I When our children misbehave, we don't stop loving them, but we do discipline them.

Today on Truth for Life, we'll see how that's a picture of God's own love and goodness.

But sometimes his goodness doesn't feel so good.

Alistairbeg is teaching from Nehemiah Chapter 9.

We're focusing on verses 16 through 37.

We want to point out these four great statements concerning God's goodness, the first of which we dealt with last time,

noticing between verse 6 and 15 that God's goodness is revealed in all that he has done. There is nothing that we experience that

does not speak to us of his goodness. We noted that his goodness being revealed in

all that he has done ttouches upon creation, and then upon election, and

then upon redemption, and then upon his provision in the law for his people.

Now this morning I would like to try and make it through the remaining three.

This is not some kind of special interest for a few people.

Theology is not a piece of extraneous baggage that you keep

up somewhere in an attic or in an old cupboard somewhere in the garage. It is fundamental

to life. It is very, very important. Therefore, it is

vitally important that God's people know God's book in order that they may reach into God's world.

And that is why we labor to study the Bible, to understand the Bible,

so that you may be equipped in meeting those people at the cash registers and in the corridors of life to

articulate your understanding of what it means that you worship and serve a God who is

good.

Then notice the fact, secondly, as from last time,

that God's goodness is displayed in the face of disobedience.

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