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Nehemiah chapter number four, let's go ahead and stand. I want to read the first three verses here today. Nehemiah chapter number four, verse number one. But it came to pass. I'm glad when the Bible says it came to pass, that means it did not come to stay. But it came to pass that when Sanballat heard that we built the wall, he was happy as can be. No. He was glad to hear it. He was excited. I'm sorry, I must be reading out of the SUV again. The Bible says he was wroth and took great indignation and mocked the Jews. And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria and said, What do these feeble Jews? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? Verse number three. Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. That's not exactly words of encouragement. I dare say, they, since they are so wroth about this, Since they are talking so badly about this, they are not looking to lift up the people of God. Rather, they are making an effort to demoralize the people of God. And that's what we want to bring our sermon here on this morning, the effort to demoralize us. Our Father in heaven, we thank you Lord that we do not have to be ignorant of Satan and his devices. that we don't have to go out there wondering what in the world is going on, that we have been adequately warned there's going to be problems. But yeah, at the same time there's going to be problems, there is a way of escape. There is help for us. There is a source of encouragement that is there for us if we'll just simply turn to You. So help us, Lord, please, to do this. And we'd ask you, Lord, once again, for all those prayer requests that have been made known in the unspoken, that you would take care of them as you see will fit. We pray, Lord, also for Miss Thelma. She's not here today. Help her, Lord, please. We miss not having her here, as well as Brother Ben, Helene, and Gracie. Help them, Lord, please. But thank you, God, for loving us, for saving us. And thank you, Lord, for this fine place that we have here to gather together in your name, to learn of you, to worship you in spirit and in truth. Lord, you're awesome, you're grand, and you're just beyond words. Just being honest with you, you are. But thank you, Father, for that, because that brings joy to our hearts as is, that you're even beyond what we can possibly describe. But yeah, we've got all of eternity to work on that glorious description of you. Ooh, that's good. Thank you, Father. In the name of Jesus, we do pray. Amen and amen. You may be seated. Now, to be honest with you, we have spent the last three chapters, however many weeks it has been, ramping up the construction process, the reconstruction process, I should say, of the walls of Jerusalem, seeing exactly how it is going about with ourselves as we strive to rebuild Faith Baptist here. how churches anywhere, don't matter what name or location they are, how they can go about rebuilding. And I'm going to warn you, right here, right now, Chapter 4, Chapter 5, and Chapter 6, if you have not been doing the homework, a sneak peek for you, it's going to get discouraging. It's going to get rough. It's going to get painful. Because in these next three chapters, we are going to be witnessing the attacks of the enemy from the outside. We're going to be witnessing the attacks of the enemy from the inside. Oh, and then we're going to turn around and get some more attacks from the outside here. because we have an enemy that is seeking to demoralize us, that is seeking to bring us down, to stop the work in any way, shape, or form he can do. He is looking to do this so that we don't do anything that brings him harm. He wants to send every soul possible to hell right alongside of himself, but every soul that gets saved is one less that he's able to take to hell with him. And he don't want that happening. He don't want to see God receiving honor and glory. He don't want to see Christians who are actually joyful in the Lord. He don't want to see us being good servants, being good stewards for God Almighty. He wants to demoralize us in any way, shape he can. Because if he can bring us down, where we throw in the towel, where we decide, forget it, I'm done, I'll move right along to the next spot, I'll just go on home and stay home, whatever the case is there, he wins! And I don't want to make him a winner. He's a loser. Don't believe me? Look at the cross. He lost it all there. Right now he's just trying to gather whatever little victories he can get. But praise be to God, all the little victories he can get in this life, it still won't amount to being able to overcome the victory Jesus Christ got during the cross of Calvary. So we've got that to look forward to. But I want to show you some things here this morning about how the enemy is planning on making an effort to demoralize us. Notice with me here as we read these verses again. But it came to pass when Sanbalat heard that we built the wall. In other words, they're in the process of working on it. By the way, chapters 4, 5, and 6 take place during the events of chapter number 3. So they're working on the wall. that he was wroth and took great indignation and mocked the Jews. And we see here in verse number two that he spake before his brethren in the army of Samaria and said, What do these feeble Jews? