May 13, 2018 |Thread

The Lord Is

05.13.18 | Thread

The Lord Is

Noel Heikkinen

Nahum

Wrath, vengeance, jealousy, and power. These are all attributes of God we tend to place under the likes of love, grace, and forgiveness. Yet it is in God’s wrath, vengeance, jealousy, and power that we see His love for us. Pastor Noel Jesse Heikkinen examines the words of the prophet Nahum as they show God’s character revealed in Jesus.

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The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;
the Lord is avenging and wrathful;
the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries
and keeps wrath for his enemies.
The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.

Nahum 1:2-3

 

The Lord is jealous.

Set me as a seal upon your heart,
as a seal upon your arm,
for love is strong as death,
jealousy is fierce as the grave.
Its flashes are flashes of fire,
the very flame of the Lord.
Many waters cannot quench love,
neither can floods drown it.
If a man offered for love
all the wealth of his house,
he would be utterly despised.

Song of Solomon 8:6-7

 

The Lord is avenging.

The Lord is wrathful.

Who can stand before his indignation?
Who can endure the heat of his anger?
His wrath is poured out like fire,
and the rocks are broken into pieces by him.

Nahum 1:6

 

The Lord is powerful.

His way is in whirlwind and storm,
and the clouds are the dust of his feet.
He rebukes the sea and makes it dry;
he dries up all the rivers;
Bashan and Carmel wither;
the bloom of Lebanon withers.
The mountains quake before him;
the hills melt;
the earth heaves before him,
the world and all who dwell in it.

Nahum 1:3-5

 

The Lord is jealous, avenging, wrathful, and powerful.

The Lord is slow to anger.

The Lord is a jealous and avenging God;
the Lord is avenging and wrathful;
the Lord takes vengeance on his adversaries
and keeps wrath for his enemies.
The Lord is slow to anger and great in power,
and the Lord will by no means clear the guilty.

Nahum 1:2-3

 

And you were dead in the trespasses and sins in which you once walked, following the course of this world, following the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that is now at work in the sons of disobedience— among whom we all once lived in the passions of our flesh, carrying out the desires of the body and the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, like the rest of mankind.

Ephesians 2:1-3

 

But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which he loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved— and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus,

Ephesians 2:4-6

 

The Lord is good,
a stronghold in the day of trouble;
he knows those who take refuge in him.

Nahum 1:7

 

The Lord is good.

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