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INTRODUCTION:
This verse is well know to us because of the song - Great is thy Faithfulness.
(109)
This was a favorite verse of Thomas Chisolm - who wrote the hymn.
Lamentations 3:22-23 describes One of the often overlooked truths of God - He is patient.
We are so often focused on his sacrifice - we forget that God is more than love.
He is patient.
We struggle so much with forgiveness and patience - that we forget God loves us with patience.
Guilt can often be so overwhelming - we forget that God loves us with patience.
And as we consider the Bible’s teaching - we are called to Patience.
So I challenge us to consider God’s Patience.
- We have been looking at Nehemiah 9:16-31 for a few weeks.
- Last week we examined God’s patience in the wilderness.
(v.
18-21)
This week I challenge us to two more monumental examples of God’s patience -
As I suggested last week -
PROP: God is Exceedingly Patient.
Trans: and we will look at two more monumental examples of God’s patience.
*********************Prayer*******************************
The First monumental example of patience from last week:
(1) Israel Choose Idolatry at Mount Sinai.
(Neh 9:18-21; Exodus 19-20, 32)
The second monumental example of patience:
(2) Their Rebellion After the Conquest (The Time of the Judges and the Kingdom).
(Neh 9:22-30a)
The history of Israel after they conquered the promised land is a great sign of God’s patience.
ILLUSTRATION:
I want you to think of a time when you were given a great gift, or maybe you gave a great gift.
When we are given something important and valuable - there some expectations that with that gift.
For example, You give your a child a nice new dresser.
Are there not expectations for how they are to use that dresser?
I a few years back I bought my daughter a dresser.
And sure enough I have an expectation for:
Her clothes to be put away.
She was to be careful not to scratch it.
To keep the handled tight on it.
The gift came with certain expectations.
Imagine giving your daughter a dresser,
and then finding it all scratched up.
And her clothes thrown on the floor.
How might mom or dad respond?
That is enough to make your blood boil.
Because the gift came with certain expectations.
Consider now our text.
(a) God gave Israel a great gift.
The Abrahamic Covenant (Genesis 15:7) and the Mosaic Covenant (Exodus 33:1-2) promised Israel the land of the Canaanites.
And Ezra recounts the giving of that land.
[For more information on - Sihon king of Heshbon and the land of Og king of Bashan, see Numbers 21:21-35.]
What does this passage teach?
Heshbon and Bashan are nations Israel conquered when they refused to let them pass to the promised land.
A Few million people filled a land up in a just a few generations.
They were to take possession of the land of Canaan.
Not a land empty and devastated,
but they were able to take whole cities and orchards.
It is one thing to conquer a nation, it is but another to be able to take over their homes, and food, and wealth.
If we had a description of Israel between the Exodus and the Exile - how might you describe that history?
V. 25 “So they ate and were filled and became fat and delighted themselves in your great goodness.”
Not their great goodness, But God’s goodness.
Israel rested in the incredible goodness of God.
Now that is a gift - God was good and kind to Israel.
And what expectation came with that gift?
That they Worship the Lord as the on true God,
they would obey his law,
and listen to his prophets.
But what we see in this period of time is the opposite.
Israel’s history can be described as a - Cycle of rebellion by Israel and patient mercy by God.
Our text records the incredible kindness of God-
God’s Grace to the Children of Israel (v.
22-25)
Their return to sin (v.
26-27a)
(Now some of this history is going to overlap)
Because v. 26 talks about prophets being killed,
but v. 27 talks about a saviors who came.
This word savior is probably better translated as deliverer.
and describes the Judges.
This same word is used in Judges 3:9.
Notice the cycle repeats itself again after that.
God’s Mercy (v. 26, 27b)
Their Return to Sin (v .28a)
God’s Mercy (28b)
Return to Sin/ God’s Mercy [Many Times] (v.
29-30)
And then our final cycle serves as a broad description of this cycle.
“Many Times” is a key word.
(b) What does this section teach?
God was patient with Israel despite their wicked and rebellious history.
The history of Israel in the time of the Judges and on up to the exile was rebellion.
But what was the root cause of their rebellion.
Judges 21:25 summarizes this period
Just take that theme - and run the course of history.
>>>>>Even past the book of Judges.
Rather than seeking the goodness and wisdom of God found in the Law;
They choose to do what is right in their own eyes.
Which really means - they choose to do what ever their flesh desired - regardless of whether God said it was foolish or not.
Scriptures teaches that sin blinds us,
and so often we think what we are doing is right.
But what we are doing is right in own blinded eyes,
What we are doing is actually sin and foolishness - and many times God even says so.
In essence, Israel blinded by pride and sin - did what was right in their eyes; and foolish in God’s eyes.
- that was Israel’s problem;
- and that is our problem at times.
As we consider why Israel rejected the covenant -
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