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The people of Jerusalem were building a wall and battling enemies outside their wall.
It was a grand, unifying project.
Nehemiah didn’t expect that another secret enemy would attack from within.
Enemy Playbook: 1.Mock; 2. Conspire; 3. Implode
Mock
Conspire
Implode
I.
A Cry for Compassion (1-5)
#3 on Satan’s Play book is selfishness.
When he can’t win by mocking and threatening from the outside, he tries to get those inside the nation to turn on each other through selfishness.
Selfishness means putting myself at the center of everything and insisting on getting what I want when I want it.
It means exploiting others so I can be happy and taking advantage of them just so I can have my own way.
It is not only wanting my own way but expecting everybody else to want my way too.
A. Hunger (1-2)
Hunger (1-2)
This Group still owned their land, but because their families were so big, they could not afford food and would soon have to sell their land just to eat.
B. Unfair Lending (3)
These Jews had already put up their land as collateral in order to buy food.
They borrowed from fellow Jews who were taking advantage of them by charging unfair interest rates.
C. Unfair Taxes (4)
As the saying goes, “2 things are certain, death and taxes.”
The king who sent Nehemiah to finish the wall was the same king who was taxing them relentlessly.
They naturally complained to Nehemiah who was known to the king.
D. Unfair Labor (5)
Lev.
25:39–40
Rich getting richer, poor getting poorer because of the greed of fellow Jews not caring for each other.
Lev.
25:39–40
Deut.
23:19–20
II.
Compassionate Rebuke (6-13)
A. Nehemiah was Angry (6)
Nehemiah was not a politician who asked, “What is popular?” or a diplomat who asked, “What is safe?” but a true leader who asked, “What is right?”
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B. Consultation (7)
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C. Public Rebuke (8-11)
Alistair Begg - “Righteous Indignation, Careful Contemplation, and Direct Confrontation”
1. Appeal of Love (8)
2. Appeal of Testimony (9)
3. Appeal of Example (10)
3. Appeal of Example (10)
4. Appeal to Restore (11)
5. Appeal to Judgment (12-13)
This great assembly was not an “economic summit”; it was a worship service where Nehemiah had lifted a financial problem to the highest possible level.
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Compassionate Example (14-19)
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A. Example in Mercy (14-15)
Nehemiah 5
B. Example in Work (16)
C. Example in Generosity (17-18)
D. Example in Reward (19)
expect problems to arise among your people.
Wherever you have people, you have the potential for problems.
Whenever God’s work is prospering, the enemy sees to it that trouble begins.
Don’t be surprised when your people can’t always get along with each other.
Second, confront the problems courageously.
“There is no problem so great that you can’t ignore it” might be a good philosophy for a character in a comic strip, but it won’t work in the Lord’s service.
Every problem that you ignore will only go underground, grow deeper roots, and bear bitter fruits.
Pray for God’s help and tackle the problem as soon as possible.
Third, be sure that your own integrity is intact.
A guilty conscience will rob you of the spiritual authority you need to give proper leadership, but every sacrifice you have made will give you the extra strength you need to defeat the enemy.
Finally, see in every problem an opportunity for the Lord to work.
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