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Good morning one church to see everyone here. Can you please one years him know and let's tend to song number
424 we will sing joy to the world
song number
424 let's sing it out loud
423 I'm sorry 423
you
joy to the world
Let us receive
Let every heart
And having a nature see
nature see
Joy to the world the Savior reigns that man the songs employ
both fields and
Repeat the sounding joy repeat the signing joy repeat
the sounding joy
No more the sins and sorrows
As the ground
He comes to make his blessings flow
He rules the world with truth and grace
The glories of his righteousness
And wonders of his love
Our Heavenly Father thank you Lord for this day we gather a church Lord
How glorious they will be when your kingdom will come rule over the nations of this world
Lord want to thank you for the Bible. It is our rock and our foundation. Thank you for our salvation Lord
Also, it's an unspeakable gift Lord in Jesus name we pray amen
All right, please take your Bibles and turn to Psalm 119 Psalm 119
Let's continue our reading through this together
We're up to verse number
105 none
All right, none one hot versus 105 to
112 let's read together
Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path
I have sworn and I will perform it that I will keep thy righteous judgments
I am afflicted very much quicken me Oh Lord according unto thy word
Except I beseech thee the freewill offerings of my mouth Oh Lord and teach me thy judgments
My soul is continually in my hand yet
Do I not forget thy law the wicked have laid a snare for me yet?
I heard not from thy precepts
Thy testimonies have I taken as an heritage forever for they are the rejoicing of my heart
I have inclined mine heart to perform thy statutes always even unto the end
Alright before I hand back to brother Rams. Just want to remind you guys that next Sunday
We're having our church anniversary celebrations. Okay next Sunday
So instead of coming here at 12 you come at 12 you're too late
Service is gonna be at 10 a.m. 10 a.m. Here at blessed our Baptist Church and at new life
Brother Jason's gonna be preaching so I don't have to be spending time there for next week
But don't forget Sunday 10 a.m. Right here
Anniversaries and the church anniversary and then we're going to rashes in Karima, which is five minutes away
And we'll have a lunch together. Okay, so that that's all we'll be doing during the anniversary now
I'm not sure there might be some of the people coming that might need to get baptized
So I'll just see how the week plays out if there are people that need to get baptized or someone knows that you need
To get baptized, please. Let me know and we can probably do it on the same day same Sunday
Yeah, so that's number one the second thing that I want to mention is
So winning okay from the 15th of December unless Omicron has changed things
Supposedly we're supposed to be able to go out as an unvaccinated person go door-to-door visit people now
We shouldn't have any restrictions that will stop us from soul winning. So we've got a mega marathon week coming up starting on Wednesday
The morning morning session will be from 10 a.m. To 12 p.m. And then after that we'll be having lunch together
Lunch will be provided by the church
That's if someone else comes in the morning
All right, it's just me
I want I want I want to have lunch just provided by it by the church like proper the church
But if there are people in the in the morning, that's 10 to 12 and then in the afternoon from 2 p.m. To 4 p.m
Okay, so it's gonna be four hours of soul winning every day. That's Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Not on Sunday because we've got our church anniversary and then again on Monday and Tuesday. So what I've done I've got a little a list here
In mega week, so if you are planning to come I'm gonna leave that on the back table there with all the lollies
please write down your names and
When you intend to come because then that helps me plan out the maps and all that stuff for the coming week
So can I just see a show of hands of who is planning on coming at least for one of those things?
All right, so I've got a few hands, all right, awesome
All right, so I'll leave this at the back table and now I hand back to brother Anson. Thank you
Please
Stand to him number 37
There be no dark belly song number 37
Oh
There'll be no more
Glorious
Oh
There'll be songs of reading when Jesus comes there'll be songs of reading when Jesus
Joyful
Oh
Man let's turn to song number 159. Let's be the name
One five nine, let it be the name
Let's be the name
Exalted more and more
Oh
Shall be
Oh
Lamentations chapter 4
Lamentations chapter 4 starting in verse 1
How is the goal become dim?
How is the most fine goal changed the stones of the sanctuary are pulled out in the top of every street?
The precious sons of Zion comfortable to find gold
How are they esteemed as autumn pictures the work of the hands of the potter?
Even the sea monsters throughout the breast they give suck to their young ones
The daughter of my people is become cruel like the ostriches in the wilderness
The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst
The young children ask breath and no man break is it unto them?
They did defeat delicately a desolate industries
They they were brought up in scarlet embrace Donghills for the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people
Is greater than the punishment of the scene of Sodom that was overthrown as in a moment and no hand stayed on her
Her natural eyes were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy embodied and rubies
Their polishing was of sapphire
Their visage is blacker than a core
They are not known in the streets their skin cleaves to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick
They they be slain with the sword are better than they they be slain with hunger for these pine away
Slickened through for want of the first of the fuel the hands of the pitiful women have sudden their own children
They were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people
The Lord has accomplished his fury
He pulled out his fierce anger and has kindled the fire in Zion and has devoured the foundations thereof
The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world
Will not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem
For the sins of our prophets and the iniquities of a priest that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of all
They have wondered as blind men in the streets they have polluted themselves with blood so that man could not touch their garments
They cried unto them depart ye it is unclean depart depart touch not
When they fled away and wondered they said among the heathen they shall no more sojourn there
The anger of the Lord had divided them. He will no more regard them
They respected not the persons of the priest they favored not the elders as for us
Our eyes has yet failed for our vain help
You know watching we are watching for a nation. They could not save us. They hunt our steps that we cannot go in our streets
Our end is near our days are fulfilled for our end is come our persecutors are scepter than the eagles of the heaven
They pursued us upon the mountains. They laid wait for us in the wilderness
The breast of our most rules the anointed of the Lord was taken in their peace of whom we said
Under his shadow we shall leave among the heathen
Rejoice and be glad or daughter of Edom that dwellest in the land of us the cup or soul shall pass through unto thee
Thou shall be drunken and shall make thyself naked
The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished or daughter of Zion. He will no more carry thee away into captivity
He will visit thine iniquity or daughter of Edom. He will discover thy sins. Let's pray
Heavenly Father we thank you for this church. We thank you for your words
I just pray that you bless the pastor as he preaches your word with your power and spirit knowledge and wisdom and
Help us your children run your world and do it in Jesus name we pray
I mean
All right, so lamentation is chapter 4 there. I'm just gonna warn you now. This is not going to be a pleasant sermon
Like there's almost I don't know you heard that red you saw that red
Could you find any like positive takeaways from that chapter probably not much maybe nothing okay?
