1 00:00:03,400 --> 00:00:04,840 You've tuned in to a mega church. 2 00:00:05,000 --> 00:00:07,600 We are people hungry to encounter God through worship 3 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:10,040 and His Word being witnesses to the world around us. 4 00:00:10,440 --> 00:00:13,080 We pray this teaching blesses you and trust God will reveal 5 00:00:13,080 --> 00:00:14,600 Himself to you in a new way today. 6 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:17,760 And if you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, or to 7 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,920 find out more about Omega, get to our website or Facebook page 8 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:26,920 through the links below. Kingdom of God is within me. 9 00:00:29,240 --> 00:00:32,000 Now, anybody believes it, shout it out this time. 10 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,880 Kingdom of God is within me. Amen. 11 00:00:36,480 --> 00:00:39,120 Amen. So that's an awesome truth. 12 00:00:39,120 --> 00:00:43,640 I'm telling you the day by day, as I study the word, the more 13 00:00:43,640 --> 00:00:47,280 and more I become aware that the Kingdom, Kingdom of God is 14 00:00:47,280 --> 00:00:50,880 within us. It just, it just grows. 15 00:00:50,880 --> 00:00:54,960 The sense sense grows within us. You know, that Kingdom of God is 16 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:57,360 within us. So now we are coming to chapter 17 00:00:57,360 --> 00:00:59,560 13, the end of the book of Nehemiah. 18 00:00:59,760 --> 00:01:01,240 It is a long journey we have done. 19 00:01:03,400 --> 00:01:06,160 Yeah. Feel free to communicate with us 20 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:09,320 if you enjoyed this study with me. 21 00:01:10,560 --> 00:01:17,080 And yeah, we have camp next week and then the following week we 22 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,640 will start something new, Oregon, a new series of certain 23 00:01:20,640 --> 00:01:26,560 talks. We will look at it and the very 24 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:30,640 first thing that you see here is again for 1/3 time you see that 25 00:01:30,640 --> 00:01:33,920 they are reading from the book. On that day. 26 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:39,000 The book of Moses was read aloud in the hearing of the people, 27 00:01:39,080 --> 00:01:43,640 and there it was found written that no Ammonite or Moabite 28 00:01:43,640 --> 00:01:46,200 should ever be admitted into the Assembly of God. 29 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:49,720 Now what, what, what did they read? 30 00:01:49,920 --> 00:01:52,880 They read from Moses. So what portion they must be 31 00:01:52,880 --> 00:01:56,960 reading, it must be from the book of Deuteronomy chapter 23. 32 00:01:57,480 --> 00:02:03,000 So in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 23, we see verses 3 to 33 00:02:03,000 --> 00:02:07,800 6, when they were coming out of Egypt, when they were coming 34 00:02:07,800 --> 00:02:12,480 through the land, they came up to the border of Moabites, and 35 00:02:12,760 --> 00:02:16,640 they sent a delegation to the king saying, please allow us to 36 00:02:16,640 --> 00:02:21,880 go through your territory. We will not move out of the way, 37 00:02:22,040 --> 00:02:24,920 we won't swore or we won't go into your fields. 38 00:02:24,920 --> 00:02:29,040 We won't touch anything. Just allow us to pass through. 39 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:32,000 So it will be quicker for us to go to the promised land which 40 00:02:32,000 --> 00:02:35,640 God has promised us. And they said no, you cannot 41 00:02:35,640 --> 00:02:38,080 pass through our country. They came with their army and 42 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,160 tried to, they entered into a war. 43 00:02:41,480 --> 00:02:49,800 And before that, before that, Balak, King Balak, what he did, 44 00:02:49,800 --> 00:02:55,520 he hired a guy called Balaam who was a prophet, and he said, come 45 00:02:55,520 --> 00:02:59,720 and curse these people for me so that he can win the war. 46 00:03:00,640 --> 00:03:03,480 So these people are all scattered in the wilderness. 47 00:03:03,480 --> 00:03:06,760 And he says, come, take a position on the mountain from 48 00:03:06,760 --> 00:03:09,160 here, look down on them and cast a spell. 49 00:03:10,240 --> 00:03:14,280 And when he came there, God said, no, these people are 50 00:03:14,280 --> 00:03:16,560 blessed, you are not going to curse them. 51 00:03:17,240 --> 00:03:22,040 So he blessed them, and he actually brings lots of oxen 52 00:03:22,040 --> 00:03:25,360 and, you know, animals for sacrifice just to be able to 53 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:27,960 hear what God wants to say. And then he wanted to put a 54 00:03:27,960 --> 00:03:30,280 curse. But every time we tried, every 55 00:03:30,280 --> 00:03:35,000 time we repulsed, and he ended up blessing the people of God. 56 00:03:35,240 --> 00:03:38,160 How can I curse those who God has blessed? 57 00:03:38,160 --> 00:03:42,560 That's what Bailam says. So because of that God said you 58 00:03:42,560 --> 00:03:46,240 are not they when you enter into a promised land and when you 59 00:03:46,240 --> 00:03:49,080 build that temple for me and a Tabernacle for me. 60 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:55,840 No Ammonite, no Moabite will ever enter into the temple probe 61 00:03:56,280 --> 00:04:01,800 precincts or the presence of the temple up till 10th generation. 62 00:04:03,400 --> 00:04:05,760 What does this mean? After 10th generation they can 63 00:04:05,760 --> 00:04:09,640 come in. It doesn't mean that just a 64 00:04:09,640 --> 00:04:14,040 Hebrew word saying never ever will they step into the court, 65 00:04:14,040 --> 00:04:17,560 my courts. So because of they so 66 00:04:17,560 --> 00:04:21,920 purposefully with an evil intention to attack the people 67 00:04:21,920 --> 00:04:25,440 of God, they have come out and stopped them and didn't want to 68 00:04:25,440 --> 00:04:28,240 help them and they wanted to curse them. 69 00:04:29,160 --> 00:04:34,240 God said, OK, if that's your attitude when my house is built, 70 00:04:34,800 --> 00:04:38,880 you will never ever enter that place anytime at all. 71 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,640 Does it make sense? You understand what I'm trying 72 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:48,400 to say here, But you know when I use the word but it means 73 00:04:48,400 --> 00:04:53,040 something different, isn't it? Look at the life of Ruth. 74 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:57,200 Who was she? Moabite. 75 00:04:59,160 --> 00:05:04,240 Did he bless her? He did. 76 00:05:05,760 --> 00:05:11,600 So our God is a God of mercy. Our God is a good God, but those 77 00:05:11,600 --> 00:05:14,840 who approach him with humility, those who approach him with 78 00:05:16,200 --> 00:05:20,520 purity of heart, whether you are more white, Ammonite, who you 79 00:05:20,520 --> 00:05:23,080 are does not matter. You are black or white, it does 80 00:05:23,080 --> 00:05:25,160 not matter. He will receive you. 81 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:30,760 That's why you see in the New Testament, he does not. 82 00:05:30,840 --> 00:05:34,120 Whoever comes to him in no why he will cast them out. 83 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:35,200 No voice. That's King James. 84 00:05:35,200 --> 00:05:38,280 That's what I remember it in. No way He is going to reject you 85 00:05:38,280 --> 00:05:42,320 if you come to Him. That wall of separation is 86 00:05:42,320 --> 00:05:46,320 broken down by Jesus, Jew and Gentile wall is broken down. 87 00:05:46,400 --> 00:05:50,120 Now everybody is open to come into the presence of God and 88 00:05:50,120 --> 00:05:55,160 enjoy fellowship with God. That is a beautiful mystery 89 00:05:55,560 --> 00:06:01,680 which God had made. It gave a revelation to Paul so 90 00:06:01,680 --> 00:06:05,040 he could put it down in writing and preach and teach and bring a 91 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:08,480 great revival during the time of during his life. 92 00:06:08,720 --> 00:06:12,000 So, so many Gentiles turned to God because the refused, the 93 00:06:12,000 --> 00:06:14,320 Jewish people refused to believe in Jesus. 94 00:06:14,520 --> 00:06:17,800 So he went to the Gentiles and they came in and we are all part 95 00:06:17,800 --> 00:06:22,080 of that big harvest. Is there something we can shout 96 00:06:22,080 --> 00:06:28,920 Hallelujah about so we praise God because they refuse the 97 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:30,640 gospel. It has come to us. 98 00:06:32,040 --> 00:06:35,720 That's that is how Paul says its a mystery. 99 00:06:36,760 --> 00:06:39,880 Will Israel be lost forever? Romans Chapter 11 he says no 100 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:41,360 they are not going to be lost forever. 101 00:06:41,520 --> 00:06:43,440 A time is coming with they are going to be saved. 102 00:06:43,720 --> 00:06:49,000 Their hearts have been hardened so that we may receive the 103 00:06:49,040 --> 00:06:53,160 salvation. So if we all, all the Gentiles 104 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:56,960 are reached with the gospel, then the turn comes to Jewish 105 00:06:56,960 --> 00:07:01,040 people and when they believe in and then he is going, Lord Jesus 106 00:07:01,040 --> 00:07:07,960 will come back again. And then you see here they did 107 00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:11,240 not meet. Basically they are cousins who 108 00:07:11,240 --> 00:07:15,320 are the Moabites and Ammonites. They are cousins, Abrahams 109 00:07:17,440 --> 00:07:23,640 brothers son Lot and when he was brought out from Sodom and 110 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:27,880 Gomorrah one of the things the Angel of God tells them is don't 111 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,640 turn back and look you are not supposed to even look back and 112 00:07:32,000 --> 00:07:35,160 Lords wife look back and turn it a pillar of salt. 113 00:07:35,840 --> 00:07:39,760 And then they went into a cave to escape and in that cave as I 114 00:07:39,760 --> 00:07:43,440 were living the two daughters, they said there's no man here 115 00:07:43,720 --> 00:07:46,640 for us to have children. So they made his father drunk 116 00:07:46,640 --> 00:07:51,560 and then they had both of them had a son each and we have got 117 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:56,280 the Moab and Amon their children have become more abortion 118 00:07:56,280 --> 00:07:59,160 ammonites. So they are basically cousins. 