Lamentations 1

They'll be on the screen.

And then we're gonna dig into Lamentations 1.

The first passage is from Deuteronomy 28:36-37.

This is what Moses was told: "The Lord will bring you and your king, whom you set over you, to a nation that neither you nor your fathers have known.

We know that God not only keeps his word about judgment, he also keeps his word about mercy, because he knows our tears.

Now, I wanna show you something in verse, in chapter one here of Lamentations.

Lamentations 1:2,4,11,16, and 21, which will be on the screen.

I want you to see that there is weeping and crying here.

And lastly, God speaks most terribly unto a people when he sends diverse of these judgments together.

As Lamentations 1 verse 20, Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is death.

When enemies without, plague and famine within.

God speaks terribly when fire and sword goeth together, or sword and famine, or famine and plague, or famine of bread and famine of the word.

It is a wretched bond about thy neck, by which thy strength doth fail.

Lamentations 1, verse 14 and 17 But come, though thou comest in chains.

It is glory to Christ that a sinner comes after him in chains.

The clanking of thy chains, though troublesome to thee, is not, nor can be, any obstruction to thy salvation.

But to return, thus it happens sometimes to them that are coming to Jesus Christ.

One would think that he that is flying from wrath to come has little need of such clogs as these, and yet so it is, and woeful experience proves it.

The church of old complained that her enemies overtook her between the straits, just between hope and fear, heaven and hell, Lamentations 1:3.

This man feels the infirmity of his flesh.