A Broken World & A Holy God
Series: Hope in Despair
Speaker: Steve Jeffrey
Date: 17th October 2021
Passage: 2 Chronicles 36:15-23
00:00:00 --> 00:00:03 I'd invite you to join with me in prayer as we begin.
00:00:08 --> 00:00:15 The prophet Isaiah has you, O great God, recording these words.
00:00:16 --> 00:00:21 You're the one who declares that you form the light and you create darkness.
00:00:21 --> 00:00:27 You're the one who brings prosperity and you're the one who creates disaster.
00:00:27 --> 00:00:30 You, O God, do all of these things.
00:00:31 --> 00:00:38 Your word to us, Lord, is that you are the one whom we are to flee in your wrath,
00:00:39 --> 00:00:42 but you are also the one to whom we are to flee too.
00:00:43 --> 00:00:51 You are both the one who brings disaster and you are the refuge.
00:00:51 --> 00:00:59 You are the one who causes the anguish and yet you are the one who provides the mercy.
00:01:01 --> 00:01:09 Lord, you are more complex than any God that we could possibly formulate in our own minds,
00:01:10 --> 00:01:12 offensive even to our own hearts.
00:01:12 --> 00:01:18 And so as we come to your word, give us hearts that are tender to you,
00:01:19 --> 00:01:26 that lay aside idolatry, false views of you,
00:01:26 --> 00:01:31 and that we would see you as you are in this world as it is.
00:01:32 --> 00:01:37 Particularly, Lord, we would pray that you would help us to see our sin
00:01:37 --> 00:01:41 and Jesus Christ in the gospel as the resolution to that sin.
00:01:43 --> 00:01:47 And we ask that you would work in our hearts today as we open your word.
00:01:47 --> 00:01:48 Amen.
00:01:50 --> 00:01:57 Friends, we have just marked the 20th anniversary of the terrorist attacks in the United States
00:01:57 --> 00:02:00 on September 11, 2001.
00:02:00 --> 00:02:05 Do you remember where you were when you first heard that news?
00:02:07 --> 00:02:11 Do you remember how many people died on that day?
00:02:11 --> 00:02:14 Something like 3 people.
00:02:14 --> 00:02:18 Most of them were in the World Trade Centers in New York City.
00:02:20 --> 00:02:25 As a shock as that was, and it's still marked into our memories,
00:02:25 --> 00:02:31 is sadly one of just a small event, really,
00:02:32 --> 00:02:39 in what some people have called the conveyor belt of corpses of human history,
00:02:40 --> 00:02:42 of depravity and atrocities.
00:02:44 --> 00:02:46 World War II, for instance,
00:02:47 --> 00:02:51 resulted in the death of between 70 and 85 million people,
00:02:52 --> 00:02:53 the majority of whom were civilians.
00:02:53 --> 00:02:59 Tens of millions of people died due to genocides,
00:03:00 --> 00:03:03 disease, starvation in those five years.
00:03:04 --> 00:03:09 The Holocaust in Germany alone caused the death of 11 million Jews
00:03:09 --> 00:03:13 between 1933 and 1945.
00:03:14 --> 00:03:18 One and a half million Armenians died at the hands of the Turks
00:03:18 --> 00:03:21 between 1915 and 1923,
00:03:21 --> 00:03:25 as well as a further 750 Assyrians
00:03:25 --> 00:03:28 and one million Greeks at the same time.
00:03:30 --> 00:03:31 Three million casualties
00:03:31 --> 00:03:36 as a result of the Cambodian genocide.
00:03:36 --> 00:03:39 Another one million dead in Rwanda in 1994.
00:03:40 --> 00:03:45 The Soviet slaughter of 250 Polish people
00:03:45 --> 00:03:48 in 1937 and 1938,
00:03:48 --> 00:03:51 another couple of hundred thousand Poles by the Ukrainians,
00:03:51 --> 00:03:52 less than a decade later.
00:03:53 --> 00:03:58 Between 1824 and 1908,
00:03:59 --> 00:04:04 white settlers and mounted police in Queensland
00:04:04 --> 00:04:10 murdered more than 10 Indigenous members of this country.
00:04:10 --> 00:04:12 Do you remember?
00:04:14 --> 00:04:16 Do you remember any of that?
00:04:17 --> 00:04:18 Do you remember Stalin?
00:04:19 --> 00:04:20 Idi Amin?
00:04:21 --> 00:04:21 Pol Pot?
00:04:22 --> 00:04:23 Hitler?
00:04:24 --> 00:04:28 What about the 60 million lives
00:04:29 --> 00:04:32 that were lost in the Mongolian massacre?
00:04:32 --> 00:04:36 Do you remember any of that?
00:04:39 --> 00:04:41 What about the latest atrocity that appears on the TV?
00:04:42 --> 00:04:44 How do you respond?
00:04:45 --> 00:04:47 How quickly it is over
00:04:47 --> 00:04:50 as we move on to the next news event?
00:04:50 --> 00:04:57 Then there are a multitude of man-made disasters
00:04:57 --> 00:04:58 like Chernobyl.
00:05:00 --> 00:05:04 Natural disasters like 250 lives lost
00:05:04 --> 00:05:06 in a tsunami.
00:05:07 --> 00:05:09 Or four and a half million deaths to COVID-19.
00:05:11 --> 00:05:15 This world is a broken world.
