TRUE WORSHIP - Nehemiah 6, 8, 12
The Purpose Of Building The Wall Was To Build A Community Of True Worshipers.
True Worship Lifts Up God’s Word.
True Worship Is: Sin + Grace = Holy Worship. Not: Sin + Guilt = Selfish Shame
Nehemiah 8:9-12
True Worship Is Obedience.
Nehemiah 10:1, 28-31, 32
True Worship Is the Ecstasy Of A Pure And Holy Sacrifice.
12:27-30 Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites from all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem so that they might celebrate the dedication with gladness, with hymns of thanksgiving and with songs to the accompaniment of cymbals, harps, and lyres. 28So the sons of the singers were assembled from the district around Jerusalem, and from the villages of the Netophathites, 29from Beth-gilgal, and from their fields in Geba and Azmaveth, for the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem. 30And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; they also purified the people, the gates, and the wall.
43and on that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced because God had given them great joy, even the women and children rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar.
True Worship Is The Rhythm Of Passionate Work And Celebrating Rest.
True Worship Rights Wrongs From The Past.
8:17, 18 And the entire assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in them. The sons of Israel had indeed not done so from the days of Joshua the son of Nun to that day. And there was great rejoicing. 18And he read from the book of the law of God daily, from the first day to the last day. And they celebrated the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly according to the ordinance.