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0:00Hey Bible nerds, this is Dr. Manny
0:02Orango. Welcome to the Bible department
0:04podcast powered by Arma. We are walking
0:08through the entire Bible in a year. You
0:10can go to the description or the bible
0:13department.com to download a reading
0:15plan and join the journey
0:24family. Welcome to day 3:45. We are
0:27looking at Nehemiah chapters 11, 12, and
0:3013. Today, today we get to wave bye-bye
0:33to Nehemiah. AND TOMORROW WE SAY HELLO
0:37to our final book of the Bible. That's
0:40right. First and Second Chronicles is
0:43originally one book. Now, I know there
0:45are two books in our modern English
0:47translations, but we're down to the
0:49wire. Like, I cannot believe it. Day
0:513:45 means there's 20 days left in the
0:56year. If you've made it this far, I'm
0:58insanely
0:59proud of you, especially if you're on a
1:02345 day streak. I want to challenge you
1:05actually to never go another year
1:07without reading the Bible every single
1:08day. Uh it doesn't have to be the whole
1:11Bible in a year, but you should read
1:13God's word every single day. It's a mana
1:17from heaven. Man doesn't live on bread
1:18alone, but on every word that proceeds
1:20from the mouth of God. So, I'm insanely
1:22proud of you. I hope you notice a
1:24difference in your own soul, your own
1:26self-t talk, in your own mind, in your
1:29own self-control. Anywh who, all right,
1:32if you've read Nehemiah chapter uh 11,
1:35chapters 11 to13, then we are ready to
1:39rock and roll with context clues, nerdy
1:41nuggets, and a timeless truth. If you
1:43haven't done the reading today, I want
1:45to challenge you. Stop this video, pause
1:48the audio, go get the reading done, and
1:51then come back. All right, for our
1:54context for the day, I just want to
1:56remind you of things we've already said.
1:58It's our last day in the book of
2:00Nehemiah. So, it's not like I'm going to
2:01give you some brand new context for the
2:04historical or cultural moment. All the
2:06context has really been given to you
2:08already in order to understand the book
2:11of Nehemiah. The details that I just
2:13want to remind you of is that this is
2:15obviously a post exelic book of the
2:18Bible. Ezra and Nehemiah were originally
2:20one book. And there are three big words
2:24that you're going to have to remember in
2:26order to understand both Ezra and
2:27Nehemiah. And that is return, rebuild,
2:31repent. Return, rebuild, repent. And
2:34wouldn't it be awesome if it was that
2:36easy? return to the Lord, rebuild your
2:40life and continue patterns of
2:42repentance, daily repentance. That
2:44honestly is a framework for the
2:47Christian life. Uh but as we are going
2:50to realize or as we are going to
2:52discover at the end of chapter 13, man,
2:57that repentance part sometimes just
3:00doesn't stick. and the renewal, the
3:03revival, the repentance that Ezra and
3:06Nehemiah fought for, prayed for, it does
3:10not stick. And so the book actually does
3:12end on this kind of like anticlimactic
3:16like what in the world is going on kind
3:18of a note. And so we'll get there at
3:21chapter 13. Not like I said, not a ton
3:23of context clues today. you already have
3:25all the context you need in order to
3:28properly execute the end of the book of
3:31Nehemiah. So let's dive into nerdy
3:33nuggets. First nerdy nugget, if you go
3:35to Nehemiah 11 verse one, it says this.
3:38Now the leaders of the people settled in
3:40Jerusalem. The rest of the people cast
3:43lots to bring one out of every 10 of
3:47them to live in Jerusalem, the holy
3:48city, while the remaining nine were to
3:51stay in the in their own towns. So the
3:54people commended all who volunteered to
3:57live in Jerusalem. So Jerusalem is still
3:59not like a dope place to live. Okay?
4:03Like so the people instead of not
4:06instead of but in addition to giving a
4:10tithe or recommitting that they are
4:12going to tithe to the Levites, they
4:15decide to also tithe one out of every 10
4:18people. They tithe their population into
4:22the city of Jerusalem because honestly
4:25Jerusalem is not a very very desirable
4:27place to live. And what good is it if we
4:29got a nice new fancy awesome temple and
4:33we got these nice new awesome fancy
4:35walls but no humans to go worship at the
4:39temple or to be protected by the walls.
