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Well, my name is Kyle, and I'm pinch hitting for Nathan this morning.
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Nathan and his family, as Wes mentioned earlier, they're on vacation.
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They're suffering for Jesus on the beach, and so y'all be in prayer for him as he's suffering this week, I'm sure.
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I'm humbled to be here with you, though, to share God's Word.
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So if you have your copy of God's Word, I invite you to turn with me to Nehemiah 5.
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Nehemiah 5.
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And as you're turning there, I want to hopefully catch you up on where we are in Nehemiah.
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In case you haven't been here with us, we've been walking through the book of Nehemiah.
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And Nehemiah is a book that really centers around the story of a great city, the city of Jerusalem.
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Jerusalem is a city that's really fallen into disrepair, and the people who live there have essentially fallen into disrepair as well.
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So God burdened a man named Nehemiah, who was the cupbearer to the king, the king of Persia,
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to rebuild this city and to restore the hearts of its people back to God.
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Essentially the theme of Nehemiah in a nutshell.
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In the earlier chapters of Nehemiah, Nehemiah was opposed by outsiders.
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He has seen a lot of opposition to this mission that he's on, to rebuild the wall of Jerusalem.
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And so in that opposition, he's struggled through it.
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He's overcome a lot of opposition.
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And up until we get to chapter 5, most of the opposition is coming from outside of the city.
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People who don't want the people of God influencing the city of Jerusalem.
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And we get to chapter 5 and we begin to see some opposition coming from within.
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Opposition coming from within the city of Jerusalem.
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Anybody ever experience that?
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The people that you thought should be the closest to you?
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The people that you think are the believers in your inner circles?
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And all of a sudden you experience opposition from that?
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Sometimes we do.
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Sometimes we experience opposition from within.
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And Nehemiah finds himself in a place where he's having to deal with some things.
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I wish we could go through the whole chapter, chapter 5.
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I wish I could focus on the whole chapter.
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We'd literally be here for a couple hours.
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So you can thank me later for not doing an entire chapter of chapter 5 of Nehemiah.
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But in the beginning of chapter 5, we see the rich people are essentially taking advantage of the poor.
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They're committing a sin that's known as usury.
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I have to explain this a little bit because usury today is defined a little bit different than usury was defined back then.
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Today, usury is defined as charging excessive interest on loaned money.
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It doesn't happen a lot today because in our country we have checks and balances that prevent things like that from happening.
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But back then, usury was defined as any interest charged to your fellow countrymen.
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And so Jews were not allowed to charge interest on borrowed money to their fellow Jews.
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It was illegal in God's law.
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And so that's what's going on here.
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They're basically the rich are getting richer, the poor are getting poorer.
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They're charging money to their own countrymen.
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And tragically as well, Nehemiah finds himself, the great leader, falling and succumbing to the same sin.
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And he himself had to repent publicly and really followed it up.
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He's an incredible leader.
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He realizes his sin.
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He repents publicly of that sin.
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And then he goes on to repay all the people, all the money that he owes back to them.
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And that's essentially what we're picking up in Nehemiah chapter 5.
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We want to start in verse 14.
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And Nehemiah says this,
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Moreover, from this day, I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah from the 20th year to the 32nd year of King Artaxerxes.
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That's the ruler in the day.
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For a full 12 years, Nehemiah was undertaking this urban rebuilding project.
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For 12 years, neither I nor my kinsmen have eaten of the governor's food allowance.
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So the first principle that we're really seeing in this passage is that we must understand that first we've got to understand our mission.
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What is our mission?
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And Nehemiah's mission was to rebuild a wall.
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He moved into Jerusalem.
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And his little bit more than that, we're going to get into that in a minute.
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But Nehemiah's mission is essentially to come into Jerusalem and to rebuild the wall, to reconstruct the city.
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It's in disrepair.
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But what is our mission today?
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Matthew 28.
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To go and make disciples of all nations.
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Baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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It's Acts 1.8.
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You'll receive power when the Holy Spirit comes upon you.
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You'll be my witnesses in Judea, Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
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That is the mission that's given to us.
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It's not the great suggestion.
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It's the great commission.
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God has called all believers to this.
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It's not just pastors and people who are in vocational ministry.
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We're missionaries.
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It's all believers are called to this commission.
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We're all commissioned to do the great commission.
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Which is to make disciples of all nations.
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That is our mission.
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So first, we've got to understand the mission that God has called us to.
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Secondly, we must accept the fact that there are times when our personal interests are misaligned with the mission.
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There are times when the needs of the mission call for us to give up some of our personal interests and our personal desires.
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And we'll find ourselves as believers in situations where we have to serve the needs of the mission at our own personal expense.
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What that means is, for example, you're a person who is one to get married or maybe you are married in this room this morning.
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And there's times when the needs or desires of your spouse will have to supersede your own needs and desires.
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And we, being loving spouses, we sacrifice sometimes our own desires because it's what we're called to do.
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We're called to love our spouses in Scripture.
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To put it in the words of my seminary president, Dr. Danny Akin, he's a real funny guy at times.
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And he says, man, if you haven't figured it out already, I'll let you in on a little secret that I learned a long time ago.
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Women, they give you two options.
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You can either be right or you can be happy.
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He said, I just assume be happy.
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You parents in the room, you can relate to this as well.
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How many of you who are parents in this room, but whether you have little ones now or whether you used to have little ones,
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would have rather have been sleeping at night than being up awake with your children as they're crying,
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or better yet, if your children are throwing up and you're having to clean up the mess.
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There's often times when that happens.
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I remember my dad sitting in the back row right now.
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I remember a time when my dad literally caught it in his hands.
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And he had to carry it to the toilet and clean himself up afterwards.
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It's what we do as parents.
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We sometimes sacrifice our own needs or wants or desires to see that our children are raised in a godly manner.
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It's the same way in our calling as Christians, particularly as it relates to our commission to make disciples.
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It means that there are times when we make sacrifices.
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You might have to give up watching your favorite TV show one week in order to have a family over for dinner.
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Maybe neighbors that you're wanting to minister to that you have over for dinner.