00:05:15 --> 00:05:19 No amount of freedom days
00:05:19 --> 00:05:22 and being able to stand up in pubs and drink beers
00:05:22 --> 00:05:24 and holiday destinations
00:05:24 --> 00:05:26 can remove that fact.
00:05:27 --> 00:05:28 It is a broken world.
00:05:29 --> 00:05:30 And we should feel it.
00:05:31 --> 00:05:33 We should feel the stunning reality
00:05:33 --> 00:05:39 that each one of those lives is no longer with us.
00:05:39 --> 00:05:40 Every time you go to a funeral,
00:05:40 --> 00:05:43 it should be a stunning reality
00:05:43 --> 00:05:46 that this is a life lost.
00:05:47 --> 00:05:48 Gone.
00:05:50 --> 00:05:52 That merry-go-round has ended.
00:05:55 --> 00:05:56 Death is not good.
00:05:58 --> 00:06:01 No matter how many great stories you tell at a funeral,
00:06:02 --> 00:06:04 how many humorous antidotes,
00:06:06 --> 00:06:09 death cannot be made to look good.
00:06:10 --> 00:06:17 And eternal disaster is beyond comprehension.
00:06:20 --> 00:06:23 Over 50 million people a year
00:06:23 --> 00:06:25 slip into a Christless eternity
00:06:25 --> 00:06:29 where there is no comfort.
00:06:30 --> 00:06:32 There is just increasing anguish.
00:06:35 --> 00:06:37 Lamentations is a book
00:06:37 --> 00:06:41 that's designed to help us
00:06:41 --> 00:06:42 into that space,
00:06:42 --> 00:06:43 to feel it.
00:06:44 --> 00:06:46 It's designed as a memorial.
00:06:46 --> 00:06:47 It helps us to remember.
00:06:48 --> 00:06:49 It helps us to process
00:06:49 --> 00:06:53 and it helps us to go to God.
00:06:54 --> 00:06:56 The source of all hope
00:06:56 --> 00:06:58 in times of despair.
00:06:59 --> 00:07:00 Now, if you've got the St. Paul's app,
00:07:00 --> 00:07:02 I'd be grateful if you could go there now.
00:07:02 --> 00:07:04 You'll see I've got three points here.
00:07:04 --> 00:07:05 The lament,
00:07:05 --> 00:07:05 the comfort,
00:07:06 --> 00:07:07 and what does it mean to lament
00:07:07 --> 00:07:10 and to be comforted as a Christian.
00:07:13 --> 00:07:14 And Lamentations 1,
00:07:14 --> 00:07:15 it'd be great if you could open up that.
00:07:16 --> 00:07:17 Now, Lamentations
00:07:17 --> 00:07:21 is a collection of five poems.
00:07:22 --> 00:07:23 Each chapter
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00:07:26 --> 00:07:29 And four of the five chapters
00:07:29 --> 00:07:30 is composed
00:07:30 --> 00:07:33 as an alphabetic acrostic,
00:07:33 --> 00:07:35 which means
00:07:35 --> 00:07:37 that each of the poems
00:07:37 --> 00:07:38 is divided
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00:07:39 --> 00:07:42 separate sections.
00:07:42 --> 00:07:44 You'll notice that
00:07:44 --> 00:07:46 for most of the
00:07:46 --> 00:07:48 Lamentations chapters,
00:07:48 --> 00:07:49 they're all 22 verses,
00:07:50 --> 00:07:51 except for the middle one,
00:07:51 --> 00:07:52 which is 66.
00:07:53 --> 00:07:54 But they're all broken
00:07:54 --> 00:07:56 into 22 separate sections,
00:07:57 --> 00:07:58 one
00:07:58 --> 00:08:00 for each letter
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00:08:01 --> 00:08:02 Hebrew alphabet.
00:08:03 --> 00:08:05 And so if you like,
00:08:05 --> 00:08:06 each one,
00:08:06 --> 00:08:07 each verse
00:08:07 --> 00:08:09 starts with the first letter of the Eve,
00:08:09 --> 00:08:10 and then the next section,
00:08:10 --> 00:08:10 the second letter,
00:08:10 --> 00:08:12 and all the way through
00:08:12 --> 00:08:13 for 22 verses,
00:08:13 --> 00:08:15 or 22 sections.
00:08:15 --> 00:08:16 So Lamentations,
00:08:16 --> 00:08:17 if you like,
00:08:18 --> 00:08:19 describes
00:08:19 --> 00:08:21 the suffering
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00:08:24 --> 00:08:25 It's the
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00:08:27 --> 00:08:28 human suffering.
00:08:31 --> 00:08:32 Also,
00:08:33 --> 00:08:34 Lamentations
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00:08:35 --> 00:08:36 simply
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00:08:39 --> 00:08:40 of someone
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00:08:42 --> 00:08:43 in life right now.
00:08:45 --> 00:08:45 You know,
00:08:46 --> 00:08:47 this is not
00:08:47 --> 00:08:48 for the person
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00:08:52 --> 00:08:53 and they're feeling frustrated
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00:08:54 --> 00:08:55 waving their fist
00:08:55 --> 00:08:56 to God.
00:08:56 --> 00:08:57 That's not what
00:08:57 --> 00:08:58 Lamentations is.
00:08:58 --> 00:08:58 Now,
00:08:58 --> 00:08:59 I don't want to minimize
00:08:59 --> 00:09:00 that for you
00:09:00 --> 00:09:01 if that is you.
