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\nAnd I thought
\nThanks brother, John Owen, good <\/p>\n
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\nmorning, my dear brothers and
\nsisters and young people, and <\/p>\n
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\nour Lord Jesus Christ.
\nHmm. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd welcome back to our series
\non Lamentations Jeremiah’s, <\/p>\n
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\nemotional poem of heartache and
\nmisery and meaning. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd hopefully, you can cast your
\nminds back to yesterday where we<\/p>\n
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\nlooked at the structure of the
\nbook and just to remind <\/p>\n
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\nourselves, this is as it were in
\na nutshell, the essence of <\/p>\n
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\nLamentations.
\nIn really, it is a picture if <\/p>\n
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\nyou like of Golgotha and the
\nsufferings of Jesus Christ on <\/p>\n
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\nthis side and Lamentations
\nchapters 1 and 2, we have the <\/p>\n
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\nnation of Israel.
\nA thief like Nation, who rob God<\/p>\n
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\nof his time and honor.
\nOn this side, we have the same <\/p>\n
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\nThief like Nation, but gradually
\nchanging. <\/p>\n
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\nComing to repentance turning to
\nGod. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd that change has been
\naffected by the man who stands <\/p>\n
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\nin the middle of the chapter or
\nthe book chapter 3, the man who <\/p>\n
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\nhas seen affliction, This
\nCentral character effects, the <\/p>\n
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\nnation and is able to save them
\nand Lamentations really is the <\/p>\n
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\nstory of how we respond to
\nsuffering. <\/p>\n
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\nWe begin as we’ll see here in
\nchapter one, with appealing to <\/p>\n
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\nthose who pass by for sympathy.
\nThat’s how we start, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nBrothers and sisters.
\nWe whinge to each other about <\/p>\n
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\nour lat, how hard it is in life.
\nThe struggles that we’re going <\/p>\n
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\nthrough, We complain to each
\nother, But the purpose of our <\/p>\n
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\nLord Jesus Christ is to give us
\nperspective and meaning and to <\/p>\n
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\nmake us progress through to a
\nstage where instead of Moaning <\/p>\n
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\nto each other, we appeal to God,
\nfor Mercy, we turn to him in <\/p>\n
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\nRepentance and he is able to
\nsave and heal. <\/p>\n
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\nSo now we come to A second, a
\nsecond session, chapters one and<\/p>\n
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\ntwo, The Afflicted Daughter of
\nZion the dark chapters of <\/p>\n
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\nLamentations Jerusalem.
\nLay in ruins, everything that <\/p>\n
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\nwas important to the nation and
\nthe profit, their security, <\/p>\n
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\ntheir religion, their
\npriesthood, the monarchy their <\/p>\n
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\nhomes, their positions, their
\nfamilies had all been ripped <\/p>\n
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\napart by the Babylonians.
\nSuddenly and ruthlessly torn <\/p>\n
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\naway, they have been warned, so
\nso many times, but they didn’t <\/p>\n
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\nreally believe that God would so
\ndrastically disturb the <\/p>\n
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\nequilibrium.
\nBut as they looked around, In <\/p>\n
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\nthe smoking ruins of the city.
\nHe had he had done that to his <\/p>\n
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\npeople, to his Temple.
\nHow how, how could this be? <\/p>\n
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\nAnd look at the nation’s
\nfeelings in chapter 1 and verse <\/p>\n
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\n12, is it.
\nNothing to you all. <\/p>\n
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\nYe that pass by Behold.
\nAnd see if there be any sorrow, <\/p>\n
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\nlike unto my sorrow, which is
\ndone unto me, where with Yahweh <\/p>\n
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\nhas Afflicted me in the day, of
\nhis Fierce anger has anyone <\/p>\n
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\nexperienced this amount of grief
\nand pain before the nation was <\/p>\n
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\noverwhelmed?
\nAnd as we start this morning, <\/p>\n
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\nlooking at chapters one and two.
\nI thought I would begin by <\/p>\n
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\ngiving you a montage of the
\nfeelings of the book Because as <\/p>\n
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\nwe know, Lamentations gives us
\nthe feelings that Jeremiah gives<\/p>\n
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\nus the facts for it’s a very
\nemotional and demonstrative <\/p>\n
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\nbook.
\nSo just so we can put ourselves <\/p>\n
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\nthere in the ruins of Jerusalem
\nto feel the utter misery and <\/p>\n
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\nhurt and in comprehensibility of
\nthe situation, let me just read <\/p>\n
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\nout to you.
\nThe graphic descriptions that <\/p>\n
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\ncome through Lamentations, and
\nyou might like to sit there, you<\/p>\n
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\ncan read it on the screen or you
\ncan sit there with your eyes <\/p>\n
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\nclosed.
\nAnd just listen to the <\/p>\n
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\ndescriptions that Jeremiah
\nweaves into this dramatic and <\/p>\n
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\nemotional book.
\nThe horror of this time. <\/p>\n
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\nJust let it wash over you,
\nimagine, you were there in <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem back then.
\nHow would you feel? <\/p>\n
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\nThe city that was once full of
\nbustling people is now empty. <\/p>\n
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\nYou feel betrayed by all your
\nfriends. <\/p>\n
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\nThe gates are desolate.
\nThe feasts have been abandoned. <\/p>\n
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\nThe priests It disconsolately On
\nThe Ground. <\/p>\n
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\nEven the young maidens full of
\njoy and happiness. <\/p>\n
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\nAll depressed.
\nEveryone is in misery. you can <\/p>\n
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\nonly think of the good old days,
\nthe Heathen have ransacked and <\/p>\n
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\ndesecrated the sanctuary that
\nyou love Everything you own has <\/p>\n
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\nbeen sold to buy a loaf of
\nbread. <\/p>\n
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\nYou feel like God is burning
\nyour bones or catching you in a <\/p>\n
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\nnet.
\nYou feel like you keep getting <\/p>\n
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\nknocked down, but you’re unable
\never to rise. <\/p>\n
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\nYou feel like you are crushed
\ngrapes? <\/p>\n
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\nSqueezed to know more drops run
\nout. <\/p>\n
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\nYou just can’t stop crying old
\npeople are dying in the very <\/p>\n
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\nmoment that that crying out for
\nfood. <\/p>\n
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\nYou can’t stop, sighing.
\nYou’re too tired to even move. <\/p>\n
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\nYou feel like God has thrown you
\ndown from heaven, to be dashed <\/p>\n
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\nupon the Earth, you feel like
\nGod is shooting arrows at you in<\/p>\n
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\nhis anger, you feel like God has
\ntorn up your carefully. <\/p>\n
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\nManicured Garden that you spent
\nyour whole life? <\/p>\n
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\nCultivating.
\nThe elders that you love and <\/p>\n
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\nrespect, sit on the ground with
\ndust on the heads in silence. <\/p>\n
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\nGod has poured your liver out in
\nthe ground in front of you. <\/p>\n
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\nNursing babies.
\nBreathe. <\/p>\n
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\nTheir last breath.
\nStill sucking for milk. <\/p>\n
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\nYou feel like the sea is
\ncrashing down on top of you <\/p>\n
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\nrelentlessly.
\nEvery wave. <\/p>\n
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\nStopping you from getting a
\nbreath passes by rather than <\/p>\n
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\nhelping Mock and laugh.
\nYour enemies actually think they<\/p>\n
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\nTears flow like a river day and <\/p>\n
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\nnight.
\nChildren, lie down to die at <\/p>\n
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\nevery intersection mother’s.
\nEat their own newborn children <\/p>\n
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\nto stay alive, young and old
\ndial. <\/p>\n
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\nI Canna piled up in the streets,
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\nyou can never Escape, you feel
\nlike any cries for help. <\/p>\n
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\nGo deliberately unanswered, you
\nfeel like God is like a lion A <\/p>\n
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\nbeer tearing you to pieces, you
\nfeel like you live. <\/p>\n
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\nIt is the practice Target for
\nGod’s arrows. <\/p>\n
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\nYou feel like God has filled
\nyour mouth with gravel. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s impossible to remember
\nanything good anymore. <\/p>\n
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\nYou feel like food scraps or
\nsewage thrown into the streets? <\/p>\n
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\nYou feel like you’re drowning
\neverything left as worthless, <\/p>\n
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\neven the gold that you used to
\ntreat it. <\/p>\n
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\nThe children’s tongues stick to
\nthe roof of their mouth for <\/p>\n
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\nHunger restaurant owners, eat
\nscraps, fashion models embrace <\/p>\n
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\ndunhill’s your skin sticks to
\nyour bones and you look like a <\/p>\n
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\nblack wizard stick.
\nThose killed by the sword, a <\/p>\n
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\nblessed compared to those who
\nare starving to death. <\/p>\n
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\nThe compassionate mother’s boil
\ntheir children to end their <\/p>\n
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\npain.
\nHouses are turned over to be <\/p>\n
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\ninhabited by complete strangers.
\nThe woman in the maids are <\/p>\n
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\nravished.
\nThe princes are tortured, the <\/p>\n
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\nelders are mutilated and
\ndisfigured. <\/p>\n
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\nAll the young people are sold as
\nslaves. <\/p>\n
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\nAny thought of music and song
\ndies in your throats. <\/p>\n
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\nCan you imagine such a nut uribl
\nanguish? <\/p>\n
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\nCan we be shaken brothers and
\nsisters from our comfortable <\/p>\n
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\nlives and our lethargy to be
\nmoved by the spectacle. <\/p>\n
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\nHow, how, how could this be?
\nThis morning, we want to delve <\/p>\n
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\ninto the hopelessness.
\nThe utter Blackness of grief of <\/p>\n
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\nthese people is that floundering
\naround for meaning amongst the <\/p>\n
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\nchaos trying to make sense of
\nall of this pain. <\/p>\n
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\nNow obviously, in chapters 1 and
\n2, we have too many verses to do<\/p>\n
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\nas a detailed verse by verse
\nstudy. <\/p>\n
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\nSo what I want to do this
\nmorning is hard as it might be <\/p>\n
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\nis try and highlight for you the
\nmain ideas or themes of these <\/p>\n
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\ntwo chapters.
\nThe themes of Lamentations one. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd as usual, the main theme is
\ngoing to come up in the first <\/p>\n
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\nfew verses and then be expanded
\non in the rest of the chapter. <\/p>\n
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\nThe First theme of chapter one,
\nis that all their lovers and <\/p>\n
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\nfriends had left verse 2 among
\nall her Lover’s? <\/p>\n
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\nShe had none to comfort her
\nverse 8. <\/p>\n
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\nAll that honored, her despise
\nher. <\/p>\n
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\nThis 19, I called, for my
\nlover’s, but they deceive me. <\/p>\n
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\nThere was suddenly amongst the
\nrubble, the ruins of the city <\/p>\n
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\nsudden feeling of loneliness.
