{"id":6531,"date":"2019-12-06T20:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-07T03:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/?p=6531"},"modified":"2019-11-30T19:04:39","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T02:04:39","slug":"nehemiah13_15-31","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/nehemiah13_15-31\/","title":{"rendered":"What Laws Could Never Do, Jesus Did for Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nehemiah 13:15-31\u00a0\u00a0Click here for Bible Verses<\/a><\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Nehemiah 13:15-31.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

On verses 15-31:\u00a0\u00a0Earlier in Nehemiah 10 the Israelites had promised to obey all of God\u2019s commands, including not neglecting God\u2019s house (Nehemiah 10:32-39), not working on the Sabbath day (Nehemiah\u00a010:31), and not marrying unbelievers (Nehemiah\u00a010:30).\u00a0\u00a0Here in chapter 13 we see the Israelites breaking each of these commitments.\u00a0\u00a0They neglect God\u2019s house by failing to provide financially for the Levites and servants working in the temple (Nehemiah 13:10-11).\u00a0\u00a0They desecrate the Sabbath by doing work on the Sabbath day (Nehemiah 13:15-18).\u00a0\u00a0They marry unbelieving women from other nations (Nehemiah 13:23-28).<\/p>\n

Nehemiah does whatever he can to keep the people from sinning, even if it means shutting the gates on the Sabbath day to keep people from doing business (v19-21) and driving out everything unbelieving and foreign from the priests and Levites (v29-31).\u00a0\u00a0Yet it would just be a matter of time before the Israelites would sin again.<\/p>\n

What can we learn from this?\u00a0\u00a0No matter how much we try, there is nothing we ourselves can do to get rid of sin.\u00a0\u00a0No amount of legislation, physical force or coercion can cleanse the sin from a sinner.\u00a0\u00a0Something greater was necessary.\u00a0\u00a0The Israelites continual regression back into sin points us to our need for a Saviour.\u00a0\u00a0That is why God sent a Messiah \u2013 Jesus Christ \u2013 to save us.\u00a0\u00a0He would save us not by enacting new laws for us to obey.\u00a0\u00a0Instead Jesus would live the life that none of us could live, a life that satisfied all of God\u2019s commands.\u00a0\u00a0Then Jesus would die on the cross to pay for our sins.<\/p>\n

Heavenly Father, thank You that what written contracts and laws could never do, Jesus did for us.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0Through faith in His precious blood shed for us, we are cleansed of our sin.\u00a0\u00a0Hallelujah!\u00a0\u00a0In Jesus\u2019 name, AMEN!<\/em><\/p>\n

A Final Word on Nehemiah<\/u>
\nThis ends our look at the book of Nehemiah.\u00a0\u00a0Go back and look at the most impactful lessons you learned from this book.<\/p>\n

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Hi GAMErs,<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s passage is Nehemiah 13:15-31.\u00a0\u00a0Let\u2019s go!<\/p>\n

On verses 15-31:\u00a0\u00a0Earlier in Nehemiah 10 the Israelites had promised to obey all of God\u2019s commands, including not neglecting God\u2019s house (Nehemiah 10:32-39), not working on the Sabbath day (Nehemiah\u00a010:31), and not marrying unbelievers (Nehemiah\u00a010:30).\u00a0\u00a0Here in chapter 13 we see the Israelites breaking each of these commitments.\u00a0\u00a0They neglect God\u2019s house by failing to provide financially for the Levites and servants working in the temple (Nehemiah 13:10-11).\u00a0\u00a0They desecrate the Sabbath by doing work on the Sabbath day (Nehemiah 13:15-18).\u00a0\u00a0They marry unbelieving women from other nations (Nehemiah 13:23-28).<\/p>\n

Nehemiah does whatever he can to keep the people from sinning, even if it means shutting the gates on the Sabbath day to keep people from doing business (v19-21) and driving out everything unbelieving and foreign from the priests and Levites (v29-31).\u00a0\u00a0Yet it would just be a matter of time before the Israelites would sin again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gametime-sharing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6531"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6534,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6531\/revisions\/6534"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocbf.ca\/2019\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}