A Commitment to Change (Nehemiah 10:1-39) - 9/14/22

INTRO

• The wall is finished.

• Now Nehemiah prepares the people to succeed

• Chapters 8–13 is the preparation of the people

• They are making the commitment necessary to be the people called has called them to be.

We will be a consecrated people – vv. 1-28

• Declared sacred. We are your people

• Nehemiah the Governor to the Temple servants

  • Everyone… great and small

• They were all united on how they were to live

• The commitment to LIVE FOR GOD

• I will do this!

We will separate from the world – vv. 28 & 30

• Separated from the peoples of the land

• No inner marriages

  • Not allowing the people of the land to pull us away from God

• A HOLY PEOPLE

• Live differently. Striving to be different

We will walk in the truth – v. 29

• walk in God’s Law

• to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord and

• his rules and his statutes.

• God’s Word – The Bible

• Believe and Live out truth

• Seek it out and Live it out

• Living under the authority of God

We will be people of true worship – vv. 31-39

• The sabbath

• Their tithes

• Their offerings

• Their temple

WE WILL NOT NEGLECT THE HOUSE OF THE LORD

A worship that focuses on GOD… and not man.

The understood their responsibility

• The Old Covenant Law/Temple

• The New Covenant – Grace/Jesus

  • MyTime

  • My Talents

  • My Treasures

  • As we serve the Lord