4:41And so, uh, Nehemiah 11 starts out with
4:45the people getting a essentially a
4:48lottery system going for who's going to
4:51volunteer as tribute to go live in the
4:53capital. Okay, that is uh chapter 11
4:56verse one. Uh, number two, second nerdy
4:58nugget. When we get into chapter 12, I
5:02mean, I just love chapter 12. Okay,
5:05first of all, we got multiple choirs, we
5:08got musicians, we got praise, we got
5:10worship. I mean, it's feeling a lot like
5:14David again. Remember when we were
5:16studying through 1 and 2 Samuel and then
5:19we really like we're studying the
5:21Psalms, which really got us into books
5:24like 1 and 2 Chronicles. Um, those books
5:27are gonna really emphasize how much of a
5:31worship leader and worship architect
5:33David is. And man, Nehemiah and Ezra fit
5:37in that vein. They they are big on
5:40worship. Okay, it says this in chapter
5:4412 uh verse 24. And the leaders of the
5:47Levites were, you know, hard name to
5:50pronounce, hard name to pronounce, hard
5:51name to pronounce, son of hard name to
5:53pronounce. and their associates. Their
5:56names aren't the most important for for
5:58the point that I'm trying to make, so I
6:00skipped over them. And their associates
6:01who stood opposite them to give praise
6:04and thanksgiving. One section responding
6:07to the other as prescribed by David, the
6:10man of God. So, uh, Nehemiah and Ezra
6:14are reinstituting a style of worship
6:18that was prescribed by David, the man of
6:21God. And uh if Ezra is the final
6:24architect of the Hebrew Bible, he's a
6:26big David fan. And uh as we gear up to
6:30get into first and 2 Chronicles, you're
6:32going to learn quickly that uh whoever
6:35the author of Chronicles is is a big big
6:37big big David fan. Then you know there's
6:41two choirs. Okay. Well, actually, let's
6:43go to chapter 12 verse 27. And at the
6:47dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the
6:50Levites were sought out from where they
6:52lived and were brought to Jerusalem to
6:54celebrate joyfully the dedication with
6:58songs of thanksgiving and with the music
7:02of symbols, harps, and liars. The
7:05musicians were also brought together
7:08with the region around Jerusalem from
7:10the villages of the Netophathites.
7:14Netophathites. Netoathites. Beautiful.
7:17We love you, Netophathites. And from
7:19Beth Gilgal, from the area of Gea in
7:22Azmth. For the musicians had built
7:26villages for themselves around
7:28Jerusalem. When the priests and Levites
7:30had purified themselves ceremonially,
7:33they purified the people, the gates, and
7:35the wall. I just want you to get the
7:38sense of how much of an emphasis there
7:41are on musicians. Okay, symbols, harps,
7:44liars, like musicians are integral to
7:49worship in Jerusalem. Okay, in chapter
7:5312:38, it talks about the second choir.
7:56And then chap 12:40, the two choirs. And
8:00then it gets down to verse 42, the end
8:03of verse 42, the choirs, plural choirs,
8:07sang under the direction of Jezraaya.
8:10Verse 43. And on that day they offered
8:13great sacrifices, rejoicing because God
8:16had given them great joy. The women and
8:20children also rejoiced. The sound of
8:23rejoicing in Jerusalem could be heard
8:26far away. You can begin to see this
8:28connection between praise and worship
8:31and rejoicing like God had given them
8:35joy. And on the day they offer great
8:37sacrifice, rejoicing because God had
8:39given them great joy. Rejoicing because
8:42God had given them great joy. And it's
8:45almost like a a non vicious cycle. It's
8:48it's a good cycle. God gives you joy and
8:50so you rejoice. And what happens when
8:52you rejoice? You get more joy. And then
8:54what happens when you got joy? You
8:56rejoice. Talk about the vicious cycle of
8:59joy. And so I I want to highlight really
9:02really quick just how important worship
9:05is for the life of the believer. How
9:09important worship is for the the folks
9:12who architected worship to be this way.
