{"id":1951,"date":"2022-08-10T06:28:46","date_gmt":"2022-08-10T11:28:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/?p=1951"},"modified":"2023-02-20T10:52:33","modified_gmt":"2023-02-20T16:52:33","slug":"lesson-8-ezra-7-10-ezra-restores-the-relationship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/2022\/08\/10\/lesson-8-ezra-7-10-ezra-restores-the-relationship\/","title":{"rendered":"Lesson 8: Ezra 7-10 Ezra Restores the Relationship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Key Verse<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026 behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2014Numbers 23:23
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Key Verse Thought: <\/strong>Read\nthe Key Verse for this lesson. Have you ever sinned? Did you get in trouble? Do\nyou think you have ever gotten away with something? It is important to\nunderstand that though one may not have gotten in trouble at that time, keep in\nmind that God sees and knows all. Be careful when you sin against God \u2013 for\nyour sin will find you out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Emphasis: <\/strong>Christians\nare to prepare our hearts to serve God \u2013 no matter what task God may have for\nus to do. Remember: when the people of Israel\nsinned against God, their sin was made known. It was difficult to make it\nright.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lesson Summary:<\/strong> In\nour last lesson, we learned about Esther and the salvation of the Jews from\ncertain death. If you think about it, without godly people like Daniel,\nMordecai, and Esther about whom we have learned, the recognition of God by the\npeople, and especially the kings, may not have been. Even in our more recent history,\nthere are people who have made sure that future generations know of God and\nlearn to trust in Him.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This week we will learn of Ezra. He led the second remnant\nback to Jerusalem from the land\n of Babylon. Before he left, he\nprepared his heart. He determined to go back to Israel to make sure God\u2019s\npeople not only had the written Word of God (for he was a scribe), but he\nwanted to be sure the people knew the Word of the Lord and lived it. He had no\nidea the challenge that lay ahead of him!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

King Artaxerxes (King Ahasuerus\u2019 son, and possibly Esther\u2019s\nson as well), issued a decree that any and all who wanted to return to Israel\ncould go. Not only that, but he sent much silver, gold, and vessels for the\nhouse of the Lord. Ezra recognized the hand of God and the blessing of the\nking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ezra made sure they had priests and Levites to return with\nthem. Many of these he placed in charge of the great riches they were carrying\ninto Jerusalem.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As soon as they arrived in Jerusalem, they found out that many of the men had married wives of the heathen nations around. Some even had children by them. Ezra was astonished and devastated at the condition of the people. He rent his garment and prayed. Ezra was ashamed of the great sin in which the people were living. As the people gathered, they acknowledged their great sin and were willing to do something about it. Ezra challenged the people to correct their ways.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The men who had married foreign women had to send them away \u2013 and the children born by them. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y2Q4 – Lesson 8 Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Y2Q4 – Lesson 8 Children’s Worksheets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you are teaching this to children, the following are a couple of ideas for a craft to reinforce this lesson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One time we sewed a heart together with the top open, put stickers on the outside, and hid verses inside of it. Another time we made a heart frame with stickers and put the verse Ezra 7:10 in the center to help us remember how important Ezra understood that God’s Word is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Key Verse \u2026 behold, ye have sinned against the LORD: and be sure your sin will find you out. \u2014Numbers 23:23 Key Verse Thought: Read the Key Verse for this lesson. Have you ever sinned? Did you get in trouble? Do you think you have ever gotten away with something? It is important to understand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[946],"tags":[694,759,947,753],"class_list":["post-1951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-year-two-quarter-four","tag-ezra","tag-lesson-8","tag-quarter-four","tag-year-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2221,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1951\/revisions\/2221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biblicalpath.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}