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Lamentations

Lamentations. Rebellion leads to Discipline. Why did God allow His people to go into captivity? He did so to teach them to trust Him and obey His Word. Jeremiah explained what happens to a people when they reject the truth of God’s Word and believe the lies of men.

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Lamentations

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  1. Lamentations

  2. Rebellion leads to Discipline Why did God allow His people to go into captivity? He did so to teach them to trust Him and obey His Word.

  3. Jeremiah explained what happens to a people when they reject the truth of God’s Word and believe the lies of men. Yet, the truth of God’s Word will stand, just as it did in Jeremiah’s day.

  4. The Tenderness of God’s Heart (1:12-16) • The heart of God is revealed: He is broken for the sins of His people because He cares for His people. • Judgment is God’s “strange work.” (Is. 28:21) He does not afflict willingly. • God is with His people in their suffering. (Is. 63:9-14) Whom the Lord loves, He chastens. God loves His own, even if they are rebellious, and His love for them cannot change. • God, in love, had to chasten His people to teach them the lessons they needed to learn.

  5. The Faithfulness of God’s Mercy (3:18-36) At the heart and center of the book, we find one of the greatest confession of faith anywhere in the entire Bible. Jeremiah had been dwelling on his sorrows and the sorrows of his people, but then he lifted his eyes on the Lord and this was the turning point. In the middle of sorrow and run, he remembered the mercy of the Lord. “His compassion do not fail.” We have failed Him, but He cannot fail us. “Great is thy Faithfulness.”

  6. If you build your life on people or on the things of this world, you will have no hope or security, but if you build on Christ, the Faithful One, you will be safe forever.

  7. The Faithful Attributes of God • He is faithful to chasten (Ps. 119:75) He wants to bring us to the place of repentance and confession and restoration. • He is faithful to forgive when we confess our sins. • He is faithful to sympathize when we have burdens and problems. (Heb. 2:17-18; 4:14-16) • He is faithful to deliver when we cry out for help (1 Cor. 10:13) • He is faithful to keep us in this life and unto life eternal. (1 Tim. 1:15; 1 Thess. 5:23-24) Therefore, we can commit our very life and soul to our Faithful Creator. (1 Peter 4:19)

  8. The Mercy of God spares • God spared a remnant of Judah and protected and blessed them during their years of captivity and then permitted them to return to their land once again. • God enabled them to rebuild their city and temple • He protected them from nations that hated the Jews. He is merciful to us today

  9. The lessons to learn from God and about God • In times of trouble, we need to imitate Jeremiah who looked away from himself to the Lord and who waited on the Lord in patience and faith. (3:24-26) • Too often, we look at ourselves and our problems and become so discouraged that we quit. We must look away to Jesus. (Heb. 12:1-2) Let Him see us through. • Jeremiah waited on the Lord, as difficult humanly as that might have been, trusted His mercy and depended on His faithfulness. • “Those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint.”

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