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Nehemiah chapter 8 verse 1

and all the people gathered as one man into the square before the water gate and they told Ezra the

scribe to bring the book of the law of Moses that the Lord had commanded

Israel. I love that verse. I love that picture. So the temple has now been rebuilt, the

walls around Jerusalem been rebuilt, and first thing that happens right after that

Ezra chapter 8 verse 1 all the people gather together and they say to

Ezra bring out the book and what follows Ezra comes out he opens the book the law of God he reads it all the people

Stand up they bless God, they worship God, they lift up their hands, they bow

their heads, they worship the Lord with their faces to the ground. It's this

amazing scene because they want the book.

Huh. They want the word of God and it leads to the worship of God.

I pray for this in the church I pastor that they will want the book they will want the word more and more and more and more and when we gather together and open the book open God's word and proclaiming that it just leads to

worship because we want the word and not just when we gather together but on a

day by day basis that's the beauty what we have in the

Bible like what we have these Old Testament Saints could have only longed for

like access to the scripture on our phones not that they knew what a phone was, but if they did, like, to be able to have the

word of God at our fingertips at any moment, like we want the word, we want the word.

You just think about your your phone and how you can pick it up and you can just start scrolling through this app

That site all these different, like the word of God.

Do we want that more than we want the latest news,

latest, uh, Facebook information,

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