KBM Money Won't Save You
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We are here continuing our study on the theme, “Impact 3:16” and I hope you are continuing to enjoy it as much as I am. Having looked last week at how “The LORD Roars From Zion” from the book of Joel we now turn our study to Nahum 3:16. Not much is known about the prophet Nahum, nor do we have direct information such as a kings name as a reference to the time when Nahum lived. There are however a few clues which narrow it down the time of Jeremiah, specifically around 630-612 BC. The book of Nahum is all about the fall of Assyria. God raised Assyria up to destroy the Northern Kingdom of Israel but the Assyrians were a cruel, violent, and barbaric people. Nineveh was the chief city or capital city of the Assyrian Empire and in Nahum 3 we see God’s wrath and anger at this people in Nahum 3:6-7.
6 I will throw filth at you and treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle. 7 And all who look at you will shrink from you and say, “Wasted is Nineveh; who will grieve for her?” Where shall I seek comforters for you?
There cruelty had caught up to them, their violence had found its way to him who raised them up and now they were to be judged. Like most great men and women who reach a certain high status the Assyrians were very wealthy but in our text they are assured by God himself that all their wealth and prosperity will not save their city.
Nahum 3.16
16 You increased your merchants more than the stars of the heavens. The locust spreads its wings and flies away.
They had accumulated many merchants, princes and scribes but that wouldn’t be enough to save them from the judgment of God. If only the city would their history from 150 years ago when God sent Jonah to condemn them but they repented and God relented. This time Nineveh would not repent, they were going to be scattered like they had scattered the people they conquered before.
The Assyrians reliance on material things and money isn’t isolated to just them. Many a person has got caught up in the many kinds of sin money offers. No wonder Paul would tell Timothy…
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
This is why Jesus, our Lord and Savior, tells us to flee the love of money and be content with him.
5 Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have, for he has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”
As the Assyrians and many others through the years have found out “Money Won’t Save You” or I only a complete reliance on God the Father, Son, and Spirit.