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It might mean that you give up your cable or satellite service altogether so that you have the extra money to be able to help a family put food on their table.
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A family who's struggling to put food on their table.
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You see, this is what's going on in this text.
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Nehemiah is working in a situation where as a governor, he has the legal right to tax the people as much as he wanted to.
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And he could have made himself a very wealthy person.
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He could have been very affluent.
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He could have had all the nice things that the world could offer him in that day.
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But what he determines to do is not to impose an additional tax burden upon the people.
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And he takes it a step further.
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He forgoes his salary.
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For 12 years, he essentially works for free.
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He doesn't take anything out of the governor's food allowance.
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How many of you would be willing to do that?
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Your boss comes up to you and says,
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You know, the times are kind of lean right now and we're not going to be able to afford to pay for 12 years.
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So if you'd just work for free for 12 years, that'd be really great.
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And by the way, we're going to make you pay for your desk as well.
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We don't have enough money to buy you a desk.
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And we're going to have to pay for your laptop.
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And you're probably going to be traveling a lot for your job.
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So you're going to have to pay for your own car and your own gas mileage.
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We don't have money to pay for that stuff.
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Oh, and by the way, you might die in your job.
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How many of you are going to take that offer?
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There's no hands, right?
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No, you're going to say, I think I'm going to find a better job.
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Something that's not going to cost me hundreds of thousands of dollars and possibly my life.
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But Nehemiah is willing to set aside his own interest for the sake of the calling on his life.
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Furthermore, he tells us in verse 15,
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The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people
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and took from them bread and wine besides 40 shekels of silver.
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What I hope we're beginning to see as we travel through this book is that Nehemiah is kind of a different guy.
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He's not the typical leader.
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And he's really not the typical person to begin with.
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He is set apart for the glory of God.
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He has set himself apart.
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He doesn't do things the way that previous leaders have done them.
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He says,
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Just because former governors lay these tax burdens upon the people doesn't mean that I should.
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Nehemiah goes against the grain of the culture,
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and he went to great lengths to be unusual.
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But why?
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We see it as we continue reading on.
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It says,
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Even their servants domineered the people,
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but I did not do so because of the fear of God.
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So we're beginning to see the whole picture here.
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We're beginning to see the whole picture that Nehemiah isn't just being different for the sake of being different.
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He's not being different just so the people would like him.
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He's being different because he is set apart for the glory of God.
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He is a man who loves God.
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He's a man who understands the mission.
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He's a man who wants to fulfill that mission no matter what the cost.
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And what we learn and glean from Nehemiah is that if we're going to fulfill this mission that God has set before us,
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and if we're going to live a life that's set apart,
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it's going to come at some personal cost to us sometimes.
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For some of us, it might cost a job.
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I have a friend who used to work for a big insurance company.
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I won't name the company.
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I don't want to talk bad about a company by any means.
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But he was an underwriter for an insurance company.
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His boss came up to him one day and he said,
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you know, Adam, we're going to send you on a business trip.
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And we're going to send you with your female co-worker, just the two of them.
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He's a married man.
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He made a commitment not to travel alone with another woman that's not his wife.
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So he explains to his boss, I appreciate the opportunity, but I'm not going to be able to do that.
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I'll be happy to pay for my own rental car.
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I'll be happy to pay for my own hotel room.
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I'll be happy to pay whatever expenses I have to pay in order to not do that.
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So his boss goes to the human resources representatives for the company and they say,
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look, you can't make him based off of religious reasons.
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So the boss is like, okay, well, fine.
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I'll go back to our employee.
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And so he goes back to my friend and he says,
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look, I can't make you go on this business trip,
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but what I'm going to tell you is that you're not going to make it very far in this company
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if you're not willing to take these types of business trips.
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And he said, fine, I understand.
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See, my friend was willing to be set apart for the glory of God.
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He was willing, if it cost him his job, he was willing to go,
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to move to a different position, to move to a different job in order to be set apart, to be different.
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And I submit to you that Nehemiah is somebody who is being different in this case.
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Maybe your job has been the excuse for you.
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Maybe you've been so busy in your job
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and that's the excuse for the reason why you haven't been sharing the gospel with people.
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Maybe you've delayed your mission, the Great Commission,
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and your job has been your excuse.
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It might be that God's calling you to free up some time in your life
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in order to fulfill the Great Commission.
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It might be that God's calling you to use some of your own personal finances
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to go toward a foreign mission trip to share the gospel with unreached people groups.
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Or maybe you're a business owner.
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God's calling you to take your business in a new direction
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to give a percentage of those funds
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in order to help fund mission groups that would be serving both here and abroad.
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There's a great example of a company that does this on a regular basis.
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It's Chick-fil-A.
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And if you decided you wanted to go get a Chick-fil-A after church today,
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if you wanted to go get a big, juicy Chick-fil-A chicken sandwich,
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you know that we all...
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Or maybe you're like a...
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Maybe you like the Cool Wraps.
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I don't know what your preference is.
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But, man, everything that they serve is just so good.
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It doesn't just taste good.
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We all just crave Chick-fil-A sometimes.
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And it seems like we always crave Chick-fil-A the most on Sundays, right?
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Because why?
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You can't go to Chick-fil-A.
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If you go to Chick-fil-A today, you're going to be very disappointed
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because they're closed.
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But why are they closed?
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Because the leadership at Chick-fil-A believes it's important
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for their employees to be able to attend a corporate worship service
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if they so choose.
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Chick-fil-A also gives a lot of money
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away to things like their wind-shaped camps
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and make an impact on Georgia's children
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and children all over the place.
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They go to their camps.
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But would Chick-fil-A make more money
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if they were open seven days a week as opposed to six?
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Of course they would.
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In fact, Sundays are some of the biggest revenue-making days
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for the fast food industry.
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But they close their doors
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because they understand
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sometimes the mission that's before us
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will cost us.
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You say, well, I don't own a business
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and I don't really have a lot of money to give away.
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That's okay.
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I know exactly where you are.
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I completely understand.
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In fact, the Apostle Paul also understood
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when he wrote in Philippians 4,
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where he says,
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I know what it's like to be in need.
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I know what it's like to have plenty.
