John 7:43 (KJV)
So there was a division among the people because of him.

There is no doubt that there is a great deal of division these days because of Jesus. But nothing much has changed. There was division because of Him even before His death, burial and resurrection.

There was division whether or not He was a prophet
These days the argument would be whether there is any spiritual value in Christ and the Bible. It’s the division between the believer and the unbeliever.

There was division over the details of doctrine
The problem was that many of them had not studied this subject out. The Messiah, they knew, was to be from Bethlehem. They just hadn’t done enough research to know that Christ was from Bethlehem.

There was a division caused by religious loyalty
The Pharisees argued that none of them had followed Him therefore no one else should. Fact is, at least one Pharisee had followed. Religious loyalty sends souls to hell. God does provide us with teachers and leaders. We ought to obey them and give them honor the Bible says, but our first responsibility is to Christ.

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John 7:43 (KJV) Because of Him

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Nehemiah 6:1-3 (KJV) "I Cannot Come Down"

Nehemiah 6:1-3 (KJV)
Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?

The difference is subtle and one could argue unimportant. Someone might even say it is only a matter of perception.

• Sanballat, and Geshem said, “Come let us meet together.”
• Nehemiah said, “I cannot come down.”

The enemies saw themselves as equals. Nehemiah saw them as inferiors.

At the very least, Nehemiah saw the position of the believers as higher than that of the unbelievers.

One of the great devices of Satan, and one that is frequently employed right now, is that of elevating the many religions and, indeed, no religion at all to the same place as Christianity. To imply that the Christian faith is a better faith, a higher faith, or even more true than a different faith is tantamount to hate speech these days.

And a good number of nominal Christians are buying it. Men like Rick Warren of Saddleback Church in California have suckered multitudes of churches to come together with Muslims. Hundreds of independent Baptist pastors read, quote and follow the teachings John Maxwell, RC Sproul, Max Lucado and other like them.

We are losing perspective as Baptists. We are coming down to the level of Protestants. And, in doing so, we are lessening the value of the work we do, even if we think we are doing more work.

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Nehemiah 6:1-3 (KJV) "Cannot Come Down"

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Nehemiah 5:6 (KJV)
And I was very angry when I heard their cry and these words.

Nehemiah was not above becoming angry. The Bible goes so far as to say “very angry.”

News of the disaffection some had for their own brethren in this needful time, and of their taking advantage of their need through usury, riled Nehemiah to great, but not excessive anger.

He was not wrong to be angry. He did not sin by being angry but I can see he did not lose control because he was angry. Before he acted the Bible says he consulted with himself. He took the time to manage his emotions and prepare a plan of action that was appropriate and not reaction.

Nehemiah responded to that which made him angry and the people responded positively to his response.

May this be true of God’s people still today.

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Nehemiah 5:6 (KJV) I Was Very Angry

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Nehemiah 4:12 (KJV)
And it came to pass, that when the Jews which dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times, From all places whence ye shall return unto us they will be upon you.

There were those Jews who, though not associated with the builders, and dwelling among the Samaritans, kept coming to warn Nehemiah that the Samaritans would soon attack.

Nehemiah says they told him ten times.

• They kept telling him until he got it. 
• They could have kept telling him until it annoyed him 

If we have information that needs to be shared we ought to share it. But then we ought to let it go.

• To sound a warning is important. 
• To keep sounding about it can be disheartening.

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Nehemiah 4:12 (KJV) They Told Him Ten Times

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Nehemiah 3:1 (KJV)
Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brethren the priests, and they builded the sheep gate; they sanctified it, and set up the doors of it; even unto the tower of Meah they sanctified it, unto the tower of Hananeel.

I remember some thirty years ago hearing a pastor skillfully preach on the repairing these gates. I don’t recall if he used every gate, though I think he did. What I do recall is that he assigned to each gate he preached on a spiritual significance, he demonstrated that significance in the Word of God and then he applied that significance to the congregation.

I am not sure some today would call that Bible preaching. What some identify as expository preaching is nothing more than reading a verse and rephrasing it in their own words. Some would think to compare Scripture with another Scripture is to depart from Scripture.

Ezra, the Bible says, read Scripture and caused the people to understand the reading. This must surely mean more than supplying definitions.

There is no example in the Bible of preaching that is merely reading a passage and explaining it. Preaching is application. The preacher believes that every passage has purpose today. There is more in Nehemiah chapter three than a record of who repaired what. The preacher I heard so many years ago understood that. He gave an application. He provided us with an action we could attach to the passage.

Thank God for preaching like that.

