Day 331: Lamentations 3-5 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study with Commentary by Tia Arango — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
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8. 0:24Hey Bible nerds, I'm back. It's Tia
9. 0:27Orango. Today is day 331.
10. 0:31We are going to review Lamentations 3
11. 0:34through 5. Right now, I want you to
12. 0:36stop. If you have not read yet, don't
13. 0:40watch the video. Go read. It should take
14. 0:42about 15 minutes cuz today it's three
15. 0:45chapters. And then come back and then we
16. 0:47can dive in. Okay. Okay. Let's dive in.
17. 0:52I'm going to start with context clues
18. 0:55again today. Yesterday we got a lot of
19. 0:58good context, but there's a little bit
20. 0:59more. I don't know if I explicitly said
21. 1:02that Jeremiah is the author of
22. 1:05Lamentations. I think I might have
23. 1:06touched on it, but I can't recall if I
24. 1:08said it explicitly. So, I'm here to say
25. 1:10Jeremiah the prophet is the author of
26. 1:13Lamentations. And that's important
27. 1:15because as we jump into the Lamentations
28. 1:173, it's going to be a lot of I and me
29. 1:21language. And I want us all to know that
30. 1:23this is Jeremiah the prophet talking.
31. 1:26Again, I just want to remind everyone
32. 1:28yesterday we were saying that Jeremiah
33. 1:31had spent like 30 to 40 years
34. 1:34warning Jerusalem over and over again to
35. 1:38not violate their covenant with Yahweh
36. 1:40because if they did that Babylon would
37. 1:44would overthrow their nation. And of
38. 1:46course again we know that that happened.
39. 1:48So, also I forgot to say that like how
40. 1:53incredible that God would give 30 to 40
41. 1:56years of mourning before he removes his
42. 1:58hand. Like I just feel like I don't want
43. 2:00to skip past that without saying that he
44. 2:03is truly slow to anger. He is truly so
45. 2:06patient with us. Decades of warning and
46. 2:09decades of waiting and decades of chance
47. 2:12after chance
48. 2:14and they didn't listen. So then he
49. 2:17removed his hand. but he's so patient
50. 2:18and he's so kind with us and I didn't
51. 2:20want to rush past that. So again, in
52. 2:23chapter 3, this is going to be more of a
53. 2:26primary expression of lament and
54. 2:29suffering directly from Jeremiah. He
55. 2:32wrote this also while all of the pain
56. 2:38and destruction was happening. This is a
57. 2:40firsthand account. This is not past
58. 2:43tense. These aren't distant memories of
59. 2:45suffering. This is completely fresh in
60. 2:48his mind and in his heart. The pain is
61. 2:51raw. And we are reading from a really
62. 2:54raw and vulnerable place all through the
63. 2:56whole book, but especially in chapter 3.
64. 2:59And that perfectly takes us into our
65. 3:01nerdy nugget for the day. Chapter 3 is
66. 3:04the climax of the entire book of
67. 3:07Lamentations. A reminder that this book
68. 3:10is a kayazm like I said yesterday. So
69. 3:14everything surrounding chapter 3 is to
70. 3:17beef up what we're going to read in this
71. 3:19chapter. In all of chapter 3 when we
72. 3:23read there's actually only one verse
73. 3:25where Jeremiah quotes something that God
74. 3:28has said and it's verse 57 and he said
75. 3:31you came near when I called on you and
76. 3:33you said do not fear. This is the only
77. 3:36time that Jeremiah is quoting something
78. 3:38from God and it's past tense. He just
79. 3:41hasn't heard new
80. 3:44prophecy from the Lord. Imagine how
81. 3:46painful that probably is for someone
82. 3:48who's used to hearing from the Lord.
83. 3:50It's making me think a bit of Samson. Um
84. 3:55we know I feel like a lot of times in
85. 3:57church we talk about how tragic it is
86. 3:59that Samson just had no idea that the
87. 4:01power of God had left him. He went out
88. 4:03to fight and just didn't know that the
89. 4:06spirit of God had left him. But and that
90. 4:08is so tragic. Oh my goodness. But
91. 4:10imagine Jeremiah having a keen awareness
92. 4:14that something in my relationship with
93. 4:15God has changed. It's not the same. And
94. 4:18he's living moment by moment with this
95. 4:20awareness. I can I can only imagine how
96. 4:23hard and painful that is. Even in the
97. 4:25middle of all of this out external
98. 4:28suffering, there's an internal pain of
99. 4:30like something's different. I'm not
100. 4:33hearing from God the way I used to. Like
101. 4:35I can't imagine how hard how much more
102. 4:38compounded his pain is because of that
103. 4:41because of that reality. And now we're
104. 4:44going to move on to actually splitting
105. 4:46up chapter 3 so that we know more of
106. 4:49thematically what's happening throughout
107. 4:52the entire chapter. This is still this
108. 4:54is more of a nerdy nugget. We're going
109. 4:55to split it into themes. Um chapter
110. 4:59sorry verse 1 through 20. As you were
111. 5:02reading, I'm sure you noticed that
112. 5:05that's sorrow, more sorrow and more
113. 5:07lament. Chapters 1- 20. I mean, just but
114. 5:10a personal expression of sorrow and
115. 5:12lament. And then as we move to verse 21
116. 5:16through 38, it switches. The sorrow
117. 5:19turns into a remembrance of God's
118. 5:22character, a reminder even maybe for his
119. 5:25soul of who God is and who God said he
120. 5:28is. That God is still good. that he's
121. 5:30steadfast in his character. We see that
122. 5:34from verse 21 through 38. And then it
123. 5:37shifts again in in verse 39 to 45. It
124. 5:41shifts to a personal responsibility and
125. 5:44an acceptance of consequences.
