Nehemiah 13:6-8 - But while all this was going on, I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Some time later I asked his permission and came back to Jerusalem. Here I learned about the evil thing Eliashib had done in providing Tobiah a room in the courts of the house of God. I was greatly displeased and threw all Tobiah’s household goods out of the room.
Mark 11:17 - And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’”
Nehemiah 5:6,14 - When I heard their outcry and these charges, I was very angry…Moreover, from the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, when I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, until his thirty-second year—twelve years—neither I nor my brothers ate the food allotted to the governor.
Application:
· Do I sacrifice even what is normally mine in order to serve as an example?
· Do I express my indignation by taking action?
· Do I interfere or make it difficult for people to use what God has provided?
· Do I express indignation toward social injustice?
All Scripture verses taken from NIV
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