00:09:01 --> 00:09:02 I just
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00:09:15 --> 00:09:15 Lamentations
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00:09:20 --> 00:09:21 It is a
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00:09:24 --> 00:09:26 It's an attempt
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00:09:32 --> 00:09:33 The writer
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00:10:03 --> 00:10:04 lamentations.
00:10:06 --> 00:10:06 The other
00:10:06 --> 00:10:07 thing we
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00:10:08 --> 00:10:09 these five
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00:10:10 --> 00:10:12 rather
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00:10:15 --> 00:10:16 And this
00:10:16 --> 00:10:17 is what
00:10:17 --> 00:10:17 makes
00:10:17 --> 00:10:18 lamentations
00:10:18 --> 00:10:18 a little
00:10:18 --> 00:10:18 bit different
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00:10:20 --> 00:10:20 The other
00:10:20 --> 00:10:21 significance
00:10:21 --> 00:10:22 between Job
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00:10:30 --> 00:10:31 Lamentations
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00:10:35 --> 00:10:36 It's about
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00:10:43 --> 00:10:43 in a world
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00:10:46 --> 00:10:48 this book
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00:11:00 --> 00:11:01 when we
00:11:01 --> 00:11:02 cry out
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00:11:02 --> 00:11:03 for mercy.
00:11:05 --> 00:11:05 Now
00:11:05 --> 00:11:06 lamentations
00:11:06 --> 00:11:07 is a
00:11:07 --> 00:11:07 response
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00:11:09 --> 00:11:10 for us
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00:11:18 --> 00:11:19 It's a much
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00:11:24 --> 00:11:26 things 24
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00:11:27 --> 00:11:28 2 Chronicles
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00:11:36 --> 00:11:37 Lamentations
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00:11:45 --> 00:11:47 And the
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00:11:54 --> 00:11:55 Terrible
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00:12:04 --> 00:12:04 The
00:12:04 --> 00:12:05 Babylonians
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00:12:06 --> 00:12:07 the palace,
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00:12:10 --> 00:12:11 but the
00:12:11 --> 00:12:12 process of
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00:12:17 --> 00:12:18 The
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00:12:19 --> 00:12:20 they
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00:12:21 --> 00:12:21 they pillaged
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00:12:24 --> 00:12:24 The elite
00:12:24 --> 00:12:25 of society
00:12:25 --> 00:12:27 were forcibly
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00:12:35 --> 00:12:35 And so
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00:12:36 --> 00:12:37 in response
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00:12:38 --> 00:12:39 calamitous
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00:12:44 --> 00:12:46 you see
00:12:46 --> 00:12:47 for the
00:12:47 --> 00:12:47 people of
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00:12:55 --> 00:12:55 The
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00:13:15 --> 00:13:15 God is
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00:13:20 --> 00:13:20 And so
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00:13:29 --> 00:13:30 The poet
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00:13:43 --> 00:13:44 She calls
