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INTRODUCTION:
When considering both history and the modern world,
people have designed amazing inventions.
In our modern world,
We live in a world of airplanes and vehicles.
- Many average people drive Pickup trucks that can go 100 miles an hour.
Something unthinkable even 150 years ago.
- We regularly travel in airplanes -
Airplanes can reach 10,000 feet on a regular basis.
- which defy gravity by allowing 745,000 lb aircraft to fly.
- In fact, you can go to Air shows watch the amazing maneuvers that can be accomplished in an airplane.
Airplanes can reach 10,000 feet on a regular basis.
In fact, you can go to Air shows watch the amazing maneuvers that can accomplished in an airplane.
- Or how about a submarine?
Literally a dead weight that should sink, but instead floats.
In fact it can sink and float on command.
- Or how about electricity?
We live in day when, electricity is considered a right to possess.
Whether rich or poor,
- we turn on lights, run stoves, heaters, computers at the flick of a switch.
- There is no need for a generator or a lantern, we can turn lights at the flip of the switch.
There is no need for a generator or a lantern, we can turn lights at the flip of the switch.
Yet, as we consider the ancient World,
are physic defying inventions new?
- How about the Hanging Gardens of Nineveh?
- That’s right, Nineveh.
One of the 7 Wonders of the Ancient Wonders of the Ancient World was the hanging Gardens of Babylon.
Where they figured out how to engineer water supply on top of terraces.
According to some ancient clay pictures,
That invention was found at Nineveh before it was built in Babylon.
- The City of Thebes, Egypt, was another one of those cities with amazing inventions.
There temples are massive amazing structures.
Built not with portable concrete,
but solid rock..
(((((Thebes Hypostyle Hall Slide))))))
- Or how about the massive wall fortresses that were built around cities in the Ancient Near East.
(((((Show Nineveh Gate Slide))))))
Nineveh for example,
had 3 mile long double-walled gate system around it’s city.
The City of Thebes, Egypt, was another one of those cities with amazing inventions.
Each of these structures ar
Whether modern or Ancient,
There temples are massive amazing structures.
Built not with portable concrete,
The ability of man to invent is amazing.
We stand in awe - at the gravity defying, detailed complexity of many inventions.
but solid rock..
Yet, as great as modern and ancient wonders are -
God is 100 times more magnificent.
And we are going to see how magnificent God is in and .
(((((Thebes Hypostyle Hall Slide))))))
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HOOK: Something about something being magnificent.
ILLUSTRATION:
For many of us, some of the inventions
As we consider the Prophecy of Nahum
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7 Wonders of the World
PROPOSITION: God’s Magnificence Demands our Worship
TRANS: And the defeat of Nineveh gives us 4 reason’s why his magnificence demands our worship.
The first reason,
1.
The Defeat of Nineveh Demonstrates God’s Unconditional Love.
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CLARIFICATION:
For many people,
the first natural response is to be horrified at what this prophecy declares.
And understandably,
this is a horrific judgement.
Now we could talk about why God is just and Holy for condemning Nineveh,
and we have already done that in the last two sermons.
But this book is not written to Nineveh.
This book is instead written to Israel about Nineveh.
The book of Jonah describes God sending a message to Nineveh.
But this book is instead written to Israel about Nineveh.
That is important for us to remember, because it changes the focus of the book.
That is important for us to remember, because it changes the focus of the book.
Instead of being a guilty verdict by an uncaring judge,
It is instead a declaration of unconditional Love and protection from Yahweh to his covenanted people.
It is essentially a declaration of Love and protection from Yahweh to his covenanted people.
ILLUSTRATION:
I mean,
how should a husband respond,
if he was out of town - someone came into his house
murdered or kidnapped his children.
beat his wife.
and stole everything that wasn’t nailed down.
Or may I say, even was threatened to do so.
Any husband who truly loves his family,
would come in with vengeance
- seeking retribution
- and seeking to eliminate any threat to his family.
It is what husbands and fathers do.
I mean - many of you men today are carrying weapons or have them in your homes
- how would you respond if this happened to your family.
And explains that God is acting against Nineveh - in unconditional steadfast love for His people.
So in the end,
it is about Israel and not Nineveh.
If you were the oppressed, defeated people of God - Israel;
and Yahweh was your God.
What would these words mean to you?
They would be the sweet words of love, mercy, and grace.
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