206: Gary Cousens – Inspirational Reading

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Welcome to Good Burger selfie
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I’m Levi and I’m Chris and I’m
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Hello everyone.
My name is Mike Livermore.

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I’m a disciple of Christ from
the state of Michigan and I’m

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here with another talk from the
Midwest Bible School.

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Our Yesterday comes from the
Midwest, Bible School in the

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year. 2018, one of the speakers
this year was Gary cousins from

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Ontario.
And this talk was the afternoon

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address on the first Sunday of
the school.

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And the subject of this talk was
a premise that I had never

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considered it was so humbling
and years later, I frequently

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come back to our remembrance of
this class when I found myself

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getting a bit apathetic and
neglecting the topic of this

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class.
Gas, which was to consider how

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well we read the Bible and the
whole premise Gary begins with

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as how, you know, as Believers
of Christ.

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You know, we describe ourselves
as Bible students, reading the

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Bible is Central to our faith.
You know, faith comes by hearing

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and hearing by the word of God.
And so we place reading as this

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Central pillar of who we are, as
Believers as people of Faith as

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Bible students, but yet we
really neglect public.

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Eating and reading and groups.
We just kind of thing would be

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just kind of do to get done to
get to the next thing.

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Anybody can read you have
children reading, we develop our

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public speaking skills and our
music skills are praised talents

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but yet we don’t develop
reading.

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We just kind of neglect it and
it’s just something we do at the

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beginning to get it done.
And this whole class challenge

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that that practice and made me
think you’re in a very humbling

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way.
Like this, this needs to be a

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resource.
We should focus more.

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More on reading.
And so Gary, I think it’s up to

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class up so well very humbling
and Luke chapter 4, when Jesus

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in the synagogue shows up and
reads the Old Testament in the

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synagogue’s hearing and the
response of the crowd after a

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reading.
Was this that all Who Bore

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witness marveled at the gracious
Words which proceeded out of his

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mouth that’s after a reading
like how often again is reading

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Just, you do it and you forget
about it.

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But these people marveled at the
reading by Jesus and the central

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part of the class really comes
from Nehemiah chapter 8, and all

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of the various practical,
takeaways from when Ezra read

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the law, and that chapter.
And I’ll just highlight one one.

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Less that really struck me from
this chapter, we’re right before

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the reading as your opens, the
book in verse 5, the reading

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takes begins in verses 7 and 8.
But in verse 6 right before Or

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that the people answer.
Amen, amen.

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While lifting up their hands,
they bow their heads and they

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worship, right?
As the book of the law was

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about, to be Reds, is an
interesting example of where

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reading is a form of worship
that just as they would have

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done the same thing for for
praise music for a prayer, the

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lifting up of their hands.
They did it for a reading and

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why do we neglect readings
where?

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It’s just the first thing we do
when we get it done to get to

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the I asked or whatever reading
could be a form of worship if we

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treated it as such and then in
the final third of the class,

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Gary kind of brings all of the
lessons and all of the points

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from DMI and other scriptural
examples.

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He has this whole a very helpful
take away action item list and

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the whole final third of the
class is really practical

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discussion on how his family’s
individuals in the cleavages.

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We can make reading more
powerful.

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It’s got a couple of really
interesting examples, one of,

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when he’s at the somerville’s
house, many years ago.

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Gary also has an example from a
work conference.

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He attended where there were
professional teachers for how to

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read effectively.
And he has some lessons from

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that and around the 40-minute
Mark I think was the real

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highlight of the class for me.
Where Gary has this whole slide

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of what ifs, we ask questions
about could be try some out of

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the box ideas, can we get more
creative and introduce some

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things are the readings to kind
of break the monotony and make

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them more effective?
And the one that I think is so

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spot-on, was how he says, why
don’t we just have a very brief

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one sentence introduction?
But for every reading an

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introductions, like that can be
so powerful in this year at

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bible school in 2022.
Gary’s son been cousins.

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He did this for one of the
readings from Samuel and it

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totally set up the whole chapter
in my mind.

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And I really helped me get more
out of the chapter.

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So I just love that idea.
This class you might think What

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is this class is a class about
Bible reading.

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If this sounds pretty dull but
trust me, this class will make

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you rethink the whole premise of
how we treat readings.

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It’ll make you value them more.
You’ll think of some any ideas

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of ways to improve its a whole
class on changing how we think

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about readings to really value
them as a resource and not just

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as something that you just kind
of do and throw them away and

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move on, it was a real wake-up
call of a class.

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When they often go back to in my
mind, when I get a little

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apathetic about Bible reading.
So let’s turn it over.

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Now to gear you for this class
on inspirational reading.

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Well good afternoon, friends and
young people and Brethren and

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sisters.
As you know this week we’re

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going to be considering the book
of Nehemiah and so when they

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asked me to do an introductory
address, I thought what better

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consideration than to look at
Nehemiah.

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Great.
And since we’re going to be

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reading the word of God
throughout the week, talk about

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how we actually do that and how
we read the word and what we

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portray by reading the word of
God.

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You know, we claim to be a
people of the book and I think

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rightly so we have a tradition
that goes back over 100 Years of

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reading the Bible within our
community every day.

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We read the bible, let our
Sunday morning Memorial

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Services.
Routinely we read do public

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reading of the Bible at most of
our addresses, whether it be

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Bible class or lectures or
whatever.

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But sometimes our public reading
becomes more of a tradition and

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more of a custom.
Perhaps than the experience.

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That scripture says, the reading
the public reading of the word

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is meant to be the public.
Reading of the word is meant to

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be.
The focal, point is meant to be

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inspirational.
It’s meant to capture the

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emotions of what the inspired
word is meant to portray.

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And when you think of us as a
community, we don’t really spend

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a lot of time.
Do we training and developing

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public readers of the word of
God?

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you know, anyone can read But we
elect preside, errs, exhort errs

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and lecturers, are either
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We appoint a sunday-school
superintendent, we do all of

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that, but anyone could read And
what does that say?

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What does that imply?
We don’t as a community, provide

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really any guidelines.
We don’t provide any practice or

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training for those who publicly
read the word of God.

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And we really have very few if
any expectations for those that

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are publicly reading the word of
God and yet a proper and an

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appropriate reading of the word
can make it live.

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It can appeal to our emotions
and can be inspirational and it

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can be an impetus for change in
the lives of the listeners.

