SERMON - Living In “Negative World”

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 21 January 2024

⏱️ 66 minutes

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“There were some that could not prove themselves Israelites (v. 59, 60), a considerable number, who presumed they were of the seed of Jacob, but could not produce their pedigrees... There were others that could not prove themselves priests, and yet were supposed to be of the seed of Aaron... Now we are here told how they lost their evidence. One of their ancestors married a daughter of Barzillai, that great man whom we read of in David's time; he gloried in an alliance to that honourable family, and, preferring that before the dignity of his priesthood, would have his children called after Barzillai's family, and their pedigree preserved in the registers of that house, not of the house of Aaron, and so they lost it. In Babylon there was nothing to be got by the priesthood, and therefore they cared not for being akin to it... Now that the priests had recovered their rights, and had the altar to live upon again, they would gladly be looked upon as priests. But they had sold their birthright for the honour of being gentlemen, and therefore were justly degraded, and forbidden to eat of the most holy things. Note, Christ will be ashamed of those that are ashamed of him and his service.” -Matthew Henry

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0:00.0	In less than a year, our podcast has gone from an average of 10,000 downloads a month to 50,000
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0:24.0	review on your favorite podcast platform. Thanks. All right, we are continuing our series through
0:32.9	the book of Ezra. Today is Ezra chapter 2. If you would, please stand with me for the reading of God's
0:37.4	word. Now typically I would say say at this point I'm going to read our text in its entirety.
0:43.9	I'm going to have to leave out that little prepositional phrase in its entirety.
0:49.9	Here's the deal. I'm just going to be blatantly truthful. You need to read this entire chapter because all scriptures God breathed.
0:59.0	But you can read it on your own and be embarrassed by yourself as you mispronounce dozens of words.
1:05.7	Instead of me being publicly embarrassed in front of you mispronouncing those words, I would like for you to mispronounce
1:10.9	all these names yourself. Okay? So it matters. I'm not saying it doesn't matter, but this is a large
1:17.4	text. It's 70 verses, in fact. And so just the amount of verses period is very large. And the
1:24.9	difficulty of reading all of these Hebrew names is immensely challenging. I've
1:29.8	already got enough names that I'm going to read just in the verses that I've selected. But all that
1:33.8	being said, we are doing the entirety of Ezra chapter 2. But there is a large genealogy, a list of
1:41.0	all these different Israelites who came up with the Hebrew leaders from exile in Babylon
1:48.4	to Jerusalem and Judah to rebuild the temple and the cities to rebuild the land of Israel. And so
1:56.6	all of their followers, all these Jewish families, I'm going to be skipping that section of the genealogy.
2:03.1	It matters. Read it on your own. I'm being completely honest. I cannot pronounce the names.
2:08.6	And I know, you know, guys will say, well, what you do is you say it fast and you say it confidently.
2:13.0	And that does work to a certain extent. But there will be some who will catch you and I will get tons of emails.
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