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Morning!
I am going to finish Nehemiah today.
Two weeks ago, we saw that
the Israelites did finish building the wall.
There are more chapters in the book
(there are 13 total, and we went through 6), but today I‘m going to skip through the
rest of the chapters and pull it together for us thematically.
Let’s pray before we
jump in.
Today I want to show you how many of the themes we see in Nehemiah also
appear in Jesus' life.
It often works this way in the Bible - God shows us a principle
in the Old Testament and then shows us again in the New.
The first central theme is
that nothing is ever ruined beyond God’s ability to restore.
It doesn’t matter how
broken you may be, how hurt you are, how poor in spirit, or how many times
you’ve messed up; God is both willing and able to heal, restore, and redeem us.
And He does it by salvation through Jesus Christ and the indwelling of the Holy
Spirit.
A second central theme in Nehemiah that I want us to see is that the Holy
Spirit can and does use people for His work of restoring lives, homes, and dreams.
Nothing is ever broken beyond God’s ability to restore it, and God uses people
(people like you and me) to do His work.
God likes using people so much in His
work that Jesus (who is God) became a man and did his redemptive work as a
human.
God became a person so He could redeem and restore us into the people
He has created us to be, people who follow Him wholeheartedly, free from the
trappings of sin and death.
And so I want to close out our story of Nehemiah in the context of God
becoming man to save, redeem, and restore His people.
And here’s the thing, God
wants everyone to be His people.
God wants everyone to come to the saving
knowledge of Jesus Christ because He loves them and wants to see them made
whole.
So as I skip around in Nehemiah, I want to show you some parallels in the
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life of Jesus, and I want to help you see just how God’s process works in terms of
His plan and purpose of redemption.
The first thing that happens after the wall is built is that Nehemiah
reestablishes the people as citizens.
In other words, he’s making it official that the
city is ready to go.
It’s inhabitable.
It’s a great place to live and set up for those
who would choose to come.
That’s the same message of the gospel - Jesus has
come, he’s made a way for us to be reconciled with God, He has a place with many
mansions, with many rooms, and He wants us to be with Him.
Everything is set;
we just have to choose to walk with the Lord; we have to choose friendship with
God.
Nehemiah 7:4-5 NKJV Now the city was large and spacious, but the people
in it were few, and the houses were not rebuilt.
5 Then my God put it into my
heart to gather the nobles, the rulers, and the people, that they might be
registered by genealogy.
And I found a register of the genealogy of those who
had come up in the first return, and found written in it:
Nehemiah wants to establish the people’s national and corporate identity.
He
wants them to remember what family they belong to because it will help them
become the people God wants them to be.
And this registration is the first thing
that happens after the walls are complete.
If you’re in Christ, you have a new
identity.
You also have a new genealogy.
Psalm 68:6 AMP God makes a home for
the lonely; He leads the prisoners into prosperity.
Your new identity is in Jesus Christ, you are in Him, and He is in You.
Your
new genealogy is God Himself.
He is Your Father.
God doesn’t have any
grandchildren; he only has children.
And in Christ, the Ancient of Days, the Most
High God Himself is now your Father!
Romans 8:15 NKJV For you did not
receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption
by whom we cry out, “Abba, Father.”
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When we’re born again, Jesus doesn’t just set us free from one form of
slavery (to sin) just to impose on us another form of slavery (to God).
He restores
the original freedom the human spirit had before the fall, and then He calls us to
follow Him as our Lord.
The new birth makes it possible for my spirit to rule over
my body and mind and to exercise the authority I was originally intended to have.
He puts ME back in charge of me.
But if I’m truly free, then I’m also free to
disobey.
I can say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ to sin.
I can go back to being dominated by my
flesh or draw on the guidance and power of the Holy Spirit to become more and
more like Jesus.
Our relationship with God undergoes a profound change when we're born
again.
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