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If it’s done.
Well, I’d like to share with you

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a quotation from.
This is actually from the

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Bozeman Bible School a few years
ago that we were at and brother

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Terry Houghton was giving an
evening program and he this is a

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quote from his evening program.
It says is it a privilege that

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we have this book?
It is a privilege that we can

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read from it.
We are the medium by which God’s

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word is communicated without us
to lift the words off the page.

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The Bible would be just like any
other book.

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Sits on our bookshelf at home.
We need to lift the words off

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the page.
He said and make them live.

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We need to lift the words off
the page and make them live.

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I’d like to suggest that that
become our challenge for this

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week at bible school.
This week at bible school, I’d

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like to suggest that we focus on
how we read the word.

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Challenge ourselves.
When we read the word publicly

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to as brother, Terry says, to
lift those words off the page

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and to make them live.
And I believe that Nehemiah

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chapter 8 teaches us how to do
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I’d actually like to begin turn
if you will back to Deuteronomy

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chapter 17.
Deuteronomy chapter 17 talks

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about the reading of a king
Deuteronomy chapter 17 will all

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be familiar with this passage.
It says there in verse 18, it

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says and it shall be when he
sitteth upon the throne of his

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kingdom that he shall write him
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So when a king sits on the
throne, what’s he to do?

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One of the first things is Write
him a copy of this law in a book

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out of that which is before the
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Verse 19 and it shall be with
him and he shall read therein

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all the days of his life every
single day, he’s to read from

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that book.
And why what’s the purpose in

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his reading that he may learn to
fear the lord, his God to keep

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all the words of this law and
these statutes and to do them In

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order that his heart be not
lifted up above his Brethren,

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that he turned, not aside from
the commitment to the right

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hand, or to the left.
And to the end that he may

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prolong his days in his kingdom,
he his chin and his children in

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the midst of Israel.
And so the King was to do three

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things.
Wasn’t he He was to write him a

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copy of the book.
He was to read that book every

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day and what’s the third thing?
This is the thing that we often

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miss the third thing is that
that book was to be with him.

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He was to keep it by his side
day by day.

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There was to be a copy of the
word.

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He was to write it out.
He was to keep it with him and

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he was to read it every day and
that would be his guide for

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life.
Not him personally in his

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family, not just for him
personally and his family, but

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for the nation, What other book
can have that profound effect?

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Upon the character of a king.
Deuteronomy chapter 31.

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It wasn’t just the king, That
was supposed to read the book of

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the law.
And Deuteronomy chapter 1, verse

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Terry’s.
Chapter 31 here we have Moses.

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Instructing the people
Deuteronomy chapter 31, and

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verse 10 says, and Moses
commanded them saying, and

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here’s the Commandment of Moses.
Every seven years.

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What were they to do verse 11,
when all Israel is come to

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appear before the Lord thy God
in the place, which he shall

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choose.
Thou shalt read.

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Thou shalt read this law before
all Israel in their hearing.

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And who was there gather?
The people together, men, women

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children and strangers, everyone
that’s within your Gates, that

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may hear.
And that may learn.

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And that may fear the lord, your
God and observe to do all the

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words of this law.
And so every seven years is the

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Gathering of the whole nation
and the whole nation together.

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Read the word of God.
They all didn’t have their own

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personal copies, did they?
There was probably only a few

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copies and so every seven years
they would gather together as a

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nation and they would read the
word of God and that practice

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was to spend generation after
generation after generation.

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But it was important.
Turn if you will to 2nd Kings

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chapter 22 and second Kings,
chapter 22 is pertinent.

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I believe to the book of
Nehemiah and Nehemiah is

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institution here in Nehemiah
chapter, 8 of the reading of the

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word, 2nd Kings chapter 22 verse
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We have the record their of
Josiah right.

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Josiah was eight years old when
he began to Reign so it’s the

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record of Josiah.
Verse 8, it says, and hilkiah

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the high priest said unto
Chafin, the Scribe I have found

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the book of the law in the house
of the Lord and hilkiah gave the

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book to Chafin and he read it.
Skip down to verse 10 and

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Chafin.
The Scribe showed the Kings

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saying hilkiah, the priests have
delivered me a book And Shaffer

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it.
Read it before the king.

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And it came to pass when the
king had heard the words of the

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book of the law that he rent his
clothes.

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The book of the law had been
lost.

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It have been shelved.
It had been put away.

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And now it had been
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So now, what is Josiah supposed
to do is rediscovered?

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This book of the law, what does
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Turn over to Second Kings,
chapter 23, here we see what

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Josiah decides to do.
It says verse 1 and the King

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sent and they gathered unto him,
all the Elders of Judah and of

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Jerusalem.
And the King went up into the

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house of the Lord and all the
men of Judah and all the

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inhabitants of Jerusalem with
him, and the priests, and the

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prophets, and all the people
both small and great similar to

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what we just Right in
Deuteronomy 31, isn’t it?

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He gathers, all the people
together both small and great

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prophets.
Priests, gathers them all

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together and then what does he
do to see appoint, somebody to

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read the book in front of all,
the people know who reads the

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book verse 1, or sorry in verse
2 and he that is Josiah read in

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the ears, all the words of the
book of the Covenant, which was

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found in the house of the Lord
and so Josiah gathers them all

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together and Josiah stands up
and reads the book.

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Book of the law as the king.
And not only does he read the

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book in verse 2?
What happens in verse 3 and the

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King stood by a pillar and made
a covenant before the Lord, to

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walk after the Lord, and to keep
his Commandments.

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And his testimonies and his
statutes, with all their heart,

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and all their soul, to perform
the words of this Covenant that

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were written in this book and
all the people stood to the

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Covenant, Well, what did
Nehemiah do?

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Nehemiah had Ezra the Scribe,
read the book of the law and

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then what it is or what did
Nehemiah do to follow that up?

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He follows the pattern of Josiah
doesn’t, it doesn’t he in

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chapter 9 and in chapter 10?
All the people in nehemiah’s,

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day, stood to a covenant and
they made a covenant and they

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sealed.
The Covenant before their God

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Nehemiah was following the
pattern of Josiah here in second

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Kings.
Chapter 23.

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Let’s look at our master in,
Luke chapter 4.

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Here we have the Lord Jesus
Christ himself.

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In Luke chapter 4 coming into
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came to Nazareth where he had
been brought up.

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And as his custom was, he went
into the synagogue on the

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Sabbath day and stood up for to
read.

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And so that was a custom in the
first century.