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00:13:45 --> 00:13:46 She calls
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00:34:34 --> 00:34:36 salvation
00:34:36 --> 00:34:38 is
00:34:38 --> 00:34:39 God
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00:34:40 --> 00:34:41 where only
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00:34:45 --> 00:34:45 his
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00:34:46 --> 00:34:47 condemnation
00:34:47 --> 00:34:47 for sin
00:34:47 --> 00:34:51 the very
00:34:51 --> 00:34:52 next words
00:34:52 --> 00:34:52 in Ephesians
00:34:52 --> 00:34:53 chapter 2
00:34:53 --> 00:34:54 after telling
00:34:54 --> 00:34:55 us in verse
00:34:55 --> 00:34:55 3 that we
00:34:55 --> 00:34:56 are deserving
00:34:56 --> 00:34:57 of God's
00:34:57 --> 00:34:57 wrath
00:34:57 --> 00:34:59 we read
00:34:59 --> 00:34:59 but because
00:34:59 --> 00:35:00 of his
00:35:00 --> 00:35:01 great love
00:35:01 --> 00:35:01 for us
00:35:01 --> 00:35:02 God who
00:35:02 --> 00:35:02 is rich
00:35:02 --> 00:35:03 in mercy
00:35:03 --> 00:35:04 made us
00:35:04 --> 00:35:05 alive
00:35:05 --> 00:35:06 with
00:35:06 --> 00:35:07 Christ
00:35:07 --> 00:35:09 even
00:35:09 --> 00:35:10 when we
00:35:10 --> 00:35:11 are dead
00:35:11 --> 00:35:11 in our
00:35:11 --> 00:35:12 transgressions
00:35:12 --> 00:35:13 it is by
00:35:13 --> 00:35:14 grace that
00:35:14 --> 00:35:14 you've been
00:35:14 --> 00:35:15 saved
00:35:15 --> 00:35:16 that my
00:35:16 --> 00:35:16 friends
00:35:16 --> 00:35:17 right there
00:35:17 --> 00:35:17 is the
00:35:17 --> 00:35:18 hope of
00:35:18 --> 00:35:19 humanity
00:35:19 --> 00:35:20 freedom
00:35:20 --> 00:35:20 day
00:35:20 --> 00:35:20 released
00:35:20 --> 00:35:21 from
00:35:21 --> 00:35:22 restrictions
00:35:22 --> 00:35:23 the ability
00:35:23 --> 00:35:23 to travel
00:35:23 --> 00:35:24 internationally
00:35:24 --> 00:35:24 on a
00:35:24 --> 00:35:24 holiday
00:35:24 --> 00:35:26 is not
00:35:26 --> 00:35:26 the hope
00:35:26 --> 00:35:27 of humanity
00:35:27 --> 00:35:28 and it's
00:35:28 --> 00:35:28 not your
00:35:28 --> 00:35:29 hope
00:35:29 --> 00:35:33 this is
00:35:33 --> 00:35:33 your hope
00:35:33 --> 00:35:35 come to
00:35:35 --> 00:35:35 Christ
00:35:35 --> 00:35:37 he is
00:35:37 --> 00:35:37 your hope
00:35:37 --> 00:35:38 in the
00:35:38 --> 00:35:38 moment of
00:35:38 --> 00:35:38 despair
00:35:38 --> 00:35:39 he's the
00:35:39 --> 00:35:40 only one
00:35:40 --> 00:35:40 who can
00:35:40 --> 00:35:41 fix your
00:35:41 --> 00:35:41 heart
00:35:41 --> 00:35:47 in a
00:35:47 --> 00:35:48 very broken
00:35:48 --> 00:35:48 and sinful
00:35:48 --> 00:35:49 world
00:35:49 --> 00:35:50 Jesus is
00:35:50 --> 00:35:50 your
00:35:50 --> 00:35:51 comforter
00:35:51 --> 00:35:53 God the
00:35:53 --> 00:35:54 father as we
00:35:54 --> 00:35:54 told in the
00:35:54 --> 00:35:55 new
00:35:55 --> 00:35:56 testament
00:35:56 --> 00:35:57 the God
00:35:57 --> 00:35:57 of all
00:35:57 --> 00:35:58 compassion
00:35:58 --> 00:35:59 the God
00:35:59 --> 00:35:59 of all
00:35:59 --> 00:36:00 comfort
00:36:00 --> 00:36:01 he is your
00:36:01 --> 00:36:02 comforter
00:36:02 --> 00:36:03 the destroyer
00:36:03 --> 00:36:04 is your
00:36:04 --> 00:36:05 comforter
00:36:05 --> 00:36:07 Jesus
00:36:07 --> 00:36:08 is your
00:36:08 --> 00:36:09 comforter
00:36:09 --> 00:36:13 now friends
00:36:13 --> 00:36:14 where does
00:36:14 --> 00:36:15 this fit
00:36:15 --> 00:36:15 for the
00:36:15 --> 00:36:16 Christian
00:36:16 --> 00:36:16 where does
00:36:16 --> 00:36:18 lament
00:36:18 --> 00:36:19 and comfort
00:36:19 --> 00:36:20 where does
00:36:20 --> 00:36:20 it work
00:36:20 --> 00:36:21 for the
00:36:21 --> 00:36:21 Christian
00:36:21 --> 00:36:23 as a
00:36:23 --> 00:36:23 pastor
00:36:23 --> 00:36:25 for
00:36:25 --> 00:36:27 over a
00:36:27 --> 00:36:27 quarter of
00:36:27 --> 00:36:27 a century
00:36:27 --> 00:36:28 now
