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September 29, 2025 | Nehemiah 11-13, Psalm 126
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00:00 Introduction and Milestone Celebration

00:47 Ministry and Church Dynamics

01:39 Food Preferences and Fun Banter

04:52 Nehemiah's Leadership and Legacy

08:53 Dedication of the Temple and Worship

14:24 Nehemiah's Final Reforms

18:17 Psalm 126 and Reflections

19:35 Closing Remarks and Farewell

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Hey y'all.

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Welcome back to another edition

of the Daily Bible podcast.

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Happy Monday.

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It is Monday, isn't it?

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Yeah.

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I have been at Compass now

for, hold on a second here.

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This is the, how does this work?

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If I was hired on this day in 2015,

that would mean I'm on year 11.

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Yes.

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I've just finished 10 years.

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Yeah, I'm on year 11.

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Congrats, man.

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10 years.

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Thank you.

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That's awesome.

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It feels like it's flown by.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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That's amazing.

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And the last two, the best ones that

you've had yet, it only gets better

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every year is better than the last, I

don't know how this can keep happening.

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Yeah no, that's a big deal though, man.

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Not a lot of people are with

one church for 10 years anymore.

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Yeah.

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That's true.

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Let alone, one church and then being

a part of your church plant too.

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And yeah.

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Ministry in, in some denominations,

I've never really fully understood this

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will move their pastors intentionally.

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Yeah, that's weird.

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Like they'll rotate

them to other churches.

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And you don't.

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You're constantly having, to get to

know new sheep, which is just odd.

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That is odd.

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The Mormons do that.

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They do it with their missionaries.

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The Wesleyan Church does that.

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Oh, I think the Methodist

Church does that.

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Yeah.

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Odd, odd movement.

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I like being at a place for a while.

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I'm not a, I'm not a big

fan of the transience.

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Yes.

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Yes, I'm with you on that.

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Yeah, so that's a big deal though.

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Congrats on 10 years.

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Thank you.

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I think I might enjoy

myself a cake or a steak.

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You should today, maybe

both at the same time.

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A cake steak.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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You could really ruin both of those

if you don't do that just huh?

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Yeah.

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I'll let Kristen handle it.

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Put some frosting on top of

a piece of cake, a steak,

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and a one on top of the cake.

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Yeah, that might mess everything up.

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Do you put a one on your steak?

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If it's available, I will.

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Really?

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Yeah.

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What if it's a really good piece of steak?

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Yeah.

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You'll still defile it

with your Aon sauce.

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I mean, I don't eat a ton of steak.

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You're not a steak person.

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I like it.

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It you seem like more of a fish person.

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No, I'm not.

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I'm actually not a fish person either.

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I would choose steak

or a chicken for sure.

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Okay.

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But we don't buy a lot of

steak because we've got.

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More kids than we, we need to have.

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Wow.

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Okay.

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This took a different turn.

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Which of your kids would

you like to get rid of?

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None of them actually.

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I love all my children, but when

it comes to buying steak, we have

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more kids than I can afford to feed.

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Sure.

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And we don't typically cook two

meals, and so we don't often

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do the steak game alright.

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But I do enjoy steak, but but I

understand what you're meaning.

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'cause if I go to Hutchins

and get the brisket, I don't

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need barbecue sauce for that.

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Yeah.

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Doesn't I fort?

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Yes.

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Yes.

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But if you go to a nice

steak place like Randy's.

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Have you guys been to

Randy's and Frisco yet?

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Yes, of course you have.

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I remember 'cause we were there

to Yes, we were there together.

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Yeah.

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That doesn't need a one

sauce is what I'm saying.

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Fair.

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You might offend them if

you asked for a one sauce.

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And I've been in situations like that

and I wouldn't offend them by doing that.

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But if somebody put it on the

table was like, here, you can

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have some I You'd still use it.

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I might take some.

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All right.

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Do you put ketchup on

top of your steak too?

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I don't.

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Don't do that.

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Don't, no.