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Wasn’t it that they went into
the synagogue and they read and

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Christ.
Endorse has that custom of

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reading the law.
There was delivered unto him,

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the book of the prophet Isaiah,
and when he had opened the book,

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he found the place where it was
written.

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The spirit of the Lord is upon
me because he hath anointed me

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to preach the gospel to the
poor, he has sent me to heal the

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brokenhearted to preach
Deliverance, to the captives,

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and recovering of sight to the
blind to set at Liberty, them

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that were bruised to preach the
acceptable year of the Lord, and

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then he closed the book.
And he gives it back to the

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minister and sits down.
The eyes of all of them that

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were in the synagogue were
fastened on him and he began to

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say unto them.
This day is the scripture

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fulfilled in your ears and all
bear him.

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Witness and wondered at the
gracious Words, which proceeded

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out of his mouth, How do you
think the master read this

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passage?
Do you think he practiced it?

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He probably had it memorized.
Do you think he read it with

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emotion and with emphasis?
Absolutely?

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He read it with feeling and
passion in so much that without

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explanation.
There was no doubt who that

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passage was referring to and the
people were able to connect the

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works that they had witnessed to
the passage that he had read,

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which demonstrates his sincerity
and his integrity That’s how the

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word is to be read.
Turn if you will.

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One more passage actually going
to look at two more passages

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before we go to need my eight
Acts chapter 13.

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Acts chapter 13.
I have acts 15 verse 21 at the

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top of the screen there, that’s
just establishes.

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Or reinforces the custom.
That was adopted of reading, the

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word of God, but if you go to
Acts chapter 13 here we have the

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example of Paul.
Acts chapter 13 and verse 14

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says, but when they departed
from purga, they came to Antioch

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in pisidia and went into the
synagogue on the Sabbath day and

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sat down.
And after the reading of the law

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and the prophets, the rulers of
the synagogue sent unto them

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saying, amen, and brother.
And if you have any word of

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exhortation for the people say
on.

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So here’s Paul similar to the
master attending the synagogue

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and they’re doing the reading
right there.

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Reading the law in the
synagogue.

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So here, it’s endorsed by Paul
and Paul’s invited to say a few

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words, Something peculiar Paul
says here in his speech. notice

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when the master read, that he
establishes a pattern that those

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who were able to read were also
able to provide exposition Paul

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was one of those here as well.
Right after the reading was

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done, he was able to provide
exposition Look at verse 27.

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This is what happens when those
who read don’t are not able to

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provide Exposition verse 27 for
they that dwell at Jerusalem and

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their rulers because they knew
him not nor yet the voices of

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the prophets which are read
every Sabbath day.

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They have fulfilled them.
In condemning him.

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Sometimes we’re like that,
aren’t we?

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They were there when the
scriptures were read, they were

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probably very faithful attenders
to the synagogue every week to

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read the word of the law.
They heard every word. but if

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you ever finished a reading, And
not being able to remember what

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you read.
That’s the situation here.

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Not only could they not
remember, they didn’t want to

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remember, did they And so we’re
not paying attention to the

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reading and the exposition they
were actually fulfilling

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scripture.
We don’t really want to be in

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that situation.
What we want to do is in 1st

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Timothy chapter 4, if you turn
the first Timothy chapter 4,

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final passage before we go to
Nehemiah chapter 8, First

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Timothy 4:13, very simple
phrase.

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It says till I come give
attendance to reading till I

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come give attendance to reading.
So in the English that would

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simply mean, make sure that
you’re there, make sure Sure,

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that you’re filling a seat.
That’s what we would Define

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attendance is, but when we go to
the Greek, the Greek means to

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hold the Mind towards to pay
attention to, to be cautious

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about to apply yourself one too.
And so, when the word of God is

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read till the Lord, Jesus
Christ, comes, we are to elevate

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our minds in the reading of the
word and in the giving of

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exhortation, and in the
discussion and the presentations

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of Doctrine, it’s lifting up our
minds to a higher level.

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That’s what that word attendance
means.

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We should never read the word of
God and not be able to remember

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what we’ve read.
We have a great example.

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Don’t we in Nehemiah chapter 8
of how to read with emotion.

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So, let’s go to Nehemiah chapter
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Nehemiah chapter 8 and verse 1.
It says, and all the people

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gathered themselves together as
one man into the street, that

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was before the water gate.
Now notice what it says there,

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it says they’re all the people
gathered themselves together.

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This was not an Edict of
Nehemiah.

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It was not an Edict of Ezra,
it’s all the people Gathering

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themselves together, it’s them
themselves.

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Being self-motivated
self-directed To gather together

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and they probably went to Ezra
Nehemiah and said this is what

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we want to do.
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They voluntarily gathered for a
reading of the word of God.

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And so they were prepared to
receive the reading and they

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were willing to be changed by
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And notice there.
It says they gathered together

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as one man.
They gathered together as one

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man which speaks to their their
Unity of mind.

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There was a common understanding
and there was a common

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receptivity to the word amongst
them.

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And that’s a challenge for us
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Ideally that’s what occlusal
life is all about, common

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understanding, common
receptivity to the word of God

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and the two of those working
together to direct the Ecclesia.

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Right?
That’s that’s what ecclesial

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life is all about.
Achieving a state of Oneness of

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mind.
And that’s a challenge for us

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because the Ecclesia is made up
of many different personalities

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and personality types.
And we’ve got to come together

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as in a collision.
We’ve got to work together to

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develop that Oneness, that Unity
of mind.

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So that when we read the word of
God, we’re reading, it is one

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and that’s a tough thing.
In a collision.

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It’s Ezra that stands up and
does the reading.

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And notice here, when we read
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chapter 8 that Ezra is given two
titles in verse 1.

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It says, and they spake unto
Ezra, The Scribe to bring the

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book of the law of Moses which
the Lord had commanded Israel

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verse 2 and Ezra.
The priest brought the law

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before the congregation, both of
men and women.

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And so Ezra here is given two
titles.

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He’s given the title of Scribe.
And he’s given a title of a

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priest.
Why.

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So, The title of the Scribe
speaks to the preparation that

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went into the reading of the
word of God, and the title of

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priest speaks to the message
that was delivered turn.

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If you will to Ezra chapter 7
and Ezra chapter 7, we read

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there of the preparation that
Ezra made as a scribe.

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Ezra chapter 7 we’re going to
read there at verse Verse 6.

