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Ezra 1:5 · BSB
1:5 So the family heads of Judah and Benjamin, along with the priests and Levites—everyone whose spirit God had stirred—prepared to go up and rebuild the house of the LORD in Jerusalem.
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…is cultural, not religious. As a result, their ambitions are political rather than spiritual. And so Ezra and Nehemiah launch this great campaign.Ezra chapters 1-6 recounts the rebuilding of the temple. Ezra chapters 7-10 recounts the rebuilding of the law. And then in Nehemiah chapters 1-6, it recounts the…
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…traveling a thousand miles to get it done. I'm probably never going back because that's not a trip you'd make too often in your life. Let's look atEzra chapter 1. Now, in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, so that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled. Many of you are…
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…That's what we sacrifice to do what He wants us to do. Stay with me just a little bit, and I wanted you to do this. Pick up Ephesians chapter 2 andEzra chapter 1. We have a wonderful God with a tremendous plan. It's above us, Ephesians chapter 2 and Ezra chapter 1. Now stay with me. Again, the message is not…
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…conquered Babylon just as promised. Cyrus was a pretty amazing king. It's called Cyrus the Great. And we read about something very important inEzra chapter 1. There it says, in the first year of Cyrus, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled. Now, what what was that word? It…
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…are beleaguered, they're hopeful, and they're laboring to rebuild Israel back in the land. By the time of 1 Chronicles 9, it's been 90 years sinceEzra chapter 1, if you're putting those two books together. It's been 20 years since Nehemiah chapter 1. By the time of 1 Chronicles 9, the temple is done.…
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…holiness. We can't do that on our own. We need him. But do you see how incredibly gracious the Lord is to his people here in us today? I mean, inEzra chapter 1, the Lord stirs up his people by his spirit to leave Babylon and head back to Israel. In that, he even stirs up the king. Read that passage, it's…
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…over a period of time. And that's what we've been looking at these Friday nights. And if you didn't know, everything that we have covered fromEzra chapter 1to Ezra chapter 6 occurred during the first wave of refugees coming back to their native land. And what we are going to discover now in this new…
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…moment or series of events. We must nurture and guard our hearts daily, every day, every week, every month, year by year. They were stirred inEzra chapter 1. Surely Ezra 2 proves it. They made their way back to Jerusalem where their hearts still stirred in Ezra 10. Evidently, no, you can't. You can't…
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If you have your Bibles with me, meet me in the book ofEzra chapter 1. Ezra chapter 1. I trust that you were there last week, and if you weren't here in person, hopefully you listen to the recording. It might have…
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…and Second Chronicles at a later time as a series. But for now, we are going to enjoy the book of Ezra. And I invite you to turn there with me,Ezra, chapter 1, because we are going to read a few verses in a moment. But allow me to offer a few introductory thoughts and listen again, if you're here, this is…
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…World Cup. It's just not going to happen. And yet God delights in using the unlikely, and people would look at this passage, and they would look atEzra, chapter 1and Ezra chapter 4, and they would say of those things, how could this be? How could there be this guy who did all of this on behalf of the people…
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…great kingdom that Nebuchadnezzar had built after his death, it falls hard. And Ezra now picks up the story. I'm going to give you some of Ezra.Ezra chapter 1. This is how he describes the decree of Cyrus that we looked at last week. Now, in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order to fulfill the…
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…Medio-Persian Empire rises to power as the preeminent power in the world. What happens in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia? It says in uhEzra chapter 1that God puts it in the heart of Cyrus to rebuild the temple. And he actually decrees that the temple in Jerusalem be rebuilt. He allows 42,000…
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…mission_. We're going to use the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, and Esther to drive our prayers. So, if you have a Bible, I want to invite you to turn toEzra, chapter 1. If you've been on the journey with us, then you know the nation of Israel, due to disobedience, was first fractured as a nation, and then the…
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…and bring them to the place that I have chosen to make my name dwell there. Now this part of Deuteronomy has also already begun to take place. InEzra chapter 1, we're told that King Cyrus, the king of Persia, who defeated Babylon, had begun to send Israelites back to the land to rebuild the temple, to…
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…5, the gold and the silver vessels of the house of God, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple. If you guys remember when we were going overEzra chapter 1, the vessels, we have Cyrus who is a prefiguration, a representation of the coming of Christ. The vessels going from the place where they did not…
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…from our iniquities and gaining insight by your truth. So Daniel turns to God in prayer. And God responds immediately. Within that same year,Ezra chapter 1says that the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, to make the decree for Israel to return to Jerusalem so that the temple may be…
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…to rescue, to bring them home. And we know from history, the history books, secular history, and you can also read about it in the Bible inEzra chapter 1, right at the end of the second book of Chronicles 2. We know from history that that sending them home is going to come from an edict from Cyrus, a…
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…Babylon at the end of this chapter. When the decree had gone out and was issued for every man of Judah to return to Jerusalem. Look at this inEzra chapter 1. In the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit…
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…you kind of have to look at the historical context. So Cyrus is the king who allows the Hebrew people to return to Israel and build the temple.Ezra chapter 1and chapter 6 show Cyrus paying for the rebuilt temple. It shows Cyrus sending Jews back to Israel to inhabit the land and to remain there. And it…
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