BUILDING GOD'S WALL THROUGH COOPERATION (3 OF 5)
Scripture: Nehemiah 2:11-20
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Building God's Wall Through Cooperation (3 of 5)
Series: Build That Wall
Richard Bradley
Nehemiah 2:11-20
There's no doubt that Nehemiah had a big job. There's not a more graphic description of devastation in the Bible then what happened to Jerusalem. But, this was never really Nehemiah's job? This was a job for God's people. God put the project in Nehemiah's heart and then arranged for the needed materials but intended for the people to do the work.
Nehemiah needed a vision for building God's wall but so did the people. Their vision would come from the same source as Nehemiah's.
Proverbs 29:18
''Where there is no vision the people perish.''
Nehemiah needed the participation and cooperation of God's people because where there is no vision the people perish but where there is no work walls never get built.
11 So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.
12 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode.
13 And I went out by night through the Valley Gate to the Serpent Well and the Refuse Gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were burned with fire.
14 Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to pass.
15 So I went up in the night by the valley, and viewed the wall; then I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.
16 And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I had done; I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, or the others who did the work.
17 Then I said to them, ''You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.''
18 And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of t ...
Series: Build That Wall
Richard Bradley
Nehemiah 2:11-20
There's no doubt that Nehemiah had a big job. There's not a more graphic description of devastation in the Bible then what happened to Jerusalem. But, this was never really Nehemiah's job? This was a job for God's people. God put the project in Nehemiah's heart and then arranged for the needed materials but intended for the people to do the work.
Nehemiah needed a vision for building God's wall but so did the people. Their vision would come from the same source as Nehemiah's.
Proverbs 29:18
''Where there is no vision the people perish.''
Nehemiah needed the participation and cooperation of God's people because where there is no vision the people perish but where there is no work walls never get built.
11 So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.
12 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me; I told no one what my God had put in my heart to do at Jerusalem; nor was there any animal with me, except the one on which I rode.
13 And I went out by night through the Valley Gate to the Serpent Well and the Refuse Gate, and viewed the walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its gates which were burned with fire.
14 Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but there was no room for the animal under me to pass.
15 So I went up in the night by the valley, and viewed the wall; then I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.
16 And the officials did not know where I had gone or what I had done; I had not yet told the Jews, the priests, the nobles, the officials, or the others who did the work.
17 Then I said to them, ''You see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come and let us build the wall of Jerusalem, that we may no longer be a reproach.''
18 And I told them of the hand of my God which had been good upon me, and also of t ...
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