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The title of my message today is called a ka.

Aka.

Has anyone heard this term?

A ka.

A ka is actually the root word for the word how. Morning. In lamentations, I want to paint a picture. Jeremiah was just sent of many prophets that were speaking false prophecies. They were doing a lot of horrible things. And he was sent to Jerusalem because they were about to be in captive by the Babylonians.

So he was walking through Jerusalem and he was seeing how destroyed the city was.

And he was crying out with the heart posture of the Lord saying, how, how lonely the city is?

How lonely is where we get the word, Ak ka. How lonely? Some theologians and

scholars say that was actually the actual verbiage that God told Adam when he says, where are you?

Some argue that he said, how are you? Meaning how? I've given you everything. How could this have

happened? So Jeremiah is walking through

the city and he's writing in his journal and it's so noted that he would write lamentations in his

journal as he was lamenting, as he was mourning with the heart posture that God was hurt and

burdened for his beautiful city.

And so I'm laying a groundwork as we go into lamentations.

I want to paint this structure that you know the heartbeat of God and what was happening in this moment.

It was a moment of mourning.

It was a moment of lamenting.

It was a moment of hurt and crying out so that we could respond and he could restore.

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