“BUILD pt 4: From Fixer Upper to My Father’s House” - By Rev. Troy Benton

Sunday,

February 26, 2017

 

Nehemiah 12:27-30, 13:14, 13:22 

(CEB)

 

Dedication of the Wall

²⁷When it was time for the dedication of Jerusalem’s wall, they sought out the Levites in all the places where they lived in order to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with joy, with thanks and singing, and with cymbals, harps, and lyres.  ²⁸The singers also gathered together both from the region around Jerusalem and from the villages of the Netophathites, ₂₉also from Beth-hagilgal and from the region of Geba and Azmaveth, because the singers had built themselves villages around Jerusalem. ³⁰After the priests and the Levites purified themselves, they purified the people, the gates, and the wall.

 

¹⁴Remember me, my God, concerning this. Don’t erase my good deeds that I have done for my God’s house and for its services.

 

²²I also commanded the Levites to purify themselves and to come and guard the gates in order to keep the Sabbath day holy. Remember this also in my favor, my God, and spare me according to the greatness of your mercy.