From Sadness to Singing
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From Sadness to Singing
From Sadness to Singing
Introduction
Introduction
Introduction
Have you ever been sad for any reason? Has anyone ever made you sad? Has a situation ever made you sad? Is anyone sad right now! Well, your answer could well be YES to each of these questions!
Can I really be a lil transparent with you for a few moments? My answer to each one of these questions is YES!!!
Nehemiah invites the readers to join him in his personal journey back to his home in rebuilding the destroyed and dilapidated walls of Jerusalem.
The purpose of this message today is to encourage us that we can move from a state of sadness to a state of singing! God can change our situation! God can make a person’s heart change for our benefit!
#1 Nehemiah’s Concern for Jerusalem was Evidenced by his Sadness (1-2)
#1 Nehemiah’s Concern for Jerusalem was Evidenced by his Sadness (1-2)
Nehemiah lets us into what’s going on with him!
NISAN [Heb nı̂sān (נִיסָן)]. The first month of the Hebrew calendar, roughly corresponding to March–April. (Freedman, David Noel, ed. “Nisan.” The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary 1992 : 1122.)
(ref 1.1) - CHISLEV [Heb kı̄slēw (כִּסְלֵו)]. The ninth month of the Hebrew calendar, roughly corresponding to November and December (Freedman, David Noel, ed. “Chislev.” The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary 1992 : 910).
Artaxerxes was the Persian King in whose reign the missions of Ezra and Nehemiah took place.
Cupbearer. A prestigious position in the royal courts of the ancient Near East. The cupbearer’s primary duty would be to serve wine (), but also he also tasted it as protection & precaution against poisoning. (Walsh, Carey. “Cupbearer.” Ed. David Noel Freedman, Allen C. Myers, and Astrid B. Beck. Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible 2000 : 301. Print; Elwell, Walter A., and Barry J. Beitzel. “Cupbearer.” Baker encyclopedia of the Bible 1988 : 559)
sad adj. — experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; hangdog - adjective having a dejected or guilty appearance; shamefaced… (Soanes, Catherine, and Angus Stevenson, eds. Concise Oxford English dictionary 2004 : n. pag)
“His fasting joined with inward grief had made a sensible change in his very countenance. …it was also an unusual and ungrateful thing to come into the king of Persia’s presence with any badges or tokens of sorrow...” (Matthew Poole’s Commentary; Vol. 1, p. 884)
#2 Nehemiah’s Concern for Jerusalem was Evidenced by His Request (3-5)
#2 Nehemiah’s Concern for Jerusalem was Evidenced by His Request (3-5)
New Living Translation Chapter 2
Then I was terrified, 3 but I replied, “Long live the king! How can I not be sad? For the city where my ancestors are buried is in ruins, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”
4 The king asked, “Well, how can I help you?”
With a prayer to the God of heaven, 5 I replied, “If it please the king, and if you are pleased with me, your servant, send me to Judah to rebuild the city where my ancestors are buried.”
#2 Nehemiah’s Concern for Jerusalem was Evidenced by His Request (3-5)
#2 Nehemiah’s Concern for Jerusalem was Evidenced by His Request (3-5)
2b Then I was terrified, 3 but I replied, “Long live the king! How can I not be sad? For the city where my ancestors are buried is in ruins, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”
Then I was terrified, 3 but I replied, “Long live the king! How can I not be sad? For the city where my ancestors are buried is in ruins, and the gates have been destroyed by fire.”
4 The king asked, “Well, how can I help you?”
With a prayer to the God of heaven, 5 I replied, “If it please the king, and if you are pleased with me, your servant, send me to Judah to rebuild the city where my ancestors are buried.”
Tyndale House Publishers. Holy Bible: New Living Translation. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2015. Print.
(Tyndale House Publishers. Holy Bible: New Living Translation. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2015).
#3 Nehemiah’s Concern for Jerusalem was Favored by the King (6-8)
#3 Nehemiah’s Concern for Jerusalem was Favored by the King (6-8)
“ 6 The king, with the queen sitting beside him, asked, “How long will you be gone? When will you return?” After I told him how long I would be gone, the king agreed to my request.
6 The king, with the queen sitting beside him, asked, “How long will you be gone? When will you return?” After I told him how long I would be gone, the king agreed to my request.
