We Will Not Neglect The House of God!

1. "Now the rest of the people—the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding— these joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God’s Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the Lord our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes:

2. We would not give our daughters as wives to the peoples of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons; if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain to sell on the Sabbath day, we would not buy it from them on the Sabbath, or on a holy day; and we would forego the seventh year’s produce and the exacting of every debt.

3. Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to exact from ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God: for the showbread, for the regular grain offering, for the regular burnt offering of the Sabbaths, the New Moons, and the set feasts; for the holy things, for the sin offerings to make atonement for Israel, and all the work of the house of our God. We cast lots among the priests, the Levites, and the people, for bringing the wood offering into the house of our God, according to our fathers’ houses, at the appointed times year by year, to burn on the altar of the Lord our God as it is written in the Law.

4. And we made ordinances to bring the first fruits of our ground and the first fruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, to the house of the Lord; to bring the firstborn of our sons and our cattle, as it is written in the Law, and the firstborn of our herds and our flocks, to the house of our God, to the priests who minister in the house of our God; to bring the firstfruits of our dough, our offerings, the fruit from all kinds of trees, the new wine and oil, to the priests, to the storerooms of the house of our God; and to bring the tithes of our land to the Levites, for the Levites should receive the tithes in all our farming communities.

5. And the priest, the descendant of Aaron, shall be with the Levites when the Levites receive tithes; and the Levites shall bring up a tenth of the tithes to the house of our God, to the rooms of the storehouse. For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the offering of the grain, of the new wine and the oil, to the storerooms where the articles of the sanctuary are, where the priests who minister and the gatekeepers and the singers are; and we will not neglect the house of our God." (Nehemiah 10:28-39, NKJV)

6. We Will Not Neglect The House of God!

7. God’s House Today • Isaiah 2:2-3, NKJV "Now it shall come to pass in the latter days…” • 1 Timothy 3:15, NKJV "but if I am delayed, I write so…” • Hebrews 3:6, NKJV "but Christ as a Son over His own house,…”

8. How Can We Neglect The House Of God?

9. By Not Entering It! • "Now it shall come to pass in the latter days that the mountain of the Lord’s house shall be established on the top of the mountains, and shall be exalted above the hills; And all nations shall flow to it. " (Isaiah 2:2, NKJV)

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11. Same For Spiritual Birth • John 3:4-5, NKJV "Nicodemus said to Him, “How can a man be born when he is old?...” • 1 Peter 1:23, NKJV "having been born again,…” • Ephesians 1:5, NKJV "having predestined us to adoption…”

12. What’s The Process • John 10:9, NKJV "I am the door…” • John 10:7, NKJV "Then Jesus said to them again,…” • Revelation 3:20, NKJV "Behold, I stand at the door and knock…” • Mark 16:16, NKJV "He who believes…”

13. Example • Then Peter said to them, “Repent, and let every one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins; and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit." (Acts 2:37-38, NKJV) • "Then those who gladly received his word were baptized; and that day about three thousand souls were added to them." (Acts 2:41, NKJV) • "praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved." (Acts 2:47, NKJV)

14. How Can We Neglect The House Of God?

15. By Not Living In It • John 11:25-26, NKJV "Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life….” • John 12:48, NKJV "He who rejects Me, and does not receive My words,…” • Matthew 7:12, NKJV "Therefore, whatever you want men…” • Matthew 5:16, NKJV "Let your light so shine before men, • John 4:24, NKJV "God is Spirit,…”

16. In The House or In The World • James 4:4, NKJV "Adulterers and adulteresses! Do you not know …” • 1 John 2:15-17, NKJV "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world. And the world is passing away, and the lust of it; but he who does the will of God abides forever."

17. How Can We Neglect The House Of God?

18. By Not Working In It • Ephesians 4:16, NKJV "from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love." • Matthew 20:1, NKJV “For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner…” • 1 Corinthians 15:58, NKJV Therefore, my beloved brethren,…”

19. 1 Corinthians 3:8, NKJV "Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor." • Hebrews 4:11, NKJV "Let us therefore be diligent to enter that rest, lest anyone fall according to the same example of disobedience."

20. How Can We Neglect The House Of God?

21. By Not Cleaning It • 1 Corinthians 5:1-6, NKJV "It is actually reported that there is sexual immorality among you, and such sexual immorality as is not even named among the Gentiles—that a man has his father’s wife! And you are puffed up, and have not rather mourned, that he who has done this deed might be taken away from among you.

22. For I indeed, as absent in body but present in spirit, have already judged (as though I were present) him who has so done this deed. In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when you are gathered together, along with my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, deliver such a one to Satan for the destruction of the flesh, that his spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus. Your glorying is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?"

23. Cleaning The House • 1 Timothy 5:20, NKJV "Those who are sinning…” • 2 Timothy 4:2, NKJV "Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. • Titus 2:15, NKJV "Speak these things, exhort, and rebuke…”

24. How Can We Neglect The House Of God?

25. By Not Praying For It • Philippians 1:4, NKJV "always in every prayer of mine…” • Colossians 1:3, NKJV "We give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,…” • 1 Thessalonians 1:2, NKJV"We give thanks to God always for you all,…” • James 5:16, NKJV "Confess your trespasses to one another,…”

26. How Can We Neglect The House Of God?

27. By Not Feeding It • 1 Timothy 5:8, NKJV "But if anyone does not provide for his own,…” • Acts 20:28, NKJV "Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock,…” • 1 Peter 2:2, NKJV"as newborn babes,…” • 2 Timothy 4:2-4, NKJV "Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching….” • Hosea 4:6, NKJV "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge,…”

28. How Can We Neglect The House Of God?

29. By Not Prizing It • Acts 20:28, NKJV "Therefore take heed to yourselves and to all the flock,…” • Ephesians 5:23-25, NKJV “Husbands, love your wives,…” • Matthew 6:33, NKJV "But seek first the kingdom of God…”

30. We Neglect The House of God…. • By not entering it. • By not living in it. • By not working in it. • By not cleaning in it • By not praying for it. • By not feeding it. • By not prizing it.