Address—A.C. Hayhoe
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Like to turn the knight to enforcement scripture. That is well known to me here and has been a subject. I know they're part of the field of meditation, and I expect that you've heard this package spoken on before.
But it's been an exercise of a blessing to my whole heart. I feel it has brought many wise.
Blessings into my own life. So I'd like to read it much more tonight in order to be my spirit. Wisdom together. The third chapter of Nehemiah.
The third factor of Nehemiah Lord, I read a faster like this the more I feel the truth of God's words that tells us that what things were written before time were written for our learning. Here's a pastor that who else would appear in the simply describes the building of the wall and the setting up of a number of gates in that wall and the names of those who labored on that wall. But I'm sure the more fair.
Any portion of God's Word, the more sure we are to find that it has a message for us. And I think I ought to say this as a word of encouragement too. So I think if you ask nearly any Christian, certainly I'm among them, that we read many, many, many chapters of God's Word. And when we're finished reading, we just take our heads and say, well, I don't see any particular message for myself from that chapter. Now, did you waste your time reading it?
There are ever so many factors in this book that I have read and read again, and I haven't found it yet in them anything that's particularly seems to meet my needs. But I commend to the dear believers here, and I'm going to single up the children food that you read God's Word. Don't omit any part of it because I'm sure that there's wisdom for you. There's a lesson for you in every portion of this book.
And if you do read it and don't understand it, you haven't wasted your time. I believe the day will come when the Spirit of God can bring to your remembrance and use as needed light and wisdom. Perhaps I'm very faster that you read and didn't understand at the time. And that to me is true. About the third of me a mile. I read the chapter and seen little or nothing yet. But I believe I can say that tonight as I read it.
Oh, it has very searching legs.
And I must say this too. Then I pick up the chapter and read it. It's A2 edged sword. I mean by that when I speak to my client, Dear Christian friend, I don't want you to feel that I'm speaking to anyone but the one who's standing right here before you. It's A2 edit store. It has language pros deeply into my own heart and searches it before God.
Suppose justice an introduction. We look at the 1St chapter and the 1St 2 verses.
Verse 3 Verses Perhaps I have to say, the words of Nehemiah don't hack a lie. And it came to pass in amongst his Lou. In the 20th year, as I was in Shushan lapel, the Panama, one of my brethren came, he and certain man of Judah. But I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped before last of the captivity, and concerned Jerusalem. And they said unto me, The regimen that are left of the captivity there in the province.
Greater flexion and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down on the gates there are burned with fire and detained. The fact when I heard these words, when I sat down and wept, and more Ferndale and fasted and sprayed before the dog Heaven. I believe there's a meaningful lesson in this little portion for each one of them. Here's a man called Nehemiah. He is living in Shushan Lapel.
And according to the last words of the factor, he was the King's cup bearer. Well, you might think of a cup bearer of being a rather menial and unimportant fact, but I believe, according to Eastern history, that the kings up there was a very honored and responsible position. He was a very trusted service. The King's right man's man. That's a pretty fine position, isn't it?
There will be next in authority to the king. To live in a palace is a pretty fine situation, but there was something he'd done in the heart of Nehemiah that burned in his soul and made him exercise about the welfare of his own dear people.
And alone he lived in Shushan, the palace. And although he had his fine position, his heart is concerned about God's dear people. And I'm going to ask the dear, shall I take particularly the dear young brother this evening for a fact. God has given you ability, perhaps he has given you a comfortable home and a nice position that which this world would consider.
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The victim to bring you satisfaction down here.
But I wonder, is there that exercise in your heart about the welfare of golf people that there ought to be? Oh, you say, but I'm not a gifted brother. I would expect brother so and so to feel a concern about the welfare of golf people to consciously, he suggested man, but I'm not.
Now I think our thinking is wrong and you begin to turn it over that way. I believe that each and every one of us, a sister that well as a brother, ought to have before God a prayerful exercise heart then turning the welfare of God. Dear people, are you one of the young people in the Des Moines Assembly? Do you have a prayerful burden on your heart for their welfare and their spiritual?
