The You're going to do you.

Do you do you do you do you do

do you do safe driving requires that from time to time you look in your rearview

mirror but if you spend time staring at what's behind you, that's not safe driving at all.

Today on Truth for Life, Alistirbegg uses a similar illustration to show us how we are to view the past properly in order to go forward effectively.

Now I invite you to take your Bibles and turn with me to Nehemiah and to chapter 10.

Our task this morning is to begin to look into this 10th chapter of Naimaya. Before we do, let's pause for a moment of prayer.

Our great God and Father, we pray that you will do this mysterious thing when you take the voice of a mere man and you use it to

speak through and to bring your word to bear upon all of our lives. There's no one individual could

somehow comprehensively understand or grasp a group of this magnitude or be

able to apply the Bible with enough emphasis to touch every life.

But we know that the Holy Spirit is able to do exceedingly abundantly beyond all that we can ask or even imagine.

And we humbly ask, Holy Spirit, that you will do that now,

so that Jesus may be glorified, our lives may be touched and transformed,

for we pray in Christ's name.

Amen.

In the Hebrew Bible chapter 10 of Nehemiah actually begins with the 38th verse of chapter 9.

And that most appropriately because you will see that the sense of it all

is directly related to a whole new beginning in the 38th verse of chapter 9

where the people of God enter into what is referred to here as a binding agreement.

And the content of Chapter 10 is aptly summarized between this 38 verse of 9 and the 39th verse of 10 which

has the concluding statement we will not neglect the house of our God. If you

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