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Dr. Erez Soref: Finishing Well - Walking the Walls With Nehemiah | One For Israel

April 10, 2026 | S2:E13 | 27:25

Dr. Erez Soref: Finishing Well - Walking the Walls With Nehemiah | One For Israel
What if finishing well matters more than how you started—and your legacy is built in the quiet choices no one sees? Join Dr. Erez Soref in “Walking the Walls with Nehemiah” as he reveals the challenge of sustaining revival, confronting compromise, and running the race to the end. Discover how faithfulness, discipline, and devotion prepare the way for a legacy that lasts.
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| Dr. Erez Soref: Finishing Well - Walking the Walls With Nehemiah | One For Israel | April 10, 2026
  • Serving god
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  • Is not a sprint.
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  • It's a marathon.
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  • You may have good leadership.
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  • You may have good political arrangements.
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  • But if the heart is not circumcised for the lord,
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  • Everything is going to collapse.
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  • I've come to the conclusion
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  • That the promised jewish messiah has already been here.
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  • Only yeshua can set this world right.
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  • I am dr. erez soref.
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  • I was born and raised in the heart of israel,
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  • But i never heard the gospel message
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  • Until on a journey abroad,
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  • My eyes were opened to the jewish messiah.
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  • From that point,
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  • My life has been dedicated
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  • To bringing this gospel back to my people israel,
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  • Equipping them to reach israel
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  • And the world.
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  • Together, as jews and gentiles,
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  • We are one in messiah, one for israel.
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  • We've been walking the walls with nehemiah.
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  • We have followed nehemiah's story,
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  • His burden to repair the walls of jerusalem,
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  • Rallying the people to complete the vision,
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  • Restoring god's order for the city,
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  • Igniting spiritual revival in preparation
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  • For the coming of the messiah.
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  • As we come to the end of nehemiah's story,
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  • We will see there is still much work to be done.
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  • Just as there is much to be done in our day.
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  • How will we finish?
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  • And what will be our legacy?
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  • Today, we will examine legacy and discover
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  • How we can finish well,
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  • As we walk the walls with nehemiah.
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  • Twelve years after the walls of jerusalem were rebuilt,
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  • Nehemiah was back in persia.
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  • He was serving once again as the emperor's cupbearer.
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  • He probably thought back on his time in jerusalem,
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  • Remembering the progress he made.
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  • As he was working a thousand miles away,
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  • Perhaps his heart yearned for his precious city.
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  • So one day, he asked the persian king for time off
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  • To travel to jerusalem once again.
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  • Because of his great favor with the king,
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  • The request was granted.
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  • And nehemiah went to visit the city
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  • He had worked so hard to restore.
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  • But when nehemiah returned to jerusalem,
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  • He was shocked by what he found.
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  • The spiritual leadership had failed in his absence,
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  • Causing the rest of society to fall as well.
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  • Those left in charge did not take the steps
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  • To walk out their spiritual restoration.
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  • Despite passionate vows and a covenant to walk right,
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  • The leaders and then the people
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  • Fell into compromise soon after nehemiah left for persia.
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  • What did this compromise look like?
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  • First, nehemiah found that the people went back
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  • On their commitment
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  • To provide financially for the levites.
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  • Because of this, many levites were forced to find work
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  • On the farms instead.
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  • These were the ones who would minister in the temple
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  • And teach god's word.
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  • Without them, the word wasn't being taught.
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  • The people stopped observing the sabbath.
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  • The temple was in disarray.
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  • The people began to marry pagans, raising children
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  • Without the knowledge of god or his word,
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  • Pulling a whole generation away from the worship of the lord.
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  • And as we'll see later,
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  • Compromise among leadership
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  • Allowed their enemy to stake a claim
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  • Right in the holy temple.
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  • Nehemiah must have been so frustrated.
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  • What happened?
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  • Didn't the people remember
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  • When they were convicted to tears?
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  • Didn't they remember their vows they made to god?
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  • As we read in proverbs, without vision,
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  • The people perish.
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  • The word in hebrew for perish
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  • Is like the word for scatter,
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  • Like beads coming off a string.
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  • Where there is no prophetic vision,
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  • The people cast off restraint and scatter.
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  • The people of jerusalem had looked up to nehemiah.
