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“ Summary, Part 4 (final) ” III. IF YOU WOULD NOT RETURN TO YOUR FORMER SLAVERY, REMEMBER HOW YOU WERE DELIVERED [39:36]. A. BY DEEDS OF DIVINE LOVE AND GRACE. One would think that God's plagues on Egypt, His parting of the Red Sea, and His destruction of pharaoh and his army would be burned into Israel's heart and memory. But unbelief and rebellion cruelly shorten our memories. Col 2:13-15 - note that this miraculous act does not come from mere obedience. B. BY A GOD WHOSE MERCY NEVER FAILS (v. 17) [45:50]. His grace is greater than all our sins (cf. Ex 34:6-7). Though we're quick to sin, God is slow to anger. CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS [48:52]. 1. The painful remembrance of sin's bitterness and the sweet experience of God's forgiveness should keep you repentant, encourage your obedience, and prevent you from returning to your former bondage. 2. Meditate often on your duty to the God who created you and who has brought you into a blessed covenant relationship with Himself if you would not return to your former bondage. 3. Meditate often on the Lord's forgiving love, grace, and mercy if you would not return to your former bondage.
Ian Migala (8/31/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 3 ” B. YOU ARE DELIVERED BY ONE WHO IS NOW YOUR COVENANT GOD (Neh 9:7-16) [27:38]. Seven blessings can help us remember our former slavery: 1. HE CHOOSES AND CALLS HIS ORPHANED PEOPLE (v. 7) [28:38]. He called Abram from paganism to the spiritual fatherhood of God’s people. 2. HE BLESSES HIS CHOSEN PEOPLE (v. 8) [29:21]. This former pagan was promised the land that was later delivered into the hands of his descendants. 3. HE RESCUES HIS OPPRESSED PEOPLE (vv. 9-11) [30:27]. God not only blesses His people but destroys their enemies; He is merciful to His people and faithful to His covenant. 4. HE GUIDES HIS WAYWARD PEOPLE (v. 12). He not only saves but leads His people along their sanctification. 5. HE RULES HIS LAWLESS PEOPLE (vv. 13-14). He gives His covenant people a divine constitution. 6. HE FURNISHES HIS NEEDY PEOPLE (v. 15). In the wilderness, He gave them the bread and water of life. 7. HE CHASTENS HIS SINFUL PEOPLE (v. 16). He disciplines those who He loves. III. IF YOU WOULD NOT RETURN TO YOUR FORMER SLAVERY, REMEMBER HOW YOU WERE DELIVERED [39:36]. A. BY DEEDS OF DIVINE LOVE AND GRACE. One would think that God's plagues on Egypt, His parting of the Red Sea, and His destruction of pharaoh and his army would be burned into Israel's heart and memory. But unbelief and rebellion
Ian Migala (8/31/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 2 ” The lesson for us is that we must not forget God if we would avoid serious chastening from His hand. Sin makes us forget God. Another lesson is that freedom is a dangerous thing when it is abused, especially when it makes us forget the Lord. When we forget the Lord, we will return to sin and its misery and cruel bondage. Sin is lawlessness: it rebels against God’s authority because it rebels against God Himself. It replaces the perspective of God’s truth with the perspective of our own fallen flesh and distorts everything (Prov 2:13-15, Ex 16:2-3, Num 11:4-6). II. IF YOU WOULD NOT RETURN TO YOUR FORMER SLAVERY, REMEMBER WHO DELIVERED YOU (Neh 9:6-16) [23:00]. The cure for the madness of sin is to remember the Lord: we turn to Him to be saved and to be safe. A. YOU ARE DELIVERED BY ONE WHO IS ALMIGHTY GOD [24:10]. 1. HE IS THE ONLY GOD. That fact is that He is our God, and so we owe Him allegiance. 2. HE IS THE CREATOR WHO GIVES LIFE TO ALL THINGS (v. 6) [25:26]. How wicked that we live as though He doesn’t exist, especially when we wouldn’t exist if He didn’t exist. 3. HE IS THE GLORIOUS ONE BEFORE WHOM THE HEAVENLY HOST BOWS [26:20]. Even the mighty angels prostrate themselves before Him in praise and worship (Rev 4:9-11).
Ian Migala (8/31/2015)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 1 ” As regenerate Christians, we should have no desire to return to our former bondage to sin. As much as we must look forward to our blessed hope, it is critical that we look back and remember that from which we were saved: slavery to the world, the flesh, and the devil. Nehemiah tells of how quick Israel was to not only turn back to Egypt, but to their slavery in Egypt (Neh 9:17), even despite all of God’s wonders. I. IF YOU WOULD NOT RETURN TO YOUR FORMER SLAVERY, REMEMBER WHAT YOU WERE DELIVERED FROM [starting at 7:00 of the audio]. This sounds academic, but sin has a way of making us forget its bondage and cruelty. Sin always comes in disguise, making empty promises and delivering nothing but pain. When one reads Ex 2:23-25, which was the product of over 400 years, it is amazing to consider that Israel was ready to turn back within weeks of their deliverance. In Deut 26:6-9, forty years later, Moses put past and future in view when he reminded them of their cry to God as they were about to enter the Promised Land. Almost a thousand years after that, after seventy years of captivity to the Babylonians as judgment for continued disobedience, Nehemiah is reminding them of the danger of forgetting the Lord.
