Complainers challengedRev. Ivan FosterLamentations 3:39Sun May 21, 2017 · Sunday - AM
"Complainers challenged" "Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?" Lamentations 3:39. Preached in Coragarry FPC in Co. Monaghan, Rep of Ireland. This a universe of groans. The natural creation groans under the curse inflicted because of man's sin. "For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now," Romans 8:22. The saints groan under the distress that sins brings to them and with a longing to be free of this world. "And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body," Romans 8:23. "For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven," "For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life," 2 Corinthians 5:2, 4. The loudest groans comes from sinful man. Complaints fill the air. Many are justifiable. Many are not. Man's treatment of his fellow man certainly arouses complaint. Man steals from man, cheats on man, is cruel to man, acts as a tyrant to his fellows. The man who complains against another is usually the subject of the complaints of a third. It is a world of bitter accusation and counter-accusation.
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