Sunday evening sermon April 12, 2015 at the Heritage Addition church of Christ located in Booneville, AR.

1. The Joy of the Lord is Your
StrengthNehemiah 8:9-18
Heritage Addition church of Christ
by Jim Bradshaw
Sunday Evening, April 12, 2015

3. The Joy of the Lord is Your
StrengthChristians should have Joy; Hebrew 12:2
2Co 12:9-10 NKJV And He said to me, "My grace is
sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in
weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in
my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon
me. (10) Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in
reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for
Christ's sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong.

4. The Joy of the Lord is Your
Strength1. WhentheJewsheardthewordoftheLord,theywept,why?
2. Sins of Omission
a) What is sin?
b) 1Jn 3:4 NKJV Whoever commits sin also commits
lawlessness, and sin is lawlessness.
c) Jas 4:17 NKJV Therefore, to him who knows to do
good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
d) John 14:15
3. A Hearing of Faith
a) Ourfaithgrowsfromhearingtheword;Romans10:14-17
b) A hearing of faith produces obedience; Mark 16:15-16

5. The Joy of the Lord is Your
Strength1. God’s Joy should strengthen us
a) HIS expectation of good will happen!!!
b) Heb6:17-19NKJV ThusGod,determining toshowmore
abundantlytotheheirsofpromisetheimmutability ofHiscounsel,
confirmed itbyanoath, (18) thatbytwoimmutable things,in
whichitisimpossibleforGodtolie,wemighthavestrong
consolation,whohavefledforrefugetolayholdofthehopeset
before us. (19) Thishopewehaveasananchorofthesoul,both
sureandsteadfast, andwhichentersthePresencebehindtheveil,
2. We need the strength of God
a) Luk1:37NKJV ForwithGodnothingwillbeimpossible."
b) Philippians 4:13
3. No sadness when we receive God’s Joy; Philippians 4:4-8

6. The Joy of the Lord is Your
StrengthFinding What is written in the Law
1. To Understand God’s word
a) Neh 8:13 NKJV Now on the second day the heads of
the fathers' houses of all the people, with the priests and
Levites, were gathered to Ezra the scribe, in order to
understand the words of the Law.
b) 2 Timothy 2:15-17
2. The Jews did according to Neh. 8:15, “As it is written.”
a) Matthew 7:21-23
b) Jas 1:25 NKJV But he who looks into the perfect law
of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful
hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in
what he does.

7. The Joy of the Lord is Your
StrengthFinding What is written in the Law
1. Reading and Studying Everyday;
a) Neh 8:18 NKJV Also day by day, from the first day
until the last day, he read from the Book of the Law of
God. And they kept the feast seven days; and on the
eighth day there was a sacred assembly, according to the
prescribed manner.
b) Act 17:11 NKJV These were more fair-minded than
those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word
with all readiness, and searched the Scriptures daily to
find out whether these things were so.
c) 2 Timothy 2:15-16

8. The Joy of the Lord is Your
Strength
Have You done what God’s
Word Says?