slides for sermon

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LIVING IN A
SINFUL NATION
Anxieties and Goals

3. Do all passages about O.T. Israel
apply to our nation?
•2 Chron. 7:14 - 14 if My people who are called by My name
will 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.
•Jeremiah 29:10 - For thus says the LORD: After seventy
years are completed at Babylon, I will visit you and
perform My good word toward you, and cause you to
return to this place.
•Jeremiah 29:11 - For I know the thoughts that I think
toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of
evil, to give you a future and a hope.

4. Do all passages about O.T. Israel
apply to our nation?
•Deuteronomy 28 – Blessings for obedience/curses for
disobedience
•Jeremiah 9:11 “I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins,
a den of jackals. I will make the cities of Judah
desolate, without an inhabitant.”
•In the New Testament age, it is very difficult to tell if
God is purposely blessing or cursing a nation
because of their actions

5. The Dispensations
•Patriarchal law
•Abraham was the leader and spiritual leader of his
people (Gen. 17:26-27)
•Law of Moses
•Moses brought down a law specifically for the
nation of Israel
•Law of Christ
•Given to the apostles by the Holy Spirit

6. Before Jesus, God had a focus on the
repentance of individual nations
• God set up a time table to allow longsuffering for the Amorites
(Gen. 15:16)
• God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah because of their wickedness
(Gen. 19)
• God wanted the nation of Israel to repent (2 Chron. 7:14)
• God sent Jonah to get Nineveh to repent (Jonah 3:1-10)
• God put the nation of Israel in captivity (2 Kings 17)
• God destroyed Nineveh because of their wickedness (Nahum)
• God put the nation of Judah in captivity (Jeremiah)
• God takes Babylon away from King Belshazzar
(Daniel 5:22-24)

7. Now, God has a focus on the repentance of
individual people or churches
• Jesus is sent to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10)
• Jesus does not care what nation the lost belong to
(Acts 10:34-36)
• God adds His people to His Church (Acts 2:47)
• God gives only one city a warning of destruction in the New
Testament (Luke 21:20-24)
• God deals with every local church in the New Testament. He
encourages them to press on, or rebukes them to repentance
(Rev. 3:1-6)

8. What should my focus be on?
•I should be concerned about my soul.
• Therefore, my beloved, as you have always obeyed, not as in my presence
only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with
fear and trembling; (Phil. 2:12)
•I should be concerned about my neighbor’s
soul.
•Sin does harm a community
•Prov. 14:34 - Righteousness exalts a nation,
But sin is a reproach to any people.
•I should be concerned about shining the light
of Christ.

9. Matthew 5:14-16
14 “You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a
hill cannot be hidden. 15 Nor do they light a lamp and
put it under a basket, but on a lampstand, and it gives
light to all who are in the house. 16 Let your light so
shine before men, that they may see your good works
and glorify your Father in heaven.