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INTRODUCTION:
Why should the word demand our attention?
Nehemiah chapter 8 as a whole and even in the chapter 9 verses 1 to 4 describes a careful reading and attention to the word of God.
In fact, they sought to study the Law.
But,
Why should the word demand our attention?
What makes the word worthy of study?
What makes the word worthy of study?
That is the question of the skeptic.
It is perhaps the question we sometimes wonder as Christians as we study the word of God.
ILLUSTRATION:
Few of us take the time to study Shakespeare,
Few of us have read a Plato and Aristotle.
Few of us take the time to read some of the ancient writings such as Machiavelli.
None of us have paid much attention to the epic of Gilgamesh, and myth about a giant flood.
And some of you haven't even heard of Machiavelli or Gilgamesh.
So,
Why do we study the Bible while ignoring many of these other classical writings?
Especially,
why we study the Bible and the Old Testament with careful reading and personal application?
I mean we don’t just read the Bible either,
we highlight it.
we look up its original words.
we emphasize the meaning of the author and the flow of the text.
We right notes about.
We right doctrinal statements about it.
We share what we learn with others.
We read books that explain this book.
Why?
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Further,
Why should we rejoice in the truths found in the word?
Why should we learn that our failure to obey the text should cause to mourn?
Why should we rejoice in the truths found in the word?
To take this question a step further,
Why should we rejoice in the truths found in the word?
Why should we learn that our failure to obey the text should cause to mourn?
And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in the booths, for from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the people of Israel had not done so.
And there was very great rejoicing.
Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the people of Israel were assembled with fasting and in sackcloth, and with earth on their heads.
Why should the Word demand that kind of response?
Why should the Word demand that kind of response?
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Nehemiah chapter 9 in 10 are going to address the reason why the word demands our attention.
And,
If you are a Christian who takes seriously the Word of God,
then it is also going to teach us what we should learn from a study of the Old Testament.
Have you considered,
what should you learn after having read the law?
Kind of responses should you have after reading the law?
ILLUSTRATION:
In recent years it has become popular to summarize the Bible.
- So you have things like the one minute apologist,
- Or Andy Naselli defining the entire story the Bible in one sentence.
- Or A really good extensive history of the Bible is the Kingdom of Priests by Eugene Merrill.
But in essence, he's asking the same thing.
I think it is important for us to have a history of humanity based on Scripture.
I think we should be able to concisely explain the workings of God in humanity.
And I think that we do need to bridge that Old Testament New Testament gap as we do that with good histories and summaries of the Bible.
But,
I would also articulate that there are many Old Testament prayers that communicate a summary of what we should understand from Scripture.
I would also articulate that there are many Old Testament prayers communicate a summary of what we should understand from Scripture.
but they operate as a great summary of human history and what Scripture demands.
In particular, some of the prayers of the Old Testament teach us what we should learn from a study of Old Testament Scripture.
And this national prayer and covenant is going to do that for us.
Neh 9:16
BACKGROUND:
Now there is a few background details we need to understand as we jump into this text.
This section is going to go from Nehemiah chapter 9 verse one all the way to the end of chapter 10.
>>>>>Whose contents describes
- the history of God’s work and their failures,
- a confession of their sins,
- and a national agreement to reinstitute the law.
(Make it their constitution)
Deuteronomy is also often referred to as the second giving of the Law,
but this text could be considered a third giving of the Law.
The history here recounts their failures as a nation,
but also the recommitment to the covenant that God promised in Exodus and Deuteronomy.
This section begins another long practice of reading, confessing, and worshiping.
Further,
This section begins another long practice of reading, confessing, and worshiping.
This section begins another long practice of reading, confessing, and worshiping.
But with the added covenant to the Law at the end of the prayer in .
But with the added covenant to the Law at the end of the prayer in .
It’s interesting that in ,
It’s interesting that in ,
They take time to have a great feast of Joy!
They take time to have a great feast of Joy!
The Celebrate the goodness of God in the -
The Celebrate the goodness of God in the -
Feast of Tabernacles
- Feast of Tabernacles
Feast of InGatherings
- Feast of InGatherings
But now,
But now,
They need to deal with their failures to keep the Law.
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They need to deal with their failures to keep the Law.
And
They need to recommit to the covenant of God.
And so they go from rejoicing and feasting for 7 days in the feast of Tabernacle,
to gathering to confess their sins and covenant with their God.
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