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I've learned the secret of being content
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in any and every situation,
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whether well-fed or hungry.
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So Paul had learned what it was to be content,
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whether he had a lot of food,
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whether he had a lot of things,
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or whether he had very, very little.
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But I guarantee you,
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there's a place in Paul's life
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where he was not content.
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And Paul was never content
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with where he was with the spread of the gospel.
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He always knew there was more towns to visit,
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that there were more people to share the gospel with,
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and there was more strangers to meet
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to make an impact on them with the gospel.
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That's one thing that Paul completely understood.
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And you see, it doesn't matter
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where we stand financially.
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It doesn't matter where we stand spiritually.
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With 4.5 billion people in the world today
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that are without Jesus.
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I want you to just let that soak into your mind
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and into your heart right now.
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4.5 billion people in this world without Jesus.
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1.4 billion of those people
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have no access to the gospel.
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We can't really fathom that in our culture.
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You see, we live in a culture
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where the Bible is translated,
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I don't know how many times,
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but probably at least 50 times
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in our own language.
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There's people who don't even have access
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to the scripture
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that we have access to each and every day.
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They don't even have access to it
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in their own language.
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1.4 billion people.
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Zero access to the gospel.
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Believers.
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There is much more to be done.
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Too few of us in our culture
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are sacrificing for the mission.
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This mission is going to cost us something.
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What Nehemiah here is saying
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is that God has placed this desire in my heart.
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It doesn't matter how much the cost.
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It doesn't matter how much it is.
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It's all worth it
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to be able to see people's lives
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and people's hearts changed.
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Verse 16.
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I also applied myself to the work on this wall.
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We did not buy any land
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and all my servants were gathered there for the work.
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There's a couple things going on here.
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First of all, he mentions land.
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Specifically, he mentions not buying any land.
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Let me tell you how this would work.
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Let's say you have a place
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that's very depressed economically.
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A city like Jerusalem.
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And the people there are suffering
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because of the economy.
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But on top of that,
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simultaneously, what's going on
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is that there is a famine.
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There's shortage on money.
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There's shortage on food.
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And what Nehemiah could have done
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is he could have moved into town.
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He could have raised the taxes.
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And then he could have thereby
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decreased the land value.
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And he could have bought up all of their land
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at pennies on the dollar.
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Just a fraction of the cost.
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Thereby being a burden on the people.
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What Nehemiah is saying,
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he says, no,
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while that might be legal,
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that's not something that I'm interested in doing.
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That's not something that God would want me to do.
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The second part of this verse.
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All my servants were gathered there for the work.
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Nehemiah is saying,
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not only have I been an example financially,
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but I'm also being an example in my work,
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in my obedience in my work.
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So what Nehemiah is really indicating to us here
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is that a leader must be willing to persevere,
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to give their lives to the cause,
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and be willing to pay the price for the mission.
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Then he gives us another leadership insight,
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beginning in verse 17.
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And I love this.
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I hope that you can track with me through this
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because this is so intriguing to me.
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It says,
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Moreover, there are at my table
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150 Jews and officials,
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besides those who came to us
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from the nations that were around us.
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Wait a minute.
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How many people was he inviting over for dinner?
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150?
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And they sat where?
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At my table?
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I don't know about you,
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but that has got to be some really gargantuan table
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for 150 people.
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Maybe they were just really small people.
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You never really know.
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It says,
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Now what was prepared?
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At whose expense?
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At my expense?
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Nehemiah's personal expense.
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Can you imagine a dinner party every night
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for 150 people?
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Can you imagine the cost of that?
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It says,
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Now that that which was prepared for each day
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was one ox,
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six choice sheep.
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Also birds were prepared for me.
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And once in ten days,
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all sorts of wine were furnished in abundance.
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Prepared each day.
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And these were lavish meals.
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And Nehemiah's paying for it all.
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And he says,
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Yet for all of this,
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I did not demand the governor's food allowance
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because the servitude was heavy on his people.
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You say,
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Well, great.
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That's awesome.
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You know,
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Nehemiah,
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he had a bunch of people over to his house
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around what must have been a huge table.
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And he was doing these big dinner parties.
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What does that mean for us in our culture today?
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I want you to track with me here
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because mealtime in Scripture,
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I know this is going to sound silly at first,
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but meals are incredibly important in Scripture.
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I want you to think back with me to Genesis.
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The story begins where there's a Trinitarian God,
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a God that exists in three persons,
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the Father,
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the Son,
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and the Holy Spirit.
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This God creates the world
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and everything that's in it.
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And in that world,
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He creates man
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in His own image
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and His own likeness.
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And there's one thing,
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before sin enters the world,
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there's one thing that God says isn't good.
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And that's that man should not be alone.
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It's not good for man to be alone.
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So what we see from the very beginning
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that God is a relational God
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and that He's created us to be relational people.
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And from the very beginning,
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we begin to see that.
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But what happens is something tragic happens.
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Adam and Eve partake of fruit,
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which they were forbidden to eat.
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They partake of a meal outside of God's will.
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sin enters into the world.
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And God made a promise to us in Genesis 3.15
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that Jesus Christ,
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the second member of that Trinity,
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would enter into human history.
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Even as early as Genesis 3,
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we had that prophecy.
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And then you zoom forward,
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Jesus comes.
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Jesus being a pretty important guy, right?
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He is God.
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He's pretty important.
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He,
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over and over and over and over again,
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throughout His life,
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throughout His ministry,
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He takes time to sit down
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and to eat with people.
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He has dinner with them.
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In fact,
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His ministry even begins
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at a wedding feast.
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The wedding at Canaan,
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where He turns water into wine.
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That's where His ministry begins,
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is at a meal.
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Then,
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Jesus,
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over and over again,
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spends a good portion of His life
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at the dinner table
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eating with sinners like Zacchaeus.
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And it,
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man,
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it lit the Pharisees on fire.
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These religious leaders of the day,
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they hated the fact that He ate with sinners.
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And they would whisper among themselves,
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Can He believe that He's eating with sinners?
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Surely,
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if He was God,
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He would know those people were sinners.
