Sermon Tone Analysis

I am part!

And every part does its share!

Nehemiah wept when he *heard* about the broken state of jerusalem.

He hadn’t even seen it.

This requires recognizing it’s broken.

And it requires recognizing God doesn’t want it that way.

His attitude could have been, so what?

He could have said, “okay we’ll build a different city.”

God had chosen Jerusalem.

Nehemiah knew he couldn’t just move on.

It was a dwelling for His name!

Now, what do we have as a dwelling?

Ephesians 2! We are being built together for a dwelling place of God.

Sanballat & Tobiah heard what Nehemiah was doing.

The mockery began.

The false accusations & rumors began.

Sanballat & Tobiah uses Nehemiah’s own people to make him scared, confused, and questioning his assignment!

Winston Churchill’s speech to the House of Commons

June 4th, 1940

"Even though large tracts of Europe and many old and famous states have fallen or may fall into the grip of the Gestapo and all the odious apparatus of Nazi rule, we shall not flag or fail.

"We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France, we shall fight on the seas and oceans, we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be.

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God's good time, the new world, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old."