119 00:07:59,160 --> 00:08:01,640 They should have said when they are coming out, hey you are our 120 00:08:01,640 --> 00:08:04,600 brothers come on go through our line. 121 00:08:05,000 --> 00:08:08,280 Instead they came to fight. So God says OK up to 10th 122 00:08:08,280 --> 00:08:11,000 generation you will not enter my temple. 123 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:18,840 Now what is the problem here is these people don't have a right 124 00:08:18,880 --> 00:08:22,000 to enter the temple. But what is happening here, you 125 00:08:22,000 --> 00:08:27,640 see here is when the people heard this law, sorry, reading 126 00:08:27,640 --> 00:08:29,600 of the law has brought a change. What? 127 00:08:29,600 --> 00:08:34,159 What change it brought when they heard it when when the people 128 00:08:34,159 --> 00:08:37,520 heard this law, they excluded from Israel all who are of 129 00:08:37,520 --> 00:08:40,919 foreign descent. So there is a purification of 130 00:08:40,919 --> 00:08:46,160 the race happening again. They got mixed up before you 131 00:08:46,160 --> 00:08:51,080 understand this. Chapter 13, verses 1 to 3, you 132 00:08:51,080 --> 00:08:54,840 have to look at verse 6 where it says but while all this was 133 00:08:54,840 --> 00:08:57,840 going on, I was not in Jerusalem. 134 00:08:58,480 --> 00:09:03,440 So for a while Nehemiah left Jerusalem and went back to serve 135 00:09:03,440 --> 00:09:07,400 the king. Maybe 2 years, four years, we 136 00:09:07,400 --> 00:09:14,320 don't know, but he went into the 32nd year of King Asuras Artaxis 137 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:19,000 and because of that's about after 12 years of his coming did 138 00:09:19,000 --> 00:09:21,200 he never went back between the 12 years? 139 00:09:21,200 --> 00:09:25,960 We don't know, but most probably he must have gone back just to 140 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:29,760 appear to with the king and get extension or come back or 141 00:09:29,760 --> 00:09:32,080 something. But after 12 years, he went back 142 00:09:32,280 --> 00:09:35,400 for a prolonged time to serve the king again and then he took 143 00:09:35,400 --> 00:09:38,680 permission came back. Meanwhile everything went wrong. 144 00:09:40,480 --> 00:09:44,600 Meanwhile everything went wrong. What do what do I mean mean mean 145 00:09:44,600 --> 00:09:50,280 by this is he brought reforms he the law was read several times 146 00:09:50,360 --> 00:09:53,200 every time they read the law they were weeping and repenting 147 00:09:53,200 --> 00:09:55,040 and you know things were happening. 148 00:09:55,200 --> 00:09:57,920 But now they have gone back and did the same things they did not 149 00:09:57,920 --> 00:10:01,680 want to do it again. So they intermarried had foreign 150 00:10:01,680 --> 00:10:06,280 voice in a very short time. So that's what happened. 151 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:10,840 And then in verse 4 you see before this Elias ship the 152 00:10:10,840 --> 00:10:14,400 priest had been put in charge of the store rooms of the House of 153 00:10:14,400 --> 00:10:16,720 our God. He was closely associated with 154 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:22,040 Tobiah, and he had provided him with a large room formerly used 155 00:10:22,040 --> 00:10:25,800 to store the grain offerings and incense and temple articles, and 156 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:28,800 also the types of grain, new vine and oil prescribed for the 157 00:10:28,800 --> 00:10:31,520 Levites, singers and gatekeepers, as well as the 158 00:10:31,520 --> 00:10:35,880 contributions for the priests. Elia Sheep is a priest. 159 00:10:36,920 --> 00:10:39,280 He is a priest who does not know his business. 160 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:45,720 Its just like saying a pastor of a church doesn't know who is a 161 00:10:45,720 --> 00:10:50,280 pastor who should be how he should live or who doesn't know 162 00:10:50,280 --> 00:10:54,400 what the Bible is talking about. Can they be pastors who don't 163 00:10:54,400 --> 00:10:59,000 know what is in the Bible? Its possible Eliashi belongs to 164 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:02,760 that category where he being a priest, he did not understand 165 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:05,760 that the Ammonites and Moabers are not allowed to come inside a 166 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:07,600 temple. Instead what did he did? 167 00:11:07,880 --> 00:11:12,360 He has allowed a man called Tobaya. 168 00:11:16,880 --> 00:11:23,280 Where is it? Tobaya was four and he gave him 169 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:27,120 a large room. The temple had fixed number of 170 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:28,680 rooms. You cannot extend it. 171 00:11:28,680 --> 00:11:32,320 It is is all fixed, the building, everything is fixed. 172 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:37,760 So now what is happening here is he said Tobiah, he is a 173 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:44,080 Samaritan. He is, he is not a Jewish person 174 00:11:44,080 --> 00:11:46,720 at all. And they used to have a court 175 00:11:46,720 --> 00:11:51,760 called Gentiles court. This is all the temple, but 176 00:11:51,760 --> 00:11:54,680 there's a small room area there that's called exclusively for 177 00:11:54,680 --> 00:11:57,000 Gentiles. If he ever wanted to come, he 178 00:11:57,000 --> 00:12:01,360 can come only into the court of the Gentiles, not cross that and 179 00:12:01,360 --> 00:12:03,880 come inside at all. But now what did he do? 180 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:07,680 He gave him a room, a room that is exclusively used for storing 181 00:12:07,680 --> 00:12:10,640 things. The storage room he converted 182 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:14,360 into his residential quarters. He said to Tobiah, come and live 183 00:12:14,360 --> 00:12:18,120 here. Is that right? 184 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:23,520 Not at all right. And the Today the church is less 185 00:12:23,600 --> 00:12:26,720 in the same condition. Church is in the same condition. 186 00:12:26,920 --> 00:12:29,880 Sometimes people who don't know what the Bible is talking about 187 00:12:29,960 --> 00:12:33,000 are becoming pastors and people who don't know what the Bible is 188 00:12:33,000 --> 00:12:37,520 talking about are becoming ministers of the gospel and the 189 00:12:37,520 --> 00:12:44,480 gospel gets diluted. You must be saying what is this 190 00:12:44,480 --> 00:12:48,160 man talking about? When we compromise with the 191 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:52,840 holiness teaching of the holiness, we become an Elias 192 00:12:52,840 --> 00:12:55,080 ship. We do not understand the 193 00:12:55,080 --> 00:12:58,480 holiness concept. It is all about holiness. 194 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:02,640 The temple has been given so that people can understand that 195 00:13:02,640 --> 00:13:05,120 their God is a holy God and who dwells in them. 196 00:13:05,200 --> 00:13:09,000 Among them is a holy one and they have to be holy because He 197 00:13:09,000 --> 00:13:13,120 is holy. When the teaching of holiness is 198 00:13:13,120 --> 00:13:17,200 compromised by the Church, that church has become like the 199 00:13:17,200 --> 00:13:23,840 temple in the times of Elias ship through one man, sin came 200 00:13:24,840 --> 00:13:27,960 so also through one man, grace abounds much more. 201 00:13:27,960 --> 00:13:31,120 That's what Paul writes in Romans chapter 5, S Eliasi. 202 00:13:31,120 --> 00:13:35,960 One priest has brought in Tobiah and gave him a storeroom to live 203 00:13:35,960 --> 00:13:38,040 there. He defiled the temple. 204 00:13:38,160 --> 00:13:41,720 He one the temple is defiled. You are defiled in the nation. 205 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:47,560 So church is supposed to be a repository of truth. 206 00:13:48,640 --> 00:13:51,640 One job given to church is to preach the truth. 207 00:13:52,360 --> 00:13:56,640 And when the church does not do its function, it has lost its 208 00:13:56,640 --> 00:14:00,520 purpose. It has lost its purpose. 209 00:14:01,120 --> 00:14:06,240 So here we see the Tobiah had compromised and then because 210 00:14:06,240 --> 00:14:09,720 this Tobiah had guy, he was opposing the building of the 211 00:14:09,720 --> 00:14:15,280 walls. He publicly has defied or 212 00:14:15,280 --> 00:14:19,840 challenged authority of Nehemiah and he came and insulted him and 213 00:14:19,840 --> 00:14:24,920 he even Tobiah came along with the Samaritan army into 214 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:28,760 Jerusalem and all the armies there and Tobiah challenging the 215 00:14:28,760 --> 00:14:32,080 Nehemiah. How dare you build the walls? 216 00:14:32,840 --> 00:14:36,120 You think even if Fox jumps on its going to breakdown. 217 00:14:36,640 --> 00:14:41,320 He insulted this guy who has nothing to do name I said we 218 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:44,600 will build the walls and you will not have a part and that 219 00:14:44,600 --> 00:14:46,080 man is brought inside the temple. 220 00:14:48,880 --> 00:14:52,720 Shame when the church loses his purpose. 