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Turn to the book of Ezra.

I know some of you will have a hard time finding it, but let's turn to the book of Ezra Ezra Nehemiah Esther.

So hopefully that gives you like a landmark.

Nowhere to go.

So azroc is a book in the Old Testament and I'll probably you rarely ever hear a sermon on the book of Ezra do.

You always keep that yourself when you reading your Bible?

But to this morning, we going to be in the book of Ezra.

And for this new year, I want to do a short brief, a series that I'm calling God's roadmap for your life.

And this morning, we're going to look at azra, look at his life.

And then, from there, I'm going to learn some lessons from Ezra and see what God's roadmap for our life is.

And today, more specifically, as we talked about, as Russell, we going to look at god, blueprint for Success.

God's blueprint for success, in a New Year, everyone is always looking at a different things that they can do looking to see how we can do things differently in life, so we can have more success in life.

So as this morning will give us a blueprint for Success.

So let's read the text.

So we going to be azra chapter 7 verse 6 to 10. So, hopefully, by now you have found it to those of you joining us online, you can get your Bible as read chapter 7 verse 6 to 10.

So I'll read for you.

It says this azra went up from Babylonia, he was a scribe.

Skilled killed steal in the law of Moses that the Lord the god of Israel had given and the King.

Granted him all dead.

He did.

You see you that the king, granted him all that.

He asked for the bed with me, the hand of the Lord he is God was on him.

Let's read that verse again.

It says this address, I went up from Babylonia, he was a scribe.

Remember the word skilled in the law of Moses that the Lord?

The law of Moses that the Lord the god of Israel had given and the King, granted him all daddy, ask for the hand of the Lord.

He is.

God was on him or hear him sing?

This is King Arthur's.

That this is not a Christian man.

King artaxerxes granted everything that azra asked.

So remember the Israelites, the Jewish people, they were in captivity several times so they were sent into Exile in to Babylon.

And the first part of the book of Ezra from chapter 1 to chapter 6.

It it's kind of like you looking at two different stories do what you had a man named zaruba Bell brought a group a back to the lead and now as when you're bringing them back to the land of Israel and then Ezra went up to the king just like if you remember the story of me and Maya was a cub bear were before the king and the King just sent me in my it back, but also paid for the trip and give him all the resources, the same thing as ra the second group.

Back from Exile and coming back to their land and the King gave him all that.

He asked so not only the king sent them back to the game Finance at all as well.

And Ezra had everything that he asked from the king, is a story that reminds us that God can use even the wicked, even non-believers to bless you.

And one of them people might think that they doing their own thing.

Faking the making decisions like for them but in actuality God is making them make decisions that will benefit you.

And that can go in your work where your boys making decisions thinking they were planning this year's along that all along that God was working in there.

Hard to make those decisions in the end to burn.

If you benefit of God's children because the Bible even says that the Wicked Will amass riches, you know, to give it to go walking with God in the Book of Proverbs.

So here we see as he was a dedicated man to the word of God and he was skilled.

And if he was really good at what he did and then he went to the king and the King gave him everything that he asked.

And then in verse 7, it says here.

In verse 7, it says they're went up also to Jerusalem in the seventh year of artaxerxes the king, some of the people of Israel.

And some of the priests and Levites, the singers and Keepers and the temple servants and Ezra came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the team.

So he about what's going on there.

As those people are heading back, the Levites were all the people working in the temple leading worship, being at the door greeting people.

They were the people who served in the temple and

Ezra was a priest and also azra was a scribe or Ezra really know God's word and Ezra meticulously writing down God's word.

It says for add on the first day of the first month, he begin to go up front Babylonia and on the first day of the fifth month, he came to Jerusalem for the good hand of God was just going here in.

Can you say that again with me for the good hand of God was on him for now, he's the first I want you to memorize and we going to talk about this morning for Ezra has said, he's hard to do.

I do sit with me study the law of the Lord and to do it and to teach He's statutes and rules in Israel, for azra the law of the Lord to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.

Father, thank you for your grace this morning and Lord, as we study the word that you teach our hearts, may you help each one of us to study to do and to teach your word to everyone, we come in contact with here.

The first thing, the story of Ezra teachers is that a pattern of right?

Priorities, priorities in the right place.

Ciara's real in the text, it says, azra sets his heart.

You see anything that you want to accomplish in life you have to be intentional about them.

If you are not intentional about them, they are not going to happen.

So if you want a good marriage, guess what?

You have to be very intentional about it.

My wife reminds me of that all the time.

If you want to do a good job at your work, guess what?

You have to be very intentional about doing a good work where you sharpening your skills as often as you can do a good work, you make sure you meet your goals.

You meet your deadlines on time and you will be great if you were in school.

If you don't study was going to happen.

Not going to be great, okay?

You have to be very intentional about doing a good job.

That's where it says, as respect.

His life was very intentional.

That's why the key to success in life is that you need to have a pattern of right priorities.

You need to have a pattern of constantly, putting your priorities in the right place.

See us, Stephen Covey.

I said things, which matter most should never be food at the mercy of things, which matter least.

Things, which matter most should never be.

Put at the mercy of things, which matter, Liz lease, that's why it says, is that, right?

To do three things to study to do.

And to teach.

So, first one steady.

So, anybody serious about God's word, you have to do what you have to study, it just like in your work.

You have to know your craft.

You have to study so here as well as ra study to show, himself approved.

See 2nd Timothy 2:15 says, do your best To present yourself as one approved who has no need to be ashamed.

And what rightly handling the word of Truth.

Christian God, expect us, we need to know his word and then we need to look at it in context.

And to be able to say, this is what it means.

And this is how you can apply it in your life.

It says you need to be diligent.

It says do your best.

That means you got to put your best foot forward when it comes to God's word.

This is not just for the preacher, but it's for everyone to study God's word to show yourself approved, as a worker was no need to be ashamed.

That means, you know what, you're talkin about rightly handling the word of truth.

That's the same thing that Peter tells us it says always be ready to give an answer for the hope that you have in Christ.

A lot of us are a shame.

We don't talk to people about God just because we don't know what his word says.

Cuz we don't want people to laugh at us.

We don't want people to make fun of us.

We are afraid to share the gospel because we don't have the answers and we're afraid that they would ask a question that will stumble Les.

Paul tells us, we need to do our best to present our self approve.