our Lives, we
\nwill waste futilely chasing our <\/p>\n

501
\n00:40:06,400 –> 00:40:10,000
\nown solution.
\nA yoke, can’t be Grievous. <\/p>\n

502
\n00:40:10,700 –> 00:40:14,300
\nIt can’t be heavy.
\nIf it’s God’s salvation, that’s <\/p>\n

503
\n00:40:14,300 –> 00:40:15,500
\nwhat the vs.
\nSaying. <\/p>\n

504
\n00:40:15,700 –> 00:40:20,100
\nTake my yoke upon you and learn
\nof me for my yoke is easy. <\/p>\n

505
\n00:40:20,200 –> 00:40:27,600
\nEasy and my burden, it’s light.
\nHe was a man who understood that<\/p>\n

506
\n00:40:27,600 –> 00:40:32,000
\nyoking ourselves to God’s way to
\nhis character, to his salvation <\/p>\n

507
\n00:40:32,400 –> 00:40:38,100
\nwill only make our lives easier
\nthat a burden shared with him as<\/p>\n

508
\n00:40:38,100 –> 00:40:43,600
\nmuch more than a burden.
\nHalved God’s character has the <\/p>\n

509
\n00:40:43,600 –> 00:40:49,500
\nability to change how we think
\nabout suffering because it’s not<\/p>\n

510
\n00:40:49,500 –> 00:40:53,800
\nabout us, it’s about him and his
\ncharacter being developed in us.<\/p>\n

511
\n00:40:54,100 –> 00:40:58,800
\nLook at verse 28, Once this
\ncharacter is recalled to mind, <\/p>\n

512
\n00:40:59,200 –> 00:41:01,600
\ndo you know what its effect is
\nand our lives? <\/p>\n

513
\n00:41:03,400 –> 00:41:09,500
\nOur mouths closed.
\nWe stop complaining. <\/p>\n

514
\n00:41:10,500 –> 00:41:14,000
\nWe stop murmuring.
\nWe stop whinging, and moaning <\/p>\n

515
\n00:41:14,000 –> 00:41:18,300
\nabout how tough this is for me
\nand we quietly. <\/p>\n

516
\n00:41:18,300 –> 00:41:27,000
\nWait verse 26, we keep silence
\nverse 28, we put our mouths in <\/p>\n

517
\n00:41:27,000 –> 00:41:31,300
\nthe dust, verse 29 and verse 29
\nis the point. <\/p>\n

518
\n00:41:31,300 –> 00:41:36,300
\nWe all must come to when we
\nconsider our own foolishness and<\/p>\n

519
\n00:41:36,300 –> 00:41:39,500
\nour heavenly father Has ever
\npatient compassion. <\/p>\n

520
\n00:41:39,500 –> 00:41:44,800
\nWe put our mouths, our words,
\nour complaints in the dust, his <\/p>\n

521
\n00:41:44,800 –> 00:41:48,900
\nmercies and his compassion’s and
\ndoes righteousness. <\/p>\n

522
\n00:41:49,000 –> 00:41:55,200
\nHumble and silence us.
\nThis man in verse 29 is so <\/p>\n

523
\n00:41:55,200 –> 00:42:01,100
\nobedient that he will be R,
\nwhatever God chooses to put upon<\/p>\n

524
\n00:42:01,100 –> 00:42:05,500
\nhim without complaint because he
\nknows that it is only of <\/p>\n

525
\n00:42:05,500 –> 00:42:08,000
\nyahweh’s mercies that we even
\ndraw breath. <\/p>\n

526
\n00:42:08,400 –> 00:42:11,700
\nHe’ll take whatever punishment,
\nwhatever suffering, whatever, <\/p>\n

527
\n00:42:11,700 –> 00:42:17,600
\npersecution God’s, gracious ways
\nwill think necessary. <\/p>\n

528
\n00:42:18,300 –> 00:42:22,400
\nLook at verse 30.
\nHe giveth his cheek to him, <\/p>\n

529
\n00:42:22,400 –> 00:42:25,700
\nthat’s my tooth him.
\nHe’s filled with reproach. <\/p>\n

530
\n00:42:25,800 –> 00:42:29,300
\nHe’s a man who’s not seeking to
\navoid more suffering. <\/p>\n

531
\n00:42:30,200 –> 00:42:34,100
\nHe is a man who’s happy to
\naccept, what an absolutely <\/p>\n

532
\n00:42:34,100 –> 00:42:35,700
\nrighteous.
\nGod will bring upon him. <\/p>\n

533
\n00:42:35,700 –> 00:42:39,400
\nWhat an amazing perspective and
\nhe does all of this because of <\/p>\n

534
\n00:42:39,400 –> 00:42:43,500
\nverse 31 to 32 the very heart
\nand soul of the whole book of <\/p>\n

535
\n00:42:43,500 –> 00:42:46,900
\nLamentations.
\nIt’s because he knows from God’s<\/p>\n

536
\n00:42:46,900 –> 00:42:49,800
\ncharacter that Yahweh will not
\ncast. <\/p>\n

537
\n00:42:49,900 –> 00:42:55,700
\nOff forever.
\nBut though, he cause grief Yet. <\/p>\n

538
\n00:42:55,800 –> 00:42:59,600
\nWill he have compassion
\naccording to the multitude of <\/p>\n

539
\n00:42:59,600 –> 00:43:06,000
\nhis mercies?
\nSuffering is God’s opportunity <\/p>\n

540
\n00:43:06,400 –> 00:43:13,900
\nto show Mercy to show compassion
\nto reveal himself, it’s not <\/p>\n

541
\n00:43:13,900 –> 00:43:18,300
\nforever.
\nIt all will always come to an <\/p>\n