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  • They followed his leadership
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  • Because he had that personal connection with god.
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  • They experienced revival.
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  • But for many, inner transformation
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  • Had not taken place in their own hearts.
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  • And when nehemiah was gone, their spiritual life dried up.
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  • Serving god is not a sprint. it's a marathon.
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  • We may experience revival or awakening.
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  • But the work began in a revival is not sustained
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  • By powerful services or charismatic heroes.
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  • It's by people who are willing and empowered
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  • To run the race every day.
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  • If the people don't continue the work of discipleship,
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  • If we're not walking in obedience,
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  • Serving humbly and seeking god,
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  • The revival fires will be just a flash in the pan.
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  • In nehemiah's story,
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  • The restoration of jerusalem started well,
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  • But soon got off course.
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  • In our day, the vision must be to finish well.
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  • The life of faith is a marathon.
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  • It takes discipline.
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  • It takes the sustaining power of god's spirit
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  • To keep going strong to the end.
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  • Paul says:
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  • So what can we practically do to prepare for a marathon
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  • In our lives with god?
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  • Not just doing well for a short time,
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  • But endure to the end and finish well.
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  • Here are a few things i've learned along my race.
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  • First, live by faith, not just at the starting line,
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  • But every step of the race.
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  • We were saved through faith,
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  • And we must continue the same way.
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  • Just as we couldn't save ourselves,
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  • We can't sustain ourselves either.
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  • We need god's power to help us endure
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  • To the end, not our own strength.
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  • Second, cultivate an eternal perspective.
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  • A runner thinking only short term will quickly fail.
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  • Keep your eyes on the prize, just as yeshua did,
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  • For the joy set before him endured the cross.
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  • When we lose sight of eternity,
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  • The pain of hitting the wall becomes unbearable,
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  • And we're tempted to quit.
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  • Third, live in community with accountability.
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  • Marathon runners need teammates
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  • Who encourage them when they hit the wall.
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  • This race isn't meant to be run in isolation.
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  • When we stumble, we need brothers and sisters
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  • To help us get back up and keep running.
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  • Fourth, develop inner self-control.
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  • Athletes exercise self-control in all things
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  • For a temporary crown.
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  • How much more should we discipline ourselves
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  • For the eternal?
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  • Fruit of the spirit doesn't grow overnight,
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  • But we can take steps today
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  • Toward building spiritual discipline.
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  • Finally, be prepared to pay the price.
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  • The life of a marathon runner
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  • Doesn't look like that of someone
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  • Content to sit on the sidelines.
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  • Our lives as dedicated servants of god
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  • Will look different.
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  • There's a cost, but it's worth it.
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  • No marathon runner regrets his training
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  • When he crosses the finish line.
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  • This is what nehemiah understood.
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  • Building the walls was the sprint,
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  • But maintaining what was built,
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  • Keeping the vision alive when the excitement faded,
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  • That would require a marathon mindset.
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  • That would require a marathon mindset.
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  • Nehemiah was back in persia
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  • Serving the king when he received permission
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  • To visit jerusalem again.
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  • So 12 years after he had led the rebuilding,
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  • Nehemiah came back to the holy city.
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  • But he was soon heartbroken.
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  • On his first arrival,
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  • He found the walls of the city completely destroyed.
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  • This time, he found the spiritual life
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  • Of the city in ruins.
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  • Compromise infected jerusalem's leadership.
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  • It was so bad that they had even begun to align
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  • With one of israel's most outspoken enemies,
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  • Tobiah the ammonite,
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  • The one who had opposed nehemiah
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  • During the rebuilding.
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  • Nehemiah writes:
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  • Was this priest insane?
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  • Tobiah was israel's enemy!
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  • And he had invited him right into god's temple.
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  • The priest cleared out the room
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  • With offerings devoted to support the levites.
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  • And he accommodated a pagan
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  • Who had fought against them at every step.
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  • Nehemiah says:
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  • The levites no longer had the financial support needed
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  • So they could teach god's word.
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  • How could the priest of god
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  • Allow all this to happen?
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  • Even worse, it soon came to light
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  • That this priest eliashib
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  • Had made another wicked alliance.
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  • He had married off his grandson
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  • To the daughter of israel's other enemy,
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  • Sanballat.
