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Bernard:

Welcome back to the Daily Bible Podcast!

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We're so glad you've joined us.

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And now your hosts, Doctor

Pastor PJ and Pastor Rod.

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Hey everybody, we are back

with you again and we are still

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in the book of Lamentations.

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But you know what?

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I do not lament.

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I do not lament that today marks

19 years of marriage to my wife.

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Unbelievable.

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Yeah.

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And consequently, you

have prepared a song.

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You always with the song.

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Always with the song.

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You're preparing a 19 minute song,

a 19 minute song that you have

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written specifically for Amanda.

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Yeah.

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Called appropriately.

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The 19 minutes song for

a minute for Amanda.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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It's a catchy title, but

it's only gonna be for her.

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So I, I can't share.

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All right guys, don't listen

to this next 19 minutes, just

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between Bastard Peach and Amanda.

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Okay.

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Tune out for the next 19 minutes.

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Go ahead.

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Yeah, man, I'm not listening.

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No, but happy anniversary.

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19 years.

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We were talking about it the other day.

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I think if we went back we'd

probably do our wedding differently.

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We'd make different decisions now as

older adults and what we did and what

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we didn't do and what we thought was

important at the time, but, all right.

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Yeah, man we I'm thankful for her man.

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Just, we both have great wives and I know

Pastor Mark does, Lewis does as well.

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So we're blessed to have.

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Just great wives on our team and my

wife is such a huge blessing to me.

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19 of your favorite things about Amanda.

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Go, starting with number

19 and with number one.

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So 19 to number one.

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Yeah.

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19.

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19.

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Favorite things you, again,

you are a master at putting

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people on the spot by the way.

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You could say I have 19 million.

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I could not narrow it down to 19.

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That's the problem is I

can't come up with only 19.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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By the way, after our last episode,

you immediately were on Amazon Googling

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large shot collars for big dogs.

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There's just some really

good options here.

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Yeah, I still have it in front of me.

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This has four powerful

modes with a nightlight.

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So if you go outside and you'd

be, you can see where I am.

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It's got a threequarter mile range,

which I'm not sure how far our houses

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are, but I think I might be able to

make it work if I put an extender on it.

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And then if I sense in my

spirit that you're sinning.

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In any way, just a quick little, oh man.

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If you didn't listen to yesterday's

podcast, then you're confused.

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Go back and listen to

it and you'll catch up.

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You don't need to.

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Lots of googly.

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Lots of go.

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Lots of googly.

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Hey I was at Community group the

other night, community fellowship

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group for small people or something

like that, and people were not.

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That's it.

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And people were not aware of

where the term googly came from.

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I've gotta give credit

where credit is due.

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That is a Jeff Mooch

term, through and through.

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He's the one who initially said

it's something about googly.

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And I just I caught it.

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I hung onto it, and I've

never let it go ever since.

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So the word googly is not

a real word, I don't think.

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Anyway.

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In fact, let me just, I don't think it is.

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I think it's, you're gonna Google googly.

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Googly is goog.

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There's googly eyes, right?

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Unfocused or rolling.

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That's the only definition they offer.

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So I guess unfocused.

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Unfocused.

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I guess that's that.

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But it says of the eyes, so

it's an adjective of the eyes.

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Unfocused unfocused eyes.

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Okay, so maybe he's

talking about our eyes.

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I don't know what our eyes look

like when we do the podcast, but

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maybe he's referring to That.

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Could be.

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In any case, that is all Jeff Mo.

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Just wanted to give credit

where credit is due.

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Good job, Jeff.

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Thanks for, and people are saying it now.

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It's like a, it's a common vernacular.

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It's out there in our church.

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I love the googly.

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In fact, that's the most, for the people

that don't like it, they don't tell us.

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Thank you.

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Yeah.

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For those who do they say?

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Yeah, the googly is part of the fun.

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We were just listening to somebody in our

office the other day say, Hey, when one

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of you is out town, I think Pastor Mark

should fill in because then it, it keeps

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it up and it, you've got the banter back

and forth that Google is still there.