542
\n00:43:18,300 –> 00:43:24,300
\nend.
\nIt’s God’s way of showing <\/p>\n

543
\n00:43:24,300 –> 00:43:28,000
\nhimself, you know.
\nLung Young’s literal translation<\/p>\n

544
\n00:43:28,000 –> 00:43:37,500
\nsays, for verse 32, for though,
\nhe Afflicted yet, he hath pitied<\/p>\n

545
\n00:43:38,500 –> 00:43:40,000
\nAnd this is the answer to one
\nof. <\/p>\n

546
\n00:43:40,300 –> 00:43:44,200
\nWe saw yesterday the themes of
\nhopelessness from chapter 2. <\/p>\n

547
\n00:43:44,400 –> 00:43:49,300
\nRemember we read in Chapter 2
\nand verse 2 and he hath not <\/p>\n

548
\n00:43:49,300 –> 00:44:01,000
\npitied verse 17 and he hath not
\npitied verse 21 and there is no <\/p>\n

549
\n00:44:01,000 –> 00:44:05,200
\npity.
\nAnd here we have the answer. <\/p>\n

550
\n00:44:05,600 –> 00:44:09,300
\nGod didn’t pretty well actually.
\nHe does. <\/p>\n

551
\n00:44:09,400 –> 00:44:11,400
\nHe does pity.
\nHe has to. <\/p>\n

552
\n00:44:11,500 –> 00:44:14,500
\nIt’s his character to be
\nplenteous in Mercy. <\/p>\n

553
\n00:44:15,400 –> 00:44:19,500
\nSo hidden away here in the heart
\nof the book of Lamentations is <\/p>\n

554
\n00:44:19,800 –> 00:44:27,300
\nthe reason for the atonement.
\nGod causes grief. <\/p>\n

555
\n00:44:28,900 –> 00:44:33,300
\nSo that He might show
\ncompassion. <\/p>\n

556
\n00:44:34,000 –> 00:44:37,200
\nThe reason suffering comes
\nbrothers and sisters in our <\/p>\n

557
\n00:44:37,200 –> 00:44:41,900
\nlives is so that we can see the
\nrichness of God’s character. <\/p>\n

558
\n00:44:42,000 –> 00:44:46,900
\nSo God can reveal himself to us.
\nThis is all the power of God’s <\/p>\n

559
\n00:44:46,900 –> 00:44:49,900
\ncharacter to change our
\nperspective. <\/p>\n

560
\n00:44:50,300 –> 00:44:55,500
\nAnd this whole section begins in
\nverse 22 with mercy and it ends <\/p>\n

561
\n00:44:55,500 –> 00:45:02,800
\nin verse 32, with Mercy Mercy.
\nBookends this little sick, This <\/p>\n

562
\n00:45:02,800 –> 00:45:06,600
\nis all about the vital
\nimportance of remembering <\/p>\n

563
\n00:45:07,000 –> 00:45:11,300
\nbringing to mind.
\nThe amazing character of our <\/p>\n

564
\n00:45:11,300 –> 00:45:15,200
\nheavenly father.
\nNow there are a whole raft of <\/p>\n

565
\n00:45:15,200 –> 00:45:20,000
\nimplications that logically flow
\nfrom a consideration of God’s <\/p>\n

566
\n00:45:20,000 –> 00:45:27,300
\ncharacter and that’s verses 33
\nto 39 because by logical <\/p>\n

567
\n00:45:27,300 –> 00:45:32,300
\nimplication.
\nWhen we come to verse 33, We <\/p>\n

568
\n00:45:32,300 –> 00:45:36,100
\nread this because of God’s
\ncharacter. <\/p>\n

569
\n00:45:37,500 –> 00:45:43,600
\nShe does not afflict willingly.
\nNor grieve the children of men. <\/p>\n

570
\n00:45:44,500 –> 00:45:47,600
\nGod never sins suffering
\nwithout. <\/p>\n

571
\n00:45:47,600 –> 00:45:53,700
\nAn excellent reason chastening
\nis necessary, but it does not <\/p>\n

572
\n00:45:53,700 –> 00:45:56,200
\ngive God pleasure.
\nHe doesn’t send. <\/p>\n

573
\n00:45:56,200 –> 00:45:59,600
\nSuffering is the margin says
\nfrom his heart. <\/p>\n

574
\n00:46:00,200 –> 00:46:04,900
\nHe’s not vindictive or Cruel,
\nthere is always an excellent <\/p>\n

575
\n00:46:04,900 –> 00:46:07,500
\nreason although we may not know
\nwhy. <\/p>\n

576
\n00:46:09,200 –> 00:46:15,700
\nIn verse 34, we read that it’s
\nnot to crush under his feet, all<\/p>\n

577
\n00:46:15,700 –> 00:46:19,200
\nthe prisoners of the earth.
\nGod always provides an escape. <\/p>\n

578
\n00:46:19,200 –> 00:46:26,000
\nSo that we are not crushed.
\nGod might bruise But he will <\/p>\n

579
\n00:46:26,000 –> 00:46:29,700
\nnever crash Us.
\nCrashing is for the seed of the <\/p>\n

580
\n00:46:29,700 –> 00:46:32,300
\nserpent.
\nThey will always be a way of <\/p>\n

581
\n00:46:32,300 –> 00:46:37,000
\nEscape.
\nEven our Lord Jesus Christ or of<\/p>\n

582
\n00:46:37,000 –> 00:46:41,000
\nChrist, it is said a bruised.
\nReed, will he not break? <\/p>\n

583
\n00:46:41,500 –> 00:46:48,700
\nIt’s God’s design that we are
\nbruised, but never broken, never<\/p>\n