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Nehemiah 3:1 (KJV) Preaching Like That

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Nehemiah 1:4 (KJV)
And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted, and prayed before the God of heaven,

Few people in the Bible are a better example of leadership than is Nehemiah. He was a man of action and accomplishment. But before he was any of that, he was a man of tears. More than a few tears too. He wept for days. More than privately, his sadness was so profound the king, his boss, could see it.

It’s ok to weep and mourn. It’s ok to become saddened about things. But notice that Nehemiah did not end in a pity party.

He prayed
Chapter one, the second half is a prayer. It’s not the last one recorded either.

He planned
When approached by the king he already had in his heart a thing to do, what he would need to do it and a time frame for which to get it done.

He performed
Some of us are big talkers but poor doers. Nehemiah had a concern a plan and the gumption to work the plan.

It’s fine to cry. Just don’t stop there. Seek the Lord and then do something about it.

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Nehemiah 1:4 (KJV) Not A Pity Party

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Ezra 10:44 (KJV)
All these had taken strange wives: and some of them had wives by whom they had children.

The book of Ezra ends in a startling way because, it seems to me, that it does not end.

There is a problem presented but there is no resolution reported.

Fact is, I don’t think this problem ever got resolved. Over the years the children of Israel, even those called of God to be priests, had ignored the Word of God and disobeyed it’s precepts. Here we find them, at least we find Ezra, wanting to make things right with God. Trouble was, their former disobediences had born out consequences that could not be changed.

• They had married strange wives
• They had, at least some of them, had children 

True enough these priestly peoples could repent and turn to God. But they could not ignore their wives and, even more, their children. Their wives, their children and their children’s children would carry the consequences of these men’s indiscretions. Israel never became the powerful nation they once were ever again. There has been infighting and trouble in Israel that resulted in:

• their conquest by Rome 
• their crucifying of their own Messiah and 
• their spiritual hardness to this day 

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. How we need to:

• look ahead at the consequences of sin 
• look into the word at the path God has laid out for us and 
• look well at our Lord so that we choose God before we choose sin 

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Ezra 10:44 (KJV) A Problem With No Resolution

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Ezra 9:8-9 (KJV)
And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God may lighten our eyes, and give us a little reviving in our bondage.For we were bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended mercy unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the desolations thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

Ezra was well aware of the actual condition of the people of Israel. They had gone into bondage but, though the decree to return had been given, only a remnant wanted liberty from that bondage. The people of our world are slaves to trespasses and sins and, because of it, are living lives of condemnation. The thing is only a handful of them want out. As merciful as God is, the majority is more comfortable in bondage than in Liberty.

Ezra was thankful even for a little reviving. He said that the mercy of God that granted them reviving also gave them:

A house of God
If revival is liberty from bondage, the first step of living in liberty is union in a house of God. There is no true worship with God outside of that local house of God, a church.

A repair of desolations
The life of bondage is destructive. Once we are free in Christ we are to set about to repair in our lives what sin had ruined.

A wall in Judah and Jerusalem
A wall gives security. God gives growing believers security of salvation the moment of salvation and a growing assurance of that security as we come into God’s house and as we make those repairs.

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Ezra 9:8-9 (KJV) A Little Reviving

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Ezra 8:16 (KJV)
Then sent I for Eliezer, for Ariel, for Shemaiah, and for Elnathan, and for Jarib, and for Elnathan, and for Nathan, and for Zechariah, and for Meshullam, chief men; also for Joiarib, and for Elnathan, men of understanding.

I was struck by, and had to read several times to be sure I had it correct, that there are three men with the same name in this list.

Nothing of any distinction between them is given and the only thing I could find in my commentaries is a remark that the list contains three men of the same name. There is no comment that really can be made. We know nothing about any of them.

And yet they are recorded in the eternal and perfect Word of God. Nothing in the Bible is by accident and every word has purpose. Two things that come to my mind are these:

Though they are unknown to us they are well known to God
That there are three men with the same name should not be that surprising. A Google search reveals a number of Marvin McKenzies. At least one of them lives where I grew up and another one is a pastor, as I am.

I am reminded that the Bible must be rightly divided
We have this startling passage where three men with the same name cannot be the same man. It demonstrates that we must not assume that other men, with the same name, are the same man, even if they are not recorded in the same passage. What other errors of assumption happen because of

• A quick read, 
• Little study and, perhaps, 
• A strong desire to want our understanding to be the correct one?

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Ezra 8:16 (KJV) We Want To Be Right

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Ezra 5:17 (KJV)
Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.

