Lamentations 5 Remember O Lord Sermon Outline for March 25, 2012, the Fifth Sunday in Lent, by Pastor Dennis Tuuri
Intro – The Gospel in Lamentations; N.T. Wright's Simply Christian - Justice, Spirituality, Beauty, Community Prater That Is: 1. Insistent 2. Honest 3. Faith-ful 4. Appropriately Centered - Restore Us to Yourself, O Lord 5. Appropriately Comprehensive
I. Remember, O Lord - v. 1 Remember and Act - 3:55-58 II. Our Sufferings (Disgrace - 5:1a) - vv. 2-18 Inheritance - Israel is God's Inheritance - Ex. 34:9; Dt. 4:20 (v21 - land is Israel's Inheritance); Orphaned - No Political (King), Biological or Spiritual Fathers, Hos. 11:1-4 Mother - Jerusalem Gibeonites Centrality of Rest Looking for Love in All the Wrong Places - Egypt and Assyria (1:2, 19; 4:17-20) Sons Have Kept Sinning Like the Fathers (Dan. 9:16; Lam. 5:16) When Servants Rule - Prov. 30:21,22 v. 12 - Honor and Beauty Gone The Gate and Normal Human Activity III. Restore Us to Yourself - vv. 19-22 (Jer. 31:18) Faithful Confession of God's Sovereignty (and Justice) Comforts Lam. 3:31,32 Jer. 6:19,30 |