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Nehemiah: Threats to Rebuilding
This week in Nehemiah 6 we look at the most common threats we face when we begin to rebuild our spiritual lives, our relationships, and our church. Nehemiah shows us how to respond to those threats and points us to Jesus Christ.
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Thanks for joining us today as we study in the book of Nehemiah. Dan Werthman, our interim pastor, will be leading us in a multi-week journey through the rebuilding of the city of Jerusalem's wall. In our lives and in our church we often feel as if there can be no recovery from a destructive past. However, Nehemiah shows us that there is nothing that cannot be rebuilt - as long as we seek God's will in our lives.
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“Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem”
Chapter 1 – A burden to rebuild is stirred by pain, rooted in God’s Word, and shaped by prayer.
• What are you grieved by? What is burdening you?
• What does God’s Word have to say about it?
• What are you sensing as you pray that you should do about it?
Chapters 2-3 – A burden to rebuild challenges the status quo and calls us to deal with the ‘rubble’.
• Are you willing to change so that rebuilding is possible?
• Are you willing to deal with the ‘rubble’?
Chapter 4-5 – A burden to rebuild draws opposition (external and internal).
• Are you willing to ‘count the cost’?
• Will you trust God to lead you through opposition?
1. ATTEMPTS WILL BE MADE TO DISTRACT YOU FROM REBUILDING.
Nehemiah 6:1: When 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 –
2. YOUR COMMITMENT TO REBUILDING WILL BE TESTED BY DISTRACTIONS.
Nehemiah 6:2: Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: "Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono." But they were scheming to harm me;
Nehemiah 6:4: Four times they sent me the same message,…
Nehemiah 6:3: so I sent messengers to them with this reply: I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?"
3. YOUR MOTIVES FOR REBUILDING WILL BE CHALLENGED AND ATTACKED.
Nehemiah 6:5-6: Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aid to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter 6 in which was written: "It is reported among the nations -- and Geshem says it is true -- that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and therefore you are building the wall.
Nehemiah 6:6-7: Moreover, according to these reports you are about to become their king 7 and have even appointed prophets to make this proclamation about you in Jerusalem: ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now this report will get back to the king; so come, let us confer together.”
Nehemiah 6:8: I sent him this reply: "Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your own head.”
Nehemiah 6:9: They were all trying to frighten us, thinking “
THREATS TO REBUILDING
Nehemiah 6:1-19
Dan Werthman
Sunday, October 1, 2017
NEHEMIAH’S BURDEN TO REBUILD:
“Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem”
Chapter 1 – A burden to rebuild is stirred by pain, rooted in God’s Word, and shaped by prayer.
• What are you grieved by? What is burdening you?
• What does God’s Word have to say about it?
• What are you sensing as you pray that you should do about it?
Chapters 2-3 – A burden to rebuild challenges the status quo and calls us to deal with the ‘rubble’.
• Are you willing to change so that rebuilding is possible?
• Are you willing to deal with the ‘rubble’?
Chapter 4-5 – A burden to rebuild draws opposition (external and internal).
• Are you willing to ‘count the cost’?
• Will you trust God to lead you through opposition?
1. ATTEMPTS WILL BE MADE TO DISTRACT YOU FROM REBUILDING.
Nehemiah 6:1: When 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 –
2. YOUR COMMITMENT TO REBUILDING WILL BE TESTED BY DISTRACTIONS.
Nehemiah 6:2: Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: "Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono." But they were scheming to harm me;
Nehemiah 6:4: Four times they sent me the same message,…
Nehemiah 6:3: so I sent messengers to them with this reply: “
3. YOUR MOTIVES FOR REBUILDING WILL BE CHALLENGED AND ATTACKED.
Nehemiah 6:5-6: Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aid to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter 6 in which was written: "It is reported among the nations -- and Geshem says it is true -- that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and therefore you are building the wall.
