Liberty Baptist Church
January 4
      • Lamentations 3:37–41ESV

  • MY SOUL WILL WAIT
  • Come Thou Fount Nettleton
  • IN CHRIST ALONE
      • 1 Corinthians 15:55–57ESV

  • WHAT HE'S DONE
  • If you have your Bible’s, and I hope you do go ahead and open them to the book of Ezra. This morning we’ve got quite a chunk of Scripture to get through. We’re going to cover Ezra 7-10.
    Last week we picked up in Ezra 3. What we saw is that God is not done yet. In Ezra 1-3 God delivers the first flight of Israelites out of exile in Babylon. They make it to Jerusalem and once they get there they build the altar to worship the Lord. It’s met with a mixed response: joy and weeping. The old people in their wisdom recognize that this isn’t how it’s supposed to be, but the young people in their enthusiasm see that God is powerfully at work in their midst. Both are very appropriate responses, but point us towards something greater.
    We’re skipping Ezra 3-6 as we march towards our series on Nehemiah, but in those chapters what happens is the people, having built the altar, now turn to begin rebuilding the temple. They’re met with opposition from some of the local Israelites who weren’t carried into exile and people of the land. Those people appeal to Darius and when they do the exiles who have just returned stop their building of the temple. Time passes, eventually Darius responds with a decree saying the temple must be built. So in Ezra 6 the temple is completed and the people respond in joy and celebration, but the book doesn’t end because God isn’t done yet. He is still on a mission to glorify himself by redeeming a people unto himself.
    What we’re going to see this morning in Ezra 7-10 shows us a people shaped by the Word, dependent on God’s provision, and unwilling to tolerate sin. So as I’ve considered what the main point of what Ezra 7-10 is I’ve come to realize that it’s entirely centered around mission. God is on the move of accomplishing his mission. So the main point of these 4 chapters and the thing that it calls us to is mission. So Liberty, what’s our mission?

    MPS: We exist to glorify God by making disciples in Dalhart & around the world.

    That’s our main point today and that’s what Ezra 7-10 is going to call us towards. Now for the sake of time we aren’t going to read all four chapters. Instead I’m going to pick what are some of the main verses of each chapter and highlight them as we walk through this narrative. We’ll break it down into 3 parts: Ezra 7, Ezra 8, and Ezra 9-10. I would encourage you to take the time this afternoon to go back and read all 4 of these chapters on your own because we’re going to hit the high points, but there are certainly depths to plumb in each one. Before we begin, let’s go to the Lord one more time in prayer asking for His provision, illumination, and help. Would you pray with me?
    Ok, the first thing we are called to in this narrative is to:

    Commit to God’s Word.

