149: Mike Robinson – Exhortation: Remember Me O My God for Good

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Hello, everyone.
This is brother James diliberto

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and we’re back with our second
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continuing to enjoy these

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This week, we have brother Mike
Robinson, my brother-in-law and

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he is going to talk to us from
way back in 2009 during him and

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Tim keating’s.
Shin for the Manitou and youth

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conference workbook.
And the class for this week is

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Mike’s, final exhortation during
the youth conference study day.

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That was getting everybody ready
for the week leading into

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Manitoulin that Year.
Mike was working on this study

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on Ezra Nehemiah.
The return of the Exiles for

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years.
I can actually remember Mike

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giving early versions of some of
these classes when I was in

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person with him, Him at the
Seattle, youth weekend that some

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of our listeners may have
remembered back in 2006.

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And we had a really great time
that weekend and by the time he

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gets to this study day, he had
been just talking about this so

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much.
And he was so passionate about

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the lessons from Nehemiah,
they’re very applicable, very

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personal.
And he’s got just so much to

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contribute.
This class is really wonderful.

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The main thing in this class
that he does, and I love is, He

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goes through this question that
Nehemiah asks, remember me, oh

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my God for good.
This kind of pleading prayer and

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he asks us, you know, is this a
crazy question?

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Does God work this way?
Can we ask something like this?

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Well let’s get right into it and
listen to Mike’s answer and find

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out.
So this is Mike Robinson.

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Remember me, oh my God for good.
Good morning, my dearly beloved

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brothers and sisters in the Lord
Jesus Christ.

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Me and Sarah have come from Echo
Lake, Ecclesia in New Jersey and

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we’d love to pass on the love
and the greetings of your

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brothers and sisters there who
are remembering the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
As we do this morning and this

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Ecclesia and across this
continent and it’s really going

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to be this morning, isn’t it a
remembrance of the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
And we’re going to get to that

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point actually and kind of a
backwards way.

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We’ve read Nehemiah 13.
And for the young people, it was

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the second time you’ve heard
that this weekend, we’ve read it

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yesterday as well.
The youth conference study that

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we’re doing this year, brother.
Tim Keating and myself are

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working on putting together the
book this year for conference in

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the study is the Exiles
returning.

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I would have Babylon it of
Persia who have come back to the

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land in the time of Ezra and
Nehemiah at the time of haggai

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Zechariah Malachi And there’s a
phrase that came up a few times

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throughout Nehemiah in the
phrase, was remember me.

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Oh my God, for good, remember
me?

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Now that’s backwards, you were
here to remember.

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Jesus Christ, are we not?
We’re here to remember God’s

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incredible plan and yet in
Nehemiah chapter 13, nehemiah’s

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prayer.
To God is Remember Me, Lord,

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remember the things I have done.
Remember the works that I have

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done in your name to cleanse
Israel, to get them back on the

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spiritual track that’s focused
on you.

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Remember me.
Oh my God.

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For good.
And this actual phrase, remember

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me comes up three times in
Nehemiah chapter 13, we’re going

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to take a look at those briefly
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We’re going to be skipping
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stay mostly in Nehemiah.
This really is the end of what

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we have as far as what’s
recorded from Ezra and Nehemiah.

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This is the last chapter and
right up till the end.

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They’re struggling, aren’t they?
Where are we in the historical

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record?
The children of Israel had come

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back under Cyrus’s?
Decree, that was definitely

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overseen, by God’s Sovereign,
will that he would make a

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proclamation for all the Jews
and others.

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The Nephilim are included in the
list of those who came back the

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gibeonites as well.
Came To help to build the Temple

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of the Lord and to restore the
land of Judah.

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Again, to a people that have
been dispossessed from their

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land for 70 years, as Jeremiah
had prophesied, and now they

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came back and incredible feat.
The really incredible has it

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ever happened ever before that,
a people taken out of their

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country had been tried to be
assimilated into a totally

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different culture.
Totally different religion,

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totally different language of
people had stayed turret for 70

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years.
Well, not all of them did, but

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many of them did and they come
back.

