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Broken covenant Israel’s promise of land had been conditional…and the conditions had not only been broken to the extent that it caused them to be exiled…but…as the video described…after this…they returned to their wicked ways…they continually broke that covenant which had been made with God… Therefore…they…as do we have to live continually with the consequences of sin…in our own individual lives…and as we see…day in day out…in the world round about us… Exile is the human condition …as the video said…Since the garden, for Ezra’s time, for us all…we know that it also told us that Jesus is the resolution of that…but for now…let’s focus on the symptoms…before we get to the remedy… Ezra…had a huge task ahead of him… …and here he seems to recognise that it is not just about the physical building of walls…it is also about rebuilding people…and one of the problems with rebuilding people seems to be that they need to be broken down…before they can be built up… So…Ezra sets about the task by being broken himself… Slide – 3 While Ezra was praying and confessing, weeping and throwing himself down before the house of God, a large crowd of Israelites—men, women and children—gathered around him. They too wept bitterly… (Ezra 10:1)