    Chapter 7 of this book introduces us to it’s main character. For the first time we encounter the guy for whom the book is named, and we see that this Ezra isn’t a nobody. He actually has the lineage and ability to be somebody important. Look with me to Ezra 7:1-6
    Ezra 7:1–6 ESV
    Now after this, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, son of Azariah, son of Hilkiah, son of Shallum, son of Zadok, son of Ahitub, son of Amariah, son of Azariah, son of Meraioth, son of Zerahiah, son of Uzzi, son of Bukki, son of Abishua, son of Phinehas, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron the chief priest— this Ezra went up from Babylonia. He was a scribe skilled in the Law of Moses that the Lord, the God of Israel, had given, and the king granted him all that he asked, for the hand of the Lord his God was on him.
    What is being pointed out here is that Ezra was of the priestly line of Aaron. Now this is important, because the author of this book is showing continuity with the work of God from the beginning. He’s actually having the original readers of this book think backwards to who Ezra was in light of who Aaron was. By tracing Ezra back to Aaron, the author shows that God is continuing His covenant work through a faithful priest who handles God’s Word.
    But he’s not just a priest. He is actually sent as an emissary of the king and for the king. King Artaxerxes writes a letter commissioning Ezra to go on a mission back to Jerusalem to see if the people of God are living according to the Law of God. Now we don’t have time to read the whole letter, so I want to jump down to Ezra 7:25-26
    Ezra 7:25–26 ESV
    “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God that is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges who may judge all the people in the province Beyond the River, all such as know the laws of your God. And those who do not know them, you shall teach. Whoever will not obey the law of your God and the law of the king, let judgment be strictly executed on him, whether for death or for banishment or for confiscation of his goods or for imprisonment.”
    Do you see what just happen? Ezra becomes this priestly emissary of a pagan king! He’s not just checking on things but establishing political systems…according to the laws of God and he gets to teach people about the laws of God. If I’m the king I don’t think I’d be letting my captives go back to their homeland so that they can live according to their religious beliefs. How could all of this happen? Look back with me to Ezra 7:10
    Ezra 7:10 ESV
    For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.
    Ezra, a person of significant influence in the kingdom & likely living a pretty comfortable life, sets his heart to study, do and teach the law, and as he does what’s formed in him is a desire to go back to Jerusalem to teach the things he’s learned to his own people. But it’s not just that the desire is formed, the door is opened. So much to take away from this.
    First, despite his busy schedule, he committed his life to know the Law. He likely wouldn’t have served King Artaxerxes by just studying the Pentateuch. That would’ve been something he had to do on his own time. But he believed the law to be the very words and wisdom of God. Because he believed in them he devoted his life to studying them on top of everything else he did.
    He didn’t just master the word, however, he allowed the word to master him. As his eyes went over the words on the page it filled his heart. As it filled his heart it flowed out into the rest of his life. In fact, the rest of the story of Ezra shows that his influence on the people—both King Artaxerxes & the Jewish people in Jersualem—wasn’t just due to his skill to communicate, but in his living out what he taught.
    His studying, and his obeying it didn’t and couldn’t stay internal. He taught it. This great treasure he possessed compelled him to teach it to others because he knew that their knowing, believing, and obeying the word was essential to all of life.
    Ezra could’ve lived comfortably in the palace. He could’ve continued to have an influence in the king’s court, but what does his commitment to the word actually lead to?
    It leads to mission! It leads to him asking the king to go back to Israel to teach the Word of God to the people of God, but why? Why would he give up that level of comfort & influence?
    You see, Ezra’s studying, doing, and teaching the law wasn’t just for the purpose of conformity to an ethical system. In other words, he wasn’t trying to just make the Israelites behave and have good morals. Three times in Ezra 7 we are told that “the hand of the Lord” was on Ezra…end of verse 6, end of verse 9, and then down at the end of verse 28. The hand of the Lord preceded Ezra, accompanied Ezra, and confirmed Ezra in his obedience. His studying of the Scriptures tuned his heart to the desires of God, and his steps of obedience and faith were accompanied by God’s gracious hand. But what would cause Ezra to do live in such a way?
    As we saw last week, God has been on a mission ever since Genesis 3 to make his glory known by redeeming a people for himself. He wants to live in a relationship with his people and for his people to live out of their relationship with Him. Because of his commitment to the Word that’s what Ezra wants to proclaim and see lived out in the people God has called into a covenantal relationship with him. So, as one author says, “He didn’t wait passively for God to stir his people to action, but recognized how he could be of service to the divine king and approached the human king.” He asked to be sent to Israel and God’s hand was upon him..he was commissioned to go. Ezra’s commitment to God’s word lead to mission and purpose. It called him to something greater than a comfortable life in Babylon.
    Church, things haven’t changed. God is still on his mission to see his glory throughout the whole earth—even Dalhart. He is still using His Word to shape his people for that mission. So I think this forces us to ask the question what do our lives say about our commitment to God’s Word? Not just what we believe about it, but what we do with it. A people shaped by Scripture will always be a people sent on mission. God’s word doesn’t merely form us; it sends us.
    But the hope here is not that we would suddenly become more disciplined or more devoted than we’ve been before. The hope is that the same God who placed His hand on Ezra still delights to place His hand on ordinary people who set their hearts on His Word. And when He does, He uses them to make His glory known. So you can actually commit yourself to knowing, obeying, and teaching God’s Word, and do so trusting that God Himself will use it to shape us into a people who live on mission for His glory.
    Ezra 7 calls us to be people who are committed to the Word of God, but the story doesn’t end there. Ezra has been commissioned to go and chapter 8 turns towards the preparations and provision for the journey. Our second point this morning comes from Ezra 8 and it calls for us to

    Trust in God’s provision.