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But Jesus found it incredibly important
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to spend time with sinners,
21:51
to eat with sinners.
21:54
He sits down and has a drink beside
21:56
a well in Samaria with an outcast,
21:59
a woman who is an outcast.
22:02
He also made time to eat with His friends
22:03
like Mary, Martha, Lazarus.
22:06
Then,
22:07
as the cross was approaching,
22:08
as His death was imminent,
22:11
He has the most famous meal
22:12
in all of human history,
22:14
where He sits down with His twelve disciples.
22:17
We call it the Last Supper.
22:19
And this meal is the reason why
22:21
each and every week,
22:22
we participate in the Lord's Supper.
22:25
This idea that the bread
22:27
symbolizes Jesus' body that was broken.
22:30
And the juice that we drink,
22:32
it symbolizes His blood.
22:35
And we partake of this meal
22:37
in order to remember the sacrifice
22:39
that Jesus made for us on the cross.
22:41
The sacrifice that would reconcile us back to God,
22:44
but not only reconcile us back to God,
22:46
but to reconcile all of us
22:48
back to one another.
22:51
And that's why we do it each and every week.
22:52
That's why we participate in the Lord's Supper
22:54
each and every week.
22:55
We partake of the elements
22:56
so that we can remember
22:59
the sacrifice that Jesus paid for us
23:01
on the cross.
23:03
Then you get to the very end of Scripture.
23:06
Just a few chapters
23:06
from the very end of Revelation.
23:08
It's Revelation 19.
23:10
We see another meal.
23:11
And man,
23:11
this meal is going to be incredible.
23:15
It's a meal in which
23:15
all people,
23:17
everyone who's ever
23:18
accepted Jesus
23:19
as their Lord and Savior,
23:21
we're all gathered together.
23:22
Every tribe,
23:23
tongue,
23:23
nation,
23:23
language,
23:24
everybody is gathered all together
23:26
and we're celebrating
23:27
the second coming of the Lamb.
23:30
The second coming of Christ.
23:31
And let me tell you something.
23:33
In this meal,
23:34
there's going to be
23:34
stuff there
23:35
that you've literally
23:36
never seen before.
23:37
It's going to be like
23:38
nothing you've ever seen before.
23:40
It's going to be amazing.
23:41
It's going to be a celebration.
23:42
It's going to continue
23:43
through eternity.
23:46
And so we see that
23:47
sin enters into the world
23:48
with a meal.
23:49
And yet God concludes
23:52
this story
23:53
as we head into eternity
23:55
with a meal.
23:57
And all throughout Scripture
23:58
we see how important meals are.
24:00
And the reason why
24:00
this is important
24:01
is because
24:01
what Nehemiah is trying to do
24:04
is he's seeking
24:05
to transform a city.
24:08
And he determines
24:08
that one of the most
24:09
effective ways to do this
24:10
is through demonstrating
24:12
hospitality toward people.
24:13
Showing them how much
24:14
he cares about them.
24:16
And he's chosen to do that
24:18
through inviting people over
24:19
into his home
24:20
and into his life.
24:24
And I submit to you
24:24
that it's going to take
24:25
us as a church family
24:27
as believers
24:28
it's going to take us
24:30
turning strangers
24:31
into friends
24:31
to impact
24:34
North Georgia
24:35
for the glory of God.
24:38
I'll give you
24:38
one example
24:40
of one of the many ways
24:41
that this can really work
24:42
in your lives.
24:43
We
24:43
as a seminary student
24:46
I went out to eat
24:46
one time
24:47
in the city of Raleigh
24:49
North Carolina
24:49
we went to go eat
24:51
just as a fellowship
24:52
of believers
24:53
we wanted to
24:54
kind of go have fun
24:55
that night
24:55
and to eat together
24:56
so we went to this restaurant
24:58
and we're having a good time
24:59
just had a good conversation
25:01
you know how things
25:01
normally go
25:02
when you go out
25:03
to eat with people.
25:05
One of my friends
25:05
gets up during the middle
25:06
of the dinner
25:08
that we're having
25:08
and goes to the restroom
25:10
and on his way back
25:11
he notices
25:11
that there
25:12
is what looks like
25:13
a single mom
25:14
sitting there
25:14
having dinner
25:15
with her children.
25:17
And so he comes back
25:18
to the table
25:19
and he says
25:19
hey guys
25:19
explains to us
25:21
I've seen this lady
25:23
over here
25:23
eating with her children
25:24
I think she's a single mom
25:25
and I don't know why
25:27
but I feel like
25:27
we should pay
25:28
for her dinner tonight.
25:30
And so we
25:31
kind of shrugged
25:31
our shoulders
25:32
who are we
25:33
to say
25:34
that God's not
25:35
really truly speaking
25:36
to you
25:36
so sure
25:36
let's do it.
