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I think it’s healthy for any organization or church to ask from Time to time: Why do we exist?
Why are we here?
We cannot assume everyone knows.
We cannot assume that everyone cares.
Set Context of Nehemiah — God’s people in Exile because they had disobeyed God and broken covenant.
Babylonians conquered, after 70 years, Persians conquered Babylon, and God led Cyrus to let the Jewish people return to Jerusalem.
Zerubbabel led them, but even though they finished the Temple, it wasn’t as glorious as the previous Temple and Jerusalem was in shambles.
Nehemiah
Nehemiah was a man of vision
Nehemiah was a man of vision
Nehemiah was a man of vision
Nehemiah was a man of vision
Nehemiah was a man of vision
He saw and was broken by what everyone else saw, but just considered normal.
The wall had been down for 100+ years.
Vision often begins by seeing things that are broken that others have written off as normal.
Nehemiah was a man of prayer
He had times of focused, intense prayer.
He had quit hitting prayers in the midst of life.
“Lord help me.”
Nehemiah was a man of great faith.
He not only asked for years off from his job, he asked his employer to pay for his vision.
Nehemiah was a man of Action
He wasn’t just bothered by the conditions of things, he left his comfortable, cushy job as cupbearer to the King, in order to lead God’s people in the rebuilding efforts.
Nehemiah was a leader.
He didn’t try to do everything himself.
Nehemiah was able to lead a group of people to help him reconstruct the wall.
He brilliantly put people in charge of the part of the wall right by their own homes.
They were far more vested in it being rebuilt well.
Nehemiah didn’t let opposition stop him.
Sanballit and Tobia began mocking him.
Things got dangerous when they actually made progress, then the taunting moved into actual opposition and attacks.
Nehemiah led the people to build the wall, while also protecting what they had built.
They employed the sword and the trowel.
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