    Ezra receives the commission from Artaxerxes, but he knows that he’s going to need to Lord’s provision on this journey in more ways than one. So, he turns to rally the remaining Israelite people to go back with him to Jerusalem. He has them gather down at the river and starts to get things organized. This isn’t a family vacation with just a few kids. This is a thousand mile journey with over a thousand people loaded down in wagons. It’s fraught with challenges and danger. Ezra gets to organizing and as he does there’s immediately a problem.
    Ezra 8:15 ESV
    I gathered them to the river that runs to Ahava, and there we camped three days. As I reviewed the people and the priests, I found there none of the sons of Levi.
    Uh oh, the people who are supposed to be the spiritual leaders on this spiritual mission don’t show up. So Ezra finds out where they are and sends them a message…Get off your hind ends and come on. We’ve got a job to do, and
    Ezra 8:18 ESV
    And by the good hand of our God on us, they brought us a man of discretion, of the sons of Mahli the son of Levi…
    He brings alongside him some other kinsmen and temple servants. Within 7 days 260 people had their entire lives packed up and ready to go. They understood the significance of the mission and they were sold out for it. To them, the kingdom of God was worth more than the treasures and comfort of Babylon. It makes me pause and go, Would I be this prepared to leave my whole life and go seek God’s kingdom? Am I this prepared?
    God provided the Levite people Ezra needed to accomplish his mission. But even with that handled and the women and children organized, there was one other small challenge. Artaxerxes gave Ezra a ton of money…literally. And he told him to go get more. Verses 26 & 27 tell us how much was included, but let me put it in our terms…there was approximately 28 tons of sliver and 4 tons of gold. I asked ChatGPT what that’d be worth in our current day and it said ~$264 million. 28 tons of Silver, 4 tons of gold, women, children, young and old…AND NO BODY TO PROTECT THEM. Ezra had told the king, hey, my God provides and protects. We good. Keep your soldiers.
    What does all of this cause Ezra to do?
    Ezra 8:21–23 ESV
    Then I proclaimed a fast there, at the river Ahava, that we might humble ourselves before our God, to seek from him a safe journey for ourselves, our children, and all our goods. For I was ashamed to ask the king for a band of soldiers and horsemen to protect us against the enemy on our way, since we had told the king, “The hand of our God is for good on all who seek him, and the power of his wrath is against all who forsake him.” So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
    On one hand we look at Ezra and go of course you called for a fast and prayer! I’d have done the same thing. But don’t mistake Ezra actions as a lack of faith. Really, they’re a display of his faith. He doesn’t appeal to Artaxerxes for protection, because he really is confident that the Lord’s hand for good is on all those who seek him. The mission Ezra was on wasn’t his mission, but God’s mission. He was just joining what the Lord was doing, and he knew that whatever risk that journey may hold, whatever funding or support that it needed, the Lord would provide.
    So in an act of faith Ezra declared a fast. A fast to humble the entire people and teach them that they were dependent on the Lord from the very beginning. IF the good hand of the Lord was for them, then who could be against them? What could stop their God from providing for their every need. He already had as a sign that he always will.
    Ezra declared a fast to warn them that if they forsake their God and put their trust in all the kings horses and all the kings men then they would be subject to the wrath of God. Just like we saw last week, the greatest enemy to the Israelite people wasn’t from the outside. Their greatest threat wasn’t the robbers, thieves, and bad guys in the desert. No their greatest threat was not believing in the God who was delivering them back home—and the fast was to remind of that.
    And do you know what happened when the Israelite people stepped forward in obedience to God’s Word and trusted Him for what only He can provide?
    Ezra 8:23 ESV
    So we fasted and implored our God for this, and he listened to our entreaty.
    And he listened. You find a God who listens to you. You find a God who provides for you. And
    Ezra 8:31 ESV
    Then we departed from the river Ahava on the twelfth day of the first month, to go to Jerusalem. The hand of our God was on us, and he delivered us from the hand of the enemy and from ambushes by the way.
    You find the hand of a God who goes with you. He keeps you. He will protect you and never forsake you. And He will deliver you in the end.
    Church, when God shapes you through His Word and sends you on mission, you will immediately feel your need for God’s provision. Following Jesus will cost you control, comfort, security, and apporval—but it will never cost you His presence. In dying to yourself and trusting in the Lord, you don’t lose your life—you find it.
    So my friend let me ask you, have you trusted in God’s provision? Not just for the journey ahead, but for life? Have you believed that Jesus is worth following wherever He calls you? If not, then what are you waiting for? Don’t let the comforts of Babylon prevent you from the glory of what God is doing. The hand of the Lord is still for good on all who seek Him.
    Ezra commits to God’s Word and in doing so is sent on a mission. He trusts in the Lord for provision, and the Lord provides all that he needs. The Israelites depart Babylon on April 19 and arrive in Jerusalem August 4th. After 3 days of rest, Ezra takes the money that he had been given and gives it to the temple, and then he and the rest of the Israelites offer sacrifices for the first time in their lives at the Temple of the Lord. It must’ve been a glorious moment. All seems to go well. Ezra goes to work fulfilling His mission and faithfully teaching the people the Law of the Lord. Then four months in the whole things seems to becoming unraveled. Our third point this morning comes from Ezra 9-10 and it’s not an easy one:

    Repent, regardless of the cost.

    Now, before we get into this part of the story I want to warn you that this one isn’t easy. It’s difficult to understand and even more difficult to try to communicate. I will leave you with questions. It’s important to remember that this is a story that’s descriptive of events, not prescriptive for all of life. We want to understand the primary principles. Minutiae of a story matters, but we can’t let it drown out the point of what’s being communicated.
    For four months Ezra teaches the Law of the Lord and in doing so the people realize that they have grossly violated the very clear commands of the very God who had delivered them back to Jerusalem.
    Ezra 9:1–2 ESV
    After these things had been done, the officials approached me and said, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands with their abominations, from the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites. For they have taken some of their daughters to be wives for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy race has mixed itself with the peoples of the lands. And in this faithlessness the hand of the officials and chief men has been foremost.”
    The people of Israel had married the people of the land. The problem here isn’t one of race, but of faithfulness. The mission of the Israelite people was to be a people who were holy—they were set apart from the rest of the peoples of the earth. They were to be different. Yet here in verse 1 they haven’t separated themselves from the abominations of the people. In getting married, they allowed the pagan people to draw them into pagan practices versus the other way around. If they had led the pagan people to faith in Yahweh, then intermarriage wouldn’t have been an issue. But instead, pagan people led the people of God to commit abominations towards God.
    There’s two big reasons why this is a problem. The sins of the people violated the covenant with the Lord. In committing them, they were rejecting the Word of God which is to reject God himself. As we just saw in chapter 8 those who forsake him will face the power of his wrath.
    The second reason why this is a problem has to do with mission. The sin of the individual is a stain on a purity of the people and threatens their witness to the world. In participating with other religions or allowing them to become a part of their own faith (syncretism is what that’s called), they were saying that the Lord wasn’t enough. There were other ways to life and they could blend the best of them.
    Church, you need to understand that your sin is an abomination to the Lord. For you to say that you’ll take some of him, but not all of him is a huge offense. Imagine me looking at my wife saying I’ll take some of you, but not all of you. I love the part of you that cooks & cleans, but I don’t really want to have a relationship with you.
    One commentator presses this further revealing, “Any commitment we make that competes with our commitment to Christ amounts to unfaithfulness.” When you do that—partially commit to the Lord or commit to other things that compete with your commitment to the Lord—then what you’re due is the wrath of God.
    And the problem with your sin isn’t that it just affects you. It affects this whole faith family. For you to say, that’s just the way I am. Or for you to participate in things that clearly go against the commands of Scripture, even if done in secret, has a direct impact on the rest of us, but more than that, it is a stain to the witness of the gospel. It makes cheap the blood that Jesus spilt to purchase your delivery from slavery to sin.
    Now notice, Ezra just taught the Bible and people came to confess sin to him. He wasn’t raising the issue; the Scriptures just called out and confronted. That’s what the Word does. It conforms people into His image and that rubs against our earthly nature.
    So now the question is, what do they do? What’s the next step?
    Ezra 9:3 ESV
    As soon as I heard this, I tore my garment and my cloak and pulled hair from my head and beard and sat appalled.
    Ezra’s response is one of gut level repulsion. He wants to throw up. It’s so disgusting, so shocking, so offensive to him that he rips out his own hair and beard and just sits there. He can’t eat. When we look down to 10:1 he is weeping at the thought of this.
    I don’t know what he thought between v3 & v6, but I’m sure that he tried to examine the sins of the people in every which way. What could cause this to happen? Why would they do this after having seen the provision of God and experienced the blessings of God? And at the end of the day where it forces Ezra is to his knees in prayer and humility confessing to the Lord on behalf of the people.
    Ezra 9:6 ESV
    “O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift my face to you, my God, for our iniquities have risen higher than our heads, and our guilt has mounted up to the heavens.