584
\n00:46:48,700 –> 00:46:55,400
\ncrushed.
\nIn versus 35 to 36, we find that<\/p>\n

585
\n00:46:55,500 –> 00:47:04,600
\nGod is Not and cannot be unfair.
\nVerse 35, or misleading verse <\/p>\n

586
\n00:47:04,700 –> 00:47:08,100
\n36.
\nGod will not turn aside the <\/p>\n

587
\n00:47:08,100 –> 00:47:12,800
\nright of a man before the face
\nof the most high or he will not <\/p>\n

588
\n00:47:12,800 –> 00:47:18,000
\nmislead or subvert a man in his
\ncause for this Yahweh approve <\/p>\n

589
\n00:47:18,000 –> 00:47:22,500
\nEarth, not By virtue of his
\nperfect character, it would be <\/p>\n

590
\n00:47:22,500 –> 00:47:28,500
\nimpossible for God, to be unfair
\nor to be deliberately misleading<\/p>\n

591
\n00:47:29,000 –> 00:47:36,200
\nverse 36 verse 37 is going to
\ntell us that he controls <\/p>\n

592
\n00:47:36,200 –> 00:47:39,400
\neverything.
\nAnd to question his judgment is <\/p>\n

593
\n00:47:39,400 –> 00:47:46,600
\nto doubt his promises, his word,
\nhis power and his character. <\/p>\n

594
\n00:47:48,200 –> 00:47:53,100
\nWho is he that saith and it
\ncometh to pass when Yahweh <\/p>\n

595
\n00:47:53,500 –> 00:47:56,200
\ncommandeth it.
\nNot if God Is Watching The <\/p>\n

596
\n00:47:56,200 –> 00:47:59,400
\nSparrows brother and sisters and
\ncontrolling the destiny of the <\/p>\n

597
\n00:47:59,400 –> 00:48:03,700
\nnation’s, then verse 37 is
\nsaying that there is no such <\/p>\n

598
\n00:48:03,700 –> 00:48:10,400
\nthing as good luck.
\nOr bad luck in the lives of his <\/p>\n

599
\n00:48:10,400 –> 00:48:13,600
\nSaints.
\nNothing happens without his <\/p>\n

600
\n00:48:13,600 –> 00:48:17,100
\napproval and control.
\nAnd so to question our suffering<\/p>\n

601
\n00:48:17,700 –> 00:48:23,200
\nis either to say that God is not
\nin control. <\/p>\n

602
\n00:48:24,700 –> 00:48:30,600
\nOr perhaps worse that God is
\ndoing a lousy job because I <\/p>\n

603
\n00:48:30,600 –> 00:48:34,100
\nthink I deserve better
\ntreatment, he doesn’t understand<\/p>\n

604
\n00:48:34,100 –> 00:48:37,800
\nall the facts.
\nHis omnipotence wisdom is <\/p>\n

605
\n00:48:37,800 –> 00:48:42,300
\nquestionable.
\nHe has dubious judgment about <\/p>\n

606
\n00:48:42,300 –> 00:48:45,600
\nwhat is best for me.
\nThat’s really what we’re saying <\/p>\n

607
\n00:48:45,600 –> 00:48:50,900
\nwhen we Christian God.
\nThe RSV has, who has commanded <\/p>\n

608
\n00:48:50,900 –> 00:48:55,400
\nit and it came to pass unless
\nthe Lord hath ordained it. <\/p>\n

609
\n00:48:56,700 –> 00:48:59,200
\nWe’re not in a position.
\nAre we brothers and sisters to <\/p>\n

610
\n00:48:59,200 –> 00:49:05,100
\nquestion God’s ways?
\nHe’s never made a mistake a moss<\/p>\n

611
\n00:49:05,100 –> 00:49:09,400
\n3 and verse 6 is shall there be
\nevil in the city and Yahweh <\/p>\n

612
\n00:49:09,400 –> 00:49:10,800
\nhath.
\nNot done it. <\/p>\n

613
\n00:49:12,000 –> 00:49:15,500
\nWho are we to question him?
\nWho we to question his <\/p>\n

614
\n00:49:15,500 –> 00:49:19,100
\nchastening hand?
\nThe pressure of The Potters <\/p>\n

615
\n00:49:19,100 –> 00:49:25,900
\nhands on the clay jr.
\nWIN Job the example James uses <\/p>\n

616
\n00:49:25,900 –> 00:49:28,100
\nof a righteous suffer, a lost
\neverything. <\/p>\n

617
\n00:49:28,500 –> 00:49:34,700
\nIt says he sinned, not nor
\ncharged god with Folly Job. 1 <\/p>\n

618
\n00:49:34,700 –> 00:49:37,700
\nverse 22, he understood who was
\nin control. <\/p>\n

619
\n00:49:37,700 –> 00:49:42,300
\nHe might not have understood,
\nwhy he might have Have been <\/p>\n

620
\n00:49:42,300 –> 00:49:46,800
\ngreatly hurt greatly suffering
\nbut he never ever charged god <\/p>\n

621
\n00:49:46,800 –> 00:49:49,900
\nwith Folly.
\nHe never ever said that God’s <\/p>\n

622
\n00:49:49,900 –> 00:49:53,500
\njudgment was dubious or he
\nwasn’t in control or he could <\/p>\n

623
\n00:49:53,500 –> 00:49:59,000
\nhave done a better job and so
\nnow in verse 39, the section is <\/p>\n

624
\n00:49:59,000 –> 00:50:06,300
\ngoing to come to a climax.
\nWhere it says wherefore doth a <\/p>\n

625
\n00:50:06,300 –> 00:50:09,700
\nliving man.
\nComplain a man for the <\/p>\n

626
\n00:50:09,700 –> 00:50:15,800
\npunishment of his sins.
\nIn fact, so lowly is their <\/p>\n

