5 REPETITIVE CYCLES OF AMAZING GOODNESS DESPITE GOD’S UNGRATEFUL REBELLION MAN’S Historical review started last week in Neh 9 with this great prayer of confession of sin and testimony to Covenant Loyalty. You remember it started with the Call of God’s Abraham and the formation of the nation of Israel from the Book of Genesis (Neh then continued into Book of Exodus (Neh 9:9-12); then the giving of the Law and the preservation of the nation in the wilderness through vs. 15. 8 WAYS WE EXPERIENCE COVENANT LOYALTY [Last Week’s theme: GOD’S PROMPTING OUR WORSHIP] – Today we are looking at Neh 9:16-31 I (Neh 9:16-17) CONTRAST BETWEEN REBELLION AND MAN’S GOD’S GOODNESS PERIOD OF NUMBERS AND WILDERNESS WANDERINGS A. – Ungrateful Rebellion Despising the Goodness of God Man’s – Root Problem = Pride in establishing Self as the Ultimate Authority "But they, our fathers, acted arrogantly;” In contrast to God . . . = talking about the people of God; we know that “our father” unbelievers refuse to recognize the authority of God and set themselves up as the
5 REPETITIVE CYCLES OF GOD’S AMAZING GOODNESS DESPITE MAN’S UNGRATEFUL REBELLION Historical review started last week in Neh 9 with this great prayer of confession of sin and testimony to God’s Covenant Loyalty. You remember it started with the Call of Abraham and the formation of the nation of Israel from the Book of Genesis (Neh then continued into Book of Exodus (Neh 9:9-12); then the giving of the Law and the preservation of the nation in the wilderness through vs. 15. [Last Week’s theme: 8 WAYS WE EXPERIENCE GOD’S COVENANT LOYALTY – PROMPTING OUR WORSHIP] Today we are looking at Neh 9:16-31 I (Neh 9:16-17) CONTRAST BETWEEN MAN’S REBELLION AND GOD’S GOODNESS – PERIOD OF NUMBERS AND WILDERNESS WANDERINGS A. Man’s Ungrateful Rebellion – Despising the Goodness of God Root Problem = Pride in establishing Self as the Ultimate Authority "But they, our fathers, acted arrogantly;” In contrast to God . . . “our father” = talking about the people of God; we know that unbelievers refuse to recognize the authority of God and set themselves up as the
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