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Yeah.

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I think the way she said it was like, you

guys are awful when you're not together.

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I've heard that from so many people.

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Something like that.

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Yeah.

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And part of it, it's, it makes perfect

sense 'cause the, we play different roles.

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Totally.

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And the roles work when there's two are

better than one, as Ecclesiastes says.

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Yes.

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So it makes sense.

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And when we do it alone, it's

harder to do the, to do both roles.

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Makes sense.

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It is a backhanded

compliment still though.

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I mean it's Hey, you two are great

together, maybe we should preach together.

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Wouldn't that be fun?

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A tag team?

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Yeah.

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Like tag in, tag out.

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Or we just stand next to each other and

I'm looking at your notes and every time

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you say something I'm like, you know what?

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That's a good point.

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PPG, lemme just add or what if we both

prepared sermons on the same text and

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preach them at the same time Live?

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Oh yeah.

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I like, I you, how about

you just call me up?

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In the middle of your

sermon and I just jump in.

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There we go.

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There we go.

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Because we're not, I guess we

don't, we prepare, but in different

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ways I'm sure for the, for this.

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Yeah.

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We both read, obviously, but what

we come up with and what we think

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would be helpful to talk about,

that's free that's more free flowing.

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It's not very scripted for us.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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Some, in fact, when Pastor Mark

jumped in here the other day, he was

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like, do you guys discuss what you're

gonna say before you hit record?

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Never.

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Nope.

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We just go for it.

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We know the Bible verse.

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That's what we, or the

verse is we know the verses.

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Yeah.

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That's the extent of it.

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Most of the time, every now and then

that we'll talk about something like,

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oh, this would be helpful to discuss.

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Yeah, we need to talk about

these things or that thing.

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And certainly when you all

throw in questions, that's

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helpful because it gives us.

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Some fodder to, to kick around

before we get into the passage.

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Yeah.

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Less googly with the questions.

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Yeah.

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Anyways, again, happy anniversary, Amanda.

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We're having community

group tonight to celebrate.

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Can't wait to hear that song, Amanda.

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You let me know when you hear it.

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19 minutes.

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19 minutes.

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19 minutes.

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Alright, let's let's jump in

limitations three, four, and fives.

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But if you were just gonna make it up

on the spot, what would it sound like?

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I have no idea.

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I've got nothing.

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I've got nothing.

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I don't I'm not good under pressure.

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Sure you are not in that kind.

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You gotta start somewhere.

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And they would love to hear it.

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I don't think so.

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I don't think anybody would.

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I think nobody would.

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I don't.

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I don't agree with that.

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I'll let you off the hook this time,

but next year for 20, you better come.

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Ready.

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All right, fine.

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Limitations three, four,

and five limitations.

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Three.

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We think in limitations three of

great as your faithfulness, right?

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That's where our minds go, because that's

what we find here, the steadfast love.

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The Lord never ceases.

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Verse 22, his mercies

never come to an end.

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They're new every morning,

great as your faithfulness.

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In fact you may be singing the song right

now that goes along with those lyrics

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and along with those words and yet they

come in the midst of a chapter where.

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You wouldn't expect to hear

great is your faithfulness.

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Remember the context here,

Lamentations, we can't set, we can't

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remove verses 22 and 23 outta the

context of the fact that Jeremiah

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is lamenting the fall of Jerusalem.

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And that's really what the

first half of the book is about.

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He's re lamenting his own plight,

his own affliction, that God's hand

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is against him, that he's brought

him into darkness without any light.

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Verses verse three, there.

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He goes away and talks about

the degradation of his body.

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Verse four or five, six, he's,

his skin is wasting away.

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He's broken his bones, the language

of what took place to the city.

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Jeremiah, the prophet, is

saying, God has done that to me.

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God has besieged and enveloped me.

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He has walled me about verse seven,

just like the Babylonians did.

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God has done this.

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He's made my chains heavy, just like

they carried them away in captivity.