So it's going to be a negative sermon
I hope I don't like leaving in the dumps
But you know what even when we have these confronting chapters and negative chapters. You know it's still God's Word
There's still profit we can still learn something right we can still learn more about God and learn more about his ways and learn it
More about the God that we worship and it says there in Lamentations 4 10 look at verse number 10 the hands of the pitiful
Women have sodden their own children the title for the sermon
This afternoon is sodden their own children sodden their own children
I was thinking about what should I use to describe this this chapter and
It's it's really I don't know. I don't know if you really know what that means to sodden your own children
We'll touch upon that soon, but this is a very bad place that Jerusalem is in remind yourselves
They're surrounded by the Babylonian Empire. You know they're being destroyed there. They're without food
You know that they're dying by the pestilence and by hunger and by by all the other
Methods of destruction at the hands of God, and they're not listening to the preaching. They're not listening to preachers like Jeremiah
They're not giving themselves over to the Babylonians, and they're just making it worse for themselves
One thing that we can take away from this chapter is just to see how far how depraved
Man can be when we lose all our
liberties when you lose all our
Comforts and just how depraved just how wicked
Mankind can become so let's start there in verse number one lamentation chapter 4 verse number one
How is the gold become dim?
How is the most fine gold changed the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street?
So verse number one it says there's stones of the sanctuary the sanctuary was the house of God the temple right Solomon's temple that he
Built at this time and we know that the Babylonians have come in a few times before this final
Siege and they what are they done? They've taken away. They the gold they've taken away the precious
things that were part of that temple you may recall when the temple was built much of it was gold silver and brass and
Babylonians have come and taken away all the precious ornaments for their own riches and so the goat has become dim
Okay, it's no longer beautiful
It's no longer it no longer reflects the the glory of God right and then it says the stones of the sanctuary are poured out
In the top of the street so the stones the stones that made up the building
It's scattered throughout the street now
This is the temple has been destroyed at this point or at least large large parts of the temple has been destroyed and whatever street
You walk through in Jerusalem. You're going to find stones that made up the temple the house of God the sanctuary verse number two
The precious sons of Zion so these are the men that lived in Jerusalem
Comparable to find gold so just like the fine
Go that we spoke about even the men in Jerusalem are like this code in what sense how are they esteemed as?
Earthen pictures the work of the hands of the potter now
We often talk about how God is the potter and we are the clay all right and we want to be vessels that have been
Used by God vessels and to honor and he says look the people in Jerusalem
Just like the gold the gold the gold was once to beautify the sanctuary to beautify the temple
It was for the for the service and the worship of God, but now it's been taken away by the Babylonians
We're just like the people the men of Jerusalem
Who should have had them should have been committed unto the Lord serving the Lord now
They're taken away to captivity and taken away into Babylon so all the things that God would glory in or that would give God
Glory have been taken away by the hands of the enemy including the sons of Zion all right
Let's keep going first number three even the sea monsters draw out the breast
They give suck to the young ones the daughter of my people is become cruel like the ostriches in the wilderness
So we talk about the men the men have been taken away into captivity
And now we still have some of the ladies that the daughters of the people it says here
They've become cruel in what sense have they become cruel the ladies have become cruel well
He basically uses two creatures here two types of animals to describe how the women have become
First of all we see that the sea monsters. What could the sea monsters be here?
They draw out the breasts they give suck to the young ones obviously this is not talking about fish
Okay, fish do not give breast milk to their to their little babies right so when we talk about the sea monsters here
We're talking about the mammals of the oceans things like seals and sea lions dolphins and whales
You know these are mammals of the oceans and yes
You know even the mothers have the breasts and they are able to give milk to the to the little ones
And so we're describing a sea monster
Just just an animal all right just an animal that swim in the ocean
They know how to be protective of their little children right they're born from the mother
They're not born like you know like fish like a fish egg
That's left aside and the predators can go in and hunt for it
No
They're born like like in any other mammal or these these creatures here
And then they're side by side with the mother until they're big enough to to leave mum and dad okay that they drink from the from
The breast of the mother now. This is again the natural
Love and desire that a mother has when she gives birth to a little child
She wants that little baby close to her she wants to be able to nourish it feed her clothe it protect it
And that's how mothers ought to be but the mothers here in the time of Jerusalem's
Captivity have become cruel in what sense like the ostriches in the wilderness now look
I was I don't think unless I'm mistaken unless you know better than I I'm not that familiar with ostriches
Okay, but as far as I'm aware. I don't think ostriches are actually bad parents or anything like that or bad mothers
Okay, I mean that they are a creation of God
They aren't an animal in the in the in the animal kingdom and generally speaking even the mothers
Animals they know how to protect the young and even ostriches, okay?
But the difference with the ostrich and the sea monster or those seals etc dolphins is that they're not a mammal
Okay, that they that when they lay an egg right and then you might know that the ostrich eggs are like
Like there's so many predators they actually love to eat ostrich eggs
Okay, and the ostrich might leave the nest for a period of time not to neglect the young
But just to get food or whatever it needs to do and that's when the predators come in and they take those big eggs
Okay, things like hyenas lions vultures me cats baboons
These are all
predators of ostrich eggs
And so the point is that the ostrich needs to sometimes go away from the nest and it leaves it
Unprotected and that's what the mothers have become like these
Unprotective mothers instead of having the child side by side
Protecting that child the mothers of Jerusalem have become the ostrich and they're leaving their children to become
Pray for the predators. All right, so I don't think there's anything wrong with an ostrich
Just remember this is these are poetic words
Okay
And we kind of see the differences of how one has to leave the exercise whereas the other one in the sea monsters
They are with their babies side by side until the baby is old enough to grow up
Now what we've seen the previous chapters is that the children of the city they're starving there we have food they're begging for food
They're asking mom. Where's you know, we're starving when it's been nourished and there's nothing children are dying in the streets
So why the mothers are no longer taking care of the kids the kids are out there on their own
Trying to find trying to make a living for themselves trying to find scraps of food, whatever it can be
So this is what the mothers have become and don't forget the men have been taken away to captivity
So the men aren't there to provide they're not there to you know work hard and or they can't really I mean
There's little there's there's very little they can do because the entire city is under siege look at verse number four
the tongue of the sucking child
Cleave off to the roof of his mouth for thirst the young children ask bread and no man break it unto them
Okay, so little children not only are they hungry they're thirsty
I mean, they're so thirsty their mouths are dry that their tongue is stuck
All right to the to the mouth of the roof of their mouth there. Okay, they're asking for the begging for food
No one's willing to give them any food because people are out looking for themselves and brethren
This is what happens to a society when they've lost all the comforts. They've lost all the riches
You know, they no longer care for other people. It's just what can I get? How can I survive? What must I do to be to survive?
