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Rebellion and RedemptionOur Goal

Jesus has won the decisive victory.The challenge has always beenwhere we place our loyalties.

The controversy still rages andthe deceptions are ever-present.

Our prayer, then, is that this quarter’s lessons will reveal some of these

deceptions and thus help us not just to choose Christ but to remain with Him.

Rebellion and RedemptionContents

1 Crisis in Heaven 2 Crisis in Eden 3 Global Rebellion and the Patriarchs 4 Conflict and Crisis: The Judges 5 The Controversy Continues 6 Victory in the Wilderness 7 Jesus’ Teachings and the Great Controversy 8 Comrades in Arms 9 The Great Controversy and the Early Church 10 Paul and the Rebellion 11 Peter on the Great Controversy 12 The Church Militant13 Redemption

Rebellion and RedemptionLesson 5, January 30

The Controversy Continues

The Controversy ContinuesKey Text

Nehemiah 2:18 NKJV“And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of the king’s words that he had spoken to me. So they said, ‘Let us rise up and build.’ Then they set

their hands to this good work.”

The Controversy ContinuesQuick Look

1. With Self: David (Psalm 51:10, 11)

2. With Believers: Elijah, (1 Kings 18:20-21)3. With Non-Believers: Hezekiah,

Esther, Nehemiah (2 Kings 19:32-34; Esther 3:8, 9; Nehemiah 4:7, 8)

The Controversy ContinuesInitial Words

God is able to use “insignificant” people to turn back the tide of evil. Despite tremendous obstacles, we don’t need to buckle under over-

whelming evil.Instead, we can stand firm, but only

in the power of God, who is faithful to His covenant promises, promises

fulfilled for us in Jesus.

The Controversy Continues1. With Self: David

Psalm 51:10, 11 NKJVCreate in me a clean heart,

O God, and renew a steadfastspirit within me.

Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your

Holy Spirit from me.”

1. With Self: DavidHis Goliath and Bathsheba Experience

Life is complicated, and that’sbecause, we are complicated.

Creatures made in the image ofGod who then corrupt themselves.Some people attain great levels of

“goodness” while others, unfortunately, drop to the extremes of depravity.

Instead, both extremes can be manifested in the same person!


The same David who defeatedthe giant Goliath is the Davidwho was defeated by his own

lust and arrogance.How many women did the man

already have? And he sees one more, a married woman, and suddenlywhere is all the talk about “the

battle is the Lord’s” (1 Sam. 17:47) or,


“that there is a God in Israel”(1 Sam. 17:46)?

If there were a time when David needed not only to know that the

“battle is the Lord’s” but also to fight that battle in God’s armor, it wasn’t in the war zone in the Valley of Elah but in the recess of his own heart, where

in each of us the great controversy rages.

The Controversy Continues2. With Believers: Elijah

1 Kings 18:20, 21 NKJVSo Ahab sent for all the children of

Israel...on Mount Carmel. And Elijah came...and said, ‘How long will you falter between two opinions? If the Lord is God, follow Him, but if Baal,

follow him.’But the people answered

not a word.”

2. With Believers: ElijahTo Turn Their Hearts

These were sorry times for the northern kingdom of Israel.

Most had forsaken the Lord God(1 Kings 19:10) and were worshiping

fertility gods instead. For the next three years the fertility gods are impotent. Then Elijah asks for a showdown between himself

and all the prophets of Baal.


The real issue: Israel’s faithfulness to the covenant. Notice, too, who had turned their hearts. It was the Lord

Himself, even before the miracle itself unfolded. But God doesn’t force

hearts to return to Him.He sends His Holy Spirit, and the

people, responding to that Spirit,


have to first make the choiceto turn back to Him; only then,

in His strength, can they act uponthat choice.

It’s no different today.It’s the power of God alone that

sustains the beat of every heart, but He doesn’t force even one of those

beating hearts to follow Him.

The Controversy Continues3. With Non-Believers: Hezekiah, Esther, Nehemiah

2 Kings 19:32, 34; Esther 3:8, 9;Nehemiah 4:7, 8 NKJV

Concerning the king of Assyria: He shall not come into this city...for I will defend...to save it.” “Haman said...‘If

it pleases the king, let a decree be written that they be destroyed.’ ”

“Sanbalat, Tobiah...heard...Jerusalem being restored...conspired to attack.”

3. With Non-Believers: HezekiahWords of Defiance

Hezekiah was king of Judah when the new superpower, Assyria, conquered the northern kingdom of Israel and

scattered its inhabitants across Mesopotamia (2 Kings 18:9–12)

A few years later, Sennacherib turned his attention to Judah and captured all

its fortified cities and exacted heavy tribute (2 Kings 18:13–15).

3. With Non-Believers: HezekiahWords of Defiance

Hezekiah then did the only thing possible for him—he prayed (2 Kings

19:15–19).The frightened inhabitants aroseone morning, to see soldiers lying

scattered on the ground in a deathly stillness (2 Kings 19:35).

The disgraced Assyrian king went home, only to meet his end at the hands of two of his sons (2 Kings 19:6, 37).

3. With Non-Believers: EstherDeath Decree

Esther found herself as queen. Though her ascent was through a route rather

different from Joseph’s in Egypt or Daniel’s in Babylon, she was (as

Joseph and Daniel were) just where the Lord wanted her to be, and she

was usedby God in a powerful way, one that

illustrates how the great controversy theme can play out in history.

3. With Non-Believers: EstherDeath Decree

The issue started over worship (see Esther 3:5, 8) and the refusal to follow

the laws and customs of the ones in power. Though the context will be

different at the end of time, the reality behind it—the great controversy—is still the same: “as many as [will] not worship the image of the beast [are

to] be killed” (Rev. 13:15).

3. With Non-Believers: NehemiahRebuilding the Temple

Some people who were nothappy and did all they could

to prevent any work from beingdone to improve Jerusalem.

When work started on repairing the walls, these foreign officials were “furious and very indignant” (Neh.

4:1), and they mocked, becameangry and planned an attack.

3. With Non-Believers: NehemiahRebuilding the Temple

It would have been so easy toback down; yet, despite all sorts of machinations against their work,

they persisted.Trusting in God, Nehemiah saw to

the rebuilding of the wall and left the threats of his enemies in the hand of

God (Neh. 6:14, 15).

The Controversy ContinuesFinal Words

“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is

perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light

affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding

and eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things which are

seen, but at the things which are not seen.” (2 Cor. 4:16–18, NKJV).

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