#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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Let's pray that in our personal lives and when the church gathers together that we will worship God appropriately for His glory. Explore more content from Radical.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:05.9	Nehemiah chapter 12, verse 27,
0:08.6	and at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem,
0:11.0	they sought the Levites in all their places
0:13.1	to bring them to Jerusalem,
0:15.7	to celebrate the dedication with gladness,
0:18.4	with thanksgivings, and with singing,
0:20.6	with symbols, harps, and liars.
0:24.7	Oh, I wish I could go on and read the rest of this chapter because it describes one of the most
0:30.6	glorious worship gatherings in all of the Bible. So picture it after the people of God rebuilt the walls around Jerusalem,
0:42.5	walls that their enemies and adversaries had said would not even be able to hold a cat if a cat
0:47.9	were to walk across it. So what do they do in Jerusalem? As soon as they finish building the walls,
0:53.5	they take all the people and
0:55.6	they stand up on the walls and they march around them. And they sing. They celebrate with
1:03.0	Thanksgiving, with singing, with symbols, with harps, with liars. You see all kinds of instruments.
1:10.1	You see choirs.
1:11.7	Like, this is a massive celebration.
1:14.6	Like, it says they rejoiced with great joy later on.
1:18.5	Like, not just rejoiced, they rejoiced with joy.
1:23.0	And not just with joy, they rejoiced with great joy.
1:25.6	Like, that's pretty repetitive, but it's a picture of
1:29.6	this was a blowout celebration. And this is appropriate for the people of God to do.
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