25:37
So we arranged
25:38
for our waitress
25:39
to go get
25:40
her waitress
25:40
and to get us
25:41
the bill
25:42
instead of her
25:43
the bill
25:43
and we would
25:44
make all the arrangements
25:44
set it all up
25:45
we get the bill
25:46
we all chip in
25:47
you know
25:48
five bucks or so each
25:49
there's four or five
25:50
of us there
25:50
I think it didn't
25:51
take too much
25:52
for us to pay
25:52
for her meal
25:53
and we give
25:56
the money
25:57
to our waitress
25:57
and they take
25:58
care of everything
25:59
and I'd like
26:00
to be able
26:00
to tell you
26:00
that this was
26:01
a life changing
26:01
thing for this
26:02
single mom
26:03
I wish I could
26:04
tell you that
26:04
to be honest
26:06
with you
26:06
it was kind
26:06
of awkward
26:07
you know
26:08
people don't
26:09
normally pay
26:10
for other people's
26:10
meals
26:11
sitting at other
26:12
tables
26:12
in a restaurant
26:13
so this lady
26:14
comes up to us
26:15
on our way
26:15
out the door
26:16
and just kind
26:16
of says
26:16
thanks
26:18
and kind
26:21
of walks
26:21
out the door
26:21
we didn't know
26:23
what to say
26:23
to her
26:23
she didn't
26:23
really know
26:24
what to say
26:24
to us
26:24
and we went
26:26
on about
26:26
eating our
26:26
meal
26:27
and she went
26:27
on about
26:28
her life
26:28
about five
26:29
minutes later
26:30
our waitress
26:32
comes up to
26:32
us
26:32
and she says
26:33
why would
26:36
you do
26:36
something like
26:37
that
26:37
and we
26:39
just
26:40
replied back
26:41
to her
26:42
well we're
26:42
just
26:42
we're all
26:43
saved by
26:43
the grace
26:44
of God
26:44
by the blood
26:45
of Jesus
26:45
and we
26:46
we just want
26:46
to share
26:47
the love
26:47
of Jesus
26:47
with people
26:48
and we
26:48
thought that
26:49
that might
26:49
be a simple
26:49
way to show
26:50
this mom
26:51
the love
26:52
of Jesus
26:52
she was like
26:54
okay
26:55
she went on
26:57
about her
26:57
business
26:58
serving other
26:58
tables and
26:59
what not
26:59
we went on
27:00
about eating
27:01
our meal
27:01
about five
27:03
minutes later
27:03
she's making
27:04
her rounds
27:04
again
27:04
she comes
27:05
back to
27:05
our table
27:06
and she
27:06
says
27:06
can I
27:08
just ask
27:08
you guys
27:09
something
27:09
what church
27:11
do you go
27:12
to
27:12
she was
27:14
almost in
27:15
tears
27:15
she was
27:15
almost kind
27:15
of broken
27:16
up at this
27:16
point
27:17
we all
27:18
went to
27:18
different
27:19
churches
27:19
so we
27:19
explained
27:20
to her
27:20
we don't
27:20
all go
27:21
to the
27:21
same
27:21
church
27:21
we can
27:22
recommend
27:22
some good
27:22
churches
27:23
for you
27:23
if you're
27:23
interested
27:24
and she
27:25
said
27:25
she wanted
27:26
to tell
27:26
us a story
27:27
about how
27:27
she was
27:27
experienced
27:29
brokenness
27:30
within the
27:30
church
27:30
that she
27:31
had kind
27:31
of been
27:31
burned
27:32
by church
27:32
people before
27:33
in the
27:33
past
27:34
and she
27:37
said
27:37
you know
27:38
I haven't
27:38
really since
27:39
then had
27:40
a desire
27:40
to go to
27:41
church
27:41
but if
27:42
there's a
27:42
church somewhere
27:43
out there
27:43
doing what
27:43
you guys
27:44
are doing
27:44
then that's
27:46
something I
27:46
want to be
27:46
a part of
27:47
I don't
27:49
tell you
27:50
that story
27:50
to pat
27:52
myself on
27:53
the back
27:53
I don't
27:53
tell you
27:53
that story
27:54
to you
27:54
you know
27:56
make much
27:57
of myself
27:57
it wasn't
27:58
even my
27:58
idea to
27:59
do it
27:59
it was
28:00
my friend's
28:00
idea
28:01
I tell you
28:02
that story
28:02
to show you
28:03
what a little
28:03
hospitality
28:04
can do
28:04
what a little
28:05
trying to
28:06
reach out
28:06
to somebody
28:07
can do
28:07
when you
28:07
do it
28:08
in the
28:08
name of
28:08
Jesus
28:09
and we
28:11
had no
28:11
idea
28:11
when we
28:12
decided
28:12
that we
28:13
were going
28:13
to pay
28:13
for the
28:14
single mom's
28:15
dinner
28:15
we had
28:15
no idea
28:16
that would
28:16
make an
28:16
impact
28:17
such a
28:17
big impact
28:18
on a
28:18
waitress
28:19
that was
28:20
serving us
28:20
that night
28:21
sometimes it
28:23
takes something
28:23
very incredibly
28:25
simple
28:25
in order to
28:27
make a huge
28:28
impact for
28:29
God
28:30
Nehemiah as
28:31
a leader
28:31
understands this
28:32
principle
28:33
he's having
28:34
people over
28:34
for dinner
28:35
he's interacting
28:36
with the
28:36
people
28:36
he could have
28:37
just moved
28:37
into Jerusalem
28:38
if he wanted
28:38
to and not
28:40
