Nehemiah

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Nehemiah

• Dealing with Gods word
• Chapter 8

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Authority

• No matter how much authority you think you have,
  someone else always has more authority
• Illustration
• No matter who you are, Jesus has all authority
  (Mt 2818)
• Nehemiah 8 teaches us how to deal with the
  authority of God and His word

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Gathered as one man

• Neh 81
• One man unity of one mind
• The word of God needed to be studied
• All Gods people needed to be part of the study
• Today, we need to be unified
• In letting Gods word be our authority
• In our desire to study the word together
• In putting the word into practice (1 Cor 110)

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The Teaching of the Law (82-8)

• The Law was brought (82)
• How else can Gods word be studied?
• Do we bring our Bibles to Bible studies?
• The Law was opened (85)
• Are we opening our Bibles? (Acts 1711)
• The Law was read (83,8)
• Gods word is the focus of our study (1 Pet 411)
• The Law was discussed (88)
• We need to make sure we understand the word
• The Law was understood (88)
• 2 Pet 119-21

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The Behavior of the People

• They were attentive (83)
• Prov 1815 Its important to learn His word
• They were reverent (85-6)
• Ps 338 Hab 220 Are we as reverent?
• They were persistent and unwavering (83,7)
• They stood for 4-6 hours listening to the word
• Are we as eager to hear the word of God?

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The Effect of the Law (89-12)

• Sorrow (89)
• The law gives knowledge of sin (Rom 320)
• Sorrow comes when the knowledge shows us
• Guilt contracted
• Good forfeited
• Wrath incurred
• Joy (810)
• The word of God brings joy of
• Salvation Forgiveness
• Protection, instruction, and comfort
• Ps 11997

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Discovery and Obedience (813-18)

• Attention given to how to apply the word
• Found out what pleased God
• It is not what we want, but what God wants
• Obedience in the things learned
• It is one thing to know what God wants
• It is another to do what He wants
• Where they were wrong, they made a change
• Phil 49
• James 122-25

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Conclusion

• In our efforts for the Lord, we must
• Study the word of God
• Give heed to the word of God
• Hold in reverence the word of God
• Be doers of the word of God
• The word of God has all the authority of God
• Lets make sure it has all authority in our lives
  as well

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