Don’t Waste Your Repentance
Read Nahum 3:5
Today’s Truth
The third chapter of Nahum is going to show us what this means for the Lord to be against you. Further, Nahum is going to tell us why the Lord is against them. Finally, we will consider some important lessons from the conclusion of this prophecy thinking about what we learn for our lives today. As we come back into this prophecy, I want us to remember that this book is revealing the just love of the Lord. In the first lesson we saw this pictured as the comforting severity of God. In the second lesson we saw this pictured as God’s people trust in the Lord because they have heard the good news that God reigns and he will bring his judgments in his time. In this third chapter we are going to see God continue the images of final judgment on the Assyrians and then consider the wasted repentance from the people of Nineveh.
Discussion Question
- Nineveh was spared when Jonah preached to them. They repented. Why didn’t their repentance stick?
- What is the difference between godly sorrow and worldly sorrow?
- Repentance is turning from sin and turning to Christ. Have you repented? Do you need to repent? Explain your answer.
Life Application
About 150 years earlier Jonah preached to Nineveh bringing about a complete repentance of the city. But now the city is going to be completely destroyed. It did not take long for there to be a complete turn from their evil ways (Jonah 3:8-10) to returning to their wicked ways. How can that happen? To ask the question another way, why is it that our repentance does not stick? How does their story apply to you?
