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do you do Our culture is obsessed with top 10 list, who's who lists, the most beautiful, the most successful, the wealthiest, the most popular, and so on.

Well today on Truth for Life, we'll discover the only list that really matters and we'll

find out how you can get on it.

Alistairbegg is teaching from chapters 11 and 12 in the book of Nehemiah. If we moved amongst the crowd and said to them, what's your name and what were you doing?

We would get essentially six replies.

What were you doing in Jerusalem? Answer, I was living in Jerusalem. Secondly, in

verse 12 and what were you doing? Oh, I was working there. I was working in the temple. And how about you? We say to another, what were you doing there?

verse 16. I was serving there. I had a responsibility of the outside work of the House of God.

Doesn't sound like a big deal, does it?

But it is a big deal.

It's a big deal out there when you're trying to come in here and part your car.

It's a big deal out there

when you drive in of a day and you bring a guest to see the place and you look around

and you say, my, that's looks really nice. It's a big deal. See, we devalue the significant necessities of

life by exulting to undue prominence things that are really not that significant.

For example, I think without any question most of us would assume that that which is most public and most visible is inevitably most significant.

After all, why would we make it public invisible?

What are not significant, but in fact that is a warped way of thinking.

And Paul makes that clear when he identifies the members of the body of Christ as being many but all one body and existing for one another and existing under the authority of the head.

And he points out he says,

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