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Introduction: Some of you have served in our armed forces and you have been sent off to basic training to get fit and learn how to function as a military unit. You know that when you get to basic, you often find that mean drill sergeant who tries to break you down. By the end of basic training, these…

Think back with me to a time you had to re-build something that was in a major mess in your life...got it? Maybe it was a landscaping project for a garden gone bad, or an interior re-design. Maybe you’ve experienced a leaky roof, and as you discovered your precious possessions damaged by the water, you…

Even as Nehemiah moved forward in faith and action, the needs of the people around him did not go ignored; Nehemiah shows us that communities of faithful obedience to God are also communities of justice and mercy.

Nehemiah faced obstacles while trying to put the vision of his faith into action; what can we learn from Nehemiah’s example in times when we too face obstacles in our life of faith?

We heard Ezra and Nehemiah for 2024. Ezrah and Nehemiah were one book in the past. Ezrah and Nehemiah are broken down into three sections. Summary Outline: First Zerubabbel in brining in 42k and rebuilding the temple. Second Ezrah brought in community and the teaching of God’s law and way. Third Nehemiah…

Text - Nehemiah 6 Subject - Opposition Theme - Facing opposition Thesis - Principle - God will strengthen us to face opposition in life when we seek Him. We will all face opposition in our lives as Christians, the question is how will we respond? Intro - Jumping back in to the book of Nehemiah. It has…

Intro We continue on in our text to chapter 5 of Nehemiah. There have been a number of amazing things accomplished already thus far. God has cleared the way for the project to even begin. The king not only allowed Nehemiah to go to Jerusalem, but sent him with a royal escort, with letters of protection,…

TEXT: JAMES 5:7-11 | A PATIENT PURSUIT INTRO EXPLANATION : Here in these verses before us, 6 times in 5 verses James addresses this matter of patience or endurance. But what can be so quick to miss is the context in which James is saying these things about Patience. v.7 say, “Be patient THEREFORE” It…

Introduction: Good morning. It’s a joy to be with you this morning to open God’s Word. I invite you to open your Bibles to Nehemiah chapter 5. As we come to Nehemiah chapter 5 we find Nehemiah still leading the building project to rebuild the walls and gates of Jerusalem. He had been allowed there by…

We are reminded that God surrounds us with a community that will support us. We are encouraged to selflessly serve our neighbors.

1. When believers get serious about following God , and see His work being done they will face opposition! 1 Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. 2 And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria,…

INTRO GEORGE STEPHENSON spent fifteen years to perfect the locomotive. WATTS worked for thirty years on the condensing engine. Hard rubber cost GOODYEAR ten years of study, poverty and public ridicule. FIELD crossed the ocean fifty times to lay a cable so men could talk across the oceans. BURBANK the…

Walls of Wealth

No Failure in God Failure Is Impossible. Nehemiah 6 :16 When all our enemies heard about this, all the surrounding nations were afraid and lost their self-confidence, because they realized that this work had been done with the help of our God. Nehemiah chapter 6, is all about threats and deception coming…

Father, we thank you for the freedom you have given to us, and for the price that was paid by Christ so that we could live free. We remember today. The cost of it all. The great sacrifice for freedom. We thank you for the brave men and women who have fought, and continue to fight, so courageously for…

Nehemiah 6:15–19 (KJV 1900) 15 So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days. 16 And it came to pass, that when all our enemies heard thereof , and all the heathen that were about us saw these things , they were much cast down in their own eyes: for they…

Nehemiah 6:1–14 (KJV 1900) 1 Now it came to pass, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;) 2 that Sanballat and Geshem…

Nehemiah 5:14–19 (KJV 1900) 14 Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is , twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor. 15 But the former…

The last time we studied Nehemiah, we saw that Nehemiah returned to Jerusalem to begin his calling to lead the people to rebuild. The Persian king had granted Nehemiah, his trusted advisor and cupbearer, the resources and permission needed to carry out the rebuild. Now it was up to Nehemiah to lead the…

1 Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates), 2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come and let us meet together at Hakkephirim…

1 Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. 2 For there were those who said, “With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive.” 3 There were also those who said, “We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards,…

I have to start today by telling you a story about my wife, Sonia. She doesn’t know I’m doing this, but trust me, it’s a good story. This study in Nehemiah began as a heart longing in Sonia. It was at the beginning of the pandemic and she sensed that God might be wanting us to do a sermon series or some…

This last year, many Americans did some major project or another on their home. While folks were staying home more, they found that they had an increased incentive to either improve their outside spaces or their home offices, among others. But of course, whenever you take on a major project, you need…

Do you remember the story of Joseph, the son of Jacob? He was the first son of Jacob’s favorite wife, Rachel. Jacob treated him the way a first son was expected to be treated. He gave him a robe that was made specifically to signify his importance and he intended to give him a double portion of the inheritance…

When I was a kid, I was certain I would either grow up to be a doctor or a lawyer. Other adults in my life often suggested these two options to me. My grandmother always told me I would make a great doctor, adding that it would allow her to get free plastic surgery. I’m not sure how genuine her motivations…