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. What's he doing by making all these declarations disguised as questions? Let me just say this, church. He was tempting them. And we will find ourselves tempted as well. If we're going to serve God, if we're going to do things God's way, try to serve Him, doing the things that He has called upon us to do, we are going to find ourselves tempted. Hold your place here, because we are going to eventually come back. But go with me over to the book of 1 Corinthians, chapter number 10. I want to read a whole mess of verses for you here. in 1 Corinthians chapter number 10, and show you what I'm talking about at this moment. 1 Corinthians chapter number 10, the Apostle Paul, he's writing here, and he's got some things he's going to bring out from the Old Testament into the New Testament here, to try to illustrate the point he is getting at. He says, moreover brethren, verse number 1, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea, and were all baptized unto Moses in the cloud and in the sea, and did all eat the same spiritual meat, and did all drink the same spiritual drink. For they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. But with many of them God was not well pleased, for they were overthrown in the wilderness. Now these things were our examples. to the intent we should not lust after evil things as they also lusted. Okay? We all know the stories there about the children as they were during the exodus and making their way to the promised land. How they just had their fits. How they had their fights. How they just had to have things their way. And they just constantly were fighting against God. Now verse 7. Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them. As it is written, the people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play. Neither let us commit fornications, as some of them committed and fell in one day three and twenty thousand. Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted and were destroyed of serpents. Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer." Now, all these things happened unto them for in samples or patterns. You know what a pattern is? Anyone in here ever do any sewing? Got a pattern? We got Miss Heather, she's done. I see a couple more hands raised up there. And you've got that pattern. What you're trying to do is you are sewing to that pattern there. If you don't sew to the pattern, whatever it is you are making doesn't turn out right. And God is saying here, look, I'm establishing a pattern. This is what you ought not to do. If you try laying that pattern over the cloth and you go too far over, you're going to have a problem. You're going to run out of material. You're going to have material in all the wrong spots. You've got to follow the pattern. And God's saying, look, this is what you don't do. There are certain pattern men and women in the Bible that God uses as a warning sign. Do not enter. Extreme tire damage. Abandon hope, all ye that enter in. Don't go this way, because the enemy tempted these people. The enemy tempted them to start thinking bad about Moses. Got Aaron, his big brother, to get the big head and say, okay, I'll go ahead and make that golden calf y'all want. Got his big sister Miriam to say, Hey, God ain't spoken just by Moses. He's also spoken by me and Aaron as well. We know how that one turned out. She turned leprous, white as snow. They fell for the temptations. We got other people that came along and said, you Levites, you're taking too much upon yourselves. Ain't God? Talk to all of us. Ain't we all God's people? We all should be priests and priestesses. And a whole bunch of them got keelhauled over that. Temptation comes, church. Don't think we're better than we are. Don't think we're more than we are. But stay with me now. Verse 11. Now all these things happened unto them for examples, for patterns, for a mark, for an impression, a pattern of warning. And they are written for our admonition, our warnings, upon whom the ends of the world are come. Wherefore, let him that thinketh he standeth take heed, lest he fall. Now notice verse 13, great verse, this is a helping verse right here. There hath no temptation, no trial taken you, but such as is common to man. What that tells us right there, church, it ain't unique what you're going through. Someone else has already been there, done that, got the t-shirt, still don't fit. But God's also getting ready to tell us, church, they made it through, so can you. There's no temptation taking you such as is common to man, but God is faithful. who will not suffer you to be tempted above, that ye are able to bear, but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it. Each and every one of these people right here, they had a means of escape. They could have easily said, you know what, God's the one who put Moses in charge, and until he actually comes down and says, hey dummy, you also need to be in charge, I'm leaving Moses in charge. But they couldn't do it. They got the big head. They decided they're going to do things their way. And what happens? A bunch of them got themselves in bad trouble. We're going to be tempted, church. The enemy wants to tempt us because the enemy wants us to get off track. The enemy wants us to start thinking about things we got no business in here focusing on. We got too much to be looking at what God would have us to do. But instead, the enemy wants us to be looking at all the negatives. The enemy wants us to be holier than thou, looking at all these problems. Say, you know what? If I was in that position, this is what I would do. Hey, you know what? That person's got that problem. You know what? I think it should be resolved this way. Instead of us focusing on that, let's focus on what God's got in mind. He tells them, oh, let's turn over to Philippians real quick. Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians. Where is this at? Philippians, I'll tell you what verse is in a moment. I'll find it here in a moment. I think I will find it here in a moment. Whatsoever things there, Tim, I know it's here. I'll find it as soon as I hear this. 4-8. Finally, brethren, what sort of things are true? What sort of things are honest? What sort of things are just? What sort of things are pure? What sort of things are lovely? What sort of things are of good report? If there be any virtue and if there be any praise, throw these things out. Are you sure? I only heard one no. Nope. Are you trying to tell me I just read out of the wrong perversion? Oh. So, finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of a good report, if there be any virtue, if there be any praise, think on these things. Those things which ye have both learned and received and heard and seen in me, do. And the God of peace shall be with you. See, when we're being tempted, We're being tempted to do anything that is not of God. First way that God has made for us to be able to escape the temptation that wiped out so many there in the wilderness, that has wiped out so many Christians nowadays, is stop focusing in on how we would do things and start focusing on what God would have for us to do. Start following the Lord God Almighty. Think on these things. Anything that's true, anything that's honest, anything that's just, anything that's pure, any things that are lovely, of good report, any virtue in them. You're busy thinking about those things. You're not going to be busy thinking about all the negativity, about how much you want to get even with somebody, about how much somebody has hurt you. You're too busy thinking about God and how much He has blessed you. How much He wants to be a help to you. But not only will the effort to demoralize us be to tempt us, but it will also be to tail us. You look over at 1 Peter 5. We actually kind of dealt with this one there on Tuesday night Bible study, so miss a little, miss a lot. 1 Peter 5. And the reason I put it is you will be tailed. You think about it, Brother Tim, as you are driving down the road. Now, I don't know if it would happen so much in your bus, but in your regular car, OK, your regular car or motorcycle, truck, van, whatever it is you drive, you are driving down the road. And all of a sudden, you see that cop turn out of the parking lot, turn off the side street, whatever. And you're in one lane. And there's a completely open lane here. But the cop pulls in behind you. and he stays behind you. He may not be after you, but there's a part of you that's saying, echo. Keep it cool. Make sure you're doing everything right. Yeah, hands are at 10 and 12, or 10 and 2. Is it 10 and 2, or is it 2 and 10? Speed limit, speed limit. Oh, good night. I'm so close to hitting 36 in this 35. Oh, please. Please, Lord, don't let him pull me over for doing 36 miles an hour. Oh, Lord, I'll give tithes. I'll help out in the churches, and I'll do this, that, and the other. Just please don't let me hit 36 miles an hour, because I know he's going to pull me over, because he's following hard after me. The enemy's acting that way. 1 Peter 5.8, be sober, clear-minded, be vigilant on the alert. Because your adversary, your opponent, the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about seeking whom he may devour. He's looking for that one. One who's not paying a lick of attention. The one who's actually moved away from the herd. Who can he get? And he's noticing the one that's not looking out. And he's supremely confident that he's going to get her! And it happens. Because we've allowed ourselves to be separated from her. He's looking for the sick. He's looking for the tired. Mentally tired, spiritually tired, physically tired. He's looking for us, the ones that we just distanced ourselves from. Everybody else in the church, you know what, I'm sorry, but I got this that and the other thing to do. He's looking for the ones who are all braggadocious about what they're doing there. And they're making themselves separated because everybody else is doing the moonwalk when they come by. Nice seeing you, I'm out of here. Peace. He's looking for those. So that he can get it. And he's tailing us. And He knows if He stays on us, He's going to get us every single time. Because He's looking. And He's going to do it again. Somebody paid attention this time. You suddenly look back like, don't you dare do it again. But it happens, Church. But when we're paying