    Shame and embarrassment. That’s what he feels as he falls before the Lord. But I want you to notice something about what he says. Who does he say has iniquities and guilt? “Our.” He identifies with the people in their abominations. He feels the weight of it even if he hasn’t been the one committing it, because he recognizes both the corporate & individual impact of it.
    He recognizes the depths of the people’s sin—he feels it. He turns and confesses it to the Lord and in doing so he recalls God’s faithfulness to His people in the midst of their slavery despite their faithlessness. God has “punished them less than their iniquities deserve,” he says in verse 13, and he concludes chapter 9 saying,
    Ezra 9:15 ESV
    O Lord, the God of Israel, you are just, for we are left a remnant that has escaped, as it is today. Behold, we are before you in our guilt, for none can stand before you because of this.”
    Ezra come to the end of himself and recognizes that he, nor the Israelite people have anything to stand on, nor is the one who can save them.
    The people who he’s been teaching the Law to and have come to fear it join Ezra. They see him live out what he has believed, so they follow him as he responds to their sin. They do what he does. Yet while Ezra seems to have no clear direction as to what to do outside of confession and dependence, one of the people does. Look with me to Ezra 10:2-3
    Ezra 10:2–3 ESV
    And Shecaniah the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, addressed Ezra: “We have broken faith with our God and have married foreign women from the peoples of the land, but even now there is hope for Israel in spite of this. Therefore let us make a covenant with our God to put away all these wives and their children, according to the counsel of my lord and of those who tremble at the commandment of our God, and let it be done according to the Law.
    Shecaniah recognizes that God hasn’t poured his wrath out yet, so there’s time for a response. The people might still repent and act in faith and find the deliverance that they’re truly longing for. Even now there is hope. So what do they do? They renew their covenant with the Lord and divorce their pagan wives and leave behind their pagan children. Ezra affirms this idea and the rest of chapter 10 shows him taking the leadership that he’s instituted and over the course of 2-3 months working through each individual case. We aren’t told the outcome, but they did make a list of all the men who had married foreign women. And that’s how the book ends.
    This is weighty & difficult, because we know the Lord hates divorce, and yet the man of God just affirmed it. There is a lot of uncertainty that surrounds these passages, and there has been some attempts to explain it away. But at the end of the day we’re just not quite certain as to the exact historical context and are left with questions.
    Our temptation then is to get caught up in the questions, but we can’t miss the obvious, and that is the response to sin. When you heard of the sins of the people—marrying unbelievers, what was your reaction? Like Ezra were you appalled, or did you shrug it off like no big deal? When you hear today of the sins of people, especially those within the church, is your heart ripped out or do glance over it as no big deal or maybe even that’s their problem? Ezra responded the way he did because he felt culpable for the sin of the people. Do you feel culpable for the sins of the people in this church?
    But I think we can press in even further than that. More than what’s your response to the sins of others, what’s your response to your own sin? When the Spirit of God convicts you through the Word of God is your tendency to hide it or minimize it? Do you want to make light of it by comparing it to others? Or, like the people of Israel, when the Word of God shines the light into darkest recesses of your soul and exposes the very things that bring you guilt & shame do you bring it out and confess it and repent of it, no matter what it costs?
    You see this is where Ezra 9-10 really challenge us; when the people of Israel came to understand the gravity of their sin against a holy God, they couldn’t sit in it anymore. They couldn’t allow it to continue as it was. They had to act. Their relationship with Yahweh had been broken. They had absolutely taken advantage of the mercy he had shown. They had rejected Him, and as the Word of God always does, it convicted them and called them into a right relationship with him. So they didn’t wait. They couldn’t. They acted and it wasn’t easy.
    This morning, maybe the Word of God has convicted you. Maybe you realize that you’ve tolerated sin, you tarnished your witness, and most importantly, you’ve tanked your relationship with the Lord. You haven’t been committed to the Lord or trusting in His provision, but instead have revelled in the comforts and pleasures of Babylon. Maybe, there’s some of you this morning who have spent your whole life dressed up trying to look the part, but truthfully, you’ve never responded to the call to leave behind the pleasures of the world and to commit in faith to following the Lord.