have paid much
28:40
attention to the
28:41
people he could
28:41
have just rebuilt
28:42
the wall and
28:43
just moved on
28:43
with his
28:44
business
28:44
but he
28:45
doesn't do
28:46
that
28:46
I hope that
28:48
what we're
28:48
beginning to
28:49
see is that
28:51
it was more
28:52
about building
28:53
a people than
28:54
it was about
28:55
building a wall
28:55
you see the
28:57
task on the
28:58
surface level
28:58
looks like he's
28:59
rebuilding the
29:01
city of Jerusalem
29:01
as physically
29:03
what's going on
29:04
here in the
29:05
process is that
29:05
God is using
29:06
Nehemiah to
29:07
rebuild his
29:08
people to
29:08
turn the
29:09
hearts of the
29:10
people of
29:10
Jerusalem back
29:11
to God
29:12
so next time
29:15
that you're
29:17
near a coffee
29:18
shop just go
29:19
around introducing
29:20
yourself
29:20
it might seem
29:22
a little awkward
29:23
at first
29:23
in fact
29:24
you might freak
29:25
a few people
29:26
out
29:26
just walking
29:27
up to them
29:27
and say
29:27
hey my name
29:28
is so and
29:28
so is there
29:29
anything that I
29:29
can pray about
29:30
for you
29:30
it would be
29:32
fun
29:33
it would be
29:33
something interesting
29:34
it would be
29:34
something interesting
29:35
later on to
29:36
post on your
29:37
Facebook status
29:38
just try it
29:41
but in this
29:43
we're sort of
29:43
cutting against
29:44
the cultural
29:45
grain that
29:45
hey we're
29:46
strangers and
29:47
we don't talk
29:47
to each other
29:48
well yeah
29:49
we're strangers
29:50
until we break
29:52
that ice
29:52
until we show
29:53
a little hospitality
29:54
then we become
29:55
friends
29:56
and when you
29:57
open that door
29:58
to friendship
29:58
you also
29:59
open the door
30:00
to be able
30:00
to share
30:01
Jesus
30:01
with the
30:03
lost
30:03
culture
30:04
that we
30:05
live in
30:06
this passage
30:09
concludes in an
30:10
interesting way
30:11
Nehemiah is
30:11
kind of
30:12
reflecting on
30:13
the series
30:13
of sacrifices
30:14
that he's
30:14
made
30:15
for the cause
30:16
of the
30:16
mission
30:16
and the
30:17
cause that
30:17
God has
30:18
called him
30:18
to
30:18
and he
30:19
says in
30:19
verse 19
30:20
remember
30:20
for my
30:21
good
30:21
oh God
30:22
all that
30:22
I have
30:23
done
30:23
for this
30:23
people
30:24
how many
30:24
of you
30:25
at first
30:25
glance
30:25
kind of
30:26
read that
30:26
as
30:27
maybe
30:28
Nehemiah
30:28
has a
30:28
little
30:29
hair
30:29
of
30:29
arrogance
30:29
when he's
30:30
saying
30:31
that
30:31
dear
30:32
God
30:33
please
30:33
remember
30:33
all the
30:34
wonderful
30:34
things
30:34
that I've
30:35
done
30:35
amen
30:35
right
30:36
kind of
30:37
seems a
30:38
little bit
30:38
much
30:38
doesn't it
30:40
but remember
30:40
the words
30:41
that were
30:41
spoken
30:41
out of the
30:42
mouth
30:42
of Jesus
30:43
Christ
30:43
nearly
30:44
440
30:44
years
30:45
later
30:45
after
30:45
this
30:46
Jesus
30:46
says
30:47
in
30:47
Matthew
30:47
6
30:47
you don't
30:48
have to
30:48
turn
30:48
there
30:48
just
30:48
listen
30:49
to
30:49
these
30:49
words
30:49
do
30:50
not
30:50
store
30:50
up
30:51
for
30:51
yourselves
30:51
treasures
30:52
on
30:52
earth
30:52
where
30:53
moths
30:53
and
30:54
vermin
30:54
destroy
30:54
and
30:55
where
30:55
thieves
30:56
break
30:56
in
30:56
and
30:56
steal
30:57
but
30:57
store
30:57
up
30:58
for
30:58
yourselves
30:58
treasures
30:59
in
30:59
heaven
30:59
where
31:00
moths
31:00
and
31:00
vermin
31:00
do
31:01
not
31:01
destroy
31:01
and
31:02
where
31:03
thieves
31:03
do
31:03
not
31:03
break
31:04
in
31:04
and
31:04
steal
31:04
see
31:06
Nehemiah
31:06
I don't
31:06
believe
31:07
that
31:08
Nehemiah
31:09
is trying
31:09
to boast
31:09
here
31:10
what
31:11
Nehemiah
31:11
is saying
31:11
is I've
31:12
given
31:12
a lot
31:12
towards
31:13
this
31:13
cause
31:13
I've
31:13
given
31:13
up
31:14
many
31:14
years
31:15
of my
31:15
life
31:15
I've
31:16
given
31:16
up
31:16
a lot
31:17
of my
31:17
personal
31:18
finances
31:18
I've
31:19
given
31:19
up
31:19
my
31:20
life
31:20
for
31:20
this
31:21
cause
31:21
and
31:22
I'm
31:22
not
31:22
likely
31:22
to
31:23
receive
31:23
much
31:23
earthly
31:24
reward
31:24
for
31:24
this
31:24
I'm
31:24
not
31:25
likely
31:25
to
31:25
be
31:25
thanked
31:25
by
31:26
these
31:26
people
31:26
and
31:28
so
31:28
God
31:28
if
31:29
you
31:29
would
31:29
just
31:29
remember
31:30
these
31:30
things
31:30
that
31:31
I'm
31:31
storing
31:32
up
31:32
my
31:32
treasure
31:32
not
31:33
here
31:33
on
31:33
this
31:33
earth
31:34
but
31:36
in
31:36
heaven
31:36
and
31:38
Nehemiah
31:39
