Where There’s Life, There’s Hope

Text: Lamentations 3:21-26

Theme: Assurance

Point: Relief

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Introduction: The literary material consists of words of comfort to the children of God. Some writers of sacred text have determined that Jeremiah makes complaints as an intercessor for Israel, and he doe’s this as a type of Christ. The composition of Lamentations draws our attention to its principle, purpose, and prophetic truth, its literary form and style consists of five lovely poems, one for each chapter, the first four are dirges, and the fifth being more like a prayer. Lamentations doesn’t name the author… 

2 Chronicles 35:25 And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah, and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in Lamentations  

I Reminder of hope (3:21) 

1. Psalm 103:7

1. What’s in the heart?

2. Hope resides in the soul

3. Faith, the center by which things derive, exude, and exist

1. Romans 10:17

2. Hebrews 11:1

3. Romans 10:8

1. The refuge of hope (3:22)

1. Malachi 3:6

2. Psalm 78:38

3. Jeremiah 3:2

1. 2 Corinthians 4:8

1. The reality of hope (3:23)

1. Isaiah 33:2

2. Zephaniah 3:5

1. The result of hope (3:24)

1. Psalm 16:5

2. Psalm 23:1-6

1. The reason for hope (3:25-26)

1. I Corinthians 15:19

2. Colossians 1:27