THE SERMON - National Repentance Is Not Easy | Ezra Tells Israel To Send Away Their Foreign Wives & Children
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🗓️ 6 May 2024
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Summary
Israel sinned by getting too close to the people from other lands. They traded with them, talked with them, got to know them well, and even married their daughters to their sons. We may assume that thus far they did not compromise in idolatrous worship of the false gods of those people, but it is said that they mimicked many of the heathen's other worldly behaviors. Most notably, they disobeyed God's clear command not to get too close to these people who did not follow him, especially by marrying them. This was a clear violation of God's command in at least two regards: 1) The older generation in Israel, while resisting idolatry themselves, sold out their own children's future by setting the stage for their inevitable apostasy, and 2) Israel was willing to make this deal with the devil because they ultimately did not trust God to protect and provide for them, instead relying on alliances with their neighbors for their strength and support (AKA: The GDP must keep climbing).
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| 0:00.0 | Lord's Day and he will be preaching the final text chapter 10 of the book of Ezra and then we will |
| 0:06.1 | begin well we'll have an intermission we'll take a few weeks and actually teach I've already said this |
| 0:11.3 | but for those of you who aren't here I'm going to be teaching from various New Testament text |
| 0:15.5 | on the topic of elders deacons and church members so we'll take a few weeks and we'll do that. |
| 0:22.0 | And then we'll begin, Lord willing, a new sermon series through the book of Matthew. And so I'm |
| 0:26.8 | excited about that. So we'll get into a gospel and be looking at the teachings of Jesus and the |
| 0:32.3 | narrative of all the miracles and the things that he did and said. So that'll be, I think, a very |
| 0:37.4 | rich time season for us as a |
| 0:39.3 | church. So today is Ezra chapter 9. This is our second to last chapter in the book of Ezra, |
| 0:44.7 | Ezra chapter 9. I'll read our text for us in its entirety. When I finish reading the text, |
| 0:49.4 | I'm going to say this is the word of the Lord, at which point I would appreciate very much if you would respond by saying thanks be to God. One final time, our text for today is Ezra. Chapter 9, the Bible says this. After these |
| 1:01.2 | things had been done, the officials approached me and said, the people of Israel and the priest |
| 1:05.7 | and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations from the Canaanites, |
| 1:13.2 | the Hittites, the Parasites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. |
| 1:20.4 | For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, |
| 1:26.1 | so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples |
| 1:29.8 | of the lands. And in this faithlessness, the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost. |
| 1:37.5 | As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard |
| 1:43.9 | and sat appalled. Then all who trembled at the words of the God of Israel because of the faithfulness of the returned exiles gathered around me while I sat appalled until the evening sacrifice. And at the evening sacrifice I rose from my fasting with my garment and my cloak torn and fell upon my knees and spread out my hands to the lord my god saying o my god i am ashamed and blush |
| 2:10.0 | to lift my face to you my god for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens |
| 2:18.8 | from the days of our fathers to this day we have been in great guilt and for our iniquities we are |
| 2:26.2 | kings and our priests have been given into the hand of the kings of the lands to the sword to |
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