Participants: Kelly Mowrer
Series Code: HWAL
Program Code: HWAL000584
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00:16 Hello, and welcome to His Words are Life.
00:18 I'm Kelly Mowrer, and thank you for joining with me today 00:21 to read the Word of God together Let's pray before we start 00:26 Dear God, thank you for this time right now to come and sit 00:31 quietly and listen to Your Word. Please still the noise of our 00:36 lives so that Your voice can be speaking to our hearts 00:40 the lesson that you have for us right here and right now. 00:44 Thank you so much for the life and the light that we will 00:47 receive. We love you so much and thank you for loving us. Amen 00:51 When we were last together, we were reading in the book of 00:55 Nehemiah, and the people have and have stood and listened 00:59 as the law of God was read. And they rejoiced and they 01:02 feasted with gladness, as they celebrated the hearing of the 01:06 Word of God together. Were going to pick up the account in 01:09 Nehemiah, chapter 8, verse 12, This is the King James Version. 01:13 And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, 01:18 and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they 01:22 had understood the words that were declared unto them. 01:25 And on the second day were gathered together the chief of 01:29 the fathers of all the people, the priests, and the Levites, 01:32 unto Ezra the scribe, even to understand the words of the law. 01:37 And they found written in the law which the Lord had commanded 01:40 by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths 01:44 in the feast of the seventh month: 01:47 And that they should publish and proclaim in all their cities, 01:51 and in Jerusalem, saying, Go forth unto the mount, and fetch 01:55 olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, 01:58 and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, to make booths, 02:03 as it is written. So the people went forth, and brought them, 02:07 and made themselves booths, every one upon the roof of his 02:11 house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house of 02:14 God, and in the street of the water gate, and in the street of 02:18 the gate of Ephraim. And all the congregation of them that were 02:22 come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the 02:26 booths; for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that 02:31 day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was 02:35 very great gladness. Also day by day, from the first day unto the 02:40 last day, he read in the book of the law of God. And they kept 02:45 the feast seven days; and on the eighth day was a solemn assembly 02:50 according unto the manner. We're continuing now 02:54 in chapter 9 of Nehemiah, and this is the King James Version. 02:57 Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of 03:02 Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes 03:06 and earth upon them. And the seed of Israel separated 03:10 themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their 03:15 sins and the iniquities of their fathers. And they stood up in 03:19 their place, and read in the book of the law of the Lord God 03:23 one fourth part of the day; and another fourth part they 03:28 confessed, and worshipped the Lord their God. 03:31 Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua and Bani, 03:37 Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, 03:44 and cried with a loud voice unto the Lord their God. 03:48 Then the Levites, Jeshua, and Kadmiel, Bani, Hashabniah, 03:54 Sherebiah, Hodijah, Shebaniah, and Pethahiah, said, 03:59 Stand up and bless the Lord your God for ever and ever: 04:04 and blessed be thy glorious name, which is exalted above all 04:08 blessing and praise. Thou, even thou, art Lord alone; 04:14 thou hast made heaven, the heaven of heavens, with all 04:18 their host, the earth, and all things that are therein, 04:22 the seas, and all that is therein and thou preservest them 04:26 all; and the host of heaven worshippeth thee. 04:28 Thou art the Lord the God, who didst choose Abram, 04:33 and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, 04:35 and gavest him the name of Abraham; 04:37 And foundest his heart faithful before thee, and madest 04:42 a covenant with him to give the land of the Canaanites, 04:44 the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the 04:48 Jebusites, and the Girgashites, to give it, I say, to his seed, 04:52 and hast performed thy words; for thou art righteous: 04:56 And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, 05:00 and heardest their cry by the Red Sea; and shewedst signs 05:05 and wonders upon Pharaoh, and on all his servants, and on all the 05:09 people of his land: for thou knewest that they dealt proudly 05:13 against them. So didst thou get thee a name, as it is this day. 05:18 And thou didst divide the sea before them, so that they went 05:22 through the midst of the sea on the dry land; 05:24 and their persecutors thou threwest into the deeps, 05:28 as a stone into the mighty waters. Moreover thou leddest 05:33 them in the day by a cloudy pillar; and in the night by a 05:37 pillar of fire, to give them light in the way wherein they 05:40 should go. Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, 05:44 and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them 05:46 right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments: 05:51 and madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst 05:56 them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy 06:00 servant: and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, 06:04 and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their 06:07 thirst, and promisedst them that they should go in to possess the 06:11 land which thou hadst sworn to give them. But they and our 06:15 fathers dealt proudly, and hardened their necks, 06:18 and hearkened not to thy commandments, 06:22 and refused to obey, neither were mindful of thy wonders 06:26 that thou didst among them; but hardened their necks, 06:29 and in their rebellion appointed a captain to return to their 06:35 bondage: but thou art a God ready to pardon, gracious and 06:40 merciful, slow to anger and of great kindness, and forsookest 06:45 them not. Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, 06:49 and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, 06:52 and had wrought great provocations; 06:53 Yet thou in thy manifold mercies forsookest them not in the 06:58 wilderness; the pillar of the cloud departed not from them 07:02 by day, to lead them in the way neither the pillar of fire 07:05 by night, to show them light, and the way wherein they should 07:08 go. Thou gavest also thy good spirit to instruct them, 07:13 and withheldest not thy manna from their mouth, and gavest 07:18 them water for their thirst. Yea forty years didst thou sustain 07:23 them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; 07:27 their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not. 07:32 Moreover thou gavest them kingdoms and nations, 07:36 and didst divide them into corners: so they possessed the 07:40 land of Sihon, and the land of the king of Heshbon, 07:43 and the land of Og king of Bashan. Their children also 07:47 multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them 07:50 into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their 07:53 fathers, that they should go in to possess it. 07:56 So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou 08:01 subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, 08:03 the Caananites, and gavest them into their hands, 08:06 with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might 08:09 do with them as they would. And they took strong cities, 08:12 and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, 08:16 wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees 08:20 in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, 08:24 and delighted themselves in thy great goodness. Nevertheless 08:30 they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, 08:34 and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets 08:39 which testified against them to turn them to thee, 08:42 and they wrought great provocations. 08:46 Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, 08:50 who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they 08:55 cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; 08:58 and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviors 09:04 who saved them out of the hand of their enemies. But after they 09:08 had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest 09:14 thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the 09:18 dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto 09:22 thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst 09:27 thou deliver them according to thy mercies; and testifiedst 09:31 against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: 09:36 yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy 09:39 commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, which if a man do 09:45 he shall live in them; and withdrew the shoulder, 09:48 and hardened their neck, and would not hear. Yet many years 09:52 didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy 09:56 spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: 09:59 therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the 10:03 lands. Nevertheless for thy great mercies' sake thou didst 10:10 not utterly consume them, nor forsake them: 10:12 for thou art a gracious and merciful God. Now therefore, 10:18 our God, the great, the mighty, and the terrible God, 10:22 who keepeth covenant and mercy, let not all the trouble seem 10:28 little before thee, that hath come upon us, on our kings, 10:31 on our princes, and on our priests, and on our prophets, 10:34 and on our fathers, and on all thy people, since the time of 10:38 the kings of Assyria unto this day. Howbeit thou art just 10:44 in all that is brought upon us; for thou hast done right, 10:47 but we have done wickedly: Neither have our kings, 10:51 our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, 10:54 nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies 10:56 wherewith thou didst testify against them. 10:59 For they have not served thee in their kingdom, and in thy 11:04 great goodness that thou gavest them, and in the large and fat 11:07 land which thou gavest before them, neither turned away from 11:11 their wicked works. Behold, we are servants this day, 11:16 and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat 11:20 the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants 11:24 in it: and it yieldeth much increase unto the kings whom 11:28 thou hast set over us because of our sins: also they have 11:32 dominion over our bodies, and over our cattle, at their 11:35 pleasure, and we are in great distress. And because of all 11:39 this we make a sure covenant, and write it; and our princes, 11:44 Levites, and priests, seal unto it. We're going to continue to 11:50 read in Nehemiah. In the first part of chapter 10 11:53 is a listing of the names of those who sealed the covenant. 11:56 So we'll skip over the reading of that listing, and we'll pick 11:59 up in Nehemiah 10, starting with verse 28. 12:02 And this is the King James Version. 12:03 And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, 12:08 the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had 12:12 separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law 12:15 of God, their wives, their sons and their daughters, every one 12:19 having knowledge, and having understanding; they clave to 12:23 their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse, 12:26 and into an oath, to walk in God's law, which was given 12:30 by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the 12:35 commandments of the Lord our Lord, and his judgments 12:38 and his statutes; And that we would not give our daughters 12:41 unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our 12:45 sons: And if the people of the land bring ware or any victuals 12:50 on the sabbath day to sell, that we would not buy it of them 12:53 on the sabbath, or on the holy day: and that we would leave the 12:57 seventh year, and the exaction of every debt. Also we made 13:03 ordinances for us, to charge ourselves yearly with the third 13:06 part of a shekel for the service of the house of our God; 13:09 for the shewbread, and for the continual meat offering, and for 13:12 the continual burnt offering, of the sabbaths, of the new 13:16 moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the 13:20 sin offerings to make an atonement for Israel, 13:22 and for all the work of the house of our God. 13:26 And we cast the lots among the priests, the Levites, and the 13:30 people for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our 13:33 God, after the houses of our fathers, at times appointed 13:37 year by year, to burn upon the altar of the Lord our God, 13:40 as it is written in the law: and to bring the firstfruits of our 13:45 ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, 13:48 year by year unto the house of the Lord: also the firstborn of 13:51 our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, 13:54 and the firstlings of our herds and of our flocks, to bring 13:58 to the house of our God, unto the priests that minister in the 14:02 house of our God: and that we should bring the firstfruits 14:05 of our dough, and our offerings and the fruit of all manner of 14:08 trees, of wine and of oil, unto the priests, to the chambers 14:12 of the house of our God; and the tithes of our ground unto the 14:16 Levites that the same Levites might have the tithes in all the 14:20 cities of our tillage. And the priest the son of Aaron shall 14:24 be with the Levites, when the Levites take tithes: 14:26 and the Levites shall bring up the tithe of the tithes unto the 14:31 house of our God, to the chambers, into the treasure 14:34 house. - Please join with me again next time to read the 14:37 word of God together. Goodbye. |
Revised 2014-12-17