Delivered on Sunday Morning the 31st of May 2020 by Pastor Nelson Attwood at Noble Park Evangelical Baptist Church, Victoria, Australia.
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VICTORIA,
AUSTRALIA
Meditating on God’s Goodness Brings Hope, Pt.1
Lamentations 3:19-25
May 31st, 2020
Introduction:
Five Intricate poems make up the book of Lamentations.
• 1:1-22, How Lonely sits the city
• 2:1-22, God has set Zion under a cloud
• 3:1-66, I am the man who has seen affliction
• 4:1-22, How the Gold has grown dim
• 5:1-22, Restore us to yourself O God.
One: The Source of our Sorrow
1) There is Sorrow from Discipline for sin
• Lament. 1:5, 1:8-9, Hebrews 12:5-6, 11,
2) There’s Sorrow over Loneliness
• Luke 7:12, Psalm 25:16,
3) There is Sorrow we experience over Loss
4) Sorrow over Sickness
Two: The Source & Object of our Hope: The Lord & His Attributes
• Lament. 3:22-24a,
1) The Lord’s Unceasing, Steadfast Love
• God’s Nature is Love, 1 John 4:8
• God’s Love is Eternal, Jeremiah 31:3b …
• God’s Love is Covenantal, Deut.7:9
• God’s Love is Lavish, Exodus 34:6–7 Ephesians 3:14–21
• God’s Love and Hardship, Rom.9:13, Malachi 1:2-3,
• God’s Love is Displayed at the Cross.
o 1 John 4:9–10, John 15:13–14, Romans 5:7–8, Ephesians 2:4–5
2) The Lord’s New & Unceasing Mercy
• God’s Mercy can be defined as His Goodness to the Miserable
o 2 Samuel 24:14
• God is Sovereign with His Mercy:
o Exodus 33:19
• God’s Mercy is assured thru Covenant Relationship
o Psalm 23:6
• God’s Love Drives His Mercy,
o Ephesians 2:4 Psalm 51:1
• God’s Mercy Clearly Seen in the Gospel, Romans 12:1
{To Be Continued, next week, Lord willing}