Title: When Renewed, God Writes
content LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> Nehemiah, a high official of the Persian kingdom (Persia), heard the news that the Israelites were being invaded by Gentiles due to the collapsed walls. The story of Nehemiah in the Old Testament is to ask the king for permission to help my people, and to return to Israel and rebuild the ruined wall with the people of Israel.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> After returning to his homeland, Nehemiah rebuilds the walls of Jerusalem and rebuilds the first of the 12 gates. The 'sheep gate' is the amount of sheep to be sacrificed to God. This is the gate that we used to come in. Also, we set up Levites to help make sacrifices to God. The reason Nehemiah rebuilt the 'sheep gate' and built up the Levites means that our relationship with God must be established first. Because I knew that offering sacrifices to God and worshiping were the most urgent and important.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> Because of this, the people of Israel will experience spiritual revival, moral recovery, and political stability like never before. Nehemiah, who accomplished a great history, returned to the Persian kingdom and spent the next ten years of peace.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> However, ten years later, Nehemiah received the news that they neglected worship, had secular values that polluted the temple, neglected to dedicate themselves to God, and that their families were crumbling. Nehemiah 13 is the story of the event that brought about this reform of the faith of the people of Israel.
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LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px">As we live on this land, we hear the news that the economy is collapsing and our faith, hopes, and hearts are crumbling. What should we do at this time? How will our lives be restored to history? can i taste it?
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> If you look at the text, it is like seeing the Korean church, which once boasted of revival and then gradually declined. He experienced God's great grace and had a passionate faith, but now only hypocrisy and pretense remain. The image of ugly believers living with only their shells and breasts can be me and you.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> After rebuilding the wall, the lives of the people of Israel became more peaceful, but as time went on, they began to deteriorate and degenerate.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> Priest Eliashib, who was in charge of keeping the tithes and holy relics brought by the people, interfered with the rebuilding of the temple in Jerusalem with his children, giving the Israelites despair and plotting Nehemiah to become king It is the fact that they arranged marriage with the children of 'Tobiah' and let Tobiah live in that room.(:5) As a result, tithes and offerings leaked and disappeared. Nehemiah, who ran to hear the news that the faith of the people of Israel had collapsed, witnessed this.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> Nehemiah was enraged, threw Tobiah's belongings in the room out the window, cleaned them up, and began to tithe the people again.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> In my heart that should be filled with the word of God, my lips that should be overflowing with prayer, and my soul that should be filled with God's grace, the corruptible value of the world is filled.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> 'Dobiya' symbolizes today's worldly values. The old heart of living by God's grace is now worshiping, but I have to live well. It means that you do not feel remorse while doing it.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> If there is a stumbling block to the revival of the church and the loyalty of the members, that person is ?쁔obiya.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> Then how can we build up our broken faith? Through the book of Nehemiah, what he tells us is to 'return to the first faith.' that means.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> Nehemiah 10 records a scene in which 84 representatives of the Israelites who had experienced revival were gathered and made an oath. The contents of the oath are to keep the family holy by not marrying the first Gentiles. The second is a pledge to keep the Sabbath day and live according to God's will, and the third is a pledge to manage material goods well by paying tithes well.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> However, as time goes by, they begin to break this pledge. Nevertheless, the Israelites thought that God would bless them because they thought about the work of rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem in the past. But we need to know What matters is who we are now, not the past.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> This means that we should not be mistaken based on the past when we were loyal to the Lord and the church even though we lost the thrill of worship and our loyalty to the Lord.
LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> Nehemiah begins to restore them in the reverse order of the oath to restore their faith. First, by administering the holy material, he brings the tribe of Levi back together and restores worship. And restores the Sabbath faith. Now In other words, we restored our faith on Sunday and focused on God.
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LIGN: justify; LINE-HEIGHT: 21px; TEXT-INDENT: 0px; MARGIN: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: 'roll body'; COLOR: #000000; FONT-SIZE: 13px"> Through today's worship service, thanks to the infinite grace and power of God supplied from heaven, we will fight the world and become a life of faith that triumphs. All questions will be answered and broken relationships will be restored.
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