Today Selwyn looks at Nehemiah 13:15-22, these verses cover Nehemiah’s actions to stop the Jewish people from working on the Sabbath; and to stop traders coming into the city on the day of rest. He goes so far as to order the gates to be shut and threatens the merchants with imprisonment if they trade outside the shut gates on the Sabbath. I think it’s worthwhile to note that he did not just use words to try and convince the people that what they were doing was wicked; he also followed through with some appropriate actions, e.g. closing the city gates before the Sabbath.
As Selwyn says in his conclusion, our society is in a state of moral decline. In general, most people don’t take any notice of God’s commandments - the percentage of people who now worship God on any one day of the week (usually Sundays) is very much, a small minority.  The real risk is, that when we don’t take time for any actions to relate to God, then God will take action to remind us of the consequences! Do you agree?
A desecrated Sabbath
Today Selwyn looks at Nehemiah 13:15-22, these verses cover Nehemiah’s actions to stop the Jewish people from working on the Sabbath; and to stop traders coming into the city on the day of rest. He goes so far as to order the gates to be shut and threatens the merchants with imprisonment if they trade outside the shut gates on the Sabbath. I think it’s worthwhile to note that he did not just use words to try and convince the people that what they were doing was wicked; he also followed through with some appropriate actions, e.g. closing the city gates before the Sabbath.
As Selwyn says in his conclusion, our society is in a state of moral decline. In general, most people don’t take any notice of God’s commandments - the percentage of people who now worship God on any one day of the week (usually Sundays) is very much, a small minority.  The real risk is, that when we don’t take time for any actions to relate to God, then God will take action to remind us of the consequences! Do you agree?