- We cannot afford to try to wait until the end of our life to serve God. We should not try to pre-plan repentance.
- Luke 16:18 - Marriage is not always approved of by God.
- The rule against marrying foreigners was only for the Jews in Old Testament times.
- Nehemiah 5:1-13.
- Nehemiah 8:13-18.
- The Israelites found out what they should be doing by simply reading scripture.
- They had a good attitude about their error and got to work fixing it.
- The leaders stirred the people up to follow God’s commandments.
- The people kept reading the scriptures during the feast.
- Nehemiah 9:1-3 - Rooting out sin involved:
- Reading God’s word
- Humility
- Confession
- Repentance
- Nehemiah corrects more sin:
- Nehemiah 13:1-3 - exclusion of foreigners
- Nehemiah 13:4-9 - Tobiah kicked out of his room
- Nehemiah 13:10-14 - tithes restored for support of Levites
- Nehemiah 13:15-22 - rest on Sabbath restored
- Nehemiah 13:23-31 - Nehemiah discovers and corrects another problem with intermarriage
DW
December 12, 2012
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