\nOf Abandonment. <\/p>\n
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\nWhere was everyone?
\nWe was everyone that was <\/p>\n
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\nsupposed to help me to support
\nme. <\/p>\n
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\nTo care for me to protect me in
\nthe nation’s suddenly realize <\/p>\n
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\nthat everyone had abandoned them
\nin their most desperate hour of <\/p>\n
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\nneed.
\nIt was an overwhelming feeling <\/p>\n
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\nverse 1.
\nHow does the city sits solitary?<\/p>\n
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\nThat was full of people.
\nHow is she becomes a widow? <\/p>\n
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\nShe that was great among the
\nNations and Princess among the <\/p>\n
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\nprovinces.
\nHow is she become tributary? <\/p>\n
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\nThe NIV has hard after City sit
\ndeserted, everyone was gone. and<\/p>\n
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\nI’d like you to come to Isaiah
\nand chapter 22 because These <\/p>\n
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\ndays had been foretold.
\nIn the book of Isaiah. <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah chapter 22 and look at
\nthis description of what <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem used to be like verse
\n2. <\/p>\n
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\nNow that aren’t full of stars.
\nA tumultuously city, a joyous <\/p>\n
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\nCity.
\nThey slain men are not slain <\/p>\n
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\nwith the sword nor dead in
\nbattle. <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem, was a city of
\nexcitement of bustling of <\/p>\n
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\nbustling, happiness people
\neverywhere. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd in verse 12 God called for
\nrepentance and in that day did <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh Elohim of armies call to
\nweeping to morning to baldness <\/p>\n
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\nto girding, with sackcloth.
\nHe called for repentance, but <\/p>\n
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\nwhat did he get?
\nBrothers and sisters. <\/p>\n
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\nHe got verse 13.
\nParties and behold, Joy <\/p>\n
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\ngladness, slang oxen killing
\nsheep. <\/p>\n
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\nEating flesh, drinking wine.
\nLet us eat and drink for <\/p>\n
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\ntomorrow.
\nWe shall die and God was <\/p>\n
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\nprovoked to anger.
\nAll he wanted was a relationship<\/p>\n
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\nwith the nation that they were
\nobsessed with everybody else <\/p>\n
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\nwith making friends with
\neverybody else and look what it <\/p>\n
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\nsays in verse 14.
\nIt was revealed in mine ears by <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh of armies.
\nSurely this iniquity shall not <\/p>\n
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\nbe purged from you till you die,
\nsaith, Yahweh, Elohim of armies.<\/p>\n
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\nIn the Fulfillment of verse 14
\nis the book of Lamentations and <\/p>\n
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\nby the time Judah woke up to
\ntheir mistake, the city of <\/p>\n
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\nstirs, the tumultuous city was
\ngone, they were alone deserted <\/p>\n
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\nAbandoned.
\nOf course, of course, they were <\/p>\n
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\nmarried.
\nGod himself was their husband <\/p>\n
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\ntheir protector, but you see
\ntheir iniquities had separated <\/p>\n
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\nthem even from him.
\nAnd when we come back to <\/p>\n
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\nLamentations chapter 1 in verse
\n1, we find that. <\/p>\n
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\nEven God had Turned from husband
\nto enemy. <\/p>\n
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\nThey had become a widow.
\nThey’d become a widow. <\/p>\n
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\nGod, the husband had even
\nabandoned them. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you know Jeremiah actually
\nsays in Jeremiah 15 and verse 8 <\/p>\n
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\nthat their widows increased like
\nthe sand of the sea, what an <\/p>\n
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\nindictment for Abraham’s seed,
\nthe Seed of Abraham That was <\/p>\n
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\nsupposed to be like the sand of
\nthe seashore for multitude. <\/p>\n
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\nNow their Windows increased,
\nlike the sand of the sea. <\/p>\n
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\nTheir husband was gone.
\nThey felt like, even God had <\/p>\n
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\nabandoned them.
\nBut it got worse because verse 1<\/p>\n
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\ncontinues, the princess has
\nbecome a tributary. <\/p>\n
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\nWhat a calamitous fall from
\ngrace, all the servants are <\/p>\n
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\ngone.
\nThe Glamorous girl of the <\/p>\n
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\nnation’s has to cook in the
\nkitchen. <\/p>\n
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\nShe’s gone from glittering
\nprincess to slave. <\/p>\n
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\nGirl was almost Unthinkable.
\nThis fall from grace But it <\/p>\n
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\nbecame worse again.
\nBecause verse 2 says, all her <\/p>\n
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\nLover’s in friends have deserted
\nher, this is a woman who is <\/p>\n
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\ntotally and absolutely alone.
\nJerusalem’s lovers all started <\/p>\n
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\nwith.
\nSolomon strange wives and <\/p>\n
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\nconnections that lead to
\nidolatry political alliances. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd suddenly Judah, was more
\nfriendly, more Reliant, more, <\/p>\n
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\ntrusting of other Gentile
\nNations, who lovers then she was<\/p>\n
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\nof God.
\nShe wanted to turn to Egypt in <\/p>\n
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\nIsaiah, 30, and Isaiah 36.
\nWe know those verses, it’s like <\/p>\n
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\na read that if you lean upon it,
\nit will pierce through your <\/p>\n
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\nhand.
\nSo also is Pharaoh king of <\/p>\n
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\nEgypt.
\nCome across to zekiel and <\/p>\n
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\nchapter 23 because strangely
\nenough. <\/p>\n
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\nThe nation of Judah.
\nFelt that actually Babylon was <\/p>\n
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\ntheir friend Ezekiel 23 and
\nverse 22. <\/p>\n
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\nTherefore o Holub are thus saith
\nNar way. <\/p>\n
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\nBehold, I will raise up thy
\nlovers against thee from whom <\/p>\n
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\nthy mind is alienated and old
\nbring them against the on every <\/p>\n
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\nside, the Babylonians and all
\nthe called Ian’s p-card and <\/p>\n
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\nsugar and color and all the
\nAssyrians with them. <\/p>\n
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\nAll of them desirable young men,
\nCaptains and rulers, great Lords<\/p>\n
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\nin renowned all of them riding
\nupon horses in the lover of <\/p>\n
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\nBabylon that Judah had relied on
\nturned against to, in her hour <\/p>\n
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\nof need and came down and
\nassaulted the city. <\/p>\n
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\nEverybody had abandoned this
\nwoman that relied on Edom that <\/p>\n
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\nrelied on Eman and everybody
\nturned against two, What a <\/p>\n
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\nlesson brothers and sisters.
\nNo amount of diplomacy, no <\/p>\n
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\namount of political connections.
\nNo. <\/p>\n
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\nAmount of Reliance on friends
\ncan replace our love and trust <\/p>\n
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\nin God, riches will evaporate
\nyouth, will disappear friends, <\/p>\n
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\nwill let us down a health
\ncondition appear in a moment. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd for Jerusalem, it was all
\ntoo late, the Babylonians, swept<\/p>\n
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\nin the lovers, The parties, the
\ngood times, the friends, <\/p>\n
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\nevaporated, and suddenly Judah,
\nawoke to the fact that even God,<\/p>\n
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\nher husband had turned against
\nher, she was desperately Alone. <\/p>\n
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\nLook at verse 19, I called, for
\nmy lover’s, but they deceived <\/p>\n
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\nme, my priests and mine Elders.
\nGave up the spirit in the city <\/p>\n
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\nwhile they sought their meat to
\nrelieve their souls. <\/p>\n
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\nJerusalem is portrayed as an
\nUnfaithful woman who abandoned <\/p>\n
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\nher husband, her maker and put
\nher trust in anyone. <\/p>\n
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\nOther than God In this is how it
\nturned out. <\/p>\n
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\nWho do?
\nWe trust him brothers and <\/p>\n
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\nsisters in our lives.
\nIs it our neighbors wealth? <\/p>\n
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\nIs it?
\nOur friends in the world? <\/p>\n
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\nA secured job are own native
\nabilities. <\/p>\n
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\nAnything other than God, it’s a
\nsearching question, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
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\nBecause sometimes trusting and
\nother things may even seem <\/p>\n
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\nlegitimate like, here in verse
\n19. <\/p>\n
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\nI mean, surely, we can trust our
\nbrothers and sisters, I mean, <\/p>\n
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\nsurely, we can trust The priests
\nand the elders. <\/p>\n
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\nBut in the ultimate sense
\nbrothers and sisters, we can <\/p>\n
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\nonly trust our heavenly father
\ntune over the page to chapter 2 <\/p>\n
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\nand verse 14.
\nBy prophets have seen Vain and <\/p>\n
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\nfoolish things for thee.
\nThey have not discovered thine <\/p>\n
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\niniquity to turn away.
\nThey kept tivity but have seen <\/p>\n
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\nfor the false burdens and causes
\nof banishment, even the priests,<\/p>\n
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\nthe elders and the prophets
\ncould not help. <\/p>\n
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\nAnd the overwhelming lesson of
\nLamentations one. <\/p>\n
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\nIs that the only person we must
\ntrust is our heavenly father. <\/p>\n
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\nand if we look hard at our
\nlives, And we find a fear amount<\/p>\n
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\nof Reliance on self or anyone
\nelse. <\/p>\n
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\nThen we are probably doomed to
\nrepeat judah’s mistakes. <\/p>\n
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\nDo you know in Chapter 2 and
\nverse 14? <\/p>\n
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\nThat little phrase Vain and
\nfoolish things is quite an <\/p>\n
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\ninteresting phrase.
\nThe revised Standard Version has<\/p>\n
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\nfalse and deceptive Visions.
\nBut in the Hebrew, the Hebrew <\/p>\n
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\nword for foolish things is very
\ninteresting and it doesn’t <\/p>\n
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\nactually mean anything, like
\nwhat it seems literally it <\/p>\n
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\nshould be The prophets have
\nseen. <\/p>\n
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\nUntempered whitewash.
\nWould you have guessed that from<\/p>\n
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\nthe verse untempered whitewash
\nand four out of the seven times?<\/p>\n
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\nIt occurs it occurs in Ezekiel
\nchapter 13, just come there very<\/p>\n
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\nquickly and read these verses
\nwith me and see if they’re not <\/p>\n
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\nappropriate to the nation.
\nIn this state this morning, <\/p>\n
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\nEzekiel 13 in verses 10 to 16.
