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Jeremiah chapter 8, verse 18.

My joy is gone.

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 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 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 Uyghurs in China today. The Uyghur and under the wrath of God. I think about weaguers in China today. The Uighur people, over 11 million strong.

0.01% gospel believing. I mean, hardly any, just a few Christians among 11 million people?

They're Muslims in Western China, which means that 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.

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