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On your eggs, do you put ketchup on?

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You Don't play ketchup on your eggs?

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Nope.

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N no, I don't.

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Do you put bananas on your

peanut butter sandwiches?

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No.

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That's good actually.

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But people have, I, yeah.

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Do you put peanut butter in your hot dogs?

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No.

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That's really good.

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What?

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You gotta try it.

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Stop it.

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I did it.

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This is okay.

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It was a good 10 years, but we're gonna

have to peanut butter on your hot dog.

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Okay.

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So we heard it.

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My family from Pastor Ben.

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And heike don't knock until you try it.

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And I'm, you're, no, I'm knocking it.

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You're weird.

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Yeah, that's what I said.

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That's what I said.

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And then I thought, I need to try this

and I'm not gonna just do it myself.

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I'm gonna make all of the high

school ministry do it with me.

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So I did it at av, I did an event

and the food that we served was.

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Peanut butter and hot dogs stop.

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And when I tried it, I was delighted.

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This is crazy.

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I'm pretty sure it was Pastor Ben.

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It could have been someone else.

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I think he's the one

that gave me the idea.

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Kristen can verify that, but when we tried

it, we were both surprised and delighted

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that it was as good as we thought it.

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I was.

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Take your word for that.

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No, maybe I'll bring it in the office.

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I don't think so.

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Maybe from my 11th year

anniversary or my 11th year.

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I'll bring it in for us.

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And out of respect for my work

and my love for the Lord and

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my service to your church.

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Yeah.

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Maybe you'll have to try it.

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You know how much I love when we

have food in the office and how I

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love the sense that waft through

the corridors of the hallways.

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We'll open it in Kelly's office

and then we'll eat it in here.

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The one right outside my door.

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Let's keep your door closed.

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Yeah.

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No, I think I'll pass on the

peanut butter and hot dogs.

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Even for my 11th year.

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Even for your 11th year.

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How dare you.

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I'm just rejoicing the tap

OFTs back on the shelf.

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Tap it.

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Did you not?

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It was gone, it was off the shelf.

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I did not know that.

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You could not find it.

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Wow.

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Yeah.

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'cause we ran out.

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Wish I would known looking for it.

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I've, I would've sold you my

bottle for a very poultry $50.

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We have a bottle here in the

office and I kept eyeing it.

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I wonder if anybody uses that.

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That is mine.

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But we, I brought it.

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I'd love it here, but I'm

happy to I'm happy to share it.

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No, I, we got the peanut butter ball now.

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We have the peanut butter balls.

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You may not have No those are mine.

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I had my own.

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Okay.

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And so I, I had my own and we're good.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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But you can always use the tapit tea.

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All right.

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I appreciate that.

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Anyways, let's jump in.

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Nehemiah 11 through 13 in Psalm 1 26.

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I feel like we've said this is the last

Psalm, probably four or five times.

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This is the last one.

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We really think this is the last

one because I don't think there's

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any of the New Testament that are

gonna call back to our knowledge.

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There are none in the New Testament,

but then again, we've been wrong before,

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so yeah, we have been wrong before.

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Yeah.

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Hey, Nehemiah 11.

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Jerusalem needed inhabitants.

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So the city was built.

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The wall is finished, but Jerusalem

needed people to live inside it.

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And so there, there are men that

are gonna be selected and chosen by

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lot to help populate the city that

was still largely lying in ruins.

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The wall built the temple's built.

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But there's not a lot

more than that right now.

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There's not a lot of homes, there's

not a lot of places for people to live.

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And in verses two through 24, you have

a list of those who lived in Jerusalem,

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and many of them are described as

people that are valiant or mighty men.

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Because why, because this

was not an easy assignment.

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You were being.

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Asked to live in a place

that, yeah, had a wall.

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But this was not luxury.

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This was not a situation where you were

gonna be, this was not a sign of honor.

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You were gonna have to

be building your home.

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Probably a lot of these people building

the houses, and not just theirs, but

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probably the homes of the other people.

