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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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:And I think again, it goes
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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there again in the end.
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in the outline of the podcast of the
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are acknowledging the plight.
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become orphans, fatherless, like
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for those groups of people specifically
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we are now, that we're there.
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is, God, will you care for us?
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:Verse 15, the joy of
our hearts has ceased.
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:Woe to us for we have sin.
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acknowledgement there of sin.
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sick for these things.
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of the book is not.
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in the sense that they're asking
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that we may be restored, renew our days as
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and you remain exceedingly angry with us.
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of, back in chapter three, what
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faithfulness, your steadfast love.
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was not that they believed
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hope as the book ends saying, we know
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please restore us as you see fit.
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and I think that's ultimately the
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wail, to feel badly about what's taken
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that showcases God's judgment on
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is shown to the elders small line.
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because I think what that shows is that
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or even honor to a certain people
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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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in this case, respect to elders.
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hanging up princes by the hands would've
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who were leaders and nobles, people that
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and revered again, like the elders.
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I see a lot of that in our culture.
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the Romans one trail, but I see a
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that God exercises his wrath against
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here, but also Romans chapter one
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authority, good honor, gets tossed out.
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on the next episode since we're
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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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:Return reemergence of Christianity in
our nation, especially amongst the youth.
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that concept and what that means for
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we should think about that, how we
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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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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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:Lord we're grateful that your word
does that, that your word does not
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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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: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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: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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:PJ: Yeah.
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:I would agree with
everything that you said