- No comfort
- Confronted by God’s judgement (Chapter 1)
- God’s judgement grounded in God’s character
- God’s power to judge
- Not just Ninevah
- God is a refuge and judge
- Comfort from judgement
- Introduction: Life shaping days
- A day across 3 horizons:
- Horizon 1
- Horizon 2
- Horizon 3
- Applications:
- Knowing the time
- Responding rightly
- Thanksgiving vs Asking
- What to Ask
- ‘Father’
- Asking for…
- His Name and Kingdom
- Daily Bread
- Forgiveness and Temptation
- How to ask
- Daily
- Dependently
- Ask audaciously?
Includes introduction and prayer in response to the Bondi Beach Terrorist Attack of 14/12/2025.
Sermon begins at timestamp 3:38.
- Introduction
- Idolatry in Judah
- Zephaniah Ch 1
- False Security
- Nations Judges, Humble Remnant
- Zephaniah Ch 2
- Zephaniah 2 fulfilled?
- Oppressing City vs God’s City
- Zephaniah Ch 3
- Life in God’s City Under God’s King
- The God who roars (1:1-2)
- Eight Oracles of Judgement (1:3-2:16)
- Reasons for Judgement (3:1-6:14)
- Privilege and accountability (3:1-2)
- Causes and warnings (3:3-8, 4:6-11)
- Opulence and oppression (3:15, 4:1, 5:7, 10-15, 6:4-6)
- False religion and complacency (3:14, 5:5-6, 18-26, 6:1)
- Five Visions (7:1-9:10)
- A promise (9:8b-15) and its fulfilment (Acts 15)
- Amos and Advent
- The right vision
- The Year of Jubilee: A social manifesto? (v10)
- Timing is everything (v8-9)
- Sabbath (v8)
- The Day of Atonement (v9)
- Catching the vision
- Trust and Obey?
- Remembering God’s Commands (25:55b-26:2)
- Obedience brings blessing (v3-12)
- Disobedience brings discipline (v14-39)
- Context is key (v13)
- OT
- NT
- Obedience, blessing and us?