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Introduction: My love of roller coasters began in middle school.
I love them all.
The scarier the better.
But we all know that there is one very big problem when it comes to riding roller coasters…the line.
I hate long lines.
And back then we didn’t have cell phones to entertain us.
So I was on a youth group trip at the church I grew up in.
And we were at the 6 flags in Bowie, MD.
And we were in line to ride this brand new roller coaster.
I want to say it was the batman but can’t really remember.
What happened next is what I do remember.
As we were getting closer and closer to the ride, I began to notice that not all was right.
We were moving away from the ride.
Weird.
But then horror struck as we realized that after close to an hour in line, we weren’t in line for a roller coaster.
We were in line for the teacups.
You see they put the new ride in a crowded section of other rides and the signs were misleading.
And concidering I waiting an hour for the teacups, we were the only one mislead.
It was a painful experience that taught me a valuable lesson.
Transition to Scripture: That is how Nehemiah must have felt in after waiting many years to return to Jerusalem only to find things certainly not the way that he left them.
He was probably so excited to see these people that he had developed such a love for.
But as he gets there, things are not good.
Transition to Big Idea: The people made some big promises only to God about what the future of Israel would look like.
It’s easy to come out of the gate ready to go, but what happens when you don’t keep it up.
We naturally get lazy and convince ourselves that one little compromise won’t affect anything.
And before we know it, we’re back to where we started.
Transition to Big Idea: After all that talk about not neglecting the house of God and them promising that they wouldn’t, of course they did.
It’s easy to come out of the gate ready to go, but what happens when you don’t keep it up.
We naturally get lazy and convince ourselves that one little compromise won’t affect anything.
And before we know it, we’re back to where we started.
Looking at our own lives, we have to:
Big Idea: Inspect What you Expect
And then we need to have other people we allow to inspect our lives and hold us accountable.
And yes, we need to inspect others and hold them accountable.
As we look at , we can easily realize where the people went wrong.
Without Nehemiah’s strong leadership, the people began to neglect certain things.
Nehemiah states that they neglected 3 things:
Neglected the Worship of God including:
The house of God.
The people who led them in worship.
They neglected the Word of God, specifically
Observance of the Sabbath
Allowing their children to be unequally yoked with unbelievers.
They neglected their own personal holiness
He calls out Eliashib the High Priest specifically
He points out to God that at least he (Nehemiah) tried.
nehemiah 13:7-
1. Don’t neglect your worship.
(1-14)
Explanation: Naturally the first thing that Nehemiah wanted to see when he arrived in Jerusalem was the House of God.
The most important reforms he instituted were the restoration of Temple worship.
It doesn’t record that he inspected the wall at all....that just shows you what the book of Nehemiah is really about.
Now as a quick reminder from:
nehemiah 10:
Fail.
They didn’t do it.
They failed.
And Tobiah?
seriously?
Of all people?
If you’ll remember Tobiah was a thorn in Nehemiah’s side.
As life goes about, there are ups and downs.
Now, based on what we read in this, things are going really well.
People are returning to Jersualem to set up shop.
It seems that even Tobiah has seen fit to relocate his base of operations to Jerusalem.
But when things are good, we so often forget the God that got us there.
And that seems to be what happened.
They neglected the House of God.
They neglected the worship of God.
They neglected God’s ministers so much that they had to leave the city just to survive.
Through their actions, the people had decided that worship was not important.
Illustration: I read this past week that Netflix is changing their model of releasing entire seasons at once.
They are actually going to release a new episode one week at a time.
What is this 1999?
But it got me thinking.
There are shows that people build their schedule around.
Tuesdays at 7pm or Fridays at 9 or Sundays at 6. Nothing is going to get in the way of you watching your show.
And you won’t be late either because they won’t wait for you.
(I know they have DVR now so you don’t have to start right on time and some of you intentionally state late so you can fast forward through commercials, but that doesn’t fit with the point I’m trying to make).
But if we give that kind of scheduling to a TV show that doesn’t matter in the long run, why not give that to our worship of God.
You always make time for the things that are important to you.
Application: You have to make a choice of whether you think that worship is important.
And you have to guard that time for you and your family and let nothing get in the way of it.
But guarding your worship means that you contribute financially to the work of God in this place.
It means that you find a place to serve…and you serve.
It means that you commit to being present at events.
It means that while not to neglect your immediate family, you recognize that
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2. Don’t neglect the Bible.
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Explanation: The Sabbath was a big deal to the people of Israel.
God said no work from sundown on Friday night to sundown on Saturday night.
The rest that they were to observe was holy to the Lord.
They were to gather to worship as well.
Now, Saturday was a major day of commerce in the rest of the world.
But God’s people were to trust in God’s provision and trust that he would take care of it.
You might ask why?
Well the simple answer is because the Bible tells me so.
That might not be enough for you or the world.
But it is the truth.
And there are some things that they were to be simply obey regardless of understanding.
We can easily see the benefits of resting and taking at least 1 day out of the week and not working.
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