and
This is the these are the consequences brethren of
A generation that has rejected God a generation that has rejected the preaching of his word and look
I don't know if we'll ever face difficulties like this, you know
I hope not I hope never have to deal with a situation like this
But I want you to remember our parents that you know our obedience to God's Word our direction our guidance
Affects our children if we neglect God's Word if we neglect his house we neglect Church. We're not helping our children
We're not helping them
There are going to be consequences down the line
You know as we turn against the Lord and turn against his ways and we no longer have a zeal and love for God and his
Word it's going to affect our children in a negative way
These people did not hear the preaching of Jeremiah. What is Jeremiah saying surrender to the Babylonians?
I mean, it sounds horrible
Surrender to a foreign power, but it's better than your children suffering in and dying in the streets
It's better than your children going without the Lord and being judged and chastised and suffering the anger the consequences of the judgment of God
Starving children died in the streets verse number five
They they that did feed delicately a desolate in the street. So these are the rich people
Okay, they that were brought up in scarlets and
Embrace dung heels. Talk about the rich now. Okay, they've been able to eat whatever they want
Okay brought up in scarlet. So rich rich clothing possessions in that time. And what are they doing?
They're acting like the homeless. They're looking they're embracing dung heels. Now. This is literal brethren. Okay, what's happening?
That they'll I mean it's disgusting they're looking for food and food scraps amongst the feces
The feces of the animal the feces of human beings whatever it is. They're so hungry
You know that they're just going through trash. They're going through garbage. They're going through
Pooh, all right looking for anything they can eat. I mean what would get you to that point?
I mean the desperation of the people because they're not listening to Jeremiah
They've destroyed themselves, and they're destroying their own children
verse number six for the punishment of the
Iniquity of the daughter of my people look at this is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom
That was overthrown as in a moment and no man no hand stayed on her
I mean look the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah was severe
I mean no one would want you know fire fire and brimstone on this earth to rain down and destroy entire cities
And we look at that and go yeah
You know what for your homosexuality you deserve the judgment of God you deserve the wrath of God you deserve the fires of hell
But you know what these people so-called people of God
They've got it worse because at least the sodomites died immediately okay these guys are suffering long-term suffering
Okay, hunger. I mean desperate for food their children dying
Their punishment is even greater than the punishment of Sodom
Verse
Number seven her Nazarites now the Nazarite if you made a Nazarite vow
You know you're someone that you could couldn't cut your hair until you accomplished your vow the most famous Nazarite in the Bible is
Samson okay now let me just quickly say because we're approaching Christmas
Jesus was not a Nazarite a lot of people think Jesus
This is why they paint they put Jesus with long hair
They go Jesus must have had long hair because he was a Nazarite the problem doesn't say he was a Nazarite
He was a Nazarene meaning he was from Nazareth the town of Nazareth
Okay
But the Nazarite vow is something completely different where they make a special vow to God and they would not eat any grapes
Okay, they wouldn't touch anything that was dead
Okay
They would keep themselves clean and pure and washed and they would let their hair grow until they accomplish the vow and once the vow
Was accomplished and they could cut their hair okay?
Now I'm not teaching so much about the Nazarites, but the Nazarites basically would have stood out in the community
Okay, number one because of long hair men with long hair. That's a bit unusual, okay?
But they would have stood out they've been very clean
You know keeping themselves from things that were unclean they would have stood out
They would have been obvious this man here walking through Jerusalem is a Nazarite
So what happened to the Nazarites in verse number seven her Nazarites were
Purer than snow they were whiter than milk
They were more ruddy in body than rubies their polishing was of sapphire
Okay, so they they stood out in the community, but what happens to them in verse number eight?