221 00:14:52,920 --> 00:15:00,000 Vision is a situation of shame. So because of all these things 222 00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:01,920 that guy comes in. So what does he do? 223 00:15:02,160 --> 00:15:08,640 He is now supporting Elia Shape, the priest and the grain 224 00:15:08,640 --> 00:15:11,600 offering. The ties that come in, they are 225 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:14,240 being misused. They are not given to Levites 226 00:15:14,240 --> 00:15:16,360 anymore. So the Levites have to go 227 00:15:16,360 --> 00:15:18,320 survive. So they go back to their own 228 00:15:18,320 --> 00:15:21,440 places, begin to go back to their farmland and begin to do 229 00:15:21,440 --> 00:15:22,840 their job. They have to survive. 230 00:15:23,160 --> 00:15:26,240 So they leave the temple, go back to their own property and 231 00:15:26,240 --> 00:15:30,600 start making money by ploughing the land and making the thing. 232 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:36,280 So the temple gets neglected. You see how the consequences are 233 00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:40,280 all ripple effect. You see the ripple effect here. 234 00:15:40,680 --> 00:15:45,160 One man comes and that man is supporting Elia Shape is 235 00:15:45,160 --> 00:15:50,960 stopping the use of the wine, the new grain and the wine and 236 00:15:50,960 --> 00:15:53,560 the thighs and oil and everything that's supposed to be 237 00:15:53,560 --> 00:15:56,840 given to leave our singers gatekeepers contribution for the 238 00:15:56,840 --> 00:15:59,360 priest. He stopped and everybody is 239 00:15:59,360 --> 00:16:02,680 fleeing now for their own survival and the temple is being 240 00:16:02,680 --> 00:16:07,880 neglected. So in verse 6, you see, but 241 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:11,080 well, all this was going on. I was not in Jerusalem. 242 00:16:12,560 --> 00:16:16,960 Not only he's not in Jerusalem, you don't even hear the name of 243 00:16:16,960 --> 00:16:19,160 Ezra being mentioned in this chapter. 244 00:16:19,160 --> 00:16:25,160 So Ezra also may not be there. So you need people like Ezra, 245 00:16:25,240 --> 00:16:29,200 you need people like Nehemiah to keep the vision of the temple 246 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:38,640 going are we are together. So it's the same thing in the 247 00:16:38,640 --> 00:16:41,680 modern church. You need the pastor with a 248 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:44,240 vision. And if the vision is not with 249 00:16:44,240 --> 00:16:47,960 the pastor, then that church is like a blind man leading another 250 00:16:47,960 --> 00:16:52,600 blind man. So we need people with vision 251 00:16:53,360 --> 00:16:57,000 basically. So in the 32nd year he went back 252 00:16:57,000 --> 00:16:59,920 and now he comes back and he finds everything is in a mess. 253 00:17:00,680 --> 00:17:02,760 So he asked. He asked for permission and came 254 00:17:02,760 --> 00:17:06,040 back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil 255 00:17:06,040 --> 00:17:10,599 thing Elia ship had done in providing Tobiah is called a 256 00:17:10,760 --> 00:17:12,520 evil thing. Everybody say evil thing. 257 00:17:12,520 --> 00:17:16,640 He is very bad. This man not even allowed to 258 00:17:16,640 --> 00:17:21,079 come inside a temple, is now made to dwell in a store room. 259 00:17:21,200 --> 00:17:23,640 An entire big room is given to him to live there. 260 00:17:24,240 --> 00:17:26,160 It's an evil thing. That's what he called. 261 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:30,640 And if you keep looking for this evil thing, the same word is 262 00:17:30,640 --> 00:17:36,320 used again, in which was 17. I rebuilt the nobles of Judah 263 00:17:36,320 --> 00:17:38,640 and said to them, what is this wicked thing? 264 00:17:38,640 --> 00:17:42,480 You are doing evil thing, wicked thing. 265 00:17:42,480 --> 00:17:44,880 What is the wicked thing? They are intermarrying with 266 00:17:45,640 --> 00:17:49,440 other people, non Jewish people and having children, raising 267 00:17:49,440 --> 00:17:52,360 children. And what is wrong about it? 268 00:17:52,520 --> 00:17:55,280 You may say, but they are supposed to, they are called to 269 00:17:55,280 --> 00:17:57,440 be a holy people. They are not supposed to 270 00:17:57,440 --> 00:17:58,960 intermarry. Why? 271 00:17:59,080 --> 00:18:01,240 If the intermarriage, they are going to lose their faith. 272 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:06,640 A simple way of looking at the whole problem is when, when, 273 00:18:06,840 --> 00:18:11,160 when, when Nehemiah looked at the situation, when they had 274 00:18:11,160 --> 00:18:14,640 these children through other women, Moabites and Ammonites 275 00:18:14,640 --> 00:18:18,040 and Samaritans, and when they intermarrying, the children were 276 00:18:18,040 --> 00:18:22,640 not able to speak Hebrew. They are speaking their mother 277 00:18:22,640 --> 00:18:26,320 language. What's wrong about it? 278 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:28,640 There's nothing wrong, basically. 279 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:32,640 But what is here is if that temple was there for a 280 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:36,680 particular purpose of promoting holiness, to keep these people 281 00:18:36,680 --> 00:18:40,560 as a light to the Gentiles. Now they are losing that. 282 00:18:41,640 --> 00:18:44,840 They are losing it. So Neymar looks at the children 283 00:18:44,840 --> 00:18:47,000 and say, hey, do you know Hebrew language? 284 00:18:47,040 --> 00:18:48,600 You don't know why you can't speak? 285 00:18:48,600 --> 00:18:53,280 Because my mom doesn't speak. Oh, who is your mom? 286 00:18:53,560 --> 00:18:57,280 Mohabbat Ammonite. OK, everywhere there are so many 287 00:18:57,280 --> 00:19:00,680 people they have. Then we name a calls for and the 288 00:19:00,680 --> 00:19:03,600 purification again, they had to put away the children, put away 289 00:19:03,600 --> 00:19:06,480 the wives. It's a painful process. 290 00:19:06,840 --> 00:19:09,600 Painful process. But I tell you this I already 291 00:19:09,600 --> 00:19:11,640 talked about in the previous sermons. 292 00:19:11,640 --> 00:19:14,200 But I'll tell you again, a Christian has no business to 293 00:19:14,200 --> 00:19:18,640 marry a non Christian. If you're a believer, you never 294 00:19:18,640 --> 00:19:22,920 look at anybody. She can be Miss Canterbury, Miss 295 00:19:22,920 --> 00:19:24,800 New Zealand. You don't have any business. 296 00:19:24,800 --> 00:19:30,720 It's not a Christian, Miss Cuba, Miss America, wherever it is. 297 00:19:31,080 --> 00:19:34,720 You have nothing to do with anybody, however beautiful they 298 00:19:34,720 --> 00:19:37,800 are. Because this is what one of 299 00:19:37,800 --> 00:19:44,240 those things that appears to eyes and makes sense and so many 300 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:46,440 things. Sometimes people are lured by 301 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:51,480 intelligence. You know, when a woman looks at 302 00:19:51,480 --> 00:19:53,840 a man who is intelligent or a man looks at a woman who is, 303 00:19:54,960 --> 00:19:57,600 that is their choice. They long to connect with 304 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:00,360 somebody's intelligent. You need to find out what is 305 00:20:00,360 --> 00:20:02,440 your weakness and then be on God. 306 00:20:02,440 --> 00:20:06,960 That's my advice. What is your weakness? 307 00:20:07,600 --> 00:20:09,320 You have to sit down and think about it. 308 00:20:09,440 --> 00:20:11,680 I get attracted to Dash, Dash, Dash. 309 00:20:12,000 --> 00:20:17,120 OK, be careful in those areas. That's how you God, your heart 310 00:20:17,640 --> 00:20:19,280 and your mind. Cool. 311 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:21,240 Don't want to say too much about it. 312 00:20:21,920 --> 00:20:26,120 Then you see this thing, you again see it in the end of the 313 00:20:26,120 --> 00:20:28,400 chapter, verse 30. So I purified the priests and 314 00:20:28,400 --> 00:20:30,680 the levers are everything for him. 315 00:20:32,160 --> 00:20:37,080 So they had to disconnect, approved, make them this distant 316 00:20:37,160 --> 00:20:42,600 from everything for him. So evil thing, wicked thing, 317 00:20:43,160 --> 00:20:48,280 something, everything. We need to be careful about that 318 00:20:48,280 --> 00:20:52,600 thing that takes your heart away from God, whatever it is. 319 00:20:54,760 --> 00:20:57,520 Cool. And then you see here in verses. 320 00:20:58,600 --> 00:21:00,600 Yeah. Then when he went, Nehemiah came 321 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:03,160 back, He heard about Ilya, Shiva, about Tobaya, what he did 322 00:21:03,160 --> 00:21:08,000 straight away. He goes to the temple and I was 323 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:11,560 greatly displeased and threw all Tobias household goods out of 324 00:21:11,560 --> 00:21:14,880 the room. He goes there physically takes 325 00:21:14,880 --> 00:21:19,280 everything. His bed goes, shelf goes, grain 326 00:21:19,280 --> 00:21:22,600 goes, everything is closed, go outside, everything is thrown 327 00:21:22,600 --> 00:21:28,480 out, out from here. Who does it remind you of? 328 00:21:33,040 --> 00:21:36,000 Jesus when he went to the temple? 329 00:21:37,640 --> 00:21:41,200 It was the religious system. You had to offer sacrifice. 330 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,440 You need to buy a lamb, you need to buy an ox. 331 00:21:43,640 --> 00:21:47,360 The guys were sitting inside the temple with the table there and 332 00:21:47,360 --> 00:21:50,520 you go pay the money and you say, OK, I've tried the sheep 333 00:21:50,520 --> 00:21:52,640 down under the tree. There you go and take it and 334 00:21:52,640 --> 00:21:56,360 offer it and then you want to give money. 335 00:21:56,360 --> 00:21:59,080 They did not want to have anything to the Romans, so they 336 00:21:59,080 --> 00:22:02,400 had money changes because you cannot give Roman commands to 337 00:22:02,400 --> 00:22:04,520 God S they had their own currency. 338 00:22:04,600 --> 00:22:06,320 So there are many money changers sitting there. 