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Email from VOM: When Poonam quietly left Hinduism in 2012 and placed her faith in Christ, her Bible immediately became her most prized possession.
The young Indian wife and mother of three secretly read God’s Word in her home each day, growing in her understanding of God’s love for her.
But she feared her husband would find out about her new faith, and he soon did.
After overhearing her praying a Christian prayer one day, he found her Bible and angrily tore it to pieces.
“From today on you stop reading the Bible, and as long as you live in this house you better not pray!” he threatened.
When Poonam refused to stop praying to Jesus, her husband beat her and eventually kicked her out of the house, refusing to let her see their young sons and daughter.
Following Jesus cost her everything.
In India, a rise in persecution of Christians has paralleled the rise in Hindu nationalism.
Bibles are a precious resource that helps new believers to grow in faith amid persecution.
After losing her Bible and her family, Poonam stayed with relatives and prayed for the return of everything she had lost.
A pastor and another believer who lived nearby visited Poonam regularly to pray with her.
One day they gave her a new Bible provided by VOM, and she burst into tears of joy.
Over time, God has answered Poonam’s prayers, restoring her marriage and family.
Her husband has not yet placed his faith in Christ, but his heart has softened toward Poonam and toward the Christian faith.
He has even attended church a few times to see how Christians worship.
Poonam reads and studies God’s Word using her new Bible, but she refuses to give up the tattered, torn Bible that her husband tried to destroy.
It is, after all, how she first learned about Jesus.
“My Bible is everything to me,” Poonam said.
“It is the living word of God.
Without it, I can’t live.”
Introduction:
The past offense
Nehemiah
Nehemiah 9:
The Occassion - The Feast of the Trumpets (), Yom Kippur (; ) and The Feast of Succoth (Booths)()
Nehemiah 7:73
On our calendar it would have been September-October
Seventh month 1st day Rosh Hashanah (Feast of Trumpets)
Seventh month 10th day Yom Kippur
Seventh month 15th day going for seven days Feast of Booths
From Chabad.org:
Sukkot is a weeklong Jewish holiday that comes five days after Yom Kippur.
Sukkot celebrates the gathering of the harvest and commemorates the miraculous protection G‑dprovided for the children of Israel when they left Egypt.
We celebrate Sukkot by dwelling in a foliage-covered booth (known as a sukkah) and by taking the “Four Kinds” (arba minim), four special species of vegetation.
“Sukkot is a weeklong Jewish holiday that comes five days after Yom Kippur.
Sukkot celebrates the gathering of the harvest and commemorates the miraculous protection G‑d provided for the children of Israel when they left Egypt.
We celebrate Sukkot by dwelling in a foliage-covered booth (known as a sukkah) and by taking the “Four Kinds” (arba minim), four special species of vegetation.”
“But the holiday of Sukkot is pure joy.
In our prayers, we call it simply “the season of our rejoicing.””
“But the holiday of Sukkot is pure joy.
In our prayers, we call it simply “the season of our rejoicing.””
“One of Sukkot’s most joyous observances was known as Simchat Beit Hashoeivah, the Celebration of the Water-Drawing.
When the Holy Temple stood, every sacrifice included wine libations poured over the altar.
On Sukkot, water was also poured over the altar in a special ceremony.
This ritual engendered such joy that it was celebrated with music, dancing and singing all night long.”
“One of Sukkot’s most joyous observances was known as Simchat Beit Hashoeivah, the Celebration of the Water-Drawing.
When the Holy Temple stood, every sacrifice included wine libations poured over the altar.
On Sukkot, water was also poured over the altar in a special ceremony.
This ritual engendered such joy that it was celebrated with music, dancing and singing all night long.”
John 7:
The Bible is the only visible item we have of our faith
You can go to Israel and visit the Biblical sites and image but you cannot see the characters the Bible wrote about
The Church can’t remove or replace the Bible
Gathering around the word of God
The people called for the reading of God’s word
They made the effort to gather together
They were unified in their desire to hear the Law of God
They were without their own copy of the Law of God
They knew the importance of reading the Law of God
God commanded it
Read it so they might learn to fear the Lord and obey
Their previous generations failure to do this had lead to their present condition
Read it so that your children might learn it
God gave it to feed their soul
A desire wanting to know the plan and purposes of God
1 Peter
Leviticus
1 Peter 1:1
They gathered to gain understanding from the word of God
They asked for the qualified teacher to read the word of God - Ezra
Ezra had returned to Jerusalem in 458 B.C.
He came through the line of Aaron, the high priest ()
He was a skilled scribe ()
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