During Nehemiah's absence, God’s people had slide from passionate joy-filled worship to compromise with the world and they were breaking all three points of the chapter 10 covenant. Compromising biblical beliefs and practices has a major impact on your life and those around you, as seen with Eliashib. Christians need to understand what matters to God and then guard it with appropriate action. -- Can we be properly used for God’s purposes when we’re full of stuff that shouldn’t be there? If you have been saved by Jesus, your life has a different purpose than it previously did. Don’t fill it up with things that are dishonoring to the Lord.