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KEEPING IT STOKED
"Stoked" - Part 10
August 24th, 2008
Nehemiah 9:1 - 13:31
Dwain Tissell

Ne 9:1 On the twenty-fourth day of the same month, the Israelites gathered together, fasting and wearing sackcloth and having dust on their heads.
Ne 9:2 Those of Israelite descent had separated themselves from all foreigners. They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the wickedness of their fathers. Nehemiah 9:1-2 (NIV)

Ne 9:38 "In view of all this, we are making a binding agreement, putting it in writing, and our leaders, our Levites and our priests are affixing their seals to it." Nehemiah 9:38 (NIV)

Ne 10:30 "We promise not to give our daughters in marriage to the peoples around us or take their daughters for our sons. Nehemiah 10:30 (NIV)

Ne 10:31 "When the neighboring peoples bring merchandise or grain to sell on the Sabbath, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on any holy day. Every seventh year we will forgo working the land and will cancel all debts. Nehemiah 10:31 (NIV)

"We will not neglect the house of our God." Nehemiah 10:39b (NIV)

Ne 13:20 Once or twice the merchants and sellers of all kinds of goods spent the night outside Jerusalem.
Ne 13:21 But I warned them and said, "Why do you spend the night by the wall? If you do this again, I will lay hands on you." From that time on they no longer came on the Sabbath.
Ne 13:22 Then I commanded the Levites to purify themselves and go and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Nehemiah 13:20-22 (NIV)

Ne 13:23 Moreover, in those days I saw men of Judah who had married women from Ashdod, Ammon and Moab.
Ne 13:24 Half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod or the language of one of the other peoples, and did not know how to speak the language of Judah. Nehemiah 13:23-24 (NIV)

Ne 13:25 I rebuked them and called curses down on them. I beat some of the men and pulled out their hair. I made them take an oath in God's name and said: "You are not to give your daughters in marriage to their sons, nor are you to take their daughters in marriage for your sons or for yourselves. Nehemiah 13:25 (NIV)

Ne 13:30 So I purified the priests and the Levites of everything foreign, and assigned them duties, each to his own task.
Ne 13:31 I also made provision for contributions of wood at designated times, and for the firstfruits.

Remember me with favor, O my God. Nehemiah 30-31 (NIV)

1. NO MATTER WHAT, YOU HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO DRIFT.

2. SEEING THROUGH GOD'S VISION FOR YOUR LIFE REQUIRES GOD'S CLEAR STANDARDS AND PEOPLE OF COURAGE.