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Jeremiah said, that's how I feel

when it comes to what God has done.

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He's a bearer.

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He's a lion.

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He goes on and on He, he says,

look, my soul is bereft of peace.

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Verse 17, I have forgotten

what happiness is.

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That's staggering.

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I've forgotten what it is

to even feel happiness.

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So I say my endurance has perished

and so has my hope from the Lord.

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That's the lead in to

Great is your faithfulness.

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That's the why these verses are

so much more powerful than what

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we give them even credit for.

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It's not as though we're just

like, oh man, today was a

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hard day, but you know what?

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His mercies are new every morning.

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Great.

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Is your faithfulness.

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This is, I have no hope

from an earthly perspective.

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I don't remember what happiness is like.

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But the steadfast love

of the Lord never ceases.

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Now that word steadfast love is I think in

the Hebrew ed, which is his covenant love.

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So Jeremiah is anchoring his hope

to the covenant relationship of

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God to his people, saying, God, you

are not gonna forget your covenant.

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And I trust in that.

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And even though it doesn't feel

good right now, my hope is gone.

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My happiness is gone.

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I'm gonna trust you.

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Your covenant love will remain intact.

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It's a great reminder.

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And if this book is written by.

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Jeremiah, he would've been a priest and

so he would not have had a plot of land.

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But it is important in verse 24 where

it says, the Lord is my portion,

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therefore I will hope in him.

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You think about the time that this is

being said, Jerusalem has been destroyed.

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Everything has been raised.

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There literally is

nothing else around them.

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The plot of land that was entrusted

to them, given to them by God, they no

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longer have, so their physical material

possessions would've been altogether.

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Destroyed.

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And so in a real sense,

the Lord is my portion.

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This is all I've got.

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You are all I have left Lord,

and therefore I will hope in

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you because I have nothing else.

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At the end of the day, when you're

challenged to, if everything hits

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the fan and you have nothing else

left, you're gonna be challenged

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to say, what am I hoping in?

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Am I hoping in the security of my 401k?

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Am I hoping in the security of my

relationship to my friends, my family,

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those things can be taken away.

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The one thing.

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That you can guarantee will never depart

and never lose its fidelity faithfulness.

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Its endurance is the Lord himself, which

is why and is so foolish for us to put

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trust in anything else besides him.

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Not a bad thing to enjoy the things

that he gives you as he does.

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But man, that's where the hope is.

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That's where the help is, that

are you gonna talk about verse 33?

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Let's do that for he does

not afflict from his heart.

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Talk about that.

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Yeah.

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A lot of times we can think that of God

in the same way that maybe you think of

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somebody who is vindictive or impetuous

or judging out of spite in hatred.

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And yet what we read about in verse 33

as Jeremiah's watching all this unfold,

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one of his comforts is, man God, you

are still a God who loves your people.

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And yet this is the natural response.

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It's.

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It's not devoid of emotion, but in some

ways it's like there's a cause and effect.

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If I step off of a building, then gravity

is the effect that's going to take place.

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It's going to draw me to the ground.

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There, there's no if, ands,

or buts about that God's.

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Gravity is his justice in

response to sin, right?

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Justice has to be met, meted out for God

to remain holy and just he has to judge.

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He has to punish sin.

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But it does not mean that he takes

delight in that as he's doing that,

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he's not rubbing his hands together.

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He's not the cosmic, toddler up in the sky

with the magnifying glasses, zap frying

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the ants of his people and cackling as

he does so he does not afflict from his

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heart or grieve the children of man.

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In other words, God is not taking a

sick delight in the judgment that he's

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pouring out upon the nation of Israel.

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This is not done out of spite, or

hatred or petulance towards the people.

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This is done because God is holy and

as a holy God, he must judge sin.

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Amen to that.

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And this is interesting because in our

minds we, I think we can give ourselves

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enough credit to say it's possible for

us to want two things that appear to

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be opposites At the same time, here

we see two things that God desires,

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two aspects of his will, he desires a.

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To afflict them, to send

them through adversity.