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  • This made nehemiah furious.
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  • He went in and threw all of tobiah's things out of temple.
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  • He gave orders to purify the rooms
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  • And put the holy things back where they belong.
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  • He rebuked the city officials
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  • For neglecting their support to the levites,
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  • Which they had promised and god commanded.
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  • He began to install new leadership in jerusalem,
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  • Leaders who would be faithful to god and his house.
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  • Nehemiah enforced the keeping of the sabbath once again.
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  • He even locked out the merchants from the city
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  • Who came to sell their goods on saturday.
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  • Also, he severely rebuked those who had taken foreign wives
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  • Against their vow to god.
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  • He banished the grandson of the priest eliashib,
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  • Who had married the daughter of sanballat.
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  • These actions did not win nehemiah
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  • Any popularity contests.
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  • Standing up for what's right
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  • And bringing correction rarely does.
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  • But as much as revival can look like
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  • Excitement and celebration,
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  • Revival can also look like a consuming fire.
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  • Putting god's house into order
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  • And cleaning out hidden compromise from our inner rooms.
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  • I think of yeshua going into that same temple
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  • Centuries later and clearing out the merchants.
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  • Or times when the apostles rebuke
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  • Those who caused harm to the churches.
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  • We are called to stand up for what's right.
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  • Not obnoxious, mean-spirited, and hateful.
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  • But full of compassion, led by god's spirit.
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  • Desiring for all to come into repentance
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  • And be reconciled to their purpose in god.
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  • When i was about 10 or 11 years old,
  • 00:12:29.701 --> 00:12:32.070
  • Living in chicago,
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  • My father's parents, i was very close to them.
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  • They looked like two characters from the movie
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  • Fiddler on the roof.
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  • And i would hang out at their house a lot.
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  • Well, especially when my grandma was making
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  • A good bowl of kreplach soup.
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  • I said to my grandpa: "grandpa, i see
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  • "that you have received letters from your cousins in romania.
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  • "would you someday like to go back
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  • "and hang out with your cousins?"
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  • And he said: "no!"
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  • I said: "grandpa, why?"
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  • He said: "pogrom!"
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  • The farmers who claimed to be christians
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  • In a city called barlad, romania,
  • 00:13:05.003 --> 00:13:08.106
  • Came looking for jewish people to do them harm.
  • 00:13:08.106 --> 00:13:11.209
  • And my grandpa and his sister and mother had to hide
  • 00:13:11.209 --> 00:13:14.679
  • In the wine cellar.
  • 00:13:14.679 --> 00:13:15.814
  • It was the '70s, it was the john travolta era.
  • 00:13:16.781 --> 00:13:20.352
  • I was invited to go on the spring trip
  • 00:13:20.352 --> 00:13:23.488
  • For the university of illinois baseball team.
  • 00:13:23.488 --> 00:13:26.691
  • It was very early on that i was called into pitch and relief.
  • 00:13:26.691 --> 00:13:30.295
  • Strike!
  • 00:13:30.295 --> 00:13:31.196
  • After our game,
  • 00:13:31.196 --> 00:13:32.163
  • My roommate asked me
  • 00:13:32.163 --> 00:13:33.531
  • If i would go with him
  • 00:13:33.531 --> 00:13:35.166
  • To hear billy graham speak that night.
  • 00:13:35.166 --> 00:13:37.369
  • I'll take a rain check.
  • 00:13:37.869 --> 00:13:39.271
  • Jewish kids from chicago don't do this kind of thing.
  • 00:13:39.271 --> 00:13:41.907
  • My senior year, my friend again told me a famous lady
  • 00:13:41.907 --> 00:13:46.511
  • Was going to come speak.
  • 00:13:46.511 --> 00:13:48.146
  • I said: "i'll tell you what, you tell me what this person
  • 00:13:48.146 --> 00:13:50.815
  • "has to say, i'll take a rain check."
  • 00:13:50.815 --> 00:13:53.318
  • He said a lady named corrie ten boom
  • 00:13:54.119 --> 00:13:57.355
  • And her family were hiding jewish people
  • 00:13:57.355 --> 00:13:59.691
  • In the walls of their home.
  • 00:13:59.691 --> 00:14:01.192
  • They actually got caught by the nazis.
