Friday, May 24, 2013

Integrity and fear the Lord

Nehemiah 7:1-73
Nehemiah put in charge of Jerusalem his brother Hanani, along with Hanaiah the commander of the citadel, because he was a man of integrity and feared God more than most men do.
God puts it into his heart to assemble the nobles, the officials and the common people for registration by families. He found the genealogical record of those who had been the first to return.
The whole company numbered 42,360, beside their 7,337 menservants and maidservants.
Some of the heads of the families contributed to the work. The governor gave to the treasure of gold and bowls and garments for priests. Some of the heads of the families gave to the treasury for the work of gold and silver. The total given by the rest of the people was gold and  silver and  garments for priests.
The priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers and the temple servants, along with certain of the people and the rest of the Israelite, settled in their own towns.
Why?
The work competed, orders given and duties assigned.
Nehemiah decides to create a register of all the families present, discovering as he does so an earlier listing. Almost identical to the list in Ezra 2 refer to the first and main, party of Jews to return home in 538 following Cyrus' decree.
Assign a duty to keep the guard of the door of wall, Nehemiah chose rule is the man of integrity and fear the Lord much more than others.
Nehemiah' heart has a mind to do some mission, for he always prey to the Lord, he has good communication with the Lord, so may have the right mind to serve the Lord.
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Integrity is a concept of consistency of actions, values, methods, measures, principles, expectations, and outcomes. In ethics, integrity is regarded as the honesty and truthfulness or accuracy of one's actions.
In discussions on behavior and morality, one view of the property of integrity sees it as the virtue of basing actions on an internally consistent framework of principles
The word "integrity" stems from the Latin adjective integer (whole, complete).[2] In this context, integrity is the inner sense of "wholeness" deriving from qualities such as honesty and consistency of character.
How?
Learned from Nehemiah how to choose trusty men and do what should to do according to the heart he has. 

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