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This Ezra went up from Babylon
and he was a ready, scribe in

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the law of Moses, which the god
of Israel had given.

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So he was a ready, scribe.
And then verse 10 says, for Ezra

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had prepared, his heart, to seek
the law of the Lord and to do it

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and to teach in Israel, Statute
in judgments.

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And so Ezra was a ready, scribe
he I heard his heart to do.

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And to teach the word of God,
that’s the role of the Scribe,

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right?
That’s the preparation.

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That’s the being able to give
Exposition on the reading,

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right?
That’s the role of the Scribe.

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Turn to Malachi chapter 2 in
verse 7 in Malachi chapter 2 and

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verse 7.
It talks about the role of the

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priest.
Malachi chapter 2.

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And verse 7 says, for the priest
lips should keep knowledge and

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they should seek the law at his
mouth for, he is the messenger

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of the Lord of hosts.
And so, that’s the delivery of

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the message, right?
As the priest, he becomes the

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messenger of the Lord of hosts,
but there’s two components to a

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proper reading.
Of the word of God, isn’t there?

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There’s the work of the Scribe
and there’s the work of the

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priest.
And those two components are

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necessary.
We’ve got to be able to if we’re

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going to do and read the word of
God properly we have to be able

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to give the exposition We’ve got
to be a scribe.

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And the messenger of the word of
God as we deliver it to the

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congregation which is in the
Septuagint, the word Ecclesia.

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And so in Nehemiah chapter 8 and
verse 2, who is the audience

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Nehemiah chapter 8 and verse 2,
here’s the audience.

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Right?
He reads before the

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congregation, both of men and
women and all that could hear

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with understanding on the first
day of the seventh month.

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So the whole nation was gathered
there, the whole congregation

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all the people men women
children, they’re all there.

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All the could hear with
understanding.

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Turn if you will to Isaiah
chapter 28 I think Isaiah

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chapter 28 is a key passage.
The context is slightly

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different than Nehemiah chapter
8 but in Isaiah chapter 28 we

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get An indication of the purpose
of repetitive, reading of the

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word of God.
And that’s why everyone was

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there from Men, Women children
and all the strangers.

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Those that had understanding and
different levels of

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understanding, all those and
down to all those, that were

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first being introduced to the
law of Moses.

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Why do we read the word of God?
Repetitively, Isaiah chapter 28

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and verse 9.
Whom Shall he?

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Teach knowledge and Whom Shall
he make to understand Doctrine

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them?
Are weaned from the milk and

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drawn.
From the breast for precept,

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must be upon precept, precept
upon precept, line, upon line

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00:30:37,500 –> 00:30:40,800
line, upon line here, a little
and there a little.

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That’s how the word of God is
meant to be read so that every

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time we read a passage, we build
upon the time that we read it

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before. and we come to a passage
that we read many times with a

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00:30:54,408 –> 00:30:57,500
certain understanding and when
we read it again, we noticed

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something different and so we
build on that knowledge that we

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have and that pattern starts at
a very young age and goes

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throughout our lifetime precept
upon precept, line upon line

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here, a little and there a
little building and

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understanding through the
reading of the word of God. and

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so, in Nehemiah chapter 8, and
verse 3, where do they gather He

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read there in before the street
that was before the water gate

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from the morning until midday
the word Street, actually in the

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Hebrew means an open Square.
So in front of the Watergate and

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there you see it on the map on
the overhead in front of the

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Watergate.
There was an open Square and

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into this open Square would have
filed all of the people of

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Jerusalem.
In the surrounding cities.

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All, who had contributed to the
building of the wall and the

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re-establishment of Of the
population back in Jerusalem and

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they would have all gathered
into that square and they would

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have all filed in, and they
would have sat down in the

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Square to listen to the reading
of Nehemiah who was ours, the

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reading of Ezra, who was up on a
wooden pulpit.

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And how long did they read?
From morning until midday.

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If you look at your margin in
the Hebrew, the word morning

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means the it actually means
light.

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So from the light of the morning
until midday Anywhere from three

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to six hours.
They were gathered there in

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that, open Square reading and
listening to the reading of the

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word of God.
And it says there in verse 3,

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that all the ears of the people
were attentive.

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Nobody was having their Sunday
afternoon nap as the law was

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being read by Ezra in that open
Square.

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We’re not going to look at all
the passages on the left, but

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what they establish was that,
we’re what they establish is

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that when we read the word of
God, we can’t read it with

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00:33:08,100 –> 00:33:11,000
selective hearing.
We can’t read the word of God,

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00:33:11,100 –> 00:33:17,500
and only hear the things that we
want to hear. and think that

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we’ve properly read the word,
We’ve got to read the whole word

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of God, and we’ve got to as
James 1:21 says, we’ve got to

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receive with meekness the
engrafted word, which means we

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need to allow it to changes
change us for the better.

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Isaiah 66 and verse 22.
This man will.

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I look him that his poor of
contrite spirit and trembles at

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my word.
That’s what being attentive

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means, isn’t it?
and so, when he opened the word,

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All the people stood up.
Demonstrated their reverence.

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Demonstrated their humility.
Demonstrated the respect, and

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the fear and the emotion that
they felt for the reading of the

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word.
And all those things led to

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00:34:24,500 –> 00:34:29,300
their mental preparedness, and
the receptivity of their frame

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of mind to receive the message
that was being given.

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It was an outward.
Natural expression of their

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00:34:40,100 –> 00:34:45,100
mental preparedness to read the
word of God.

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And Ezra begins with prayer.
In verse 6 of Nehemiah chapter

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8, it says Ezra blessed the
Lord.

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The word blessed is actually a
Hebrew word.

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It means to bend the knee to
kneel down.

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And so we actually kneels down
as he’s on that wooden pulpit in

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front of all the people and he
prostrates himself to his father

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in Heaven and he begins with the
word of prayer.

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And all the people repeat the
phrase at the end, all men and

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all men, and they all lifted up
their hands and their faces were

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on the ground.
What incredible expression that

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is, isn’t it?
Reading of the word of God,

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should always be preceded by
prayer.

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And the reading itself should be
treated as a form of worship in

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and of itself.
We should be able to say all men

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and we need to position
ourselves reverently so that we

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can receive that word.
And so now that he had approach

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00:35:54,200 –> 00:35:57,500
God In Prayer now that they were
in the right frame of mind and

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00:35:57,500 –> 00:35:59,900
they’d ask God’s blessing on the
reading.

