The You're going to do you.

Do you do you do you do you do

do you do. When the Israelites celebrated with great sacrifice and great joy.

Given their level of enthusiasm, it may seem surprising how quickly they broke the

vows they made to God. Today on Truth for Life, Alistairbegg warns us against judging

them too quickly. Father, we give you the glory that is due your name, and now we come to these precious moments

when in opening your word, we expect to hear your voice, way beyond the voice of a man, way beyond simply the routine reading of verses. We ask that you will speak into our lives today and

changes for your glory. That from our unbelief we may increasingly become committed followers of Jesus Christ,

in whose name we pray. Amen.

I invite you to turn back to the portion we read a moment or two ago in Namaya

Chapter 13. The statement goes, when the cats away, the mice will play. Every

school teacher knows that to be true. Even with your best substitute, it's just not the same.

And when you go down the hallway for quotes just a few moments,

there's no guarantee to what you will return.

Managers in offices understand it, to a certain extent, indeed anyone in a position of leadership knows that when you absent yourself, things will be different.

In many cases, there will be many things that are better, but there will be a measure of playing which goes on.

Niamia, here in chapter 13, discovered that to be actually the case.

Vass six, if you allow your eye to scan it,

makes clear that while the events which we'll consider in these moments were going on,

Nehemiah had not been in Jerusalem.

Now a little historical background to this without it being painful.

Naimaya's first governorship had lasted for 12 years. You can read about that in the

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