God’s Word Leads Us to Worship Him (Nehemiah 8:5–6)

Pray the Word with David Platt

David Platt

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🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 5 minutes

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In this episode of Pray the Word on Nehemiah 8:5–6, David Platt teaches us that God's Word ought to lead us to worship him.

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0:00.0	Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.
0:04.1	Nehemiah chapter 8 verses 5 and 6.
0:08.5	An Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people,
0:12.6	where he was above all the people, and as they opened it, all the people stood.
0:17.8	An Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God, and all the people answered, amen,
0:24.0	lifting up their hands, and they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
0:33.3	What a scene! One of my favorite scenes I think in all of the Bible as Ezra stands up in front of
0:42.4	the people of God, so the walls have been rebuilt around Jerusalem, and he stands up in front of God's
0:49.8	people, and opens the Word of God. All he does is open it in the sight of everybody.
0:55.5	And as soon as he opens it, he hasn't set a thing, all the people stand up.
1:01.6	An Ezra starts a blessing, praising, worshipping the Lord, the great God, and all the people
1:08.8	start shouting, amen, amen, they're lifting up their hands, and then they bowed their heads and
1:15.6	worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground. Do you see the scene in your mind?
1:22.5	All Ezra did was open the Word of God, and it elicited praise and worship and shouting, amen,
1:35.0	people bowing down, getting on their faces on the ground, in awe of the great God who has given us
1:44.4	His Word. Do we revere God's Word like this in our lives, in our churches, you think about
1:55.6	all these things, people standing up, lifting up their hands, shouting, maybe bowing down
2:02.0	with their faces to the ground. What do we normally associate those kinds of responses to?
2:07.6	Musical worship, right? Like all it takes today is for somebody with a guitar to stand up in
2:14.8	church, and everybody stands up and maybe lifts their hands and shouts and sings, and maybe
2:22.6	bows down to the ground, which is great. We see all kinds of pictures of musical worship like
2:28.1	this all over the Bible. We'll see this in Nehemiah chapter 12. But what if all it took
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