The high priest Eliashib and his fellow priests began rebuilding the Sheep Gate. They dedicated it and installed its doors. After building the wall to the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel, they dedicated it.

Nehemiah 3:1

But seek first the kingdom of God  and his righteousness,  and all these things will be provided for you.

Matthew 6:33

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Notice Eliashib’s…

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ROLE that PICTURES putting the Lord first

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Notice…

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His title

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Priest

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His task

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High priest

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The people’s representative to God and God’s representative to the people

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REBUILDING that PROVES putting the Lord first

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Notice…

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The assignment

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The assessment

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“…they built the Sheep Gate.”

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REWARDING that PROMOTES putting the Lord first

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Rewarding is about…

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Blessings

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After him Baruch son of Zabbai diligently repaired another section, from the Angle to the door of the house of the high priest Eliashib.  Nehemiah 3:20

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Benefits

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“…Baruch…earnestly (diligently) repaired…”

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“…who will not receive a hundred times  more, now at this time  — houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields, with persecutions  — and eternal life  in the age to come.”  Mark 10:30

For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,  so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God,  being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.  He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.  In him we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Colossians 1:9‭-‬14

Prayer for…

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LEARNING

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For this reason also, since the day we heard this, we haven’t stopped praying for you. We are asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding,- Colossians 1:9

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Learning the…

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Purpose of our Lord

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Sunesis – awareness of facts

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Sophia – applying the facts

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Epignosis – knowing it so well as to be able to teach to others

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Person of our Lord

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My goal is to know him and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings, being conformed to his death, – Philippians 3:10

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LIVING

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so that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him: bearing fruit in every good work and growing in the knowledge of God – Colossians 1:10

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Living is about…

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Our walk

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Our ways

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LASTING

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being strengthened with all power, according to his glorious might, so that you may have great endurance and patience, joyfully… – Colossianss 1:11

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Last by being…

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Strengthened

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Steady

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LOVING

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giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the saints’ inheritance in the light.  He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son he loves.  In him we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. – Colossianss 1:12‭-‬14

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Love Him because Jesus has removed

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Us from something

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Something from us

Psalm 126: 5-6 Our sowing… Is INTENTIONAL Intentional about… Going Mark 16.15 Throwing Is RELATIONAL Relational is… INVITING INVESTING Is SPIRITUAL Spiritual seed is… PRECIOUS 1 Peter 1:23 PROMISING 1 Thessalonians 1: 5-8

Acts 13: 1-3 Notice the Church… With LEADERS Notice the… Character of these leaders Barnabas Saul Simeon Lucius of Cyrene Romans 16:21 Manaen Call of these leaders With LISTENERS Listeners who are… Active with the Holy Spirit “As they were ministering (worshipping) the Lord…” Aware of the Holy Spirit With LEAPERS (ready to” leap” at whatever the Holy Spirit called them to do”) Leapers who are… Set apart for the Gospel Sent away for the Gospel

The Old Testament Notice the… CONSTRUCTION of the OT 39 books Started 1300 years before Christ The Pentateuch (Torah) (Genesis to Deuteronomy) The first 5 books of the OT The Histories (Joshua to Esther) 12 books The Writings 5 books The Prophecies 17 books 5 major prophets 12 minor CONTENT of the OT The content is… A record A revelation Exodus 34: 6 John 5: 39

2 Timothy 3:1-5 “But know this: Difficult times will come in the last days.  For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,  unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,  traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!” 2 Timothy 3:1‭-‬5 HCSB Matthew 8:28 Dangerous days because of the… Condition […]