Sermons on Ezra (Page 2)

Ezra 3:7-13 You can be seated. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to first Corinthians chapter 15. Our reading today will be verses one through 11. As you’re making your way there, you’ll remember we are ordinarily in the book of Acts and Paul has just ended his second missionary journey where he had spent 18 months in Corinth. And so, uh, Paul writes four letters to the Corinthians. Uh, he wrote what we call Corinthian a, which…

Ezra 3:1-6 Ezra chapter three, verses one through six. And we read God’s word. It says, when the seventh month came and the children of Israel were in the towns and the people gathered as one man to Jerusalem. Then arose Jeshua, the son of Josedach, with his fellow priest, and Zerubbabel, the son of Shaltiel, with his kinsmen, and they built the altar of God of Israel to offer burnt offerings on it. As it is written in the…

Ezra 2 Ezra chapter two, verses one through 70, will be our reading tonight. And we’ll begin at verse one. It says, now these were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, had carried captive to Babylonia. They returned to Jerusalem and to Judah, each to his own town. They came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Sariah, Eliah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvi, Rahom, and Baana. The number…

Ezra 1 So our new study will be the books of Ezra and Nehemiah, which originally, or maybe you look in the Hebrew Bible, they’re one book, not two books. So Ezra and Nehemiah go together. They span about a hundred years of history. You’ll remember that God threatened exile on Israel and Judah, Israel being the 10 Northern tribes, they were exiled by Assyria in 722 BC. So roughly what, 200 years after King David. And then fast forward…

Ezra 3 We’ll be taking a break this morning from our regular study of Philippians. This is sort of a continuation of what we spoke of earlier in our congregational meeting. We as a church want to think about why we exist, why we do what we do and how we can do it well and how others by God’s grace might join us in that work. And so Ezra chapter three gives us a glimpse of the people of…