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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: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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: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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:Yeah.
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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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:Yeah.
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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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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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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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: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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:When I, for example, last week
when I was gone and I was in
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granted I was only out there for about
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for a couple weeks and things like that.
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:I've been away.
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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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and I, I don't know if the fact that
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was trustworthy and could lead, I
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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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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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: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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:PJ: Yeah.
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:I would agree with
everything that you said