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  • Building Healthy Community
    Now the men and their wives raised a great outcry against their fellow
    Jews. Some were saying, “We and our sons and daughters are numerous; in
    order for us to eat and stay alive, we must get grain.”
    Others were saying, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards and our
    homes to get grain during the famine.”
    Still others were saying, “We have had to borrow money to pay the king’s
    tax on our fields and vineyards. Although we are of the same flesh and
    blood as our fellow Jews and though our children are as good as theirs, yet
    we have to subject our sons and daughters to slavery. Some of our daughters
    have already been enslaved, but we are powerless, because our fields and
    our vineyards belong to others.”
    When I heard their outcry and these charges, I was very angry. I pondered
    them in my mind and then accused the nobles and officials. I told them,
    “You are charging your own people interest!” So I called together a large
    meeting to deal with them and said: “As far as possible, we have bought
    back our fellow Jews who were sold to the Gentiles. Now you are selling
    your own people, only for them to be sold back to us!” They kept quiet,
    because they could find nothing to say.
    So I continued, “What you are doing is not right. Shouldn’t you walk in the
    fear of our God to avoid the reproach of our Gentile enemies? I and my
    brothers and my men are also lending the people money and grain. But let us
    stop charging interest! Give back to them immediately their fields,
    vineyards, olive groves and houses, and also the interest you are charging
    them—one percent of the money, grain, new wine and olive oil.”
    “We will give it back,” they said. “And we will not demand anything more
    from them. We will do as you say.”
    Then I summoned the priests and made the nobles and officials take an oath
    to do what they had promised. I also shook out the folds of my robe and
    said, “In this way may God shake out of their house and possessions anyone
    who does not keep this promise. So may such a person be shaken out and
    emptied!”
    At this the whole assembly said, “Amen,” and praised the Lord. And the
    people did as they had promised.
    * Nehemiah 5:1-13
    12 min
  • Gift Sunday - Everyone Builds
    Eliashib the high priest and his fellow priests went to work and rebuilt
    the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and set its doors in place, building as
    far as the Tower of the Hundred, which they dedicated, and as far as the
    Tower of Hananel. The men of Jericho built the adjoining section, and
    Zakkur son of Imri built next to them.
    The Fish Gate was rebuilt by the sons of Hassenaah. They laid its beams and
    put its doors and bolts and bars in place. Meremoth son of Uriah, the son
    of Hakkoz, repaired the next section. Next to him Meshullam son of
    Berekiah, the son of Meshezabel, made repairs, and next to him Zadok son of
    Baana also made repairs. The next section was repaired by the men of Tekoa,
    but their nobles would not put their shoulders to the work under their
    supervisors.
    The Jeshanah Gate was repaired by Joiada son of Paseah and Meshullam son of
    Besodeiah. They laid its beams and put its doors with their bolts and bars
    in place. Next to them, repairs were made by men from Gibeon and
    Mizpah—Melatiah of Gibeon and Jadon of Meronoth—places under the authority
    of the governor of Trans-Euphrates. Uzziel son of Harhaiah, one of the
    goldsmiths, repaired the next section; and Hananiah, one of the
    perfume-makers, made repairs next to that. They restored Jerusalem as far
    as the Broad Wall. Rephaiah son of Hur, ruler of a half-district of
    Jerusalem, repaired the next section. Adjoining this, Jedaiah son of
    Harumaph made repairs opposite his house, and Hattush son of Hashabneiah
    made repairs next to him. Malkijah son of Harim and Hasshub son of
    Pahath-Moab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens. Shallum
    son of Hallohesh, ruler of a half-district of Jerusalem, repaired the next
    section with the help of his daughters.
    * Nehemiah 3:1-12
    11 min
  • Building Hope Together
    I went to Jerusalem, and after staying there three days I set out during
    the night with a few others. I had not told anyone what my God had put in
    my heart to do for Jerusalem. There were no mounts with me except the one I
    was riding on.
    By night I went out through the Valley Gate toward the Jackal Well and the
    Dung Gate, examining the walls of Jerusalem, which had been broken down,
    and its gates, which had been destroyed by fire. Then I moved on toward the
    Fountain Gate and the King’s Pool, but there was not enough room for my
    mount to get through; so I went up the valley by night, examining the wall.
    Finally, I turned back and reentered through the Valley Gate. The officials
    did not know where I had gone or what I was doing, because as yet I had
    said nothing to the Jews or the priests or nobles or officials or any
    others who would be doing the work.
    Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in: Jerusalem lies in
    ruins, and its gates have been burned with fire. Come, let us rebuild the
    wall of Jerusalem, and we will no longer be in disgrace.” I also told them
    about the gracious hand of my God on me and what the king had said to me.
    They replied, “Let us start rebuilding.” So they began this good work.
    But when Sanballat the Horonite, Tobiah the Ammonite official and Geshem
    the Arab heard about it, they mocked and ridiculed us. “What is this you
    are doing?” they asked. “Are you rebelling against the king?”
    I answered them by saying, “The God of heaven will give us success. We his
    servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in
    Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it.”
    * Nehemiah 2:11-20
    15 min
  • Harvest - A Heart that Breaks
    The words of Nehemiah son of Hakaliah:
    In the month of Kislev in the twentieth year, while I was in the citadel of
    Susa, Hanani, one of my brothers, came from Judah with some other men, and
    I questioned them about the Jewish remnant that had survived the exile, and
    also about Jerusalem.
    They said to me, “Those who survived the exile and are back in the province
    are in great trouble and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down,
    and its gates have been burned with fire.”
    When I heard these things, I sat down and wept. For some days I mourned and
    fasted and prayed before the God of heaven. Then I said:
    “Lord, the God of heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps his covenant
    of love with those who love him and keep his commandments, let your ear be
    attentive and your eyes open to hear the prayer your servant is praying
    before you day and night for your servants, the people of Israel. I confess
    the sins we Israelites, including myself and my father’s family, have
    committed against you. We have acted very wickedly toward you. We have not
    obeyed the commands, decrees and laws you gave your servant Moses.
    “Remember the instruction you gave your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you are
    unfaithful, I will scatter you among the nations, but if you return to me
    and obey my commands, then even if your exiled people are at the farthest
    horizon, I will gather them from there and bring them to the place I have
    chosen as a dwelling for my Name.’
    “They are your servants and your people, whom you redeemed by your great
    strength and your mighty hand. Lord, let your ear be attentive to the
    prayer of this your servant and to the prayer of your servants who delight
    in revering your name. Give your servant success today by granting him
    favor in the presence of this man.”
    I was cupbearer to the king.
    * Nehemiah 1:1-11
    17 min
  • Shaped by God’s Word
    this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a teacher well versed in the Law of
    Moses, which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given. The king had granted
    him everything he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him. Some
    of the Israelites, including priests, Levites, musicians, gatekeepers and
    temple servants, also came up to Jerusalem in the seventh year of King
    Artaxerxes.
    Ezra arrived in Jerusalem in the fifth month of the seventh year of the
    king. He had begun his journey from Babylon on the first day of the first
    month, and he arrived in Jerusalem on the first day of the fifth month, for
    the gracious hand of his God was on him. For Ezra had devoted himself to
    the study and observance of the Law of the Lord, and to teaching its
    decrees and laws in Israel.
    * Ezra 7:6-10
    14 min
  • Courage when the work stops
    When the enemies of Judah and Benjamin heard that the exiles were building
    a temple for the Lord, the God of Israel, they came to Zerubbabel and to
    the heads of the families and said, “Let us help you build because, like
    you, we seek your God and have been sacrificing to him since the time of
    Esarhaddon king of Assyria, who brought us here.”
    But Zerubbabel, Joshua and the rest of the heads of the families of Israel
    answered, “You have no part with us in building a temple to our God. We
    alone will build it for the Lord, the God of Israel, as King Cyrus, the
    king of Persia, commanded us.”
    Then the peoples around them set out to discourage the people of Judah and
    make them afraid to go on building. They bribed officials to work against
    them and frustrate their plans during the entire reign of Cyrus king of
    Persia and down to the reign of Darius king of Persia.
    As soon as the copy of the letter of King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum and
    Shimshai the secretary and their associates, they went immediately to the
    Jews in Jerusalem and compelled them by force to stop.
    Thus the work on the house of God in Jerusalem came to a standstill until
    the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.
    * Ezra 4:1-5, 23-24
    23 min
  • Worship Before Work
    When the seventh month came and the Israelites had settled in their towns,
    the people assembled together as one in Jerusalem. Then Joshua son of
    Jozadak and his fellow priests and Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and his
    associates began to build the altar of the God of Israel to sacrifice burnt
    offerings on it, in accordance with what is written in the Law of Moses the
    man of God. Despite their fear of the peoples around them, they built the
    altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the Lord,
    both the morning and evening sacrifices. Then in accordance with what is
    written, they celebrated the Festival of Tabernacles with the required
    number of burnt offerings prescribed for each day. After that, they
    presented the regular burnt offerings, the New Moon sacrifices and the
    sacrifices for all the appointed sacred festivals of the Lord, as well as
    those brought as freewill offerings to the Lord. On the first day of the
    seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to the Lord, though the
    foundation of the Lord’s temple had not yet been laid.
