THE SERMON - The 3 Enemies Of Christendom: Cowardice, Idleness, & Foolishness
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🗓️ 24 March 2024
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
When God's time has come for the accomplishing of his gracious purposes concerning his Church, he will raise up instruments to promote his purposes from even the most unlikely places. In the meantime, the Church must be diligent to avoid these three pitfalls: 1) Cowardice, 2) Idleness, and 3) Foolishness.
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| 0:00.0 | Amen. We're continuing our series to the Book of Ezra. Lord Willie next week is Easter Sunday, |
| 0:08.8 | and so we will pause and look at a text from the New Testament that focuses on the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ explicitly. |
| 0:18.3 | Christ is in all the scriptures, but some scriptures are more explicit in the way |
| 0:22.8 | that they speak to Christ, especially his resurrection. So that'll be next week, Lord willing, |
| 0:28.8 | and then we'll pick back up with the book of Ezra, and we are currently on a trajectory to finish |
| 0:33.8 | this book of the Bible sometime in the month of May is what it looks like. And so |
| 0:38.3 | then Connor and I are actively now praying and considering which book of the Bible to preach |
| 0:44.1 | through next. So today we are still in the book of Ezra. Our text is Ezra chapter 6 versus 1 through 12. |
| 0:50.8 | Would you join me in standing to show reverence for the reading of God's word? |
| 0:59.6 | Again, our text is Ezra, chapter 6, verses 1 through 12. I'm going to read the text in its entirety. |
| 1:03.2 | When I finish reading the text, I'll 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 |
| 1:08.2 | for today is Ezra, chapter 6, verses 1 through 12, the Bible says this. |
| 1:13.4 | Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in Babylonia. |
| 1:17.9 | In the house of the archives where the documents were stored, and an Ekbakana, the citadel |
| 1:24.4 | that is in the province of media, a scroll was found on which this was written, |
| 1:30.0 | a record. In the first year of Cyrus the King, Cyrus the King issued a decree concerning the |
| 1:35.6 | house of God at Jerusalem. Let the house be rebuilt. The place where sacrifices were offered |
| 1:42.2 | and let its foundations be retained. Its height shall be 60 cubits, |
| 1:46.6 | and its breadth 60 cubits, with three layers of great stones and one layer of timber. Let the |
| 1:52.6 | cost be paid from the royal treasury. And also let the gold and silver vessels of the house of God |
| 1:59.0 | which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that is in Jerusalem |
| 2:02.1 | and brought to Babylon, be restored, and brought back to the temple that is in Jerusalem, each to its place. |
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