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And to prepare the city to be inhabited.

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Once again, this was the people

that got tasked with that job.

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And so they're honored here in

Nehemiah chapter 11 by their

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names being recorded for us.

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We don't know a lot about them outside

of this, but these are the people.

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Who were tasked with this job and who

were selected by lots to go and do this.

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And they did.

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And then in, in the rest of the

chapter, we get another list.

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And these are the people who

lived outside the city in the

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regions surrounding Judah there.

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Again, I think chapter 11 is

there as a way of God honoring

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these people by inscribing

their names in scripture for us.

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Sitting here to read now that

many thousands of years later

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as a symbol of what they did

being so good and commendable.

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What a great honor it

was for these people.

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For God to say, I'm gonna make sure

people never forget who you are.

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Yeah.

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For thousands of years.

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People are going to read your names.

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They don't know who you are,

but they do know what you did.

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And I think that speaks to us because

it, this is how God deals with us.

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There's no act of service

that God overlooks.

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Jesus will later say, if you give

someone a cold cup of water in my name,

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you will by no means lose your reward.

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And this tells us that God is in the

business of looking at your work.

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And even if it seems like nobody else is

paying attention, God is paying attention.

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And he may not inscribe your name in the

Bible, but he's got something better.

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He's inscribing your name in an

area where he'll never forget,

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and he's going to reward you and

honor you for the work that you do.

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And you'll notice there's two kinds

of people here that are honored,

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those who are doing the work and

those who are supporting the work.

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So you've got those who are inside

the walls and those who are outside

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the walls both are given their due

and their honor for what they did.

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One of my I guess it.

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Oh, I'm either confusing Pastor

Mike or the pastor before that.

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It must have been pm.

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This sounds like something PM would say.

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God is not preparing us

for a heavenly ghetto.

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We're not all getting the same thing.

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All of us are gonna get differing rewards

according to what we do in this life,

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and so I think you'll see it here.

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There's greater honor for those

who lived in Jerusalem than there

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is for those who lived outside.

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Both get what they're due.

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Because they both served in

different ways, but there's greater

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honor for those who serve greatly.

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So let me encourage you to

remember God's not forgetting the

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work that you do serve greatly.

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And even if no man pays attention,

that's even better because I want God

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to pay attention and I know that he is,

even if no one else acknowledges it.

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Yeah, I think we, we see this e

even in from a human perspective.

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We back in, in California, compass Bible

Institute has a list of some of the donors

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that are on the wall there inside of CBI.

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Yeah.

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That contributed to help

get Compass Bible student.

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Institute up and going.

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A lot of times you'll go to a

sports stadium and they'll have

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these pave stones in the ground

that have people's names on 'em.

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Oh yeah.

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They help pay for a part of the

stadium or something like that.

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And that's what, that is similar

to what God is doing here.

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It's just this is God committing.

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Not, Hey, here's a pavestone that

people are gonna walk on top of

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and put gum on and all stuff.

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Here's a bench.

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You get a bench in the new Jerusalem.

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Yeah.

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I want a stadium in the new Jerusalem,

the Rod stadium in the heart of the city.

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Chapter 12, we get another list of

names here, and this is gonna be a

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breakdown, a list of all the Levites

and the priests who came up with Abel,

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the son of Sheel, teel, and Yeshua.

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Abel, the son of Sheel.

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Teel.

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Remember, he's the Davidic one.

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He's the one that is in the line of David.

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In fact, when we get to the New

Testament here in just a couple of

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days, we're gonna read his name again.

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In, I think Matthew chapter one, he

shows up as part of the genealogy of

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Christ as it's traced through Joseph,

though you're gonna read the name Abel.

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And so here we are reading it right now.

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You're gonna read it again

in Matthew chapter one.

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That's who it's gonna call back to,

and the priests and the Levites.

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So what was the difference there?

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The priests were.

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Were the ones that had the job

of offering the sacrifices.

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They were the ones that

were inside the temple.