attention, we're being a little bit vigilant, He realizes what's going on. He moves on to the next part. He's walking around. I've got a lot of something right now, you know? I won't get upset. Really good. Tom's sitting back there like, you know, I know I'm all by myself. Don't even try it. I will whoop you nine ways this Sunday. I didn't. Don't worry, Tom. I ain't going to mess with you. Here he is. He's looking. He's patient. He will follow us as long as it takes to get the job done. Because he knows he can do it. And he gets us anyway possible. Because we're not looking for the way he's coming. But he's tailing us. And he'll sneak up on us. Because then it becomes a matter. We put our guard down some other way. We decide we're done being bothered. And like that driver, 35 miles an hour, and we didn't realize that we're so focused on being 35 miles an hour, the speed limit actually just dropped to 30, and the cop lights us up. Cop wasn't actually looking for us, but now we just broke the law because we got too focused on the wrong thing. We will be tailed, tracked, hunted, because that's what he does, church. He's got to sneak up underneath the pew to get us, climb over the pew to get us, whatever it takes. Because if He can demoralize us, well, I might as well not drive anymore. I'm just going to get in trouble every time. I might as well not try to do anything at church because I'm just going to keep getting in trouble every single time. I might as well throw in the towel because every single time it happens. Bible's warning us. It's gonna happen. Accept that. Now work with it. Be sober, be vigilant. Verse number nine. Whom resists steadfast in the faith, knowing that the same afflictions are accomplished in your brethren that are in the world. But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while. Make you perfect. establish, strengthen, settle you. The enemy's going to tell you, it's going to be a while, accept it, and let God establish you, strengthen you, and settle you. I like being settled because I don't have to worry about being all shifty and it's like, well, God, do you want me here? God, do you want me doing that? No, I'm settled on this is what God would have for me to do. But when you're so focused on your being tailed by Satan, you're scared about every little thing you do. Number three, we will be torn up from the floor. In other words, depressed. I'm not going to have you turn there because that's too many verses to read, but Job chapters 1 and 2. And then you start reading some more chapters there. Look at Job. Lost most of his servants. Lost all of his wealth. Lost all of his children. Lost most of his health. Had his wife come to him and said, curse God and die already. Five things. Here come his three closest friends. Job, what have you done? We know you are a sinner. Six ways to Sunday. This guy is being torn up here. How many of us have friends who've done that to us? It's not like they're trying to demoralize us, but they succeed at demoralizing us. Far too often. And I don't read anywhere where Job was happy going around shouting, what a great week it's been. Ain't it grand what God has done to me, what God has allowed... I don't read that anywhere. Until you get to the end of chapter 42. The enemy wants to demoralize. And the enemy's good at it, church. Above all else, the enemy is good at it. He knows his job. And he knows us. In fact, there's a lot of us he knows better than we know ourselves. Okay? This is what he wants to do. Run with me to James chapter number 1. I want to show you that not only will we be tempted, we will be tailed, we will be torn up, but I want to show you also, in this effort to demoralize us, we can be transformed. James chapter number 1, verses 3 and 4. Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience, but let patience have her perfect work. that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. Let patience have her work. Perfect work, the Bible says. The word perfect there means complete. The enemy's trying to do something to us. He's trying to mess with us. He's trying to change us, to get our hearts to where we change direction away from God. But James tells us here, just be patient. Let God work through this. Let God work through what you're going through. See that God has got a broader view, a longer view than what we have here. He's going to take us somewhere. Romans chapter number 5. Romans chapter 5. We're coming toward the end here. I promise you it will be done in the next hour or so. Romans chapter 5 verse 3 through 5. And not only so, but we glory in tribulations. Why in the world should we be glorying in tribulations? That's painful. That's hurtful. That's pressure. I don't like that. But we glory in tribulations also knowing that tribulation worketh patience. Oh man. And patience experience. and experience hope. And hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost, which is given unto us. Paul just expanded upon here what James said. Patience. Tribulations worketh patience. Patience worketh experience. Experience worketh hope. And hope maketh not ashamed. Because while the enemy is trying to change us, while the enemy is coming in and he's attacking at individual spots here, the minute spots, the large spots, God is saying, I'm going to use it for my honor and glory. Just like he did with Job. But now run back there to Nehemiah chapter 4. I don't want to show you. I'm going to pull the bow here, the string here on this bow that I'm making. It's going to be a nice pretty bow. Nehemiah chapter 4 verses 2 and 3. I'm going to point out one word in each one of these verses here. Nehemiah chapter 4 verse 2. And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? Verse 3. Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, shall even break down their stone walls. So preacher, why in the world did you put such an emphasis on those two words? Well, number one, Sanballat said that the gates and stones had all been burned. Well, truth was, actually, the gates had been burned, but for the most part, the stones hadn't been. There was a lot of trash that had to be cleaned up, but really, stones hadn't been. Those two words, stones and stone, stones is literally just the plural of the word stone, and they are the same Hebrew word which means common stones. These weren't highly prized stones that were being used, just what was available. I'm going to be honest as I look around here, and if I'm wrong, please fill me in. I would appreciate it. I don't see anyone here who's a multi-millionaire. If you are a multi-millionaire, do not reveal yourself right now, but come and confess to the Lord and tell me after service. But anyways, I don't see any millionaires running around here. But what do I see? I see common people. That's not to be insulting. I see common people that are here. That God wants to use. That God is not trying to demoralize, but God is trying to encourage. To uplift us. So these were common stones. The most common stone there in the land is limestone. There are a few deposits of sandstone and dolomite around it, but the most common is limestone. In fact, we even still have a bit of architecture dating from the 2nd century BC that is made out of limestone. It is known as the Wailing Wall there on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. The limestone that was used as a soft sedimentary rock composed of calcite, in other words, calcium carbonate, also dolomite, which is simply a double carbonate of calcium and magnesium. Basically, it is composed of tiny fossils and fragments of fossilized debris. Limestone is generally gray in color, but can also be brown, yellow, or even white. It is vulnerable to acid, which includes salt. because salt draws in moisture and moisture breaks calcite down. In other words, it loses its bond, it falls apart. You see a nice little example of this over there in Leviticus 14 verses 40 through 44 where it's called leprosy in the house. Now limestone typically burns at 825 degrees Celsius. Now, what does that mean is Fahrenheit? Because we don't live in Europe. We don't really do the metric system a whole lot over here. I'm glad you asked. In Fahrenheit, that is 1,517 degrees. That's hot. Such temperature extremes release carbon dioxide. By the way, as I am talking, that's what I'm doing. I'm releasing carbon dioxide. As you are breathing out, you're exhaling, you're releasing carbon dioxide. That's interesting. and a substance called quicklime, which is highly valuable as a fertilizer. Two things about this real quickly. If you were to run over to Daniel 3, verses 19-30, you can look this up after church, we ain't got time to read all those verses there, but you will find Shadrach, Meshach, and Abiligot, they refused to bend, they refused to bow, and praise God, they did not burn, amen! And what happened was, The king ordered the fiery furnace to be heated up seven times hotter than normal. And he threw them in. And the men who went to throw them in, they were killed by the fire. But inside the burning, fiery furnace, there's four men walking around free. And the king said, I see four. And the fourth looks like the son of God. And he said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abiligot, come on out of there. They came on out. And suddenly, the king and everybody else gathered around him. And they're talking, wow, I can't believe it. The ropes are gone. I can't smell the fire. Their clothes are perfectly intact. Their hats are perfectly intact. And what do they do in church? They're talking. And they're saying, I can't believe what is taking place right here. And Shadrach, Meshach, and Abiligot, they're like, well, that's the Lord our God who's done it. They are exhaling carbon dioxide, and they are giving Praise to the Lord God Almighty. So much so that Nebuchadnezzar himself said, I declare whoever talks against the God of these three boys right here, I will make his house like a dung heap. If y'all don't know what a dung heap is, ask someone who was here on Tuesday night a few weeks ago. We dealt with that then. I don't got time to deal with it now. But it's going to be something horrible if you talk about their God in a negative way. And what happens? You've got witnessing going on. You've got testifying going on here, because they went to the fire, and God can take them through a whole lot more. By the way, fertilizing. all the work that Daniel had done in chapter number one. In chapter number two, they fertilized that ground