9:15Remember we've talked about this a lot
9:17that worship was originally sacrifice
9:19and that's it. And then it it was
9:21serving and then David instituted
9:24singing. Okay. So music as worship is
9:28super super super super super super
9:29super important. Like actually I want to
9:32challenge you like you should sing like
9:35when you're at church like you should
9:37sing loud like you should rejoice. Like
9:41so often you know people will tell me
9:43like oh no I'm just being reflective.
9:45I'm just being contemplative. No, that's
9:47dope. But there's also a place for
9:50exuberant, joyfilled,
9:52like thanksgiving and praise. And uh
9:56actually, I'm I'm going to be a little
9:57nerdy. Like Martin Luther, the man who
9:59led the Protestant Reformation, he
10:02actually called uh music a handmaiden to
10:06theology. He said music is only second
10:10to theology. Like, but what the church
10:12needs is theology and music. I don't
10:14know if you know this but Martin Luther
10:16like the great reformer the great
10:17theologian also wrote hymns. So uh I
10:21remember learning a mighty fortress is
10:24our god a bull work never failing like I
10:28remember learning Martin Luther's hymn
10:30when I was in sixth or seventh grade and
10:33we were studying it according like based
10:35on theology. I think that revival always
10:38has yesterday I said revival starts with
10:42a return to the words of God to the word
10:46to the written word of of the Lord. But
10:49revival also carries a sound and when I
10:54think of church movements that have
10:56marked the earth or at least their
10:58generation those movements come with a
11:01sound. there's a unique sound uh that
11:05gets released and music is powerful.
11:06Martin Luther said this. This is a
11:09straight Luther quote. Uh by the way,
11:12Luther's contemporaries didn't like
11:14music. Okay? So, in contrast to both
11:18Olwingley,
11:20you may be familiar with with Olwingley.
11:24I'm struggling with this man's first and
11:26last name. Golly. Olrich Zwingley.
11:29>> Eric Zwingley. Eric, in contrast to both
11:33Eric Zingley, who allowed no music of
11:36any kind in his services, and John
11:39Calvin, who would have none of the art
11:42in artifice of music and worship except
11:45for unaccompanied congregational songs.
11:47So John Calvin was big on ac cappella.
11:50Uh there's actually a whole movement in
11:52America today called Church of Christ,
11:54which don't do instruments, no
11:56musicians, just straight voices. Now,
12:00because they don't have musicians, their
12:02voices are beautiful. I mean, these are
12:04some of the most angelic sounding choirs
12:06ever. But anyway, it's it's a massive
12:10misinterpretation of scripture, but
12:11that's neither here nor there. Uh Luther
12:14encouraged the most sophisticated music
12:16of his time, Gregorian chant in
12:18classical uh polifany together with the
12:22simpler congregational song of the
12:24choir, the corral. So there's all this
12:27chatter in with Luther's contemporaries
12:30about whether or not music is, you know,
12:33fleshly or worldly or this or that. But
12:36he was a big proponent of it. And this
12:38is a straight quote by Luther. He says
12:40this, "I am not satisfied with him who
12:43despises music as all fanatics do." So
12:46he's calling Zwingley and John Calvin
12:49fanatics. Like these are these are
12:50fanatics. They don't like music. from
12:52music is an endowment and a gift of God,
12:55not an invention of man. It also drives
12:59away the devil and makes people people
13:02cheerful. Like Martin Luther, okay, like
13:05the Catholic monk who protested against
13:08the Catholic Church, who started the
13:10Protestant Reformation, that guy like
13:13Martin Luther is like it drives away the
13:15devil. Like my man's smart enough to
13:17understand no music like like worship
13:21music like praise music drives away the
13:24devil and makes people cheerful. One
13:27forgets all anger, unchaseness, pride
13:31and other vices. I place music next to
13:34theology and give it the highest praise.
13:37Music is the handmaiden to theology.
13:40That's Martin Luther. And I couldn't
13:41agree more. I I I tried to find like the
13:44nerdiest way to say you need to sing in
13:48church. Like you need to sing loud. You
13:51need to belt it out, man. Like you got
13:53to you got to go for it. Like theology
13:57and music go hand in hand. Uh I'm a
14:00theology nerd. I'm a Bible nerd. But if
14:03you did if you don't know me outside of
14:05this podcast, you have no idea that I
14:08love the presence of the Lord. I love
14:11singing to the Lord. Now, I sound
14:13terrible when I do it, but I love
14:15singing to the Lord. And we cannot have
14:19churches where we only focus on the word
14:22of God and not the presence of God.