627
\n00:50:15,800 –> 00:50:23,000
\nstatus compared to him and his
\npower that if we are alive and <\/p>\n

628
\n00:50:23,000 –> 00:50:27,600
\nthe wages of sin is death, then
\nwe have not been rightly <\/p>\n

629
\n00:50:28,000 –> 00:50:33,300
\nreimbursed.
\nIf God is unfair, it’s because <\/p>\n

630
\n00:50:33,300 –> 00:50:36,400
\nhe errs on the side of Mercy.
\nNot judgment. <\/p>\n

631
\n00:50:36,400 –> 00:50:41,200
\nWhat an amazing perspective you
\nthink about our sufferings every<\/p>\n

632
\n00:50:41,200 –> 00:50:44,900
\nday.
\nTo think, well, if God was <\/p>\n

633
\n00:50:44,900 –> 00:50:48,600
\nmaking a mistake, it’s the
\nmistake really is keeping us <\/p>\n

634
\n00:50:48,600 –> 00:50:51,600
\nalive, because that’s something
\nwe definitely don’t deserve. <\/p>\n

635
\n00:50:51,600 –> 00:50:56,200
\nWe need to be grateful, we need
\nto be to put, aside our <\/p>\n

636
\n00:50:56,200 –> 00:51:00,200
\ncomplaints, put our mouths in
\nthe dust, we are nothing without<\/p>\n

637
\n00:51:00,200 –> 00:51:04,300
\nhim so far, from complaining,
\nabout our suffering. <\/p>\n

638
\n00:51:05,200 –> 00:51:09,400
\nWe need to be grateful that God
\nisn’t giving us what we deserve.<\/p>\n

639
\n00:51:09,400 –> 00:51:11,200
\nThis is quite a different
\nperspective. <\/p>\n

640
\n00:51:11,800 –> 00:51:14,700
\nI’m not saying It’s easy.
\nBut I’m saying, it’s quite a <\/p>\n

641
\n00:51:14,700 –> 00:51:18,900
\ndifferent perspective, isn’t it?
\nThat Jeremiah and Messiah gives <\/p>\n

642
\n00:51:18,900 –> 00:51:21,800
\nus.
\nSo, look how Jeremiah answers. <\/p>\n

643
\n00:51:22,100 –> 00:51:27,400
\nOur original problems with God.
\nWhen we lose perspective, when <\/p>\n

644
\n00:51:27,400 –> 00:51:32,100
\nwe forget the good, what about
\nthis problem of anger? <\/p>\n

645
\n00:51:33,000 –> 00:51:40,200
\nWhen we say, it’s all unfair and
\nGod is to blame Lamentations is <\/p>\n

646
\n00:51:40,200 –> 00:51:44,900
\ngoing to tell us.
\nIf God was to be fear, we would <\/p>\n

647
\n00:51:44,908 –> 00:51:52,200
\nbe dead.
\nVerse 22 and verse 39, and God’s<\/p>\n

648
\n00:51:52,200 –> 00:51:58,400
\nways and his goodness are not to
\nbe questioned verses 37 to 38. <\/p>\n

649
\n00:51:58,600 –> 00:52:03,100
\nGod never makes mistakes.
\nIt’s not unfair, we can’t get <\/p>\n

650
\n00:52:03,100 –> 00:52:07,900
\nangry with God’s decisions.
\nWhat if we experienced <\/p>\n

651
\n00:52:07,900 –> 00:52:11,100
\nfrustration, we say it’s too
\nhard. <\/p>\n

652
\n00:52:11,300 –> 00:52:16,600
\nWe want to give up limitations
\nthree C’s suffering is only for <\/p>\n

653
\n00:52:16,600 –> 00:52:20,800
\na time and it’s so that God can
\nshow compassion. <\/p>\n

654
\n00:52:21,000 –> 00:52:26,000
\nAnd you know what, all we need
\nto do is just last one day, <\/p>\n

655
\n00:52:26,100 –> 00:52:28,900
\nbecause his compassion’s are new
\nEvery Morning. <\/p>\n

656
\n00:52:29,300 –> 00:52:32,900
\nVerse 23, we don’t need to
\novercome suffering for the rest <\/p>\n

657
\n00:52:32,900 –> 00:52:35,800
\nof our lives today.
\nWe just need to overcome it <\/p>\n

658
\n00:52:35,800 –> 00:52:39,400
\ntoday.
\nTo just get through one day at a<\/p>\n

659
\n00:52:39,408 –> 00:52:45,500
\ntime and what about doubt when
\nwe say it’s confusing, God <\/p>\n

660
\n00:52:45,500 –> 00:52:50,300
\ndoesn’t care.
\nLemon, tations sees God’s ways, <\/p>\n

661
\n00:52:50,300 –> 00:52:54,700
\nmight not make sense at the
\ntime, but God does care. <\/p>\n

662
\n00:52:54,700 –> 00:52:59,900
\nAnd because of his character, he
\ncannot afflict willingly, or <\/p>\n

663
\n00:52:59,900 –> 00:53:03,000
\nwithout purpose.
\nIt’s impossible for him to do <\/p>\n

664
\n00:53:03,000 –> 00:53:06,000
\nsuch a thing to have a righteous
\ncharacter. <\/p>\n

665
\n00:53:06,200 –> 00:53:13,100
\nLike that, it’s impossible.
\nSo this is Lamentations answers.<\/p>\n

666
\n00:53:13,100 –> 00:53:18,100
\nJeremiah’s answers under
\ninspiration to the three main <\/p>\n

667
\n00:53:18,300 –> 00:53:22,800
\nways of thinking that we have
\nwhen we experience suffering, <\/p>\n

