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Jonah 3:1-10 – “Obedience and Repentance”

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My Bible study notes for Wednesday night, April 22nd. Remember, these are my personal study notes and not a manuscript of the sermon. They are provided as an outline each week for our Tabernacle Church family. You can find Sermon Notes, Family Devotional Guides, Prayer List, and other resources at our Church Website.

Jonah 3:1-10

INTRO

  • God called. Jonah rejected
  • God disciplined. Jonah repented.
  • God called. Jonah obeyed.
  • Jonah proclaimed. Nineveh repented.

The Call to Go to Nineveh – (part 2) – vv. 1-3

Arise, and go to Nineveh

  • God’s Word to Jonah

Jonah arose and went

  • Jonah’s obedience (this time)
  • Learning from our mistakes
  • John 1:9
    • Realize
    • Regret
    • Repent

We all make mistakes (none of us are perfect)

  • Abraham fled to Egypt and lied about his wife.
  • Jacob lied to his father.
  • Moses killed an Egyptian.
  • Peter denied Christ 3 times.

The People Believed – vv. 4-10

God’s Sovereign will

  • Belief in Nineveh
  • Man could not see it, but God did it.
  • God’s grace and mercy on display
  • Depravity. Grace.

All the details are not evident or necessary.

  • The Word Proclaim and the Word Believed
    • Go
    • Preach
    • Belief

Repentance

  • Sorrow over sin (mind)
  • Turning from sin (Life. Actions)
  • From the King to the people

God relented

  • A city of great wickedness
  • Received the grace and mercy of God
  • The Book of Nahum’s predicts the down of the city.
  • Falls to Babylon in 612 BC.

The conversion of the Ninevites in response to Jonah’s message of judgment took place about 760 b.c. The revival was evidently short-lived, because the Assyrians soon returned to their ruthless practices. In 722 b.c. Sargon II of Assyria destroyed Samaria, the capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, and scattered the ten tribes. Led by Sennacherib, the Assyrians also came close to capturing Jerusalem in the reign of King Hezekiah in 701 b.c. By the time of Nahum (c. 660 b.c.), Assyria reached the peak of its prosperity and power under Ashurbanipal (669–633 b.c.). This king extended Assyria’s influence farther than had any of his predecessors.

The Open Bible: New King James Version, electronic ed. (Nashville: Thomas Nelson Publishers, 1998).

Nehemiah 10:1-39

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Nehemiah 10:1-39 – A Commitment to Change

INTRO

  • The wall is finished.
  • Now Nehemiah prepares the people to succeed
  • Chapters 8–13 is the preparation of the people
  • They are making the commitment necessary to be the people called has called them to be.

We will be a consecrated people– vv. 1-28

  • Declared sacred.  We are your people
  • Nehemiah the Governor to the Temple servants
    • Everyone… great and small
  • They were all united on how they were to live
  • The commitment to LIVE FOR GOD
  • I will do this!

We will separate from the world – vv. 28 & 30

  • Separated from the peoples of the land
  • No inner marriages
    • Not allowing the people of the land to pull us away from God
  • A HOLY PEOPLE
  • Live differently.  Striving to be different

We will walk in the truth – v. 29

  • walk in God’s Law
  • to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and
  • his rules and his statutes.
  • God’s Word – The Bible
  • Believe and Live out truth
  • Seek it out and Live it out
  • Living under the authority of God

We will be people of true worship – vv. 31-39

  • The sabbath
  • Their tithes
  • Their offerings
  • Their temple

WE WILL NOT NEGLECT THE HOUSE OF THE LORD

A worship that focuses on GOD… and not man.

The understood their responsibility

  • The Old Covenant Law/Temple
  • The New Covenant – Grace/Jesus
    • MyTime
    • My Talents
    • My Treasures
    • As we serve the Lord

Nehemiah 9:6-31

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My sermon notes for Wednesday night, Sept 7th.  Remember, these are my personal study notes and not a manuscript of the sermon. They are provided as an outline each week for our Tabernacle Church family. The church provides a live stream of the service each Wednesday at 6:30 on Facebook. We also provide the services through YouTube. You can find Sermon Notes, Family Devotional Guides, Prayer List, and other resources at our Church Website.

Nehemiah 9:6-31 – “The Prayer for True Revival”

INTRO

  • The wall is finished.
  • Now Nehemiah prepares the people to succeed
  • Chapters 8–13 is the preparation of the spiritual people
  • A spiritual revival – A Nation/People set apart for God
  • Nehemiah continues to encourage REVIVAL within the people.
  • They acknowledged God for who He was, what He had done, and what He will continue to do.

Acknowledge God for who He is– v. 6

  • God of Creation
  • In the beginning God created – Gen. 1:1
  • You are God alone…You made

Acknowledge God for what He has done – vv. 7-30

  • Forming the nation
    • Abraham
  • Preparing the people
    • Moses/Egypt – vv. 7-8
    • Deliverance – vv. 9—15
    • Disobedience – vv. 16-18
    • Preparation – vv. 19- 22
    • Occupation – vv. 23-25
  • The cycle of sin – vv. 26-30
    • Obey
    • Wandering/Disobeying
      • Spiritual laziness
      • Lose our focus
      • Mission amnesia

Acknowledge God for what He will continue to do – vv. 31-38

  • Now therefore
    • In the present, Now, TODAY
  • Our God, great, mighty, awesome
  • YET – v. 33
    • In their sin… God has been righteous
  • It is on us.  We deserve your judgment – vv. 34-37
  • Therefore we repent – v. 38
    • Make a firm covenant (agreement)
    • Names… it is personal.
  • v. 17 – But you are a God ready to forgive, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and did not forsake them
2 Chronicles 7:13–15
When I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain, or command the locust to devour the land, or send pestilence among my people, [14] if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. [15] Now my eyes will be open and my ears attentive to the prayer that is made in this place. (ESV)