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(06/26/22) Dio Yang
Rethinking Nehemia (1 of 2)

Rethinking Nehemia (1 of 2) 

Hymn: #647 Revive Your work, Lord

God’s Timeline of Recovery of the Testimony among the Israelites:

1900 BC Abraham called to leave Ur
1490 BC Moses led Israelites out of Egypt
1010 BC David established the kingdom of Israel

930 BC Northern Kingdom fell by Assyrians
721 BC Southern Kingdom fell by Babylonians

608 BC Babylonian Exile began

538 BC Zerubbabel returned to Jerusalem (Zech 4:6)

536 BC Temple foundation laid
521 BC Temple building restarted
517 BC Temple completed

478 BC Esther made queen of Persia (Esther 4:14)

458 BC Ezra returned to Jerusalem (80 years after Zerubbabel’s return) (Ez 7:10, 10:1)

444 BC Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem (14 years after Ezra’s return)

444-5 BC Wall rebuilt in 52 days (70+/- years after the temple was completed)

The Spiritual Meaning of —

• The Temple: God dwells in the church
  — The Holy Spirit is the Presence of God in the church

The Wall: Testimony of the church
— Christ is our testimony

The Word: The Word of God is life
— The Word of God is the foundation of renewal

Some Spiritual Lessons for us:

• The temple before the wall
• The spiritual renewal before wall dedication (Neh Ch. 6-12)
• The need of leadership for: Prayer, inspection,vision casting, spiritual warfare
• The role of the body: Unity, personal responsibility, mutual support, armored ministry

The Road to Revival:

• Pray — Be mpowered — Evangelize — Kingdom building
• Everyone gets to participate!

Hymn: #636 Be True

Speaker: Dio Yang

ANNOUNCEMENTS:

1. In-Person Meeting: In order to ensure we operate in a safe environment, we ask all visitors to observe the following tentative rules and guidelines when coming to our church physical meetings:
   1. Please make a reservation for the Sunday Worship Service and or Breaking of Bread Meeting. We ask brothers and sisters to make a one-month reservation by visiting  http://www.hocla.us/rsvp/ or call/text Brother Caleb Kwok at 626.888.9746. For Chinese Worship Service, please call Sister Käte at 626-757-6992. Reservation is required only for the Sunday Worship Service and the Breaking of Bread Meeting. If you come to our Sunday Worship Service without a reservation, we may or may not be able to accommodate you depending on the available seating capacity at that time.
   2. Anyone regardless of the vaccination status who comes to church meetings is subject to health screening and temperature check.
   3. Please wash your hands upon entering the church building. The church provides two hand sanitizing dispensers. One is placed in the entrance and another one on the second floor around the elevator area.
   4. Please wear a face mask while inside the church building. We will provide you one if you do not have one.
   5. When attending church meetings, please sit in every other seat to maintain a certain distance.
   6. Please sanitize the meeting place after each use.
   7. Children under 12 years old are not allowed to come in at this point.
   8. We will post the above rules and guidelines on the entry door.
2. Prayer Meeting: Prayer Meetings are Tuesdays from 8:00 to 9:15PM, joining via Webex for the combined session of the meeting (Meeting number: 627 564 274 Password: 4000). We are using Zoom for the English group session, please reach out to Richer for login information.
3. Offering: If you would like to make offerings, you can send your checks to: Home of Christians, L.A., PO Box 507, Monterey Park, CA 91754. Our accounting department will handle the offering every Sunday from 9:30 AM to 12:00 PM.
4. Feature Pages: Checkout our worship YouTube channel for our latest music productions. Also checkout the two new webpages on the Chinese site featuring hymns and the sharing of our brothers and sisters.
5. Howto: There are several ways to watch the HOC Sunday Sermon. Here are two methods
6. Bible Reading Plan: For 2022 Bible-in-a-year reading, we will be reading a chronological plan. We will follow “Wondered by the Word — The Bible in a Year” and will read through the Bible in a year, chronologically. With a reading plan, we can keep one another accountable in our Bible reading. For more details or to join the plan, click here.

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