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Ezra 4:23 · BSB
4:23 When the text of the letter from King Artaxerxes was read to Rehum, Shimshai the scribe, and their associates, they went immediately to the Jews in Jerusalem and forcibly stopped them.
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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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…from? If you go to the book of Ezra, they're busy building the temple and there's a lot of opposition against the building of the temple. And ifEzra chapter 4says, and the temple came to a standstill, like some of your lives have come to a standstill, and then it says then Haggai the prophet and…
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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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…starts with a great intense effort and excitement, it quickly comes to a halt when the people of God face the enemies of the land. We're told inEzra chapter 4that the work of the temple had come to a complete stop. And then in Ezra chapter 5, verse 1, we're told that it is the prophets Haggai and…
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…any degree without, to some degree, facing some sort of challenge because you've decided to take that step of obedience. What Ezra wants to do inEzra chapter 4, then, is show us that extraordinary challenge, facing extraordinary challenge as a Christian is actually what's ordinary. It's not really…
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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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…The amazing thing here is that King Artxerxes is actually reversing course from an order that he had issued years earlier. That is found inEzra, chapter 4. Now you've heard about the laws of the Medes and the Persians, that nothing can change them, and so on and so forth. Artxerxes changes from…
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…these stories, there's so much resistance to what they're called to do. And let's let's look at some of the resistance that they faced. InEzra chapter 4, we're at this point where Zerubbabel and Jeshua have, they've they've actually made tremendous progress. They've laid the foundation of the…
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…these stories, there's so much resistance to what they're called to do. And let's let's look at some of the resistance that they faced. InEzra chapter 4, we're at this point where Zerubbabel and Jeshua have, they've they've actually made tremendous progress. They've laid the foundation of the…
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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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…five books kind of go together. So hey guys, considered a prophecy book but Ezra would give the history and haggai actually takes place betweenEzra chapter 4. And as our chapter, Five. It's only 22 chapters 38 verses making it the second shortest book in the Old Testament after Obadiah, it's quoted once…
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We are inEzra chapter 4this morning. This is a unique passage of scripture because it's it kind of chops up the narrative a little bit. So I'm going to read through it…
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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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…Samaritans Samaritans were accustomed to being treated as second class Jews they were never fully received into the covenant community of God inEzra chapter 4when the Jewish exiles returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple the Samaritans approached these Jews and said to them let us build with you for…
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…he had asked for letters to give to the governors so that they would not attack him or try to run him out of the city like they had done before inEzra chapter 4when they tried to rebuild the walls in the city. They had rebuilt the temple, but he wanted letters from the king because Artaxerxes was the one…
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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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