nehemiah 6:1-3 1 when word came to sanballat, tobiah, geshem the arab and the rest of our enemies...
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Nehemiah 6:1-3Nehemiah 6:1-3 1When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it – though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates –
1When word came to Sanballat, Tobiah, Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap was left in it – though up to that time I had not set the doors in the gates –
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Nehemiah 6:1-3Nehemiah 6:1-32Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.”
2Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: “Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono.”
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Nehemiah 6:1-3Nehemiah 6:1-3
But they were scheming to harm me;
3so I sent messengers to them with this reply: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?”
But they were scheming to harm me;
3so I sent messengers to them with this reply: “I am carrying on a great project and cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?”
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Out Of Many…One
Larry Cline, Hardin Valley church of Christ, 1-6-2013
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ONE
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Not
Som
eth
ing
Speci
fic… But Specific To You
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One T
hin
g…
Take care of it & be at a much better place next
year.
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You’v
e t
hought
about
it…
Someone has suggested it to you. You may have tried
before but lost track,
lost focus, gotten distracted.
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One thing… if you don’t get anything else done, if we don’t get
anything else accomplished, there is one thing you need to focus on
and get done this year.
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One T
hin
g
HabitGoal or projectRelationship - restore or endDebt
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Is t
here
so
meth
ing
hangin
g o
ver
you?
Imagine how much better life will be…
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Our
Sto
ry –
Nehem
iah
444 BC Artaxerxes – King of Persia Sousa – capital city Cupbearer to the King
Friend, official, Jewish
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Over 100 years before Babylon had destroyed Jerusalem, the temple and
taken most of Israel’s population as slaves.
Now 100 years later…
Burden for the city
Talks to God first
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No w
alls
: No protectionNo national prideNo sense of “God with us”
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Nehemiah’s conviction: If I don’t get anything
else done while I’m here, I’ve got to get the wall
built.
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Huge T
ask
Great VisionEverybody InvolvedEnemies get busy
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Now when it was reported to Sanballat, Tobiah, to Geshem the
Arab and to the rest of our enemies that I had rebuilt the wall, and that no breach remained in it,
although at that time I had not set up the doors in the gates,
(Nehemiah 6:1)
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then Sanballat and Geshem sent a message to me, saying,
“Come, let us meet together at Chephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to harm
me. (Nehemiah 6:2)
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I sent messengers to them, saying,
“I am doing a great work and I cannot come down.
Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”
(Nehemiah 6:3)
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I sent messengers to them, saying,
“I am doing a great work and I cannot come down.
Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”
(Nehemiah 6:3)
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They sent messages to me four times in this manner,
and I answered them in the same way.
(Nehemiah 6:4)
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If N
ehem
iah
had c
om
e o
ff
the w
all…
Did you know there are
things in our life & in
my life that if we do not
complete them, if we
don’t focus on them, if
we don’t deal with them
they have the potential
to ruin our lives as well?
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Family
Marriage
Future relationship with kids and grandkids
Financially
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STAY ON THE LADDDER!
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Some of us are facing things right now because we didn’t pay
attention to the breach in the wall!
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You are doing a GREAT WORK!
Don’t get
Distracted!
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So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month Elul,
in fifty-two days. (Nehemiah 6:15)
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When all our enemies heard of it, and all the nations surrounding
us saw it, they lost their confidence; for they recognized
that this work had been accomplished with
the help of our God. (Nehemiah 6:16)
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What
is y
our
port
ion o
f th
e
wall
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The great news about Nehemiah’s story is there are no miracles but
clearly the hand of God was at work.
You will never know what God will do with you, for you and through you
until you climb the ladder.
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You h
ave
no
idea w
hat
hangs
in t
he b
ala
nce
. I’m doing a GREAT WORK
and I CAN NOT come down.