00:36:28 --> 00:36:29 I've got
00:36:29 --> 00:36:29 to tell
00:36:29 --> 00:36:30 you I've
00:36:30 --> 00:36:30 had the
00:36:30 --> 00:36:31 front row
00:36:31 --> 00:36:32 seat to
00:36:32 --> 00:36:33 significant
00:36:33 --> 00:36:34 grief and
00:36:34 --> 00:36:34 tragedy
00:36:34 --> 00:36:35 over that
00:36:35 --> 00:36:36 time
00:36:36 --> 00:36:38 all of
00:36:38 --> 00:36:39 those
00:36:39 --> 00:36:39 moments
00:36:39 --> 00:36:40 are
00:36:40 --> 00:36:41 incredibly
00:36:41 --> 00:36:42 sad
00:36:42 --> 00:36:44 and also
00:36:44 --> 00:36:45 instructive
00:36:45 --> 00:36:48 I often
00:36:48 --> 00:36:49 will leave
00:36:49 --> 00:36:50 a funeral
00:36:50 --> 00:36:53 yearning
00:36:53 --> 00:36:54 for death
00:36:54 --> 00:36:54 to be
00:36:54 --> 00:36:54 defeated
00:36:54 --> 00:36:57 reflected
00:36:57 --> 00:36:58 on how
00:36:58 --> 00:36:58 much
00:36:58 --> 00:36:59 brokenness
00:36:59 --> 00:37:00 there is
00:37:00 --> 00:37:00 in this
00:37:00 --> 00:37:01 world
00:37:01 --> 00:37:02 how much
00:37:02 --> 00:37:03 grief and
00:37:03 --> 00:37:03 loss there
00:37:03 --> 00:37:04 is in
00:37:04 --> 00:37:04 this world
00:37:04 --> 00:37:06 and how
00:37:06 --> 00:37:07 grateful I
00:37:07 --> 00:37:08 am at the
00:37:08 --> 00:37:09 same time
00:37:09 --> 00:37:10 for the
00:37:10 --> 00:37:10 cross
00:37:10 --> 00:37:13 that because
00:37:13 --> 00:37:13 of the
00:37:13 --> 00:37:14 cross I'm
00:37:14 --> 00:37:14 in a right
00:37:14 --> 00:37:15 relationship
00:37:15 --> 00:37:15 with God
00:37:15 --> 00:37:16 and because
00:37:16 --> 00:37:17 of the
00:37:17 --> 00:37:17 cross and
00:37:17 --> 00:37:17 because of
00:37:17 --> 00:37:18 the resurrection
00:37:18 --> 00:37:19 of Jesus
00:37:19 --> 00:37:21 he guarantees
00:37:21 --> 00:37:21 my future
00:37:21 --> 00:37:22 resurrection
00:37:22 --> 00:37:23 my life
00:37:23 --> 00:37:24 forever
00:37:24 --> 00:37:25 in his
00:37:25 --> 00:37:25 perfect
00:37:25 --> 00:37:26 presence
00:37:26 --> 00:37:27 where
00:37:27 --> 00:37:28 the end
00:37:28 --> 00:37:29 story
00:37:29 --> 00:37:29 the end
00:37:29 --> 00:37:29 of the
00:37:29 --> 00:37:30 game
00:37:30 --> 00:37:30 is there
00:37:30 --> 00:37:31 is no
00:37:31 --> 00:37:31 tears
00:37:31 --> 00:37:33 no more
00:37:33 --> 00:37:33 death
00:37:33 --> 00:37:34 no more
00:37:34 --> 00:37:35 crying
00:37:35 --> 00:37:36 no more
00:37:36 --> 00:37:36 pain
00:37:36 --> 00:37:39 the good
00:37:39 --> 00:37:40 news of
00:37:40 --> 00:37:41 Jesus
00:37:41 --> 00:37:41 Christ
00:37:41 --> 00:37:42 and what
00:37:42 --> 00:37:43 he has
00:37:43 --> 00:37:43 accomplished
00:37:43 --> 00:37:44 for me
00:37:44 --> 00:37:46 is a
00:37:46 --> 00:37:46 comfort
00:37:46 --> 00:37:47 deep in
00:37:47 --> 00:37:48 my heart
00:37:48 --> 00:37:50 even as
00:37:50 --> 00:37:50 I'm
00:37:50 --> 00:37:52 leading a
00:37:52 --> 00:37:53 funeral
00:37:53 --> 00:37:55 in tragic
00:37:55 --> 00:37:56 circumstances
00:37:56 --> 00:38:02 you see
00:38:02 --> 00:38:02 because of
00:38:02 --> 00:38:03 that hope
00:38:03 --> 00:38:03 there is a
00:38:03 --> 00:38:04 certain
00:38:04 --> 00:38:04 because of
00:38:04 --> 00:38:04 Jesus
00:38:04 --> 00:38:05 what he's
00:38:05 --> 00:38:05 done
00:38:05 --> 00:38:05 because of
00:38:05 --> 00:38:06 the gospel
00:38:06 --> 00:38:06 there is
00:38:06 --> 00:38:07 a certain
00:38:07 --> 00:38:07 hope
00:38:07 --> 00:38:10 the hope
00:38:10 --> 00:38:11 that life's
00:38:11 --> 00:38:12 final chapter
00:38:12 --> 00:38:15 has not
00:38:15 --> 00:38:16 been written
00:38:16 --> 00:38:18 although it
00:38:18 --> 00:38:19 has been
00:38:19 --> 00:38:19 revealed
00:38:19 --> 00:38:20 it's not
00:38:20 --> 00:38:21 written yet
00:38:21 --> 00:38:21 but it has
00:38:21 --> 00:38:22 been revealed
00:38:22 --> 00:38:24 there is a
00:38:24 --> 00:38:25 great day
00:38:25 --> 00:38:25 on the
00:38:25 --> 00:38:25 horizon
