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All right, my Bible and 365 
brothers and sisters, we have 

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arrived at the book of Nehum and
folks, this one is a doozy. 

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You are going to love it. 
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Now, let's just talk about this 

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briefly, and then I'm going to 
go through one of my favorite 

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passages in the book of Nehom. 
And I think it is critical and I

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think it's important. 
And we cannot ignore the message

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that we find, by the way, right 
out of chapter 1. 

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And I absolutely love it. 
So what is Nehum all about? 

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OK, Nehum is a prophecy 
concerning Nineveh, which at the

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time was the capital of the 
Assyrian Empire. 

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Now, this is the same Nineveh 
that we know from Jonah. 

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Remember the whole story of 
Jonah getting swallowed up by 

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the big fish in Jonah's day? 
Nineveh actually repented when 

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Jonah preached to them more than
a century later. 

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Keep this in mind. 
Just a century later, Assyria 

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had returned to the terrible 
wickedness that they were 

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actually doing, and Assyria 
became one of the most brutal 

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empires, literally of the 
ancient world. 

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As a matter of fact, modern day 
terrorism as we know it came 

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from Tigliff Pleaser. 
We should understand that this 

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is all the Assyrian Empire. 
They conquered the northern 

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Kingdom of Israel and very much 
terrorized Judah. 

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We know the story of this. 
We just recently went over it in

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Isaiah on Sunday nights and and 
remember what happens here. 

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Nahum comes in and he announces 
that God's patience with Nineveh

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has reached its end. 
And of course, historically 

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speaking, Nineveh fell to the 
Babylonians and the Medes in 

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612. 
BC now these are. 

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All very important because the 
real big idea here and this is 

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really incredible to see. 
This is when you look at Jonah. 

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Jonah shows us God's mercy 
towards a repentant Nineveh. 

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Yet Nahum comes in and shows us 
God's judgment when later 

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generations completely. 
Reject him. 

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And that is important. 
So let's go to some of my 

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favorite verses. 
I think they're critical here in

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this passage. 
And this starts in Nahum chapter

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one. 
I'm going to read verse two and 

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three. 
It says this God is jealous and 

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the Lord revenge. 
The Lord revenge and is furious.

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The Lord will take vengeance on 
his adversaries and he reserveth

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wrath for his enemies. 
The Lord is slow to anger and 

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great in power and will not at 
all acquit the wicked course. 

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The way that that finishes in 
verse 3 is remarkable, but I 

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want you to notice the balance. 
I want you to notice that it 

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says the Lord is slow to anger. 
Nineveh itself was a literal 

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proof of that. 
God had previously warned the 

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city and shown them mercy. 
Yet generations had passed since

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the time of Jonah, and God's 
judgment was absolutely not 

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impulsive. 
His patience should never be 

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confused with his approval. 
I say this all the time. 

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God isn't is unmistakably 
consistent. 

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Yet people can mistake delayed 
judgment for no judgment, and 

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that is an error. 
Nekhalim actually said says God 

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will not at all acquit the 
wicked. 

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Evil does not simply disappear 
from God's accounting. 

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And I find a lot of peace in 
that statement. 

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The fact that God has not judged
something yet in this current 

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moment does not mean that He 
will never judge it. 

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And I find so much peace in 
that, especially in the crazy 

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world that we live in with crazy
people who say crazy things 

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online. 
Let me read poor of verse 5 and 

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6 to you, and it's really 
important that you pay attention

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to these very specific words. 
Look at this. 

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The mountains quake at him, and 
the hills melt, and the earth is

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burned at his presence. 
And then Nehum asked this 

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question. 
Who can stand before his 

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indignation and who can abide in
the fierceness of his anger? 

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You think about this for a 
second, you guys look at the 

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history of this. 
Assyria looked unstoppable. 

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I mean, to Judah, Nineveh 
represented overwhelming amounts

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of human power. 
Nehom completely changes the 

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perspective here. 
The question is not whether 

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Judah can stand against Assyria.
The question actually becomes, 

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can Assyria stand against God? 
Of course we know that the 

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answer is no. 
We know how this works. 

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Empires will rise. 
Armies will typically come and 

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go. 
They they they grow as empires 

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begin to grow. 
But just understand that the 

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natural pattern is that humanity
becomes arrogant when things 

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like that happen, and yet God 
remains sovereign over all of 

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them, over the wicked and those 
who are not wicked. 

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This, in my opinion, is one of 
the major messages of NEHEM. 

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Never measure God's power by the
size of the enemy standing in 

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front of you. 
OK, never ever, ever. 

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Why? 
Because God is bigger. 

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Now This is why I'm bringing up 
the. 

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Whole passage because I believe 
one of the most beautiful 

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verses. 
In all of Nehem's writing is in 

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verse 7. 
Look what it says. 

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It's hard to not get emotional. 
The Lord is good, a stronghold. 

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In the day of trouble. 
And he knoweth them that. 

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Trust. 
In him. 

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I think that when you read this 
it it almost seems surprising. 

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After everything nehem. 
Has just said about judgment, 

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but it shouldn't. 
None of this should surprise us.

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The God who judges Nineveh is 
the same God who protects his 

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people. 
Think of the phrase the Lord is 

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good his His judgment doesn't 
contradict his goodness. 

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He judges because he is 
righteous. 

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I mean, think about the 
beautiful words. 

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A stronghold in the day of 
trouble. 

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What does that mean? 
The stronghold is a place of 

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safety and protection. 
God doesn't promise that there 

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will never be a day of trouble. 
He promises that he is our 

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stronghold in the day of 
trouble. 

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And look what it says. 
He knoweth them that trust in 

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Him. 
This is more than God simply 

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knowing that we that we exist. 
There's a relationship here in 

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the middle of national upheaval,
and I think we're seeing some of

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that. 
We have seen this in the middle 

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of coming judgement. 
God knows exactly who belongs. 

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To him, and that is so 
encouraging. 

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Now, the message that Nekrom has
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Much for us, Nekrom gives us 2 
truths that have to stay 

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together, and they're critical 
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Never presume upon the patience.
Of God. 

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Yet at the same time, never 
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Nineveh had experienced. 
God's. 

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Mercy before. 
But a previous generations 

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repentance could not substitute 
for their own relationship with 

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God. 
Judah on the other hand. 

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Was looking. 
At an enemy that seemed 

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impossible to to to defeat if 
God's answer to both was 

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essentially the same. 
I see. 

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Everything. 
I have not lost control. 

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I will deal with evil and I know
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In me. 
This is why verse 7 is so 

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incredibly important. 
This is why I want to leave that

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verse. 
With everybody here, the Lord is

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good. 
A stronghold in the day of 

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trouble. 
And he knoweth them that trust 

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him. 
The book of No Home reminds us 

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that God's patient. 
Is patience. 

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Has a purpose, His judgement is 
certain. 

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His power, you guys, is 
completely unmatched when he 

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delivered the southern Kingdom 
of Judah, Isaiah tells us. 

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That he literally. 
Killed overnight 180. 5000 elite

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Assyrian soldiers overnight. 
With a single Angel, when the 

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day of trouble comes, those who 
trust in Him have a stronghold 

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that cannot and will not be 
shaken. 

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That's where we find our faith. 
That's where we find our trust. 

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God is faithful, and when things
look darker and darker and 

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darker, God is bigger than all 
of it. 

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We can put our faith and our 
trust in Him because He's good 

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and He's the God of heaven. 
Amen. 

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Keep on reading guys, keep 
looking to Him and do what I 

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tell you to do every day. 
I'm so proud of you. 

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Keep fighting the good fight.