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So we had under the rubble and
Joshua and under the the help of

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the Prophet Zechariah and
haggai, the encouragement of

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them, they started building the
Temple even though there was

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bumps, there were valleys and
they were Hills they succeeded

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in doing this.
And next comes well, and within

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that time, period is a stir,
back in shushan and some

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incredible Feats that happen.
They’re showing once again that

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God is in control and that he
we’ll see his promises to the

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children of Israel fulfilled.
And he sees that and then we

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have azra coming back.
We have him restoring once

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again, Temple worship with
another decree from a pagan

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Heathen King, that God had his
hand on that said, I’ll give you

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all the things you need to
repair that Temple and to

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restore.
Once again, the worship of the

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Lord in the land of Jerusalem.
And so what we had again, was a

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rest restoration and then
another wave under Nehemiah, who

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hears about the state of
Jerusalem, not having any walls

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to protect himself, And he goes
there with a purpose in mind,

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the gather, the people and to
say, look at the distressed,

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we’re in, let’s gather the wits
that we have.

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Let’s let’s strengthen our faith
and let’s build and he does it,

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and they build those walls.
And from what we see from

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archaeologists like this man,
Sir, Charles Warren 200 feet

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high walls that were built in 52
days.

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That’s a big feat for a people
who were Goldsmith’s who are

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perfumers and even the women
were helping at all, working

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together to build this wall, and
incredible work of the Ecclesia

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of the Exiles.
And here we are today.

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Brothers and sisters doing the
same thing.

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And we come to this chapter
Nehemiah 13, the back end of all

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the events and the last phrase
in the whole book as Nehemiah

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recounts, the story is and what
goes on in his life.

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He says, remember me.
Oh my God, for good.

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Now, although that phrase.
So remember me.

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Oh my God.
For good.

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Only comes up three times in the
Amaya.

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The principle of remembrance
comes up many times in the

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Amaya’s life and let’s just take
a look at these.

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You know, if you look them up,
it starts out in chapter 1.

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After he’s asked his brother Han
and I what’s the state of

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Jerusalem in?
Well Nehemiah, the state of

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Jerusalem is horrible.
The people are in distress.

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The walls are broken down.
The gates are burned with fire.

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We’re in a bad State Nehemiah.
We don’t know where to turn

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everywhere.
We look, there’s enemies after

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us.
We’re scared to sleep at night

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in case they come up and attack
us.

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Us.
We’re scared for our families

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and the safety of our children.
Need my, we don’t know what

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we’re going to do and Sonia.
My is in great distress and what

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does he do?
He prays to the Lord fervently,

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that’s Nehemiah chapter 1 and we
know his prayers beautiful.

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It’s in the same kind of vain as
Daniels prayers as Asura’s

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prayers, who prayed about the
moral problems?

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The Ecclesia was having his
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It’s in the same theme sometimes
in some ways as John 17,

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Christ’s prayer of unity of
strengthening of the disciples

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that they might be one with
Christ.

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And with God, as he was one with
his father.

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In chapter 1 Ezra.
Sorry Nehemiah chapter 1 We had

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Nehemiah saying, remember, I
pray the word that you

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commanded.
Your servant Moses.

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Saying, if you are faithful, I
will scatter you among the

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Nations, God.
I want you to remember this.

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4:14 he says, and I looked in a
rose and said to the Nobles, the

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leaders into the rest of the
people do not be afraid of them.

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Remember the Lord great and
awesome and fight for your

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brethren, your son’s, your
daughter’s, your wives, and your

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houses petitioning, the rest of
the Ecclesia to remember, how

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incredible and awesome God had
been through their history in

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13:14.
Remember me?

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Here’s this, here’s one of these
occurrences.

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Oh my God, concerning This and
do not wipe out my good deeds

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that I have done for the house
of my God, and for its services

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and 13 Verse 22.
And I commanded the Levites that

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they should cleanse themselves,
that they should go and guard.

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The gates to sanctify the
Sabbath.

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Remember me.
Oh my God, concerning this also.

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And spare me according to the
greatness of your mercy.

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It’s you more remembrances right
at the end verse 29, remember

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them?
Oh my God, those who had to

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file.
Those who had had marriages with

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those outside.
The boundaries of the Ecclesia,

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remember them?
Oh my God, because they have to

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file the priesthood and the
Covenant of the priesthood and

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the Levites.
And then finally verse 31,

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remember me.
Oh my God, for good.