Have you ever found it that way, or do you think of that as the responsibility of some of the older ones whom you look to the minister, the word before you? I love to think of such and one of Moses and Paul and Nehemiah, each one of whom had ability and opportunity above many, but they willingly turn their back on some opportunities of advancement in order to see a health.
Dear people, what did it resolve in down here? It resulted in misunderstanding and reproach and opposition. But when you meet Moses up there in the glory, and Nehemiah and the apostle Paul, you suppose there will be any regrets concerning those talents and opportunities?
Upon which they turned their back to the Lord say, oh, I'm sure that would not be the case. I'm sure you will find them rejoicing as a God-given privilege of using what they had for the honor and glory of the Lord while they were here. Well, we just don't want to go into too much detail concerning the introduction to this interesting subject. But I believe I should say this that when Nehemiah and those who.
Him name the Jerusalem and bound the situation that was there. Their hearts were very, very deeply concerned before the Lord, and there were certain others that took motive of their arrival. There were enemies there. You find them named in the 91St of the second chapter.
I want you to try and remember these names, because they're important. Nehemiah 219 But when sand bowed the horror night, and go by the servant the Ammonite, and beat him the Arabian burdens, they lacked us to scorn and despise us, and said, What is this thing that he do? Well, that was only one of the attempts that were made to discourage and turn aside the purpose of.
That Nehemiah felt toward the interests of the Lord people. We won't take time to go into it, but there were seven different times when these enemies definitely been specifically try to discourage and hinder and fight against and mom.
These dear men of God who were seeking the welfare of God's people in Jerusalem. One of the most tricky attempts, shall I say, was the time when these enemies sent a message up to Nehemiah as he was busily building on the wall.
70 a mile come down and meet with us in one of the villages of the plains.
Come down and meet with us. Four times they sent that message to Nehemiah. Four times they invited him to come down. No match made of doing a message. No mention of fighting against him or laughing at him or scoring him. Just come down and meet with us in one of the villages of the plains, faithfully and before God. Am I answering him? I answered no. I'm doing a great work so that I cannot come down.
And I can leave, my dear Christian friend, that you will find vigorous, continuous opposition if you and I want to walk according to the life and wisdom of God, practice Word, and for the honor and glory of the Lord Jesus. It won't be an honor back down here. It won't be a popular path down here. You'll find opposition, you'll find enemies. You'll find those that will invite you with, apparently.
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No ulterior motive.
Come and meet with them, But I believe here silence all that you and I with purpose of heart wish to walk in obedience to. This precious book will speedily recognize those who are enemies to the pathway of obedience.
There was a faithful thing by the name of Hezekiah, and enemies came up against Israel in the days of hepatitis. And that dear king put on sackcloth and got in the presence of the Lord, and told the Lord all of it. And the Lord took care of him and sent away the enemy. The enemy sent back a letter threatening and saying they were coming back again. Dear king has a client spread the letter out before the Lord, and told the Lord, here are those same enemies and.
Again the Lord said, leave it in me, I'll take care of them. And do you know what happened next?
Enemies again. But they didn't look like enemies. They came bringing gifts. They came from babbling. And they came to congratulate King Hezekiah on having gotten well from his illness. And they brought gifts with it. What did King Hepatitis do? Did he say enemies again? I must be on guard. No, my dear friend. He didn't recognize his enemy. They looked like friends. They sound like friends. And they brought him here.
And he opened the door and invited them and showed them all within his house.
He lost his whole family. His children were carrying away cats in the battle. My dear friend, we deserve that from Nehemiah. The building of the wall.
God grant that it will speak loudly to each one of our hearts. The building of the wall, I believe, has this person. In the days of Ezra, number of Israelites have been gathered back to God's chosen center, Jerusalem. The first thing they did was set the altar upon its bases and then build the House of the Lord. And now along comes Nehemiah with an exercise, and a wall ought to be built clean around that city.