Their visage is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets
No one knows that Nazarites anymore their skin cleaveth to their bones as it is withered
It has become like a stick. They just look like anybody else right there in the dumps. They look like homeless
I assume that probably other people other men in Jerusalem have long hair as well because they can't take care of themselves
They're not able to cut their hair right when you have the lockdowns
We couldn't even access the barbers, and I tried my best to cut my hair, and it's all it's all over the place
Prefer okay, but you know that's the situation
I mean you can't even tell someone that's trying to keep themselves pure and clean and serving God and keeping a vow to God
They just look like anybody else in the city dirty homeless. You know looking for scraps
verse number nine
They that be slain with the sword are
Better than they that be slain with hunger for these pine away
stricken through the fruitful wants of the fruits of the field
So fighting fighting and dying against Babylon
Was better than starving in the city now King Zedekiah in the last you know he's the last king
He's rebellious against Babylon. He's rebellious against Jeremiah rebellious against the Lord. No these are our rights
These are our freedoms. This is our city
How dare we allow some power to come here and tell us what to do all right look it would have been better
Just go and fight then instead of hiding the city go and fight. You know what's even better than fighting
Surrender the whole purpose of Jeremiah was surrender surrender to the Babylonians and things would have been well with them
Look there was no perfect answer to this situation
They'd become so bad so deprived God was so angry God was judging that place judging that that nation judging that city
The best option in a bad scenario was just surrender and give in to the new powers of the land
They're full of pride aren't they full of rebellion. They don't want it to know
I don't you know I don't I don't accept the new COVID mandates pastor Kevin
I don't accept our rights being stripped away. It's just gonna be harder for you
It's just gonna get harder and harder and harder when the rest of us have surrendered. Okay, whatever. Let's move on there
Let's get on with our lives, and let's make the best of a bad situation
If you can't do that brethren you're gonna find yourself just constantly frustrated constantly stressed constantly negative
Alright, and you know I mean we're not facing these days like like it is there
But we want to take the principles the lessons and apply it in the times that we live verse number 10
So we get the title for the sermon
The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children now if you don't know what that means
Let's keep reading. They were their meat
In the destruction of the daughter of my people I can barely hardly read that
Not only had mothers deserted their children to look after themselves trying to take care of themselves
But some mothers have eaten their own children some mothers are eating their own children to sodden
Means to soak but in reference to food is to boil
That's how desperate they had become brethren to
Just
Eat their own kids. I mean cannibalism your own children I
Mean I just want to show you just how wicked how depraved
Society can become without the Word of God
You know blessed about this church brethren. We're not just some church
We're not just some local small church here in Fairfield East. We're important
You know we're important to to proclaiming the the righteousness of Christ to teach the Word of God
Because if we do away with all the churches we do away with all the preaching
brethren our society is just going to become worse and worse and
You know what it's already killing babies. We're our society our nation is already murdering babies in the mother's womb
Alright, I mean, we're already a depraved nation, and then we wonder why is God judging us well
That's why we live in a sick world
Killing babies in the mother's womb abortions
Toussaint as I said is to soak in reference to to imagine boiling your own children
Keep your finger there, and please turn to 2nd Kings turn to 2nd Kings chapter 6 2nd Kings chapter 6
I want to read to you another portion of scripture 2nd Kings chapter 6
and
This is at another time, and this is happening to the northern kingdom of Israel not you know in Jeremiah's day lamentations
This is about the southern kingdom of Judah, but the same thing happened to the northern kingdom of Israel
They too had become so depraved okay, so wicked
2nd Kings and in for them. They were surrounded that was see under the siege of
Syria okay, Syria, so let's have a look at this 2nd Kings chapter 6 verse number 24
2nd Kings chapter 6 and verse number 24
The Bible reads, and it came to pass after this that Ben-Hadad king of Syria
Gathered all his hosts, and they went up and besieged Samaria
So in lamentations we have Jerusalem under siege in 2nd Kings 6
We have Samaria. Samaria was the capital city of the northern kingdom of Israel
Okay, the ten tribes right the southern kingdom were the two tribes, okay?
So this is about Samaria look at verse number 25, and there was a great famine in Samaria and behold they besieged it
until an
Assa's head was sowed for four score pieces of silver
They were so hungry if he could just get a donkey's head to eat
I mean, I don't know what meat can you get off a donkey's head anyway?
You're eating the eyes I guess you're eating the brains all right sowed for four score
So four score that's four times twenty eighty eighty pieces of silver
Look and look at this and the fourth part of a cab. I don't know what that is exactly of
doves dung
for five pieces of silver
Just getting a doves dung now look just recently my kids. We've picked up a rainbow lorikeet on the street
It's been attacked by some crows
It's now a pet and man that rainbow lorikeet eats fruit and what else does it eat?
Pretty much fruit all the time just sugary stuff, and it's just constantly
It's just you know what every five minutes or something coming out of his backside, okay?
It's it's filthy disgusting. I wish we didn't pick it up now. It is a beautiful bird
It's a little bit, but imagine you're selling the dung to somebody
You know and I don't know exactly what they use it for maybe maybe
Fuel to light a fire
Maybe to eat it. I don't know brethren. I don't know but they're so desperate for just a doves poo
those feces
Okay, they're so desperate. You know they're just eating whatever scraps whatever whatever they can find
where does this lead to verse number 26 and
As the king of Israel was passing by upon the wall
there cried a woman unto him saying help my lord o king and
He said if the lord do not help thee whence shall out shall
I help thee out of the barnflower or out of the winepress so he's been sarcastic if God's not going to help us
What can I do for you all right?
verse number 28 and the king said unto her what aleth thee and she answered this woman said unto me
Give thy son that we may eat him today, and we will eat my son tomorrow
So we boiled my son and did eat him
and I said unto her
and
I said unto her on the next day give thy son that we may eat him and
she have hid her son, and it came to pass when the king heard the words of the woman that he rents his clothes and
He passed by upon the wall and the people looked and behold he had sackcloth within upon his flesh
Filthy disgusting all right two women starving hungry one woman says look just let's kill your son
Let's boil it's eat him so we can survive and tomorrow
I'll do the same to my son, and she does it and the other woman
I mean, I guess she's still got motherly instincts doesn't want to give up her son
You know she deceived the other woman, but I'm just trying to show you brethren. How wicked a society can become
When they just kill their own children, right?
But it's it's for it's for health reasons pastor Kevin right where we're killing children
So we can survive tomorrow so we can eat their flesh and survive tomorrow
Pass okay, it's just a vaccine who cares if it was developed on aborted tissues
Who cares if a baby was taken out of its mother and killed it's for our health isn't it
It's for our benefits and for our profit revenue is the same thing
Okay, we might not be ingesting babies, but we're injecting babies into our bloodstream
Disgusting it's an all the vaccinations all all the colored vaccinations. Okay. I have either been developed
Okay, or researched or contain tissues of babies that have been murdered
All right, this is why I'm against vaccinations. Okay. This is why I'm not a look
I don't care that it's harm. It could be harmful. I don't know or good for you. That's not the issue
Okay, that's not the issue. You know that's that's not the issue at all for me
Okay, I'm willing to surrender to give into Babylon to give into this world's power. Whatever it is
Okay, but I do not want to contribute to something as wicked as a bait
Murdered baby for my health so I could survive tomorrow, maybe
But this is a society that we live in brethren. And then we wonder why is God judging us? Why do you think?
How wicked we've become?
Okay, I mean God set Sodom and Gomorrah on fire. And what do we have in Sydney?
All right. I mean you can't even turn on the TV now without seeing the sodomites shoving down their throats
you know their wicked lifestyle for our children to learn their ways and
We just think I you know, we can go, you know, God shouldn't be judged. God is judging us brethren
Okay, God is judging Australia. God is judging this world
And yeah, we look at this we think it's crazy. We think it's crazy. Don't we?
