S4:111 Ezra 4-7

Join The Journey

Watermark Community Church, Dallas, TX

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Christian, Bible, Devotional

5 • 827 Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

In today’s episode, Emma Dotter and faithful Watermark member Casey Crane discuss the adversity the Israelites go through as they rebuild the temple and the pressure they face to compromise to a pagan culture. Casey lays out 4 steps in growing in Scripture and resisting all things that set itself up against our walk with Christ: set your heart on Scripture, study it, do it, teach it.

Additional Scripture Referenced:

2 Timothy 2:24-25; Proverbs 13:20; James 1:22-25

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Everybody, what is going on?
0:02.6	You know what time it is.
0:03.7	You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.
0:08.1	Thanks for joining.
0:09.0	Today, we are reading Ezra 4 through 7, and I am back in the studio.
0:14.2	He's taking over for the book of Ezra.
0:16.6	It's Casey Crane.
0:17.6	Hey, Emma.
0:18.3	Casey, good to be with you.
0:19.7	You and Zach did such a great job yesterday.
0:22.5	And you actually wrote today's Devo.
0:24.6	I did.
0:25.2	Had a lot of fun doing it, too.
0:26.2	So of your three episodes, I'm like, this has got to be the best one.
0:29.0	We'll see.
0:30.1	We'll see how it goes. Yesterday's episode, Casey and Zach did a great job just kind of setting up the Book of Ezra for us.
0:39.8	If you missed the episode, you can go back and listen to it, but I'll get you caught up right now.
0:44.6	The book of Ezra picks up right where Second Chronicles leaves off with a somewhat surprising twist.
0:51.1	Cyrus, the king of Persia, yes, he was a pagan king, sends God's people back to Jerusalem
0:57.6	after 70 years in exile. Why? Because God rules over every kingdom. He can use anyone, even a
1:05.9	polytheistic king, to accomplish his purposes. And later, God uses another Persian king, Artaxerxes, to fund the
1:15.0	return trip and raise up Ezra to teach God's word. And that same king backs Nehemiah and restoring
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