339 00:22:06,480 --> 00:22:10,440 So you go to there, exchange the Roman currency for the Jewish 340 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:13,200 currency so you can put the money into the temple of God. 341 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:18,480 Jesus came and made a whip with a cord and he draw out the money 342 00:22:18,480 --> 00:22:20,560 changes. Those who are selling pigeons, 343 00:22:21,360 --> 00:22:23,600 why selling pigeons is a big deal? 344 00:22:24,000 --> 00:22:28,000 Pigeon is the lowest offering you can make for your sin is a 345 00:22:28,000 --> 00:22:31,840 pigeon cheapest thing that you can afford is a pigeon. 346 00:22:32,120 --> 00:22:36,120 If you have no money to buy a sheep or an ox and you want to 347 00:22:36,120 --> 00:22:38,680 offer a pigeon. They were selling pigeons in the 348 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:40,560 temple. They were selling the pigeons 349 00:22:40,680 --> 00:22:45,800 and he drove them away and said my house is a is supposed to be 350 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:50,560 called a House of prayer. But you have made a den of 351 00:22:50,560 --> 00:22:56,200 thieves. So you look at Nehemiah's life. 352 00:22:56,280 --> 00:23:01,160 You will be reminded of Jesus. And I tell you, when people look 353 00:23:01,160 --> 00:23:06,960 at you, they must be reminded of who Jesus. 354 00:23:07,360 --> 00:23:11,520 That is how you have to live. Sometimes people may not like 355 00:23:11,520 --> 00:23:13,640 what you say and do. It doesn't matter. 356 00:23:14,160 --> 00:23:15,800 Does Jesus like what you are doing? 357 00:23:17,120 --> 00:23:20,600 That is all counts. Is he going to say, well done, 358 00:23:20,600 --> 00:23:23,400 my faithful servant, that's all counts. 359 00:23:24,840 --> 00:23:27,520 Cool. So he came, he cleansed the 360 00:23:27,520 --> 00:23:31,640 temple and then purified the rooms, purified the rooms. 361 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:35,000 So he must have taken a sacrifice animal, the blood of 362 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:38,280 the animal and then mixed with water and sprinkling it all over 363 00:23:38,280 --> 00:23:42,840 the room and sanctified the room and then brought back the things 364 00:23:42,840 --> 00:23:45,440 that supposed to be in that room. 365 00:23:45,760 --> 00:23:50,120 The tithes offerings, grain offering, wine offering whatever 366 00:23:50,120 --> 00:23:52,480 needs to be given to the Levi, seeing as gate give us. 367 00:23:52,560 --> 00:23:54,400 They are all brought back and restored. 368 00:23:55,000 --> 00:23:58,400 And then because people fled from the temple for their own 369 00:23:58,400 --> 00:24:01,440 livelihood. Now he says by tells them come 370 00:24:01,440 --> 00:24:03,120 back guys, I will take care of you. 371 00:24:03,640 --> 00:24:08,080 So the levers again come back and come move to Jerusalem and 372 00:24:08,080 --> 00:24:10,960 they will be given portion from these things. 373 00:24:11,120 --> 00:24:13,240 So the temple system is restored again. 374 00:24:19,200 --> 00:24:24,440 And then what happened because of this guy Eliashim who 375 00:24:24,440 --> 00:24:28,040 compromised brought Tobiah, he learned that the portions 376 00:24:28,040 --> 00:24:29,880 assigned to the levers had not been given. 377 00:24:29,960 --> 00:24:34,720 Sorry, I'm repeating myself. So he asked the question, why is 378 00:24:34,720 --> 00:24:38,200 Hausa got neglected? And now he's restoring that 379 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:40,120 neglect. He's restoring it. 380 00:24:41,080 --> 00:24:44,920 So the people lost confidence in the religious system. 381 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:50,040 They stopped giving tithes. Nehemiah comes back and restores 382 00:24:50,040 --> 00:24:52,360 the confidence, so they will begin to tithe again. 383 00:24:53,080 --> 00:24:56,040 You see there it was 12 all. You would have brought the 384 00:24:56,040 --> 00:24:59,320 tithes of grain, new wine and oil into the storerooms. 385 00:25:01,120 --> 00:25:04,560 You need a system to run it. So Nehemiah says, OK, let's put 386 00:25:04,560 --> 00:25:08,440 a system here. And the system here is he put 387 00:25:08,440 --> 00:25:13,200 Shalamaya the priest, Jeddak the scribe and a Levite named Pedaya 388 00:25:13,480 --> 00:25:17,640 in charge of the store rooms and made Hanan, son of Zakur the son 389 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:21,440 of Matanaya, their assistant because these men were 390 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,160 considered trustworthy and they were made responsible for 391 00:25:25,160 --> 00:25:27,440 distributing the supplies to their brothers. 392 00:25:28,040 --> 00:25:31,240 So you need people of integrity all the time. 393 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:35,080 We need people of integrity. And when you have the people of 394 00:25:35,080 --> 00:25:37,680 integrity, then the money part is taken care. 395 00:25:38,480 --> 00:25:41,880 You know, one of the things I learned about when I read the 396 00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:46,040 biography of Billy Graham, long time ago, long time ago, I say 397 00:25:46,040 --> 00:25:48,800 maybe more than 30 years ago, I read about Billy Graham. 398 00:25:49,640 --> 00:25:52,600 And when I heard when I read the biography, one thing that 399 00:25:52,640 --> 00:25:57,960 impressed me most is he never put his hand on the tithes and 400 00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,360 offerings in in the big crusades. 401 00:26:01,280 --> 00:26:02,840 He never said how much money you got. 402 00:26:03,120 --> 00:26:06,280 Oh, we have here 5 million. OK, let me take 2 million from 403 00:26:06,280 --> 00:26:09,920 he never did that. He had a system. 404 00:26:10,440 --> 00:26:14,600 The system is there was a Billy Graham eventually association, 405 00:26:14,600 --> 00:26:18,160 they have members there, board was there and they would decide 406 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:22,040 how much to give him, how much to give him. 407 00:26:22,400 --> 00:26:25,760 And he never said oh, because of Maine so much of money is coming 408 00:26:25,840 --> 00:26:30,600 so I need a greater portion. No, they decide how much to give 409 00:26:30,600 --> 00:26:34,640 him and that is all he took. But it kept increasing over the 410 00:26:34,640 --> 00:26:37,120 years. At one point it was only about 411 00:26:38,240 --> 00:26:41,080 35 or 55,000 or something U.S. dollars. 412 00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:46,840 That was moderate at that time. So why am I sharing these things 413 00:26:46,840 --> 00:26:48,800 with you? This is a principle we need to 414 00:26:48,800 --> 00:26:51,120 understand. We need to have principles for 415 00:26:51,120 --> 00:26:54,600 our own life. And one of those things I 416 00:26:54,600 --> 00:26:58,560 learned from Billy Graham was that, and I praise God for his 417 00:26:58,560 --> 00:27:02,080 life because if I didn't read that biography, maybe I would 418 00:27:02,080 --> 00:27:05,040 not have learned the truth. Here is this temple and you have 419 00:27:05,040 --> 00:27:08,680 these people who are going to organize and distribute it 420 00:27:08,760 --> 00:27:11,600 according to their needs. And the temple will continue to 421 00:27:11,600 --> 00:27:14,680 function as it has to function because the finances are 422 00:27:14,680 --> 00:27:17,560 managed. Management of finances is an 423 00:27:17,600 --> 00:27:24,680 important aspect of the church. Many places, you know, Jesus 424 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:28,560 said very clearly, you cannot serve 2 masters at the same 425 00:27:28,560 --> 00:27:31,840 time. You can't serve God and Mammon. 426 00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:37,560 You cannot serve God and money. And many people are serving God 427 00:27:37,560 --> 00:27:41,520 and money. And when you see that happen, 428 00:27:42,160 --> 00:27:43,960 you should know that something is wrong. 429 00:27:46,280 --> 00:27:49,360 It's very, very clear. They can do many mighty science 430 00:27:49,360 --> 00:27:51,840 and wonders and miracles. They can prophecy, but their 431 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:53,760 hands are not clean. When it comes to money, 432 00:27:54,120 --> 00:27:57,320 something is wrong. A tree is known by its fruit. 433 00:27:58,880 --> 00:28:05,160 A tree is known by its fruit. OK, we have time. 434 00:28:05,320 --> 00:28:09,280 That is good. Now in verse 14 he says Remember 435 00:28:09,280 --> 00:28:11,960 Me. Oh, let me go back a little bit 436 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:16,560 and finish that part. So in the New Testament you have 437 00:28:16,560 --> 00:28:21,800 this concept of holiness. This temple was external 438 00:28:22,400 --> 00:28:25,880 representation where the presence of God was inside the 439 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,600 temple. Shakayana glory was in the holy 440 00:28:28,600 --> 00:28:31,160 of holies. But now. 441 00:28:32,600 --> 00:28:37,000 When Jesus walked on earth. John 114 says He Tabernacle 442 00:28:37,000 --> 00:28:40,680 among us. He became the temple of God, a 443 00:28:40,680 --> 00:28:45,760 living temple, walking temple. But that picture is transferred 444 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,560 from being a building to a person to a church. 445 00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:53,120 Now you are the temple of the Holy Spirit. 446 00:28:54,960 --> 00:28:56,200 You are the Temple of the Holy Holy. 447 00:28:56,200 --> 00:28:58,560 Spirit. That's why we had read 1 Corus 448 00:28:58,560 --> 00:29:03,000 619, what the temple stood for in the Old Testament. 449 00:29:03,200 --> 00:29:06,200 Now the believer stands for in the New Testament, and he 450 00:29:06,200 --> 00:29:07,840 becomes a temple of the Holy Spirit. 451 00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:12,640 Don't you know that? Your bodies are a temple of the 452 00:29:12,640 --> 00:29:17,520 Holy Spirit whom you have from God, and you don't belong to 453 00:29:17,520 --> 00:29:20,840 yourself because you are bought with high price. 454 00:29:21,840 --> 00:29:26,160 Jesus paid the high price so that God the Father can send the 455 00:29:26,160 --> 00:29:28,880 Holy Spirit to dwell in you and you are the temple. 