Restored: The Books of Ezra and Nehemiah | Lessons From An Unfulfilled Revival

Often, the book of especially Nehemiah is framed as a kind of manual for how to build God’s kingdom, and certainly, there is a lot of wisdom in it for that. But the end of the story told in Ezra and Nehemiah is one of disappointment, of unraveling of all of the work that had been done up to that point. It can’t be treated as a manual for revival.

Instead, it’s a story longing for fulfillment to the problem of the unfaithfulness of our hearts to God and living his righteousness in the world. In this message, Pastor Joel explains how we can find the fulfillment we need to the story by expanding it out into the story of the whole Bible, where one of the descendants of the people in Ezra and Nehemiah, Jesus, picks up where God left off and makes it so we can become people who are transformed by the grace of God.