God’s people did not consider the consequences of idolatry and sin and therefore her collapse was awesome. She could have been glorious, as God had planned but chose to forsake Jehovah. Are we considering our future? If we do not, our collapse could be awesome too.
1. She Did Not Consider
Her Destiny
Lamentations 1:9
2. She did not
consider her
destiny;
Therefore her
collapse was
awesome
Lamentations 1:9
3. She did not
consider her
destiny;
Therefore her
collapse was
awesome
Lamentations 1:9
4. But for this purpose I have raised you up,
to show you my power,
so that my name may be proclaimed
in all the earth.
Exodus 9:16
5. He found him in a desert land,
and in the howling waste of the wilderness;
he encircled him, he cared for him,
he kept him as the apple of his eye.
Deuteronomy 32:10
6. But Jeshurun grew fat, and kicked;
you grew fat, stout, and sleek;
then he forsook God who made him
and scoffed at the Rock of his salvation.
Deuteronomy 32:15
7. For they are a nation void of counsel,
and there is no understanding in them.
If they were wise, they would understand this;
they would discern their latter end!
Deuteronomy 32:28-29
9. She did not
consider her
destiny;
Therefore her
collapse was
awesome
Lamentations 1:9
10. For I know the plans I have for you,
declares Jehovah,
plans for welfare and not for evil,
to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:11
11. It shall come to pass in the latter days
that the mountain of the house of Jehovah
shall be established as the highest of the mountains,
and shall be lifted up above the hills;
and all the nations shall flow to it,
Isaiah 2:2
13. I must preach the good news of the
kingdom of God to the other towns as
well; for I was sent for this purpose.
Luke 4:43
14. Now is my soul troubled. And what
shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this
hour’? But for this purpose I have
come to this hour.
John 12:27
15. “You say that I am a king. For this
purpose I was born and for this
purpose I have come into the world—
to bear witness to the truth. Everyone
who is of the truth listens to my
voice.”
John 18:37
16. that He might present her to Himself a
glorious church, not having spot or
wrinkle or any such thing, but that she
should be holy and without blemish.
Ephesians 5:27, NKJV
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