456 00:29:32,880 --> 00:29:38,080 Take time to meditate, let's say three times a day. 457 00:29:38,760 --> 00:29:40,320 You have breakfast, lunch and dinner. 458 00:29:41,640 --> 00:29:43,320 Think of breakfast before you eat. 459 00:29:43,760 --> 00:29:45,360 This body is tempted of the Holy Spirit. 460 00:29:46,160 --> 00:29:49,960 God put the Holy Spirit in this body and Jesus paid the price. 461 00:29:50,680 --> 00:29:53,040 I thank you, Lord, I eat your flesh, I drink your blood by 462 00:29:53,040 --> 00:29:55,320 faith. Let your glory dwell in me. 463 00:29:55,320 --> 00:29:58,200 Let your life and your Spirit fill me. 464 00:29:58,880 --> 00:30:03,800 Do that lunch, do it for dinner and you have afternoon snack, do 465 00:30:03,800 --> 00:30:06,520 it again. A morning snack, do it again. 466 00:30:07,040 --> 00:30:09,880 Why? We need to remind ourselves that 467 00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:13,320 we are the temple of God and very important aspect of it. 468 00:30:13,400 --> 00:30:16,000 When you are convinced about it, when you think about it, you 469 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,520 believe it and you close down. We go in the corner of your 470 00:30:19,520 --> 00:30:21,440 room. Kneel down there and shut your 471 00:30:21,440 --> 00:30:24,480 mind and say, God, this part of the temple of the Holy Spirit. 472 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:26,440 Thank you Holy Spirit for dwelling in me. 473 00:30:26,600 --> 00:30:31,600 Now speak to me from inside. Speak to me from inside. 474 00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:36,640 Let me hear your voice. Let my inside eyes, the 475 00:30:36,640 --> 00:30:39,800 spiritual man's eyes, be opened. But I may see what you want me 476 00:30:39,800 --> 00:30:42,000 to see, that I may hear what you want me to hear. 477 00:30:42,160 --> 00:30:45,360 Shut your mind from everything external. 478 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:48,840 Shut yourself in the corner and you will hear his voice. 479 00:30:53,760 --> 00:30:56,640 This is very important. Many. 480 00:30:56,640 --> 00:31:02,000 People want you know there's a. Joke about everything instant. 481 00:31:02,000 --> 00:31:06,520 This age is a instant age. So long time ago I heard a joke 482 00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:08,120 about it. Seema is the one who told me the 483 00:31:08,120 --> 00:31:10,480 joke. A Chinese guy, he goes into a 484 00:31:10,480 --> 00:31:14,440 supermarket and he looks at. Coffee. 485 00:31:15,200 --> 00:31:17,560 Just pour water, you drink coffee. 486 00:31:17,960 --> 00:31:20,720 Wow, that's an excellent product, he said. 487 00:31:22,400 --> 00:31:25,400 And then he looked at something. Else you want just milk, add hot 488 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:28,480 water, you got powder, you add water, you got milk. 489 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:32,960 So he looked at so many instant stuff your noodles, they open 490 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:35,880 the back, pour water, wait for two minutes, eat your noodles. 491 00:31:36,520 --> 00:31:40,480 And he looked at a baby powder. Supposed to be for. 492 00:31:40,880 --> 00:31:43,800 Milk powder of a baby but he mistook that it is for creating 493 00:31:43,800 --> 00:31:45,120 babies. Pour water. 494 00:31:45,200 --> 00:31:51,840 You have a baby here. This. 495 00:31:52,160 --> 00:31:55,480 Instant generation. We want holiness. 496 00:31:55,960 --> 00:31:58,200 We want prophecy. We want healing. 497 00:31:58,400 --> 00:32:02,240 We want caution. Your demons just pour water. 498 00:32:02,360 --> 00:32:04,600 You have it. No, it's not like that. 499 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,920 Many things in life. Can be instant, but none of 500 00:32:08,920 --> 00:32:10,600 these things I talked about are instant. 501 00:32:10,960 --> 00:32:16,520 You will have to be on your knees praying and praying and 502 00:32:16,520 --> 00:32:19,520 praying until God invades your spirit. 503 00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:24,040 Even though the salvation is free, walking in the miraculous, 504 00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:27,960 walking and getting answers to prayer, moving in healing, 505 00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:30,440 moving in deliverance. They are not instant. 506 00:32:32,520 --> 00:32:34,040 It takes time and. Effort. 507 00:32:34,240 --> 00:32:37,360 It takes time. You have you must have a heart 508 00:32:37,360 --> 00:32:40,520 for a hungry heart for God's glory. 509 00:32:42,120 --> 00:32:46,720 Yourself has to be crucified and those things are not instant. 510 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:50,440 You don't die instantly. Maybe you will if you pour hot 511 00:32:50,440 --> 00:32:53,160 water on yourself, boiling water, you will die, but not 512 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:56,600 your old nature, but not your old nature. 513 00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:01,120 That's the reason why we need to be very careful to preserve this 514 00:33:01,120 --> 00:33:03,520 temple. You are responsible to preserve 515 00:33:03,520 --> 00:33:08,280 this temple and many of us are neglecting the temple is very 516 00:33:08,280 --> 00:33:11,360 quick. A leadership is there to call 517 00:33:11,360 --> 00:33:15,120 Tobiah. And I tell you, we have. 518 00:33:15,120 --> 00:33:19,400 Many alias ships in our lives to bring the devil through the door 519 00:33:19,480 --> 00:33:22,200 into yourself. You don't need a window to open. 520 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:26,960 A window is enough for a devil. To come in, but alias ship opens 521 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:31,960 the door. We had to identify alias. 522 00:33:31,960 --> 00:33:35,080 Ship in our life the one who opens the door to the devil to 523 00:33:35,080 --> 00:33:38,200 come inside. We have to be very careful. 524 00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:42,200 There is so much. To talk about in this chapter I 525 00:33:42,200 --> 00:33:45,040 tell you I was meditating and thinking about. 526 00:33:45,040 --> 00:33:49,720 I said my God is it possible to do in one hour all these things? 527 00:33:50,440 --> 00:33:51,880 But there is so much to talk about. 528 00:33:52,280 --> 00:33:56,320 And in verse 14 he says Remember Me for this Oh my God, and do 529 00:33:56,320 --> 00:33:59,560 not blot out what I have so faithfully done for the House of 530 00:33:59,560 --> 00:34:04,400 my God and its services. He is saying Remember Me and you 531 00:34:04,400 --> 00:34:08,159 see this word remember at least you 7 times in the whole of the 532 00:34:08,159 --> 00:34:15,080 book, Chapter 5671 once each time and nearly four times in 533 00:34:15,080 --> 00:34:18,920 this chapter 13 remember. What? 534 00:34:18,920 --> 00:34:20,199 Why is he saying? Remember. 535 00:34:21,920 --> 00:34:24,560 Because. He has only one concern. 536 00:34:24,840 --> 00:34:28,880 He came and lived here for nearly 12 years, rebuild the 537 00:34:28,880 --> 00:34:33,159 walls in 52 days, restored the temple services and everything 538 00:34:33,159 --> 00:34:35,960 was gloriously going. He stopped the Sabbath, he 539 00:34:35,960 --> 00:34:38,360 stopped the foreign marriages. Everything is cleansed. 540 00:34:38,560 --> 00:34:40,719 Everything has been set, set in place. 541 00:34:40,800 --> 00:34:43,840 Walls have been dedicated, people have worshipped God, 542 00:34:43,840 --> 00:34:46,560 praise God, offerings were sacrifices made. 543 00:34:46,760 --> 00:34:49,920 Everything was going beautiful. And he said let me go back to 544 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:52,400 the king. And he went for a few months or 545 00:34:52,400 --> 00:34:54,400 years, couple of years and he comes back. 546 00:34:54,520 --> 00:34:58,960 Everything that he has done is. Everything he worked for. 547 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:03,000 Dream for day and night he worked for is all obliterated 548 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:07,160 because of 1 Elias ship and one Tobiah. 549 00:35:08,920 --> 00:35:11,560 You need the church to go down, you don't need many people. 550 00:35:11,560 --> 00:35:15,400 One Tobiah is enough, one Elias ship is enough who can ruin the 551 00:35:15,400 --> 00:35:17,880 whole thing. So we need to be very careful 552 00:35:17,960 --> 00:35:21,320 how we build the ministry and the church is very important. 553 00:35:21,840 --> 00:35:25,880 So Remember Me for this, Oh my God, and do not blot out what I 554 00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,240 have so faithfully done for the House of my God. 555 00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:33,440 What I have done is gone already, but Please remember it 556 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,360 may not happen again. Please remember. 557 00:35:36,360 --> 00:35:39,280 So it will not happen. Again, I want this temple to 558 00:35:39,280 --> 00:35:44,040 stay pure and holy as long as it is required for you to do it. 559 00:35:46,320 --> 00:35:49,760 And was this prayer answered? Yeah. 560 00:35:51,520 --> 00:35:54,640 Those walls he built? They lasted for another 600 561 00:35:54,640 --> 00:35:56,800 years until they are destroyed in AD 70. 562 00:35:59,200 --> 00:36:00,720 For five to 600 years, they stood. 563 00:36:02,200 --> 00:36:03,800 So when? You faithfully. 564 00:36:03,800 --> 00:36:06,640 Pray and do the work. That work will last. 565 00:36:08,840 --> 00:36:14,040 That work will last. So the temple is what we are 566 00:36:14,040 --> 00:36:16,840 responsible for and we must take care of it. 567 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:19,440 Jesus, cleanse. Cleanse the temple with a whip 568 00:36:19,440 --> 00:36:26,000 and draw out the money changes. And when it comes to reward, 569 00:36:27,680 --> 00:36:30,240 Nehemiah said Remember Me and reward me. 570 00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:34,520 Reward is not for myself. Let this temple remain forever. 