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They were doing the duties of the

drink offerings and the sacrificial

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offerings and everything else.

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The Levites were there to, in a

lot of ways, serve the priests.

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They were there to help the

priests with their priestly duties.

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And so you have the two classes listed

there, and that's why they're separated

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out there as Priest and Levites.

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But you get a list of all

their names along with some of

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their roles and responsibility.

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We will note here also that, that

not all of them were part of the

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ones that did dwelt in Jerusalem.

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You're gonna find that some of them

dwelled outside the city as well.

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But the first 26 verses is is a

listing of all these different priests

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similar, wanting to honor them, just

like in, in the previous chapter.

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Verses 27 through 43, then we

get the dedication of the temple.

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And this is quite the celebration.

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So after the priest had consecrated

everyone, and again, the word consecrate

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means to set them apart as holy.

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And so after the priest had priests, had

consecrated everyone sanctified them.

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The, and the wall itself.

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Then Nehemiah gathered the people and

split them into two great choirs, one

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from the north and one from the south.

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And they end up singing and

rejoicing and offering thanks to

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Yahweh for his kindness to them.

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So it's interesting here that

they dedicate the temple and then

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there's this formalized, Hey,

this choir, you guys go over here,

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this choir, you guys go over here.

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We're gonna do a kind of a caco

praise of Yahweh for all of the

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good things that he's done to us.

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Yeah.

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That's really cool.

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I imagine in my mind, an one sings this

chorus, the other one sings the other

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kind of working together in stereo.

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But I think it's fascinating that

God, of all the things that they could

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do, and they do other things besides

this, but they're singing this is.

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More evidence that God is

not just tolerant of singing.

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He loves it.

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He loves music.

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He loves when we sing to him.

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He loves to encourage us to

praise him, which is why it's it's

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part of what we do as a church.

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It's part of how we honor God.

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And I understand we're

not a singing culture.

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Every time I watch, I Love Lucy.

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And the Mertes and the Ricardo's

are singing together for Yucks and

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Lucy of course is singing off Key.

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I just think, what a

different time we live in.

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Yep.

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I've never sung with you.

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We sing at church together, but it's

not like we go to each other's houses

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like, Hey, let's just sing a song.

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You know what you guys wanna do?

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We're probably gonna be, I dunno,

there's 80 other things that you

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might do with your friends when you

go to their place than singing a song.

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But God wants us to sing.

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This is part of how we love him.

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This is part of how we

show our care for him.

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So sing Christian sing, show, show

up and be there ready to sing.

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Yeah don't minimize that

aspect of your Christian life.

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In fact, notice how

frequently God mentions it.

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And take that to heart.

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We just had an event this past Friday

night where we sang a little bit

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with with some people at the event.

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That was sweet.

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That was awesome.

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It was very sweet.

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Yeah.

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And lemme just echo that.

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I know.

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We have church at 10:00 AM Right?

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And for some of you 10:00 AM is early.

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It's true.

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But can I just encourage you to be

there on time to not look at the first,

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20 minutes of the worship service

and think that's the singing part.

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I really wanna make sure that I'm there

for the preaching part, for the time

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where the Bible is being preached to us.

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It's all significant.

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It's all important and, it's all part

of our corporate experience to be there

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together and to lift our voices together.

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And when you are there on time and you

are there from the very word, go when

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the first song is being sung then it

makes the overall experience better,

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not just for you, but also for your

brothers and sisters in Christ in that

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room, to have your voice being added to

the sound of the voices that are being

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sung there and being lifted together.

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Be there on time value

that make that a priority.

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I know that.

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We can get into this.

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Nobody's really relying on me to

do anything because I'm not giving

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announcements or I'm not on the

worship team or I'm not doing this.

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And so what does it matter if I'm

five minutes late, 10 minutes late?

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It does matter.

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It, it lessens the overall

quality of everything going

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on for all of us involved.

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Yeah.

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And so be there on time and be there

ready to worship and be and sing

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loudly, make a joyful noise to the Lord.

