2. Ezra-Nehemiah Teaches Separating & Supplying Nehemiah 9:38-10:39

3. Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God
Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.” John 6:28-29

4. We will SEPARATE.

5. We will SEPARATE.
We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons Nehemiah 10:30

6. We will SEPARATE.
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? Corinthians 6:14

7. We will SEPARATE.

8. We will SABBATH?

9. We will SABBATH?
And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day. And we will forego the crops of the seventh year and the exaction of every debt Nehemiah 10:31

10. We will SABBATH?
“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor, and do all your work, but the seventh day is a Sabbath to the LORD your God. On it you shall not do any work, you, or your son, or your daughter, your male servant, or your female servant, or your livestock, or the sojourner who is within your gates.

11. We will SABBATH?
For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy Exodus 20:8-11

12. We will SABBATH?
One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. The one who observes the day, observes it in honor of the Lord Romans 14:5-6

13. We will SABBATH?

14. We will SUPPLY!

15. We will not neglect the house of our God. Nehemiah 10: 39b
We will SUPPLY!
We will not neglect the house of our God Nehemiah 10: 39b

16. We will SUPPLY!
a third part of a shekel…the wood offering…the firstfruits of our ground and the firstfruits of all fruit of every tree…the firstborn of our sons and of our cattle…the firstborn of our herds and of our flocks…the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil…the tithes from our ground…the contribution of grain, wine, and oil Nehemiah 10: 32ff

17. We will SUPPLY!
We, the priests, the Levites, and the people, have likewise cast lots for the wood offering, to bring it into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at times appointed, year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God, as it is written in the Law Nehemiah 10:34

18. We will SUPPLY!