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NEHEMIAH 9

NEHEMIAH 9. Overview. Renewal of God Centeredness Repentance Reflection on God’s Goodness Recommitment to God’s Covenant. RENEWAL OF GOD CENTEREDNESS. SOURCE.

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NEHEMIAH 9

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  1. NEHEMIAH 9

  2. Overview • Renewal of God Centeredness • Repentance • Reflection on God’s Goodness • Recommitment to God’s Covenant

  3. RENEWAL OF GOD CENTEREDNESS

  4. SOURCE • A Christ-centered life begins with realizing that the source of everything we are is the Lord. He created us, he owns us, he gifted us with talents, he authors our story, and every blessing that we receive comes from him (Gen 1, Acts 17:26, James 1:17) • Christ is the source for our daily righteousness. We have no internal desire or moral ability to live up to biblical standards on our own, but in Christ, we have everything we need for godly living (2 Pet 1:3).

  5. MOTIVE • A Christ-centered life means that a ‘Person’ is the motivation for everything we think, say and do. Many of us leave little room for Christ in our Christianity.Our ability to "keep the law" or our pride in historic tradition shouldn't’t be what defines our faith, butthe person of Jesus. • A Christ-centered life is deeply intimate and motivated by relationship. (Phil 3:10)

  6. GOAL • A Christ-centered life has one ultimate goal: that Jesus gets the glory. It's not wrong to pursue personal goals, but the glory of Christ is the orienting compass that gives direction to all others. • Because we want Christ to be known, honored, worshipped and obeyed, we submit every other attainable goal to him. Our decisions are no longer controlled by selfish desires, but by new desires we get from his love (2 Cor 5:14-15).

  7. HOPE • A Christ-centered life puts all our eggs in the basket of the Lord. We know that this life is not all there is, and that an eternity is coming • (1 Cor 15:19, Rev 21:4). • But a Christ-centered life is more than just a ticket out of hell. We have hope in the here and now, because Christ has promised his presence and grace until we go home.

  8. REPENTANCE

  9. POSTER BEFORE ACTION • Knowing God exposes my lingering depravity. Therefore, knowing God requires repentance. • Progress in the Christian life is not repenting less, but repenting more. The mark of a Christian isn’t the absence of sin, it is the presence of repentance.

  10. RESPONSE TO HIS LOVE NOT A FEAR OF JUDGEMT • His kindness leads us to repentance. It is not our repentance that leads to his kindness, but his kindness that leads to our repentance. “Its not a requirement for God’s love; it is a result of God’s love.” • To see the depth of our sin, we first need to look at the height of God’s goodness.

  11. CHANGE OF DIRECTION • Repentance is a daily spiritual discipline • Repentance has practical implications

  12. REFLECTION ON GOD’S GOODNESS

  13. Gods Goodness in Creation v 6 You are the Lord, you alone. You have made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them; and you preserve all of them; and the host of heaven worships you.

  14. God’s Goodness in Election v 7,8 • 7 You are the Lord, the God who chose Abram and brought him out of Ur of the Chaldeans and gave him the name Abraham. 8 You found his heart faithful before you, and made with him the covenant to give to his offspring the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, and the Girgashite. And you have kept your promise, for you are righteous.

  15. God’s Goodness in Deliverance 9-12 9 And you saw the affliction of our fathers in Egypt and heard their cry at the Red Sea, 10 and performed signs and wonders against Pharaoh and all his servants and all the people of his land, for you knew that they acted arrogantly against our fathers. And you made a name for yourself, as it is to this day. 11 And you divided the sea before them, so that they went through the midst of the sea on dry land, and you cast their pursuers into the depths, as a stone into mighty waters. 12 By a pillar of cloud you led them in the day, and by a pillar of fire in the night to light for them the way in which they should go.

  16. God’s Goodness in Giving the Law 14 13.You came down on Mount Sinai and spoke with them from heaven and gave them right rules and truelaws, good statutes and commandments, 14. and you made known to them your holy Sabbath and commanded them commandments and statutes and a law by Moses your servant.

  17. Gods Goodness in Provision .15 You gave them bread from heaven for their hunger and brought water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and you told them to go in to possess the land that you had sworn to give them.

  18. RECOMMITMENT TO GOD’S COVENANT

  19. Highlights • ‘The covenant is a stunning blend of law and love. Stunning, because its a personal relationship made more loving and intimate, because it is legal. It is this way through voluntary, mutual, binding promises and vows to be loving and to be faithful, no matter what the circumstances are.’…Tim Keller • Christ himself is the New Testament covenant—a covenant that cannot fail and cannot be broken • It leads to absolute trust and obedience

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