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And I have a question for you,
brothers and sisters this

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morning.
And the question is, do we ask

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God to remember us?
And maybe there’s a question

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that we need to ask before we
come to an answer on that one.

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And that question might be, how
can we the average ordinary

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disciple totally aware of our
weaknesses?

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Even begin to base our prayers
upon our way of life like a

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Nehemiah did because that’s what
he does.

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Doesn’t he in chapter 19 chapter
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Remember me for what I have done
for you.

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Oh God, how does that work into
our minds?

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How does that work into our
total understanding of the word

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of God?
Does that make sense to us?

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Perhaps, because we don’t answer
this first question.

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We don’t even get to the second
question that we do.

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We remember to ask God to
remember us, because we’re not

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sure if we can we can actually
We asked him this.

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We have nehemiah’s example.
But then again, we might doubt

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if we’re like Nehemiah.
The think of the man, think of

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the man in Nehemiah, the man is
an incredible example of putting

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his heart.
His soul and his mind into

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reforming, Israel, working hard
and diligently a man of great

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intelligence.
So that it seems that he handles

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every situation correctly.
That’s that’s what we see.

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That’s what we feel.
When we read Nehemiah.

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So of course, he could say, God,
remember my good works.

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Please don’t wipe those out
because he had many good works.

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He has bragging rights, we might
say, it seems like it, doesn’t

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it?
But I don’t, I feel like, I

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don’t sometimes that’s why we
need to be here.

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What have I done being fully
aware of my faults and my

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blatant unrighteousness, which
aligns myself.

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Sometimes more with allyship,
the high priest, who had

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connections With the world or
with tobiah, sometimes doubted

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or Ashley always doubted.
The promises that were given to

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the children of Israel and
worked at opposing them.

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Maybe sometimes, that’s what I’m
like.

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I’ve not single-handedly LED an
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movement nor have I been so
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When tough problems and taken my
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the throat as Nehemiah did I’m
speaking as a representative of

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all of us, of course.
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this, very important principle
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Brother, Cyril henin, he said,
God does not require moral

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perfection from his children.
And if that were the case, there

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would be none that could stand
before him, the laws whole

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purpose was to break down those
under it so that they would

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realize it was absolutely
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life.
But instead of giving up and

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throwing in the towel, the
individual that was crushed by

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this realization would be led to
Christ in whom there is

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forgiveness and righteousness
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And to quote, brother, Cyril,
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And again, the Christian then is
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To Be A Cut Above others.
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himself to be a sinner.
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in Christ, it is this belief and
condition of mine, which

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constitutes righteousness in the
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End of quote, Abraham, is our
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He’s in line with Nehemiah.
He is brought out by God into a

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starry night and he’s told by
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Abraham.
He’s told that his seed would

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eventually be like those stars
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through one that was not Ishmael
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And he liked me and Maya had
many of them.

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In fact, so he had in common
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many years before Nehemiah set
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and this sets the tone for our
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justifies us.
Does it depend on our own

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righteousness, of course not.
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Jesus was raised from the dead
and that God has extended

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forgiveness of sins to us.
And that’s exactly what Romans 3

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is teaching us when we read
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the righteousness of God apart
from the law We’re at a distance

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from the law is revealed being
witnessed by the law and the

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prophets, even the righteousness
of God through faith in Jesus

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Christ to all.
And on all who believe for there

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is no difference for all have
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glory of God.
Even the Amaya Even Abraham

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being justified freely by his
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that is in Christ.
Jesus whom God set forth as a

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propitiation by his blood
through faith to demonstrate his

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righteousness because in his
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the sins that were previously
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present time, his righteousness
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And did Nehemiah understand
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or out of the New Testament that
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Did he understand a messiah
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Yes, he did brothers and
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Sometimes I think we struggle
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Thinking about these men who
didn’t know nearly as much as we

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do.
Now, we’re looking back on four,

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gospels, and all these books
that are written afterwards to

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help us explain that, we need to
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Nehemiah was a man who had
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In one of these prophets was
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see what Zechariah has to say
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I would have given me a Maya,
the same faith that you and I

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possess.
But looking forward, instead of

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backwards.
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and we know that Zechariah was
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We know from Ezra 5 verse 1, and
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Nehemiah came in a very critical
time when the nation was losing

