Lamentations - Remember O Lord

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