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- Welcome to the Rapid Bull, daily edition, where we provide a quick biblical interpretations and applications.
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- This is a ministry of striving for eternity. As we start the new year and people make those
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- New Year's resolutions, it's a time to actually figure out why it is many people don't fulfill those
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- New Year's resolutions. And what we can do to actually fulfill them, and what we're going to do is take a look at Nehemiah.
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- Yes, that's one of those Old Testament books. You know that passages that most people kind of skip right over?
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- The Old Testament, because we like the New. Well, there's a lot we can learn in the Old Testament, and Nehemiah is an example.
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- Now, what you see in Nehemiah 1 is that it happens in the month of Cheleb, in the twelfth year that he was in Susa in the synodal.
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- So he's giving us an exact time frame. That becomes important that we're going to see later on, maybe not in this episode.
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- However, what you see is that he hears from his brothers about what's going on in Judah, and he's concerned. So in verse 4, it says that,
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- So what you have is, here he hears about the fact that the remnant that went back to Judah from their captivity, they weren't doing well.
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- The things were not thriving as he hoped. And here he is weeping, and he's mourning.
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- In other words, he's going to actually set a resolution. We're going to see what that resolution is, but what we're also going to see is how long it took for this time.
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- Now, he was a cupbearer. That becomes an important role that we're going to see in the next episode, why that's an important role, and how long he actually took to pray.
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- This podcast is part of the Striving for Eternity ministry. For more content, or to request a speaker or seminar to your church, go to strivingforeternity .org.