    Then they gave money to the masons and carpenters, and gave food and drink
    and olive oil to the people of Sidon and Tyre, so that they would bring
    cedar logs by sea from Lebanon to Joppa, as authorized by Cyrus king of
    Persia.
    In the second month of the second year after their arrival at the house of
    God in Jerusalem, Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, Joshua son of Jozadak and
    the rest of the people (the priests and the Levites and all who had
    returned from the captivity to Jerusalem) began the work. They appointed
    Levites twenty years old and older to supervise the building of the house
    of the Lord. Joshua and his sons and brothers and Kadmiel and his sons
    (descendants of Hodaviah) and the sons of Henadad and their sons and
    brothers—all Levites—joined together in supervising those working on the
    house of God.
    When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the
    priests in their vestments and with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of
    Asaph) with cymbals, took their places to praise the Lord, as prescribed by
    David king of Israel. With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the Lord:
    “He is good;
    his love toward Israel endures forever.”
    And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the Lord, because the
    foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. But many of the older priests
    and Levites and family heads, who had seen the former temple, wept aloud
    when they saw the foundation of this temple being laid, while many others
    shouted for joy. No one could distinguish the sound of the shouts of joy
    from the sound of weeping, because the people made so much noise. And the
    sound was heard far away.
    * Ezra 3:1-13
    23 min
  • When God Stirs Our Hearts
    In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, in order to fulfill the word of
    the LORD spoken by Jeremiah, the LORD moved the heart of Cyrus king of
    Persia to make a proclamation throughout his realm and also to put it in
    writing: “This is what Cyrus king of Persia says: “ ‘The LORD, the God of
    heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me
    to build a temple for him at Jerusalem in Judah. Any of his people among
    you may go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the LORD, the
    God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem, and may their God be with them.
    And in any locality where survivors may now be living, the people are to
    provide them with silver and gold, with goods and livestock, and with
    freewill offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem.’ ” Then the family
    heads of Judah and Benjamin, and the priests and Levites—everyone whose
    heart God had moved—prepared to go up and build the house of the LORD in
    Jerusalem. All their neighbors assisted them with articles of silver and
    gold, with goods and livestock, and with valuable gifts, in addition to all
    the freewill offerings. Moreover, King Cyrus brought out the articles
    belonging to the temple of the LORD, which Nebuchadnezzar had carried away
    from Jerusalem and had placed in the temple of his god. Cyrus king of
    Persia had them brought by Mithredath the treasurer, who counted them out
    to Sheshbazzar the prince of Judah. This was the inventory: gold dishes 30
    silver dishes 1,000 silver pans 29 gold bowls 30 matching silver bowls 410
    other articles 1,000 In all, there were 5,400 articles of gold and of
    silver. Sheshbazzar brought all these along with the exiles when they came
    up from Babylon to Jerusalem.
    Ezra 1:1-11
    17 min
  • Pay it forward
    From that time on Jesus began to explain to his disciples that he must go
    to Jerusalem and suffer many things at the hands of the elders, the chief
    priests and the teachers of the law, and that he must be killed and on the
    third day be raised to life. Peter took him aside and began to rebuke him.
    “Never, Lord!” he said. “This shall never happen to you!” Jesus turned and
    said to Peter, “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; you
    do not have in mind the concerns of God, but merely human concerns.” Then
    Jesus said to his disciples, “Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny
    themselves and take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wants to save
    their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it.
    What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, yet forfeit their
    soul? Or what can anyone give in exchange for their soul? For the Son of
    Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he
    will reward each person according to what they have done. “Truly I tell
    you, some who are standing here will not taste death before they see the
    Son of Man coming in his kingdom.”
    Matthew 16:21-28
    20 min
  • Who do you say I am?
    When Jesus came to the region of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples,
    “Who do people say the Son of Man is?”
    They replied, “Some say John the Baptist; others say Elijah; and still
    others, Jeremiah or one of the prophets.”
    “But what about you?” he asked. “Who do you say I am?”
    Simon Peter answered, “You are the Messiah, the Son of the living God.”
    Jesus replied, “Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah, for this was not
    revealed to you by flesh and blood, but by my Father in heaven. And I tell
    you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the
    gates of Hades will not overcome it. I will give you the keys of the
    kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and
    whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” Then he ordered his
    disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Messiah.
    * Matthew 16:13-20
    13 min

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