Rebuilding Repentance (7 of 8)
Series: Nehemiah
Ross Lester
Nehemiah 9:1-37
Intro
Morning church. Nehemiah 9 is where we will be. We have lots of text to cover today, and in fact, a lot of the sermon will just be reading the text, which is wonderful, but will feel different.
Nehemiah 9 contains the longest recorded single prayer in the bible, and it serves as a great model for us of what it looks like when God moves mightily in and amongst a community of His people, and how we ought to respond to such a move of God.
October 31st is a very important day in the world's history. It's not just the day that we all lose our minds and encourage our children to take candy from strangers dressed as demons. It is also the day that we remember that in 1517, a young German monk named Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses of faith in protest to a church door in Wittenberg. That seemingly simple act set off some major progress in the reformation of our faith, a reformation that we share in today, a faith that says that Christians are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
Luther was protesting a faith movement that said that there were ways to earn God's favor. We still protest against that today. We are radically dependent upon God's grace. We know we have no other chance.
This is big. Because it presupposes a posture in the people of God. A posture of humility, weakness, neediness (in the best sense). At the heart of what it means to be part of God's people is an acknowledgement that says ... I CAN'T live the way you made me to live. I HAVEN'T done that. I need your grace.
This is why Luther's opening line of his 95 theses was so important and so revolutionary. It said ...
When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said "Repent," he intended that the entire life of believers should be repentance.
What Luther was saying is that repentance is the device that we call upon as a display of our need for grace. If salvation is by grace alon ...
Series: Nehemiah
Ross Lester
Nehemiah 9:1-37
Intro
Morning church. Nehemiah 9 is where we will be. We have lots of text to cover today, and in fact, a lot of the sermon will just be reading the text, which is wonderful, but will feel different.
Nehemiah 9 contains the longest recorded single prayer in the bible, and it serves as a great model for us of what it looks like when God moves mightily in and amongst a community of His people, and how we ought to respond to such a move of God.
October 31st is a very important day in the world's history. It's not just the day that we all lose our minds and encourage our children to take candy from strangers dressed as demons. It is also the day that we remember that in 1517, a young German monk named Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses of faith in protest to a church door in Wittenberg. That seemingly simple act set off some major progress in the reformation of our faith, a reformation that we share in today, a faith that says that Christians are saved by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone.
Luther was protesting a faith movement that said that there were ways to earn God's favor. We still protest against that today. We are radically dependent upon God's grace. We know we have no other chance.
This is big. Because it presupposes a posture in the people of God. A posture of humility, weakness, neediness (in the best sense). At the heart of what it means to be part of God's people is an acknowledgement that says ... I CAN'T live the way you made me to live. I HAVEN'T done that. I need your grace.
This is why Luther's opening line of his 95 theses was so important and so revolutionary. It said ...
When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said "Repent," he intended that the entire life of believers should be repentance.
What Luther was saying is that repentance is the device that we call upon as a display of our need for grace. If salvation is by grace alon ...
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