00:38:25 --> 00:38:29 but not
00:38:29 --> 00:38:29 every tear
00:38:29 --> 00:38:30 has yet
00:38:30 --> 00:38:30 been wiped
00:38:30 --> 00:38:31 away
00:38:31 --> 00:38:33 not every
00:38:33 --> 00:38:33 pain has
00:38:33 --> 00:38:34 been removed
00:38:34 --> 00:38:37 on this
00:38:37 --> 00:38:38 side of
00:38:38 --> 00:38:38 that great
00:38:38 --> 00:38:39 day
00:38:39 --> 00:38:40 the Christian
00:38:40 --> 00:38:41 must lament
00:38:41 --> 00:38:44 and I want
00:38:44 --> 00:38:45 to take you
00:38:45 --> 00:38:46 theologically
00:38:46 --> 00:38:47 higher than
00:38:47 --> 00:38:49 complaining
00:38:49 --> 00:38:49 about
00:38:49 --> 00:38:51 lockdowns
00:38:51 --> 00:38:53 friends if
00:38:53 --> 00:38:54 you're
00:38:54 --> 00:38:54 someone who
00:38:54 --> 00:38:55 trusts in
00:38:55 --> 00:38:55 the Lord
00:38:55 --> 00:38:55 Jesus
00:38:55 --> 00:38:56 you must
00:38:56 --> 00:38:57 lament
00:38:57 --> 00:38:57 sin
00:38:57 --> 00:39:00 you must
00:39:00 --> 00:39:01 lament
00:39:01 --> 00:39:01 your own
00:39:01 --> 00:39:01 sin
00:39:01 --> 00:39:02 I believe
00:39:02 --> 00:39:02 the apostle
00:39:02 --> 00:39:03 Paul does
00:39:03 --> 00:39:03 that
00:39:03 --> 00:39:05 in Romans
00:39:05 --> 00:39:06 oh what a
00:39:06 --> 00:39:07 wretched man
00:39:07 --> 00:39:07 I am
00:39:07 --> 00:39:08 who can
00:39:08 --> 00:39:08 rescue me
00:39:08 --> 00:39:10 thanks be to
00:39:10 --> 00:39:11 the Lord
00:39:11 --> 00:39:11 Jesus Christ
00:39:11 --> 00:39:12 lament
00:39:12 --> 00:39:15 we must
00:39:15 --> 00:39:16 lament
00:39:16 --> 00:39:16 lament
00:39:16 --> 00:39:16 the
00:39:16 --> 00:39:17 destructiveness
00:39:17 --> 00:39:18 of sin
00:39:18 --> 00:39:18 in this
00:39:18 --> 00:39:19 world
00:39:19 --> 00:39:20 the scale
00:39:20 --> 00:39:21 human depravity
00:39:21 --> 00:39:22 in this
00:39:22 --> 00:39:23 world
00:39:23 --> 00:39:24 is incalculable
00:39:24 --> 00:39:27 lamentation
00:39:27 --> 00:39:28 is for us
00:39:28 --> 00:39:29 a memorial
00:39:29 --> 00:39:30 that helps us
00:39:30 --> 00:39:31 remember
00:39:31 --> 00:39:31 and to feel
00:39:31 --> 00:39:32 the weight
00:39:32 --> 00:39:33 of tragedy
00:39:33 --> 00:39:36 the smoldering
00:39:36 --> 00:39:37 ruins
00:39:37 --> 00:39:38 of Jerusalem
00:39:38 --> 00:39:39 we get an
00:39:39 --> 00:39:39 insight
00:39:39 --> 00:39:40 we feel
00:39:40 --> 00:39:40 it
00:39:40 --> 00:39:40 as we
00:39:40 --> 00:39:41 come
00:39:41 --> 00:39:41 into
00:39:41 --> 00:39:42 lamentations
00:39:42 --> 00:39:46 they were
00:39:46 --> 00:39:47 a message
00:39:47 --> 00:39:50 to not
00:39:50 --> 00:39:50 just the
00:39:50 --> 00:39:51 inhabitants
00:39:51 --> 00:39:51 of Jerusalem
00:39:51 --> 00:39:53 who survived
00:39:53 --> 00:39:54 but the
00:39:54 --> 00:39:56 smoldering ruins
00:39:56 --> 00:39:56 of Jerusalem
00:39:56 --> 00:39:57 were a message
00:39:57 --> 00:39:58 to Babylon
00:39:58 --> 00:39:59 to Egypt
00:39:59 --> 00:40:01 to the whole
00:40:01 --> 00:40:01 world
00:40:01 --> 00:40:07 and the
00:40:07 --> 00:40:07 cross of
00:40:07 --> 00:40:08 Christ
00:40:08 --> 00:40:08 is the
00:40:08 --> 00:40:08 same
00:40:08 --> 00:40:09 for us
00:40:09 --> 00:40:15 it's a
00:40:15 --> 00:40:15 warning sign
00:40:15 --> 00:40:19 that
00:40:19 --> 00:40:20 is what
00:40:20 --> 00:40:21 sin
00:40:21 --> 00:40:22 deserves
00:40:22 --> 00:40:27 those
00:40:27 --> 00:40:27 who do
00:40:27 --> 00:40:27 not take
00:40:27 --> 00:40:28 refuge
00:40:28 --> 00:40:30 in the
00:40:30 --> 00:40:31 suffering
00:40:31 --> 00:40:31 Christ
00:40:31 --> 00:40:35 will
00:40:35 --> 00:40:36 one day
00:40:36 --> 00:40:38 take his
00:40:38 --> 00:40:38 place
00:40:38 --> 00:40:40 in suffering
00:40:40 --> 00:40:40 for their
00:40:40 --> 00:40:41 sin
00:40:41 --> 00:40:45 forever
00:40:45 --> 00:40:47 and that
00:40:47 --> 00:40:47 is a
00:40:47 --> 00:40:48 tragedy
00:40:48 --> 00:40:49 my friends