571 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:38,760 He is not asking for his own name to be remembered forever or 572 00:36:38,760 --> 00:36:41,960 give him a reward. No, but in the New Testament 573 00:36:42,400 --> 00:36:46,560 your reward is yours. God looks at your life and 574 00:36:46,560 --> 00:36:51,440 rewards you when you fast. Don't let people know that you 575 00:36:51,440 --> 00:36:55,600 are fasting. Keep all unkempt hair and long 576 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:57,480 face, dirty face. Don't wash it. 577 00:36:58,120 --> 00:37:00,560 No shower for two days so people can look at it. 578 00:37:00,560 --> 00:37:03,960 Say hey you have no time for shower, why your hair is not 579 00:37:03,960 --> 00:37:05,440 done? I am fasting. 580 00:37:05,440 --> 00:37:11,640 Do you know I am fasting? You have no reward what you 581 00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:12,560 wanted. You got it. 582 00:37:12,880 --> 00:37:14,120 You. Wanted somebody to compliment 583 00:37:14,120 --> 00:37:14,720 you? Got it. 584 00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,760 But when you fast in secret, the Father who sees you fasting in 585 00:37:19,760 --> 00:37:24,560 secret will reward you when you. Pray in the closet. 586 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:29,360 God who looks at you, praying in the closet, will reward you. 587 00:37:33,040 --> 00:37:34,800 And there's a judgment that is coming. 588 00:37:35,160 --> 00:37:37,560 And that's in the book of Corinthians. 589 00:37:37,560 --> 00:37:42,520 It says chapter 3, verse 13. His workmanship will be evident 590 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:44,800 because the day will bring it to light. 591 00:37:44,920 --> 00:37:47,760 It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will prove the 592 00:37:47,760 --> 00:37:52,600 quality of each man's work. If what he has built survives, 593 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,960 he will receive a reward. Whatever you do in your life is 594 00:37:56,960 --> 00:38:00,680 going to go through fire. It is burnt up, it is gone. 595 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:04,920 If you survive the fire, you get a reward. 596 00:38:06,560 --> 00:38:08,280 So we are not, we are not playing. 597 00:38:08,280 --> 00:38:12,840 With a guard who will look this side and look that side but not 598 00:38:12,840 --> 00:38:15,280 look at your life. No, he looks at your life. 599 00:38:15,840 --> 00:38:20,760 Your life counts for him and is counting on you and he wants to 600 00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:23,520 reward you. But we have to live a life 601 00:38:23,560 --> 00:38:26,360 that's pleasing to him. That will come through the fire 602 00:38:27,480 --> 00:38:29,920 and then he says in second. Corinthians chapter. 5 Verse 10 603 00:38:30,120 --> 00:38:33,040 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so 604 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:37,400 that each one may receive what is due for what he has done in 605 00:38:37,400 --> 00:38:43,120 the body, whether good or evil. Whether you do good or do evil, 606 00:38:43,400 --> 00:38:45,000 you are going to be rewarded for that. 607 00:38:47,080 --> 00:38:50,720 We cannot escape the reward. They may have prayed for it. 608 00:38:51,040 --> 00:38:52,480 You don't pray also. You will get it. 609 00:38:52,480 --> 00:38:56,360 Now you do. Wrong. 610 00:38:56,880 --> 00:39:02,440 You get the reward for it. Cool. 611 00:39:07,600 --> 00:39:11,200 And then what happened in? 15 to 22 Neglect of Sabbath 612 00:39:12,080 --> 00:39:14,320 Verses 15 to 22 talks about neglect of Sabbath. 613 00:39:14,320 --> 00:39:17,440 When he came back, all business was going on. 614 00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:20,440 On Sabbath. The people from Tyre brought 615 00:39:20,440 --> 00:39:25,400 their fish to sell in Jerusalem. I said I was scratching my head. 616 00:39:25,760 --> 00:39:30,200 How far is Tyre from Jerusalem or I did some search. 617 00:39:30,200 --> 00:39:33,680 It's more than 300 kilometers. In more than 300 kilometers. 618 00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:37,400 Are they selling fresh fish in those days? 619 00:39:38,000 --> 00:39:42,040 No, it must be dry fish. I don't like dry fish. 620 00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:48,520 Some people may love it, but when I was growing up, you know, 621 00:39:48,520 --> 00:39:52,720 I was born in a vegetarian family and grew up vegetarian 622 00:39:53,040 --> 00:39:57,640 and later on I became learn to eat chicken and you know, it 623 00:39:57,640 --> 00:40:00,720 took me many years to practice eating the non vegetarian food. 624 00:40:01,280 --> 00:40:06,960 But in the street, anybody did cook the dry fish, the whole 625 00:40:07,880 --> 00:40:11,960 everybody. Will know that you are going to 626 00:40:11,960 --> 00:40:13,960 have. Dry fish for your lunch or 627 00:40:13,960 --> 00:40:17,160 afternoon dinner or whatever. And when I was in New Zealand, 628 00:40:17,160 --> 00:40:20,520 when I was working in a factory, we used to have lunchtime and 629 00:40:20,520 --> 00:40:23,520 these people from certain country, they would bring the 630 00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:25,920 dry fish and put it in the microwave. 631 00:40:26,120 --> 00:40:28,600 And you cannot put your foot back in the microwave because it 632 00:40:28,600 --> 00:40:31,600 is going to smell dry fish. Oh, it was. 633 00:40:31,600 --> 00:40:33,720 Just nobody like those. People, they had to tell them 634 00:40:33,720 --> 00:40:37,920 please don't bring dry fish. So what's wrong we? 635 00:40:37,920 --> 00:40:40,600 Love the food, they said. But you know, that's one of 636 00:40:40,600 --> 00:40:44,440 those things we need to be little sensitive about when we 637 00:40:44,440 --> 00:40:47,120 assert our right because it will disturb somebody else. 638 00:40:48,720 --> 00:40:51,520 Anyway. So the fish was brought from all 639 00:40:51,520 --> 00:40:55,360 the way from Tyre and sold in the in Jerusalem. 640 00:40:55,560 --> 00:40:58,400 And the people would go out and buy on the Sabbath. 641 00:40:59,480 --> 00:41:02,240 And then lots of things were brought, produce from 642 00:41:02,520 --> 00:41:05,440 surrounding Jerusalem. They were bringing and driving 643 00:41:05,440 --> 00:41:08,280 into the city and selling and name. 644 00:41:08,280 --> 00:41:10,080 I looked and say what's happening here? 645 00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:12,640 I have set. Up a system. 646 00:41:13,240 --> 00:41:17,200 That you will, you will not open the gates until the sun rises 647 00:41:17,360 --> 00:41:21,560 and it will be shut before the sun sets until the Sabbath is 648 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:23,160 over. Next day morning, you don't open 649 00:41:23,160 --> 00:41:24,760 the gates. But what's happening here? 650 00:41:25,440 --> 00:41:28,000 So he had to redo the whole thing. 651 00:41:28,880 --> 00:41:33,880 And this time what he did was he took some Lee whites because 652 00:41:33,880 --> 00:41:38,760 they are responsible for knowing the law, teaching the law, and 653 00:41:38,760 --> 00:41:41,600 obeying the law. So he took some of the Levites 654 00:41:41,840 --> 00:41:44,920 and he said, you will God the gates. 655 00:41:47,000 --> 00:41:50,160 So that the effect of. Maintaining Sabbath will remain 656 00:41:50,160 --> 00:41:55,600 longer period with these people, so we always. 657 00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:56,840 Need people who are. Honest. 658 00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:58,960 We always need people who know the law. 659 00:41:59,160 --> 00:42:03,760 We always want people who are hungry to obey God and honour 660 00:42:03,760 --> 00:42:06,040 God. And when you have this handful 661 00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:10,560 of people, the effect will reach masses because of the handful of 662 00:42:10,560 --> 00:42:14,000 people. Today we are only handful. 663 00:42:14,960 --> 00:42:18,640 The task is to reach the whole city of Christchurch and the 664 00:42:18,640 --> 00:42:20,840 Selvin District with the Gospel of Christ. 665 00:42:21,400 --> 00:42:27,320 We need more people who are like Lee whites sold out to the Word 666 00:42:27,320 --> 00:42:31,520 of God. Study it, read it, study it, 667 00:42:31,760 --> 00:42:34,560 meet it on it, and obey it and teach it. 668 00:42:35,120 --> 00:42:38,760 That's the order we need. And then only revival. 669 00:42:38,760 --> 00:42:41,160 Comes you are saying? God send a revival, send a 670 00:42:41,160 --> 00:42:45,680 revival and God says, OK, show me 10 people who are praying in 671 00:42:45,680 --> 00:42:48,440 your church. Do you have 10 people who are 672 00:42:48,440 --> 00:42:50,080 praying every day for one hour at least? 673 00:42:51,000 --> 00:42:53,680 And somebody when I mentioned the word one hour, they jump up 674 00:42:53,680 --> 00:42:57,000 and say, hey, where does it say in in the Bible you have to pray 675 00:42:57,000 --> 00:43:01,640 for one hour? I tell you this that. 676 00:43:01,640 --> 00:43:05,320 Question itself is the wrong question unless we are sold out 677 00:43:05,320 --> 00:43:06,560 to God. Not one hour. 678 00:43:06,560 --> 00:43:08,600 You should be willing to pray for two hours. 3 hours? 679 00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:12,000 Oh, I have a job. To do I have a family to take? 680 00:43:12,000 --> 00:43:14,040 Care kids, how am I going to pray? 681 00:43:14,080 --> 00:43:17,320 That's your job. You have to find time. 682 00:43:18,360 --> 00:43:21,800 I'm not harsh. I'm not trying to be harsh at 683 00:43:21,800 --> 00:43:26,520 all. If God comes first, you will 684 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:31,360 find time to pray. He has to come first. 