Gashland Baptist Church Sermons
Sep 23, 2026 · 38 min · 10 segments
Brought Low, That We May Look High - A Sermon From Lamentations 5 from Kodi Melton at Gashland Baptist Church on July 20th, 2026.
What about the pain of emotion and mental pain? We all have anxieties, depression, fears, phobias.
Again, we live in a society where we can go to a doctor or a psychologist, and they'll give us a subscription, and that pain will be numbed.
It's something that if we do not settle the root of the issue, it will eventually come back.
That kidney stone, until it passes, that medicine will wear off, and that pain will come back.
And as we learned over the last couple months in this series, pain is much more than that.
There is a spiritual pain, and that spiritual pain is a direct result from our sin.
When we willingly disobey God and his word, what does that look like? What does that impact? Not just us, but those around us.
Spiritual, as we often try, a lot of times we often try to treat God like we do doctors.
But as we learn from Pastor Chandler and Pastor Ryan and John, we discover that God doesn't operate that way.
And also, it's important to distinguish the difference between a lament and a complaint.
This whole series we've been talking about lamenting, I think the pastors did a phenomenal job of describing what a lament is.
But a complaint centers on our own personal grievances, right? We dwell on our own pain, expecting God to fix it.
A lament focuses that pain towards God's character, saying that this is not fair to who God is.
Lament expresses pain that recognizes God's presence and maintains trust and hopefulness of his expectation that this will eventually subside, that his intervention will come and take that pain away.
As we will see, chapter 5 is a final plea from the poet, acknowledging the pain and suffering that Israel had endured and the crying out for God to restore the once great nation of Israel.
The poet is pleading for restoration of the relationship between God and his people, not simply just the ceasing of that pain.
Just as God's people disobeyed, and that they were punished for their disobeying, God still disciplines us today.
What about the pain of emotion and mental pain? We all have anxieties, depression, fears, phobias.
Again, we live in a society where we can go to a doctor or a psychologist, and they'll give us a subscription, and that pain will be numbed.
It's something that if we do not settle the root of the issue, it will eventually come back.
That kidney stone, until it passes, that medicine will wear off, and that pain will come back.
And as we learned over the last couple months in this series, pain is much more than that.
There is a spiritual pain, and that spiritual pain is a direct result from our sin.
When we willingly disobey God and his word, what does that look like? What does that impact? Not just us, but those around us.
Spiritual, as we often try, a lot of times we often try to treat God like we do doctors.
But as we learn from Pastor Chandler and Pastor Ryan and John, we discover that God doesn't operate that way.
And also, it's important to distinguish the difference between a lament and a complaint.
This whole series we've been talking about lamenting, I think the pastors did a phenomenal job of describing what a lament is.
But a complaint centers on our own personal grievances, right? We dwell on our own pain, expecting God to fix it.
A lament focuses that pain towards God's character, saying that this is not fair to who God is.
Lament expresses pain that recognizes God's presence and maintains trust and hopefulness of his expectation that this will eventually subside, that his intervention will come and take that pain away.
As we will see, chapter 5 is a final plea from the poet, acknowledging the pain and suffering that Israel had endured and the crying out for God to restore the once great nation of Israel.
The poet is pleading for restoration of the relationship between God and his people, not simply just the ceasing of that pain.
Just as God's people disobeyed, and that they were punished for their disobeying, God still disciplines us today.
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