Building Amid Turmoil Within (4)
Series: Rebuilt
Josh Malone
Nehemiah 5:1-19
ILLUS.- "It was an inside job."- That's what they say when a crime is committed against a company by someone within the company.--- This morning we are going to see a crime so to speak, that's an inside job.--- Nothing threatens the community of God's people like our own sin.
- When there is opposition from without, like we discussed last week, it can unify people, but internal opposition always brings disunity.
Last week we look at Neh. 4 & 6 and saw that Nehemiah and the Jews faced incredible opposition as they built the wall but with the good hand of the Lord upon them they prevailed and persevered. In chapter 5 they are going to face turbulence within the community.
This morning we are going to see a community on the verge of rupture. Their is a group rooted in selfish indifference towards there very brothers and they are greedily hurting and exploiting them.
We need to see this morning that how we treat others in the community of faith matters. How we use power and wealth matters. God desires us to walk in compassion not indifference, generosity not greed. Ultimately our relationship with God will show up in how we relate to others and when sin enters the picture... it must be DEALT WITH.
READ TEXT- Nehemiah 5:1-19
1. COMPLAINT OF THE OPPRESSED
[1] Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. [2] For there were those who said, "With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive." [3] There were also those who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine." [4] And there were those who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards. [5] Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slav ...
Series: Rebuilt
Josh Malone
Nehemiah 5:1-19
ILLUS.- "It was an inside job."- That's what they say when a crime is committed against a company by someone within the company.--- This morning we are going to see a crime so to speak, that's an inside job.--- Nothing threatens the community of God's people like our own sin.
- When there is opposition from without, like we discussed last week, it can unify people, but internal opposition always brings disunity.
Last week we look at Neh. 4 & 6 and saw that Nehemiah and the Jews faced incredible opposition as they built the wall but with the good hand of the Lord upon them they prevailed and persevered. In chapter 5 they are going to face turbulence within the community.
This morning we are going to see a community on the verge of rupture. Their is a group rooted in selfish indifference towards there very brothers and they are greedily hurting and exploiting them.
We need to see this morning that how we treat others in the community of faith matters. How we use power and wealth matters. God desires us to walk in compassion not indifference, generosity not greed. Ultimately our relationship with God will show up in how we relate to others and when sin enters the picture... it must be DEALT WITH.
READ TEXT- Nehemiah 5:1-19
1. COMPLAINT OF THE OPPRESSED
[1] Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. [2] For there were those who said, "With our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain, that we may eat and keep alive." [3] There were also those who said, "We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses to get grain because of the famine." [4] And there were those who said, "We have borrowed money for the king's tax on our fields and our vineyards. [5] Now our flesh is as the flesh of our brothers, our children are as their children. Yet we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slav ...
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