SERMONS ON LAMENTATIONS
Our sermon ideas for Lamentations will help you prepare a message on the topic of pain and suffering. Lamentation reminds us that pain and suffering are a reality of a faith in God. We are not hidden from pain, the same way we are not hidden from a God that redeems. Prepare your messages on God's word in Lamentation with sermon outlines or an entire sermon series.
The Faithfulness of God
by J. Gerald Harris
The book of Lamentations records the lamentations of the prophet Jeremiah. This book is filled with tears and sorrow. It is a hymn of heartbreak. It is a psalm of sadness. It is a symphony of sorrow. Lamentations has been called the wailing wall of the Bible. During Jeremiah's ministry, Judah was growing weaker nationally and militarily and spiritually. For years Jeremiah attempted to call his people and his nation back to God. No one seemed to listen to Jeremiah, and the situation grew worse and worse. This was his message: ''Repent, O Jerusalem, or sudden judgment and destruction will...
Remember the Lessons of Suffering (4 of 14)
by Dennis Marquardt
INTRO: Don't you just hate it when God doesn't answer your prayers correctly? (This means of course that God didn't act and do things our way!) Don't you just get mad when you have prayed and told God how something should be done and He only does part of what you prayed for? Worse yet, don't you just get frustrated with the Lord when He totally ignores your prayer and does something completely different from what you asked? Of course if God answered prayer exactly as we have always wanted we would never suffer, and in our minds at least the world would be a perfect place! And of course we would be deeply spiritual...
Something to Weep Over
by Ron Dunn
Lamentations is not a very familiar book to most of us. You'll find it right after Jeremiah. Lamentations is a book of five poems...really they're funeral poems. The word ''lamentation'' carries with it the idea of a funeral dirge or a funeral hymn, and this book contains five funeral hymns. Actually it is the fact of God's people being carried away into captivity and they are lamenting the fact that God has carried His people away into Babylonian captivity because of their sin. I want us to read just three verses... Lamentations 3:40-42...Let us examine and probe our ways, and let us return to the LORD. We lift up our heart and hands...
Lamentations: Flying by Instruments (6 of 20)
by Roger Thomas
Introduction: A watching nation was shocked on July 16, 1999 when another member of the Kennedy family met a tragic end. Young John Kennedy, Jr. had become a celebrate in his own right when at the age of thirty-eight years the small private plane he was piloting crashed into the waters off the coast of Massachusetts. His wife and sister both died in the crash as well. Investigators finally concluded that while Kennedy was not necessarily at fault, he did fly into a situation for which he was not prepared or trained. Kennedy was a qualified pilot but only according VFR (visual flight regulations). He was not qualified to fly by...
Coming Clean
by Ken Trivette
Can we say that there is there's nothing between our soul and our Savior? Is the way clear so that there is nothing preventing Him from showing His favor in our life? Is there anything in our heart and life that is displeasing to Him? 3. The words of Jeremiah also make me think of the words of the Psalmist: "Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting." Both the Psalmist and the prophet were saying, "Lord, let there be nothing between me and God."4. Someone has said that people repent on Sunday for what they did on Saturday...
Is Life Worth Living?
by T. De Witt Talmage
Lamentations 3:39 ''Wherefore doth a living man complain?'' If we leave to the evolutionists to guess where we came from and to the theologians to prophecy where we are going to, we still have left for consideration the important fact that we are here. There may be some doubt about where the river rises and some doubt about where the river empties, but there can be no doubt about the fact that we are sailing on it. So I am not surprised that everybody asks the question, ''Is life worth living?'' Solomon in his un- happy moments says it is not. '' Vanity,'' '' vexation of spirit,'' '' no good,'' are his estimate. The fact is that Solomon was at one...
The Best Burden for Young Shoulders
by Charles H. Spurgeon
Yoke-bearing is not pleasant, but it is good. It is not every pleasant thing that is good, nor every good thing that is pleasant. Sometimes the goodness may be just in proportion to the unpleasantness. Now, it is childish to be always craving for sweets; those who by reason of use have had their senses exercised, should prefer the wholesome to the palatable. It ought to reconcile us to that which is unsavory when we are informed that it is good! A little child is not easily reconciled that way, because, as yet, he cannot think and judge; but the man of God ought to find it very easy to quiet every murmur and complaint as soon as he...
Funeral Songs for a Prodigal City (10 of 10)
by Jerry Vines
I do not know that you will very often hear a study from the book of Lamentations. I'm going to give you an overall view. I certainly won't take in all of the verses of these five chapters, but I'm going to try to give you the essence of the message of the book of Lamentations and show you why it is in our Bible and show you what the message of it is for the twenty-first century and for you and for me in the year 2005. The book of Lamentations takes its English title from the Latin Vulgate, which is a Latin version of the Old Testament. Lamentations means a funeral dirge or a funeral song. In the Hebrew Bible it takes its title from...
One Day at a Time (11 of 11)
by Fred Lowery
We sponsored a church with J P and he is our head custodian here and they are celebrating their 10th anniversary today and that's exciting. And our church has done several different projects to help them during this year and they were doing some remodeling and some work in the parking lot so we're going to be over there to celebrate and they want me to preach this afternoon. But we just are so proud of that church and J P and his family. If you could start life over would you do it any differently? If you had a do over, if you could just you know do it over would you do it any differently? Listen to what one lady said if I had my life...
America's Faithful God (5 of 10)
by Stan Coffey
I want you to turn this morning to the book of Joshua chapter 21. We want to continue on our theme ''America In Crisis.'' We are going to take a little different turn this morning and talk about ''America's Faithful God.'' And the good thing about this is that America's faithful God is your faithful God and my faithful God. And America's faithful God is the faithful God period! We have a passage of Scripture here and the situation is that after the years of conquest of the land of Canaan which God swore that He would give to the Israelites, God has done all that He said. God has been faithful. So when they come to the end of the conquest...