In order to draw, dear people might be kept in separation from those wily enemies who were on the outside of the wall. So beginning with verse one, the wall is being built. Then Elias hit the high priest, rose up with his brethren the priest, and they built a deep cake. They sanctified it and stopped the doors of it. Even under the power of Mia, they thank you find it under the power of Anil.
I think we are Best Buy considered it slowly.
First thing is the building of the seashake, and the seashake was built from the power of Mia to the power of Hannah Neo. Now, I must admit right away that I am no star. I don't know anything as far as Hebrew or Greek, but it's not very difficult to get hold of a Greek or new lexicon and look up the meaning of some of these words.
I find that the meaning of the word Mia is 100.
You look it up in any final dictionary and you're fine. It's the simple Hebrew word meaning 100 and Hannah in the compound, he's who were meaning the Lord is gracious. Not to me. That's a very, very fragile spot. Here we have the building of the cheapskate. The wall is about to be built around the city, and the very first thing done is building and setting up of the sheep gate by a life of the high priest.
And I'm sure that would remind us that before you or I have any right or portion within the walls of that thing, gather them on the Lord. Dear people, there is a necessity that you and I be numbered among His redeemed feet. Could we just pause and match our hearts? Are we really sure about that? Are you one of those who are numbered among the Lord for being peacefully **** you and found you?
And made you his own. Have you entered in through the chief gate? Is the only gate that's mentioned that's being builded in this factor that has no loss and no bar.
I like to thank my dear friend that is open for you for this very moment.
And why between the power of Mia and the power of anime, the power meaning 100 and the power means the Lord is gracious? Wouldn't that take us in box to the fifth being factor of Luke where we find the man having 100 feet and when the evening family counts this week 979899?
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And he closed the door. Is that right? Oh, I'm glad that's not the way it happened.
Would not be closed until a full #100 was complete. Why all the other friends the Lord gracious? Why are you numbered among His redeemed sheep? Why are you and I among the number of those who were redeemed by His back of life? Because the Lord is gracious.
And that it will not be closed. The gate of glory will not be closed until the last one of the redeemed sheep is gathered in the full compliment 100, not 1,000,000. That's why it wasn't closed last night. That's why the cup didn't come today. Because there's someone else for whom the Good Shepherd, the Lord Jesus Christ, is tenderly, lovingly waiting.
I wonder, could it be that there's one of the missing ones in this company tonight, one of those whom the Lord belongs to be able to call his own sheep, and you've never yet talked to him and accepted him in your Savior? Wouldn't it be grand if you did so tonight and I would continue around the wall. You didn't close your eyes and say thank God, I belong inside that wall. Thank God I entered through the cheesecake. Thank God.
I'm not that missing one.
But I am among the number 100th, a figurative number redeemed by the blood of Christ. I love this picture, but there's no sadness here. Another real sadness. I said there were no locks or bars this game, and it could be because it's the gate of entreaty, but I believe there may have been another reason for it. I believe that a low in life, it was the high priest and built this gate.
Thoroughly well and carefully. I believe that there was something about this year, man, and very, very sad. If you turn over in the same factor or a little harder turn over the verse 20 plays at the same third factor.
After him bear up the son of Zabi I earned. He prepared the other piece from the turning of the wall unto the door of the House of Elias at the high priest.
After him repaired Mary Moth the Son, who arrived at the Son of Cause and another feast from the door of the House of Elias, even to the end of the host of elections.
Stuff being very, very interesting in this package, very, very certain to me. Here was a man who was a high priest. Here was a man who was diligently building the sheep gang, occupied, perhaps we may say, with backward speech of the Gospel. But there was a neglect in the path of your life. He neglected to build a wall in front of.
His own home.
And someone noticed this, someone named Marymount noticed that in life it would reflect him to build a wall in front of his own home. Now Mary Moff will notice his building in the Fort Worth he was building elsewhere.
In fact, if you try to draw sketch of this wall, you find that Paramount was building a long way from the home of Eliot, but he noticed from day-to-day that the wall was not being tended to in front of a home of a life in the high priest.
