"New Resolution to an Old Command"

Speaker: Kevin Cox

Central Passage: Nehemiah 8:1-8

Outline:

1. Context for Nehemiah
   • Post-Exile Israel
   • Who was Ezra?
2. Understanding the passage
   • The unified people are the focus of the passage.
   • The crowd gathers at the Water Gate
   • Ezra reads from a platform
   • The people told Ezra to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the LORD had commanded Israel
   • The makeup of the people
   • Ezra and his helpers preach, and the people participate
3. Biblical resolutions--continuous resolution to an old command (cf. 1 John 2:7-8)