Episodes
Monday Aug 28, 2017
Nehemiah: Rebuilding A Community: The Reestablishing
Monday Aug 28, 2017
Monday Aug 28, 2017
The Reestablishing
- 1 - 3
- Read aloud from the book of Moses
- The word kept them grounded
- Guide for “right” living
- No Ammonites or Maobites
- Numbers 22 – 25, Duet. 23:3 -6
- Not a racial exclusion
- 4 - 9
- Nehemiah’s time away
- After acting as governor for 12 years
- Returns to King Artaxerxes
- Returns again to Jerusalem
- Eliashib ( a priest or THE High Priest)
- Opened up the temple to Tobiah
- Tobiah was an Ammonite
- Defiled the temple
- Removed the tithe for the priests and Levites
- Nehemiah knew how to deal with him
- Removed Tobiah’s belongings
- Had the temple cleansed
- 10 - 14
- Portion for the Levites had not been given to them
- They returned to their fields to survive
- Nehemiah reprimanded the officials
- They made it right
- He appoints his own people – considered reliable
- He ends with prayer
- 15 - 22
- They were not keeping the sabbath
- He again reminded them of the actions of their forefathers
- Nehemiah again had a solution
- He locked them out and threatened them
- Put his own people in charge again
- 23 - 31
- History repeats itself
- Intermarriage again an issue
- Referenced Solomon
- Losing their identity as “God’s people”
- Sworn enemies had found their way in
- Sanballat’s daughter – married into priestly line
- Tobiah given quarter in the temple
- Not by threats but by friendships
So What?
- What do we use to keep us grounded and focused?
- When we coast, we open ourselves up to bad judgement and then to sin.
- Friendship with the world
- Are we willing to provide another option
- Do we look just the unbelieving world around us?
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