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do you do Most of us have enjoyed well-written books that entertained us or taught us something new.

Today on Truth for Life, Alistair Beg explains why the

Bible is superior to any of those books. In fact, it's superior to all of them

combined. Here's Alistair. I invite you to turn with me if you would to the Book of Naya in the Old Testament and to chapter 10. In our studies in Nehemiah we've

been following the account of God's dealings with his people at a particular point in the history of the nation

and a time when they were under the leadership of two men in particular Ezra and Namaia.

There's absolutely no question that the events that we're considering

were long ago and far away. For some of us that's enough to conclude that there can be no possible application to our day since we have this

kind of smug idea that our day is unlike no other day and only what is very immediate can be applicable.

Well in actual fact the more we study the Bible the more we realize that there are

timeless principles contained in it which are relevant to every

age and to every generation.

Especially, and this is our emphasis in these studies,

amongst those who are seeking to ask the question,

what does it mean to do God's work in God's way?

And this morning as we pick up the account,

essentially at the 30th verse of chapter 10,

I want to take some time to remind us just how it is that the people of God found themselves at the 30th verse of chapter 10

and how we are tracking with them to that point.

All that has been taking place in these last few studies for us emerged as a result of a simple request

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