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And B, he also desires compassion.

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And so when it says here that he does

not afflict from his heart, I think

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what Jeremiah is getting at is that

this is not essential to God's nature.

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Wrath is not a divine attribute.

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We've talked about this

before recently actually.

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And it's important to recognize that

there's two schools of thought primarily.

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Some would say that this is an

expression of God's divine divine nature.

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I think this verse would

lead me to believe.

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That is not the case, that God's

wrath is an expression of some

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other attribute that is more

central and essential to who he is.

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And so this tells me when God exercises

wrath, it's an expression of his

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justice or his holiness, but not

something that he does from in himself.

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That is not something that

exists in and of itself.

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Because God is a naturally wrathful being.

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It is a result of sin and the effects of

the fall that God expresses his wrath,

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which by the way, you wrote a paper on

this, I think it was your dissertation.

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This is one of the ways that

God's glory is manifested, the

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full expression of His holiness.

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His glory is on display

when he exercises his wrath.

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But.

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Not to be confused as being

essential to his nature.

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Does that make sense?

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People Makes sense to me.

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If you get it, then surely they get it.

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Yeah.

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Hey, 39 and 40, we talked about this

concept I think in yesterday's episode or

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maybe the day before, but our response to

God's judgment and what we should do when

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we feel that the hand of God against us.

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He says in verse 39, why should

a living man complain a man

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about the punishment of his sins?

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Verse 40, let us test and examine our

ways and return to the Lord when we.

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Feel the hand of God in his

discipline, his judgment against us.

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The right response is not to

complain and to protest as though

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something un iJust is being done.

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But to say, okay, God,

let me examine my heart.

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Let me see what it is that

you are pursuing in my life.

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What might be out of whack?

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What do I need to repent from?

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What do I need to confess?

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What I, how do I need to return?

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And let's do just that.

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And so that's the right response versus

39 and 40 there to GA's judgment.

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Verse 55, he says, I called on your name,

oh Lord, from the depths of the pit.

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I think this next section or

this final section of chapter

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three is Jeremiah recalling the

persecution that he experienced.

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If this is Jeremiah, and I

think maybe this is another.

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Indication that it is.

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Because if you remember, Jeremiah

was cast into the cistern and

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he was in the depths of the pit.

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That would be that cistern

there and certainly the

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persecution that he experienced.

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It seems to be taken up here.

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You've redeemed my life.

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Others were trying to take

his life, trying to persecute

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him to the point of death.

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And so you've heard their

taunts, their plots against me.

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This is some of what we know as internal

evidence when we look at a book as

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to identifying the author there.

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And so I think here we see that you, you

mentioned I think yesterday as well, that

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the danger of having our census doled.

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To God's voice, to the truth of God.

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Verse 65 talks about that, right?

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You will give them dullness of heart as

part of God's judgment against the people.

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That idea, that concept of dullness of

heart, that our heart is not sensitive

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to God's judgment, not sensitive to

God's conviction anymore, that's a

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terrifying thing and that's a one of

the judgments that Jeremiah calls for

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against those that are persecuting him.

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Chapter four.

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Then we get into more on God's wrath in,

in more of a focus on God's wrath here.

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And it's the destruction of Jerusalem

is still the subject, the Holy

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Stones verse one lies scattered

at the head of every street, the

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destruction of the temple there.

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Verse six, the chastisement of

the daughter of my people has been

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greater than the punishment of Sodom,

which was overthrown in a moment.

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No homes were, no hands

were rung for her life.

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This jumped out to me this time,

reading through this because Jeremiah

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is pointing to the prolonged suffering

of the people during this, the siege,

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which was a 30 month siege, and then the

ultimate destruction of the city you.

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Taken into effect.

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You mentioned the three deportations

the other day in the podcast.

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This has been a long time that God

has been pouring out his justice here,

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and I think that's what he means here,

that the punishment of Sodom was not

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as bad as far as the suffering goes

because it was over in a moment.

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Now, those that were judged.

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Went on to an eternity of judgment.