14:25Like, because what's happening in
14:27chapter 12, we're on the heels of a
14:29revival that's been sparked by a return
14:32to the words of God. And what do we need
14:35to do? Get the choirs out here, man. Get
14:37the musicians, dude. like let's sing to
14:41God and it drives the devil away and
14:45makes people people cheerful. So I'd say
14:49yeah I I think that music is powerful
14:53and um music is an incredible tool that
14:57God's given us to to bless his name to
15:00praise him and I think it should be a
15:03massive emphasis. It should be a great
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16:03to the episode. One of the walls that's
16:05going to get mentioned, obviously
16:06Nehemiah is all about rebuilding the
16:07walls, is the Broad Wall. And I've been
16:10fortunate enough to go to Jerusalem now,
16:12uh, to go to Israel now four times.
16:15Every time I go to Israel, I go to
16:16Jerusalem. And the Broad Wall is a wall,
16:20a part of the wall that Nehemiah rebuilt
16:22that you can literally go see. So again,
16:25whenever archaeology just proves the
16:28stuff that's happened in the Bible is
16:29real, that's always a plus. So the broad
16:32wall just a nerdy little nugget. Okay.
16:34So let's move from nerdy nuggets into
16:37the close of the book. Nehemiah chapter
16:3913. You would imagine, right? Like, hey,
16:42we returned, we rebuilt, the people
16:44repented, our work's done. No, because
16:48for whatever reason, it's easy to build
16:50a wall. And this is going to get into my
16:51timeless truth. It's easy to build a
16:54wall. It's hard to build people. Cuz for
16:57whatever reason, somebody uh I was
16:59around a a pastor recently, his name is
17:02Pastor Dino Rizzo. He said, "You want to
17:04understand like church planting?"
17:06Obviously, I'm in the middle of church
17:07planting, so I'm excited about that. He
17:09said, uh, turk planting is like imagine
17:12you set this table up like this and then
17:14you you go to leave and somebody while
17:16you're gone just goes
17:20and then you come back like who touched
17:22who messed with the way I set this? It's
17:26like and then you know you as the leader
17:29you kind of put everything back like the
17:30the way that it should go and and then
17:33you know you he's like all right Manny
17:35and then you know you're going to leave
17:36for a speaking engagement or you're
17:37going to leave for a couple of days and
17:39guess what you're going to find he's
17:40like that that's that's pastoral
17:42ministry and you come back and you're
17:44like who touch who messed with the way
17:47that I left this and the reality is that
17:50building a wall easy cuz like once a
17:54wall is built it's built but the issue
17:56with building people is that you think
18:00an issue is fixed. You think an issue is
18:02addressed and then all of a sudden what
18:04you begin to realize is that insecurity
18:06issue that you passed someone through is
18:09not like it's a permanent fix. There is
18:11no cruise control when it comes to
18:13discipling people. So we get to Nehemiah
18:16chapter 13 and we get to Nehemiah
18:19chapter 13 and there are three problems.
18:21The people have just agreed to covenant
18:24vows and guess what? They're already
18:25broken. By the time we get to the end of
18:27the book, you realize that everything
18:28that people vowed to do, they're already
18:30not doing. Three things that they are
18:32doing wrong. Number one, the people are
18:35not supporting the Levites uh
18:37financially. Okay? Um number two,
18:40they're breaking Sabbath. And then
18:42number three, they're marrying
18:43foreigners. These are three things that
18:45they said they would stop doing. We're
18:47going to obey the Sabbath. We're going
18:49to stop marrying foreigners. We're going
18:50to support the Levites financially. And
18:53Nehemiah has to rebuke people all
18:56throughout chapter 13 because they are
18:58literally immediately walking in
19:00disobedience. So if you are not down to
19:03keep your hands on the wheel constantly,
19:08then then pastoral ministry may
19:10overwhelm you because pastoral ministry
19:13is oh my gosh, we celebrate in chapter
19:1512. We renewed the covenant. Oh my gosh,
19:18people are repenting. This is amazing.
