The People Who Sealed the Covenant

Heritage Addition church of Christ

By Jim Bradshaw

Sunday Morning, Jan. 25, 2015

Nehemiah 10

Neh 10:1 NKJV Now those who placed their seal on

the document were: Nehemiah the governor, the son of

Hacaliah, and Zedekiah,…

Exo 24:6-8 NKJV And Moses took half the blood and put it

in basins, and half the blood he sprinkled on the altar. (7)

Then he took the Book of the Covenant and read in the

hearing of the people. And they said, "All that the LORD has

said we will do, and be obedient." (8) And Moses took the

blood, sprinkled it on the people, and said, "This is the blood

of the covenant which the LORD has made with you

according to all these words."

Walk In God’s Law

Neh 10:28-29 NKJV 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— (29) 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:

Walk In God’s Law

1Jn 1:6-9 NKJV If we say that we have fellowship with

Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the

truth. (7) But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we

have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus

Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin. (8) If we say that

we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in

us. (9) If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to

forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all

unrighteousness.

Walking in God’s Law

1. No entering marriages with idolatrous people.

a. Deut. 7:3; Not racial but for purity reasons.

b. 2Co 6:14-18 NKJV Do not be unequally yoked

together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has

righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion

has light with darkness? (15) And what accord has

Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an

unbeliever? (16) And what agreement has the temple

of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living

God. As God has said: "I WILL DWELL IN THEM

AND WALK AMONG THEM. I WILL BE THEIR

GOD, AND THEY SHALL BE MY PEOPLE."

Walking in God’s Law

b. (17) Therefore "COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM

AND BE SEPARATE, SAYS THE LORD. DO NOT

TOUCH WHAT IS UNCLEAN, AND I WILL

RECEIVE YOU." (18) "I WILL BE A FATHER TO

YOU, AND YOU SHALL BE MY SONS AND

DAUGHTERS, SAYS THE LORD ALMIGHTY."

2. Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy; Ex. 20:8-11

a. Sabbath Observance for Israelites (Jews) only; Ex.

31:16-18.

b. Heb 10:25 NKJV not forsaking the assembling of

ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but

exhorting one another, and so much the more as you

see the Day approaching.

Walking in God’s Law

3. Planned for providing for God’s House (Neh. 10:32-34).

a. Tithes, showbread, and lives of Priest and Levites.

b. 1Co 16:2 NKJV On the first day of the week let each

one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may

prosper, that there be no collections when I come.

c. Gal 6:6 NKJV Let him who is taught the word share

in all good things with him who teaches.

d. 1Co 9:13-14 NKJV Do you not know that those who

minister the holy things eat of the things of the temple,

and those who serve at the altar partake of the

offerings of the altar? (14) Even so the Lord has

commanded that those who preach the gospel should

live from the gospel.

Walking in God’s Law

4. Dedication of the firstborn and first fruits; Neh. 10:35-37.

a. Exodus 13:1-13.

b. Act 26:20 NKJV but declared first to those in

Damascus and in Jerusalem, and throughout all the

region of Judea, and then to the Gentiles, that they

should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting

repentance.

Neh 10:39 NKJV 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.

Heb 9:22-24 NKJV And according to

the law almost all things are purified

with blood, and without shedding of

blood there is no remission. (23)

Therefore it was necessary that the

copies of the things in the heavens

should be purified with these, but the

heavenly things themselves with

better sacrifices than these. (24) For

Christ has not entered the holy places

made with hands, which are copies of

the true, but into heaven itself, now to

appear in the presence of God for us;

2Ti 3:15-17 NKJV and that from childhood you have known

the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for

salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus. (16) All

Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for

doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in

righteousness, (17) that the man of God may be complete,

thoroughly equipped for every good work.