And what did Mary Mark do? Did he nuts the worker next to him and say you notice how careless he lied it is? If you notice that he's not building a law in private own home. You notice what he's family doing. He's a careless man. Gnome, my dear friend Mary doesn't do that. Mary Mall faithfully and diligently completed that which was his force command. Then he went through the prompt to figure Jerusalem and violently.
And faithfully performed back with his difficult to do, he built the wall in front of the home of the Hanukkah itself because he is neglected to do it.
Is there a Marymount and the Assembly of the Mourn?
There's someone here that has a prayerful, loving care of the Lord. Dear people, if you would see anyone, these dear young people dressing, getting away, letting us into the world, what do you do? You just kind of gossip about it, or do you do what Mary Moss did? Do you have the courage?
Like her courage to do what this dear man did. He went to the home of Marymount, to the former Reliant and personally.
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The law in front of the home of the high priest. I wonder why she did that? All the Bible is a wonderful book. It won't make time to turn to it, but in the 8th chapter of this very book, you'll see something pretty sad about Mary Moff himself. His own grandfather's name was Carl, and his own grandfather was at one time a priest. But he lost his priestly right through his own failure.
His old grandfather at one time priest lost the privileges of the priesthood and Mary Martin himself suffered from it because of his grandfathers unfaithfulness.
By believe it made it dear man all the more aware of that could be solved before the household of Elias at the High Street. He looked across and saw what was happening. What was happening turned to the end of the last factor of me and Mike.
The 13th Doctor of Nehemiah.
And the 28th verse.
And one of the sons of Joy, the son of Elias, is the high priest was son-in-law to send out the horror night. That's bad.
His family slipped out through that lack of his.
Let us through that wall with the neglected and became son-in-law, to stand by the foreman, one of the worst enemies on the other side of the wall. Thy believes, dear Mary Moss, always happening, and your state of death whispering about it and talking about it. Mary Moff with God and courage went over and filled with the wall in front of the House of Elizabeth far along. But there might be more of this exercise of you.
This wall is a dog given necessity, you and I will belong to the Lord Jesus Christ, and particularly you and I who are gathered to the practice name of the Lord Jesus Christ. We must realize that all around us there is that which is opposed to our practice danger, that opposed to the truth of God's word and.
There's no, there's no possibility of compromising these things.
Expecting it to go well, you and I must be faithful of the word gone. You and I must be true and thankful to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, or we'll soon find ourselves out mingling with the poor guilty world. The second verse. Next unto them under him, Bill with the managerical, and next unto them Bill with Baker, the son of Henry.
You notice in that little verse that there were those who seemed to build together as a group, and then we find a man who's building all alone. That's pretty difficult, isn't it?
It's not too difficult to know. They seem to go on in a path where faithful obedience to the word of God when there are others standing shoulder to shoulder with you in that path. It's not too difficult in an assembly that seems to go on in a pathway of separation to the Lord Jesus Christ when others stand shoulder to shoulder with you in that strange desire. But we find next under them build it Baker the sun, and we all lower.
Those who are present here tonight, everyone of you. And it may be that there are those who have to stand alone in your household, alone school, alone in the shop, or perhaps.
Perhaps there's a very young brother in here, or a very young sister here, who is even finding something of this reassembly in which the Lord has gathered.
To that, by God's grace, there is a desire in your heart.
The walk in submission and obedience to the word of God and your mind. Some of your fellow citizens consider it to be a narrow fat. Some of your fellow Christians perhaps score you for the conscience that you had before God that seems to walk for his arm and joy. Why do we do it? Why do they speak to turn you aside from the path of faithful following Himself.
Words. How do I say it? I believe it's because perhaps an embarrassment embarrasses them in their errors. Oh my dear young believer, if you want to be true and thankful to the Lord Jesus, remember they're in the building of this wall. There were those whom God was in fact with the solemn responsibility of building a law.
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Stone by stone wall was erected and there was no Workman here nor there to encourage them in that they did it all alone and God told my dear believer in such a pathway may be yours. Now the third verse, the 5th gate to the sons of half anaya bills brought away the beams there are and set up the doors there are locks. They're all in the bars. They're all fish cake, I believe would remind us of that which surely ought to.