simple
31:40
prayer
31:40
here
31:40
is
31:40
demonstrating
31:41
something
31:41
that
31:42
Nehemiah
31:42
understood
31:42
that we
31:43
sometimes
31:43
don't
31:43
grasp
31:44
in our
31:44
culture
31:45
in a
31:46
day
31:46
where
31:47
we have
31:47
televangelists
31:48
on TV
31:49
who are
31:49
in the
31:50
ministry
31:50
for their
31:51
own
31:51
personal
31:51
gain
31:52
and say
31:53
you know
31:54
just call
31:54
the 1-800
31:55
number
31:55
on the
31:56
bottom
31:56
of your
31:56
screen
31:56
and if
31:57
you just
31:57
donate
31:57
a minimum
31:58
of $100
31:59
you can
32:00
be blessed
32:01
by God
32:01
and they
32:04
hop in
32:04
their
32:05
helicopter
32:06
and fly
32:06
home
32:06
right
32:07
see
32:10
say that
32:11
tongue
32:11
in
32:11
cheek
32:11
but
32:12
this
32:12
is
32:12
something
32:12
that's
32:12
really
32:13
really
32:13
important
32:13
because
32:14
I feel
32:15
like
32:15
this
32:15
is
32:15
something
32:15
we
32:15
don't
32:16
really
32:16
grasp
32:16
in
32:16
our
32:16
theology
32:17
we're
32:18
not
32:18
saved
32:19
by
32:19
our
32:19
works
32:19
I want
32:20
you
32:20
to
32:20
hear
32:20
me
32:20
clearly
32:21
this
32:21
morning
32:21
we're
32:23
saved
32:23
by
32:24
grace
32:25
alone
32:25
through
32:25
faith
32:26
alone
32:26
in
32:26
Christ
32:26
alone
32:27
there's
32:29
nothing
32:29
that we
32:29
can
32:29
do
32:29
on
32:30
our
32:30
own
32:30
to
32:30
bring
32:31
apart
32:31
salvation
32:31
in
32:32
ourselves
32:32
Ephesians
32:33
2
32:33
8
32:34
9
32:34
and
32:34
10
32:34
say this
32:35
for
32:36
by
32:36
grace
32:37
you've
32:37
been
32:37
saved
32:38
through
32:38
faith
32:38
not
32:39
of
32:39
yourselves
32:39
it
32:39
is
32:39
the
32:40
gift
32:40
of
32:40
God
32:40
not
32:41
as
32:41
a
32:41
result
32:42
of
32:43
works
32:43
so
32:44
that
32:44
no
32:44
one
32:44
may
32:44
boast
32:45
and
32:45
here's
32:45
what
32:45
Paul
32:45
is
32:45
saying
32:46
here
32:46
we
32:46
owe
32:47
a lot
32:47
to
32:48
God
32:48
we
32:49
owe
32:49
infinitely
32:50
to
32:50
God
32:50
because
32:51
of
32:51
our
32:51
sin
32:51
there's
32:52
nothing
32:53
that
32:53
you
32:53
and
32:53
I
32:53
can
32:53
do
32:54
to
32:54
repay
32:54
that
32:55
debt
32:55
that
32:56
we
32:56
owe
32:56
to
32:56
God
32:57
there's
32:58
absolutely
32:59
nothing
33:04
if
33:34
we're
33:35
saved
33:35
by
33:35
faith
33:36
but
33:36
then
33:37
he
33:37
says
33:37
for
33:37
we
33:38
are
33:38
his
33:38
workmanship
33:39
created
33:40
in
33:40
Christ
33:40
Jesus
33:41
for
33:41
what
33:41
for
33:43
good
33:43
works
33:44
see
33:46
we may
33:46
not
33:46
be
33:46
saved
33:47
by
33:47
our
33:48
good
33:48
works
33:48
but
33:49
good
33:49
works
33:50
certainly
33:50
play
33:50
a
33:50
large
33:51
part
33:51
in
33:51
the
33:51
life
33:51
of
33:52
the
33:52
believer
33:52
you're
33:56
saved
33:56
by
33:57
grace
33:57
through
33:57
faith
33:57
so
34:00
it's
34:00
not
34:00
about
34:00
walking
34:01
in an
34:01
aisle
34:01
it's
34:01
not
34:01
about
34:02
!
34:02
saying
34:02
a
34:02
prayer
34:03
it's
34:05
not
34:05
about
34:05
getting
34:05
a
34:06
ticket
34:06
into
34:06
heaven
34:06
I've
34:07
heard
34:07
that
34:07
phrase
34:08
more
34:09
times
34:09
than I
34:09
would
34:09
ever
34:10
hope
34:10
to
34:10
people
34:12
say
34:12
I'm
34:12
so
34:13
glad
34:13
my
34:13
children
34:13
have
34:14
their
34:14
ticket
34:14
into
34:14
heaven
34:15
these
34:16
types
34:16
of
34:16
phrases
34:16
cringe
34:17
when I
34:18
hear
34:18
them
34:18
you
34:19
don't
34:19
get
34:19
a
34:19
ticket
34:20
into
34:20
heaven
34:20
it's
34:22
God
34:22
who
34:22
works
34:23
in
34:23
you
34:24
and
34:25
the
34:25
point
34:25
when
34:25
you
34:25
receive
34:26
!
34:27
salvation
34:27
he
34:27
works
34:27
in
34:28
through
34:28
this
34:28
process
34:29
!
34:29
sanctification
34:30
!
34:30
as
34:31
you
34:31
become
34:31
more
34:31
holy
34:31
as
34:32
you
34:32
work
34:34
out
34:34
your
34:34
salvation
34:35
to
34:35
do
34:35
good
34:36
things
34:36
for
34:36
the
34:36
glory
34:37
of
34:37
God
34:37
God
34:37
calls
34:38
us
34:38
to
34:38
do
34:38
that
34:38
as
34:39
believers
34:39
so
34:40
you
34:40
see
34:40
for
34:41
the
34:41
believer
34:41
there's
34:41
one
34:42
of
34:42
two
34:42
options
34:42
that
34:42
are
34:42
going
34:43
on
34:43
here
34:43
you
34:44
can
34:44
store
34:45
up
34:45
your
34:45
treasures
34:45
here
34:46
on
34:46
earth
34:46
and
34:46
lose
34:47
it
34:47
for
34:47
eternity
34:47
we've
34:49
created
34:49
this
34:49
mentality
34:50
in
34:50
our
34:50
culture
34:50
that
34:51
we
34:51
get
34:51
all
34:51
we
34:52
can
34:52
we
34:52
can
34:52
!