00:40:49 --> 00:40:50 which is
00:40:50 --> 00:40:51 incalculable
00:40:51 --> 00:40:55 it is a
00:40:55 --> 00:40:55 holocaust
00:40:55 --> 00:40:55 beyond
00:40:55 --> 00:40:56 comprehension
00:40:56 --> 00:40:57 to which
00:40:57 --> 00:40:58 50 million
00:40:58 --> 00:40:59 people a
00:40:59 --> 00:41:00 year
00:41:00 --> 00:41:01 move into
00:41:01 --> 00:41:03 it's
00:41:03 --> 00:41:04 lamentable
00:41:04 --> 00:41:06 I want to
00:41:06 --> 00:41:06 ask you
00:41:06 --> 00:41:08 do you
00:41:08 --> 00:41:09 lament that
00:41:09 --> 00:41:09 as a
00:41:09 --> 00:41:09 Christian
00:41:09 --> 00:41:13 the lesson
00:41:13 --> 00:41:13 of lamentations
00:41:13 --> 00:41:14 one
00:41:14 --> 00:41:15 is that
00:41:15 --> 00:41:16 God is
00:41:16 --> 00:41:16 long
00:41:16 --> 00:41:17 suffering
00:41:17 --> 00:41:18 he is
00:41:18 --> 00:41:19 merciful
00:41:19 --> 00:41:20 but
00:41:20 --> 00:41:21 rebellion
00:41:21 --> 00:41:21 against
00:41:21 --> 00:41:22 his
00:41:22 --> 00:41:22 rule
00:41:22 --> 00:41:23 has
00:41:23 --> 00:41:23 its
00:41:23 --> 00:41:24 consequences
00:41:24 --> 00:41:26 those
00:41:26 --> 00:41:26 who
00:41:26 --> 00:41:27 sow
00:41:27 --> 00:41:28 the
00:41:28 --> 00:41:28 wind
00:41:28 --> 00:41:29 of
00:41:29 --> 00:41:30 sin
00:41:30 --> 00:41:32 reap
00:41:32 --> 00:41:33 the
00:41:33 --> 00:41:33 whirlwind
00:41:33 --> 00:41:35 of
00:41:35 --> 00:41:35 eternal
00:41:35 --> 00:41:35 destruction
00:41:35 --> 00:41:39 God
00:41:39 --> 00:41:40 is in
00:41:40 --> 00:41:40 control
00:41:40 --> 00:41:41 of history
00:41:41 --> 00:41:42 and he
00:41:42 --> 00:41:42 will not
00:41:42 --> 00:41:44 be mocked
00:41:44 --> 00:41:46 four months
00:41:46 --> 00:41:47 of lockdown
00:41:47 --> 00:41:49 is just
00:41:49 --> 00:41:49 God's
00:41:49 --> 00:41:50 mercy
00:41:50 --> 00:41:51 to us
00:41:51 --> 00:41:52 like
00:41:52 --> 00:41:53 the
00:41:53 --> 00:41:53 prophecy
00:41:53 --> 00:41:54 of
00:41:54 --> 00:41:54 Jeremiah
00:41:54 --> 00:41:55 was to
00:41:55 --> 00:41:55 Jerusalem
00:41:55 --> 00:41:57 that we're
00:41:57 --> 00:41:57 not in
00:41:57 --> 00:41:57 control
00:41:57 --> 00:41:58 just a
00:41:58 --> 00:41:58 reminder
00:41:58 --> 00:41:58 we're
00:41:58 --> 00:41:59 not in
00:41:59 --> 00:41:59 control
00:41:59 --> 00:41:59 this
00:41:59 --> 00:42:00 world
00:42:00 --> 00:42:00 is not
00:42:00 --> 00:42:00 what it
00:42:00 --> 00:42:01 should
00:42:01 --> 00:42:01 be
00:42:01 --> 00:42:03 lamentations
00:42:03 --> 00:42:04 one
00:42:04 --> 00:42:04 reminds
00:42:04 --> 00:42:05 us
00:42:05 --> 00:42:05 that
00:42:05 --> 00:42:05 sin
00:42:05 --> 00:42:06 is
00:42:06 --> 00:42:07 in
00:42:07 --> 00:42:07 fact
00:42:07 --> 00:42:07 that
00:42:07 --> 00:42:08 bad
00:42:08 --> 00:42:09 and
00:42:09 --> 00:42:09 that
00:42:09 --> 00:42:09 God
00:42:09 --> 00:42:10 is
00:42:10 --> 00:42:10 in
00:42:10 --> 00:42:11 fact
00:42:11 --> 00:42:11 that
00:42:11 --> 00:42:11 holy
00:42:11 --> 00:42:12 the
00:42:12 --> 00:42:13 effect
00:42:13 --> 00:42:13 of
00:42:13 --> 00:42:13 our
00:42:13 --> 00:42:14 collective
00:42:14 --> 00:42:15 treason
00:42:15 --> 00:42:15 is the
00:42:15 --> 00:42:16 groaning
00:42:16 --> 00:42:17 of creation
00:42:17 --> 00:42:18 under its
00:42:18 --> 00:42:18 brokenness
00:42:18 --> 00:42:19 the
00:42:19 --> 00:42:20 Christians
00:42:20 --> 00:42:20 should
00:42:20 --> 00:42:21 understand
00:42:21 --> 00:42:21 that
00:42:21 --> 00:42:22 beneath
00:42:22 --> 00:42:23 every
00:42:23 --> 00:42:24 single
00:42:24 --> 00:42:25 painful
00:42:25 --> 00:42:25 aspect
00:42:25 --> 00:42:26 of our
00:42:26 --> 00:42:26 humanity
00:42:26 --> 00:42:27 is the
00:42:27 --> 00:42:28 reality
00:42:28 --> 00:42:29 of sin
00:42:29 --> 00:42:32 more
00:42:32 --> 00:42:33 than just
00:42:33 --> 00:42:33 providing
00:42:33 --> 00:42:34 comfort
00:42:34 --> 00:42:36 and help
00:42:36 --> 00:42:36 in times
