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<div class="SSN_title">"THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD"</div>
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<div class="SSN_intro">Intro: Jeremiah was looking at the rubble that was once Jerusalem - the glory of the earth. As he looked, he wept. How devastated, how hopeless.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">I. IN THIS DESPAIR, HE FOUND HOPE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. Looking around was case for weeping.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Nothing could seem more hopeless.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. The streets once crowded were empty.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. The wall of defense torn down.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. The once magnificent temple destroyed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. We also at times face seemingly hopeless situations.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Every door is closed.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. All our resources are gone.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. About all that is left, is to sit and cry.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. In looking up, he found cause for hope.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Sometimes God just shuts us up to Himself.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Hopelessness is always caused by looking around.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. Measure the problem with my ability.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Measure the obligations with my resources.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. Measure the battle with my strength.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. If we could just learn to look up.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">II. THE CAUSE OF HOPE.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. "It is the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. As bad as it might be, it isn't as bad as I deserve.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. I am still here - I still have so much. My sight - my hearing - my reason.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. Testimony in Chicago Mission. "I still have my appetite."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. Things could be worse.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">B. His compassions fail not.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. Because God is merciful and compassionate, I will yet have hope.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. He could have consumed me - He didn't.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. He must have spared me for a reason.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. God's love is unfailing, He will yet restore me in love.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">4. Each new day gives God the opportunity to show His love to me.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">C. The faithfulness of God.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">1. God is faithful to His Word.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. "No good thing will He withhold from..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. "The Lord is good to them that wait for Him; to the soul that seeketh Him."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">c. "Ask and ye shall receive, seek..."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">2. God is faithful to His nature.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">a. He is merciful.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level4">b. He is compassionate.</div>
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<div class="SSN_level3">3. Seeing Jeremiah weep over Jerusalem we remember another one who wept over Jerusalem.</div>
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<div class="SSN_rnum">III. "IT IS GOOD THAT A MAN SHOULD BOTH HOPE AND QUIETLY WAIT FOR THE SALVATION OF THE LORD."</div>
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<div class="SSN_level2">A. We sometimes hope but do not quietly wait.</div>
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