34:52
all
34:52
we
34:52
get
34:53
and
34:53
we
34:53
sit
34:53
on
34:53
the
34:53
can
34:53
I'm
34:55
sorry
34:56
but
34:56
most
34:56
of
34:56
that
34:56
stuff
34:57
in
34:57
that
34:57
can
34:57
is
34:57
not
34:58
going
34:58
to
34:58
go
34:58
with
34:58
you
34:58
to
34:58
heaven
34:58
or
35:01
you
35:02
can
35:02
pour
35:02
out
35:02
all
35:02
of
35:02
your
35:02
time
35:03
your
35:03
resources
35:03
and
35:04
your
35:04
money
35:04
toward
35:04
kingdom
35:04
purposes
35:05
and
35:07
what
35:07
you
35:07
lose
35:08
here
35:08
you
35:08
gain
35:09
abundantly
35:10
for
35:10
the
35:10
glory
35:10
of
35:10
God
35:11
you
35:11
gain
35:11
it
35:11
in
35:12
eternity
35:12
and
35:14
I
35:14
believe
35:14
that's
35:14
exactly
35:15
what
35:15
Nehemiah
35:15
is
35:15
teaching
35:22
and
35:23
for
35:23
some
35:24
of
35:24
you
35:24
I
35:24
want
35:24
you
35:24
to
35:24
be
35:24
encouraged
35:25
today
35:25
for
35:26
some
35:26
of
35:26
you
35:27
there's
35:27
somebody
35:27
in
35:27
here
35:28
I
35:28
know
35:28
that
35:28
there
35:28
is
35:28
who
35:29
feels
35:29
discouraged
35:30
because
35:30
you
35:30
haven't
35:31
maybe
35:32
you
35:32
haven't
35:32
had
35:32
the
35:32
opportunity
35:33
to
35:33
make
35:33
this
35:33
huge
35:34
impact
35:35
on
35:35
lots
35:35
and
35:35
lots
35:36
and
35:36
lots
35:36
of
35:36
people
35:36
in
35:37
this
35:37
world
35:37
I
35:39
want
35:39
you
35:40
to
35:40
know
35:40
that
35:40
it's
35:40
not
35:41
necessarily
35:41
you
35:41
don't
35:42
have
35:42
to
35:42
necessarily
35:42
do
35:43
Billy
35:43
Graham
35:43
size
35:44
task
35:44
you
35:46
don't
35:47
necessarily
35:47
have
35:47
to
35:47
be
35:47
holding
35:48
these
35:48
rallies
35:48
where
35:48
thousands
35:49
of
35:49
people
35:49
come
35:49
to
35:50
know
35:50
the
35:50
Lord
35:50
in
35:51
order
35:51
to
35:51
be
35:51
working
35:52
to
35:52
our
35:52
kingdom
35:52
purposes
35:53
in
35:53
order
35:53
to
35:54
glorify
35:54
God
35:54
in
35:55
your
35:55
life
35:55
in
35:56
fact
35:56
sometimes
35:57
it's
35:57
the
35:57
little
35:57
things
35:58
that
35:58
we
35:58
do
35:58
in
35:58
this
35:58
life
35:59
that
35:59
make
36:00
the
36:00
biggest
36:00
impact
36:01
on
36:01
the
36:01
kingdom
36:01
I
36:03
don't
36:04
believe
36:04
that
36:04
what
36:04
we
36:05
did
36:05
that
36:05
night
36:06
when
36:07
we
36:07
paid
36:07
!
36:07
that
36:07
lady
36:07
and
36:08
her
36:08
children's
36:08
meal
36:09
I
36:09
don't
36:09
think
36:09
that
36:09
was
36:09
a
36:10
huge
36:10
thing
36:10
but
36:10
it
36:10
made
36:11
an
36:11
impact
36:11
on
36:12
the
36:12
waitress
36:12
you
36:14
don't
36:14
have
36:15
to
36:15
do
36:15
huge
36:15
things
36:16
to
36:16
make
36:16
an
36:16
impact
36:17
I
36:18
want
36:18
to
36:18
share
36:18
with
36:18
you
36:18
this
36:19
quote
36:19
from
36:21
a
36:21
guy
36:21
named
36:21
Blaise
36:22
Pascal
36:22
really
36:23
intelligent
36:24
guy
36:24
very
36:25
brilliant
36:25
but it's
36:26
really more
36:26
of a
36:27
prayer
36:27
that he
36:27
penned
36:27
he
36:28
said
36:28
God
36:28
help
36:29
me
36:29
to
36:29
do
36:29
the
36:29
big
36:30
things
36:30
as
36:31
though
36:32
they
36:32
are
36:32
small
36:32
because
36:33
I
36:33
do
36:33
them
36:33
in
36:34
your
36:34
power
36:34
you
36:35
see
36:35
people
36:36
like
36:36
Billy
36:37
Graham
36:37
they
36:38
can't
36:38
do
36:39
the
36:39
things
36:39
that
36:39
they
36:40
do
36:40
on
36:40
their
36:40
own
36:40
they
36:41
do
36:41
the
36:41
big
36:41
things
36:42
as
36:43
though
36:43
they
36:43
are
36:43
small
36:43
because
36:43
they
36:44
do
36:44
it
36:44
in
36:44
God's
36:45
power
36:45
but the
36:46
second
36:46
part
36:47
of that
36:47
prayer
36:47
is
36:47
even
36:47
more
36:48
profound
36:48
to
36:48
me
36:48
he
36:50
says
36:50
Lord
36:51
help
36:51
me
36:51
to
36:51
do
36:51
the
36:51
big
36:51
things
36:52
as
36:52
though
36:52
they
36:52
were
36:52
small
36:53
because
36:54
I
36:55
do
36:55
them
36:55
in
36:55
your
36:56
power
36:56
and
36:57
help
36:57
me
36:57
to
36:57
do
36:58
the
36:59
small
36:59
things
36:59
as
37:00
though
37:00
they
37:00
were
37:00
big
37:01
because
37:02
I
37:02
do
37:03
them
37:03
in
37:04
your
37:04
name
37:04
see
37:06
the
37:06
small
37:07
things
37:07
can
37:08
make
37:08
a
37:08
big
37:08
impact
37:09
for
37:09
the
37:10
glory
37:10
of
37:10
God
37:10
when
37:10
we
37:11
do
37:11
them
37:11
in
37:12
his
37:12
name
37:12
so
37:14
let's
37:14
all
37:14
work
37:14
together
37:15
like
37:16
Nehemiah
37:17
did
37:17
as
37:17
he
37:18
brought
37:19
together
37:19
a
37:19
people
37:20
as
37:20
he
37:20
rebuilt
37:22
not
37:22
just
37:22
a
37:23
wall
37:23
he
37:24
rebuilt
37:25
to
37:25
people
37:26
and
37:26
turn
37:26
their
37:26
hearts
37:27
back
37:27
to
37:27
God
37:27
the
37:27
same
37:28
task
37:28
as
37:28
before
37:28
us
37:29
today
37:29
to
37:29
turn
37:29
the
37:30
hearts
37:30
of
37:30
a
37:30
wicked
37:30
culture
37:31
back
37:32
to
37:32
God
37:32
let's
37:34
go
37:34
make
37:34
an
37:34
impact
37:34
in
37:35
our
37:35
cities
37:35
and
37:35
our
37:35
culture
37:36
this
37:36
week
37:36
and
37:37
next
37:37
week
37:37
and
37:38
beyond
37:38
for
37:39
the
37:39
glory
37:39
of
37:39
God
37:40
let's
37:41
pray
37:41
together