Desire of the heart Everyone knows the Lord of Savior. I believe that having found him as the one who loved you and begin to then the desire of your heart is that you'd like to be numbered among the pictures of men too. Would you not? Wouldn't you like at school or in your neighborhood or at work, to the use of the Lord in bringing the gospel to others and in bringing them to the feet of the Lord Jesus Christ, as the Lord said to those who follow him.
Follow me in thy womb, make you to become fishers of men. Well, the biscuit is the son of Papa Mills. I looked that up in the Hebrew and I find that working thorny. Thorny. It doesn't appear that the word of God would suggest an easy path and thinking to be numbered among the pictures of men. You're not going to find yourself increasingly popular and thought actor if you speak well of the Lord visa.
And try to proclaim the gospel in your neighborhood or at school. Now before 1St we already mentioned and the matter of McCullum, I believe was also mentioned in some detail at the meeting. So some of her five next 7 decoys repaired, but their nobles footnote their necks to the work of the Lord.
1St is such a bit. Always teach solemnly to me. I'll ask you this.
When you suppose for one moment that's as these nobles stood labouring on the wall, putting stones in the mortaring place, and doing it half heartedly, not putting their necks to the work, the use of those for one moment to save off the Lord up in Heaven was writing it all down. And if you were going to read about it during Des Moines tonight, they certainly had no such thought. They thought they could get away with it. They thought some earnestly repairing, and they knew that they.
Parents, they were lined up there on the wall along with the rest of folks, and perhaps they tried to give the impression that they were doing it necessarily as anyone else. But the Lord in heaven was writing down exactly whether or not their hearts were in what they were doing and they didn't know. And you and I were going to read about it tonight and people learn a lesson by.
I very young believers, what about you and me? What about my Christian pathway and yours?
It is being written down.
Is it being written down? It is my dear believer, my pathway and yours where you is this assembly and I in mind have been seeking to walk according to the truth of separation and found in your precious word is written down up there that whether you're part of it or not.
Or whether you're one of those who would be a kinder to edit it would seek to build a wall. All my dear 1000 Weaver in the Lord, the day is coming when the books are going to be opened and the record of your activities and mine is going to be brought to light. These nobles didn't put their necks to the work of the Lord. They were the very ones that you would expect other folks to look up to, to look up to.
His life here.
To look after the novel, it would have been a rather disappointing experience to follow the example of these nobles and thy wonder. May I ask myself, what about the testimony? What about the example of you and I are setting concerning our desired walking to mention and obedience to the Word of God, and for the honor and glory of the Lord, Amen.
Well, it says in the sixth verse. Moreover, the old gate.
We cared the oil of the Santa Patia and Michelle and the son of the Island, they laid the beans in their arms at the doors. They're out of the locks around and the bar they're off. That sounds good. Here's diligence. They're setting up this gate and they're doing it diligently with locks and bars and all. And what would the old gate see?
What would the old gate be? Your young believer, you have accepted the Lord Jesus Christ as your Savior, your number among the redeemed ones. You're safely within a steep gate. You feel it desire in your heart to be used to the Lord and bringing others to Him. Now what about this date to come next? The old gate?
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All I believe is a very, very real need to think about this old game. I believe we live in a day when that which is.
Old is despised, it's unwanted. There seems to be a constant appetite for that which is new and that which is different. But I stand here before you, and I pray with all my heart that that which will establish you, that which will be a blessing to your soul, that which will preserve you and will teach you.
In the fall, in the old path, turn to the six factor of Jeremiah.
The 6th chapter of Jeremiah and the 16th verse.
Last, thank the Lord standing in the way, being asked for the old path, where is a good way, and walk there, and He shall find rest for your soul.
I had to take the finish the 1St but they said we will not walk there in. My dear friend, I believe that this old day is very, very important. It comes early in the accomplices wall and I believe there's a very great danger on every hand.