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00:36:00,100 –> 00:36:04,600
How did they read in verse 7 of
Nehemiah chapter 8?

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00:36:04,600 –> 00:36:10,100
It says there.
And Joshua ban, I share a by a

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Jamin, a cub Sabbath II.
Had a jamaa CIA khalida, Azariah

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Joseph bad, Heenan pelea, and
the Levites caused, the people

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00:36:19,500 –> 00:36:22,200
to understand the law, and the
people stood in their place.

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00:36:22,600 –> 00:36:26,500
So they read in the book of The
Law of God, distinctly, excuse

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00:36:26,500 –> 00:36:30,400
me, distinctly and gave the
sense and cause them to

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00:36:30,400 –> 00:36:36,200
understand the reading.
So they read, distinctly They

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00:36:36,200 –> 00:36:40,300
gave the sense and they caused
the people to understand the

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00:36:40,308 –> 00:36:45,000
word distinctly, actually, in
the RSV says, clearly they read

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the word clearly, they gave the
proper pronunciation. they read

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00:36:51,300 –> 00:36:55,700
it at the proper Pace, they read
it with the right inflection,

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00:36:55,800 –> 00:36:59,800
they read it with the right
enunciation, the right diction

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00:36:59,900 –> 00:37:03,200
and they paused at the right
places when they read the word

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00:37:03,200 –> 00:37:08,900
of God, they read it clearly and
distinctly They were able to

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00:37:08,900 –> 00:37:12,500
give the sense the RSV says and
translates that with

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00:37:12,500 –> 00:37:16,400
interpretation or within sight.
And so they were able to provide

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00:37:16,400 –> 00:37:18,800
context.
They were able to provide how

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00:37:18,800 –> 00:37:22,200
that word was to be applied and
they caused the people to

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00:37:22,200 –> 00:37:25,700
understand and I think it’s
noteworthy here that it says

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they cause them to understand
the reading in verse 8.

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00:37:29,000 –> 00:37:32,600
But at the end of verse 7 it
says the people stood in their

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place.
The people stood in their place.

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Like you to turn if you will to
Second Chronicles chapter 17.

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If you turn to Second,
Chronicles chapter 17.

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I’d like to suggest that
Nehemiah is using a pattern that

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was established by Jehoshaphat
in second Chronicles, chapter 17

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00:37:59,200 –> 00:38:07,100
Reading there at verses 7 to 9.
We have Josh at taking over the

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kingdom, and he’s got to educate
the people in the law.

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So, in second chronicles, I’m
sorry, I’m in first Chronicles.

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00:38:16,700 –> 00:38:22,300
Second, Chronicles, chapter 17,
And verse 8.

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00:38:22,300 –> 00:38:25,900
It says so verse 1.
Josh fed his son reigned in his

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stead and strengthen himself
against Israel.

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00:38:28,000 –> 00:38:32,700
So we have Josh at raining in
verse 1 and then we come down to

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00:38:32,700 –> 00:38:37,900
verse 8, it says verse 7 also in
the third year of his Reign, he

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00:38:37,900 –> 00:38:41,100
sent to his Prince’s even to
been hail and to Obadiah into

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00:38:41,100 –> 00:38:45,300
Zakaria and to Nathaniel and to
Mickey Ayah to teach in the

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00:38:45,300 –> 00:38:49,200
cities of Judah.
And with them, he sent Levites

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00:38:49,200 –> 00:38:51,700
even shimmy enough.
Is zebediah.

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00:38:51,700 –> 00:38:57,300
A Sahel Shamira moth jounin,
adonijah to bide, You Toby

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00:38:57,300 –> 00:39:01,300
adonijah and the Levites and
with them Elijah Muhammad and

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00:39:01,300 –> 00:39:05,900
jehoram the priests and they
taught in Judah and had the book

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00:39:05,900 –> 00:39:08,900
of The Law of the Lord with them
and went about through all the

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cities of Judah and taught the
people.

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00:39:11,000 –> 00:39:13,100
Well, doesn’t Nehemiah do the
same thing.

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00:39:13,100 –> 00:39:17,700
He assembles a group of Thirteen
brethren in verse 7, right?

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00:39:17,900 –> 00:39:24,100
And he adds to those 13 brethren
A group of Levites that educated

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00:39:24,100 –> 00:39:27,100
the people.
And it’s when it says, the

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00:39:27,100 –> 00:39:30,100
people Stood Still, I’d like to
suggest that what that implies

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00:39:30,100 –> 00:39:33,900
is like these people that
jehoshaphat’s sent out and went

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00:39:33,900 –> 00:39:36,600
from City to City.
Those people in Nehemiah,

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00:39:36,600 –> 00:39:40,300
chapter 8, actually worked their
way through the group that we’re

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00:39:40,300 –> 00:39:43,200
in that square by the Watergate
work their way.

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00:39:43,200 –> 00:39:48,700
And provided Exposition in small
groups to the people of Israel

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as they stood in their place.
So that after the reading was

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00:39:53,300 –> 00:39:56,500
done, there was no doubt about
what the interpretation was and

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00:39:56,500 –> 00:40:02,200
how it was to be applied.
And I’d like to suggest that

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00:40:02,200 –> 00:40:05,900
Nehemiah follows that same
pattern that Jehoshaphat said

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00:40:05,900 –> 00:40:10,700
out and second Chronicles,
chapter 17 in microcosm there on

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00:40:10,700 –> 00:40:16,700
this day when the word is red.
So they caused the people to

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00:40:16,700 –> 00:40:25,100
understand So then what happens?
That’s day one right in Nehemiah

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00:40:25,100 –> 00:40:31,500
chapter 7 notice there.
It’s on at the end of chapter 7

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00:40:31,500 –> 00:40:35,400
in Nehemiah in the last verse
we’re in the seventh month of

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the year.
And in verse 2, the reading took

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place on the first day of that
seventh month.

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And then what happens the
following day we have on verse

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00:40:46,300 –> 00:40:50,200
in verse 13, right?
And on the Second day were

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00:40:50,200 –> 00:40:53,000
gathered together, the chief of
the fathers of all the people,

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00:40:53,200 –> 00:40:57,100
the priests the Levites on to
Ezra The Scribe even to

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00:40:57,100 –> 00:41:01,000
understand the words of the law.
So this is where the teaching

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00:41:01,000 –> 00:41:05,800
comes into play, right?
On the second day, we’re

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00:41:05,800 –> 00:41:09,200
gathered together.
This group of those who were to

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00:41:09,200 –> 00:41:13,300
go out and teach others.
Look at your margin there.

