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Ezra 4:20 · BSB
4:20 And mighty kings have ruled over Jerusalem and exercised authority over the whole region west of the Euphrates; and tribute, duty, and toll were paid to them.
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…the ruins are beginning to come back to life. Are you guys with me this morning? This is where we left off in Ezra chapter 3. And then we get toEzra chapter 4. So the end of Ezra chapter three ends with this momentous kind of beginning of the temple foundation. They're excited. They're so pumped. People…
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…as a pair. You can pick up your copy at the table this morning. It's on page 475, I think. Is that right? Yeah, 475. So let's hear God's word. SoEzra chapter 4, starting at verse 1. And then just go to the very end of the chapter, verse 24. Thus the work of the house of God in Jerusalem came to a…
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…way that you thought it would. Zerubbabel is the governor tasked with rebuilding the temple. And the work had been stalled for years according toEzra chapter 4. It had been buried under bureaucratic opposition, discouragement and scarcity. There's something about the building that got stuck. How many in…
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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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…because of the adversaries of the Exiles and what they told him. Let's see it again because it plays into what we find here in Nehemiah 1. Go toEzra chapter 4. The art Exerxes here in Ezra chapter 4 is the same art Exerxes that Nehemiah is serving. And notice what Ezra says in his account of the…
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…turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger. What if the leaders of Israel told the governor, Katanai, just what they told the enemies inEzra chapter 4and verse 3? Ye have nothing to do with us to build this house. I mean, probably would have stirred up some wrath. But they had the wisdom to know…
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…so if you have your Bibles, be turning there because we're going to look at the text and see some things together in the Word. As you're there inEzra chapter 4, what I want you to consider briefly for those that were with us last week is that repeated word in chapter 3, which was the word together. Do you…
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…opinion here regarding Tatonized stance toward the Jews. Was he among the adversaries of the people of Judah and Benjamin that we learned about inEzra chapter 4? Was he hostile? Was he aggressive? Did he hate them? Or was it someone that was more neutral? Was he just a faithful officer in the Persian Empire…
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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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…were working on their own houses. But the moment that they prioritize God's house, the enemy slithered back into the picture. Now we spent all ofEzra chapter 4looking at the different schemes and the tactics of Satan to try to hinder and harm the people of God as they want to build something for his…
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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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Let's turn in our Bibles now to the book ofEzra, chapter 4. We have not been together in the book of Ezra for a couple of weeks now, so I think it will be helpful to refresh our memories of where we are in…
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…convert it and bring it to a place where she's able to save the Jewish nation, so much so that Purim is celebrated even today. Ezra. When you readEzra, chapter 4, chapter 5, chapter 6, his task is can you rebuild the temple? Can you rebuild the most precious thing to the Jewish nation? And what does he have?…
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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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…homes. Something occurs when those Jews of the southern Kingdom return and they are greeted by a people who remained in the land. Let's turn toEzra chapter 4, beginning in verse one. Now when the adversaries of Judah and Benjamin heard that the returned exiles were building a temple to the Lord, the God…
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…we go, okay, so they get up and they start to ridicule. What, where is the power in that? The power in that is that they did the very same thing inEzra chapter 4and it stopped the work. The enemy had been victorious before they were rebuilding the temple. They were rebuilding and and they were making it…
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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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