  • 00:14:01.192 --> 00:14:03.728
  • And her whole family died,
  • 00:14:03.728 --> 00:14:06.498
  • Not only because of their christian faith,
  • 00:14:06.498 --> 00:14:10.969
  • But because of their love for israel and the jewish people.
  • 00:14:10.969 --> 00:14:14.239
  • Something inside of me said, whatever the real deal is,
  • 00:14:14.239 --> 00:14:18.677
  • This must be it.
  • 00:14:18.677 --> 00:14:20.946
  • And so when i was getting ready to pitch in my last game
  • 00:14:20.946 --> 00:14:24.015
  • Against the university of michigan state,
  • 00:14:24.015 --> 00:14:26.818
  • My friend neil, after going for a run in the morning,
  • 00:14:26.818 --> 00:14:30.255
  • Comes into our apartment and blows my mind.
  • 00:14:30.255 --> 00:14:34.859
  • Neil was jewish.
  • 00:14:35.226 --> 00:14:36.995
  • He said: "sigs, i need to tell you something.
  • 00:14:36.995 --> 00:14:39.597
  • "after i read the hebrew scriptures
  • 00:14:39.597 --> 00:14:42.734
  • "and a careful examination of what it said,
  • 00:14:42.734 --> 00:14:45.570
  • "i've come to the conclusion the messiah has already come."
  • 00:14:45.570 --> 00:14:49.708
  • I said: "neil, are you out of your mind?"
  • 00:14:50.575 --> 00:14:54.546
  • I said: "you believe in jesus?"
  • 00:14:54.546 --> 00:14:57.148
  • And i said: "neil, you're not jewish anymore."
  • 00:14:57.148 --> 00:14:59.084
  • He said: "no, i'm a completed jew, jeff."
  • 00:14:59.084 --> 00:15:01.553
  • He said: "jeff, if you read it for yourself,
  • 00:15:01.553 --> 00:15:04.456
  • "i believe you'll come to the same conclusions."
  • 00:15:04.456 --> 00:15:08.059
  • What a dilemma.
  • 00:15:08.426 --> 00:15:10.862
  • If god really had a son,
  • 00:15:11.363 --> 00:15:13.565
  • I'm going to have to see in my book, not their book.
  • 00:15:13.565 --> 00:15:18.870
  • I held that tanakh up to heaven and i prayed a prayer to god.
  • 00:15:18.870 --> 00:15:23.208
  • I said: "god, can i have a burning bush experience
  • 00:15:23.208 --> 00:15:26.811
  • "like moses?"
  • 00:15:26.811 --> 00:15:27.879
  • One of the things that happened
  • 00:15:27.879 --> 00:15:29.748
  • Was i came to the book of jeremiah.
  • 00:15:29.748 --> 00:15:32.650
  • Chapter 31, verse 31 through 34.
  • 00:15:32.650 --> 00:15:35.687
  • "behold the days come, says the lord,
  • 00:15:35.687 --> 00:15:38.823
  • "when i will enact a new covenant
  • 00:15:38.823 --> 00:15:41.593
  • "with the house of israel and the house of judah."
  • 00:15:41.593 --> 00:15:44.262
  • And i'm thinking, oh my gosh,
  • 00:15:44.262 --> 00:15:46.531
  • This new covenant, this new agreement
  • 00:15:46.531 --> 00:15:48.867
  • Is for jewish people.
  • 00:15:48.867 --> 00:15:50.502
  • There's something to what my friend neil said.
  • 00:15:50.502 --> 00:15:53.138
  • New covenant, new testament.
  • 00:15:53.138 --> 00:15:55.573
  • My mind was blown.
  • 00:15:55.573 --> 00:15:58.543
  • I just fell on my knees in front of my bed
  • 00:15:59.411 --> 00:16:02.147
  • As i was reading these verses
  • 00:16:02.147 --> 00:16:04.549
  • And i just prayed a simple prayer.
  • 00:16:04.549 --> 00:16:06.251
  • I said: "dear god,
  • 00:16:06.251 --> 00:16:08.219
  • "please enter my heart and please forgive me
  • 00:16:09.154 --> 00:16:12.057
  • "for the sins of my life."
  • 00:16:12.057 --> 00:16:13.825
  • I said: "lord, i'm new at this.
