6/21/2020  - "Becoming a Laughingstock"

Pastor Adam McDowell

Jeremiah 20:7-9

7 O LORD, you have deceived me,
   and I was deceived;
   you are stronger than I,
   and you have prevailed.
   I have become a laughingstock all the day;
   everyone mocks me.
8 For whenever I speak, I cry out,
   I shout, “Violence and destruction!”
   For the word of the LORD has become for me
   a reproach and derision all day long.
9 If I say, “I will not mention him,
   or speak any more in his name,”
   there is in my heart as it were a burning fire
   shut up in my bones,
   and I am weary with holding it in,
   and I cannot.