668
\n00:53:22,800 –> 00:53:28,900
\nanger, frustration and doubt.
\nSo if we were to put this <\/p>\n

669
\n00:53:28,900 –> 00:53:35,800
\nanother way and ask the
\nquestion, why do we suffer then?<\/p>\n

670
\n00:53:35,900 –> 00:53:41,000
\nThis is what Lamentations Seas.
\nIs it because God doesn’t care. <\/p>\n

671
\n00:53:42,300 –> 00:53:49,700
\nVerse 32 and the answer is no.
\nIs it because God gets pleasure <\/p>\n

672
\n00:53:49,800 –> 00:53:53,500
\nfrom seeing us suffer in the
\nanswer, from verse 33 is? <\/p>\n

673
\n00:53:53,800 –> 00:53:59,400
\nNo, is it because God wants to
\ncrush us verse 34, and the <\/p>\n

674
\n00:53:59,400 –> 00:54:04,000
\nanswer is no, is it?
\nBecause God wants to confuse us,<\/p>\n

675
\n00:54:05,100 –> 00:54:09,100
\nthe answer from verse 35 to 36
\nis known. <\/p>\n

676
\n00:54:09,800 –> 00:54:12,300
\nIs it because?
\nWell, it’s just a result of time<\/p>\n

677
\n00:54:12,300 –> 00:54:19,600
\nand chance verse 37.
\nThe answer Is no why do we <\/p>\n

678
\n00:54:19,600 –> 00:54:23,800
\nsuffer?
\nWe suffer because their <\/p>\n

679
\n00:54:23,800 –> 00:54:29,400
\ncharacters need to be changed
\nverse 26, so that God can reveal<\/p>\n

680
\n00:54:29,400 –> 00:54:34,600
\nhimself verse 32.
\nAnd to give us a chance to turn <\/p>\n

681
\n00:54:35,500 –> 00:54:38,800
\nverse 40.
\nAnd when you think about it, all<\/p>\n

682
\n00:54:38,800 –> 00:54:42,900
\nof these bottom three answers
\nare really all about, perfecting<\/p>\n

683
\n00:54:42,900 –> 00:54:46,200
\nour characters.
\nWe have to change from selfish <\/p>\n

684
\n00:54:46,400 –> 00:54:51,400
\nimpatient self-reliant.
\nDeluded sinners. <\/p>\n

685
\n00:54:51,500 –> 00:54:57,400
\nYes.
\nTwo selfless, patient, trusting <\/p>\n

686
\n00:54:57,400 –> 00:55:03,100
\nfaithful Saints and suffering is
\nGod’s means of achieving this <\/p>\n

687
\n00:55:03,100 –> 00:55:07,300
\ntransformation.
\nHow else would we become humble <\/p>\n

688
\n00:55:08,000 –> 00:55:12,000
\nor patient or trusting or
\nobedient? <\/p>\n

689
\n00:55:12,000 –> 00:55:16,400
\nUnless we had to experience
\ndifficult times where we were <\/p>\n

690
\n00:55:16,400 –> 00:55:20,900
\nput under pressure and we learn
\nto patients or trust or <\/p>\n

691
\n00:55:20,900 –> 00:55:24,400
\nhumility.
\nWe suffer because because God <\/p>\n

692
\n00:55:24,400 –> 00:55:29,200
\ndesperately wants us to be like
\nhim to be like his son and he <\/p>\n

693
\n00:55:29,200 –> 00:55:32,300
\nwon’t give up.
\nHe won’t give up on us. <\/p>\n

694
\n00:55:32,500 –> 00:55:36,800
\nWe are being conformed As Romans
\n8 verse Verse 29 says, conformed<\/p>\n

695
\n00:55:36,800 –> 00:55:40,100
\nby pressure to the image of his
\nson. <\/p>\n

696
\n00:55:41,600 –> 00:55:48,500
\nHe wants his character to be our
\ncharacter and you know what it’s<\/p>\n

697
\n00:55:48,500 –> 00:55:51,800
\nhard.
\nWork doesn’t happen easy. <\/p>\n

698
\n00:55:52,600 –> 00:55:57,000
\nThere’s a lot of pressure that’s
\nneeded and finally we are <\/p>\n

699
\n00:55:57,000 –> 00:56:00,800
\nconformed into that beautiful
\nvessel that he desires. <\/p>\n

700
\n00:56:01,500 –> 00:56:03,600
\nLook at the example of our Lord
\nJesus Christ. <\/p>\n

701
\n00:56:03,600 –> 00:56:06,900
\nWe won’t go there.
\nBut you remember the words from <\/p>\n

702
\n00:56:06,900 –> 00:56:11,500
\nHebrews 5 yet though, he were a
\nson yet learned. <\/p>\n

703
\n00:56:11,500 –> 00:56:15,000
\nHe obedience by the things which
\nhe suffered. <\/p>\n

704
\n00:56:15,200 –> 00:56:17,200
\nWe don’t often think about this,
\ndo we? <\/p>\n

705
\n00:56:18,800 –> 00:56:25,200
\nWhy did christ suffer?
\nWhy did christ suffer is? <\/p>\n

706
\n00:56:25,200 –> 00:56:28,800
\nCertainly wasn’t for the reason
\nof verse 39. <\/p>\n

707
\n00:56:29,600 –> 00:56:34,500
\nA man is suffering as a
\npunishment for his sins, because<\/p>\n

708
\n00:56:34,500 –> 00:56:37,300
\nhe was sinless.
\nSo, what was he learning? <\/p>\n

709
\n00:56:38,400 –> 00:56:46,300
\nObedience, Hebrews 5 verse 9
\ngoes on to say and being made <\/p>\n