\nbecause even because they have <\/p>\n
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\nseduced, my people saying peace
\nwhen there is or was no peace <\/p>\n
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\nand one built up a wall And low
\nothers. <\/p>\n
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\nDabbed it, with untempered
\nmortar, say unto them which <\/p>\n
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\ndebit with untempered mortar
\nthat it shall fall, there shall <\/p>\n
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\nbe an overflowing shower and
\nyeoh great hailstones shall fall<\/p>\n
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\nand a stormy wind shall Rend.
\nIt low when the wall is Fallen, <\/p>\n
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\nshall it?
\nNot be said unto you. <\/p>\n
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\nWhere is the door bang?
\nWhich you have dabbed it. <\/p>\n
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\nTherefore thus, saith ni Yahweh.
\nI will even Rend it with a <\/p>\n
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\nstormy wind And in my Fury and
\nthis should be an overflowing <\/p>\n
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\nshower in mine, anger and great
\nhailstones in my Fury to consume<\/p>\n
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\nit.
\nSo will I break down the wall <\/p>\n
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\nthat you have Dead with
\nuntempered mortar and bring it <\/p>\n
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\ndown to the ground?
\nSo that the foundation thereof <\/p>\n
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\nshall be discovered.
\nIt shall fall ye shall be <\/p>\n
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\nconsumed in the midst thereof.
\nAnd ye shall know that I am <\/p>\n
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\nYahweh.
\nThus will, I accomplish my wrath<\/p>\n
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\nupon the wall and upon them,
\nwhich have dabbed it with <\/p>\n
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\nuntempered mortar and we’ll say,
\nTo you. <\/p>\n
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\nThe wall is no more neither.
\nThey that have dabbed it to wit.<\/p>\n
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\nThe prophets of Israel, which
\nprophesy concerning Jerusalem <\/p>\n
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\nand which see visions of Peace
\nfor her, and there is no peace. <\/p>\n
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\nYou see what the prophets and
\nthe priests were saying that, <\/p>\n
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\ndivined lies to cover up the
\ntruth. <\/p>\n
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\nThe Babylonians upcoming, it’s
\nall going to be okay. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s all going to be fine.
\nThere were like dishonest <\/p>\n
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\nBuilders who covered up a
\ncrumbly wall with a Fresh coat <\/p>\n
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\nof whitewash.
\nThat’s what their leaders were <\/p>\n
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\ndoing.
\nIt’s where we get the phrase <\/p>\n
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\nwallpapering over the cracks and
\ntrusting and friends and jobs, <\/p>\n
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\nand wealth, and Connections in
\nabilities in anything other than<\/p>\n
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\nGod, Is like wallpapering over
\nthe cracks. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s like dabbing a Fresh coat
\nof whitewash on a crumbling wall<\/p>\n
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\nand the prophets have seen Vain
\nand foolish things and the city <\/p>\n
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\nwoke up.
\nAnd everything had been taken <\/p>\n
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\naway.
\nThey were Afflicted broken. <\/p>\n
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\nForsaken.
\nThe second theme in chapter one <\/p>\n
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\nis that there is none to comfort
\nme. <\/p>\n
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\nIt happens actually over and
\nover again. <\/p>\n
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\nIn this chapter 7 times, there
\nis none to comfort her none to <\/p>\n
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\ncomfort me.
\nWithout God, we are lonely and <\/p>\n
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\nAbandoned and in actual fact in
\nthis little section of chapters <\/p>\n
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\n1 and chapter 2, there’s a real
\nemphasis on weeping. <\/p>\n
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\nLook, at verse 2, she weepeth
\nsaw in the night who tears on <\/p>\n
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\nher cheeks verse 16 for these
\nthings. <\/p>\n
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\nI weep my mine.
\nI run us down from wart with <\/p>\n
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\nwater. 2:11 mine eyes, do fail
\nwith tears, chapter 2 and verse.<\/p>\n
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\n18.
\nLet tears run down like a river <\/p>\n
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\nday and night, you can see the
\nHopeless situation, constant <\/p>\n
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\ntears, the nation is
\ninconsolable, they can’t stop <\/p>\n
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\nthe crying and there’s none to
\ncomfort. <\/p>\n
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\nYou know, it’s bad enough, isn’t
\nit? <\/p>\n
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\nWhen we are suffering to go
\nthrough the actual problems? <\/p>\n
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\nHalf the solution is being able
\nto talk to someone and receive <\/p>\n
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\nsome comfort, but for these
\npeople that were going through <\/p>\n
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\nall the problems and there was
\nno one to turn to abandoned and <\/p>\n
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\nlonely.
\nAffliction seven times actually,<\/p>\n
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\nin the whole chat in the whole
\nbook. <\/p>\n
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\nIt’s the key word of the book as
\na whole, but it certainly here <\/p>\n
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\npredominantly in chapter one
\nAffliction and suffering. <\/p>\n
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\nLook at chapter 1 and verse 7,
\nJerusalem Remembered in the days<\/p>\n
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\nof her Affliction and of her
\nmiseries all her Pleasant things<\/p>\n
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\nwhich she had in the days of old
\nwhen her people fell into the <\/p>\n
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\nhands of the enemy.
\nMe and none did help her the <\/p>\n
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\nadversaries saw her and did mock
\nat her. <\/p>\n
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\nSabbath’s.
\nThe pleasant things were all <\/p>\n
340
\n00:25:49,400 –> 00:25:53,900
\ngone only misery remained and at
\nan actual fact in this little <\/p>\n
341
\n00:25:53,900 –> 00:25:58,100
\nsection there’s a little
\nemphasis on the pleasant things.<\/p>\n
342
\n00:25:58,400 –> 00:26:06,900
\nVerse 7, all her Pleasant things
\nhave gone verse verse 10. <\/p>\n
343
\n00:26:10,500 –> 00:26:14,100
\nThe adversary has spread out his
\nhand upon all her Pleasant <\/p>\n
344
\n00:26:14,100 –> 00:26:16,700
\nthings verse 11.
\nThey have given their Pleasant <\/p>\n
345
\n00:26:16,700 –> 00:26:21,000
\nthings for meat, everything that
\nthey treasured had gone. <\/p>\n
346
\n00:26:21,100 –> 00:26:24,300
\nIt was only Affliction.
\nNow all their goods were stolen.<\/p>\n
347
\n00:26:24,800 –> 00:26:30,000
\nTheir houses were occupied by
\nthe enemy the memories burned <\/p>\n
348
\n00:26:30,500 –> 00:26:34,100
\nsmashed.
\nWhat a horrific time. <\/p>\n
349
\n00:26:35,100 –> 00:26:40,700
\nAnd in verse 11, as we read
\nverse 11, all my people sigh, <\/p>\n
350
\n00:26:41,200 –> 00:26:46,200
\nthey seek bread, they have given
\ntheir Pleasant things for meat, <\/p>\n
351
\n00:26:46,200 –> 00:26:49,600
\nto relieve the soul.
\nWhat does that remind you of? <\/p>\n
352
\n00:26:49,900 –> 00:26:55,700
\nThey have given their Pleasant
\nthings for meat, to relieve, the<\/p>\n
353
\n00:26:55,700 –> 00:26:58,900
\nsoul, doesn’t that seem to be an
\nallusion to Esau. <\/p>\n
354
\n00:26:59,500 –> 00:27:02,500
\nThey’ve despise their
\nBirthright, they’ve sold their <\/p>\n
355
\n00:27:02,700 –> 00:27:06,400
\nHeritance has yahweh’s people
\njust for a mess of pottage <\/p>\n
356
\n00:27:06,700 –> 00:27:08,300
\nthat’s what all the parties feel
\nlike. <\/p>\n
357
\n00:27:08,300 –> 00:27:12,500
\nNow imagine it.
\nThe descendants of Jacob acting <\/p>\n
358
\n00:27:12,500 –> 00:27:18,800
\nlike Esau are afflicted,
\npolluted profane. <\/p>\n
359
\n00:27:20,500 –> 00:27:24,700
\nAnd all they can do.
\nThroughout chapter one is. <\/p>\n
360
\n00:27:28,700 –> 00:27:32,100
\nSigh.
\nThere’s just nothing left to say<\/p>\n
361
\n00:27:32,900 –> 00:27:36,000
\nher priests.
\nI verse 4. <\/p>\n
362
\n00:27:36,800 –> 00:27:40,500
\nYe Shi Saya.
\n‘The intern of backward. <\/p>\n
363
\n00:27:40,800 –> 00:27:45,800
\nVerse 8.
\nAll her people sigh verse 11. <\/p>\n
364
\n00:27:47,400 –> 00:27:53,700
\nThey have heard that I sigh
\nverse 21 for my size. <\/p>\n
365
\n00:27:53,800 –> 00:27:58,500
\nA mini verse 22 overcome with
\ngrief and despair. <\/p>\n
366
\n00:27:58,800 –> 00:28:03,000
\nThere’s nothing that can be said
\nthat will make this situation. <\/p>\n
367
\n00:28:03,100 –> 00:28:09,800
\nAny better?
\nAll you can do is You know, hold<\/p>\n
368
\n00:28:09,800 –> 00:28:15,200
\nyour hand in Lamentations 1 and
\ncome forward to Ezekiel 21 <\/p>\n
369
\n00:28:15,800 –> 00:28:20,900
\nbecause this is exactly what God
\nhad prophesied of the nation. <\/p>\n
370
\n00:28:23,700 –> 00:28:29,700
\nEzekiel 21 in verse 1.
\nAnd the word of Yahweh came unto<\/p>\n
371
\n00:28:29,700 –> 00:28:35,100
\nme saying, son of man, sit by
\nface toward Jerusalem and drop, <\/p>\n
372
\n00:28:35,100 –> 00:28:39,100
\nthey word toward the holy places
\nprophesied against the land of <\/p>\n
373
\n00:28:39,100 –> 00:28:41,300
\nIsrael and say to the land of
\nIsrael. <\/p>\n
374
\n00:28:41,300 –> 00:28:45,800
\nThus saith, Yahweh behold, I am
\nagainst thee and will draw forth<\/p>\n
375
\n00:28:45,800 –> 00:28:48,300
\nmy sword out of his sheath and
\nwill cut off from Thee. <\/p>\n
376
\n00:28:48,300 –> 00:28:52,800
\nThe righteous and the wicked
\nseeing then that I will cut off <\/p>\n
377
\n00:28:52,800 –> 00:28:54,500
\nfrom the righteous and the
\nwicked. <\/p>\n
378
\n00:28:54,700 –> 00:28:57,100
\nTherefore shall my sword go
\nforth out of his sheath. <\/p>\n
379
\n00:28:57,200 –> 00:29:01,400
\nAgainst All Flesh from the south
\nto the north. <\/p>\n
380
\n00:29:02,100 –> 00:29:06,000
\nThat All Flesh may know that I
\nYahweh have drawn forth, my <\/p>\n
381
\n00:29:06,000 –> 00:29:09,600
\nsword out of his sheath, it
\nshall not return anymore. <\/p>\n
382
\n00:29:11,300 –> 00:29:16,100
\nSigh.
