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Jeremiah chapter 8 verse 18

my joy is gone grief is upon me Grief is upon me. My heart is sick within me. This is a picture we see at

various points in Jeremiah's life as a prophet, his ministry as a prophet.

And what encourages me about this picture is the way Jeremiah is not in any way coldly disconnected from this work that God has called him to,

this ministry God has called him to, this ministry God has given him to speak his word.

Jeremiah doesn't just speak his word and then kind of go home like I've done my duty.

He's overwhelmed by the word he's speaking and because it's a word of judgment and coming wrath, he says my joy is gone, I'm grieving, grief is upon me, my heart is sick within me,

it's just such a powerful picture of grieving for people who are under God's judgment, which causes me to ask, do I

grieve like this? Do I grieve like this? Do you grieve like this for people who are under the judgment of God,

for people who are headed toward an experience of the wrath of God unless something changes.

Do we grieve over them?

What was the last time?

I wept.

You wept, you wept over people who are lost in sin apart from God.

When was the last time we wept over peoples who are totally

unreached with the gospel and under the wrath of God. I think about

I think about Weagers in China today the weagre people over 11 million strong 0.01% gospel

believing I mean hardly any just a few Christians among 11

million people there are Muslims in Western China which means if there's only a few Christians among 11 million people

then most everybody in that group of people has little to no knowledge of the gospel.

They've never met a Christian, they've never had anybody share the

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