Exposition, Application, Celebration
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Exposition, Application, Celebration

Nehemiah 8:13-18  (ID: 1731)

The pulpit represents the rudder of the church. In Nehemiah 8, the people of God gathered to hear God’s Word proclaimed, and their hearts were stirred to action. Alistair Begg explains that as they listened, the Word of God reordered their lives, which manifested in obedience at home, within the church, and in public. The Word of God faithfully preached transforms the lives of God’s people.

Series Containing This Sermon

God’s Work, God’s Way, Volume 1

Nehemiah 1:1-8:18 Series ID: 11601


Feast of Booths Celebrated

13On the second day the heads of fathers' houses of all the people, with the priests and the Levites, came together to Ezra the scribe in order to study the words of the Law. 14And they found it written in the Law that the Lord had commanded by Moses that the people of Israel should dwell in booths3 during the feast of the seventh month, 15and that they should proclaim it and publish it in all their towns and in Jerusalem, “Go out to the hills and bring branches of olive, wild olive, myrtle, palm, and other leafy trees to make booths, as it is written.” 16So the people went out and brought them and made booths for themselves, each on his roof, and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God, and in the square at the Water Gate and in the square at the Gate of Ephraim. 17And all the assembly of those who had returned from the captivity made booths and lived in the booths, for from the days of Jeshua the son of Nun to that day the people of Israel had not done so. And there was very great rejoicing. 18And day by day, from the first day to the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of God. They kept the feast seven days, and on the eighth day there was a solemn assembly, according to the rule.

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Scripture taken from The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. Copyright ©2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Text provided by the Crossway Bibles Web Service.

Alistair Begg
Alistair Begg is Senior Pastor at Parkside Church in Cleveland, Ohio, and the Bible teacher on Truth For Life, which is heard on the radio and online around the world.