Thursday, 30 March 2017

Nehemiah 8: 2 So Ezra the priest brought the Law…

An episode of the East Ridge Pres podcast, hosted by East Ridge Pres, titled "Thursday, 30 March 2017" was published on March 29, 2017 and runs 4 minutes.

March 29, 2017 ·4m · East Ridge Pres

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Nehemiah 8: 2 So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard… 3 And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law. 5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people, and as he opened it all the people stood. 6 And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground. 8 They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading. 12 And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them. When you go into your room to pray alone and you kneel down and you open the Bible before you and you read a few verses and you pray and you meditate. As you go in do you recognize the awesome reality that you are about hear the word of God? Do you recognize that this is the holiest moment of your day? You will hear from God. He will speak to you his truth and his way. Speak to you of his son who is your Lord and Savior. As you enter the church service and sit in the pew do you sit there in awe and with humility and reverence, preparing y to hear the very word of God as the pastors and elders read the word and the pastor preaches the word to you. Do you recognize this is the holiest moment in your week? You are hearing the one ordained by God to speak the word of God to you? Do you listen in humility and reverence? Do you recognize what is happening? God is speaking to YOU. The Second Helvetic Confession reads “THE PREACHING OF THE WORD OF GOD IS THE WORD OF GOD. Wherefore when this Word of God is now preached in the church by preachers lawfully called, we believe that the very Word of God is proclaimed, and received by the faithful; and that neither any other Word of God is to be invented nor is to be expected from heaven.” Herman Bavinck wrote: [Scripture] was not merely “God-breathed” at the time it was written; it is “God-breathing.” When you hear the Scriptures you are sitting or kneeling or standing in the presence of God, hearing his words afresh and anew. While the Scriptures are being read and preached God is breathing through the Scripture to YOU and the Scriptures are breathing God to YOU.

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Nehemiah 8: 2 So Ezra the priest brought the Law before the assembly, both men and women and all who could understand what they heard… 3 And he read from it facing the square before the Water Gate from early morning until midday, in the presence of the men and the women and those who could understand. And the ears of all the people were attentive to the Book of the Law. 5 And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people, and as he opened it all the people stood. 6 And Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God, and all the people answered, “Amen, Amen,” lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground. 8 They read from the book, from the Law of God, clearly, and they gave the sense, so that the people understood the reading. 12 And all the people went their way to eat and drink and to send portions and to make great rejoicing, because they had understood the words that were declared to them. When you go into your room to pray alone and you kneel down and you open the Bible before you and you read a few verses and you pray and you meditate. As you go in do you recognize the awesome reality that you are about hear the word of God? Do you recognize that this is the holiest moment of your day? You will hear from God. He will speak to you his truth and his way. Speak to you of his son who is your Lord and Savior. As you enter the church service and sit in the pew do you sit there in awe and with humility and reverence, preparing y to hear the very word of God as the pastors and elders read the word and the pastor preaches the word to you. Do you recognize this is the holiest moment in your week? You are hearing the one ordained by God to speak the word of God to you? Do you listen in humility and reverence? Do you recognize what is happening? God is speaking to YOU. The Second Helvetic Confession reads “THE PREACHING OF THE WORD OF GOD IS THE WORD OF GOD. Wherefore when this Word of God is now preached in the church by preachers lawfully called, we believe that the very Word of God is proclaimed, and received by the faithful; and that neither any other Word of God is to be invented nor is to be expected from heaven.” Herman Bavinck wrote: [Scripture] was not merely “God-breathed” at the time it was written; it is “God-breathing.” When you hear the Scriptures you are sitting or kneeling or standing in the presence of God, hearing his words afresh and anew. While the Scriptures are being read and preached God is breathing through the Scripture to YOU and the Scriptures are breathing God to YOU.

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