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                                                                                                                                        LAMENTATIONS 4-5

 

Pastor Rick Jackson

 

I. YOU CAN’T CHANGE REALITY [4:1-17]

 

1. The Changing Values [4:1-10]

 

2. The Unchanging God [4:11-16]

 

3. The Misplaced Faith [4:17]

 

II. YOU CAN’T CHANGE REAPING – you will reap what you sow [4:18-22]

 

1. The Persecutors’ Aggressiveness [4:18-19]

 

2. The Powerless Anointed [3:20] – how different from our Anointed One, the All-Powerful Lord Jesus Christ

 

3. The Punishment Accomplished [3:21-22] i.e., “as good as done”

 

III. YOU CAN’T CHANGE THE REDEEMER

 

1. A Prayer for Consideration [5:1]

 

2. A Prayer of Confession [5:2-16] compare v. 14 with Jeremiah 25:10 Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

Nehemiah 8:10 Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the LORD is your strength.

 

3. A Prayer of Contemplation [5:17-22]