19:20you're already disobeying God. So, it's
19:23like that's that is pastoral ministry. I
19:27remember I but you know the I spent
19:29seven years on the road as a traveling
19:30evangelist and I would say things like,
19:32"Yeah, I'm just not going to repeat
19:34myself. If I'm pastoring you and I tell
19:36you something and and you make me repeat
19:39myself over and over and over again, I'm
19:40just going to stop talking to you." And
19:42now I'm actually like, you know, in the
19:45launch season of a church and I realize,
19:48wow, that was so ridiculous of me to
19:50say. I repeat myself a lot now. I'm I'm
19:52now leading a church and I find myself
19:55having to repeat myself all the time.
19:57All the time. And in my head, I'm like,
20:00now what? You got it. You didn't hear it
20:03the last time I said it. Okay, cool. And
20:04and as a leader, you you've got to be
20:06someone who's just like vigilant. The
20:08moment you fall asleep at the wheel,
20:10people are gonna wall out. And so they
20:12literally they get the choirs, they get
20:14the musicians, they celebrate, they
20:16repent. That's chapters like 10, 11, 12.
20:21Like these people are they're this is
20:24they're about to end on a high note. No.
20:26Chapter 13 11. So I rebuked the
20:28officials and asked them, why is the
20:31house of God neglected? Then I called
20:33them together and stationed them at
20:35their post. I'm going to station you
20:37here. Stop moving. Oh man. And then what
20:40what does it say again? He's going to
20:42have to rebuke them again. Literally,
20:44this is just a chapter of rebuke. Verse
20:4625 of chapter 13. I rebuked them and
20:49called curses down on them. I beat some
20:52of the men and pulled out their hair.
20:55Nehemiah is so frustrated that he just
20:58has to keep telling people the same
20:59thing over and over and over and over
21:02that he finally freaking punches
21:05somebody in the face and pulls their
21:06hair out. THAT'S A BAD DAY AT the office
21:09right there, man. You pulling people's
21:11hair out and punching them, bro. Your
21:14grace may have lifted, but that's real.
21:17And I feel like sometimes in churches,
21:18we preach every other part of Nehemiah,
21:20but don't preach chapter 13 because
21:22nobody knows what to do with chapter 13,
21:24cuz it's just kind of like a I cannot
21:27believe that none of this worked. It's
21:29easy to rebuild the temple. It's easy to
21:31rebuild walls. You know what's hard? To
21:34rebuild people. and for those people to
21:37just stay the the way that you put them.
21:41As a leader, you're constantly building
21:43people, fixing people, putting the
21:45broken piece of their life back, and you
21:46just kind of want to like like a Lego
21:48set. There's a season where my son was
21:50really into Legos. He still is into
21:52Legos, but then he would like try to
21:54play with the Legos. And of course, he's
21:57four. He drops stuff, he throws stuff,
21:59and the Legos would break. And then we'd
22:01have to rebuild it again, and then they
22:02would break. There was a part of me that
22:04was like, I'm about to super glue these
22:06freaking Legos together, dude. I'm tired
22:10of putting this back together again over
22:13and over and over and over and over. And
22:16I remember being frustrated that my son
22:18was doing that and the Holy Spirit just
22:19going, "Welcome to pastoring people.
22:22You're going to sit down, do marriage
22:23counseling with people. You're going to
22:24give them all the tools to fix it. And
22:26guess what? They're going to go break it
22:27and they're going to come back to you
22:28like, "Pastor, what do we do? You're
22:29gonna help that guy like defeat
22:32pornography and he's going to go and and
22:34he's going to break it and he's going to
22:35come back and be like, "Ah, watch your
22:36porn again, pastor." You're gonna help
22:38somebody get sober and then they may
22:40relapse and they're going to come back
22:42like, "Ah, P." What are you going to do?
22:43You're going to you're going to you're
22:44going to keep fixing the Lego set.
22:46That's what you're going to do cuz there
22:47is no way to superglue the Lego set. At
22:50at some point, you just got to buckle up
22:52and just go, "Yep, this is not a
22:54goaloriented
22:55job. This is like a people oriented job.
22:59And there is no such thing as set it and
23:01forget it or cruise control when it
23:03comes to the relational aspect of
23:05ministry.