Know the Lord Jesus Christ is our Savior become perhaps our little weary of the practice old truths that have been ministered among us so long. Our dear brother, you reminded us the other day of how he never found himself getting weary of receiving a gold coin in his pay envelope. He never pulled it out and said well, I've had a half a dozen reasons. Now I'm getting tired of it and I truly considered this by God's wonders race.
I was just a little boy. I heard this practice book read my home. I heard this textbook exhausted in the home where I was brought up as a boy and then found western ministry of those of my only love, the Lord Jesus, but read this word and obedience and walk the path of obedience gathered to the practice name of the Lord Jesus Christ and the ministry of.
Was valued in the home where I was brought up. I asked you before God. It is time like a turn aside from these things. It is time that I could look at the bookshelf of my father and say, well, he read those books, but they're duties for me and too hard to understand. I want something new. I want to hear the voice of this man and that man is so popular and well thought When people ask me what I think of this man Speaking of that man's question, this man.
That man book and I shrugged my shoulder and said I don't know. I've never heard them. Please walk. You never even listen to them. No, I never even listen to them. Nor do I read their book. I've got a book here that I can read and the found written ministry of men of God who walked in the old tires.
Lord, call them home. I have enough of that on my bookshelves that keep me going the rest of my days. Oh dear, that'll be weavers. Don't define the old path. Don't turn your eyes and ears to that which pretend to be found in you. I warn you, but I begged you before God and the presence of this practice book that if you put a lot in a bar.
Upon this old gate, and speak to us with the attacks that are being made against the old gate are turned by.
Never, never, never go in your soul if you want to keep up with all modern preachers that are about every hand. You will grow in your soul if you walk in the old path and bow. The ministry of men who bought the truth were gathered to the precious name of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Well, let's sit down. We don't have much time left, I'm afraid, but for those we slip down to the.
11 Verse now tied to the son of Harris, and actor the son of They have all repaired the other feet and the power of the furnaces.
Our affirmative.
This is a gate, dear friend, but it's conference between these days and adopting a taxi pass by too lightly as they proceed from a speed gate and a fifth gate and the old gate, we find them coming through the tower of the furnaces.
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As the Lord brought you there yet.
As the Lord brought into your life back when corresponds to the power of the furnaces as he brought through in the way, the deep texting and the flexing.
Is a perfect dinner. There's a purpose of blessing here. It may be by looking in the face of some of these dear young people, and they are not as yet known very much about the power of affirmative. That's a good thing for us to read this and be warned ahead of time as to the lessons the dog has for you and for me. I'm sure if I look into the faces of those who are older, they know something about this.
Power of furniture.
I remember 1 experience through which I passed quite a number of years ago.
25 years ago, I was passing through the time of very very deep burden of heart, very deep soul.
How many people do much about it, but I remember I was alone in my room. I was reading in the middle of death and I read here Abraham, you know the time was texting and came in the life of Abraham and God called in the life of Abraham to defend the horror of great darkness. Did I follow when I came to Van thought why run unusual things and forgot to do to a man whom he called his friends.
The friend God and God called horror great darkness to come upon him. And Abraham, during that night of darkness there passed before him a smoking furnace. Oh, I thought, this gets more and more difficult for the four year man and horror, great darkness and now a smoking furnace. But what followed that smoking furnace?
Burning Lack. I received great comfort and encouragement of my soul in that package.
Abraham saw passed before him a smoking furnace followed by a burning lack. The mightier believer and God brings you and me through the tower of the person, and he brings you in the way the deep texting and fire and many affliction suffering. Be assured of this, that the smoking furnace will be followed by a burning lack of joyful testimony if you go through it with the Lord.
Have you written those who were in ways of affliction of God or taking it from the Lord?
There's no happiness by on earth and there's a sign of God that's in the midst of the power of apparently and the Lord is wait a minute, you've missed something. You haven't.
