We cannot afford to try to wait until the end of our life to serve God. We should not try to pre-plan repentance.Luke 16:18 - Marriage is not always approved of by God.The rule against marrying foreigners was only for the Jews in Old Testament times.Nehemiah 5:1-13.Nehemiah 8:13-18.The Israelites found out what they should be doing by simply reading scripture.They had a good attitude about their error and got to work fixing it.The leaders stirred the people up to follow God’s commandments.The people kept reading the scriptures during the feast.Nehemiah 9:1-3 - Rooting out sin involved:Reading God’s wordHumilityConfessionRepentanceNehemiah corrects more sin:Nehemiah 13:1-3 - exclusion of foreignersNehemiah 13:4-9 - Tobiah kicked out of his roomNehemiah 13:10-14 - tithes restored for support of LevitesNehemiah 13:15-22 - rest on Sabbath restoredNehemiah 13:23-31 - Nehemiah discovers and corrects another problem with intermarriage