126. 5:46Specifically verse 39, it said, "Why
127. 5:49should a living man complain a man about
128. 5:52the punishment of his sins?" And that's
129. 5:54right where that that change happens
130. 5:56where he's like there's an acceptance of
131. 5:59their role which is what we talked about
132. 6:01yesterday. But he's going deeper in to
133. 6:04that in verses 39 to 45. And then
134. 6:07there's a shift again in verses 46 to
135. 6:1154. And it's back to sorrow and lament.
136. 6:15It's back to the deep pain that he and
137. 6:18Jerusalem are experiencing. And then
138. 6:20there's another shift, a return actually
139. 6:24in verse 55. It's back to the
140. 6:27faithfulness of God. And not only the
141. 6:30faithfulness of God, but a pleading that
142. 6:34God would defend him, that God would
143. 6:36defend Jerusalem. Um, and this is the
144. 6:39first time we're kind of seeing that in
145. 6:42chapter 3. a beautiful way to combine
146. 6:46God, I know you're faithful and also
147. 6:48will you be faithful in this and show up
148. 6:50for us in the future. And then in verse
149. 6:5364, it changes again to hope for the
150. 6:57future. 64-6, it's just hope. You will
151. 7:00repay them, O Lord, according to the
152. 7:02work of their hands. You will give them
153. 7:04dullness of heart. Your curse will be on
154. 7:06them. You will pursue them in anger and
155. 7:08destroy them from under your heavens, oh
156. 7:10Lord. hope for the future and hope that
157. 7:13God will rescue them. And then in
158. 7:15chapter 4 through five, we go back to
159. 7:18just national sorrow, just more of it's
160. 7:22not personal. This is about Jerusalem as
161. 7:24a whole. We go back into lament, which
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186. 8:27And that is God never asks us to suffer
187. 8:32in silence ever. I think it's so kind of
188. 8:36God to include lamentations in the canon
189. 8:38of scripture because I think it's a
190. 8:40message to us that he's not asking us to
191. 8:42be quiet in our sorrow. He's not asking
192. 8:45us to stuff everything down and not say
193. 8:47anything out loud and not tell our
194. 8:49community or tell him how painful life
195. 8:53has gotten or is getting or whatever
196. 8:56we're going through. We have a God who
197. 8:58allows us to be vocal about the pain
198. 9:00that we're going through. We have
199. 9:02permission to be honest about our pain.
200. 9:04We have permission to ask questions. He
201. 9:07doesn't mind the hard questions that we
202. 9:10have when we're walking through life. We
203. 9:12get to hold grief and hope at the same
204. 9:15time. One does not cancel out the other.
205. 9:18I can be grieving deeply and still have
206. 9:20hope in me. And I want us to because I
207. 9:23know in real life when we're walking
208. 9:25through pain sometimes that feels
209. 9:26impossible or it feels like God is
210. 9:29asking us just to be hopeful. And we
211. 9:31don't have a God who's like that. He
212. 9:33doesn't despise the human experience. In
213. 9:37fact, he became human so that he could
214. 9:40empathize with the human experience. We
215. 9:43don't have a God who only protected
216. 9:45himself from suffering. We have a God
217. 9:48who suffered. We have a God who suffers
218. 9:50alongside his creation. And so suffering
219. 9:53and being open about it is not something
220. 9:56that God despises. And how kind of him
221. 9:58to give us an example of how to suffer
222. 10:02and that he is not insecure when we cry
223. 10:06out. Our suffering is never an
224. 10:09indictment on who God is or isn't. It's
225. 10:13actually an opportunity for us to walk
226. 10:15in step with our suffering savior. I
227. 10:17hear people say often that the cross was
228. 10:20the greatest suffering in history and I
229. 10:23agree. It was the greatest suffering in
230. 10:26history. But I don't know that the
231. 10:28suffering itself was the main point of
232. 10:30Calvary. The cross is not the suffering
233. 10:32Olympics, although it would likely get
234. 10:36gold. The cross is about a God who
235. 10:40became a man to suffer for and to suffer
236. 10:45with his creation. And what a beautiful
237. 10:48God we have. What a beautiful story that
238. 10:50he wanted to tell his people. God
239. 10:53doesn't command us to do something he
240. 10:55doesn't already do or didn't already do
241. 10:58himself. He's given us an example time
242. 11:00after time of what it's like to suffer
243. 11:03and how to suffer well. And I'm so
244. 11:05thankful that Lamentations is another
245. 11:08example of that. And the cross isn't
246. 11:11even the first time we witness our
247. 11:13savior suffering. I mean, all through
248. 11:15the Old Testament, we have a God who
249. 11:18suffers in dealing with his people. I
250. 11:21mean, Genesis, Exodus, Hosea, we have a
251. 11:24God who's lamenting towards his
252. 11:26creation. He just wants to draw us in,
253. 11:29draw us near. And that's so beautiful.
254. 11:32What kind of God is this? We're not in a
255. 11:35relationship with a God that's static.
256. 11:37He is dynamic. He feels all of the
257. 11:41emotions and that gives us permission to
258. 11:44do the same. I'm so thankful to Jesus
259. 11:47that he allows us to feel the fullness
260. 11:50of our humanity because he did first.
261. 11:53That's all I have for today. I'm just so
262. 11:56thankful. Thank you for letting me walk
263. 11:58you through limitations. Um I feel so
264. 12:00honored. I love this book. I hope that
265. 12:03showed through. I'm just so thankful for
266. 12:05the time that we got to walk through it
267. 12:07together. If you're on a streak, 331
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272. 12:18streak and you want to start, today's a
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274. 12:23streak for a week, congratulations.
275. 12:25Reading scripture is so important and we
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277. 12:30but tomorrow is day 332, and Pastor
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