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But as far as the earthly suffering,

it's different in that this one

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is stretched out for much longer.

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People didn't have the chance to wring

their hands in grief over Sodom because

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it was just a flash and it was done.

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God poured out his justice rather

than which Jerusalem, it's being

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drawn out longer and longer.

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Verse nine.

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Some of that suffering is described here.

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Happier were the victims of the

sword than the victims of hunger.

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So the intense starvation, again, verse

10, describes some of the atrocities

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that took place there just out of

human instinct, survival, instinct

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kicking in here, and what people were

willing to do in order to survive the.

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The famine, the hunger there.

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Verse 11, the Lord gave full vent

to his wrath and poured out his

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hot anger, and he kindled a fire in

Zion and consumed its foundations.

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Yes and no, right?

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From an earthly perspective, we could say

yes, he gave full vent to his wrath, but

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we know that from an eternal perspective,

from the full force of God's wrath.

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It may have felt like that to the prophet

as he's writing this, but there was

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more that wasn't poured out here in.

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In fact, that's why.

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Eternal damnation exists

because there is an eternity.

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That it's being poured out that

without being fully satisfied.

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And so I get what he's saying

there, and yet that just makes us

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understand the wrath of God is so

much bigger than we can even imagine.

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Yeah.

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Important to remember that

as you read through this.

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This small book, you're reading poetry,

which is why it's even formatted

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differently in most of our bibles.

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If you're using an ESV, there's lots of

space between the lyrics because also what

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you can't see here is it's an acrostic.

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All of this is an acrostic.

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They're all a, b, c, D three, the

22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

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So this is meant to be a funeral durge,

as you brought up in the last podcast.

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It's a song that's meant to be sung

and is meant to aid with memorization.

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That's often why they

used things like that.

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Tools to help.

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To help you remember what you're saying.

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But that's an important point because

in, in Hebrew poetry, just like in

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English poetry, we use exaggeration,

we use alliteration to try to,

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or make it sound a certain way.

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And so you'll see some of that there.

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And that doesn't nullify or

invalidate what we're reading.

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It just means that we need

to take it for what it is.

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As poetry, it's a rhetorical rather a

literature device to help us feel or

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think and understand in a certain way.

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So you do the same thing with Lamentations

being people who believe the Bible

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for exactly what it says means that

we take the Bible absolutely according

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to the kind of writing that it is.

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So we're not gonna take lamentations

in the strict literal sense that we

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would a letter or historical document.

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Yeah.

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Yeah that's good.

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Yeah.

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The acrostic thing I had forgotten

about that I remembered because that

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was when I was cross referencing in

the other bibles that I was using

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the LSB actually puts 'em in there.

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I thought, oh, that's nice.

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That is nice.

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I like that.

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Don't let Lewis hear

you talk about the l sb.

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I don't think he listens to the

podcast anyway, so we're okay.

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It was his birthday yesterday.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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He'll listen to yesterday's podcast.

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Yeah.

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Not today's, I find it interesting

that Edem shows up again here.

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Again, I.

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Just reading through the minor prophets

and now here and in Jeremiah the mites.

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And God was really specifically about the

Edomites and their rebellion against him.

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back to Jacob and Esau.

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This is descendant to the family line

that went against God and betrayed

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his people and everything else.

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The ADA might show up

there again in the end.

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Chapter five.

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Then as I mentioned, I think yesterday

in the outline of the podcast of the

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book is the prayers of the remnant.

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And so these are prayers that

are acknowledging the plight.

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He says in verse three, we have

become orphans, fatherless, like

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world, like widows, essentially here.

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And that's unique because God cares

for those groups of people specifically

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and has revealed that he does.

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The prophet is saying that's where

we are now, that we're there.

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We're like orphans.

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We're the fatherless.

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We're like the widows.

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And so the imp implication

is, God, will you care for us?

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Verse 15, the joy of

our hearts has ceased.

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Our dancing has been turned into mourning.

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The crown has fallen from our head.

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Woe to us for we have sin.

