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The issue was people being taken advantage and the lack of justice in the city.
Nehemiah wants to remind the people to be generous.
We live in an interdependent world.
We long for true community.
Though we live in a digital world we are also longing for community.
The work will require we remember generosity.
To God but also to each other.
We can not worship God on Sundays and then be stingy with other Christians throughout the week.
This is not what God desires.
We must be consistent.
This may be like the oppression of Nehemiah’s day: economically.
The jews were not experiencing oppression and injustice due to sin and going against God’s Word.
Instead it was the rich Jews who disregarded God’s Word for person gain.
The oppression of the Jews showed to those around them that God was inconsistent and did not care about the poor among his own people.
We must be careful with power.
At the heart, it seems power, was part of the problem Nehemiah was combatting.
Who has final authority: man or God? Nehemiah was concerned that they have wisdom to understand what was best during the days they found themselves in.
Power is meant to help others.
Yet when in power we can easily be part of injustice.
Nehemiah was concerned about social injustice among his fellow Jews.
Should the same be true of us?
We must submit to Scripture.
We can discuss the contents and interpretation of Scripture as often as we want but if we do not submit and obey it doesn’t matter.
We can know all the Scripture but if we do not allow Scripture to know us, we will fail.
David said in Psalm 139.23, “Search me O God, know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.”
The question is not, “Can I?”
The question is, “Should I?”
Our work is a labor of love.
This is a great transition statement into Communion.
Here is what Brown says,
Emotional distress was followed by intellectual reflection which in turn led to practical action.
Brown, R. (1998).
The Message of Nehemiah: God’s Servant in a Time of Change.
(J. A. Motyer & D. Tidball, Eds.) (p.
89).
England: Inter-Varsity Press.
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