685 00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:40,520 I am trying to pray. Alone so many times, I pray. 686 00:43:40,600 --> 00:43:42,920 Last night actually I was surprised when I opened my eyes 687 00:43:43,480 --> 00:43:46,360 it was 4:30 in the morning. I said oh I need some sleep and 688 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:51,480 went back to bed. And I asked God, God, how am I 689 00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:55,000 going to do? Alone God said, get 10 people 690 00:43:55,000 --> 00:44:02,280 who will pray, 10 people who will pray one hour a day, and 691 00:44:02,520 --> 00:44:05,120 when we will begin to see more people come through the doors in 692 00:44:05,120 --> 00:44:09,840 the church. The question is I can ask the 693 00:44:09,840 --> 00:44:11,640 question. Now don't have to raise your 694 00:44:11,640 --> 00:44:13,920 hand right now we feel free. You raise your hand. 695 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:17,760 Do you want to commit yourself to pray one hour a day, anytime 696 00:44:18,360 --> 00:44:21,880 that suits you? I see 2345. 697 00:44:22,840 --> 00:44:29,080 I need more 5 people. I don't have to tell you, you 698 00:44:29,080 --> 00:44:30,880 say. I will be free. 699 00:44:30,880 --> 00:44:33,880 My kids go to bed at 7:30. From 8:00 to 9:00 in the night, 700 00:44:33,880 --> 00:44:37,360 I'm going to pray. Oh, I'm busy all the time, but I 701 00:44:37,360 --> 00:44:39,800 can get up at 5:00 in the morning and pray for one hours, 702 00:44:39,800 --> 00:44:41,960 5 to 6. It is up to you. 703 00:44:42,400 --> 00:44:44,880 You want a revival? We need people who want to pray, 704 00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:48,040 who are committed to pray. The revival will come. 705 00:44:48,040 --> 00:44:51,160 Nobody can stop it. It is. 706 00:44:51,160 --> 00:44:53,160 Not one person. There are times when God. 707 00:44:53,160 --> 00:44:57,560 Honors one person and does it, but its always a bunch of 708 00:44:57,560 --> 00:45:01,280 people, sometimes one. Person makes a difference, there 709 00:45:01,280 --> 00:45:03,640 I was. Reading the biography of Charles 710 00:45:03,800 --> 00:45:07,640 Finney and When Charles. Finney used to go into a. 711 00:45:07,640 --> 00:45:10,560 Town, there used to be big revival, people used to be 712 00:45:10,880 --> 00:45:12,840 falling. Even if he is walking on the 713 00:45:12,840 --> 00:45:16,040 street, people working in the field, they will fall down on 714 00:45:16,040 --> 00:45:18,560 their knees and say God have mercy on me, forgive me, come 715 00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:21,680 into my heart. There is no preaching happening. 716 00:45:22,960 --> 00:45:27,640 But the secret of Finney's success is another car, another 717 00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,840 man called Father Nash. Father Nash. 718 00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:34,640 If there is going to. Be a revival meeting in 719 00:45:34,640 --> 00:45:38,000 Christchurch, he would fly, or he will travel to Christchurch, 720 00:45:38,520 --> 00:45:42,120 rent a motel or a hotel or a room, or rent a house Oregon a 721 00:45:42,120 --> 00:45:44,640 room. And for a month he would be 722 00:45:44,640 --> 00:45:48,560 fasting and praying so that when this young man comes to the 723 00:45:48,560 --> 00:45:50,760 city, the revival will break out. 724 00:45:52,200 --> 00:45:57,880 There's one man, one man, Father Nash Does people, do people. 725 00:45:57,880 --> 00:46:01,120 Hear the name of. National, No, but do people hear 726 00:46:01,120 --> 00:46:04,040 the name of Charles Finney and the revival? 727 00:46:04,040 --> 00:46:07,360 Yes. Sometimes we have to take the 728 00:46:07,360 --> 00:46:11,760 role of not being recognized by people and be willing to pray. 729 00:46:11,760 --> 00:46:16,120 Be willing to pray. You may not be receiving honor 730 00:46:16,120 --> 00:46:18,400 from the people, but God will give you the honor it. 731 00:46:21,240 --> 00:46:23,120 Is flashy to stand and preach, but. 732 00:46:24,080 --> 00:46:26,720 It is not so flashy to kneel down and pray. 733 00:46:29,120 --> 00:46:31,320 It's flashy to preach one hour once. 734 00:46:31,320 --> 00:46:35,760 A week to pray, one hour a day, every day is not so flashy. 735 00:46:38,000 --> 00:46:41,640 If we desire the reward from God, we are going to pray. 736 00:46:41,640 --> 00:46:47,280 We are going to pray. So you see all these things 737 00:46:47,280 --> 00:46:51,360 again in neglect of Sabbath. He restored the Sabbath and then 738 00:46:53,760 --> 00:46:55,640 until the Sabbath. Is over the gates would not. 739 00:46:55,640 --> 00:46:58,640 Open, that's how he made sure, and quickly. 740 00:46:58,640 --> 00:47:02,040 I'll try to finish it. The people would come. 741 00:47:02,880 --> 00:47:05,600 Even though gates are closed, they would be very close to the 742 00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:07,640 gate. They have their donkeys, they 743 00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:09,680 have the waste. They want to sell the produce 744 00:47:09,680 --> 00:47:12,640 they want to sell. They were there so that whenever 745 00:47:12,640 --> 00:47:16,840 people wanted by night, they can sneak in outside of the wall and 746 00:47:16,840 --> 00:47:22,320 somehow buy the things. One day Nehemiah goes on the 747 00:47:22,320 --> 00:47:27,320 Sabbath day evening. You guys, you will not come even 748 00:47:27,320 --> 00:47:32,320 here to demonstrate. He must have gone, picked 749 00:47:32,320 --> 00:47:34,160 somebody by his throat and lifted him up. 750 00:47:34,160 --> 00:47:38,000 His stop coming. Otherwise I'm going to put my 751 00:47:38,000 --> 00:47:40,000 hands on you. That's it. 752 00:47:40,880 --> 00:47:44,440 They stop coming. Sometimes some things have 753 00:47:44,440 --> 00:47:48,480 written ruthlessly and that is when this is again whenever 754 00:47:48,480 --> 00:47:51,040 personal purity When it comes to personal purity, Jesus said many 755 00:47:51,040 --> 00:47:54,880 things you when you have to. When you look at a woman with a 756 00:47:54,880 --> 00:47:57,440 lustful eye, you already have committed adultery in your 757 00:47:57,440 --> 00:48:01,320 heart. And if your right hand. 758 00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:03,960 Is the one that is offending you. 759 00:48:04,640 --> 00:48:08,600 Chop it off if it is your eye. That is offending. 760 00:48:08,600 --> 00:48:13,040 You gauge it or remove it. What is he trying to say? 761 00:48:13,440 --> 00:48:16,320 Does he want everyone to go blind and become lame? 762 00:48:16,600 --> 00:48:19,800 No hand, no leg. That's not his purpose. 763 00:48:20,240 --> 00:48:22,400 What is he trying to say? Be Ruth. 764 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:25,720 Deal ruthlessly with sin. Don't tolerate it. 765 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,280 I don't like it. Your body is a temple of the 766 00:48:28,280 --> 00:48:31,520 Holy Ghost, and you need to be holy because I am holy. 767 00:48:31,640 --> 00:48:33,760 And if your eye is offending, remove it. 768 00:48:33,840 --> 00:48:35,920 If your hand is offending it, remove it. 769 00:48:36,040 --> 00:48:39,680 I want you to become holy. There's no other way you can 770 00:48:39,720 --> 00:48:43,360 please pleasing God in your life except by living a holy life 771 00:48:43,440 --> 00:48:49,360 life. The more and more I think about 772 00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:50,240 it, the more. And more. 773 00:48:50,240 --> 00:48:55,440 I get convicted and studying the word is not a comfortable 774 00:48:55,520 --> 00:48:59,360 exercise. I'm telling you, I sit in. 775 00:48:59,360 --> 00:49:00,840 My chair. I'm studying the word. 776 00:49:01,200 --> 00:49:06,560 But inside my heart it just the sword goes, cuts it. 777 00:49:07,800 --> 00:49:09,600 Oh God, how am I going to do this? 778 00:49:10,160 --> 00:49:12,680 How am I going to do this? How am I going to do this? 779 00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:16,840 How, how, how? And that drives you to go on 780 00:49:16,840 --> 00:49:20,560 your knees and say, God, with your help, I can do it. 781 00:49:21,320 --> 00:49:24,880 Will you please give me the help so? 782 00:49:25,760 --> 00:49:28,480 In. Verse 22 he says Remember Me for 783 00:49:28,480 --> 00:49:31,240 this also Oh my God and show mercy to me according to your 784 00:49:31,240 --> 00:49:33,400 great love. Now we don't go that back into 785 00:49:33,400 --> 00:49:37,200 that again in verses 23 to 31 mixed marriages. 786 00:49:37,720 --> 00:49:39,880 Some he went and pulled their hair. 787 00:49:40,360 --> 00:49:45,040 You we have agreed that we are not going to marry fire foreign 788 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:46,760 women. Did you sign here? 789 00:49:47,520 --> 00:49:52,040 Did they make did they make a agreement not to marry foreign 790 00:49:52,040 --> 00:49:53,720 women in the previous chapter? They did. 791 00:49:54,920 --> 00:49:57,040 They signed. All their leaders. 792 00:49:57,040 --> 00:49:59,840 Came and they signed every sign. We agree, we agree, we agree. 793 00:49:59,920 --> 00:50:02,920 And now they got foreign wives and they have got children as 794 00:50:02,920 --> 00:50:05,280 well. At least more than two years if 795 00:50:05,280 --> 00:50:08,120 they have children and if they are not talking not Hebrew, 796 00:50:08,120 --> 00:50:11,720 there must be at least four years before name I came back. 797 00:50:13,680 --> 00:50:16,280 And he pulled their. Hair. 798 00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:23,840 You priest, you live white, you have signed here and now you got 799 00:50:23,840 --> 00:50:27,120 your foreign wife and you got foreign kids and your son has 800 00:50:27,120 --> 00:50:29,240 got my foreign wife. Your daughter got a foreign 801 00:50:29,240 --> 00:50:31,320 husband. He pulled their hair. 802 00:50:33,160 --> 00:50:34,840 Don't talk about it. We can't do anything of that 803 00:50:34,840 --> 00:50:38,560 sort in these days. But again there is a principle 804 00:50:38,560 --> 00:50:45,400 we can learn is deal ruthlessly when it comes to compromise, we 805 00:50:45,400 --> 00:50:49,440 should not compromise. Some things we do and sometimes 806 00:50:49,440 --> 00:50:52,120 we experience the consequences in our life. 807 00:50:53,120 --> 00:50:56,400 Long time ago we have made a mistake and now we go through 808 00:50:56,400 --> 00:50:58,280 it. But God can change. 809 00:50:59,280 --> 00:51:02,400 We had to go to Him, this power in the bread of Christ. 