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If you have a King James version
like an Oxford King James, look

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00:41:16,200 –> 00:41:20,600
at your margin.
They went that they might

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00:41:20,600 –> 00:41:24,900
instruct in the words of the
law, there’s a marginal

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00:41:24,900 –> 00:41:27,700
reference to verse 13, for
understanding.

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00:41:27,700 –> 00:41:31,300
The Words of the law, they were
taught that they might instruct

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00:41:31,300 –> 00:41:33,100
others.
So this was a teaching of the

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teachers, right?
Teaching the teachers training

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00:41:35,900 –> 00:41:42,500
the trainers, And so, they spend
the second day.

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00:41:44,100 –> 00:41:49,000
Gathering together, all the
leaders of the nation of Israel

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00:41:49,300 –> 00:41:54,200
of the population of Jerusalem,
and they train those who were to

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00:41:54,200 –> 00:41:59,400
train others.
They were training them in how

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00:41:59,400 –> 00:42:02,000
to read the law and how to
interpret the law so that they

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00:42:02,000 –> 00:42:05,400
could found so that they could
pass that on to others.

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00:42:05,700 –> 00:42:07,700
And as they were training them,
they found that.

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00:42:07,700 –> 00:42:09,100
Well, you know what?
In the seventh month?

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00:42:09,100 –> 00:42:13,200
We’re supposed to dwell and
booze And so that, you know what

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00:42:13,200 –> 00:42:15,700
they say, they say that would be
a great thing for the children

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00:42:15,700 –> 00:42:17,800
of Israel to do right now,
right?

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00:42:18,000 –> 00:42:19,700
They had just finished the
reading.

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00:42:20,000 –> 00:42:24,000
There was this emotional high,
they had built the wall and what

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00:42:24,000 –> 00:42:28,000
a way to reinforce the reading
of the law by having them to

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00:42:28,000 –> 00:42:29,900
dwell in booths.
And so that’s what they do.

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00:42:30,700 –> 00:42:36,200
Great experiential learning They
celebrated the Feast of the

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00:42:36,200 –> 00:42:39,700
Tabernacles and they kept that
Feast seven days.

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00:42:39,900 –> 00:42:42,200
And on the eighth day, there was
a solemn assembly.

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According unto the manor, And
so, when we look at all of those

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passages in Nehemiah chapter 8,
and all the principles that are

621
00:42:53,200 –> 00:42:56,700
brought out in reading of the
word, how do we summarize them?

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00:42:58,000 –> 00:43:01,900
What does that look like?
How do we read like Ezra?

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00:43:03,700 –> 00:43:06,900
Well, here’s all the things that
we have talked about and have

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00:43:06,900 –> 00:43:09,400
been established in Nehemiah
chapter 8.

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00:43:10,600 –> 00:43:12,300
These are all the things that we
need to do.

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00:43:12,300 –> 00:43:14,900
If we’re going to read like
Ezra, we need to capture an

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00:43:14,908 –> 00:43:17,600
Express, the emotion of the
word, so that those who have

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00:43:17,600 –> 00:43:19,900
prepared themselves will be
moved by it.

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We need repeated reinforcement,
right?

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00:43:24,000 –> 00:43:28,700
Little upon little Building over
time our understanding of the

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00:43:28,700 –> 00:43:31,900
word and its ability to change
us and that natural progression

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00:43:31,900 –> 00:43:35,300
and understanding are reading.
Should always be preceded by

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00:43:35,300 –> 00:43:38,600
prayer are reading itself.
Should be treated as a form of

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00:43:38,600 –> 00:43:40,800
worship.
We should be able to say, all

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00:43:40,800 –> 00:43:43,400
men, we need to position
ourselves reverently.

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00:43:43,400 –> 00:43:45,900
We need to approach the word
with proper.

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00:43:45,900 –> 00:43:49,500
Reverence we need mental
preparation for instruction.

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00:43:49,500 –> 00:43:54,000
We need to as readers capture
the emotion and understanding,

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00:43:54,000 –> 00:43:57,200
and we need to be able to impart
it to The audience and then we

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00:43:57,200 –> 00:44:00,500
need to be able to reinforce it
with Exposition if we’re going

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00:44:00,500 –> 00:44:03,900
to read the passage properly and
as a community and as a cliche,

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00:44:03,900 –> 00:44:06,400
as we need to train and train
the trainers.

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00:44:08,600 –> 00:44:11,500
And then, we need to reinforce
the reading in a practical way.

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00:44:13,900 –> 00:44:16,100
You know, we’re really good
about reinforcing the reading in

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00:44:16,100 –> 00:44:18,000
a practical way, with our
children, aren’t we?

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We do that all the time.
The way we teach them at Sunday,

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00:44:20,500 –> 00:44:23,300
school, and that sort of thing,
but we rarely do it amongst

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ourselves.
You know, it doesn’t have to be

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complicated.
I remember, you know, and this

650
00:44:28,500 –> 00:44:31,100
was years ago, this when Amy and
I were first married and we were

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at Ken Somerville.
So I was doing the readings one

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night and we were reading from
The Book of Esther.

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And we are reading the passage
about Heyman and Mordecai.

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00:44:47,600 –> 00:44:52,700
And so Ken says, okay, everyone
every time we read the word

655
00:44:52,700 –> 00:44:56,600
Heyman, everybody says boo and
every time we read the word

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00:44:56,600 –> 00:44:59,800
Mordecai, everybody, go, ye and
so we did that.

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00:44:59,800 –> 00:45:01,400
And I thought, well, that’s kind
of odd.

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00:45:01,700 –> 00:45:04,100
But you know, what?
Once you get into it, it really

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brings the passage of live in a
small things like that.

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That reinforce the reading in a
practical way.

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00:45:12,300 –> 00:45:15,100
And so when you take all that
together, how do we apply that

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00:45:15,100 –> 00:45:18,800
in the Ecclesia?
How do we make that happen at

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home in our closure?
We’ll have a what if slide?

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00:45:28,600 –> 00:45:31,600
What if?
We stop treating.

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Scriptural reading is only
preliminary to an exposition.

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00:45:39,800 –> 00:45:44,800
What if we provided training
program for readers?