710
\n00:56:46,700 –> 00:56:50,000
\nperfect.
\nOur Lord was not born perfect. <\/p>\n

711
\n00:56:50,000 –> 00:56:52,900
\nHe was made perfect by
\nsuffering. <\/p>\n

712
\n00:56:53,100 –> 00:56:57,100
\nAnd that suffering develop
\ncharacter unlike us, he never <\/p>\n

713
\n00:56:57,200 –> 00:57:01,600
\nsinned in the process but it was
\na learning process as he fully <\/p>\n

714
\n00:57:01,600 –> 00:57:05,600
\ngrasped and reflected from a
\nyoung boy into a man, the <\/p>\n

715
\n00:57:05,600 –> 00:57:10,700
\ncharacter of his father.
\nIn fact, the die glocke has in <\/p>\n

716
\n00:57:10,900 –> 00:57:14,900
\nHebrews 5, it doesn’t say yet
\nthough. <\/p>\n

717
\n00:57:14,900 –> 00:57:20,400
\nHe were a son.
\nIt says, because he was a son, <\/p>\n

718
\n00:57:20,900 –> 00:57:24,100
\nthat’s why he needed to suffer
\nbecause that was Teaching ground<\/p>\n

719
\n00:57:24,100 –> 00:57:28,800
\nby which he might absorb the
\ncharacter of his heavenly <\/p>\n

720
\n00:57:28,800 –> 00:57:31,300
\nfather.
\nSo why do we think it will be <\/p>\n

721
\n00:57:31,300 –> 00:57:36,500
\ndifferent for any of us if
\nChrist was sinless and he still <\/p>\n

722
\n00:57:36,500 –> 00:57:40,000
\nhad to suffer to perfect his
\ncharacter to be conformed, to <\/p>\n

723
\n00:57:40,000 –> 00:57:42,600
\nhis father’s image.
\nWhy do we think it will be any <\/p>\n

724
\n00:57:42,600 –> 00:57:45,400
\ndifferent in our lives?
\nWhy do we have this view? <\/p>\n

725
\n00:57:45,800 –> 00:57:49,200
\nThat will be like, will be.
\nWe weren’t, we won’t have to go <\/p>\n

726
\n00:57:49,200 –> 00:57:51,200
\nthrough suffering.
\nThat’ll be something that we get<\/p>\n

727
\n00:57:51,200 –> 00:57:53,000
\nto avoid because we’re more
\nfaith. <\/p>\n

728
\n00:57:53,100 –> 00:57:54,600
\nAwful than the people in the
\nworld. <\/p>\n

729
\n00:57:54,600 –> 00:57:59,000
\nKnow, God will always bring it
\ninto our lives and all of our <\/p>\n

730
\n00:57:59,000 –> 00:58:03,100
\nLives because he wants to
\ndevelop his character in us. <\/p>\n

731
\n00:58:03,200 –> 00:58:07,000
\nAnd in actual fact, when we read
\nJohn chapter 15, what does he do<\/p>\n

732
\n00:58:07,000 –> 00:58:11,500
\nto the the tree that brings
\nforth fruit, he prunes it even <\/p>\n

733
\n00:58:11,500 –> 00:58:16,300
\nmore that it might bring forth
\nmore fruit, perhaps the more <\/p>\n

734
\n00:58:16,300 –> 00:58:20,100
\nGodly we live, the more we
\nabsorb God’s character, the more<\/p>\n

735
\n00:58:20,100 –> 00:58:24,400
\nsuffering we can expect.
\nBecause we believe that God is <\/p>\n

736
\n00:58:24,400 –> 00:58:29,500
\nworking in US, suffering is
\nessential. <\/p>\n

737
\n00:58:29,700 –> 00:58:32,500
\nIt’s the door through which we
\nenter the kingdom. <\/p>\n

738
\n00:58:32,500 –> 00:58:36,400
\nWe know these quotations, we
\nmust through much tribulation <\/p>\n

739
\n00:58:36,800 –> 00:58:40,900
\nenter into the kingdom of God
\nfor verily. <\/p>\n

740
\n00:58:40,900 –> 00:58:45,600
\nWhen we were with you, we told
\nyou before that we should suffer<\/p>\n

741
\n00:58:45,600 –> 00:58:50,300
\ntribulation That you may be
\ncounted worthy of the kingdom of<\/p>\n

742
\n00:58:50,300 –> 00:58:54,500
\nGod for which she also suffer.
\nYay. <\/p>\n

743
\n00:58:54,500 –> 00:58:58,200
\nAnd all that will live Godly in
\nChrist Jesus shall suffer <\/p>\n

744
\n00:58:58,200 –> 00:59:01,500
\npersecution.
\nThe reason why we suffer is so <\/p>\n

745
\n00:59:01,500 –> 00:59:03,900
\nthat Christ will be formed in
\nus. <\/p>\n

746
\n00:59:03,900 –> 00:59:09,100
\nIt’s not an optional process.
\nIt’s God’s method of achieving a<\/p>\n

747
\n00:59:09,100 –> 00:59:12,800
\nfamily likeness Look at this
\nperspective. <\/p>\n

748
\n00:59:12,800 –> 00:59:16,500
\nNow we can count it as a
\nblessing because it proves to us<\/p>\n

749
\n00:59:16,500 –> 00:59:21,800
\nthat God is conforming us.
\nHe is in our lives, he does care<\/p>\n

750
\n00:59:22,000 –> 00:59:27,100
\nhe loves us and therefore as
\nHebrews 13 and verse 6 says he <\/p>\n

751
\n00:59:27,100 –> 00:59:32,500
\nchastens every son or daughter,
\nhe receives suffering, makes us <\/p>\n

