Part 12 | The Secret Sauce to Satisfaction: Work and Worship
From Nehemiah 12
📖 Genesis 2:2 ESV And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done.
📖 Exodus 20:8–10 ESV “Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, 10 but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work…
Without – work is .
Without – worship is .
📖 James 2:17 ESV So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.
📖 Nehemiah 12:43 ESV And they offered great sacrifices that day and rejoiced, for God had made them rejoice with great joy; the women and children also rejoiced. And the joy of Jerusalem was heard far away.
1. We experience when is our .
📖 Ezra 3:2-3 ESV Then arose Jeshua the son of Jozadak, with his fellow priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings on it, as it is written in the Law of Moses the man of God. 3 They set the altar in its place, for fear was on them because of the peoples of the lands, and they offered burnt offerings on it to the LORD, burnt offerings morning and evening.
📖 Ezra 3:8 ESV They appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to supervise the work of the house of the LORD.
📖 Ezra 6:15 ESV and this house was finished on the third day of the month of Adar, in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.
Fast Forward 70 years…
📖 Nehemiah 1:3 ESV “The remnant there in the province who had survived the exile is in great trouble and shame. The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, and its gates are destroyed by fire.”
Spiritual without real-world is .
2. We experience when we to our .
📖 Nehemiah 12:1 ESV These are the priests and the Levites who came up with Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel…
📖 Nehemiah 12:12 ESV And in the days of Joiakim were priests…
📖 Nehemiah 12:22 ESV In the days of Eliashib, Joiada, Johanan, and Jaddua, the Levites were recorded as heads of fathers’ houses; so too were the priests…
📖 Colossians 3:23–24 ESV Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, 24 knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
📖 Nehemiah 12:31 ESV Then I brought the leaders of Judah up onto the wall and appointed two great choirs that gave thanks. One went to the south on the wall to the Dung Gate… verse 36 And Ezra the scribe went before them.
📖 Nehemiah 12:38 ESV The other choir of those who gave thanks went to the north, and I followed them with half of the people…
📖 Nehemiah 12:40-42 ESV So both choirs of those who gave thanks stood in the house of God…
📖 Luke 10:40 ESV But Martha was distracted with much serving. And she went up to him and said, “Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to serve alone? Tell her then to help me.”
📖 Luke 10:41-42 ESV But the Lord answered her, “Martha, Martha, you are anxious and troubled about many things, 42 but one thing is necessary. Mary has chosen the good portion, which will not be taken away from her.”
3. We experience when our .
📖 Matthew 17:2-4 ESV And he was transfigured before them, and his face shone like the sun, and his clothes became white as light. 3 And behold, there appeared to them Moses and Elijah, talking with him. 4 And Peter said to Jesus, “Lord, it is good that we are here. If you wish, I will make three tents here, one for you and one for Moses and one for Elijah.”
📖 Matthew 17:5 ESV He was still speaking when, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, “This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased; listen to him.”
📖 Matthew 17:18 ESV And Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him, and the boy was healed instantly.
4. We experience when we our in those us.
📖 Nehemiah 12:44 ESV On that day men were appointed over the storerooms, the contributions, the firstfruits, and the tithes, to gather into them the portions required by the Law for the priests and for the Levites according to the fields of the towns, for Judah rejoiced over the priests and the Levites who ministered.
Sermon in a Sentence:
Start with ; let fuel your , experience God’s blessing through your and in others you.
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