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interest in building.
The the temple, they just laid

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the foundation, they put the
altar on its base, and then they

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sat back because there were so
many problems from the Nations

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around them, they were being
opposed and so Zechariah and

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haggai were sent by God the stir
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The people and encourage them,
give them visions and really

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they, they work as a great team.
Shaggy, I comes with a strong

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message, rebuking them saying,
consider your ways, you’re

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sitting here and you’re paneled
houses, while the city of God

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sits empty and for Lauren
consider your ways, think about

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what you’re doing.
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the other side working with
Hagee, I his brother, his

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spiritual brother working with
him and saying, let me show you

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some incredible visions of the
future.

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You’re building this small
Temple of just think of the

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future.
When a king priest will sit on a

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throne, when the Lord Jesus
Christ will be your king.

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When all nations will flow to
them to Judah to Jerusalem,

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think of that time.
And now build and together, they

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work with a vision with a
rebuke, they work together and I

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think that’s the same in our
lives, isn’t it?

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The two things really compel us
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So in Zechariah, what do we
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When we have some little
snapshots that I’m sure Nehemiah

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would have read in been
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Zechariah, 3 verses 8 to 10.
And here’s Zechariah is speaking

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to Joshua, who was the high
priest at the time, right before

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Nehemiah?
He says to him hero, Joshua, the

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high priest you and your
companions, and Joshua is the

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high priest you and your
companions, you sit, before you

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for, they are a wondrous sign
for behold.

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I am bringing forth my servant
the branch for behold the stone

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that I have laid before Joshua
upon the stone are seven, eyes,

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behold?
I will engrave.

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It’s inscription says, the Lord
of hosts and I will remove the

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iniquity of That land in one day
in that day says the Lord of

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hosts.
Everyone will invite his

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neighbor under his Vine and
under his fig tree and Nehemiah

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knew better than to think that
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The high priest.
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the law that a high priest could
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And yet, here we have a king
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Not only that but it says that I
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land in one day.
When does that ever happen?

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You could say, well, maybe the
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But even then, how is there any
reconciliation between the

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people and their God?
When only one man could enter

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into the most?
Holy the high priests Zechariah

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Another Vision another prophecy.
Take the silver and gold make an

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elaborate Crown.
Set it on the head of Joshua,

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the son of josedech, the high
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thus, says, the Lord of hosts
saying, behold the man whose

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name is the branch from his
place, he will Branch out and he

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will build the Temple of the
Lord.

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Yes, he shall build the Temple
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He shall bear the glory and
shall sit and rule on his

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throne.
So he shall be a priest on his

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throne and the Council of peace.
She’ll be between them both both

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offices.
Priest and King.

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What an incredible Vision.
Nehemiah this man that we’ve

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been looking at this weekend,
definitely saw the Lord Jesus

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Christ.
He saw the attributes that we

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saw in his life Zechariah 9,
verse 9, finally Rejoice greatly

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o Daughter of Zion.
Shout o daughter of Jerusalem.

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Behold your king is coming to
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He is just and having salvation
lowly and riding on a donkey on

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a Colt, the foal of a donkey in
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when there was no King in Judah,
this prophecy is given and

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Nehemiah would have been
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sisters.
He knew the mercy of God, he

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knew the Salvation that this
King, the branch would bring

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that the iniquity would be gone
in one day so Nehemiah

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understood all these things.
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forgiveness was an integral part
of praying to God and have been

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given salvation by God’s grace
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Makes this totally clear in
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He says there in verse 6.
Please let your ear be attentive

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and your eyes open that you may
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which I pray before you now day
and night for the children of

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Israel, your servants, and
confess the sins of the children

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of Israel, which we have sinned
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We have sinned against you.
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For my father’s house and I have
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So, based on the understanding
that asking God, to remember, us

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is a display of our
understanding that he has

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Justified Us by faith and that
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We can now ask the questions.
Do we ask God, to remember us

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for good?
It’s what we want.

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Isn’t it?
What do we ask him?

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Do we feel strange going into
his presence and recounting to

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him?
What we have tried to do in

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faith to bring glory to his
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Do we relate to him our
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both bad and good, how we
instructed the younger, how we

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encourage the week, how we
strengthen the faith, how we

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exercise patience when it was
hard?