  • 00:16:13.825 --> 00:16:16.094
  • "i don't know exactly how to do this."
  • 00:16:16.094 --> 00:16:19.631
  • But i said: "i've longed for that personal relationship
  • 00:16:19.631 --> 00:16:22.901
  • "and i realize that yeshua hamashiach
  • 00:16:22.901 --> 00:16:26.371
  • "is my burning bush experience."
  • 00:16:26.371 --> 00:16:29.274
  • I said: "dad, after a careful examination
  • 00:16:29.274 --> 00:16:32.510
  • "of the hebrew scriptures, i've come to the conclusion
  • 00:16:32.510 --> 00:16:37.215
  • "that the promised jewish messiah
  • 00:16:37.215 --> 00:16:40.185
  • "has already been here."
  • 00:16:40.685 --> 00:16:42.454
  • He said: "son, you are a traitor to your people.
  • 00:16:42.454 --> 00:16:46.224
  • "you are no longer my son.
  • 00:16:46.791 --> 00:16:48.226
  • "what you have done in my eyes
  • 00:16:48.226 --> 00:16:50.995
  • "is worse than adolf hitler."
  • 00:16:50.995 --> 00:16:56.334
  • Now, this went on for 26 years
  • 00:16:57.035 --> 00:17:00.105
  • Until a day came when my younger brother
  • 00:17:00.939 --> 00:17:04.909
  • Decided to go to church and he gave his life to yeshua.
  • 00:17:04.909 --> 00:17:08.980
  • He said: "could you do me a favor?
  • 00:17:08.980 --> 00:17:10.582
  • "could you tell dad the decision i made?"
  • 00:17:10.582 --> 00:17:14.085
  • Now, in a 26 year time frame, my dad and i
  • 00:17:14.085 --> 00:17:18.623
  • Began to have a better relationship.
  • 00:17:18.623 --> 00:17:21.159
  • And when i called my dad, i said:
  • 00:17:21.159 --> 00:17:22.827
  • "dad, i need to tell you something.
  • 00:17:22.827 --> 00:17:24.963
  • "after a careful examination of the hebrew scriptures,
  • 00:17:24.963 --> 00:17:29.234
  • "my younger brother has also made the same decision
  • 00:17:29.234 --> 00:17:33.271
  • "that i made many years ago."
  • 00:17:33.271 --> 00:17:35.607
  • My dad then began to cry.
  • 00:17:35.607 --> 00:17:37.675
  • I received the shock of my life.
  • 00:17:37.675 --> 00:17:39.177
  • It was only the second time in my life
  • 00:17:39.177 --> 00:17:41.412
  • I ever heard him cry.
  • 00:17:41.412 --> 00:17:43.014
  • The first time was when he hung the phone up on me
  • 00:17:43.014 --> 00:17:45.817
  • When he told me i wasn't his son anymore.
  • 00:17:45.817 --> 00:17:48.019
  • And he began not only to cry,
  • 00:17:48.019 --> 00:17:50.355
  • But he began to speak in the hebrew language:
  • 00:17:50.355 --> 00:17:53.258
  • "hineni, god! hineni!
  • 00:17:53.258 --> 00:17:54.792
  • "here i am! here i am!
  • 00:17:54.792 --> 00:17:56.461
  • "what would you have me to do?"
  • 00:17:56.461 --> 00:17:57.862
  • I said: "dad, do you want to give your life to yeshua?"
  • 00:17:57.862 --> 00:18:02.734
  • He said: "yes, i do."
  • 00:18:02.734 --> 00:18:07.172
  • For the last two and a half years of his life,
  • 00:18:08.139 --> 00:18:10.808
  • We were like best friends.
  • 00:18:10.808 --> 00:18:13.111
  • And then the day came when my dad just went to heaven.
  • 00:18:13.111 --> 00:18:16.881
  • On that day, when i announced to my father
  • 00:18:17.782 --> 00:18:21.152
  • That i gave my life to yeshua and he said:
  • 00:18:21.152 --> 00:18:24.289
  • "you're not my son anymore,"
  • 00:18:24.289 --> 00:18:25.723
  • My life was turned upside down.
  • 00:18:26.424 --> 00:18:29.160
  • But you see, god had a plan.