Boiling a baby so we can survive tomorrow and then what's the whole world doing? You know, what's Australia 90% double vax or something?
I don't know. Okay
People have just lost their morals, you know
And this is what happens the further we get away from God's Word
The further our nation gets away from the laws of God the more depraved this nation becomes
Let's keep going there verse number 11. Sorry Lamentations 4. Lamentations chapter 4 verse number 11
Now verse number 11 is probably the hardest to wrap your head around after the verses that we've looked at
Okay, because it says in verse number 11 the Lord have accomplished his fury
He have poured out his fierce anger and have kindled a fire in Zion and he have devoured the foundations thereof
Now, of course that fire is a literal fire. They burnt down the city
They burnt down the house of God
But I want you to notice that after it mentions that women have boiled and eaten their own children
It says that the Lord have accomplished his fury
This is part of God's judgments that women would eat their own children
You know what that little babies will be taken and murdered and turned into vaccines and for health benefits
This is part of God's fury God's judgment on a wicked nation
Now this is the hard part to wrap our minds around
Okay, because do you think for a minute that God wants women to become cruel and eat their own kids?
Of course not of course not this is why Jeremiah's been preaching for decades
Right turn back to God, you know give up on your idols
You know what? It's not so much that it's it's it's not God's doing it's the doing of the wicked people on the earth
Okay, and as the consequences of the wicked works of people that is the consequence or that is what produces
God's judgment and God's wrath is by the weakness of the hands of man
And God says all right, if that's how you want to be you want to turn against me?
You want to live a life that is wicked and godless then you're gonna end up eating your own children
It's not God's desire. Okay, it's just part of the consequences of a wicked world and brethren
We live in a wicked world. We live in a wicked world. We live in a wicked society, Brethren
All right, it's so important that we find ourselves in the house of God
You know what and every every year that goes on I'm gonna look
Weirder and weirder for preaching these things, you know, like we're normal Brethren, you know, this is normal
God's Word is normality. God's Word is truth. God's Word is righteousness
But the more you stand in God's Word the more unusual we're gonna look
But Brethren just because the world's going down the toilet and the world's become more wicked. Let's not join the world
Let's not keep let's not go down the same trajectory as them. Okay, let's just say it's true. Let's speak Jeremiah
Yes, we weep we cry we warn but brethren if the world wants to go down the toilet
What more can we do? We can just tell people hey, this is the judgment of God
These are the consequences of turning against the Lord God
Can you please keep your finger there and turn to Deuteronomy 28. Deuteronomy chapter 28
It's as I say it's hard to wrap our heads around because
You know, I've mentioned before, you know people that believe in reformed theology or Calvinism
They look at these passages of God's fury and God's judgment
So yeah
That was God's plan like God premeditated God planned for these people to become so wicked and eat their own kids
Like it's God's doing no, it's not God's doing. All right, it's the consequences of turning against God
All right, that's what it is. It's part of the fury of God
All right, Deuteronomy 28 verse number one Deuteronomy 28 verse number one. Let me just show you this
And I think you know as I was preparing this I think I preached some of this stuff in Jeremiah
But anyway, it's good to be reminded. Okay, Deuteronomy 28 verse number one
So after God, you know is um, so after Israel has gone through the wilderness for 40 years
Okay, God's prepared this nation to go into the promised land. We have the book of Deuteronomy
God again is repeating a second time the commandments the laws of God
So the new generation will be aware of what God's expectation is upon them
And so we get to Deuteronomy 28 and God says look
You can either choose to be blessed by me or you can choose to be cursed by me
All right
and in Deuteronomy 28 verse number one it says and it shall come to pass if thou shalt hearken diligently
unto the voice of the Lord thy God and
Observe and to do all his commandments
Which I command thee this day that the Lord thy God will set thee on high
above all nations of the earth and all these blessings shall come on thee and
Overtake thee and thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God
Brethren God wants to bless us
God wanted to bless Israel right if they just hearken they just listen to God's voice
They just live the best life they could in accordance to God's will and God's ways God says look you're gonna be lifted up
You're gonna be a mighty nation, and that's what they became you know under King David under King Solomon
They become the greatest nation on the earth there
okay, a nation that prospers a nation that pleases the Lord and
Brethren the same for you you want to be blessed by God you and be lifted up listen listen to his words obey his commandments
Don't walk after the wicked paths of this world. That's what God wants from us right
Obedience he wants to bless us he wants to give us great rewards
Drop down to verse number 15. We haven't got time to go through the whole chapter obviously drop down to verse number 15
Now he says the opposite deuteronomy 28 15
But it shall come to pass if thou will not
hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God
To observe to do all his commandments and statutes which I command thee this day
That all these curses shall come upon thee and overtake thee
Cursed shall thou be in the city and cursed shall thou be in the field so God says look you turn away from me
You're gonna end up cursed all right now. Which of those two do you think God wants to do?
Obviously he wants to bless them. He wants to bless Israel just be obedient
Okay, I mean God's Word isn't really that heavy right
I mean with a with a help of God we can walk in his ways and look God knows we're not perfect
God knows we make mistakes. This is why he's merciful this way is gracious
So why we can come before him in prayer and ask for forgiveness
Okay, and then when we get that forgiveness we move on and keep serving God to the best of our abilities right and if we
Do that brethren God will bless us God will reward us think God wants to just curse us
You know that's why he created us just to destroy us
Destroy Israel now from verses 15 just down
We're just gonna go like we're not gonna read all the verses
But it's just curse after curse after curse after curse you can read about in your own time
But drop down to verse number 49 please Deuteronomy 28 verse number 49
I just want to show you this part of the curse of God
Deuteronomy 28 verse 49
The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far is that what happened to Israel yep
Is that what happened to Judah yep?
