It doesn't take long for us as parents to learn that our children don't

naturally enjoy being told what to do. Resisting authority seems to be in our

DNA, so it's no surprise that many people push back against God's rules. They

find them controlling or respecting. Today on Truth For Life, Alistair Begg shows

us how God's laws actually reveal his love and goodness.

I invite you to turn back to Nehemiah chapter 9, if you would. For those of you

who were present this morning, you can drop back into things with relative ease,

I'm sure. For those of you who weren't, we said that the whole of the 9th chapter

of Nehemiah speaks to us of the goodness of God and that God's goodness is

first of all displayed in all that he has done. And we were looking from the

6th verse through to the 15th verse at the things which God has done. And we

noted that God has displayed his goodness in the act of creation and that he

then had displayed his goodness in the election of his servant Abram. And we just

made mention of the 3rd factor which was that God displayed his goodness in the

redemption of his people. And we're now at the 9th verse of Nehemiah chapter 9.

You saw the suffering of our forefathers in Egypt. You heard their cry at the

red sea. You sent miraculous signs and wonders and so on. Why don't we turn just

for a moment to the historical record of those events back to Exodus and to

chapter 12 and 13? We really would need to read quite an extensive section in

order to refresh our minds of the history of the event. But you will remember that

it was the responsibility of Moses to go up to Pharaoh and to say let my people go.

And how God purpose that they should celebrate this event that was about to

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