  • 00:18:29.160 --> 00:18:31.629
  • And on that day, it may have seemed bleak,
  • 00:18:31.629 --> 00:18:34.165
  • But the lord saw the future.
  • 00:18:34.165 --> 00:18:36.134
  • While nehemiah was making his serious reforms,
  • 00:18:37.101 --> 00:18:40.505
  • He called out to god several times.
  • 00:18:40.505 --> 00:18:52.617
  • Nehemiah was not trying to please men, but god.
  • 00:18:53.551 --> 00:18:57.088
  • Even when it's unpopular,
  • 00:18:57.655 --> 00:18:59.591
  • Remember that whatever god calls us to do,
  • 00:18:59.591 --> 00:19:02.927
  • Our aim is only to please him.
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  • The book of nehemiah ends with his visit
  • 00:20:12.534 --> 00:20:15.070
  • Back to jerusalem 12 years after the spiritual revival.
  • 00:20:15.070 --> 00:20:19.308
  • When he found the state of jerusalem in compromise,
  • 00:20:19.308 --> 00:20:22.611
  • He didn't just throw up his hands in hopelessness.
  • 00:20:22.611 --> 00:20:25.847
  • He worked to restore god's order to his holy city.
  • 00:20:25.847 --> 00:20:29.985
  • The reforms he made were sometimes severe.
  • 00:20:29.985 --> 00:20:33.288
  • But nehemiah was serious about god's vision for jerusalem.
  • 00:20:33.288 --> 00:20:37.426
  • He wasn't looking for his day of glory.
  • 00:20:37.426 --> 00:20:40.195
  • He was building something that would last for god's glory.
  • 00:20:40.195 --> 00:20:44.366
  • He wanted to push jerusalem to finish well
  • 00:20:44.366 --> 00:20:46.802
  • In the eyes of god.
  • 00:20:46.802 --> 00:20:48.470
  • Nehemiah's real legacy wasn't the walls,
  • 00:20:48.470 --> 00:20:51.473
  • But preparing the ground for messiah.
  • 00:20:51.473 --> 00:20:53.875
  • His last prayers always said,
  • 00:20:54.509 --> 00:20:57.179
  • "remember me, o god."
  • 00:20:57.179 --> 00:20:59.247
  • He wanted god's approval.
  • 00:20:59.247 --> 00:21:01.450
  • As the people of jerusalem had proved,
  • 00:21:01.450 --> 00:21:03.752
  • Human memory is short, but god's memory is eternal.
  • 00:21:03.752 --> 00:21:07.956
  • I'm sitting down with my friend, dr. meno kalisher,
  • 00:21:09.024 --> 00:21:12.427
  • A pastor and teacher at our bible college,
  • 00:21:12.427 --> 00:21:15.497
  • To talk about a difficult subject.
  • 00:21:15.497 --> 00:21:18.533
  • The book of nehemiah ends with his zealous outrage
  • 00:21:18.533 --> 00:21:22.504
  • At the unequally yoked marriages taking place in israel.
  • 00:21:22.504 --> 00:21:26.875
  • Is this racism? elitism?
  • 00:21:26.875 --> 00:21:29.511
  • Or is there something deeper at play?
  • 00:21:29.511 --> 00:21:31.913
  • Why the outrage?
  • 00:21:31.913 --> 00:21:33.448
  • And how does this speak to us today?
  • 00:21:33.448 --> 00:21:36.284
  • Let's join pastor meno and dive deeper.
  • 00:21:36.284 --> 00:21:39.888
  • Meno, shalom and thank you so much
  • 00:21:39.888 --> 00:21:41.623
  • For taking the time to come and chat with me.
  • 00:21:41.623 --> 00:21:44.226
  • It's a joy, anytime.
  • 00:21:44.226 --> 00:21:45.527
  • We want to talk about the last chapter
  • 00:21:45.527 --> 00:21:48.096
  • Of the book of nehemiah,
  • 00:21:48.096 --> 00:21:50.065
  • Which really stands in contrast to the rest of the book.
  • 00:21:50.065 --> 00:21:53.402
  • I mean, the book is so inspirational and so on,
  • 00:21:53.402 --> 00:21:55.404
  • And in the last chapter, nehemiah comes back
  • 00:21:55.404 --> 00:21:59.141
  • And he finds that in a lot of ways,
  • 00:21:59.141 --> 00:22:01.977
  • Life in jerusalem went back to where they were.
