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(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 past September, March of 2020 was the last time we ran our buses on a Wednesday night.
Remind you that today we are in 2022 and we are only 2 years into this.
To me it feels like March of 2020 was like 5 years ago.
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 on 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
Haiti
Tornados
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 have 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 would say that a men we are pretty good at this one.
That is it does not take a lot to make us angry.
We can get angry quick.
I have had guys get really angry with me because I didn’t give them enough praise.
I have had people angry with me over a dish disappearing from the kitchen, I have had people angry at me for trying to help them (summer)
Nehemiah 5:7 (ESV)
7 I took counsel with myself, and I brought charges against the nobles and the officials.
I said to them, “You are exacting interest, each from his brother.”
And I held a great assembly against them
“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.
We are good at getting angry but this is the skill that I want us as Christ followers to develop
That is to consult within myself.
That is drawing your head and heart together as you ponder the problem and seek God for direction.
Men our society needs more than ever Christ followers who will practice this skill.
Let me tell you that this is not your first response.
The first response is to react in the flesh, but through the Spirit you can react in the spirit.
That is to consult within yourself.
Then respond.
No doubt our kids are a whole lot smarter than we were when we were kids.
My kids have so much information in their heads.
They know so much because of technology.
They are smart.
They know who plays what character and all the interesting details about the movie.
They don’t know they get on the internet and ask.
They are smarter.
It is true that they are smarter but they lack emotional development.
That is they struggle to look people in the eye and have a face to face conversation with them.
The children of today need the men and women of the church today to use communication to develop our children emotionally and spiritually.
We must consult within ourselves and then speak up.
We have to teach, train and disciple our children.
We must use words.
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