God's good judgement: how to resoponed to God's sovereign punishment
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Scripture Reading: Nahum 1
Opening Prayer
Introduction
Theology
Doctrine
Exposition
1 An oracle concerning Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum of Elkosh.
Oracle
Nineveh
Vision
Elkosh
2 The Lord is a jealous and avenging God; the Lord is avenging and wrathful; the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries and keeps wrath for his enemies.
Jealousy?
Good?
Avenging?
“Master of wrath”
“keeps wrath”
3 The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
What does it mean that God is slow to anger?
Jonah
Yet the guilty will not be “cleared”
God works in nature, in mysterious ways (see vs. 4)
4 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither; the bloom of Lebanon withers.
Fruitful areas
5 The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it.
God’s great power is unimaginable. Mountains can easily be understood as galaxies.
6 Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the heat of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.
Rhetorical questions
Answer, no one
God’s judgments
I. God’s judgment is unstoppable and pointed at the “guilty”
I. God’s judgment is unstoppable and pointed at the “guilty”
7 The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
Shift in tone
How does God “know” those who take refuge in Him?”
God is the “stronghold” or safe place
8 But with an overflowing flood he will make a complete end of the adversaries, and will pursue his enemies into darkness.
The oppressors (adversaries) will be ended and they cannot escape the LORD
9 What do you plot against the Lord? He will make a complete end; trouble will not rise up a second time.
“What do you plot against the Lord?” directed toward the people of Judah
What do you think about Yaweh?
Be assured that He will deliver you from your oppressor
The oppressors (Nineveh) will not again rise to power
Yet we know about Babylon
10 For they are like entangled thorns, like drunkards as they drink; they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
They have willingly placed themselves into a drunken stuppor by resisting the LORD and they will be utterly destroyed
11 From you came one who plotted evil against the Lord, a worthless counselor.
They are guilty of purposely rebelling
II. The guilty are those who rebel against God.
II. The guilty are those who rebel against God.
So who are the guilty?
In the passage: Nineveh
In Life?
The oppressors
Why doesn’t God judge?
3 The Lord is slow to anger and great in power, and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
He will
Is God too slow?
I’m glad He is as patient as He is
Why?
Because we are guilty as well
Gospel
Why does God Judge?
7 The Lord is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble; he knows those who take refuge in him.
What kind of “refuge” would he be if he didn’t defend those who take refuge?
Why does God judge?
because it is right
because He is good and does what is right?
Isn’t it unfair?
No, God made a way
Conclusion
Applications
Take refuge in God
Do not wait to follow God faithfully for judgment is coming
Be patient when you see the oppressors in the world for judgment is coming
Be patient but not “content”