#712 – Rejoicing with Great Joy (Nehemiah 12:27)
Pray the Word with David Platt
David Platt
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🗓️ 22 July 2019
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Summary
Let's pray that in our personal lives and when the church gathers together that we will worship God appropriately for His glory.
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| 0:00.0 | Pray the word with David Platt is a resource from radical.net. |
| 0:06.0 | Nehemiah chapter 12 verse 27 and the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem |
| 0:11.0 | they sought the Levites in all their places to bring them to Jerusalem. They sought the Levites in all their places to bring them to Jerusalem, to |
| 0:15.8 | celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings, and with singing, with |
| 0:21.1 | symbols, harps, and liars. |
| 0:24.8 | I wish I could go on read the rest of this chapter |
| 0:27.8 | because it describes one of the most glorious worship gatherings in all of the Bible. |
| 0:36.8 | So picture it after the people of God rebuilt the walls around Jerusalem, walls that their enemies and adversaries had said |
| 0:45.5 | would not even be able to hold a cat if a cat were to walk across it. |
| 0:49.6 | So what do they do in Jerusalem? |
| 0:51.9 | As soon as they finish building the walls, they take all the people and they stand |
| 0:56.3 | up on the walls and they march around them. |
| 0:59.5 | And they sing. |
| 1:01.7 | They celebrate with Thanksgiving, with singing, with symbols, with harps, with liars. |
| 1:08.4 | You see all kinds of instruments, you see choirs, like this is a massive celebration like it says they rejoice |
| 1:16.1 | with great joy later on like not just rejoice they rejoice with, and not just with joy, they rejoiced with great joy. |
| 1:25.7 | Like that's pretty repetitive, but it's a picture of this was a blowout celebration and this is appropriate for the people of God to do. |
| 1:39.1 | To celebrate, to sing, to use all kinds of instruments, with Thanksgiving, to shout, to rejoice with great joy, |
| 1:50.9 | over who God is and what God has done. |
| 1:56.3 | Oh God, we pray. |
| 1:58.7 | We pray that we as your people today would worship appropriately, |
| 2:07.6 | meaning that we would worship with joy, not just joy, that we would worship with great joy, that we would worship with great joy |
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