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I was raised to dream big. It is part of our culture to want the next generation to have more than we had. So, when I heard the challenge offered by Josh Wilson in his song "Dream Small," I was inspired by the lyrics and this counter cultural idea.
Join me in a chapter you may just be tempted to skim over in Nehemiah where we see the significance of individual obedience...no matter how small.
On this week's episode I discuss:
- Taking a B.I.T.E. out of Scripture - this week's Bible Interaction Tool Exercises include:
- Read in context
- Consider the historical context
- Remember the people in the Bible were REAL
- Use outside resources
- The historical context leading up to Nehemiah 3 using an outside resource - The Bible Timeline
- How I discussed the timelines of the rebuilding of the Jerusalem walls in Episode 203
- Daniel as a counselor to King Cyrus who decrees the resettlement of Jerusalem fulfilling a very specific prophecy about him by Isaiah 150 years prior - Isaiah 44:28, Isaiah 45:1
- The first wave of captives allowed to return to Jerusalem - Ezra 1:1-4
- Ezra and Nehemiah and a little bit about their backgrounds - Ezra 7:8-10, Nehemiah 1
- What I discovered about the significance of the gates that were rebuilt in Nehemiah 3
- The free outside resource that I discovered by Dr. J. Vernon McGee - Online Article - "The Gospel in the Gates of Jerusalem"
- The audio discussion of Dr. J. Vernon McGee regarding the Gospel in the gates of Jerusalem
- The rebuilding of the gates beginning at the Sheep Gate - the gate through which the animals were brought in for sacrifice - a foreshadowing of Christ
- Not all will be so willing to do their part - Nehemiah 3:5
- Not all are asked to do what they are comfortable doing - Nehemiah 3:8
- Sometimes tending to your home and neighborhood is enough - Nehemiah 3:23, Nehemiah 3:28-30
- Meshullam who rebuilt the part of the wall across from his bedroom - Nehemiah 3:30
- The opposition that reared its ugly head - Nehemiah 4
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