T H E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S pie did not get tired for they were so interested in what they heard from the Bible. Is that the way we listen when the Bible is being read? You know, boys and girls, the Bible is different from all other books, and we should al ways listen carefully whenever it is be ing read. Now some of these people had never heard God’s word before, and many had not heard it for a long time. Now what do you think happened to the people who were listening so carefully to the. reading of the Bible? They be gan to cry. It was just like a great big looking-glass, for it showed them they had not been obeying God. When Nehemiah saw-them weeping, he. told
945 them that because they were truly sorry for their sin, God would forgive them, and they should not cry any more. Then the people all became very happy and spent a number of days learning more of God’s word. We, too, if we will obey God, can be happy and do the things He wishes us to do. We can always work best when we are happy, can’t we? Nehemiah told the people to go and eat their lunch, but to be sure to remember the poor people who did not have anything to eat. Let us learn- our memory verse, for we are making our lives beautiful and pleasing to God as we build His word into them day by day. Closing prayer. ,$*&. o f hosts. (13) Your words have been stout against me, saith the LORD. Yet ye say, What have we spoken so much against thee? (14) Ye have said, It is vain to serve God: and what profit is it that we have kept his ordinance, and that we have walked mournfully before the LORD o f hosts? (15) And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that w ork w ickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. (16) Then they that feared the LORD spake often one to another: and the LORD hearkened, and heard, and a book of remem brance was w ritten before him, for them that feared the LORD, and that thought upon his name. (17) And they shall be mine, saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jew els: and I w ill spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. (18) Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. (2) The Curse of and Cure fOx Robbing God, vs. 6-15. (3) The Certain Reward of the Righteous, vs. 16-18.
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(7) Even from the days o f your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me, and I w ill return unto you, saith the LORD of hosts. But ye said, Wherein shall we re-; turn? (8) W ill a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have w e robbed thee? In tithes and offerings. (9) Ye are cursed with a curse: for ye have robbed me, even this whole nation. (10) B ring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now herewith, saith the LORD o f hosts, if I w ill not open you the w indows o f heaven, and pour you out a bless ing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it. (11) And I w ill rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits o f your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the LORD of hosts. (12) And all the nations shall call you blessed: for ye shall be a delightsome land, saith the LORD Outline: (1) The Coming of the Redeemer, vs. 1-5.
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