Okay, the Syrians for the northern kingdom of Israel the Babylonians for the southern kingdom of Israel of Judah
the Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far from the end of the earth as
Swift as the eagle fly off a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand a
Nation of fierce countenance which shall not regard the person of the old nor shall favor to the young and
He shall eat the fruit of thy cattle and the fruit of thy land until thou be destroyed
Which also shall not leave the either corn nor wine nor oil or the increase of thy kind or flocks of thy sheep?
until he have destroyed thee now, let's keep going there verse number 52 and
He shall besiege thee in all thy gates
Yep, they were under siege okay, Samaria and Jerusalem verse number 52
And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates until thy high and fenced walls come down wherein thou trustest
Throughout all thy land and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land
which the Lord thy God hath given thee look at verse number 53 and
Thou shall eat the fruit of thine own body
The flesh of thy sons and of thy daughters
Which the Lord thy God hath given thee in the siege and in the straightness where we've thine enemies shall distress thee
Now the reason I've read that to you brethren is to show you that all the way back in the time of Moses all
The way back before this nation what I came into the land of Canaan God warned them
God warned them from the very beginning okay. This isn't like some unexpected results
You know of killing children eating children. You know eating poo eating feces
This isn't just some well. We didn't know God warned them all the way back in Deuteronomy
Hey, if you walk in my ways you keep my commandments
I'll bless you if you turn against me some nations going to come against you
They're going to siege you and you're going to end up eating your own kids
Brethren all they had to do was believe God's Word. That's all they had to do. Oh, man
We don't want this to happen to our nation. We don't want to be cursed by God
We believe God's word. They didn't believe God's word. They didn't believe the preacher
They didn't believe Jeremiah, and they just thought no we're going to rebel against Babylon. We're not going to surrender
You know we're too prideful for that and they end up eating their own children
God warned them brethren God warned them. It's not like oh we didn't know
You know what what do you think Jeremiah's preaching? He's preaching of course. He's preaching the book of Jeremiah's
He's preaching the laws of the land. He's reminding them. God's warned us about this wake up to yourselves
They didn't and they just went down the path of God's curse
As I said the COVID-19 vaccines they've been developed researched or manufactured all of them
Using tissues from murdered children, and that's what it is brethren murdered children. It's not just
embryonic
Fetal cells whatever they like to term. It's murdered babies
Alright brethren so again. This is why I'm against the vaccinations all right
Verse number 12 back to Lamentations chapter 4 Lamentations chapter 4 verse number 12
And again brethren if you end up deciding to take these vaccinations
It's just the consequences brethren of the judgment of God on the land of Australia
You know
What are you gonna? Do you know what are you gonna do?
verse number 12 verse number 12
The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world
Would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem
Like so people look at Jerusalem now. God. We can't believe it like they were once a prosperous strong nation
There's so many people they're just doing so well
It seemed on the outside and now it just come happy badminton come in and just destroy this place. It's unbelievable
You know what else is unbelievable
COVID world it's unbelievable
That the whole world right all the nations all the politicians all the governments have bowed their knee
To who to the World Health Organization or whoever else is pulling the strings. I don't know it's unbelievable brethren
But it's a judgment of God believe it. That's what it is. It's a judgment of God, okay
There's number 13 for the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests
So what are the prophets and the priests religious leaders?
Okay
The sins of the prophets iniquities of the priests that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her
You know Jeremiah saying here that the religious leaders are guilty of blood
The reason people are suffering and dying is because of the religious leaders
Verse number 14. They have wandered as blind men in the streets
They have polluted themselves with blood so that men could not touch their garments
So Jeremiah saying look the religious leaders are at fault here. All right
Now if you can please keep your finger there and turn to Ezekiel 33
Please turn to Ezekiel 33 and verse number 1
Ezekiel 33 verse number 1
You know
I'm one of these I'm one of these prophets and not an Old Testament prophet
But a prophet is someone that proclaims God's Word. I'm a religious leader as it were a pastor
Okay, and you know what I need to I need to listen to this I can be guilty of blood too
All right
If I don't teach God's Word faithfully if I don't warn people of God's judgment if I don't teach you against sin
I can be guilty of blood as well
Okay, you know you might think well make pastor Kevin you shouldn't just you know
Okay. Yeah, the Bible does say that women ate their children, but did you have to really preach about that?
You know, I mean, I mean, it's not pleasant to you know, you've got little children here pastor Kevin, you know
Do you think that's listen every word of God is pure every God every word of God is pure. It's all profitable
Okay, even for children. All right, but look at Ezekiel 33 verse 1 Ezekiel 33 verse number 1
It says here again the word of the Lord came unto me saying that's to Ezekiel
Son of man speak to the children of thy people and say unto them when I bring the sword upon a land
if the people of the land take a man of their coasts and set him for their watchmen if
when he see if the sword come upon the land
He blow the trumpet and
Warn the people then who's over here of the sound of the trumpet and take if not warning if the sword come and take him
Away, his blood shall be upon his own head
Brethren as a as a religious leader as the part of this church. I'm also a watch man
The bishop is an overseer. It's to watch it's to supervise
Okay, it's my job to warn you if I don't warn you brethren then I'm gonna be guilty of your blood
But my job is just to warn you to blow the trumpets and then it's up to you
Are you gonna hear the trumpet or you're not?
It's up to you. And if you don't hear the trumpet and you destroy yourself the bloods upon you. It's not upon me
I don't want your blood upon me brethren. You know what? This is why I'm just gonna preach you God's Word
Even if it's not pleasant, I even if it doesn't make us feel good, you know what?
It's God's Word web to lamentations for it needs to be preached if I go man, you know, you know God
That's just a little bit of a hard chapter. I think we'll just avoid this one this week
You know
I won't preach about that and you know what and you make some mistakes that we see the limitations for
Your blood your mistakes are upon me. All right, let's keep going there verse number
5 listen to 5
He heard the sound of the trumpet lambda. Sorry Ezekiel 33 5
He heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning his blood shall be upon him
But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul
Brethren, I want you to deliver your soul. That's one that's salvation because I know at least the majority you definitely are saved
Amen, what's about our life? We can just just live in a life that that is pleasing to God
We don't destroy ourselves with sin
We don't destroy ourselves with weakness brethren when you hear the trumpet blow
Listen to the trumpet and do what the Trumpets telling you to do brethren
Alright, but if you don't the bloods upon you
verse number six
But if the watchman see the sword come and blow not the trumpet
So if I don't warn you if I don't preach against sin if I if I just avoid
put our portions of the Bible because it's not pleasant and
The people be not warned if the sword come and take any person from among them
He is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand?
