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“ Summary, Part 4 (final) ” B. THEY WEAN US FROM THE LOVE OF SIN [46:49]. Judah’s sins were idolatry and disobedience. God loosened the rope enough for them to turn back to Him, but he only annihilated them when they reached the end. C. GOD REMAINS THE SAME THROUGHOUT THEM. HIS GRACE REMAINS CONSTANT [48:04]. This is why Jeremiah didn’t lose his faith (Lam 3:22-23). God’s compassions are new every morning. CONCLUDING APPLICATIONS [51:33]: 1. Remember that God is a righteous father who must chasten His children. 2. He is a loving, heavenly father who proves it by His discipline. 3. God is a perfecting heavenly Father whose goal in discipline is to conform you to the image of Christ.
Ian Migala (6/8/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 3 ” May He remember mercy in His wrath, but may we first remember righteousness. Let us also remember how God turned Nebuchadnezzar, who once thought himself above God (Dan 4:35). B. HE IS SOVEREIGN OVER THE DETAILS OF OUR CHASTENING [34:03]. God custom-tailors our trials to our spiritual needs. We each face our own trials and types of trials. But we all risk forgetting His faithfulness in the midst of those trials. Our chastening proves our pedigree. C. HE IS SOVEREIGN OVER THE OUTCOME OF OUR CHASTENING [37:19]. That outcome has also been predetermined. Trials are teaching times. We’ve learned some very deep and critical wisdom that we would have never learned without trials. Lam 3:24-32 – In Jerusalem’s darkest hour, Jeremiah looked inward and determined to take his chastening in silence and await God’s compassion. III. WE MAINTAIN OR REGAIN OUR JOY AND STABILITY IN TIMES OF TRIAL AND TURMOIL BY REMEMBERING THE GRACE AND GOODNESS OF GOD IN THEM [43:30]. IN them. Remember three things about them: A. THEY ADVERTISE GOD’S LOVE FOR THE CHRISTIAN. It is God’s love for us, not hatred. He doesn’t take delight in His chastenings (Lam 3:33). He is slow to wrath. Isaiah called judgment His “strange work”.
Ian Migala (6/8/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 2 ” B. GOD WISELY CHASTENS US WHEN HE IS PUNISHING OTHERS FOR THEIR SINS [19:22]. He does this in wisdom. The righteous were among the exiles to Babylon. What may be destruction for the wicked on earth may be purification for the righteous among them (cf. Rom 8:28). The same fire that consumes the hay and the stubble purifies the gold and the silver. C. GOD’S GRACIOUS PURPOSE IN CHASTENING IS NOT MERELY PUNATIVE, BUT ALSO RESTORATIVE [22:17]. God punishes His enemies because He hates them, but He chastens His people because He loves them. He will bring us pain to bring us healing. He will stop us in our paths to keep us from departing from Him (cf. Ps 119:67, 71). II. WE MAINTAIN OR REGAIN OUR JOY AND STABILITY IN TIMES OF TRIAL AND TURMOIL BY REMEMBERING THAT THE LORD IS SOVEREIGN OVER OUR DISCIPLINE [24:55]. These are not chance affairs, but predetermined actions. A. HE IS SOVEREIGN OVER THE INSTRUMENTS OF CHASTENING. Habakkuk, Jeremiah’s contemporary, grappled with God using an unholy people like the Babylonians to chasten the Hebrews and maintain His integrity (Hab 1:12-13). Sin is a reproach to any people. Just as God allowed Rome to self-destruct and Judah to be annihilated, He will have His way with America.
Ian Migala (6/8/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 1 ” Living a meaningful life requires the use of our God-given memory. We cannot live what we do not remember, and the Bible exhorts us to read it repeatedly so that we are reminded of God’s truth. Not remembering the Bible is little different than not reading it, and both lead to not living it. Peter taught that one knows he is a true believer when he knows and practices the truth (2 Pet 1:8-15, 3:1-2). Paul also spoke frequently of the necessity of scriptural reminders. Scripture repeats itself and restates matters because God knows of our fleshly tendency to forget and to move away from Him. Even in calm, but especially in trials, we cannot know true peace without frequent reminders of God’s goodness and hope. I. WE MAINTAIN OR REGAIN OUR JOY AND STABILITY IN TIMES OF TRIAL AND TURMOIL BY REMEMBERING THAT WE ARE SINNERS WHO NEED THE LORD’S CHASTENING HAND [starting at 10:48 of the audio]. Job 5:17 – Eliphaz was right about this. To forget this is to think that our greatest friend suddenly hates us. Heb 12:5-6 is a reminder of Prov 3:11, 12. A. HE JUSTLY CHASTENS US FOR OUR OWN SINS [16:31]. We need to remember that the judge of all does right. As we find in Lam 3, God chastens us to make sin unpleasant to us.
