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INTRODUCTION:
Today,
we will begin a study through the book of Nahum.
It is fitting to consider Nahum after having studied Jonah.
While Jonah describes God’s incredible mercy and forgiveness at the repentance of Nineveh.
Nahum describes God’s unrelenting vengeance against Nineveh for their idolatry, wickedness, and oppression of God’s people.
May I say,
- it is the message Jonah wanted to hear.
But God gave it almost 100 years after Jonah gave his message of mercy - the message he didn’t want to give.
A message that came after God allowed the Northern Kingdom of Israel to be conquered and his people put in slavery.
The southern Kingdom, Judah, continues to exist,
but is facing the unrelenting conquest of Assyria at it’s borders edge.
HOOK:
Now as we consider the first chapter of Nahum we should also consider:
One of the common reason’s people reject God - or at least a stated reason;
One of the common reason’s people reject God - or at least a stated reason
- is a belief that he is an unjust, mean bully.
ILLUSTRATION:
Perhaps you have experienced this when you have told people about the Gospel.
In love and compassion,
- you share the Gospel with someone who is in desperate need of Christ.
- You do this because
+ You can see in the emptiness and destruction of their lives
+ and their need for the peace that is only found in the Gospel.
So you share the good news of Jesus dying to save us and redeem us from the sin and corruptness of this world.
You can see in the emptiness and destruction of their lives.
But do they respond with thankfulness; accepting Christ
- Sometimes
- But other times,
They instead declare that God is an unjust, mean, in-compassionate, bully - who deserves no respect.
There stated proof:
an example, of their in eyes, when God ignored their suffering or didn’t answer their prayers.
an example, of their in eyes, when God ignored their suffering.
the legalism of their parents.
or the emptiness of their attempts at religion.
Or the idea of God eternally punishes unbelievers.
Or the idea of God eternally punishing unbelievers.
I draw your attention to their rejection;
because it touches on one of the basic questions of life.
What kind of God do we have?
One of the major questions of life is this-
What kind of God do we have?
And in that debate is the secondary question -
Is God good or is God vengeful?
What about Christians?
Do we struggle with understanding what kind of God we have.
The unbelieving world certainly struggles with whether God is good or vengeful
But when Christians observe suffering in this life - don’t we struggle with God’s goodness.
When God chooses to allow -
- The evangelist to die in car crash while traveling on the road.
- When our family members and children - walk away from faith in Christ.
- When our family and children - walk away from faith in Christ.
- When we can’t overcome our fears and anxiety.
- When our own sin or doubt causes us to question or forget his forgiveness.
At those times,
many Christians struggle with the question - Is God a good God?
So in our world - God’s goodness is questioned -
Or
By Unbelievers - who wonder >>>How can a vengeful God be good and just?
Am I really deserving judgement and wrath.
God’s goodness is questioned -
By Believers - who wonder >>> How can God be good or just >>> if I suffer?
The Prophet Nahum,
Addresses the question -
Is God good or is God vengeful?
If you would pause with me,
and contrast the book of Jonah we just finished and the book of Nahum we are beginning.
we will begin a study through the book of Nahum.
While Jonah describes God’s incredible mercy and forgiveness at the repentance of Nineveh.
While Jonah describes God’s incredible mercy and forgiveness at the repentance of Nineveh.
Nahum describes God’s unrelenting vengeance against Nineveh for their idolatry, wickedness, and oppression of God’s people.
May I say,
- it is the message Jonah wanted to hear - God’s vengeance against the Ninevites.
- But God gave it almost 100 years after Jonah gave his message of mercy - the message he didn’t want to give.
- A message that came after God allowed the Northern Kingdom of Israel to be conquered and his people put in slavery.
The southern Kingdom, Judah, continues to exist,
Questions that come about God’s working in Nineveh.
but is facing the unrelenting conquest of Assyria at it’s borders edge.
And we began in this first chapter,
Now as we consider the first chapter of Nahum we should also consider:
Notice the questions that arise out of God’s working in Nineveh.
The most obvious feature of this text is that God seeks vengeance has come against the Ninevites
The most obvious feature of this text is that God seeks vengeance against the Ninevites
To the Ninevites - Is God unjust in vengeance?
>>>The most obvious feature of this text is that God seeks vengeance against the Ninevites
To the Israelites - Is God unjust in allowing his people to suffer?
>>> They are being oppressed by the Ninevites - and why hasn’t God come to rescue them.
And those same questions arise today.
Is God unjust to punish unbelievers?
Is God unjust for allowing his people to suffer?
2600 years of time, and we wondering the same question.
From this text,
we are going to get birds eye view of what Kind of God we worship.
>>>>Is he God of goodness OR is he God of vengeance.
I think after we have considered this chapter,
we conclude that the answer to that question is - God is just.
And as we consider the first chapter Nahum,
PROPOSITION: We ought to believe God justly rules in our lives
TRANSITION: and this text gives us 3 reasons’s for why God is just.
The first reason we ought to believe God rules justly is because:
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