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Some songs.

Are joyful and happy and clappy and hopeful and exciting.

Song song, some songs.

Express other emotions that people face.

God gives us in the Psalms experiences and songs.

Of all different emotions.

Reminds me of an article that I read recently by Carl trueman.

What?

The miserable Christians sing.

He argues there that we're not always going through good times.

And sometimes, there are songs that need to be sung in the minor key.

And if you notice, even from our time of worship today, songs Like It Is Well with My Soul or Hallelujah.

Love divine or come G. Sinners, poor and needy or even the special music that we just heard that pointed us to the grace of God, through difficult trials.

Very fitting, very fitting for a series that were in here dealing with downcast experiences, even in the Christian Life.

This is Lady.

One of the mysterious experiences a public preaching Ministry.

Is that preachers.

Never know what is going on in his listeners hearts and Minds when he's preaching.

That's right.

I'm talking about all of you out there right now.

I don't have a clue where you're at On Any Given Sunday.

You have the advantage and don't I can get a glimpse into your lives as your pastor as you share with me what's going on.

I don't know exactly where you're at today or any other day including right now.

And as I've been preaching the series titled downcast, I've been really just a cute Lee reminded about that reality.

I've also been uniquely conscientious about each and every one of you could praying for you by name, thinking about you and your known and unknown, hardships and experiences in trials, in life.

And each and every word I utter from this Pulpit, always, it's just so waiting to me but there's something about this sermon.

Me in prayer in my heart going out to each of you submitted even desperately to the hands of our heavenly father for help and direction.

And to that end, I want us to go before our heavenly father in prayer for help together.

Father.

You are so good.

And you know, each and every one of us, even if I don't, you know, us all, you know what, we've gone through this past week, this past year, even this morning, you know, how we're feeling.

You know, us Lord.

So, we can minister to each of us and unique ways that only you can do.

Would you shut the light of your hope and Grace and ways that only you can do a lord?

Would you do that?

Lord?

Would you help us in these things?

You say this in Christ's name.

and then,

Are there is no easy way to say this.

What?

Circumstances in life?

Can lead some sadly to such deep and dark places that they even feel helpless.

Hopeless downcast.

Despairing.

Unable to see the future because of the pain of the present.

Unable to take one more step or even one more breath.

That is how serious this problem to be in some of our lives.

You might respond now.

Why I've been sad before?

Even a little anxious at times.

But never come.

To those depths.

Praise God for that if that's, you praise God.

What other people have?

And other people do get to that place.

I hope that the take-home from our first two sermons.

And then even this one today is that we would have some understanding and awareness of the deep dark and hard problems the people's face.

Maybe that's you.

Spurgeon's accounts that it was once preaching.

A sermon about the dark depths of the Soul.

Remember, Spurgeon himself experienced deep and dark depression in his life.

And a Gentleman came up to him after preaching the following week.

And said to him.

I never before in my life, heard any man speak.

Who seem to know my heart.

Mine is a terrible case, but on Sunday morning, you painted me to the life.

and preached, as if you had been inside my soul,

Birds and recounted this in one of his books and he wrote by God's grace.

I saved that man.

From suicide, and let him into the Gospel, Light and Liberty but I know I could not have done it.

If I had not myself been confined, confined in the dungeon in which he lay.

listen to church, even if you haven't been in that dungeon yourself, And I know that not all have please, would you do?

All you can to learn from the downcast so that you might know how to care for and pray and love those who have or those who are in that dungeon.

Could you imagine being in that dungeon as Spurgeon talks about?

If you've never been there?

Terribly sperian remember Spurgeon said this the mind can descend far lower than the body were in it.

There are Bottomless Pits, the flesh can bear only a certain number of wounds and no more but the soul can bleed in ten thousand ways and die over and over again.

Each hour.

Even though I don't know where each and every one of you are at exactly.

I do know some experience, deep dark sorrow and even Despair.

Please know that.

I see you and even plead to God on your behalf and prayer.

For help and hope for you.

To continue on through the hardships.

That I know that you're facing.

No, we have dealt with depression and anxiety already in the series, which of course, is related to the topic of Despair.

I think that we need to further seek compassion awareness and understanding together this morning, which as I give you, the outline is our first point and then provide practical care for others, which will be our second point.

And then lastly, even as we've been anticipating so far in the series, look to God's provision of lament in scripture, which is often times neglected and even unknown to Christians, you may have never even really thought about what that meant is we're going to look at that in our third point.

So there's our outline for us as we move forward and so as we see on the screen, let's start with Point number one.

The experience of despair.

Turn with me in your Bibles to Psalm chapter 88 in verse 1.

Oh, Lord.

God of my salvation.

I cry out day and night before you let my prayer come before you incline your ear to My Cry for my soul is full of troubles and my life draws near to see ol.

I am counted among those who go down to the pit.

I'm a man who has no strength like one set loose, among the dead, like the slain that lion, the grave like those whom you remember, no more for they are cut off from your hand.

You would put me in the depths of the pit in the regions of dark and deep, your wrath lies, heavy upon me and you overwhelm me with all your waves.

This song was written by Hammond.

The Ezra height.