00:42:36 --> 00:42:37 of trouble
00:42:37 --> 00:42:38 the gift
00:42:38 --> 00:42:39 of lament
00:42:39 --> 00:42:40 helps us
00:42:40 --> 00:42:41 to tune
00:42:41 --> 00:42:41 our
00:42:41 --> 00:42:42 heart
00:42:42 --> 00:42:44 to the
00:42:44 --> 00:42:44 pain
00:42:44 --> 00:42:45 of others
00:42:45 --> 00:42:46 and to
00:42:46 --> 00:42:46 the
00:42:46 --> 00:42:47 fundamental
00:42:47 --> 00:42:47 truths
00:42:47 --> 00:42:48 of God
00:42:48 --> 00:42:49 and his
00:42:49 --> 00:42:49 world
00:42:49 --> 00:42:51 and his
00:42:51 --> 00:42:51 eternal
00:42:51 --> 00:42:52 reality
00:42:52 --> 00:42:53 as
00:42:53 --> 00:42:54 American
00:42:54 --> 00:42:54 pastor
00:42:54 --> 00:42:55 Mark
00:42:55 --> 00:42:55 Deaver
00:42:55 --> 00:42:56 has said
00:42:56 --> 00:42:57 we watch
00:42:57 --> 00:42:58 the news
00:42:58 --> 00:43:00 so we
00:43:00 --> 00:43:00 know how
00:43:00 --> 00:43:01 to pray
00:43:01 --> 00:43:04 in a way
00:43:04 --> 00:43:05 what lament
00:43:05 --> 00:43:06 does for the
00:43:06 --> 00:43:06 Christian
00:43:06 --> 00:43:07 is it
00:43:07 --> 00:43:07 wakens
00:43:07 --> 00:43:09 our souls
00:43:09 --> 00:43:10 from apathy
00:43:10 --> 00:43:12 and our
00:43:12 --> 00:43:13 own sin
00:43:13 --> 00:43:17 we live
00:43:17 --> 00:43:18 with people
00:43:18 --> 00:43:19 we are
00:43:19 --> 00:43:20 surrounded by
00:43:20 --> 00:43:21 a community
00:43:21 --> 00:43:22 that exists
00:43:22 --> 00:43:23 in a world
00:43:23 --> 00:43:24 that is
00:43:24 --> 00:43:24 on a
00:43:24 --> 00:43:25 collision
00:43:25 --> 00:43:25 course
00:43:25 --> 00:43:26 with its
00:43:26 --> 00:43:27 creator
00:43:27 --> 00:43:27 God
00:43:27 --> 00:43:28 the
00:43:28 --> 00:43:29 devastation
00:43:29 --> 00:43:30 the
00:43:30 --> 00:43:31 desolation
00:43:31 --> 00:43:32 the desolation
00:43:32 --> 00:43:32 and the
00:43:32 --> 00:43:33 loneliness
00:43:33 --> 00:43:33 and the
00:43:33 --> 00:43:34 anguish
00:43:34 --> 00:43:35 on that
00:43:35 --> 00:43:35 day
00:43:35 --> 00:43:36 will be
00:43:36 --> 00:43:37 eternal
00:43:37 --> 00:43:38 not just
00:43:38 --> 00:43:39 for 70
00:43:39 --> 00:43:39 years
00:43:39 --> 00:43:39 as it
00:43:39 --> 00:43:40 was for
00:43:40 --> 00:43:40 Jerusalem
00:43:40 --> 00:43:44 the comfort
00:43:44 --> 00:43:44 is now
00:43:44 --> 00:43:46 and you
00:43:46 --> 00:43:47 embrace that
00:43:47 --> 00:43:48 comfort now
00:43:48 --> 00:43:48 and you
00:43:48 --> 00:43:49 will embrace
00:43:49 --> 00:43:49 it for all
00:43:49 --> 00:43:50 of eternity
00:43:50 --> 00:43:51 you reject
00:43:51 --> 00:43:52 it now
00:43:52 --> 00:43:52 and on that
00:43:52 --> 00:43:53 day there
00:43:53 --> 00:43:53 will be no
00:43:53 --> 00:43:54 comfort
00:43:54 --> 00:43:56 we will cry
00:43:56 --> 00:43:57 out
00:43:57 --> 00:43:59 to even
00:43:59 --> 00:43:59 the stones
00:43:59 --> 00:44:00 to fall
00:44:00 --> 00:44:01 on us
00:44:01 --> 00:44:03 there will
00:44:03 --> 00:44:03 be no
00:44:03 --> 00:44:03 comfort
00:44:03 --> 00:44:04 there will
00:44:04 --> 00:44:04 be no
00:44:04 --> 00:44:04 place to
00:44:04 --> 00:44:05 turn
00:44:05 --> 00:44:07 lament
00:44:07 --> 00:44:07 lament
00:44:07 --> 00:44:07 is a
00:44:07 --> 00:44:07 gift
00:44:07 --> 00:44:08 from God
00:44:08 --> 00:44:08 to connect
00:44:08 --> 00:44:09 our hearts
00:44:09 --> 00:44:10 with his
00:44:10 --> 00:44:10 heart
00:44:10 --> 00:44:10 for his
00:44:10 --> 00:44:11 world
00:44:11 --> 00:44:12 a heart
00:44:12 --> 00:44:13 that desires
00:44:13 --> 00:44:14 not
00:44:14 --> 00:44:15 the death
00:44:15 --> 00:44:16 of a sinner
00:44:16 --> 00:44:17 but that
00:44:17 --> 00:44:18 all should
00:44:18 --> 00:44:18 be saved
00:44:18 --> 00:44:19 from death
00:44:19 --> 00:44:21 and find
00:44:21 --> 00:44:22 life forever
00:44:22 --> 00:44:24 in their
00:44:24 --> 00:44:24 comforter
00:44:24 --> 00:44:25 Jesus
00:44:25 --> 00:44:26 Christ
00:44:26 --> 00:44:27 Amen