Nehemiah #3 - How can we make the boring parts of life meaningful?

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 2 October 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

In Nehemiah 3, Pastor Mark shows that ordinary days are crucial to allow for extraordinary days. In what seems to just be a long list of people, he also preaches on principles for leaders and all people and finishes with the good news that Jesus has another list that those who have relationship with Him will be on forever.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.
0:04.0	For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona,
0:09.2	visit real faith.com, where you'll find study guides to go along with each sermon series as he
0:14.0	preaches verse by verse through books of the Bible, daily devotions, free
0:17.7	e-books and more. Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.
0:21.3	Nehemiah chapter 3 if you got your today's sermon. Nehemiah, chapter 3, if you got your Bibles, find it.
0:25.0	How many of you right now, we just read five minutes and names and you're bored.
0:28.6	How many of you actually just took a brief nap?
0:30.6	You're like, what in the world?
0:31.8	Why are we digging into the Hebrew phone book? Who cares? Here's the big idea. What can we do to make the boring parts of life meaningful? We like to go through books of the Bible. We're in the book of Nehemiah, chapter three is here, it's just
0:43.4	this long list of names and many of the Bible commentators they just skip it like
0:47.8	there's nothing here, just move right along. Here's what we believe. Everything in the
0:52.4	Bible is there for a reason,
0:53.7	Amen. It says in 2nd Timothy 3 that all scripture is God breathe and profitable to
0:59.5	prepare us for all of our good works. God's got some good important significant things
1:04.6	for you and I to do, and everything in the Bible
1:07.2	is to help equip us and prepare us
1:09.5	to walk in our destiny and do the things
1:11.3	that God has called us.
1:12.7	Well, in this list of names, there's 38 named people,
1:16.2	a number of unnamed people, and a bunch of teams.
1:19.2	And the reason that it doesn't matter so much to us
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