real good. Here in chapter number three, and I realize that chapter number four begins somewhat on a downer note there, but you also gotta remember that chapter number four begins after the story is there. In chapter number four, after Nebuchadnezzar spends a total of seven years thinking he's an animal, acting like he's an animal, And he finally gets his heart, right? And he says, the Lord God, He is God! And I'll tell you this much, I don't care if you believe me or not, I believe we're going to see old Nebuchadnezzar there in heaven. I think that he got saved, amen. Because he got all the fertilizer right here from Shadrach, Meshach, and Billy Goat. But not only that about limestone. Oh yes, God can revive the stones from the rubbish. But if limestone is put under pressure, I'm talking about that song from a few years back. I'm talking about actual pressure on limestone. It turns, it changes into marble. It's marble. You talk about those little things that we used to shoot around as a kid? No, I'm talking about marble, what they make statues out of, countertops out of, decorative walls out of church. Under pressure, it gets changed. And when God takes and he puts us under pressure, it ain't to break us. It ain't to hurt us. It ain't to rob us of our joy. What it is, he's changing us into something he can use. I said, Preacher, I just don't know about that. OK, fine. Let's run over to the book of John, chapter number 16. We're gonna see a little bit of Brother Tim's thunder here. Of course, we got a few weeks to go on this before we get to 16, but that's a-okay. John, chapter number 16. Running over here as quick as I can, that's why I keep talking. Verse number 33. These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation. Trouble, trials, suffering, pressure. But be of good cheer, I have overcome the world. He's changing us into something church for His glory. So all the enemies seeking to demoralize us, all the problems that are coming our way, the things that are making us rethink where we are at, the things that are making us think, maybe I should just quit and move on. God's saying, hold on, I've got something coming for you. I'm trying to make a change right here that is going to bring blessings. All the way back there in our text, in verse number 2, the word was stones, plural. But in verse number 3, it said, stone. Many small stones put together to make one. There's a goal, church. It's going to hurt to get to it. It's going to stink getting to it at times. There are going to be times we are going to be filled with so, so many doubts, so much concern. But God wants us to stay the course. Like Job, our enemy, he can't do nothing to us that God does not allow. But also like Job, we can't come out the other side. and find blessings that we had no comprehension of whatsoever. The enemy wants us to focus on our past problems, our current problems, even our future problems, but God says, your past problems, your current problems, and your future problems, they all belong to me. Let me deal with it. So I've got two questions and a statement in closing as Ms. Heather comes with a song of invitation. Number one, Will we throw in the towel because we don't like what we are seeing, hearing, or going through? It's our choice. Number two, will we trust God to take these demoralizing tribulations of the enemy and make something grand with it instead? This statement is literally just a verse I want to read for you. I think Paul said it best in Acts 27.25. Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer, for I believe God that shall be even as it was told me. Our Father in heaven, Lord, you know everything that's been going on. But I'm grateful that none of us caught you by surprise. Yeah, there's a whole lot of things that will catch us by surprise. That's all there is to it. Nothing catches you by surprise. You knew the way already. That's part of you being the great shepherd. You've already gone this way so you know how to help your sheep. Lord, you certainly know what all thoughts have been. You know our faults, our failures. But you still loved us. You still chose to save us, even though you knew what was going to happen. I'm grateful, Father, for that. I'm grateful, Lord, that no matter how many times I want to give up, especially upon myself, you never have. Thank you. Thank you. Well, that's it for now, Father. We're going to get ready to dismiss here. Just ask you, Lord, please, for your will to be done in our lives. In the name of Jesus, we do pray. Amen and amen. Please stand. Jesus, Jesus, how I trust Him, how I believe Him, O I know. Jesus, Jesus, precious Jesus, Amen, amen. All hearts and minds are clear.
The effort to demoralize
Series Rebuilding in Nehemiah
The next three chapters are going to be painful. Not boring but reminders of vigilance that is required of everyone who seeks to do God's will. The enemy does not like our efforts and will bring pressure on us to stop, but God is doing something awesome in our lives so we must bear up.
Sermon ID | 6224914471070 |
Duration | 41:25 |
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Category | Sunday Service |
Bible Text | Nehemiah 4:1-3 |
Language | English |
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