THE
GOOD EXAMPLE OF NEHEMIAH
Introducing the Course
The
Word of our God orients us and guides us in all areas of our lives, both
personally as well as members of the Body of Christ. It's tremendous the
veracity with which we can read and reread the Scriptures as God has directed
and guided his servants in the past, as well as does it with you and me today.
We will be talking about men and women of God who took a posture of submission
and obedience to serve him. God searches for people who are willing to serve
him. In the past in the Old Testament as in the New Testament, there are people
who have positioned themselves before God to perform the work that He gave
them. You and I are part of the New Testament, because we live in the age of
grace. From the day that Jesus began his ministry here on earth, until the day
He will pick his bride, is the time of the New Testament . We are part of the
fulfillment of history.
As we prayed to God for these studies God
clearly showed that we have a very beautiful lesson to learn when we observe
how He God guided the servants in the past. God directs, He speaks and He shows
every detail and every step of the way to follow. Let us start the first study
with Nehemiah, and if you want to prepare for this study, we suggest that you
start reading the book of Nehemiah which has 13 chapters. Each lesson you will
be asked to read two chapters.
By observing the life of Nehemiah we see
that he it was actually not taken to a strange land with all of its people. He
was born there and also worked in a very good situation, and certainly many
people if they were in his position would think that; I was brought here as a
slave, they make me work, I will have to get used to it. At first everyone
rebels, and Nehemiah probably also did against everything that happened, but
the Bible does not report this fact. Over time when he as serving the king, he
might have thought: well my life is great, despite being a slave I can not
complain because I am serving the king, I have a place of honor in the palace.
Many human beings when they reach a similar position become proud and very
selfish. Nehemiah did not need to worry about others; he only needed to take
care of his work and problems, and his life was taken care off.
In this course on Building and Rebuilding
the Walls we will examine the life of Nehemiah and also analyze how he behaved
in towards himself, his posture and towards his people, without forgetting the
most important thing is to speak of the fear of God he had. In this first
lesson you will read Nehemiah chapter. 1 to 3. In each lesson we will indicate
the Bible reading that will accompany the study.
Our study will be based on the comments of
the Bible Shedd; comments foot notes of the Study Bible and we will also use
the Halley's Bible Handbook to assist us in this study. So if you have one of
these you can use them to keep up the good study.
Antonina Penner
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