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00:45:48,300 –> 00:45:50,700
What if we had a designated
group of readers in the

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00:45:50,700 –> 00:45:52,800
Ecclesia?
That doesn’t mean that, you

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00:45:52,808 –> 00:45:55,000
know, there’s going to be some
excluded from Reading.

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00:45:55,200 –> 00:45:57,200
It’s just that we have a
designated group in the

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00:45:57,200 –> 00:46:00,000
Ecclesia.
That if you want to read from

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00:46:00,000 –> 00:46:02,800
the platform, you must go
through a training program.

673
00:46:03,800 –> 00:46:07,600
A new brother had to be a
trained reader for a year before

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00:46:07,600 –> 00:46:12,500
being put on the platform.
What if that was the case, If we

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00:46:12,500 –> 00:46:16,300
taught our new Brethren to
properly, read the word of God,

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00:46:16,300 –> 00:46:19,600
how much better presenters?
Would they be when they got to

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00:46:19,600 –> 00:46:26,400
the platform?
What if the reader provided a

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00:46:26,500 –> 00:46:29,500
brief statement to introduce the
reading?

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A simple sentence, capturing the
essence of the reading and I’ll

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give you an example turn to
Nehemiah chapter 3.

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We’re going to be looking at
Nehemiah chapter 3, this week

682
00:46:40,100 –> 00:46:43,000
obviously.
But when you read when you look

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00:46:43,000 –> 00:46:45,600
at Nehemiah chapter 3 and you
know you’re doing the readings

684
00:46:45,600 –> 00:46:49,700
or whatever your look at you go
man, it’s just a bunch of names,

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00:46:50,300 –> 00:46:53,900
right?
Well, what if I said that

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00:46:54,300 –> 00:46:58,400
Nehemiah chapter 3 was a record,
you know, and I’m doing the

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reading and I’m doing it from
the platform.

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00:46:59,900 –> 00:47:03,100
And I said, you know, we’re
reading from Nehemiah chapter 3,

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a record of the diversity of
people and occupations that

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00:47:06,200 –> 00:47:08,200
built the wall and that’s all I
said.

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00:47:08,200 –> 00:47:11,000
I’m not giving an exposition of
the reading, but I’m telling you

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00:47:11,000 –> 00:47:13,600
that this is a chapter about the
diversity of people and

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00:47:13,600 –> 00:47:16,300
occupations that helped to build
the wall.

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00:47:16,300 –> 00:47:18,100
Now, when you do the reading,
what are you going to do?

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00:47:19,700 –> 00:47:21,500
You’re going to go through and
you’re going to notice although

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00:47:21,500 –> 00:47:26,100
there’s a pasta carius, there’s
Merchants there’s Goldsmith’s,

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00:47:26,500 –> 00:47:29,100
there’s men, there’s women,
there’s children.

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00:47:30,600 –> 00:47:33,500
There’s rulers.
There’s Kings all helping to

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00:47:33,500 –> 00:47:35,900
build the wall and all of a
sudden that becomes an

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00:47:35,900 –> 00:47:44,600
exhortation in itself.
What if we broke tradition and

701
00:47:44,600 –> 00:47:47,500
became a little bit creative in
our reading?

702
00:47:47,800 –> 00:47:51,800
What if we used proxemics?
It’s a big word.

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00:47:51,800 –> 00:47:54,500
I didn’t know what it was when I
first read that word, so I had

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00:47:54,500 –> 00:47:58,100
to look it up but proxemics is
the use of spatial relations for

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00:47:58,300 –> 00:48:00,000
communication.
So, give me an example.

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00:48:00,000 –> 00:48:04,500
What if You know, we’re reading
the passage the voice of one

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00:48:04,500 –> 00:48:07,400
crying in the wilderness.
What if we read that passage

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00:48:07,400 –> 00:48:09,900
from the back of the hall?
Instead of from the platform?

709
00:48:10,500 –> 00:48:12,200
What kind of impact would that
have?

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00:48:13,700 –> 00:48:16,700
That’s the use of proof
proxemics, what if there was two

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00:48:16,700 –> 00:48:19,700
readers, what if they read four
different characters in the

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00:48:19,700 –> 00:48:23,800
reading?
What if the reader repeated a

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00:48:23,800 –> 00:48:26,700
phrase, you know, that breaks
into the thinking of those in

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00:48:26,707 –> 00:48:29,300
the audience, right?
What if you read a verse twice

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00:48:29,300 –> 00:48:32,700
because it maybe was the theme
of the chapter, all of a sudden,

716
00:48:32,700 –> 00:48:35,100
the pattern of reading is
changed and you’re forced to

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00:48:35,100 –> 00:48:37,700
refocus on to the reading.
Well, why did he read that

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00:48:37,700 –> 00:48:42,600
twice?
there’s little things that we

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00:48:42,600 –> 00:48:46,300
can do to engage the listeners,
when we read the word of God,

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00:48:46,500 –> 00:48:49,600
what if we meet at mandatory,
that our reader be chosen ahead

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00:48:49,600 –> 00:48:53,800
of time, Instead of on the spur
of the moment so that they could

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00:48:53,800 –> 00:49:01,000
properly prepare.
The challenge of publicly

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00:49:01,000 –> 00:49:10,800
reading the word of God is this?
The first thing is and this is

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00:49:11,000 –> 00:49:15,300
you know Common Sense we think
three to four times faster than

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00:49:15,300 –> 00:49:20,200
we speak so the listeners will
always be a few steps ahead of

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00:49:20,200 –> 00:49:23,700
the words coming out of the
readers mouth.

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00:49:25,100 –> 00:49:27,200
So the reader needs to
understand that, right?

728
00:49:27,300 –> 00:49:30,000
The reader needs to understand
that when I’m reading the

729
00:49:30,000 –> 00:49:32,700
passage those that are sitting
in the audience, or three or

730
00:49:32,700 –> 00:49:35,300
four steps ahead of where I’m
at, and I’ve got to bring them

731
00:49:35,300 –> 00:49:38,200
back and re-engage them into the
words that I’m reading.

732
00:49:39,700 –> 00:49:42,800
Listening is more about paying
attention to the at the thought

733
00:49:42,800 –> 00:49:46,000
level as opposed to the word
level, when we’re listening, we

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00:49:46,000 –> 00:49:50,200
don’t necessarily listen to
every single word when we

735
00:49:50,200 –> 00:49:52,800
listen, we listen to the main
idea.