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How we helped an older person to
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Ask them about their life in the
truth.

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Do we use the access that we
have been given the full

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advantage going boldly into the
most holy to be there in

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fellowship with God and his
beloved Son, the pour out to

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him, how we want to be
remembered for good and not for

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evil?
And we should because in the

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annals of scripture, we have not
only Nehemiah asking God to

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remember him for good, but we
have quite a few incredible

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individuals that we would love
to be associated with Moses

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asked.
God to remember him.

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Sampson when he standing there
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Praise to God and says O, Lord
God remember me, I pray thee and

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strengthen me.
I pray thee.

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Only this once oh God.
Hannah for Samuel, 1 verse 11.

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She vows a vow.
If thou will indeed look on the

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Affliction of thine handmaid.
And remember me and not forget,

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thine handmaid, but will give
into thine handmaid a man-child,

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then I will give him unto the
Lord, all the days of his life.

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Hezekiah in his struggles with
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Going to be shortened.
He says, I beseech thee.

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In Second Kings, 20 verse 3.
Remember now O Lord, how I have

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walked before thee in truth and
with a perfect heart and have

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done that, which is good and
eyesight.

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We remember, Joe.
And Joe 14, verse 13, do that,

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that Woods tied, me in the grave
that that would keep me secret

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until thy wrath be past that.
That was the point me a set

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time.
And remember me, And then

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there’s David and there’s
Jeremiah and there’s so many

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brothers and sisters that ask
God specifically remember me?

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And there’s one more that we
need to consider this morning

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that will bring us right to the
table of Our Lord.

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We come to a scene just outside
of Jerusalem that we’re all

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familiar with and our savior,
this King priest.

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This man who would take away the
iniquity in one day by the power

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of God.
This man that was bruised for

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our iniquities who represented
Us in the last moments of his

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life.
After years of Total Service and

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Obedience of Desiring to do
God’s will He is there between

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two men, two thieves.
The one is like Nehemiah.

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The other is like the enemies of
Nehemiah.

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The one understands that he is
there because he deserves death,

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since he has done something
deserving of it and he is not

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named, but we can see his heart
and the exchange that he has

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with Jesus, in these last few
moments of their lives.

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And this will bring us to the
emblems powerfully brothers and

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sisters.
The exchange takes place in Luke

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chapter 23, Luke 23, verse 42,
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We’re jumping into the context,
says there, but the other

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answering rebuked him saying, do
you not even fear God, seeing

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you, are under the same
condemnation and we indeed

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justly for.
We receive the due reward of our

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Deeds, but this man has done
nothing wrong that he said to

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Jesus, Lord, remember me when
you come into your kingdom, And

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Jesus said to him, assuredly, I
say to you today, you will be

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with me in Paradise.
We find ourselves in the same

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position brothers and sisters.
The Nehemiah found himself into.

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We deserve the sentence of death
on us because we have earned the

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wages through sin.
Jesus, did not.

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And when we realize that Jesus
is the reason that we can ask

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God to remember us for good, we
appreciate his life and his

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death, he died that you and I
and the thief and Nehemiah and

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all who call on his name and
full faith may have life.

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So we under God and understand
that God will justify his by his

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grace because of our faith in
Jesus.

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And we believe that God wants us
to give him no rest concerning.

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Our hope in the resurrection and
giving glory to him, God loves

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us to remind him to remember us
for good.

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We now remember Jesus.
And in so doing ask him to

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remember us when he comes into
his kingdom.

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The closes one passage, I think
that fits so well.

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Malachi chapter 3 verse 16 to 17
in the same general period as

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Nehemiah, was working with an
Ecclesia that had tons of

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struggles, tons of problems as
it fought against opposition on

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the outside and within Malachi’s
message at the end is Malachi 3,

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verse 16 and 17.
Then those who feared the Lord,

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spoke to one another and the
Lord listened, and he heard

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them.
So, a book of remembrance was

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written before him for those who
fear the lord, and who meditate

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on his name.
They shall be mine, says the

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Lord of hosts on the day that I
make up my jewels and I will

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spare them as a man, spares.
His only son who served him.

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Remember us.
O Our God for good.

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