    If that’s you this morning, then I want you to hear very clearly the words of Shecaniah, the son of Jehiel, of the sons of Elam, “but even now there is hope.” There is hope for you to acknowledge the depths of your sin, to confess it to the Lord and to believe in him. You can look at that sin and know that when Christ came to earth he paid the price for it. He was hung on a cross for that sin and in doing so he purchased your redemption and set you free from your guilt in shame. When you believe in Jesus and submit to him as Lord you are made you a part of his kingdom. As Revelation 1:5-6 says,
    Revelation 1:5–6 ESV
    To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.
    There is hope for you today in the repentance of your sin, no matter what it costs. And the beauty of the gospel, is that while your repentance may cost you everything, what you gain is so much more glorious. What you’re given is so much greater. In repentance and faith in Christ you find the pleasure of the Lord; you find adoption into his family; and you find mission and purpose.
    Ezra 7-10 is a challenging text. It calls us to commit to his Word, to trust in His provision, and repent, no matter the cost. It calls us to these things because God is accomplishing His mission through a group of people committed to His word. He is still doing the same thing today, so all of this causes me to ask you one question: What do you exist for? What mission are you seeking to accomplish? IS your primary purpose in life to live for you? To live for your own comfort, pleasure, and success? Have you been entrapped by the pleasures & comforts of Babylon? Or will you participate in the mission of God by bringing Him glory through committing to His Word, trusting in His provision, & repenting, regardless of the cost? Liberty, we exist to glorify God by making disciples in Dalhart and around the world. Will you make that your primary mission?
    What I want to do now is transition into a time of observing The Lord’s Supper. Music team if you guys would come on and take your places. What we do in this moment is we take a cracker and a cup that proclaim something. The broken cracker represents the body of Christ broken for us because of our unfaithfulness to the covenant. The cup represents the shedding of Christ’s blood which initiates a new covenantal relationship to us. One that isn’t based on us, but one that is based on his blood being shed. If that’s what these things represent, then that means that the Lord’s Supper is only for people who have confessed and believe those things to be true—that they’ve been unfaithful and yet the blood of Jesus is what saves them and calls them into a new relationship and mission.
    If you haven’t believed those things this morning, then this is not for you. I would ask that you would just pass the plate to the next person when it comes by. Instead of observing this with us, I would ask that you would instead reflect on your sin, sit appalled, and repent and place your faith in Christ. In fact, because of what this text is I actually want to give you a time and place to respond. Here in just a second as the plates are being passed I’m going to have a seat on that front row. If you want to meet, and pray, if you need help knowing how to confess and repent, then like to people of Israel, I’d like to invite you to come meet with me right up here. I understand that it might feel costly—embarrassing, exposing—but friend it’s worth it. I won’t make you do or say anything in front of anyone, instead I’d just like to sit with you and show you how to confess, repent, and believe.
    For those of you who have already taken that step, then you know that when we read & study the Word of God, it conforms and convicts. I want to take sometime for us as a people to sit with our sin appalled. Appalled at what we’re capable of doing in spite of what we’ve been given. Appalled at how quick we are to run to these things, and then I want us to confess them to the Lord. I want us to be people who take our sin so seriously that we repent of it. Then once the elements have been distributed I will call us back together to observe these things. Men if you’d come forward we’ll distribute the elements. Church, as these things are done, may you sit with the Lord.
      • Ezra 7:1–6ESV

      • Ezra 7:25–26ESV

      • Ezra 7:10ESV

      • Ezra 8:15ESV

      • Ezra 8:18ESV

      • Ezra 8:21–23ESV

      • Ezra 8:23ESV

      • Ezra 8:31ESV

      • Ezra 9:1–2ESV

      • Ezra 9:3ESV

      • Ezra 9:6ESV

      • Ezra 9:15ESV

      • Ezra 10:2–3ESV

      • Revelation 1:5–6ESV

  • THANK YOU JESUS FOR THE BLOOD