\nTherefore, the son of man with <\/p>\n
383
\n00:29:16,100 –> 00:29:22,600
\nthe breaking of thy loins and
\nwith bitterness sigh before <\/p>\n
384
\n00:29:22,600 –> 00:29:26,300
\ntheir eyes and it shall be when
\nthey shall say unto thee, we’re <\/p>\n
385
\n00:29:26,300 –> 00:29:30,800
\nfor syas there.
\nThat thou shalt answer for the <\/p>\n
386
\n00:29:30,800 –> 00:29:35,100
\ntidings.
\nBecause it cometh. <\/p>\n
387
\n00:29:36,200 –> 00:29:40,100
\nAnd every heart shall melt and
\nall hand, shall be feeble if <\/p>\n
388
\n00:29:40,100 –> 00:29:44,100
\nevery Spirit shall faint and
\nOlney, shall be weak, as water, <\/p>\n
389
\n00:29:44,100 –> 00:29:48,200
\nbehold it cometh?
\nAnd it shall be brought to pass <\/p>\n
390
\n00:29:48,800 –> 00:29:51,100
\nthe Babylonians were going to
\ncome in. <\/p>\n
391
\n00:29:51,100 –> 00:29:55,000
\nGod said to Ezekiel sigh son of
\nman. <\/p>\n
392
\n00:29:56,500 –> 00:29:59,700
\nAnd in business sigh for your
\npeople. <\/p>\n
393
\n00:30:00,600 –> 00:30:04,800
\nAnd we know what happens in the
\nrest of this chapter verse 25. <\/p>\n
394
\n00:30:04,800 –> 00:30:07,900
\nThey are profane Wicked Prince
\nof Israel. <\/p>\n
395
\n00:30:08,000 –> 00:30:12,700
\nRemove the diadem take off the
\ncrown, I will overturn overturn.<\/p>\n
396
\n00:30:12,900 –> 00:30:15,400
\nOverturn it, it will never be
\nthe same. <\/p>\n
397
\n00:30:17,800 –> 00:30:22,400
\nGod had prophesied sighing and
\ngrief and in comprehensibility <\/p>\n
398
\n00:30:22,700 –> 00:30:26,200
\nand Lamentations.
\nOne is the proof that it all <\/p>\n
399
\n00:30:26,200 –> 00:30:30,700
\ncame to pass.
\nIn all it’s awful detail. <\/p>\n
400
\n00:30:31,500 –> 00:30:37,000
\nJust as he had said, Jerusalem
\nwas crushed and broken. <\/p>\n
401
\n00:30:37,600 –> 00:30:42,400
\nSo Lamentations, chapter 1 is
\nall about man’s hopelessness <\/p>\n
402
\n00:30:42,900 –> 00:30:45,900
\nman’s inadequacy, how without
\nGod. <\/p>\n
403
\n00:30:46,000 –> 00:30:48,100
\nWe are all the things of
\nLamentations. <\/p>\n
404
\n00:30:48,100 –> 00:30:52,100
\nChapter one, broken Afflicted
\ncrushed. <\/p>\n
405
\n00:30:52,300 –> 00:30:57,800
\nForsaken, abandoned troubled,
\ndistressed. <\/p>\n
406
\n00:30:58,800 –> 00:31:05,900
\nAin’t desolate.
\nComfortless. and it’s when we <\/p>\n
407
\n00:31:05,900 –> 00:31:10,300
\nrealize brothers and sisters in
\nyoung people that are situation <\/p>\n
408
\n00:31:10,300 –> 00:31:16,300
\nin life without god without
\ntrust in him is so desperately <\/p>\n
409
\n00:31:16,300 –> 00:31:21,500
\nBleak and without any comfort
\nThat we come to chapter 2. <\/p>\n
410
\n00:31:23,400 –> 00:31:27,500
\nIn Chapter 2, we have quite
\ndifferent themes. <\/p>\n
411
\n00:31:28,800 –> 00:31:37,600
\nThe first one is the name of God
\nYahweh or Adonai seven times. <\/p>\n
412
\n00:31:37,600 –> 00:31:43,500
\nYahweh seven times Adonai and
\nmost of you may be aware that <\/p>\n
413
\n00:31:43,700 –> 00:31:47,100
\nprobably in all of the times
\nthat Adonai occurs in <\/p>\n
414
\n00:31:47,100 –> 00:31:51,700
\nLamentations to the seven times,
\nit should probably be translated<\/p>\n
415
\n00:31:51,700 –> 00:31:56,900
\nas the sofrom or as Yahweh, the
\nname of God. <\/p>\n
416
\n00:31:58,600 –> 00:32:02,200
\nSo seven times we’re told in
\nchapter one, there is none to <\/p>\n
417
\n00:32:02,200 –> 00:32:05,400
\ncomfort.
\nNow, we have the answer. <\/p>\n
418
\n00:32:06,500 –> 00:32:12,500
\nYahweh hath done this.
\nYahweh hath done this verse 7. <\/p>\n
419
\n00:32:12,600 –> 00:32:18,700
\nYahweh hath cast off his altar,
\nhe hath abhorred his Sanctuary, <\/p>\n
420
\n00:32:19,300 –> 00:32:23,100
\nhe hath given up into the hand
\nof the enemy the walls of her <\/p>\n
421
\n00:32:23,100 –> 00:32:25,400
\npalaces.
\nThey have made a noise in the <\/p>\n
422
\n00:32:25,400 –> 00:32:30,000
\nhouse of Yahweh as in the day of
\na solemn feast. <\/p>\n
423
\n00:32:32,100 –> 00:32:36,000
\nYahweh has purposed to destroy
\nthe wall of the daughter of <\/p>\n
424
\n00:32:36,000 –> 00:32:38,300
\nZion.
\nHe has stretched out a line. <\/p>\n
425
\n00:32:38,500 –> 00:32:42,500
\nHe has not withdrawn.
\nHis hand from destroying verse <\/p>\n
426
\n00:32:42,500 –> 00:32:47,300
\n20, behold o, Yahweh.
\nConsider to whom thou Hast done <\/p>\n
427
\n00:32:47,300 –> 00:32:51,500
\nthis.
\nThis was God’s workings. <\/p>\n
428
\n00:32:53,000 –> 00:32:58,000
\nIt was his anger over and over
\nagain. <\/p>\n
429
\n00:32:58,200 –> 00:33:02,800
\nIn this chapter, it was his
\nanger not the Babylonians. <\/p>\n
430
\n00:33:03,800 –> 00:33:08,300
\nAnother theme, he has swallowed
\nup. <\/p>\n
431
\n00:33:08,600 –> 00:33:15,000
\nJust look at this 2:2.
\nYahweh has swallowed up the <\/p>\n
432
\n00:33:15,000 –> 00:33:18,400
\ninhabit.
\nThe habitations of Jacob verse <\/p>\n
433
\n00:33:18,400 –> 00:33:20,400
\n5.
\nYahweh was as an enemy. <\/p>\n
434
\n00:33:20,400 –> 00:33:24,600
\nHe has swallowed up Israel, he
\nhas swallowed up all her palaces<\/p>\n
435
\n00:33:25,000 –> 00:33:33,900
\nverse 8, He has verse 8.
\nIt says he has stretched out a <\/p>\n
436
\n00:33:33,908 –> 00:33:38,200
\nline, he hath, not withdrawn his
\nhand from destroying but in the <\/p>\n
437
\n00:33:38,200 –> 00:33:44,700
\nmargin it says, swallowing up
\nverse 16, we have swallowed her <\/p>\n
438
\n00:33:44,700 –> 00:33:46,600
\nup.
\nThat’s how the nation felt. <\/p>\n
439
\n00:33:47,200 –> 00:33:51,000
\nThey felt that God had swallowed
\nthem up, horrific an awful <\/p>\n
440
\n00:33:51,000 –> 00:33:55,300
\nfeeling.
\nAnd God the last theme has not <\/p>\n
441
\n00:33:55,300 –> 00:33:58,500
\npetite.
\nHe is not pitied. <\/p>\n
442
\n00:33:59,500 –> 00:34:05,300
\nHe is not pitied verse 17.
\nLet’s just read verse 17 <\/p>\n
443
\n00:34:05,300 –> 00:34:08,600
\ntogether.
\nYahweh have done that, which he <\/p>\n
444
\n00:34:08,600 –> 00:34:12,400
\nhas deserved devised.
\nHe had fulfilled his word that <\/p>\n
445
\n00:34:12,400 –> 00:34:18,000
\nhe commanded in the days of old.
\nHe hath thrown down and hath not<\/p>\n
446
\n00:34:18,000 –> 00:34:20,900
\npitied.
\nThe revised Standard Version has<\/p>\n
447
\n00:34:21,300 –> 00:34:25,300
\nYahweh has done.
\nWhat he purposed, he has carried<\/p>\n
448
\n00:34:25,300 –> 00:34:29,699
\nout his threat.
\nAs he ordained long ago, he has <\/p>\n
449
\n00:34:29,699 –> 00:34:34,100
\ndemolished Without Pity and
\nthere was a growing realization.<\/p>\n
450
\n00:34:35,699 –> 00:34:40,100
\nThat actually this was not
\nNebuchadnezzar’s work. <\/p>\n
451
\n00:34:40,800 –> 00:34:46,500
\nThis was yahweh’s hand his
\nanger, his determined purpose, <\/p>\n
452
\n00:34:47,000 –> 00:34:53,699
\nhis indignation, his fire, you
\nknow, one of the other themes of<\/p>\n
453
\n00:34:53,699 –> 00:34:57,300
\nchapter one, is the theme of the
\nenemy. <\/p>\n
454
\n00:34:58,000 –> 00:35:00,900
\nThe enemy that has done this.
\nThe Babylonians. <\/p>\n
455
\n00:35:01,300 –> 00:35:05,700
\nLook at verse 5, her enemies
\nProsper. <\/p>\n
456
\n00:35:06,800 –> 00:35:10,500
\nVerse 7.