23:07People are a constant project. They're a
23:11constant project. And I don't mean
23:12people are a project like in a negative
23:13way. I I just mean you're constantly
23:16having to build them. And the moment
23:18you're not building them, they're it's
23:19going to break. And you as a leader, you
23:22have to like if you're in ministry, you
23:24have to know, hey, hey, hey, you got to
23:26stay focused. You can't fall asleep at
23:28the wheel. You got to constantly be
23:29building, constantly be building,
23:30constantly be building. Because if
23:32you're not building them up, they will
23:34break themselves down. The walls are
23:36easy. People are hard. So, chapter 13,
23:39we're going to find Nehemiah. He's going
23:42to repeat the same phrase after each
23:44issue. Okay? So, people are not
23:45supporting the Levites with their
23:46finances. That's issue number one.
23:48People are breaking the Sabbath. That's
23:49issue number two. And people are
23:50marrying foreigners. That's issue number
23:52three. at the conclusion of him rebuking
23:55each group for that issue, he's then
23:58going to give a repeated phrase. Uh, and
24:00honestly, I think that's the repeated
24:02phrase that every pastor uh, every
24:04pastor is probably going to feel seen as
24:06we begin to give this repeated phrase.
24:08So verse 14, this is the phrase at the
24:12end of issue number one says, "Remember
24:15me for this my God and do not blot out
24:18what I have so faithfully done for the
24:21house of my God in its services.
24:24Remember me God please Lord God please
24:27Lord God when you think about me can you
24:30please remember that that I I have
24:35labored in the house of the Lord and he
24:38does not mean physically building the
24:40bricks of the temple he means building
24:42the house of God which is the people and
24:44then it says this in verse 22 the next
24:47one remember me for this also my God and
24:51show mercy to me according to your great
24:53love and And then last verse 31, I also
24:56made provisions for contributions of
24:58wood designated at times and for first
25:00fruits. Remember me with favor my God.
25:03Remember me, God. God, remember me. Help
25:06me. Give me strength. Renew me. Like
25:08remember me, please. Like God, when you
25:12think about your boy Nehemiah, can you
25:14just remember me? Cuz clearly the people
25:17don't remember what I just told them. So
25:19God, I need someone to remember. And
25:21obviously you're the only one that has
25:23the ability to remember not just what
25:25I've said because you don't need me to
25:26say anything to you, but what I've done
25:28because the people don't remember. And
25:30that's it's the hardest part of pastoral
25:32ministry. So if you are at a church and
25:36you are under a leader that's actively
25:38building you up, counseling you,
25:40advising you, loving you, like building
25:43you up, try, just please try
25:47to not break down the things that your
25:50pastor is building in you. Just try. And
25:52if you're a pastor, just buckle up
25:54because you're going to have to build
25:56people and then deal with the
25:57frustration that they have broken the
26:00very thing that you've built for them.
26:02and in them. And that's not just true
26:04for Nehemiah. That's true for me. That's
26:07true for you. That's true for church.
26:09That's true for ministry. Period.
26:11Building walls, building temples, easy.
26:15Building people, that's hard. And if
26:17you're not careful, you'll end up
26:19rebuking them, calling down curses on
26:21them, beating them, and pulling their
26:23hair out because of your frustration.
26:25And the reality is this. People are
26:27frustrating. They are. But you never
26:30have a reason to beat them. Pull their
26:33hair out. Call curses down on them.
26:35Rebuke. Okay, cool. But the curses, the
26:39the the beating and the pulling out of
26:41the hair, that's a bit much Nehemiah.
26:43And uh I I'm not shocked as to why
26:46nobody preaches about Nehemiah chapter
26:4813. Cuz Nehemiah is whing out. And if
26:50you want to avoid becoming like Nehemiah
26:53as a leader, then you are going to have
26:55to set some realistic expectations
26:57because all disappointment is the
26:59product of unrealistic expectations. And
27:02that's true. But Nehemiah, Ezra,
27:05Zerubbable, me, and you. It's timelessly
27:08true. All right, I'll see you tomorrow
27:10for day 3:46 as we walk into a brand new
27:14book of the Bible. We'll be in
27:15Chronicles chapters 1, 2, and three. I
27:19can't wait. I'll be right here. Same
27:20time, same place. Love you. Peace.
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