  • 00:22:01.977 --> 00:22:04.379
  • And, you know, especially that the israelites
  • 00:22:04.379 --> 00:22:07.315
  • Were marrying foreign women
  • 00:22:07.315 --> 00:22:09.084
  • From other nations, with other faiths,
  • 00:22:09.084 --> 00:22:11.553
  • Not faith in the god of israel, and nehemiah gets super upset.
  • 00:22:11.553 --> 00:22:15.190
  • The question seems to be, why?
  • 00:22:15.190 --> 00:22:17.225
  • Why is he so upset? why is he so worked up?
  • 00:22:17.225 --> 00:22:20.529
  • The reason i do believe he's so upset
  • 00:22:21.329 --> 00:22:23.732
  • That one of the ingredients of building a solid house,
  • 00:22:23.732 --> 00:22:29.070
  • House on the rock, we know it from matthew chapter 7,
  • 00:22:29.070 --> 00:22:32.174
  • Is spiritual purity.
  • 00:22:32.174 --> 00:22:34.976
  • You may have good leadership.
  • 00:22:34.976 --> 00:22:37.946
  • You may have good political arrangements.
  • 00:22:37.946 --> 00:22:40.649
  • But if the heart is not circumcised for the lord,
  • 00:22:40.649 --> 00:22:44.352
  • Everything is going to collapse.
  • 00:22:44.352 --> 00:22:46.288
  • Everything will be superficial.
  • 00:22:46.288 --> 00:22:49.658
  • In other words, you have people that they are maybe
  • 00:22:49.658 --> 00:22:53.328
  • Very religious,
  • 00:22:53.328 --> 00:22:54.696
  • But empty of god.
  • 00:22:55.130 --> 00:22:57.265
  • And you cannot build a house like that.
  • 00:22:57.265 --> 00:23:00.302
  • So the moment he saw them
  • 00:23:00.302 --> 00:23:02.737
  • Intermarrying with idol worshiping women,
  • 00:23:02.737 --> 00:23:06.041
  • He realized that god is not in the center.
  • 00:23:06.041 --> 00:23:08.410
  • We can see in the book of deuteronomy,
  • 00:23:08.410 --> 00:23:11.046
  • Chapter 7, verses 3 and 4, the idea was that the moment
  • 00:23:11.046 --> 00:23:15.951
  • You are married to an idol worshiping people,
  • 00:23:15.951 --> 00:23:20.121
  • They will cause you to go astray from the laws of god.
  • 00:23:20.121 --> 00:23:24.493
  • Do you want me to read it? -please. that would be great.
  • 00:23:24.493 --> 00:23:26.862
  • "you shall not intermarry with them,
  • 00:23:26.862 --> 00:23:29.698
  • "giving your daughters to their sons
  • 00:23:29.698 --> 00:23:31.333
  • "or taking their daughters for your sons.
  • 00:23:31.333 --> 00:23:33.668
  • "for they would turn away your sons from following me
  • 00:23:33.668 --> 00:23:36.738
  • "to serve other gods."
  • 00:23:36.738 --> 00:23:38.807
  • The issue is only spiritual.
  • 00:23:38.807 --> 00:23:42.210
  • We can take some examples.
  • 00:23:42.210 --> 00:23:44.145
  • We know rahab in the book of joshua.
  • 00:23:44.145 --> 00:23:46.648
  • She was not a jewish girl.
  • 00:23:46.648 --> 00:23:48.550
  • She noticed what god has done to the people of israel,
  • 00:23:48.550 --> 00:23:51.720
  • And she followed this living god.
  • 00:23:51.720 --> 00:23:53.989
  • And god adopted her into the tribe of judah.
  • 00:23:53.989 --> 00:23:57.692
  • And you know what? the messiah jesus came from her as well.
  • 00:23:57.692 --> 00:24:00.362
  • She is part of the genealogy. -yeah.
  • 00:24:00.362 --> 00:24:01.997
  • We have another girl, ruth, from moab.
