Do you like to travel? How about long ‘road trips’, do you like those? What’s the longest road trip you’ve ever taken and how much preparation did you make? Yesterday we met a Jewish scholar and teacher named Ezra and he was commissioned by the Persian Emperor, King Artaxerxes. Commissioned to what? Ezra was commissioned to lead a group of Jews from Babylon on a long road trip of about 750 miles to Jerusalem. Why? To encourage those rebuilding the city and especially to try and stimulate their spiritual vitality and their faithfulness to the laws of the God of Israel given to Moses about 1000 years before! Pause a second…did you get all that?
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Pastor Doug Anderson “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, with our eyes fixed on Jesus…” (Heb. 12:1,2)
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