\nThey fell into the hands of the <\/p>\n
457
\n00:35:10,500 –> 00:35:15,400
\nenemy verse 9.
\nThe enemy hath magnified <\/p>\n
458
\n00:35:15,400 –> 00:35:18,200
\nherself.
\nThis team. <\/p>\n
459
\n00:35:22,100 –> 00:35:27,600
\nVerse 13.
\nIt says the Heathen entered into<\/p>\n
460
\n00:35:27,600 –> 00:35:30,600
\nthe sanctuary.
\nThe adversary has spread out his<\/p>\n
461
\n00:35:30,600 –> 00:35:32,600
\nhand upon all the pleasant
\nthings. <\/p>\n
462
\n00:35:33,200 –> 00:35:38,300
\nThe enemy prevailed verse 16
\nMine enemies have heard of my <\/p>\n
463
\n00:35:38,300 –> 00:35:39,900
\ntrouble.
\nDo you know, when we come to <\/p>\n
464
\n00:35:39,900 –> 00:35:43,800
\nchapter 2, look what we read in
\nVerses 4 and 5. <\/p>\n
465
\n00:35:44,500 –> 00:35:47,400
\nHe has been to his bow like an
\nenemy. <\/p>\n
466
\n00:35:47,500 –> 00:35:50,300
\nWho was the true enemy?
\nIt was not the Babylonians. <\/p>\n
467
\n00:35:50,800 –> 00:35:54,600
\nThere was a growing realization
\nthat the true enemy here had <\/p>\n
468
\n00:35:54,600 –> 00:35:59,200
\nactually been God himself, he
\nstood with his right hand as an <\/p>\n
469
\n00:35:59,200 –> 00:36:03,000
\nadversary in Slough, all that
\nwere pleasant to the eye, in the<\/p>\n
470
\n00:36:03,000 –> 00:36:06,200
\nTabernacle of the daughter of
\nZion, he poured. <\/p>\n
471
\n00:36:06,300 –> 00:36:09,900
\nI doubt his fury like fire.
\nIt wasn’t the Babylonians at all<\/p>\n
472
\n00:36:10,100 –> 00:36:14,800
\nYahweh was as an enemy, he is
\nswallowed up Azrael, he has <\/p>\n
473
\n00:36:14,800 –> 00:36:18,200
\nswallowed up.
\nAll her Palace has destroyed his<\/p>\n
474
\n00:36:18,200 –> 00:36:22,800
\nstrongholds and increased in the
\ndaughter of Zion mourning and <\/p>\n
475
\n00:36:22,800 –> 00:36:26,700
\nlamentation.
\nWhat a terrible Dawning <\/p>\n
476
\n00:36:26,700 –> 00:36:30,200
\nrealization, brothers and
\nsisters that the sufferings that<\/p>\n
477
\n00:36:30,200 –> 00:36:34,300
\nyou’re going through weren’t
\nactually the Babylonians, this <\/p>\n
478
\n00:36:34,300 –> 00:36:40,700
\nwas what God was doing.
\nVerse 17 Yahweh has done that <\/p>\n
479
\n00:36:40,700 –> 00:36:47,900
\nwhich he has devised.
\nWhat a turnip of events. <\/p>\n
480
\n00:36:50,200 –> 00:36:56,600
\nGod was responsible.
\nAnd in verse 17 at the end of <\/p>\n
481
\n00:36:56,600 –> 00:37:01,500
\nthe verse, it says he has caused
\nthine enemy to Rejoice over <\/p>\n
482
\n00:37:01,500 –> 00:37:07,200
\nthee, he has set up the Horn of
\nthine adversaries. <\/p>\n
483
\n00:37:07,700 –> 00:37:13,200
\nWell what a terrible situation
\nwhen God is elevating, the Horn <\/p>\n
484
\n00:37:13,200 –> 00:37:17,600
\nof the adversaries in exactly
\nthe same chapter. <\/p>\n
485
\n00:37:18,100 –> 00:37:22,300
\nAs we read.
\nIn verse 3, he is cut off in his<\/p>\n
486
\n00:37:22,300 –> 00:37:24,900
\nfierce.
\nAnger, all the Horn of Israel. <\/p>\n
487
\n00:37:25,200 –> 00:37:28,700
\nThere’s a dramatic turn of
\nevents happening here and are <\/p>\n
488
\n00:37:28,700 –> 00:37:31,100
\njust realizing how disturbing it
\nis. <\/p>\n
489
\n00:37:31,400 –> 00:37:34,900
\nEverything was upside down the
\nHorn of the adversaries, <\/p>\n
490
\n00:37:34,900 –> 00:37:39,000
\nexalted, the Horn of Israel cut
\ndown to the ground and God had <\/p>\n
491
\n00:37:39,000 –> 00:37:42,700
\ndone it.
\nWhat part of the nation had his <\/p>\n
492
\n00:37:42,700 –> 00:37:48,500
\nhand not destroyed and chapter 2
\nof Lamentations is really like a<\/p>\n
493
\n00:37:48,508 –> 00:37:55,200
\ncatalog of God’s Fury poured.
\nUpon the different parts of the <\/p>\n
494
\n00:37:55,200 –> 00:37:59,700
\nnation.
\nIn verses 1 to 5 God poured out <\/p>\n
495
\n00:37:59,700 –> 00:38:05,400
\nhis fury on the strongholds, on
\nthe Palaces, on the monarchy, <\/p>\n
496
\n00:38:05,800 –> 00:38:11,600
\nthis words like horn and Kingdom
\nin verses 6 to 7. <\/p>\n
497
\n00:38:11,900 –> 00:38:16,000
\nHe poured out his Fury upon the
\ntemple upon the Tabernacle. <\/p>\n
498
\n00:38:16,000 –> 00:38:19,700
\nThe priests, the altar, the
\nreligious Feasts. <\/p>\n
499
\n00:38:20,700 –> 00:38:25,800
\nInverses. 9:52.
\nHe poured out his Fury upon the <\/p>\n
500
\n00:38:25,800 –> 00:38:29,500
\nwalls of Jerusalem.
\nThe ramparts the gates, the <\/p>\n
501
\n00:38:29,500 –> 00:38:34,500
\nbars, the defenses, In verses 11
\nto 14. <\/p>\n
502
\n00:38:34,700 –> 00:38:39,400
\nHe pulls out his Fury upon the
\nchildren, the week, the <\/p>\n
503
\n00:38:39,400 –> 00:38:44,200
\nvulnerable and in verses 15 to
\n19. <\/p>\n
504
\n00:38:44,300 –> 00:38:49,400
\nHe pours out his Fury upon their
\nreputation, their image, their <\/p>\n
505
\n00:38:49,400 –> 00:38:54,900
\nPrestige, their self-esteem.
\nNothing would Escape his hand. <\/p>\n
506
\n00:38:55,900 –> 00:39:02,400
\nIn Lamentations to they realize,
\nGod has taken away everything in<\/p>\n
507
\n00:39:02,400 –> 00:39:05,500
\ntheir lives.
\nHe had removed the Bible class. <\/p>\n
508
\n00:39:06,900 –> 00:39:10,400
\nThe Sunday School students were
\npiled dead in the streets. <\/p>\n
509
\n00:39:11,900 –> 00:39:16,800
\nThe bread and wine that we read
\nof in Chapter 2 and verse 12. <\/p>\n
510
\n00:39:16,800 –> 00:39:20,800
\nThe corn, and the wine, even the
\nmemorial meeting had gone. <\/p>\n
511
\n00:39:21,300 –> 00:39:26,000
\nEven in verse 9, we read the law
\nis no more. <\/p>\n
512
\n00:39:26,300 –> 00:39:30,700
\nWhat a, what a dramatic
\nrealization to to the nation. <\/p>\n
513
\n00:39:32,100 –> 00:39:36,100
\nAnd to Jeremiah’s mind a
\nshocking revelation. <\/p>\n
514
\n00:39:38,200 –> 00:39:42,500
\nThat what was a religious sham
\nhad been dissolved by God <\/p>\n
515
\n00:39:42,500 –> 00:39:47,600
\nhimself and he hadn’t even
\nhesitated to do it. <\/p>\n
516
\n00:39:48,500 –> 00:39:54,800
\nEvery type of leader was also
\ngone the king despised, the <\/p>\n
517
\n00:39:54,800 –> 00:40:01,500
\npriest violently taken away.
\nThe prince scattered the <\/p>\n
518
\n00:40:01,500 –> 00:40:08,400
\nprophets exposed the elders,
\nhumbled every single, part of <\/p>\n
519
\n00:40:08,400 –> 00:40:13,700
\nthe leadership of the nation had
\nbeen torn Away by God in this <\/p>\n
520
\n00:40:14,000 –> 00:40:19,100
\nassault, by the Babylonians.
\nDo you know come to Ezekiel in <\/p>\n
521
\n00:40:19,100 –> 00:40:22,400
\nchapter 7?
\nBecause shockingly. <\/p>\n
522
\n00:40:23,800 –> 00:40:29,000
\nLamentations to is the exact
\nfulfillment again of ezekiel’s <\/p>\n
523
\n00:40:29,000 –> 00:40:32,900
\nwords.
\nEzekiel chapter 7. <\/p>\n
524
\n00:40:34,200 –> 00:40:42,100
\nAnd verse 23.
\nMake a chain for the land is <\/p>\n
525
\n00:40:42,100 –> 00:40:45,400
\nfull of bloody crimes in the
\ncity is full of violence. <\/p>\n
526
\n00:40:45,900 –> 00:40:48,600
\nWherefore?
\nI will bring the worst of the <\/p>\n
527
\n00:40:48,600 –> 00:40:51,300
\nHeathen and they shall possess
\ntheir houses. <\/p>\n
528
\n00:40:51,900 –> 00:40:56,300
\nI will also make the pomp of the
\nstrong decease and their holy <\/p>\n
529
\n00:40:56,300 –> 00:41:01,300
\nplaces shall be defiled
\ndestruction cometh, and they <\/p>\n
530
\n00:41:01,300 –> 00:41:05,000
\nshall seek peace.
\nAnd there shall be none. <\/p>\n
531
\n00:41:05,700 –> 00:41:08,700
\nMischief, shall come upon
\nmischief and rumors, shall be <\/p>\n
532
\n00:41:08,700 –> 00:41:12,600
\nupon rumor and they shall.
\nAnd here it is. <\/p>\n
533
\n00:41:14,100 –> 00:41:19,400
\nSeek a vision of the prophet.
\nBut the Lord Shall Perish from <\/p>\n
534
\n00:41:19,400 –> 00:41:24,200
\nthe priests.