The accusation had been made that Jerusalem was a rebellious and bad city. A search had been made and it was discovered that Jerusalem had indeed been a strong one city holding others in tribute and resisting domination by others. Work in Jerusalem was halted until another king was established and another request came to the throne. Search and see, had Cyrus indeed decreed that the temple should be built? Yes, the decree was real and the work was continued.

A lot of trouble could be avoided if all sides of an issue were considered at once. It is manipulative and dishonest to purposely skew the perspective of an issue by pointing out one piece of truth while obscuring another.

In counseling others one of the main problems is finding out all perspectives and helping every person concerned to see the issue as it truly is, a combination of all those views.

Good wisdom says that we not make any judgment before we have learned all sides. And sometimes that means we can’t make a judgment at all.

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Ezra 5:17 (KJV) See All Sides

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Ezra 4:12 (KJV)
Be it known unto the king, that the Jews which came up from thee to us are come unto Jerusalem, building the rebellious and the bad city, and have set up the walls thereof, and joined the foundations.

My attention was drawn to the word bad in this text. I means wicked. Those who were opposed to the rebuilding of the city accused it of being rebellious and bad.

Rebellious is a definite act. A search was made and it could be proven that those of Jerusalem tended historically to resist authorities other than their own.

Bad is nondescript. It is a negative without any definitive reason. It’s a word that is used when we can’t think of anything more specific to say. It is a word that evokes suspicion on my part. If something is said to be bad with no definite bad act to back up the accusation I tend to expect that the accusation is unfounded and prejudiced.

These enemies were able, for a time, to stop what God had begun through Cyrus. That there are enemies and that they may sometimes be successful in no way changes whether God is at work or not. He allows trials to test and strengthen us.

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Ezra 4:12 (KJV) The Bad City

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John 3:18 (KJV)
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

Some groups of professing Christians believe that, when we die, God holds up a scale and weighs our good deeds against our bad deeds. This, in their mind, is how it is determined whether we go to heaven or hell.

Other groups expect that none of us are good enough to go to heaven without some penance. In their minds almost all can get to heaven after a bit of time in purgatory, so long as they were members of their church.

The Bible record, and the testimony of Jesus Christ Himself, is much different. Jesus said we are condemned already. There will be no trial. There is no penance or purgatory that can burn away the remaining dross. If we have not believed upon Jesus Christ we are already condemned and awaiting judgment.

That’s the significance of salvation.

• It changes what is already fact. 
• It rescues us from prison. 
• It sets us free from our chains. 
• It justifies the condemned. 
• It overturns the sentence. 

John 3:18 (KJV)
He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

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John 3:18 (KJV) The Significance of Salvation

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2 Chronicles 36:15 (KJV)
And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place:

Though the people rebelled against Him, God sent, once and again, messengers, preachers:

• To warn 
• To instruct 
• To rebuke 
• To encourage 

the people to repent and be right with Him.

The people:

• Mocked the messengers 
• Despised His Word and 
• Misused the prophets 

but the Lord sent them anyway because, the Bible says,  He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling place.

It is significant that God’s Word extends the compassion of God beyond the people to a place.

We hear people these days that like to say that the church is not a place but the people. That is true but it is more than people, it is an organized and assembled people. God’s love and compassion extends beyond the individual to the community that is a church. His interest is bigger than one person. His interest is for the union to which God intended that person be joined.

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2 Chronicles 36:15 (KJV) His People and His Place

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2 Chronicles 34:17 (KJV)
And they have gathered together the money that was found in the house of the LORD, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and to the hand of the workmen.

This is one of at least three cleansings and repairs of the temple after a period of neglect:

Joash repaired the Temple in 2 Chronicles 24
It was then that Joash instructed that a chest be set up with a hole bored into the lid for people to give. They gave so much there was plenty and more for the work the priests were to do.

Hezekiah repaired the Temple in 2 Chronicles 29
Hezekiah restored worship in the temple but this once again stopped in the early reign of Manasseh and then under Amon.

Now Josiah, cleaned the Temple and made necessary repairs
It was at this time that the Bible says they found two things in that Temple:

• They found the Word of God
• They found money

The Word of God is the basis of all true worship
Without it we would be “flying blind.” With it our path is clearly set forth. It serves like a GPS system to tell us where we are, where we are going, and the direction to get there.

This worship always requires money
It required it in the days of Joash. It requires it in the days of Josiah. It still requires it in our days.

Everything I could read related this to the money that was brought in to the Temple by those Levites who had collected it from all the remnant of Israel. I am in no position to challenge these commentaries but I wonder if what they found was money that had been collected many decades before, under Joash. No matter where they found it I am reminded that God pays His own bills. When we set out to walk the path God sets for us in His Word we can be certain we will find, along that way, the money necessary to be there.

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