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It's super cool.

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That's one of the reasons why

I sit up at the very front.

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It's not just to have a

shorter walk up to the pulpit.

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I do that because I like to hear.

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All of the voices behind us.

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And that's one of the best places to sit

for that because you can hear all the

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voices coming forward from behind us.

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Be there on time and and

worship with us 'cause that's

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so good and so important for us.

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Have you ever sang for Amanda?

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I did actually in college.

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Yeah.

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When did you last in college?

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I did when we were dating.

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Remember?

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Of course you did?

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Yeah.

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What did you sing to her?

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I sang a song by a band called

Honey Brown called Texas Angel.

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Texas Angel.

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Yep.

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Give us a taste.

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I'm not gonna do that.

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You knew that before you

even asked that question.

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I did.

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My point only is simply that a

lot of guys who wouldn't fancy

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themselves singers, and I know you

sang before and obviously I sing.

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I think we're willing to do that.

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For someone that we love.

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You do that for someone

that you really care about.

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Yeah.

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I'll sing for you because

I am just head over heels.

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I'm intoxicated with your

love, all those things.

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No.

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Now we have to do that with the Lord.

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It's not the same thing, but it is.

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If you love somebody, you're

gonna do things that are naturally

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uncomfortable because you love the

person that you're giving the gifts to.

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And that's exactly what it

is when we sing to the Lord.

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So let me encourage you, show whoever

you are, even if you're not part of

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our church, show up to church on time.

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Sing with your church and love them,

and love the Lord through that.

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Amen.

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The rest of chapter 11 or Chapter

12 rather the temple kind of

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gets back going and the services

are going, things are happening.

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It's back in operation the way that God

intended it to be back in operation.

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And then as we get into chapter 13 this

kind of summarizes the rest of Nehemiah's

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impact here and it's pretty significant.

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Comes back and finds out that Tobiah, you

remember Tobiah was one of the bad guys.

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One of the boo people, the people

that we don't like, the bad actors.

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He's been given a place to live and

the place to live that he's been

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given on top of that is the temple.

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He's been given a place inside the

temple where they would store sacrifice,

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sacrifices and offerings and some of

the extra reserves for the priests.

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And Nehemiah comes back and

he's not having it at all.

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And so he.

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Kicks Tobiah out and confronts the

people for what they've done there.

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Says, this is wrong.

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You can't be doing this.

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And then he moves on from there.

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He's going to correct some wrongs

being done against the priests

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and and make sure that's changed.

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He goes after them for

breaking the Sabbath law.

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He says this was one of the things that

led us into exile in the first place.

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And so we need to get back to

making sure that we are keeping the

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Sabbath and honoring the Sabbath.

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And then he deals with intermarriage,

just like we dealt with in Ezra.

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I believe it was Ezra with

the concept of divorce.

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So he's gonna deal with

intermarriage here as well.

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And call for that same reform

that that we saw there.

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So this is summarizing the rest of

Nehemiah's impact that he had before.

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The Lord called him home at that

point, which shows us a couple things.

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First, Nehemiah had gone back,

he was still governor, but he had

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gone back to his post in Persia.

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And so he was.

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Remotely leading.

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But apparently that's really hard to do

because people tend to lose some of their

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fervor and their gusto when their leader

in charge is not there, and that here.

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So he had to come back to

set, set things in account.

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But also notice too, this stood out

to me because I haven't done this yet,

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but maybe it's time for us to do this.

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Verse 25, I confronted them and

cursed them and beat some of

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them and pulled out their hair.

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This is not gonna be in

most leadership books.

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Talk about this particular incident.

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Is this something that leaders should do?

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Was Nehemiah justified in this?

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And if so, when can I do it?

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I, I would say I, I'm gonna

stop and from commending this

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as a good leadership practice.

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I don't think it is a

good leadership practice.

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No one mentions this in

the leadership books.

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No.

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Yeah.

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No.

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For some reason, this, I don't know why.

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This is not something

that you should model.