\nAnd counsel from the ancients. <\/p>\n
535
\n00:41:25,200 –> 00:41:29,400
\nThe king shall mourn.
\nThe prince shall be clothed. <\/p>\n
536
\n00:41:29,400 –> 00:41:32,200
\nDistillation the hens of the
\npeople of the land shall be <\/p>\n
537
\n00:41:32,200 –> 00:41:35,700
\ntroubled.
\nI will do unto them after their <\/p>\n
538
\n00:41:35,700 –> 00:41:40,000
\nway and according to their
\ndesserts, will I judge them and <\/p>\n
539
\n00:41:40,000 –> 00:41:46,300
\nthey shall know that I am Yahweh
\nand all five types of leaders <\/p>\n
540
\n00:41:46,600 –> 00:41:53,900
\nmentioned in verses 26 and 27,
\nthe prophet, the priest, the <\/p>\n
541
\n00:41:53,900 –> 00:41:59,200
\nancients The king and the
\nprinces are all systematically <\/p>\n
542
\n00:42:00,100 –> 00:42:04,500
\ndismantled in Lamentations
\nchapter 2, forsaken. <\/p>\n
543
\n00:42:05,600 –> 00:42:09,000
\nTaken away.
\nJust as God had said, and God <\/p>\n
544
\n00:42:09,000 –> 00:42:13,800
\ndid unto them after their own
\nway, he gave them their own Just<\/p>\n
545
\n00:42:13,800 –> 00:42:16,700
\nDesserts.
\nThey had wanted to be like the <\/p>\n
546
\n00:42:16,700 –> 00:42:21,700
\nheathen.
\nFriends with the world mingle, <\/p>\n
547
\n00:42:21,700 –> 00:42:24,200
\nwith the nation’s, to be
\nfriendly with their neighbors, <\/p>\n
548
\n00:42:24,300 –> 00:42:30,700
\nlittle worship together and be
\nfriends, and God gave them their<\/p>\n
549
\n00:42:30,700 –> 00:42:36,100
\ndesire.
\nBack in Lamentations chapter 1, <\/p>\n
550
\n00:42:36,100 –> 00:42:39,400
\ndo you know what he did brothers
\nand sisters they wanted to be <\/p>\n
551
\n00:42:39,500 –> 00:42:43,900
\ntogether with the world?
\nLook what it says in chapter 1 <\/p>\n
552
\n00:42:43,900 –> 00:42:48,900
\nin verse 10, the Heathen entered
\ninto her Sanctuary whom thou <\/p>\n
553
\n00:42:48,900 –> 00:42:53,800
\ndidst command that they should
\nnever enter into the <\/p>\n
554
\n00:42:53,800 –> 00:42:59,300
\ncongregation.
\nOr chapter 4 in verse 12, the <\/p>\n
555
\n00:42:59,300 –> 00:43:02,700
\nkings of the earth and all the
\ninhabitants of the world would <\/p>\n
556
\n00:43:02,700 –> 00:43:06,800
\nnever have believed that the
\nadversary and the enemy should <\/p>\n
557
\n00:43:06,800 –> 00:43:11,500
\nhave entered into the Gates of
\nJerusalem and God brought the <\/p>\n
558
\n00:43:11,500 –> 00:43:17,200
\nBabylonians right into Jerusalem
\nand right into the sanctuary. <\/p>\n
559
\n00:43:20,400 –> 00:43:27,000
\nJust not in the way they wanted.
\nAnd not in the way they thought.<\/p>\n
560
\n00:43:28,300 –> 00:43:30,100
\nThey wanted to be one with the
\nworld. <\/p>\n
561
\n00:43:30,600 –> 00:43:36,900
\nGod gave them their own way and
\nhe brought the Babylonians into <\/p>\n
562
\n00:43:36,900 –> 00:43:42,400
\nJerusalem.
\nBut as their assault as in and <\/p>\n
563
\n00:43:43,300 –> 00:43:47,600
\nin tormentors not as their
\nlovers or friends, it’s <\/p>\n
564
\n00:43:47,600 –> 00:43:49,800
\nshocking, isn’t it?
\nBrothers and sisters, they <\/p>\n
565
\n00:43:49,800 –> 00:43:53,200
\ndesperately wanted to be United
\nwith the nation’s and God was <\/p>\n
566
\n00:43:53,200 –> 00:43:56,200
\ngoing to grant them, their wish,
\nbut just in the most <\/p>\n
567
\n00:43:56,200 –> 00:44:03,000
\nunimaginably awful way, I want
\nyou to look at this because when<\/p>\n
568
\n00:44:03,000 –> 00:44:10,100
\nI saw this, I was shocked.
\nThis is a description of. <\/p>\n
569
\n00:44:11,500 –> 00:44:16,100
\nIsrael, Judah from the book of
\nLamentations. <\/p>\n
570
\n00:44:17,600 –> 00:44:22,400
\nIt describes, the humiliating
\nFall From Grace, they’re <\/p>\n
571
\n00:44:22,400 –> 00:44:27,700
\ndescribed as a virgin daughter.
\nThey’re described as sitting on <\/p>\n
572
\n00:44:27,700 –> 00:44:31,100
\nthe ground.
\nIn the dust. <\/p>\n
573
\n00:44:32,300 –> 00:44:39,400
\nThe nakedness is exposed.
\nThe sitting in silence in <\/p>\n
574
\n00:44:39,400 –> 00:44:43,300
\ndarkness.
\nThe no more, the Lady or the <\/p>\n
575
\n00:44:43,300 –> 00:44:49,000
\nprincess of the Nations.
\nThey remembered not, the last <\/p>\n
576
\n00:44:49,100 –> 00:44:51,000
\nend.
\nIt says, in Lamentations, 1 <\/p>\n
577
\n00:44:51,000 –> 00:44:53,600
\nverse 9.
\nThey were given over to <\/p>\n
578
\n00:44:53,600 –> 00:44:59,300
\nPleasures to Pleasant things.
\nThey became a widow and <\/p>\n
579
\n00:44:59,300 –> 00:45:02,300
\nchildless.
\nThey said in Ezekiel 8 <\/p>\n
580
\n00:45:02,300 –> 00:45:07,100
\neverybody’s seeing us Nobody can
\nsee what we’re actually doing. <\/p>\n
581
\n00:45:08,000 –> 00:45:11,300
\nFalse prophets.
\nThey had none of which were able<\/p>\n
582
\n00:45:11,300 –> 00:45:15,300
\nto help.
\nThey were consumed ultimately, <\/p>\n
583
\n00:45:15,300 –> 00:45:23,900
\nby God’s fiery, judgments.
\nI’d like you to come to Isaiah <\/p>\n
584
\n00:45:23,900 –> 00:45:28,100
\nin chapter 47 and read with me
\nthese words. <\/p>\n
585
\n00:45:38,000 –> 00:45:49,200
\nIsaiah 47 in verse 1.
\nCome down and sit in the dust. o<\/p>\n
586
\n00:45:49,200 –> 00:45:55,900
\nvirgin daughter of Babylon.
\nBabylon. <\/p>\n
587
\n00:45:57,400 –> 00:46:00,500
\nSit on the ground.
\nThere is no Throne o daughter of<\/p>\n
588
\n00:46:00,500 –> 00:46:04,500
\nthe Chaldeans for Thou shalt.
\nNo more be called tender and <\/p>\n
589
\n00:46:04,500 –> 00:46:09,100
\ndelicate take the millstones.
\nGrind meal, uncover thy locks, <\/p>\n
590
\n00:46:09,100 –> 00:46:12,400
\nmake beer the league, uncover
\nthe thigh pass over the rivers, <\/p>\n
591
\n00:46:12,600 –> 00:46:14,500
\nthy nakedness shall be
\nuncovered. <\/p>\n
592
\n00:46:14,500 –> 00:46:16,300
\nYeah.
\nThy shame shall be seen. <\/p>\n
593
\n00:46:16,400 –> 00:46:20,500
\nI will take Vengeance and I will
\nnot meet the as a man. <\/p>\n
594
\n00:46:21,400 –> 00:46:25,100
\nAs for Our Redeemer, Yahweh of
\narmies is his name, the Holy One<\/p>\n
595
\n00:46:25,100 –> 00:46:30,800
\nof Israel sit there silent and
\nget the Into Darkness, o <\/p>\n
596
\n00:46:30,800 –> 00:46:34,600
\ndaughter of the Chaldeans for
\nThou shalt no more be called The<\/p>\n
597
\n00:46:34,600 –> 00:46:39,400
\nLady of Kingdoms.
\nI was wroth with my people, I <\/p>\n
598
\n00:46:39,400 –> 00:46:43,600
\nhave polluted mine inheritance
\nin given them into thine hand. <\/p>\n
599
\n00:46:44,100 –> 00:46:47,100
\nNow did show them.
\nNo mercy upon the ancient <\/p>\n
600
\n00:46:47,200 –> 00:46:51,000
\nhostile, very heavily laid their
\nyoke and our said stop. <\/p>\n
601
\n00:46:51,900 –> 00:46:56,300
\nI shall be a lady forever so
\nthat they are did not lay these <\/p>\n
602
\n00:46:56,300 –> 00:47:00,000
\nthings to Heart.
\nNeither did star Remember the <\/p>\n
603
\n00:47:00,000 –> 00:47:02,800
\nlatter end of it?
\nTherefore here. <\/p>\n
604
\n00:47:02,800 –> 00:47:08,400
\nNow, this now that are given to
\nPleasures that dwell carelessly,<\/p>\n
605
\n00:47:08,600 –> 00:47:12,500
\nthat’s asinine heart.
\nI am and none else beside me. <\/p>\n
606
\n00:47:12,900 –> 00:47:15,800
\nI should not sit as a widow,
\nneither shall I know the loss of<\/p>\n
607
\n00:47:15,800 –> 00:47:20,400
\nchildren, but these two things
\nshall come to the in a moment in<\/p>\n
608
\n00:47:20,400 –> 00:47:25,100
\none day. day, the loss of
\nchildren and widowhood, they <\/p>\n
609
\n00:47:25,100 –> 00:47:30,500
\nshall come upon the in their
\nperfection for the multitude of <\/p>\n
610
\n00:47:30,500 –> 00:47:34,900
\nthy sorceries and for the great
\nabundance of dine and chant <\/p>\n
611
\n00:47:34,900 –> 00:47:39,500
\nmoments, What’s happening
\nbrothers and sisters? <\/p>\n
612
\n00:47:40,000 –> 00:47:42,700
\nWhat is happening?