752
\n00:59:32,700 –> 00:59:35,100
\nlegitimate members of his
\nfamily. <\/p>\n

753
\n00:59:35,100 –> 00:59:40,800
\nWhat an honor, what an honor to
\nbe illegitimate son or daughter?<\/p>\n

754
\n00:59:41,200 –> 00:59:43,700
\nOf the Living.
\nGod, this is not Affliction <\/p>\n

755
\n00:59:43,700 –> 00:59:47,800
\nwithout purpose or misery.
\nWithout meaning, this is an <\/p>\n

756
\n00:59:47,800 –> 00:59:50,800
\nessential part of our
\ndiscipleship. <\/p>\n

757
\n00:59:51,600 –> 00:59:56,100
\nIn the true disciple can see
\nGod’s mercies everywhere, even <\/p>\n

758
\n00:59:56,100 –> 01:00:02,000
\nin their suffering.
\nSo now we can see how if we <\/p>\n

759
\n01:00:02,000 –> 01:00:07,200
\nforget the good and we lose
\nperspective and we focus <\/p>\n

760
\n01:00:07,300 –> 01:00:13,200
\nselfishly on ourselves how far
\noff beam we can be we have this <\/p>\n

761
\n01:00:13,200 –> 01:00:17,100
\nview that we deserve a good life
\nand therefore suffering is God’s<\/p>\n

762
\n01:00:17,100 –> 01:00:20,400
\nfault suffering is God’s
\nblessing. <\/p>\n

763
\n01:00:21,600 –> 01:00:29,100
\nTo lead us to the glaring word
\nin Lamentations 3 that we have <\/p>\n

764
\n01:00:29,100 –> 01:00:35,000
\nnot mentioned yet.
\nWhy do we suffer? <\/p>\n

765
\n01:00:36,300 –> 01:00:41,600
\nAnd the answer is that all of
\nthese bottom three reasons, lead<\/p>\n

766
\n01:00:41,600 –> 01:00:45,900
\nus to Hope.
\nGod doesn’t bring misery <\/p>\n

767
\n01:00:45,900 –> 01:00:48,800
\nbrothers and sisters, he offers
\nhope. <\/p>\n

768
\n01:00:49,800 –> 01:00:54,300
\nThere’s a vast difference in
\nthose two perspectives, the <\/p>\n

769
\n01:00:54,300 –> 01:00:57,600
\npurpose of suffering.
\nLook at this Romans chapter 5 <\/p>\n

770
\n01:00:57,700 –> 01:01:03,500
\nand not only so but we glory in
\ntribulations also knowing that <\/p>\n

771
\n01:01:03,500 –> 01:01:08,400
\ntribulation worketh patience and
\npatience experience and <\/p>\n

772
\n01:01:08,400 –> 01:01:13,200
\nexperience.
\nHope the purpose of tribulation <\/p>\n

773
\n01:01:13,400 –> 01:01:18,500
\nis to lead us to Hope and look
\nat Lamentations chapter 3 <\/p>\n

774
\n01:01:18,600 –> 01:01:23,300
\nbecause the word Hope occurs
\nfive times in the chapter and <\/p>\n

775
\n01:01:23,300 –> 01:01:28,000
\nthat all tightly clustered
\naround the remembrance of God’s <\/p>\n

776
\n01:01:28,000 –> 01:01:32,600
\ncharacter.
\nVerses 18 to 29, is the <\/p>\n

777
\n01:01:32,600 –> 01:01:37,800
\nprogression of Hope and it
\nbegins with the mention of <\/p>\n

778
\n01:01:37,800 –> 01:01:40,900
\nyahweh’s name.
\nFor the first time in the <\/p>\n

779
\n01:01:40,900 –> 01:01:46,600
\nchapter.
\nIn Lamentations 3 and verse 18. <\/p>\n

780
\n01:01:47,200 –> 01:01:53,800
\nWe read my hope is pure rushed
\nfrom Yahweh, Jeremiah’s hope <\/p>\n

781
\n01:01:54,100 –> 01:01:59,500
\nseems to be dead, but when we
\ncome forwards to verse 21, we <\/p>\n

782
\n01:01:59,500 –> 01:02:03,600
\nread this.
\nI recall to my mind, therefore, <\/p>\n

783
\n01:02:03,600 –> 01:02:07,800
\nI have hope hope glimmers as a
\npossibility. <\/p>\n

784
\n01:02:08,600 –> 01:02:12,600
\nIn verse 24.
\nYahweh is my portion. <\/p>\n

785
\n01:02:12,900 –> 01:02:18,500
\nTherefore I will hope hope is a
\ngift that comes fresh every <\/p>\n

786
\n01:02:18,500 –> 01:02:23,800
\nmorning verse 26.
\nIt is good that a man should <\/p>\n

787
\n01:02:23,800 –> 01:02:30,000
\nboth hope and quietly.
\nWait hope is a profitable and <\/p>\n

788
\n01:02:30,000 –> 01:02:32,600
\ngood thing.
\nAnd finally by the time we come <\/p>\n

789
\n01:02:32,600 –> 01:02:37,900
\nto verse 29, if so be there may
\nbe hope the man realizes that <\/p>\n

790
\n01:02:37,900 –> 01:02:43,400
\nhope is He’s got.
\nThere’s a progression of Hope in<\/p>\n

791
\n01:02:43,400 –> 01:02:47,800
\nthis story, the dawning
\nrealization that hope is weird. <\/p>\n

792
\n01:02:47,800 –> 01:02:51,400
\nGod is driving him to at first,
\nit seems dead. <\/p>\n

793
\n01:02:52,400 –> 01:02:56,300
\nThen a perspective changes with
\nthe focus on God’s character <\/p>\n

