First Things First
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
4.8 • 631 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
When your values are clear, making decisions becomes easy. After generations of failure, God’s people finally realized what was most important in life, so they made a list of things they were committed to changing. Their heartfelt prayer in chapter nine led to heartfelt priorities in chapter ten. Let’s explore how they committed to change in these four areas of life.
I. Scriptural Authority (vv. 28-29)
II. Relational Purity (v. 30)
III. Spiritual Regularity (v. 31)
IV. Financial Responsibility (vv. 32-39)
Talk with God: Spend time in prayer as you consider each of these areas in your own life and ask the Lord to reveal areas you need to re-prioritize.
Talk with others: Ask your mentor or a trusted fellow believer to provide accountability as you refresh your priorities.
Talk with kids: How does Jesus save us from the punishment our sin deserves?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. We're so glad you joined us today. As believers, |
| 0:07.5 | we mourn the darkness and decay around us, knowing that a city in shambles reveals more than broken walls. |
| 0:16.4 | It mirrors the moral and spiritual condition of its people. In the book of Nehemiah, we find a template for taking ground and responding in faith and |
| 0:25.9 | obedience rather than fear or despair. |
| 0:28.7 | This message with Pastor Skip will help you transform your grief for a broken world into |
| 0:34.7 | a stepping stone to repentance, prayer, and action. |
| 0:46.1 | Good morning. |
| 0:50.0 | Phones off, brains on, hearts open, Bibles open, Nehemiah chapter 10. Let's turn to Nehemiah |
| 1:01.1 | chapter 10 for our continuation of this study in a city in Chambles. So there was a couple in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 1:13.1 | It was a dream of theirs to have a vacation in New York City |
| 1:17.6 | to attend a Broadway play, |
| 1:19.3 | so they got tickets well in advance to Phantom of the Opera |
| 1:23.3 | at the Majestic Theater on Broadway. |
| 1:27.4 | By the way, that play played continually in New York for 35 years. |
| 1:34.4 | So they wanted to go. |
| 1:35.8 | They got tickets, flew to New York, planned their vacation around it. |
| 1:40.1 | They were so excited. |
| 1:40.9 | They walked in the theater. |
| 1:42.9 | Their seats were seven rows back right in front of |
| 1:45.2 | the orchestra pit great seats place was packed every seat taken except one and that was the seat |
| 1:53.9 | right next to them and then after the empty seat another gentleman was. So they enjoyed the first half of the play. |
| 2:02.6 | Half-time intermission came, and the man from Atlanta leaned over, crossed the gap, |
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