Nehemiah 6:6-7: Moreover, according to these reports you are about to become their king 7 and have even appointed prophets to make this proclamation about you in Jerusalem: ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now this report will get back to the king; so come, let us confer together.”
Nehemiah 6:8: I sent him this reply: "Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your own head.”
Nehemiah 6:9: They were all trying to frighten us, thinking “
4. YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO REBUILD CAN BE JEOPARDIZED BY REACTIVITY.
Nehemiah 6:10: One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, “Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you – by night they are coming to kill you.”
Nehemiah 6:11-12: But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Or should one like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!” I realized that God had not sent him but that he …
Nehemiah 6:15—16: So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. 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 POINTS US TO CHRIST
Nehemiah 6:2Nehemiah’s enemies plotted to lure to the plain of Ono in order to harm him.
Matthew 26:4
Nehemiah 6:7
Luke 20:20
Nehemiah 6:15 –
Nehemiah completed the work of restoring God’s glory to Jerusalem before all the surrounding nations.
John 19:30 – “It is finished!”
Jesus completed the saving work necessary to bring everyone who trusts in Him into a new relationship with God.
Nehemiah 6:10: One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, “Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you – by night they are coming to kill you.”
Nehemiah 6:11-12: But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Or should one like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!” I realized that God had not sent him but that he …
Nehemiah 6:15—16: So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. 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 POINTS US TO CHRIST
Nehemiah 6:2 Nehemiah’s enemies plotted to lure to the plain of Ono in order to harm him.
Matthew 26:4 The chief priests and elders plotted to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill him.
Nehemiah 6:7 Nehemiah’s enemies threatened to tell the Persian King of Nehemiah’s ‘rebellion’.
Luke 20:20 The scribes and chief priests tried to get Jesus to say something that could be reported to the Roman governor so he would arrest Jesus.
Nehemiah 6:15 – So the wall was completed.
Nehemiah completed the work of restoring God’s glory to Jerusalem before all the surrounding nations.
John 19:30 – “It is finished!”
Jesus completed the saving work necessary to bring everyone who trusts in Him into a new relationship with God.
“Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem”
Chapter 1 – A burden to rebuild is stirred by pain, rooted in God’s Word, and shaped by prayer.
• What are you grieved by? What is burdening you?
• What does God’s Word have to say about it?
• What are you sensing as you pray that you should do about it?
Chapters 2-3 – A burden to rebuild challenges the status quo and calls us to deal with the ‘rubble’.
• Are you willing to change so that rebuilding is possible?
• Are you willing to deal with the ‘rubble’?
Chapter 4-5 – A burden to rebuild draws opposition (external and internal).
• Are you willing to ‘count the cost’?
• Will you trust God to lead you through opposition?
1. ATTEMPTS WILL BE MADE TO DISTRACT YOU FROM REBUILDING.
Nehemiah 6:1: When 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 –
2. YOUR COMMITMENT TO REBUILDING WILL BE TESTED BY DISTRACTIONS.
Nehemiah 6:2: Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: "Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono." But they were scheming to harm me;
Nehemiah 6:4: Four times they sent me the same message,…
Nehemiah 6:3: so I sent messengers to them with this reply: I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and go down to you?"
3. YOUR MOTIVES FOR REBUILDING WILL BE CHALLENGED AND ATTACKED.
Nehemiah 6:5-6: Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aid to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter 6 in which was written: "It is reported among the nations -- and Geshem says it is true -- that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and therefore you are building the wall.
Nehemiah 6:6-7: Moreover, according to these reports you are about to become their king 7 and have even appointed prophets to make this proclamation about you in Jerusalem: ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now this report will get back to the king; so come, let us confer together.”
Nehemiah 6:8: I sent him this reply: "Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your own head.”
Nehemiah 6:9: They were all trying to frighten us, thinking “
THREATS TO REBUILDING
Nehemiah 6:1-19
Dan Werthman
Sunday, October 1, 2017
NEHEMIAH’S BURDEN TO REBUILD:
“Come, let us build the wall of Jerusalem”
Chapter 1 – A burden to rebuild is stirred by pain, rooted in God’s Word, and shaped by prayer.