\nWhen we put together <\/p>\n
613
\n00:47:43,300 –> 00:47:48,800
\nLamentations and Isaiah forty
\nseven, Israel is receiving word <\/p>\n
614
\n00:47:48,800 –> 00:47:56,000
\nfor word, line for line
\nbabylon’s punishment, The words <\/p>\n
615
\n00:47:56,000 –> 00:48:00,700
\nof Isaiah written over 100
\nyears, previously outlining <\/p>\n
616
\n00:48:01,000 –> 00:48:03,800
\nBabylons.
\nJudgments are happening to The <\/p>\n
617
\n00:48:03,800 –> 00:48:06,900
\nAfflicted virgin Daughter of
\nZion. <\/p>\n
618
\n00:48:07,200 –> 00:48:11,800
\nHow how how could these things
\nbe in Jeremiah quotes from <\/p>\n
619
\n00:48:11,800 –> 00:48:16,300
\nIsaiah forty, seven over and
\nover and over again and <\/p>\n
620
\n00:48:16,300 –> 00:48:22,100
\nLamentations what a tragedy?
\nWhat an indictment and, you <\/p>\n
621
\n00:48:22,100 –> 00:48:27,000
\nknow, it’s not just Babylons
\npunishment as outlined in <\/p>\n
622
\n00:48:27,000 –> 00:48:30,700
\nIsaiah, forty seven because look
\nat this. <\/p>\n
623
\n00:48:34,100 –> 00:48:38,400
\nWe read in Lamentations that the
\nhouses would be spoiled their <\/p>\n
624
\n00:48:38,400 –> 00:48:41,400
\nwomen ravished, that’s Isaiah
\n13. <\/p>\n
625
\n00:48:42,400 –> 00:48:46,400
\nThe destruction on Babylon,
\nLamentations forces they would <\/p>\n
626
\n00:48:46,400 –> 00:48:48,200
\nbe destroyed as Sodom and
\nGomorrah. <\/p>\n
627
\n00:48:48,200 –> 00:48:51,800
\nExactly like Babylon.
\nThat’d be cast down from Heaven <\/p>\n
628
\n00:48:51,800 –> 00:48:55,100
\nto Earth exactly like Babylon
\nand Isaiah 14. <\/p>\n
629
\n00:48:55,300 –> 00:48:58,500
\nThe passers-by would be
\nastonished just like Babylon <\/p>\n
630
\n00:48:58,600 –> 00:49:01,200
\ntrodden.
\nUnderfoot yahweh’s purpose would<\/p>\n
631
\n00:49:01,200 –> 00:49:03,500
\nbe accomplished.
\nThe gates would be broken. <\/p>\n
632
\n00:49:03,500 –> 00:49:06,700
\nThe Has destroyed all that
\npassed by would hiss and <\/p>\n
633
\n00:49:06,700 –> 00:49:09,800
\nastonishment.
\nThey would be caught unawares in<\/p>\n
634
\n00:49:09,800 –> 00:49:12,200
\nyahweh’s.
\nNet young men would fall in the <\/p>\n
635
\n00:49:12,200 –> 00:49:14,200
\nstreets.
\nThere would be none to raise him<\/p>\n
636
\n00:49:14,200 –> 00:49:19,600
\nup, and ironically both Israel
\nand Babylon would feel they <\/p>\n
637
\n00:49:19,600 –> 00:49:22,900
\nwould experience their livers
\npoured upon the Earth. <\/p>\n
638
\n00:49:23,500 –> 00:49:29,400
\nThe experience of Israel exactly
\nmirrors, the experience of <\/p>\n
639
\n00:49:29,400 –> 00:49:34,100
\nBabylon, Isaiah forty seven,
\nIsaiah 13 and 14, Teen. <\/p>\n
640
\n00:49:34,600 –> 00:49:38,000
\nJeremiah chapter. 50 in
\nLamentations is full of it, <\/p>\n
641
\n00:49:38,000 –> 00:49:43,500
\nbrothers and sisters.
\nThe destiny of Babylon, had <\/p>\n
642
\n00:49:43,500 –> 00:49:47,700
\nbecome Israel’s fate.
\nIt’s pretty clear what Jeremiah <\/p>\n
643
\n00:49:47,700 –> 00:49:51,300
\nis doing.
\nIsrael without God in their <\/p>\n
644
\n00:49:51,300 –> 00:49:59,100
\nlives and hearts is no better
\nthan the idolatrous sinful Pagan<\/p>\n
645
\n00:49:59,100 –> 00:50:03,500
\nBabylonians.
\nSo what of us brothers and <\/p>\n
646
\n00:50:03,500 –> 00:50:05,600
\nsisters?
\nWhat of ourselves? <\/p>\n
647
\n00:50:06,100 –> 00:50:13,100
\nWhere is God, and our lives is
\nhe just getting the leftovers? <\/p>\n
648
\n00:50:13,900 –> 00:50:17,700
\nIs he slipping to the outside to
\nthe periphery? <\/p>\n
649
\n00:50:17,700 –> 00:50:21,600
\nAre we too busy at work, too
\nbusy at school, too. <\/p>\n
650
\n00:50:21,600 –> 00:50:25,500
\nMany worldly attractions too.
\nMany babylonish garments. <\/p>\n
651
\n00:50:26,200 –> 00:50:31,900
\nAbsorbed by our own Ambitions
\nfriends in the world. is God at <\/p>\n
652
\n00:50:31,900 –> 00:50:39,700
\nthe center of our Lives because
\nwith God at the center, they <\/p>\n
653
\n00:50:39,700 –> 00:50:45,500
\nworship their hearts.
\nJudah was the beauty of Israel. <\/p>\n
654
\n00:50:46,900 –> 00:50:52,000
\nShe was God’s princess, his
\nwife. but without God at the <\/p>\n
655
\n00:50:52,000 –> 00:50:56,800
\ncenter, she was just like the
\nBabylonians naked widowed <\/p>\n
656
\n00:50:57,600 –> 00:51:02,800
\nchildless humiliated
\ncomfortless. <\/p>\n
657
\n00:51:03,900 –> 00:51:11,500
\nBroken. and as they woke up, And
\nsaw the Babylonians traipsing <\/p>\n
658
\n00:51:11,500 –> 00:51:15,700
\noff with most of the good people
\nof Judah into captivity. <\/p>\n
659
\n00:51:18,100 –> 00:51:21,200
\nLamentations 1 and 2 as a very
\ndark place, indeed. <\/p>\n
660
\n00:51:22,300 –> 00:51:26,100
\nHopeless place a place of
\nBlackness and pain. <\/p>\n
661
\n00:51:27,300 –> 00:51:31,400
\nUs.
\nAs bad as Babylon. <\/p>\n
662
\n00:51:33,800 –> 00:51:37,000
\nYes.
\nIt’s bad as Babylon. <\/p>\n
663
\n00:51:38,800 –> 00:51:42,900
\nAs bad as that adulteress,
\nidolatrous impostor that God <\/p>\n
664
\n00:51:42,900 –> 00:51:46,300
\nhates.
\nYes. <\/p>\n
665
\n00:51:48,300 –> 00:51:54,300
\nAs bad as that.
\nBehold and see if there be any <\/p>\n
666
\n00:51:54,300 –> 00:52:01,200
\nsorrow like unto my sorrow.
\nIt was grief so complete, it was<\/p>\n
667
\n00:52:01,200 –> 00:52:04,500
\nmisery.
\nSo humiliating justice. <\/p>\n
668
\n00:52:04,500 –> 00:52:09,100
\nSo poetic that it was almost
\nIndescribable how had this <\/p>\n
669
\n00:52:09,100 –> 00:52:13,500
\nhappened.
\nAnd yet, brothers and sisters, <\/p>\n
670
\n00:52:13,500 –> 00:52:17,100
\neven in the gloomy, Blackness of
\nself-pity and despair. <\/p>\n
671
\n00:52:18,000 –> 00:52:21,900
\nThere are inklings of Hope.
\nAnd I just want to show you <\/p>\n
672
\n00:52:21,900 –> 00:52:24,900
\nthese as we conclude because
\nthese are definite shift and <\/p>\n
673
\n00:52:24,900 –> 00:52:31,000
\nthought between Lamentations 1
\nand Lamentations to, because <\/p>\n
674
\n00:52:31,000 –> 00:52:35,800
\nLamentations one is all about my
\nlover’s. <\/p>\n
675
\n00:52:36,800 –> 00:52:41,600
\nThere’s none to comfort me.
\nIt’s all about my Affliction, my<\/p>\n
676
\n00:52:41,600 –> 00:52:43,700
\nsize.
\nBut when we come to chapter 2, <\/p>\n
677
\n00:52:43,700 –> 00:52:46,100
\nit’s all about what God has
\ndone. <\/p>\n
678
\n00:52:46,400 –> 00:52:51,200
\nHe has done this, his anger, he
\nhas swallowed up. <\/p>\n
679
\n00:52:51,400 –> 00:52:56,400
\nHe has not pitied.
\nThe self-obsession, the blind <\/p>\n
680
\n00:52:56,400 –> 00:53:00,400
\nmiserable self-absorbed.
\nPity is now giving way to an <\/p>\n
681
\n00:53:00,400 –> 00:53:03,900
\nacknowledgment of God’s hand.
\nIt’s still misery without <\/p>\n
682
\n00:53:03,900 –> 00:53:06,900
\nmeaning, but there’s a definite
\nshift of thinking there are <\/p>\n
683
\n00:53:06,908 –> 00:53:11,700
\nstirrings of Hope.
\nIn a movement towards God. <\/p>\n
684
\n00:53:12,500 –> 00:53:16,400
\nHere it is.
\nAs we finish Lamentations 1 and <\/p>\n
685
\n00:53:16,400 –> 00:53:20,600
\n2.
\nI am become vile. <\/p>\n
686
\n00:53:20,800 –> 00:53:24,100
\nWe read in chapter 1 in verse
\n11. <\/p>\n
687
\n00:53:24,600 –> 00:53:30,300
\nThis is the very beginning of a
\nrecognition of their own state. <\/p>\n
688
\n00:53:31,400 –> 00:53:35,200
\nOf their own guilt.
