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Intro:
Wear your Blue suit, Papa’s blue suit (3 generations of believers)
Do you like to sing?
Couple of times that singing has profoundly influenced me: Finnish song with papa, the Spot restaurant, MIssions trips, my wedding.
You will remembers songs a lot better than you will remember a sermon outline
Outline:
Priest and Levites: “” (vs.
1-26)
Joyful Dedication: “” (vs.
27-43)
Service at the Temple: “” (vs.
44-47)
Summary: Singing engages the heart to celebrates God’s great works
Prayer:
Priests and Levites: “3 Generations” (vs.
1-26)
1st Generation (vs.
1-11)
Came up with Zerubbable and Jeshua (vs.
1-11)- 1st return to the land (almost 100 years earlier), Zerubbable is a descendant of David and an ancestor of Jesus!
Jeshua is the leading preist who supervised the building of the temple and the reestablishment of religious and political life in Judah after the exile.
Before, in 1 Chron.
24:7-19 David appointed 24 priestly divisions to serve in the temple
Chiefs of the Priests (vs.
1-7)
Levites (vs.
8-11)- 22 in total
Mattaniah (v.8), who with his brothers was in chage of the songs of thanksgiving
2nd Generation (vs.
12-21)
In the days of Joiakim (vs.
12-21)- Son of Jeshua
Priests, heads of father’s houses
3rd Generation (vs.
22-26)
In the days of Eliashib (vs.
22-26)- Son of Joiakim
Levites, heads of father’s houses
So too were the priests in the reign of Darius the Persian
The chiefs of the Levites…Jeshua the son of Kadmiel (v.
24)
With their brothers who stood opposite them (antiphonal singing, back and forth)
To praise
and to give thanks
According to the commandment of David- this kind of singing was instituted by David.
The man of God- “in 2 Chr 8:14, always in relation to his work in organizing worship.
The title “man of God” usually refers to prophets, but here the author no doubt was comparing David with Moses, who had founded Israelite worship
Mervin Breneman, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, electronic ed., vol. 10, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1993), 263.
Watch by watch
“These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor and of Ezra, the priest and scribe.”
-Summary verse
The Holy Bible: English Standard Version (Wheaton, IL: Crossway Bibles, 2016), Ne 12:26.
Application/Implications:
So, why the ancestory lesson?
This is a big deal!
Read 1-2 Kings this week and you will find out how often the leadership goes astray before the exile.
They are seeking to do it right this time.
What played a big role in these 3 generations: Songs of thanksgiving and praise
Praising
Giving thanks are a crucial part of faithfulness.
What are you praising God for today?
what are you thankful for?
WAIT FOR THE ANSWERS!
I have seen this in the Nicholson family, Paul and Glenna, Pastor Lars and Sarah, and now Leila
Are you willing to be a godly eader in your family that follows Jesus willingly no matter where he leads?
Transitional phrase: These three generations are seeking to leave a goldy legacy, following were God has led.
So what does that sound like...
Joyful Dedication: “Gathering to Sing” (vs.
27-43)
Gathering (vs.
27-30)
Levites in all their places
to bring them to Jerusalem
To celebrate the dedication with (v.
27)
gladness
thanksgiving- “thanksgiving choir”
with singing
with cymblas, harps and lyres
Sons of the singers
gathered together from the disctirct surrounding Jerusalem
and from the villages of the Netophathites “weeds, nettles”(Netophah, “village located in the hill country near Bethlehem and home to several biblical figures, including warriors, Levites, and musicians.”)
also from Beth gilgal (near Jericho) and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth (NE of Jerusalem, in Benjamite area) PICTURE OF GEOGRAPHY
For the singers had built for themselves villages around Jerusalem
The priests and the Levites
purified themselves
Purified the people
and the gates and the wall- sprinkling the blood of sacrificed animals.
“It no doubt included fasting, abstaining from marital intercourse, making sacrifices, and perhaps bathing and using clean garments (Gen 35:2–3; Num 8:21–22; 1 Chr 29:15; 35:6; Ezra 6:20; Neh 13:22; Mal 3:3).
Mervin Breneman, Ezra, Nehemiah, Esther, electronic ed., vol. 10, The New American Commentary (Nashville: Broadman & Holman Publishers, 1993), 265.
Appointing two “Thanksgiving Choirs” (vs.
31-39)
Leaders of Judah on the wall-where are they standing?
On the wall!
The Walls are strong enough to hold them!
What were the taunts by the adversaries?
“If a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!” Now a choir of people are singing from it, loudly!
Appointed two great choirs and gave thanks
One went south- they start at the same place that Nehemiah started his nighttime inspection of the wall
One went north-
Rejoicing with Great Joy (vs.
40- 43)
Both choirs of thos who gave thanks stood in the house of God- they do like a backward “8” to both enter the temple from the east.
The parallel arangement of the two processions must have been striking.
The first recorded marching band (PIC OF THE WALL)
I and half the officials with me
And the priests
and the singers sang with Jezrahiah as their leader
and they offered great sacrifices that day
and rejoiced
for God had made them rejoice with great joy
the women and children also rejoiced
and the joy of Jerusaelm was heard far away- “God calls us to celebration as well as service.
The law even commands thankfulness and rejoicing (Deut 12:7, 12, 18; 14:26; 16:11–15; 26:11; 27:7; cf.
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