So thou O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel
Therefore thou shall hear the word at my mouth and warn them from me
Brethren, that's my job to warn you
You know listen to God's Word to warn you to tell you we are living through God's judgment right now. I
Hope it changes brethren. I hope come December 15th
Unvaccinated I have a rien society
I think I hope little by little our freedoms that all come back
And I hope that we don't take it for granted that we enjoy the experience that we went through that
We look back at COVID world. I mean that was crazy, but you know what was unbelievable
Hey, but it's God's judgments
And you know thank God that we had blessed up at this church
Or we had you know great preaching or whatever whatever preacher
It wasn't you listen to that got us through that helped us and encourage us that taught us great things
And you know we need to do better in the future. I hope that's your attitude brethren
But I don't know could things be worse next year. They could be worse next year. You know. I don't know Brethren
I really don't know okay
And my job is to warn you know please don't get offended when things aren't pleasant in the Bible
Okay, it's my job
Just to preach God's Word to warn to blow the trumpet and then it's up to you
You want to listen to the trumpet or not you know?
You know as long as I'm doing what I'm required to do as a religious leader, then your blood's upon you
You mess up your life you destroy your life
Well, I'll be sad for you Brethren, but at least it's not on me
You know I'd feel horrible if I didn't warn you if I didn't preach against sin
And you guys went off with bad preaching a bad religious leader, and you end up destroying your life, then it's upon me
Back to Lamentations chapter 4 verse number 15 Lamentations 4 15
So Israel or Jude at this time they had poor religious leaders. They did not warn them
They did not blow the trumpet and so they were guilty of the blood of the of the death that was taking place
in Jerusalem verse number 15
They cried unto them now. I found these verses a little bit hard. I think what's happening here
They the they are the people of Jerusalem
They cried unto them being the priests and the prophets that we just read about that's what I think is happening here
Okay, they cried unto them depart ye it is unclean
Depart depart touch not the reason I think this is it's this way
It's because the the priest was supposed to keep themselves clean for the service of the house of God right they had a ceremony
Washings and things like that well the whole city's become disgusting
Everyone's homeless people are eating theses right people are boiling their own
And you look and they tell them that the the priest look just look depart get out of here everything's unclean
There's nothing there's no service that you can do for us anymore. It's all dirty depart depart touch not
When they fled away and wandered they said among the heathen they shall no more sojourn there
So they've lost the ministry okay these people were unfaithful to God's Word
They were not warning the people of the sins things have become so bad and people say look just go away
There's no more use that you can do for us here in Jerusalem, and they wander away to the heathen
They shall no more sojourn there. They'll no longer come back to Jerusalem and work in their offices as prophets and priests
Verse number 16 look at this the anger of the Lord hath divided them so divided these religious leaders from the rest of the people
He will no more regard them they respected not the persons of the priests they favored not the elders
Okay, so people at some points. They wanted the smooth preaching they wanted
You know to be told that this is not God's judgment
They wanted to be told that Babylon is not going to take over them
Okay, they wanted the positive only preaching, but when they receive the positive only preaching brethren. It did not help them
It only destroyed them it destroyed the city and at this point. They're like we don't want to even hear from these guys anymore
Now look I'm sure there are people in this world that do not want to hear from me
Okay, they don't like my preaching. They don't like that
I just say it as it is right according to God's Word
But much rather that then someone says pastor this privilege preaches smooth things just tickle our ears
Yeah, cuz at some point if that's all I do brethren then you get sick of me as well
You're gonna be like get out. You know you don't you don't profit us anything my life doesn't improve
You know I still don't know if I'm saved
That's what false prophets do they preach complicated Gospels people still don't know if they're saved
They commit one sin am I saved I committed a sin
They don't understand that salvation is on the finished work of Jesus Christ alone, and then at some point you get sick of these preachers
Man, I thought I wanted the positive only preaching, but it doesn't help me in life
I'm no I'm not any closer to Jesus Christ. I'm still committing the same sins that I've always committed. You know before I came to Christ
Verse number 17 as for us our eyes have yet failed for our vain help
In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us so instead of
You know going to the Lord for help. You know real recognizing that hey
We're far from God and let's get back to God
They reached out to another nation if you remember the book of Jeremiah that nation they reached out to help for was
Egypt all right they thought Egypt will come and protect us no
No, not only that afterwards Egypt was taken over by the Babylonians as well, okay verse number 18
They hunt our steps so Babylon hunts our steps that we cannot go in our streets our end is near our days are
Fulfilled our end is come our
Persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven they pursued us upon the mountains
They laid weights for us in the wilderness, so they're acknowledging man Babylon's too great too powerful. We can't beat him, okay
We're defeated verse number 20
the breath of our nostrils
The anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits of whom we said under his shadow
We shall live among the heathen all right so in verse number 20 the anointed of the Lord there is King Zedekiah
okay, so
When they say the breath of our nostrils that's talking about life remember how when Adam was created then God breathed his spirit into his
Nostrils you know gave him life
So that's basically saying you know the one that we trusted with our lives the anointed of the Lord
That's not they didn't trust in Jesus. It was Zedekiah
Zedekiah was like no we're not giving in to the Babylonians
And the people were Jerusalem that were trusting in Zedekiah right surely Zedekiah is going to get us through these tough times
You know it says
The anointed of the Lord was taken in their pits even Zedekiah
Okay, you may remember. He was blinded
You know his children were slain in front of him, and then he was taken away to captivity
Even the guy as we said under his shadow
We shall live among the heathen even the guy that we try to protect ourselves under his shadow even he's been taken away into captivity
So what we don't trust man we trust the Lord
Okay, we don't set our eyes upon a man or upon a pastor. We set our eyes upon the Lord
We can't hide under the shadow of a man brethren. We hide under the wings of our Lord God. That's where true protection is
But they trust it in a man. They trust it in their King verse number 21
Rejoice and be glad I see here's the positive one pastor Kevin rejoice and be glad
Who our daughter of Edom the Edomites not the Jews
know
Jeremiah's been sarcastic here, okay
Because the Edomites were enemies of the Jews and when the Edomites saw the Babylonians come in and take over
The Jews the Edomites are like yeah
right
Take that so Jeremiah's kind of like sarcastically saying to the Edomites good remember. He's a he's a prophet to the nations
It's pretty so many nations
Rejoice and be glad or daughter of Edom that dwells in the land of us
Then he says this the cup also shall pass through unto thee
There shall be drunken and shall make thyself naked
There's once Babylon's finished with us. They're coming after you eat them so rejoice in the meantime
Psychastically all right, but it's all coming to you as well
Verses 22 the punishment of dying iniquity. That's the equity of Edom is accomplished
Sorry Jerusalem. Yeah, the punishment of thine iniquities accomplished our daughter of Zion's that's daughter of Jerusalem
He will no more carry thee away into captive
so once the captive one said once Babylon's finished with
Judah and Jerusalem and people take into captivity it says he will visit thine iniquity our daughter of Edom
He will discover thy sins
Says you're not going to get away with it Edom
all right and
You know again you want to take a much less of you like a lot of you have here
And what's happening in our world? You know when when COVID was first sort of you know came you know?
