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Introduction
What does it mean to revere something?
How do you know if you are revering something or someone?
Definition: feel deep respect or admiration for (something)
Originally it meant to fear
Transition: In this next few verses, we see a the Saviours Call to revere Him
The Saviours Call to Revere Him Vs. 7a
Be silent before the Lord God!
There is no self defence.
You’re quiet because there’s nothing you can say.
This is language that causes us to stand there and think about who God is.
To be reverent to him.
Why?
Application: It’s easy to think: “yes, God’s going to get all these people the be quiet.”
But right here, in this passage, God is talking to his people, not those who aren’t.
So what is about to be said here is like having God’s figure pointing right at me and right at you.
If you and I walk away from this thinking or talking about all the other people here, we've missed the point.
The Lord has prepared a sacrifice
Transition: The saviour calls us to revere him, to stand silent before him.
The Saviour tells us why he is to be revered Vs. 7b-18
His people are to revere him?
Vs. 7b - 13
The day of the Lord is near When we think about it what this day is, it’s pointing to a future point When God will eradicate all evil from the world and all those who rebelled against him
“The Day of The Lord” is an outgrowth of the reality that God is holy and just.
prepared a sacrifice We have to see this.
If God is just, then he must judge his sin.
God must appease his just wrath, whether on the sinner or on the substitute.
God calls us to revere him as the living God by honouring, obeying, exalting, worshipping, and trusting Him for our salvation.
The big word is: Atonement.
What is it?
vs. 9 leaps over the threshold, it is a pagan routine, possibly a Philistine practice (cf.
).
Violence and fraud are evil acts in opposition to the healing and truth that come from truly worshiping God.
The people where not revering God and it was leading to live a life that was counter to a life that worshipped God.
would God be anymore pleased with what you do on Monday morning or Saturday evenings in a land dotted with Christian churches.
Is the life you portray here on Sunday, the same life you live throughout your week?
Worshiping the Lord meant a great deal more than performing ritual.
The prophets could even think that worship could affect relationships with other people and the practices of everyday life.
a few years ago, I remember Steph confronted me about how she felt that the front our family gave on Sunday wasn't the same throughout the week.
Vs. 10 Fish Gates…Second Quarter The geography of the area meant that most trouble would come from the north.
This area was a sort of a land bridge.
All commerce wold come from the north.
God’s judgement of his people would happen right at the heart of what they put their trust in.
Do you hear the wailing as their security is wipped out.
Can you imagine It?
Vs. 12 with lamps No sin won't be found out.
There is no hiding.
Complacent who are complacent these are the people who saying that there’s a God, but ignore God’s lordship.
These are the people who are self-secure and undisturbed.
“Complacent” or are thickening on the dregs It’s a wine-making processes.
When fermented wine was poured from one jug to another to separate the wine from the sediment.
If the wine sits to long , it gets thick and is ruined.
This picture is talking about people who have lived in uninterrupted prosperity and have come complacent.
this is called “practical atheism”
People have deified themselves.
They are thinking that their might and what they can do with their own hands have gotten them weathly.
They have become so use their their lives that they couldn’t see what they had become.
The people don’t revere God and it comes through in their actions.
This is the theme here.
God’s people didnt revere him.
They didn’t think God won't fulfill his promises of blessing or curse .
They ignored the lordship of God.
They recognized the existence of God, but they lived as deists, believing God would never fulfill his promises of blessing or curse, “good” or “ill”.
We stand here and wonder if God will do good or evil all the time.
“God when will you do something.”
Instead of leading to deeper humility and gratitude for mercy, God’s delayed punishment had resulted in the people’s failure to fear God’s wrath or to desire his blessing.
Yet such practical atheism is foolish ().
God’s patience did not mean he would automatically clear the guilty.
It means he’s being patient.
DeRouchie, J. S. (2018).
Zephaniah.
In I. M. Duguid, J. M. Hamilton Jr., & J. Sklar (Eds.),
Daniel–Malachi (Vol.
VII, p. 579).
Wheaton, IL: Crossway.
how can we think God won't do what he says he will.
How can we pray that God bless us when we have been acting in disobedienc?
There’s no such thing as an absentee God.
Nothing escapes God’s attention.
You see that in
Vs. 13 everything they have put security in will be destroyed.
Application: God’s judgement starts with where the people's hearts are.
God comes and destroys the things we have revered and demands that he is the only one is revered.
His people have ignored
Transition: It's not just his people that he calls to revere, but the whole world.
There's a shift in scope that happens in verse 14.
The world is to revere him?
Vs. 14 - 18
Vs.
14.
Great Even thought this is talking about the punishment that came in 586 BC, this is pointing to the final judgement that comes through the return of Jesus.
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Near and Hastening fast
Vs. 15 -16 A day of wrath is that day with amazing clarity, there are details of the horror of God’s judgement.
against the fortified cities even the most secure stronghold are unable to withstand God’s destructive power.
Vs. 16
Vs.
17 - 18 Distress on mankind the nature of the punishment
walk like the blind a covenant curse () points to the spiritual inability to see God’s beauty and one’s own neediness.
Neither silver nor their gold.
Whether “silver” and “gold” refer to money (v.
11; ) or to the idols shaped from them (, ; ; ), no form of earthly or spiritual power can rescue the rebel from God’s wrath (cf.
).
Such salvation comes “not with perishable things such as silver or gold, but with the precious blood of Christ” ().
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