Relevant Verses: Nehemiah 13

Leading question: Are some decisions so bad, that the way out requires the suspension of grace?

The formal study guide has chosen to dedicate this whole lesson to the fifth problem which Nehemiah discovered when returning to Jerusalem after a 12 year absence, namely, the call to end all mixed marriages. A crucial question looms over this issue: Is the way of Jesus’ “better” than that presented in the OT? While Jesus himself never killed anyone, never even struck anyone – when he cleansed the temple he attacked the furniture not the people – he does tell ...