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God’s wise and obedient servant suffers and is vindicated to save his people forever
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; The Book of Isaiah (New International Commentary on the Old Testament by Edward J. Young; The Prophecy of Isaiah: An Introduction & Commentary by J. Alec Motyr
The trusting servant saves his despairing people with a salvation available to the whole world.
God’s people ought to come to corporate worship in a way that honors God.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Nehemiah commentaries by James Montgomery Boice and Derek Thomas.
As the people of God we are to live all of life in faithful worship.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; NIV Study Bible; Commentaries on Nehemiah by Nykolaishen and Schumtzer, and Thomas; God’s Word, Our Story ed. Carson and Nielson
In response to God’s faithfulness, God’s people are committed to be faithful to him.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Dictionary of Biblical Imagery, GE: Leland Ryken, James C Wilhoit, Tremper Longman III; Reformed Expository Commentary: Ezra & Nehemiah by Derek Thomas
True worship involves genuine confession of sin.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Reformed Expository Commentary: Ezra & Nehemiah by Derek Thomas; Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass by Theodore Dalrymple
Hearing God’s word ought to bring forth the fruit of obedience which brings much joy.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Reformed Expository Commentary: Ezra & Nehemiah by Derek W. H. Thomas; Making Sense of Scripture’s ‘Inconsistency’ by Tim Keller
The church must be a people who hear, understand, revere, and treasure God’s Word.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible
Despite the deceptive tactics of the enemy, the work is completed with the help of God.
RESOURCES: ESV Study Bible; Nehemiah Commentary by Christopher Wright and David Shepherd; Pilgrim’s Progress by John Bunyan; Hudson Taylor: The Autobiography of the Man Who Brought the Gospel to China by Hudson Taylor