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I don't know if this is a weakness of

Nehemiah's leadership, but I think one of

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the things that I thought about is this.

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When I, for example, last week

when I was gone and I was in

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California, I wasn't worried that.

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Things here were gonna go awry, and

granted I was only out there for about

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24 hours, but even, I've gone on vacation

for a couple weeks and things like that.

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I've been away.

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And I wasn't worried about that because

I knew you were here and I trusted

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in your leadership, in my stead to be

able to lead and keep things going.

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I think without skipping a beat.

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And so I wonder if maybe this is

indicative of a weakness of Nehemiah that

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when he left, there wasn't anyone else

that could step up and say, Hey, we can't

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let Aya, the guy that was opposed to

us rebuilding the temple and the walls.

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We can't let this guy

have a room in the temple.

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This is bad.

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Let's not do that.

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Good point.

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And so while this is good, a lot of

what he's doing here in the end, I,

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I don't know if the beating is good

and I, I don't know if the fact that

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he didn't have a number two that

was trustworthy and could lead, I

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don't know if that was good either.

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Yeah I'd have to say the same.

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I think, because I wanna give him the

benefit of the doubt he's highlighted.

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He's got a book named after himself given

the fact that he's a man of prayer I'm

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gonna I agree with you on the first point.

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The second part of, I'm gonna say,

man, I, that's hard to wrap my head

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around, but maybe as God's assigned

agent with special divine authority

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to act on God's behalf, maybe this was

a way for God to get their attention

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and say, look, yeah I'm going to.

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Demonstrate some discipline so

that you get your act together.

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It's almost as if Nehemiah and his

frustration, and maybe this is a

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mark against him, Moses acts in

frustration and he disqualifies

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himself from the promised land, right?

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So maybe that's akin to this.

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I certainly don't think he's perfect.

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Only Jesus is, but.

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I'm trying to give him

the benefit of a doubt.

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I don't know where this would fit

in terms of a positive leadership

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example, but overall, the book that

we just finished, Nehemiah shows a

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positive shows him in a positive light.

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He's a man of prayer.

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He's a man of action.

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Sure.

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He's a man of leadership, so I'm gonna

put this one in suspension and say

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I'm not sure what to do with that one.

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But overall good, dude.

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Yeah, I would agree.

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Yeah Psalm 1 26 is a short one.

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It's only six verses, and it really is one

that does fit well with the context here.

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In fact, if you'll look at commentaries,

for example, the Bible Knowledge

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Commentary says this is a pilgrim

song that seems to reflect the

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struggle of the returned exiles.

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He says the psalmist was joyful because

the Lord had restored them to their

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land, but he prayed for full restoration.

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So that's why I think it fits here.

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The temple is built, the wall is built,

but there's still this transition

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timeframe here for the exiles as they're

waiting for the fullness of God to

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bring them back to the full promises.

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Now, that's still a yet

future thing for them.

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It's not gonna happen as of right now.

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This is forward looking and I think though

that's what this psalm is about here.

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So as you read that, keep in mind

the context of Nehemiah, and that's

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what's going on in the background here.

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God, thanks for your word.

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Thanks for Nehemiah.

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Thanks for just a good example of

what good leadership looks like

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and careful leadership, thoughtful

leadership leadership that's concerned

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with you and your glory, your name.

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And Lord I'd ask that we would take

away good principles from this, that

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we would think about how we lead in,

in whatever capacity that looks like

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for us, and whatever roles that you've

entrusted to us to exercise any degree

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of authority we wanna do so in a way that

is, is done with integrity and concern

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for you and concern for your name.

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And so we thank you for a book like Neil.

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May that even casts our

thoughts, that direction, and

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helps us to understand that.

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And so we thank you for this.

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In Jesus' name, amen.

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Amen.

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Keep reading your Bibles Tune

again tomorrow for the final

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day in the Old Testament.

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Yeah, and the Italian prophet

No less in another edition

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of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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See you then.

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Bye bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said

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