794
\n01:02:56,300 –> 01:03:00,500
\nrather than on our own misery.
\nAnd we realized that hope is all<\/p>\n

795
\n01:03:00,500 –> 01:03:03,900
\nwe have.
\nAnd this man who had seen <\/p>\n

796
\n01:03:03,900 –> 01:03:09,700
\nAffliction understood the vast
\ndifference suffering is not the <\/p>\n

797
\n01:03:09,700 –> 01:03:12,000
\nindiscriminate.
\nImminent cruelty of a unloving <\/p>\n

798
\n01:03:12,000 –> 01:03:15,300
\nGod.
\nBut the careful alignment of <\/p>\n

799
\n01:03:15,300 –> 01:03:19,900
\nconsequences for our own sins
\nthat we might desperately grasp,<\/p>\n

800
\n01:03:19,900 –> 01:03:26,200
\nhold of his hope.
\nLamentations 3 is a picture of a<\/p>\n

801
\n01:03:26,200 –> 01:03:30,700
\nman who’s suffering whose
\nAffliction lead him to God. <\/p>\n

802
\n01:03:30,700 –> 01:03:36,600
\nIt brought him closer to God and
\nin Lamentations 3, he shares his<\/p>\n

803
\n01:03:36,600 –> 01:03:40,800
\nSecrets, his experience his
\nperspective. <\/p>\n

804
\n01:03:42,300 –> 01:03:48,400
\nVerse 26 says, it is good that a
\nman should both hope and <\/p>\n

805
\n01:03:48,400 –> 01:03:54,500
\nquietly.
\nWait for What does it say? <\/p>\n

806
\n01:03:56,200 –> 01:04:01,200
\nYahushua.
\nSuffering is to teach us that is<\/p>\n

807
\n01:04:01,200 –> 01:04:04,600
\ndesperately bruised.
\nAnd wounded by sin as we are. <\/p>\n

808
\n01:04:04,800 –> 01:04:10,700
\nWe need to wait for Yahweh is
\nsalvation Jesus, the salvation <\/p>\n

809
\n01:04:10,700 –> 01:04:13,100
\nof Yaya because you see brothers
\nand sisters. <\/p>\n

810
\n01:04:13,100 –> 01:04:17,800
\nAs we conclude this morning on
\nthe road of life, we are all <\/p>\n

811
\n01:04:17,900 –> 01:04:21,300
\nattacked by sin and left for
\ndead. <\/p>\n

812
\n01:04:21,400 –> 01:04:25,400
\nOur hope is perished, we don’t
\nhave time to look at this in any<\/p>\n

813
\n01:04:25,400 –> 01:04:30,100
\ndetail, but I believe that at
\nleast partially Christ gets his <\/p>\n

814
\n01:04:30,100 –> 01:04:33,500
\ninspiration for the parable of
\nthe Good Samaritan from the <\/p>\n

815
\n01:04:33,508 –> 01:04:39,200
\nstory of Lamentations.
\nThe man who was from Jerusalem <\/p>\n

816
\n01:04:39,500 –> 01:04:44,700
\nwho was wounded and left for
\ndead beaten up by enemies and <\/p>\n

817
\n01:04:44,700 –> 01:04:48,300
\nthieves people pass by on the
\nother side. <\/p>\n

818
\n01:04:48,700 –> 01:04:54,000
\nThen someone’s sympathizers
\nshows, compassion, and mercy, <\/p>\n

819
\n01:04:54,400 –> 01:04:57,800
\nand redeems his life.
\nIt all comes out of <\/p>\n

820
\n01:04:57,900 –> 01:05:01,800
\nLamentations.
\nChrist’s inspiration for this <\/p>\n

821
\n01:05:01,800 –> 01:05:04,600
\nlittle story, he is able to heal
\nus. <\/p>\n

822
\n01:05:05,000 –> 01:05:09,300
\nHis example can Save us, he’s
\nthe Good Samaritan who binds up <\/p>\n

823
\n01:05:09,300 –> 01:05:15,100
\nour wounds and redeems our lives
\nand Lamentations chapter 3 is <\/p>\n

824
\n01:05:15,100 –> 01:05:18,900
\nhis secret to understanding the
\nmeaning of suffering. <\/p>\n

825
\n01:05:19,100 –> 01:05:23,000
\nHe’s familiar with misery
\nhimself in every form and in <\/p>\n

826
\n01:05:23,000 –> 01:05:26,000
\nevery way.
\nBut he learned obedience by the <\/p>\n

827
\n01:05:26,000 –> 01:05:30,500
\nthings that he suffered, he
\nforgot himself, he put his own <\/p>\n

828
\n01:05:30,600 –> 01:05:34,900
\nmouth in the dust, he emptied
\nhimself, but he remembered God’s<\/p>\n

829
\n01:05:34,900 –> 01:05:38,000
\ncharacter.
\nIs compassion’s every morning <\/p>\n

830
\n01:05:38,100 –> 01:05:41,500
\nand each day.
\nHe grew more and more like him <\/p>\n

831
\n01:05:42,100 –> 01:05:45,200
\nmade.
\nPerfect by weakness. <\/p>\n

832
\n01:05:45,900 –> 01:05:47,900
\nLet’s follow him brothers and
\nsisters. <\/p>\n

833
\n01:05:47,900 –> 01:05:49,800
\nLet’s put our mouths in the
\ndust. <\/p>\n

834
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\nIt’s thank God that his
\ncompassion’s fail, not, and <\/p>\n

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\nspend each day, hoping that he
\nwill come. <\/p>\n

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\nby sin as we are. <\/p>\n

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\nconformed to be like him, people<\/p>\n

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\nsearch, and try our ways and <\/p>\n

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\nturn again to Yahweh and with
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