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Ezra 4:12 · BSB
4:12 Let it be known to the king that the Jews who came from you to us have returned to Jerusalem and are rebuilding that rebellious and wicked city. They are restoring its walls and repairing its foundations.
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…confidence. Would you agree? I'm not reading anything in here. I'm just reading his words. Daniel chapter 3. And notice also if you would pick upEzra chapter 4. Daniel 3 and Ezra chapter 4. I was asked the other day, Pastor Fisher, when you preach, it seems like you use a lot of scriptures. I said, man,…
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…tainted by pagan influences. And so when Israel goes to rebuild the temple, the Samaritans, they offer to help in the book of Ezra. You can go intoEzra chapter 4, and as you dig into that a little bit, I encourage you to do that. Their offer was rejected. Like, nope, you have no part in what we're doing.…
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…a little fox should not be able to tear it down. But they're jeering and they're mocking and they're laughing. If you're Nehemiah, you can look atEzra chapter 4. You can look at some of the hardship, you can look at some of the frustration. Maybe this isn't gonna work. This is a really big project. I'm not…
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…been terrible, awful. It has not gone well. The temple is not rebuilt. The walls are not rebuilt. And you can read about that in the book of Ezra.Ezra chapter 4says that really from the first day of this great hope of rebuilding the temple, enemies were opposing it, both inside the Israelite, in the nation…
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…saying all these Jews that have come back, they're just going to rebel. They're not going to pay taxes. You watch, there's going to be trouble.Ezra chapter 4says that prayer is not something God makes you do. Prayer is a battleground. The Living Bible says this Ephesians 6, verse 10. Last of all, Paul…
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…not going to happen. And yet God delights in using the unlikely, and people would look at this passage, and they would look at Ezra, chapter 1 andEzra 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 of Israel? Well, in…
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…of this man. Why does he need favour in this man? Because this man has said stop the building of the temple. Stop the building of the temple. InEzra chapter 4, he said stop. And now to restart the work, to rebuild the walls, you need the favor of the same man. Once. Who is the man who said no? You have to…
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…by saying who they are and whom they serve. They responded by saying why they are doing what they're doing. Right? Remember, if you rememberEzra chapter 4, the great pause that was happening in their lives, they're ready to continue the work that God had set in their lives. And so they're also saying…
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…And so with all that being said, let's go ahead and we're going to get started with our sermon today. The past few Sundays, we have been going overEzra chapter 4. It's a time when the adversaries, they were opposing the people of God. They were doing everything they could to stop the momentum that was…
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…seeing the transformation that comes by the power of the gospel. Can I get an amen for that? And this brings us to today as we are entering intoEzra chapter 4, where we are entering the theme of dealing with adversity. This sermon today is based off of Ezra chapter 4, verses 1 through 5. And in these five…
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…shouted with a great shout, and the sound was heard far away, congressional response, for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.Ezra, chapter 4and 1 through 6, the rejection of the Samaritans and the consequence of the rejection. Now, when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that…
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…the building in the middle of it, and they kind of went about their own lives for a period of fourteen years. Then in 520 BC, something happened.Ezra chapter 4says the “work on the house of God in Jerusalem ceased, and it was stopped until the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.” Second…
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…sometimes with people who interpret the book of Nehemiah is they miss this aspect. You might remember, I've talked to you about it before, inEzra chapter 4, which is all the same book as Nehemiah, there's this little aside. And in the aside, it just paints a picture of over 100 years and…
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…Sambaleth threatens to take these accusations to the king of Persia himself unless Nehemiah comes to meet with them. We can look back, though, atEzra chapter 4. And in Ezra chapter 4, uh, this exact same type of accusations were made against the people of Israel in their rebuilding of the temple. And the…
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…had been halted and put to a stop because they had met opposition uh from within Persia in their efforts to reconstruct all of what Israel was. InEzra chapter 4, we read about these uh people called the adversaries of Benjamin and Judah. Now, the adversaries of Benjamin and Judah, they were more than likely…
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…And so God's people, to much fanfare and rejoicing, they begin to build the temple again in Jerusalem in 536 BC. And you can read about that inEzra chapter 4. But the thing is, 16 years after that initial bit of enthusiasm, Project Temple 2.0 has completely fizzled out. The people have just lost the…
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…most profitable for the Persian Empire at this time. We know that Artaxerxes doesn't have any particular love for Yahweh because we already read inEzra chapter 4that he shut down some of Nehemiah's wall building projects a few years later. So it's not that he's converting to Yahweh worship, but…
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Well, what doesEzra chapter 4have in common with Chick-fil-A? Oh goodness. And you know the news you've been following, I'm sure, with the uh difficulty with Chick-fil-A, that…
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…in, the surrounding neighbors are hearing about this and they object, and they're going to cause problems. We'll see these problems next week inEzra chapter 4. But it's fascinating to me that their enemies start circling, and so they're in a rush. What is the first thing they do? Uh-oh, our enemies are…
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…been almost 150 years ago when he first carried off the people of Israel into exile. Most likely, it was bad news about a more recent setback. InEzra chapter 4, Ezra chapter 4 includes one incident that sort of fast-forwards to the time of King Artaxerxes and time of the book… sort of between… probably…
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