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Colten come up and help me this morning.
(Explain what Colten will be doing for us this morning)
Nehemiah 5 Is where we are today
Imagine with me for just a moment
Nehemiah is called
Nehemiah leaves a great job and position to go restore a city
Nehemiah had it made
He lived in the palace of the King
He ate the King’s food
He was greatly respected
The Lord calls him.
Nehemiah’s heart is broken
He risk his life to go help his people the Jews
He arrives
He surveys the walls
He gets organized
He has a plan
Work Begins
The rebuilding of the wall progresses rapidly
They have great success
Things are moving quickly
Opposition from the outside happens
Sanballet and Tobiah start mocking the rebuilding of the wall
Their response is to defend and build
So they do they have a sword in one hand and they are rebuilding with the other hand
They have survived all this.
After all this, they are now experiencing a famine
Does this Sound familiar?
I feel the pain of the Jews here leading up to Nehemiah 5
Before this September, March of 2020 was the last time we ran our buses.
Remind you that today is September 26, 2021
March, April and May we were trying to figure out do we meet in person or not.
Do we touch gas pumps or not
Can the virus travel of boxes?
Do we open or close businesses
It progressed from there...
Do we mask or not mask?
Throw in a presidential election
Do we vax or not vax?
Is prophecy being fulfilled and what the meaning of everything is?
Afganistan
News media
I am sure I left some out but you get the point.
We have all worked through each of this and survived.
At times if felt like we had a sword in one hand and building with the other.
We were building and defending.
We survived all this and then things like the city water system having to be shut down for two days happens.
I feel you Nehemiah.
Watch what happens next.
Insult to Injury
Group 1: Don’t have food or land
Let us get grain so that we can eat and live
Group 2: Has lands but they are mortgaging their land, vineyards and homes to get food.
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Group 3: Has land but is borrowing money to pay taxes on fields
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Group 4: They have sold their children into slavery
Jewish boys and girls hat to choose between starvation or slavery.
Who was doing all this?
Jews are harming Jews
Attacks are from within
Nehemiah’s response
I became angry
“I consulted with myself” means literally “My heart consulted within me.”
A friend of mine calls this “putting my heads together.”
Actually, Nehemiah put his heart and his head together as he pondered the problem and sought God’s direction.
He got control of his feelings and his thoughts so that he could give constructive leadership to the people.
If we truly fear the Lord, then we will want to honor Him before those who don’t believe in Him.
Far better to lose money than lose the privilege of your witness to the lost.
You can always earn more money, but how do you restore a damaged testimony?
To Fear the Lord
Loving respect of a child toward a parent
Means to seek to Glorify the Lord in everything we do
Means listening to his word, honoring it and obeying it
“The remarkable thing about fearing God,” wrote Oswald Chambers, “is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.”
To walk in the fear of God, of course, means to walk by faith, trusting God to deal with your enemies and one day balance the accounts.
It means claiming
They have a Worship service
Nehemiah Practices what he Preaches
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