• What are you grieved by? What is burdening you?
• What does God’s Word have to say about it?
• What are you sensing as you pray that you should do about it?
Chapters 2-3 – A burden to rebuild challenges the status quo and calls us to deal with the ‘rubble’.
• Are you willing to change so that rebuilding is possible?
• Are you willing to deal with the ‘rubble’?
Chapter 4-5 – A burden to rebuild draws opposition (external and internal).
• Are you willing to ‘count the cost’?
• Will you trust God to lead you through opposition?
1. ATTEMPTS WILL BE MADE TO DISTRACT YOU FROM REBUILDING.
Nehemiah 6:1: When 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 –
2. YOUR COMMITMENT TO REBUILDING WILL BE TESTED BY DISTRACTIONS.
Nehemiah 6:2: Sanballat and Geshem sent me this message: "Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain of Ono." But they were scheming to harm me;
Nehemiah 6:4: Four times they sent me the same message,…
Nehemiah 6:3: so I sent messengers to them with this reply: “
3. YOUR MOTIVES FOR REBUILDING WILL BE CHALLENGED AND ATTACKED.
Nehemiah 6:5-6: Then, the fifth time, Sanballat sent his aid to me with the same message, and in his hand was an unsealed letter 6 in which was written: "It is reported among the nations -- and Geshem says it is true -- that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt, and therefore you are building the wall.
Nehemiah 6:6-7: Moreover, according to these reports you are about to become their king 7 and have even appointed prophets to make this proclamation about you in Jerusalem: ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now this report will get back to the king; so come, let us confer together.”
Nehemiah 6:8: I sent him this reply: "Nothing like what you are saying is happening; you are just making it up out of your own head.”
Nehemiah 6:9: They were all trying to frighten us, thinking “
4. YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO REBUILD CAN BE JEOPARDIZED BY REACTIVITY.
Nehemiah 6:10: One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, “Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you – by night they are coming to kill you.”
Nehemiah 6:11-12: But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Or should one like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!” I realized that God had not sent him but that he …
Nehemiah 6:15—16: So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. 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 POINTS US TO CHRIST
Nehemiah 6:2Nehemiah’s enemies plotted to lure to the plain of Ono in order to harm him.
Matthew 26:4
Nehemiah 6:7
Luke 20:20
Nehemiah 6:15 –
Nehemiah completed the work of restoring God’s glory to Jerusalem before all the surrounding nations.
John 19:30 – “It is finished!”
Jesus completed the saving work necessary to bring everyone who trusts in Him into a new relationship with God.
Nehemiah 6:10: One day I went to the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home. He said, “Let us meet in the house of God, inside the temple, and let us close the temple doors, because men are coming to kill you – by night they are coming to kill you.”
Nehemiah 6:11-12: But I said, “Should a man like me run away? Or should one like me go into the temple to save his life? I will not go!” I realized that God had not sent him but that he …
Nehemiah 6:15—16: So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth day of Elul, in fifty-two days. 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 POINTS US TO CHRIST
Nehemiah 6:2 Nehemiah’s enemies plotted to lure to the plain of Ono in order to harm him.
Matthew 26:4 The chief priests and elders plotted to arrest Jesus in a treacherous way and kill him.
Nehemiah 6:7 Nehemiah’s enemies threatened to tell the Persian King of Nehemiah’s ‘rebellion’.
Luke 20:20 The scribes and chief priests tried to get Jesus to say something that could be reported to the Roman governor so he would arrest Jesus.
Nehemiah 6:15 – So the wall was completed.
Nehemiah completed the work of restoring God’s glory to Jerusalem before all the surrounding nations.
John 19:30 – “It is finished!”
Jesus completed the saving work necessary to bring everyone who trusts in Him into a new relationship with God.