7 I also said to the king, “If it please the king, let me have letters addressed to the governors of the province west of the Euphrates River,* instructing them to let me travel safely through their territories on my way to Judah. 8 And please give me a letter addressed to Asaph, the manager of the king’s forest, instructing him to give me timber. I will need it to make beams for the gates of the Temple fortress, for the city walls, and for a house for myself.” And the king granted these requests, because the gracious hand of God was on me.
7 I also said to the king, “If it please the king, let me have letters addressed to the governors of the province west of the Euphrates River,* instructing them to let me travel safely through their territories on my way to Judah.
8 And please give me a letter addressed to Asaph, the manager of the king’s forest, instructing him to give me timber. I will need it to make beams for the gates of the Temple fortress, for the city walls, and for a house for myself.” And the king granted these requests, because the gracious hand of God was on me.
* 2:7 Hebrew the province beyond the river; also in 2:9.
#3 Nehemiah’s Request is Granted (6-8)
#3 Nehemiah’s Request is Granted (6-8)
(Tyndale House Publishers. Holy Bible: New Living Translation. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2015.)
Nehemiah’s Concern for Jerusalem was Favored by the KIng (6-8)
Nehemiah’s Concern for Jerusalem was Favored by the KIng (6-8)
#4 Nehemiah’s Concern for Jerusalem was Met with Action and Opposition (9-10)
#4 Nehemiah’s Concern for Jerusalem was Met with Action and Opposition (9-10)
#4 Nehemiah’s Action & Opposition (9-10)
#4 Nehemiah’s Action & Opposition (9-10)
9 When I came to the governors of the province west of the Euphrates River, I delivered the king’s letters to them. The king, I should add, had sent along army officers and horsemen* to protect me.
(ref 1.1) - CHISLEV [Heb kı̄slēw (כִּסְלֵו)]. The ninth month of the Hebrew calendar, roughly corresponding to November and December (Freedman, David Noel, ed. “Chislev.” The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary 1992 : 910).
CHISLEV [Heb kı̄slēw (כִּסְלֵו)]. The ninth month of the Hebrew calendar, roughly corresponding to November and December
Freedman, David Noel, ed. “Chislev.” The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary 1992 : 910. Print.
NISAN [Heb nı̂sān (נִיסָן)]. The first month of the Hebrew calendar, roughly corresponding to March–April.
Artaxerxes was the Persian King in whose reign the missions of Ezra and Nehemiah took place.
9 When I came to the governors of the province west of the Euphrates River, I delivered the king’s letters to them. The king, I should add, had sent along army officers and horsemen* to protect me. 10 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard of my arrival, they were very displeased that someone had come to help the people of Israel.
10 But when Sanballat the Horonite and Tobiah the Ammonite official heard of my arrival, they were very displeased that someone had come to help the people of Israel.
Freedman, David Noel, ed. “Nisan.” The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary 1992 : 1122. Print.
Cupbearer. Official whose primary duty was to taste the wine served to the king as a precaution against poisoning. ()
* 2:9 Or charioteers.
Cupbearer. Official whose primary duty was to taste the wine served to the king as a precaution against poisoning.
(Tyndale House Publishers. Holy Bible: New Living Translation. Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2015.)
Elwell, Walter A., and Barry J. Beitzel. “Cupbearer.” Baker encyclopedia of the Bible 1988 : 559. Print.
A prestigious position in the royal courts of the ancient Near East. The cupbearer would serve wine (), but also tasted it as protection against poison.
Cupbearer.
sad adj. — experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness; hangdog - adjective having a dejected or guilty appearance; shamefaced… (Soanes, Catherine, and Angus Stevenson, eds. Concise Oxford English dictionary 2004 : n. pag)
Walsh, Carey. “Cupbearer.” Ed. David Noel Freedman, Allen C. Myers, and Astrid B. Beck. Eerdmans dictionary of the Bible 2000 : 301. Print.
sad adj. — experiencing or showing sorrow or unhappiness.
hangdog - adjective having a dejected or guilty appearance; shamefaced… (Soanes, Catherine, and Angus Stevenson, eds. Concise Oxford English dictionary 2004 : n. pag)
hangdog
“His fasting joined with inward grief had made a sensible change in his very countenance. …it was also an unusual and ungrateful thing to come into the king of Persia’s presence with any badges or tokens of sorrow...” (Matthew Poole’s Commentary; Vol. 1, p. 884)
■ adjective having a dejected or guilty appearance; shamefaced
Soanes, Catherine, and Angus Stevenson, eds. Concise Oxford English dictionary 2004 : n. pag. Print.