In our nation it was Victoria right it was it was a Melbourne that was under lockdown in fact
I think it they're still probably the city the most locked down city in the world
And we will turn around say man there must be great wickedness in Victoria in Melbourne
Yes, there is great weakness right. It's one of the most liberal. It's most one one of us probably the most anti God
It's the most godless state in our nation, okay, but then yeah, okay? Yeah, Victoria
Yeah, look look at them copper, but then comes it comes to Sydney all right, and then they're in Queensland. They think man
Yeah, you know New South Wales Victoria. They must be so bad. You know what this week. They're gonna be locked out as well in Queensland
Okay, I mean, it's just hitting every part for everyone. You know
Because there's great sin across this entire world
And this is another reason why I just believe us
We're seeing the hand of God's judgment because no one's getting away with it like everyone's been affected
Everyone's going through hardships. You know everyone's life has been turned upside down
everyone's plans have been messed up and
So you know just uh I guess this again reminds us of
We should never look at others and say look how sinful they are because we've got our sins
You know eat them looking at the other must been so sinful look that's so wicked even God even their own gods
Wipe them out yeah now God's gonna wipe you out
You're next okay, and he's gonna use Babylon the same way that he used them against Jerusalem
I'm gonna just quickly read to you from Jeremiah 49. Maybe you want to turn that you're not far away
Jeremiah 49 verse number 7 we'll end on this one Jeremiah 49 verse number 7
Just to remind you that Jeremiah was a prophet
to Edom as well to the Edomites
Jeremiah 49 verse 7 Jeremiah 49 verse 7
Concerning Edom thus saith the Lord of hosts his wisdom
No more in Taman his counsel perish from the prudence is their wisdom vanished
Flee turn back
Dwell deep O inhabitants of Dedan for I will bring the calamity of Esau upon him
The time that I will visit him
It's trying to remind you there that after Jeremiah
We when we look at the the last few chapters of the book of Jeremiah
Not only has he finished preaching against Judah
But then he's preaching about surround nations and Jeremiah chapter 49 is preaching against the Edomites all right so
Brethren again, just a reminder. We all have sins
Okay, don't compare yourself to another man
Don't can compare yourself to the wicked in this world brethren because you've got your sins as well when we compare ourselves to
The wicked we think we're just fine in the eyes of God okay, but in reality
We should just look at ourselves assess our situation understand. We've all got wicked hearts
Okay, we all have sins against the Lord. We've got the old man. We're rebellious
You know we live a life that pleases us many times brethren
You know just make sure to avoid the hand of God's judgment now. God's not going to curse us
We cannot be cursed by God because we're his children, but just remind yourself that as a prophet God chastises us
Okay, and again God gives us time his long suffering
You know what you're much better off finding the sins in your own heart getting right with God before you're having to deal with
some major judgment in your life
So let's learn from
Lamentations chapter 4 title for the sermon once again was sodding their own children. They'd become very depraved, but please remind yourself
Children are being murdered every day in our nation and no one cares no one cares
It's not reporting the news we forget about it. We forget about it, but it's happening in our nation as well
We live in a very depraved and wicked world okay. Let's pray
Heavenly Father Lord just want to thank you for your word. Thank you for Lamentations chapter 4
Lord as hard as it is to preach through and understand Lord
We do just rest in your word
Lord it gives us a greater understanding of your anger and your wrath and your judgment Lord
But also Lord we understand that you've given this nation decades Lord to get right with you you sent them godly men
Preachers Lord preaching the truth
But Lord they harken unto the false prophets
Lord there are so many false prophets in Australia today so many Lord and so very few faithful men serving you Lord
I prayed protect your people protect your children, but I pray that you'd send
Every one of your children Lord in Australia Lord a good church
They can be part of a good man of God that you can use to help them learn
More of your word Lord help us to change and to stem the tide Lord of this wicked world
Lord I don't know how much we can affect this world we can all we can do is keep preaching Jesus Christ and preaching the
truth
Lord I hope that you would look upon this land and look at blessed up at this church and
See a people that love you that want to serve you that want a better world Lord for our next generations
Lord and be merciful to us be merciful to us Lord. We need your peace
We need your love help us to get through this time of judgment Lord
We love you and Lord help us also looking forward to the time that we can go sowing Lord on the 15th
Thank you for opening that door for us. I pray that you bless us Lord in the work in Jesus name. We pray Amen
Okay, let's take our hymnals
And let's turn to him number 388
him number 388
And we'll sing have thine own way
No, I've got the wrong number. I want to sing have thine own way Lord, so let's try to find it
Have thine own way Lord
Three zero six Thank You brother
Three zero six have thine own way
Oh
Have thine own way Lord have thine own way
Thou are the parter I am the clay
Mowed me and made me
After thy will
While I am waiting
You heard and still
Have thine own way
Lord have thine own way
Search me and try me master today
Whiter than snow Lord wash me just now
As in thy presence
Humbly I bow
Have thine own way Lord have thine own way
Were there and we
Help me I pray
Power all power
Surely is thine
Thine
Touch me and heal me Savior divine
Have thine own way Lord have thine own way
Hold all my being
Absolute sway
Fill with thy spirit
Till all shall see
Christ only always
Living in me
Amen great singing that's it for the