810 00:51:02,840 --> 00:51:04,800 What is the situation you want to change? 811 00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:09,520 Put that blood on the beginning. 25 years ago. 812 00:51:09,520 --> 00:51:12,440 We make a mistake, put that blood on it and say, Lord, right 813 00:51:12,440 --> 00:51:15,680 now I'm suffering consequences. I put that blood on this person. 814 00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:17,240 I put this blood on the situation. 815 00:51:17,320 --> 00:51:20,920 I want you to change it and the blood of Jesus will speak for 816 00:51:20,920 --> 00:51:22,840 you and the situation will change. 817 00:51:25,840 --> 00:51:27,960 This is nothing else that can deliver you. 818 00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:30,720 From your past, except the bread of Christ. 819 00:51:33,960 --> 00:51:36,040 I was listening to a guy who was a ex satanist. 820 00:51:36,920 --> 00:51:42,320 And he said there was a lady who was being oppressed by some evil 821 00:51:42,320 --> 00:51:45,360 spirits, and she did many things, but nothing was coming 822 00:51:45,360 --> 00:51:50,320 to setting her free. And one one day she began to 823 00:51:50,320 --> 00:51:55,960 confess the blood of Christ. God, I cancel every covenant I 824 00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:59,800 made with the devil, I put the bread of my spirit solar body. 825 00:51:59,840 --> 00:52:03,000 I cancelled every covenant, put the bread of the covenant and 826 00:52:03,000 --> 00:52:06,600 the demons had to run from her and she was set free. 827 00:52:07,600 --> 00:52:11,480 He said that demons cannot resist the bread of Christ. 828 00:52:12,400 --> 00:52:14,240 Put that blood until you are. Free. 829 00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:17,280 Put that blood, Lord. I confess the blood of grace on 830 00:52:17,280 --> 00:52:19,560 my spiritual and body. I confess the blood of grace on 831 00:52:19,560 --> 00:52:22,520 my covenant I made with the enemy in the name of Jesus. 832 00:52:22,840 --> 00:52:26,080 Let me go free now. You, David, I kick you out now. 833 00:52:26,200 --> 00:52:27,600 I have nothing in common with you. 834 00:52:27,720 --> 00:52:29,880 I belong to Jesus. This body is the temple of the 835 00:52:29,880 --> 00:52:31,880 Holy Ghost. I have no part with you. 836 00:52:32,040 --> 00:52:33,960 I kick you out now in the name of Jesus. 837 00:52:34,760 --> 00:52:37,720 I don't think the devil will be there anymore if you fight like 838 00:52:37,720 --> 00:52:41,360 that. Cool. 839 00:52:42,800 --> 00:52:47,120 So you see in the rest of the verses many other things, but 840 00:52:47,120 --> 00:52:50,480 there was a guy I should talk about this one right before I 841 00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:53,680 close one of the sons of Joy, the son of Elia Shiv the high 842 00:52:53,680 --> 00:52:57,760 priest was son-in-law to sun ballot the horror night and I 843 00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:01,920 drove him away from me, meaning away from Jerusalem. 844 00:53:03,160 --> 00:53:07,600 He went and married enemies daughter became a son-in-law to 845 00:53:07,600 --> 00:53:11,360 enemy son Ballot who was trying to stop the building of the 846 00:53:11,520 --> 00:53:14,520 walls of Jerusalem and this guy goes and marries the daughter. 847 00:53:15,480 --> 00:53:19,240 When he came back you know you got married out now from here he 848 00:53:19,240 --> 00:53:22,080 drove him out. So sometimes we need. 849 00:53:22,080 --> 00:53:24,080 Some this is all. We need is not about 850 00:53:24,080 --> 00:53:26,040 intolerance. Please don't misunderstand me. 851 00:53:26,240 --> 00:53:28,000 I am not encouraging intolerance. 852 00:53:28,440 --> 00:53:31,880 I am encouraging purification. I am encouraging holiness. 853 00:53:32,040 --> 00:53:34,680 I am encouraging resisting compromise with the devil, with 854 00:53:34,680 --> 00:53:35,880 the world and with the lust of the flesh. 855 00:53:35,880 --> 00:53:39,840 Lust of the is pride of life. No compromise with them, no 856 00:53:39,840 --> 00:53:44,960 compromise with them. And then only our situation will 857 00:53:44,960 --> 00:53:48,760 change. No compromise. 858 00:53:52,960 --> 00:53:56,160 So verse 30. So I purified the priests and 859 00:53:56,160 --> 00:53:58,760 the Levites of everything foreign. 860 00:54:02,560 --> 00:54:04,800 And assigned them duties, each to his own task. 861 00:54:04,800 --> 00:54:07,320 I also made provision for contributions of good at 862 00:54:07,320 --> 00:54:11,920 designated times for the first fruits and for the and for the 863 00:54:11,920 --> 00:54:14,640 first fruits. Basically restored the whole 864 00:54:14,640 --> 00:54:19,120 system. Restored the whole system and 865 00:54:20,640 --> 00:54:22,520 the book of Neymar. Doesn't end there. 866 00:54:24,480 --> 00:54:26,080 Book. Of Neymar doesn't end there. 867 00:54:27,000 --> 00:54:32,560 Purification, compromise. Again, purification is the 868 00:54:32,560 --> 00:54:34,800 process the church will be going through. 869 00:54:35,160 --> 00:54:38,960 Anytime we see compromise, anytime we see sin trying to 870 00:54:38,960 --> 00:54:43,080 rule, the church is a place for repentance, confession, 871 00:54:43,200 --> 00:54:46,720 repentance, walking away from it, resisting it, fighting in 872 00:54:46,720 --> 00:54:49,120 the in the Spirit by the power of the Holy Spirit. 873 00:54:49,920 --> 00:54:54,600 And that will never cease. I do not know how to count how 874 00:54:54,600 --> 00:54:56,160 many times I must have failed God. 875 00:54:56,600 --> 00:55:00,040 But every time I failed God. The process is very simple. 876 00:55:00,320 --> 00:55:02,360 I had to repent. I had to confess it. 877 00:55:02,360 --> 00:55:05,760 I had to repent and ask God to wash me in His blood and to 878 00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:08,360 disconnect me from it in the name of Jesus. 879 00:55:09,600 --> 00:55:13,480 And that will continue until either He appears or I go to 880 00:55:13,480 --> 00:55:17,480 Him. And that is the path of 881 00:55:17,480 --> 00:55:21,080 holiness. We cannot keep living in sin. 882 00:55:22,920 --> 00:55:24,120 Shall we bow our heads in prayer? 883 00:55:26,120 --> 00:55:30,440 Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord, Thank you Lord. 884 00:55:30,440 --> 00:55:31,920 Thank you, Lord, you are so good. 885 00:55:32,800 --> 00:55:36,520 We praise you because you are so full of mercy and love. 886 00:55:37,720 --> 00:55:42,000 And we thank you for the life of Nehemiah and the story of 887 00:55:42,480 --> 00:55:46,920 rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem during his time, how 888 00:55:46,920 --> 00:55:50,280 the temple was restored, how the life was restored. 889 00:55:50,480 --> 00:55:54,880 We praise you for the story of reformation that has come 890 00:55:54,880 --> 00:55:59,200 through preaching of the Word and obedience to the Word and 891 00:55:59,200 --> 00:56:02,120 practice of the Word in the name of Jesus. 892 00:56:02,440 --> 00:56:06,240 I pray, Father, that you will give us grace to deal ruthlessly 893 00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,440 with sin. Help us to chop off the hand 894 00:56:09,440 --> 00:56:12,280 that offends and remove the eye that offends. 895 00:56:12,680 --> 00:56:16,040 And I pray, Father, that you will give us the grace not to 896 00:56:16,040 --> 00:56:19,120 tolerate what you have defeated. You have defeated Satan. 897 00:56:19,160 --> 00:56:21,920 You have defeated sin. Help us not to tolerate in our 898 00:56:21,920 --> 00:56:26,320 life anymore. We resist, not tolerate in the 899 00:56:26,320 --> 00:56:28,880 name of Jesus. And I pray for your mercy and 900 00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:31,120 your grace. Let the power of the Holy Ghost 901 00:56:31,120 --> 00:56:33,520 fall upon our children right now, listening to your word. 902 00:56:33,800 --> 00:56:37,760 Let the glory of God enter them again in a fresh way. 903 00:56:37,920 --> 00:56:42,320 Let, O my Father, glory of the God is the Holy Spirit. 904 00:56:42,480 --> 00:56:44,800 And I invite the Holy Spirit to come, and I light up on the 905 00:56:44,800 --> 00:56:47,560 children. Enter them, my God, and let 906 00:56:47,560 --> 00:56:49,840 their bodies become temple of the Holy Ghost. 907 00:56:50,760 --> 00:56:53,640 And you dwell in them your You bought them with your blood. 908 00:56:53,880 --> 00:56:57,840 And we thank you, Father God, for your Son Jesus and the Holy 909 00:56:57,840 --> 00:57:00,360 Spirit. This is all your wisdom. 910 00:57:00,600 --> 00:57:03,280 You have planned it even before you laid the foundation of the 911 00:57:03,280 --> 00:57:05,200 world. And we praise you, we praise 912 00:57:05,200 --> 00:57:07,560 you, We praise you for your mercy and your grace that 913 00:57:07,560 --> 00:57:12,760 triumphs and rules and it shines better than your judgment and 914 00:57:12,760 --> 00:57:16,160 your wrath, which will not be compromised. 915 00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:17,960 You will show it at the right time. 916 00:57:18,160 --> 00:57:21,720 But right now we thank you for your mercy and your grace, which 917 00:57:21,720 --> 00:57:24,880 is a reigning supreme. You are a goddess enthroned on 918 00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:28,040 the seat of mercy, and we worship you. 919 00:57:28,320 --> 00:57:31,680 And when it is still a time for us, to when it's still there is 920 00:57:31,680 --> 00:57:37,520 time for us, help us to repent and confess it and renounce it 921 00:57:37,880 --> 00:57:42,120 and be washed in the blood and be set free to the glory of your 922 00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:44,560 name. Bless your children. 923 00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:49,160 Again in Jesus name I. Ask and everybody says Amen. 924 00:57:49,520 --> 00:57:54,160 Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega 925 00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:55,960 if you. Need prayer for healing or 926 00:57:55,960 --> 00:57:58,880 breakthrough, or simply to find out more, please head to our 927 00:57:58,880 --> 00:58:01,120 website or Facebook page in the links below.