\nA desperate Cry for Help as God <\/p>\n
689
\n00:53:35,200 –> 00:53:39,500
\nbrings the nation to its knees
\nbut they realize their position.<\/p>\n
690
\n00:53:41,100 –> 00:53:45,300
\nThe comforter that should
\nrelieve my soul verse 16. <\/p>\n
691
\n00:53:45,300 –> 00:53:47,900
\nThere’s an acknowledgement that
\nthey ought to be relief. <\/p>\n
692
\n00:53:48,700 –> 00:53:52,300
\nSomeone to, as the margin says,
\nbring back my soul. <\/p>\n
693
\n00:53:52,500 –> 00:53:54,300
\nThis should be someone who can
\nrecover. <\/p>\n
694
\n00:53:54,400 –> 00:53:57,800
\nBring relief.
\nWe get to verse 18. <\/p>\n
695
\n00:53:58,200 –> 00:54:03,300
\nYahweh is righteous.
\nFor I have rebelled. <\/p>\n
696
\n00:54:03,400 –> 00:54:07,000
\nThis is a critical step of
\nprogress. <\/p>\n
697
\n00:54:07,600 –> 00:54:10,600
\nRepentance is impossible.
\nWithout this acknowledgement. <\/p>\n
698
\n00:54:10,800 –> 00:54:15,100
\nGod has to be right?
\nEven when things look wrong, and<\/p>\n
699
\n00:54:15,100 –> 00:54:17,800
\nnow God can work.
\nAnd when we come across to <\/p>\n
700
\n00:54:17,800 –> 00:54:22,800
\nchapter 2 in verse 13, this is
\nthe turning point of <\/p>\n
701
\n00:54:22,800 –> 00:54:26,700
\nLamentations 1 and 2.
\nWhat things shall? <\/p>\n
702
\n00:54:26,700 –> 00:54:30,000
\nI take to witness for thee.
\nWhat things shall I liken to the<\/p>\n
703
\n00:54:30,000 –> 00:54:31,200
\nO daughter of?
\nMmm. <\/p>\n
704
\n00:54:31,200 –> 00:54:34,300
\nWhat should I equal to thee?
\nThat I may Comfort thee o virgin<\/p>\n
705
\n00:54:34,300 –> 00:54:38,200
\nDaughter of Zion for they breach
\nas great like the see who can <\/p>\n
706
\n00:54:38,200 –> 00:54:43,000
\nheal thee their sins.
\nHave separated them from God as <\/p>\n
707
\n00:54:43,000 –> 00:54:48,000
\nIsaiah 59, and verse to said, it
\nwas like a dam bursting, and <\/p>\n
708
\n00:54:48,100 –> 00:54:51,700
\nJeremiah uses the sea with all
\nits vastness to express. <\/p>\n
709
\n00:54:52,100 –> 00:54:55,500
\nThe immeasurable Calamity that
\nhas befallen the nation who can <\/p>\n
710
\n00:54:55,500 –> 00:55:01,400
\nheal, who has healing.
\nDo you know, actually the word <\/p>\n
711
\n00:55:01,400 –> 00:55:06,200
\nfor breach in Lamentations to in
\nverse 13, for they? <\/p>\n
712
\n00:55:06,200 –> 00:55:09,600
\nBreach is great.
\nLike the sea is actually the <\/p>\n
713
\n00:55:09,600 –> 00:55:14,400
\nword for bruised for.
\nThey bruise is great, like the <\/p>\n
714
\n00:55:14,400 –> 00:55:19,800
\nsea and it comes straight out of
\nJeremiah and Chapter 30, <\/p>\n
715
\n00:55:20,700 –> 00:55:25,800
\nJeremiah is quoting God’s words.
\nLet me just read them to you. <\/p>\n
716
\n00:55:25,800 –> 00:55:29,500
\nIf you want to you can come to
\nJeremiah 30, just very quickly. <\/p>\n
717
\n00:55:29,700 –> 00:55:35,200
\nThis 12 for thus saith.
\nYahweh thigh bruise is <\/p>\n
718
\n00:55:35,200 –> 00:55:37,900
\nincurable.
\nThey wound is Grievous. <\/p>\n
719
\n00:55:38,100 –> 00:55:41,800
\nThere is none to plead thy cause
\nthat thou mayest be bound up. <\/p>\n
720
\n00:55:41,800 –> 00:55:45,600
\nThere has no healing medicines.
\nAll they lovers have forgotten <\/p>\n
721
\n00:55:45,600 –> 00:55:49,700
\nthe they seek the not for.
\nI have wounded thee with the <\/p>\n
722
\n00:55:49,700 –> 00:55:52,900
\nwound of an enemy with the
\nchastisement of a cruel one. <\/p>\n
723
\n00:55:53,100 –> 00:55:55,600
\nFor the multitude of thine
\niniquity because they sins were <\/p>\n
724
\n00:55:55,600 –> 00:55:58,300
\nincreased.
\nWhy Christ? <\/p>\n
725
\n00:55:58,300 –> 00:56:01,100
\nTherefore thy, Bruised.
\nIt should be. <\/p>\n
726
\n00:56:01,100 –> 00:56:03,500
\nIt’s exactly the same word as
\nverse 12. <\/p>\n
727
\n00:56:04,300 –> 00:56:08,100
\nThy sorrow is incurable for the
\nmultitude of thine iniquity <\/p>\n
728
\n00:56:08,300 –> 00:56:10,000
\nbecause they sins were
\nincreased. <\/p>\n
729
\n00:56:10,000 –> 00:56:16,100
\nI have done these things unto
\nthee verse 17, but I will <\/p>\n
730
\n00:56:16,100 –> 00:56:22,900
\nrestore Health unto thee and I
\nwill heal thee of thy wounds <\/p>\n
731
\n00:56:23,400 –> 00:56:26,800
\nsaith.
\nYahweh how amazing is this. <\/p>\n
732
\n00:56:28,000 –> 00:56:31,900
\nThe bruise was incurable by men,
\nthe wound Grievous. <\/p>\n
733
\n00:56:32,200 –> 00:56:36,000
\nThere was none to help none to
\ncomfort, but God had promised to<\/p>\n
734
\n00:56:36,000 –> 00:56:40,800
\nwill restore Health to heal thee
\nof thy wounds. <\/p>\n
735
\n00:56:42,300 –> 00:56:45,700
\nAnd now and Lamentations 2 and
\nverse 13. <\/p>\n
736
\n00:56:45,700 –> 00:56:49,800
\nWe have the first hint of
\nlooking to God for the solution.<\/p>\n
737
\n00:56:51,300 –> 00:56:55,500
\nRather than the cause of the
\nproblem, who can heal God can <\/p>\n
738
\n00:56:55,500 –> 00:56:58,900
\nheal and amazingly.
\nHe had promised back in Jeremiah<\/p>\n
739
\n00:56:58,900 –> 00:57:02,300
\n30 that he would even before he
\nbrought the punishment. <\/p>\n
740
\n00:57:02,300 –> 00:57:06,000
\nThat’s the graciousness of our
\nGod, isn’t it? <\/p>\n
741
\n00:57:06,000 –> 00:57:08,300
\nTrue, brothers, and sisters that
\ndown through time. <\/p>\n
742
\n00:57:08,500 –> 00:57:14,200
\nThere’s only been one answer.
\nOne, Healer of all our diseases.<\/p>\n
743
\n00:57:14,600 –> 00:57:17,700
\nHow often do we try and seek
\nafter the positions? <\/p>\n
744
\n00:57:18,100 –> 00:57:20,800
\nLike the woman with the issue of
\nblood and mark, five. <\/p>\n
745
\n00:57:20,800 –> 00:57:25,100
\nAnd In verse 26 but they can
\nnever help us out. <\/p>\n
746
\n00:57:25,200 –> 00:57:29,400
\nA condition only gets worse, but
\nGod can heal us. <\/p>\n
747
\n00:57:29,800 –> 00:57:33,400
\nHe can relieve our souls and
\nrestore us to health. <\/p>\n
748
\n00:57:34,900 –> 00:57:38,900
\nThis is the point of suffering
\nbrothers and sisters to bring us<\/p>\n
749
\n00:57:38,900 –> 00:57:42,800
\nto him.
\nHe can heal us of our incurable <\/p>\n
750
\n00:57:42,800 –> 00:57:47,800
\nwounds, the bruises of sin.
\nAnd so in Chapter 2 and verse <\/p>\n
751
\n00:57:47,800 –> 00:57:52,100
\n19, we lift up our hands towards
\nhim. <\/p>\n
752
\n00:57:53,100 –> 00:57:56,600
\nIf the theme of chapter one was
\nthere is none to comfort the in <\/p>\n
753
\n00:57:56,600 –> 00:57:58,700
\nhere.
\nThere is a growing realization <\/p>\n
754
\n00:57:58,700 –> 00:58:04,000
\nthat Comfort may be possible.
\nIs still confusion, they still <\/p>\n
755
\n00:58:04,000 –> 00:58:09,100
\nmisery without meaning.
\nAnd as we read in Chapter 2 and <\/p>\n
756
\n00:58:09,100 –> 00:58:15,600
\nverse 21 thou Hast, slain thou
\nHast killed and not pitied. <\/p>\n
757
\n00:58:16,100 –> 00:58:20,300
\nThere’s still a problem in the
\nnation’s thinking God was never <\/p>\n
758
\n00:58:20,300 –> 00:58:24,600
\nunrighteous, so unfair, But
\nthere seems to be a hint of <\/p>\n
759
\n00:58:24,600 –> 00:58:29,100
\nbitterness that maybe God should
\nhave pity a bitterness or <\/p>\n
760
\n00:58:29,100 –> 00:58:31,400
\nresentment that needs to be
\nrectified. <\/p>\n
761
\n00:58:31,500 –> 00:58:36,500
\nThey’re seeking for healing.
\nBut they wondering whether God <\/p>\n
762
\n00:58:36,500 –> 00:58:40,200
\nshould still be blamed and it is
\nout of this overwhelming, <\/p>\n
763
\n00:58:40,400 –> 00:58:44,700
\nBlackness this foggy, Despair
\nand desolation with, just a <\/p>\n
764
\n00:58:44,700 –> 00:58:48,700
\nstirring, an inkling of Hope
\nlike a gleam on the horizon. <\/p>\n
765
\n00:58:50,000 –> 00:58:54,900
\nthat the man of chapter 3
\nemerges, A man who can answer <\/p>\n
766
\n00:58:54,900 –> 00:58:59,700
\ntheir questions.
\nA man who has sheared are <\/p>\n
767
\n00:58:59,700 –> 00:59:06,500
\nAffliction despite his innocence
\nand can share with us within his<\/p>\n
768
\n00:59:06,500 –> 00:59:09,800
\nhope.
\nBut that’s the subject of our <\/p>\n
769
\n00:59:10,600 –> 00:59:12,000
\nnext class tomorrow.
\nGod willing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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