736
00:49:52,800 –> 00:49:57,900
And then we filter it through
our thinking process and that

737
00:49:57,900 –> 00:50:00,800
thinking process in the filters
we use are different for

738
00:50:00,800 –> 00:50:03,500
everybody in the room.
It’s based on our demographics

739
00:50:03,500 –> 00:50:06,600
in our background and where we
come from and our familiarity

740
00:50:06,600 –> 00:50:13,100
with the passage And the readers
job is to use the written word

741
00:50:13,100 –> 00:50:17,100
to focus and capture the
thoughts of the audience and

742
00:50:17,100 –> 00:50:20,200
keep them on the passage that is
before them.

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00:50:20,200 –> 00:50:26,300
That’s the job of the reader.
The public reader You know, it’s

744
00:50:26,300 –> 00:50:33,400
interesting about 25 years ago.
I went on a one-week course on

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00:50:33,400 –> 00:50:36,200
public speaking.
I was sent on the course by the

746
00:50:36,200 –> 00:50:39,900
company that I worked for and it
was an excellent course but the

747
00:50:39,900 –> 00:50:43,700
way they started the course over
the five days was the first day

748
00:50:44,200 –> 00:50:48,500
they taught you how to read
publicly That’s how they entry

749
00:50:48,500 –> 00:50:50,800
gets, you come, I guess it gets.
You comfortable in front of an

750
00:50:50,800 –> 00:50:55,900
audience and it teaches you how
to enunciate and how to control

751
00:50:55,900 –> 00:51:00,200
your pace.
And what they taught you was

752
00:51:00,200 –> 00:51:03,200
that when you’re reading a
passage and obviously they

753
00:51:03,200 –> 00:51:05,300
weren’t biblical passages.
We were reading, they were

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00:51:05,900 –> 00:51:09,700
passages that they had Chosen
and given to us to read when

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00:51:09,700 –> 00:51:12,600
you’re reading a passage, they
said you need to read it at

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least six times.
The first six time, you focus on

757
00:51:16,700 –> 00:51:18,800
pronunciation.
You focus, you go through and

758
00:51:18,800 –> 00:51:22,100
you focus on on all the words
that you don’t know how to

759
00:51:22,100 –> 00:51:24,600
pronounce properly and you learn
how to pronounce them.

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00:51:24,800 –> 00:51:28,800
You read it the second time and
you look for punctuation and

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00:51:28,800 –> 00:51:32,400
learn how to read with
punctuation.

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00:51:32,400 –> 00:51:34,900
And I never knew this before,
but I’ve never forgotten it.

763
00:51:35,100 –> 00:51:38,100
That you hesitated a comma, you
pause it, a semicolon.

764
00:51:38,800 –> 00:51:42,300
You do a full stop at a period
or a colon and you raise your

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00:51:42,300 –> 00:51:45,700
voice and stop fully.
A question mark, you raise your

766
00:51:45,700 –> 00:51:48,400
voice at the end of that
sentence and stop fully at a

767
00:51:48,408 –> 00:51:50,900
question mark.
And if you go through a passage

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00:51:50,900 –> 00:51:53,300
in read it, and just try to
practice that, it’s really

769
00:51:53,300 –> 00:51:57,300
difficult.
And then you read it.

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00:51:57,300 –> 00:52:00,800
The third time to understand
what the theme of that passage

771
00:52:00,800 –> 00:52:03,000
is, what is it trying to
portray?

772
00:52:03,100 –> 00:52:05,400
What’s the message?
What’s, the reason for writing

773
00:52:05,400 –> 00:52:09,100
that passage, you read it, the
fourth time to try and capture

774
00:52:09,100 –> 00:52:12,600
the emotion and the way you
express the emotion of the pack

775
00:52:12,600 –> 00:52:17,000
of the passage is by either
speeding up or slowing down or

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00:52:17,000 –> 00:52:23,900
raising or lowering your voice.
Or sometimes just by pausing and

777
00:52:23,900 –> 00:52:26,300
having an extended period of
Silence.

778
00:52:29,000 –> 00:52:30,800
The fifth time you read it out
loud.

779
00:52:31,500 –> 00:52:34,100
And the purpose is that you need
to anticipate, what words are

780
00:52:34,100 –> 00:52:36,100
coming.
Because during the reading, you

781
00:52:36,100 –> 00:52:38,800
need to be able to read in such
a way that you can have contact

782
00:52:38,800 –> 00:52:41,200
with your audience, eye contact
with your audience.

783
00:52:42,800 –> 00:52:47,800
And then the sixth time is you
read it out loud to others and

784
00:52:48,100 –> 00:52:51,300
you seek the feedback from them
before you read it publicly.

785
00:52:56,100 –> 00:53:00,100
What if we did that?
As public readers of the word of

786
00:53:00,100 –> 00:53:03,500
God, every time we were asked to
read.

787
00:53:04,100 –> 00:53:07,200
And then when you get to the
delivery, they teach you how to

788
00:53:07,200 –> 00:53:09,700
breathe.
Take time to breathe speak

789
00:53:09,700 –> 00:53:13,000
slowly.
Clearly loudly stand erect, open

790
00:53:13,000 –> 00:53:17,100
your Airway project your voice
and before your delivery, ask

791
00:53:17,100 –> 00:53:19,900
someone to provide you feedback
someone in the audience picked,

792
00:53:19,900 –> 00:53:22,900
who it is, give them a piece of
paper and say I want your

793
00:53:22,900 –> 00:53:29,400
feedback.
What if we did all that in

794
00:53:29,400 –> 00:53:33,800
preparation to read the word of
God from the platform?

795
00:53:39,400 –> 00:53:47,100
Till I come.
Give attendance to reading. hold

796
00:53:47,400 –> 00:53:52,500
your minds on the word of God
elevate, your thinking until I

797
00:53:52,500 –> 00:54:00,700
come and that requires practice.
and so, I’d like to propose a

798
00:54:00,700 –> 00:54:05,500
challenge.
That this week, we practice our

799
00:54:05,500 –> 00:54:10,800
public reading and listening.
Of the word of God.

800
00:54:12,600 –> 00:54:16,900
That we try and capture the
inspired intent that we try and

801
00:54:16,900 –> 00:54:22,000
capture the inspired emotion and
the excitement of the word that

802
00:54:22,000 –> 00:54:25,700
we show passion that we be
creative in our reading.

803
00:54:27,300 –> 00:54:30,600
So that we might lift the words
off the page.

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00:54:31,800 –> 00:54:48,100
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