Nahum week 2

Daniel Bryan

Nahum • Sermon • Submitted 4 years ago

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Opening

Nahum 1:2–6 ESV

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. 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. 4 He rebukes the sea and makes it dry; he dries up all the rivers; Bashan and Carmel wither; the bloom of Lebanon withers. 5 The mountains quake before him; the hills melt; the earth heaves before him, the world and all who dwell in it. 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.

God’s power is clearly seen.

God controls the weather. v3

Genesis 2:6 ESV

6 and a mist was going up from the land and was watering the whole face of the ground—

Remember Pharaoh’s mistake

Pharaoh chased Israel into the sea and died.

Remember Soddom and Gomorrah?

Remember how beautiful the land was?

Genesis 13:10 ESV

10 And Lot lifted up his eyes and saw that the Jordan Valley was well watered everywhere like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, in the direction of Zoar. (This was before the Lord destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.)

God devastated the land.

God has power to wipe out peoples and nations.

Opening Up Nahum Is History Dry as Dust?

Is history dry as dust?

These historical references should not lull anyone into a false sense of security, for the Bible is always forward looking. Therefore, do not become complacent. Whatever has happened in the past will pale into insignificance when Jesus comes again.

History records God’s dealings in the past and the Bible points to God’s dealings in the future.

Nineveh did not believe God and his word. Are we in danger of making the same mistake?

Discussion

1: When we read the account of Soddom and Gomorrah and their destruction does this run contrary to the Bible’s statements about God being a God of love?

2: Does God use the elements of nature today against the nations of the world?

Isaiah 30:30–32 ESV

30 And the Lord will cause his majestic voice to be heard and the descending blow of his arm to be seen, in furious anger and a flame of devouring fire, with a cloudburst and storm and hailstones. 31 The Assyrians will be terror-stricken at the voice of the Lord, when he strikes with his rod. 32 And every stroke of the appointed staff that the Lord lays on them will be to the sound of tambourines and lyres. Battling with brandished arm, he will fight with them.

3: If the Bible prophecies both judgement and future blessings does this give us hope?

Ezekiel 47:7–12 ESV

7 As I went back, I saw on the bank of the river very many trees on the one side and on the other. 8 And he said to me, “This water flows toward the eastern region and goes down into the Arabah, and enters the sea; when the water flows into the sea, the water will become fresh. 9 And wherever the river goes, every living creature that swarms will live, and there will be very many fish. For this water goes there, that the waters of the sea may become fresh; so everything will live where the river goes. 10 Fishermen will stand beside the sea. From Engedi to Eneglaim it will be a place for the spreading of nets. Its fish will be of very many kinds, like the fish of the Great Sea. 11 But its swamps and marshes will not become fresh; they are to be left for salt. 12 And on the banks, on both sides of the river, there will grow all kinds of trees for food. Their leaves will not wither, nor their fruit fail, but they will bear fresh fruit every month, because the water for them flows from the sanctuary. Their fruit will be for food, and their leaves for healing.”