  • 00:24:01.997 --> 00:24:04.933
  • And all the names of the nation that basically
  • 00:24:04.933 --> 00:24:06.968
  • The bible says do not marry them.
  • 00:24:06.968 --> 00:24:08.403
  • And she is the one who says, "your god is my god."
  • 00:24:08.403 --> 00:24:11.973
  • And she was adopted into the tribe as well.
  • 00:24:11.973 --> 00:24:14.876
  • Also judah in that sense.
  • 00:24:14.876 --> 00:24:16.511
  • And the messiah came from her as well.
  • 00:24:16.511 --> 00:24:19.814
  • That's the bottom line. god was not in the center.
  • 00:24:19.814 --> 00:24:23.151
  • Go back to solomon, king solomon.
  • 00:24:23.151 --> 00:24:25.420
  • So he thought politically, according to that time,
  • 00:24:25.420 --> 00:24:28.089
  • If i marry the girls or the daughters
  • 00:24:28.089 --> 00:24:30.559
  • Of the neighboring countries, nations,
  • 00:24:30.559 --> 00:24:33.361
  • We will have good relationships
  • 00:24:33.361 --> 00:24:35.330
  • And my kingdom will be secured.
  • 00:24:35.330 --> 00:24:38.233
  • We know the end of it.
  • 00:24:38.233 --> 00:24:39.868
  • They drifted his heart from the lord.
  • 00:24:39.868 --> 00:24:42.137
  • The kingdom was divided
  • 00:24:42.137 --> 00:24:44.072
  • And his testimony was corrupted.
  • 00:24:44.072 --> 00:24:46.942
  • So the issue, even in the mosaic covenant,
  • 00:24:46.942 --> 00:24:50.312
  • Was not about ethnicity or anything of that nature,
  • 00:24:50.312 --> 00:24:53.214
  • But it was a spiritual thing.
  • 00:24:53.214 --> 00:24:54.583
  • So god says those that are under the covenant,
  • 00:24:54.583 --> 00:24:57.686
  • You know, that have faith,
  • 00:24:57.686 --> 00:25:00.188
  • Are not to marry those that are not in the covenant,
  • 00:25:00.188 --> 00:25:02.824
  • That do not have faith.
  • 00:25:02.824 --> 00:25:04.192
  • However, the examples you gave
  • 00:25:04.192 --> 00:25:06.194
  • Showed that rahab and ruth,
  • 00:25:06.194 --> 00:25:08.930
  • That even though they were not biologically
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  • Part of the nation of israel, but they had faith.
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  • And so they were adopted.
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  • And then the marriage was legitimate.
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  • Absolutely. they were not direct descendants
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  • Of abraham, isaac, and jacob,
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  • But they were direct descendants
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  • Of the blessing of god.
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  • Meno, thank you so much.
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  • It's such an important discussion.
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  • And i think such a pertinent issue for so many people.
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  • And like we see in the book of nehemiah,
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  • Building a wall around the nation is very much
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  • Like building a house, you know, before the lord.
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  • And so this is very applicable.
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  • And for you, our viewers,
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  • We want to pray for you,
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  • That god will give you a lot of grace,
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  • Wisdom, and patience,
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  • And that you and your families, your children,
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  • Your grandchildren,
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  • Will build the house
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  • On the rock of the messiah, jesus.
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  • The book of nehemiah ends very suddenly,
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  • Like there's something missing.
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  • Despite nehemiah's best efforts,
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  • Israel needed a savior, a king, the messiah.
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  • Nehemiah had built the walls.
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  • Messiah would come to build a people of god.
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  • Nehemiah had cleaned out the temple.
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  • Yeshua cleanses our hearts.
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  • Today, we are in a time like the days of nehemiah.
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  • We're in a time of building, empowered by his spirit
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  • To prepare the way for the coming king.
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  • We believers, jew and gentile, want to finish well.
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  • Yet we long for messiah's return.
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  • Only yeshua can set this world right.
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  • When he returns, this city will stand proud again,
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  • Glorious.
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  • And as john saw in revelation,
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  • The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned
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  • With every kind of jewel.
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  • The 12 gates were 12 pearls.
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  • Its gates will never be shut by day,
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  • And there will be no night there.
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  • Until that day, we wait as watchmen on the walls
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  • Until god makes jerusalem a praise in the earth.
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