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Nehemiah chapter 13 verses 17 and 18.

Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them,

what is this evil thing that you are doing?

Profaining the Sabbath day?

Did not your fathers act in this way?

And did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city?

Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.

This is a humbling chapter, Nehemiah 13, because after all the joy and worship and restoration,

like in the book of Ezra, the temple rebuilt, the book of Nehemiah the walls rebuilt,

singing celebration, worshipping around God's word like awesome scenes God's people restored after the exile and

yet Nehemiah 13 the last chapter ends with descriptions of how the people of God

are already turning aside from the commands of God.

This is just one example of many here in Nehemiah 13.

They were profaning the Sabbath and

and hemai goes with them and says isn't this what our fathers did

that led to disaster on us in the city and now just as soon as the city is

rebuilt we're doing the same thing. That's pretty humbling isn't it?

Apparently That's pretty humbling, isn't it? Apparently, we don't drift toward holiness.

We drift towards sinfulness, which means we must be vigilant if we are going to be

holy. If you and I are going to grow more and more in the image of Christ, it's not going to happen because we drift into that reality,

because it just kind of flows automatically. No, that's not in any way the Christian life is

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