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And so there's an

acknowledgement there of sin.

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This is not a pity party saying.

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Why are, why is this the way it is?

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We shouldn't be like this.

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There, there's recognition.

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We are guilty here.

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Our heart has become

sick for these things.

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Our eyes have grown, dim.

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And so here is the conclusion

of the book is not.

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Greatly optimistic, although it is

in the sense that they're asking

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that God would act on their behalf.

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Why do you forget us forever?

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Verse 21, restore us to yourself, oh Lord,

that we may be restored, renew our days as

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of old, unless you've utterly rejected us

and you remain exceedingly angry with us.

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Which is interesting because we know that.

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He doesn't believe that because

of, back in chapter three, what

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we read earlier, great is your

faithfulness, your steadfast love.

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The covenant love will never cease.

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And so we know that the perspective

was not that they believed

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that he was done with them.

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And so this is, I think, a prayer of

hope as the book ends saying, we know

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you're not done with us, so Lord,

please restore us as you see fit.

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Yeah, the book does end on a highlight,

and I think that's ultimately the

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purpose of the book, to lament and to

wail, to feel badly about what's taken

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place, but not to forsake or forget.

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The fact that the Lord is faithful.

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I noticed that one of the things

that showcases God's judgment on

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his people is verse 12, no respect

is shown to the elders small line.

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But I thought that's interesting

because I think what that shows is that

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authority or good, helpful authority

or even honor to a certain people

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group gets thrown out the window.

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When judgment is taking over a people,

I think about Romans chapter one.

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The way that people treat one

another and the dissolution of normal

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societal structures and features

in this case, respect to elders.

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The fact that's going away and even

hanging up princes by the hands would've

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been a way of shaming them, shaming those

who were leaders and nobles, people that

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were meant to be respected and honored

and revered again, like the elders.

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So I think that's interesting because

I see a lot of that in our culture.

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I don't know that we're fully down

the Romans one trail, but I see a

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lot of parallels between the way

that God exercises his wrath against

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the people, particularly Jerusalem

here, but also Romans chapter one

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for us, and how authority, good

authority, good honor, gets tossed out.

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That's interesting to me.

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That is interesting.

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Yeah.

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Maybe it's worth kicking around

on the next episode since we're

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running along on this one.

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Maybe it's worth kicking

around on the next one.

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We, it seems that we're seeing a

little bit of a, people are using all

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kinds of different terms, revival.

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Return reemergence of Christianity in

our nation, especially amongst the youth.

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So maybe it's worth kicking around

that concept and what that means for

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where we're at as a nation and what

we should think about that, how we

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as a church should think about that.

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Should we buy in hook, line and sinker?

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Should we be cynics?

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Should we be somewhere

in, in the middle there?

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How do we approach those things?

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Absolutely.

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You and Pastor Mark

should talk about that.

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Wait.

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Let's pray and then we'll

be done with this episode.

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God, we thank you for a book

like Limitations that deals with

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real hurt and sorrow and pain.

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Lord we're grateful that your word

does that, that your word does not

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sugarcoat things and portray a, an

existence that should be all roses

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and daffodils and nothing wrong.

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We're grateful that, that you are

a God who meets us in our sorrow.

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In our grief, and sometimes that's

brought about by our own sin, as

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with the Book of Lamentations.

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And yet, you are a God

whose faithfulness is great.

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Your covenant love, even your

covenant love towards us as we are

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beneficiaries of the new covenant.

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In part, at least Lord is such a

good reminder to us that you will not

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forsake us no matter what happens.

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There's no condemnation

for those in Christ Jesus.

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That's such a good thing.

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And yet we know that you are a God

who pursues us, who disciplines

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us, who chastises us as a father

does his sons, because you love us.

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So help us to be

sensitive to that as well.

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So we thank you for this.

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We praise you for this.

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In Jesus name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles.

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Tuning again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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We're honored to have you join us.

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This is a ministry of Compass

Bible Church in north Texas.

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You can find out more information

about our Church at compassntx.org.

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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