That I'm sure that when I meet shade, rock, Meshach and vegetable in the glory, and ask them the most joyful moment of the earthly experience, I'm sure you know what they'll say. Why they'll say that time we were in the burning, firing for us, for the Lord was with us there. I don't know what may yet lie ahead for me or for you, but I do know that every dirty round this wall we come through the tower, the furnaces, and there's a less minute for you, and there's election.
For me, I'll tell you something. A very dear friend of mine told me that after this reading the Bible one day he came across such a number of passages of comfort for one in affliction and trial. Then he said to himself, when the day was over, I must be due to meet somebody that's in real trouble and sorrow.
I never read so many passages of comfort for one in sorrow and trouble in one day in my life. I'm sure the Lord is preparing me for somebody that I'm going to meet. That's been real trouble and the very next morning is dear wife came down with a complete nervous breakdown and had to be taken away.
For extensive treatment. You know who it was if I told you she's been fully and completely restored. But that dear man, was being prepared by the Lord for the power of the furniture.
And I know not what may lie before anyone of us or myself, but I do know that my guilty lever that if there is a furnace of affliction or Father texting before you, the Lord will be with you in it if you take it from Him. And what came next?
The 12Th verse And next senator, the ruler of the hot part of Jerusalem, he and his daughter, oh, this week. And then this person, isn't this person here with a man who had the joy of building on that wall and standing shoulder to shoulder with him and held him in the building of the wall?
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Who? His own dear God?
Is there a father here that would love to have that? George? Would you love to see your family, your daughters, standing with you in the building of this wall? You know what it means, dear parents. You know what it means to speak, to bring your beer children up and separate from this world. You know the outstretched friendly hands of this world toward your dear children. You know the things they get invited to in the neighborhood, at school. And it's hard to say no.
It's hard to constantly say no. I think that wall of separation between your dear films and the unsaved rejectors of the Lord Jesus Christ. And sad to say, so often we'll see a parent trying to build the wall and the children's busily pulling the stones out as fast as father and mother needs to put them in.
But here was a man whose daughter stood by him in the building of the wall. What an encouragement to any parent. Would you like to have this as a testimony in your home? And is it a matter of fact? I don't really care. I believe it cuts me deeply and hurts in my heart. I believe your parents. I believe your parents that if we can walk according to the light and wisdom of God's Word, we have the promise of.
Work for internally matters. Let's be humble before him about these things. Let me read a passage like this.
Thank God for such a picture. And I'll tell you something else. This is the only place clean around the wall where women are mentioned in the building. Nowhere else on the wall do we finally mention that women working. But here and where are they working? They're working between the power of the furnaces and the valley gate.
Exchange. Perhaps there's something special about the picture.
Something tender in time of sorrow especially fits them for building on a spot like this between the car and the furnaces and the Valley Gator. Who was it that stood at the empty room in the Lord Jesus We think what the fear No one was Peter. He was a brave man, but he wasn't there. It was Mary Mary the stood and wept at the at the federal board. Even Christ if I look around this company tonight.
In the face of the beer testers, young and old are candidates that God has a special place for you. He has given you attendance at the park that fits you for that which no brother can specially fill. And here we find and spank golf course. Between the tower of the furnaces and the valley gate we find the man building a deer dollar film living.
One with their father and desire to be.
Separated the honor and glory of the Lord, the valley people, the valley gate, all. I believe that's something we need to experience in our pathways. We need your children of God to be brought down to that place of confession. And you'll know that before the Lord. Sometimes the lessons along the way are not easy, but I believe that there's great blessing for you and for me.
As the Lord brings us around to this valley gate and brings us low before Him.
You know how to destruct recently and reading through Luke's Gospel, the crime that when the Lord Jesus is presented to us there as the Son of Man.
We find that he had a poor spinning full woman of the city to walk his feet, he had a poor Samaritan leopard to work with him, he had a poor blind beggar to follow him, he had a sinful publican entertainment, and he had a seat to accompany him home to the glory. And what a Savior.
What a Savior do you and I want to be popular and well seen in this world. All the loving may the Lord bring us to validate. May He bring us down to the feet of a man's soul. The higher you get in his world, the nearer neck of the Prince of this world.
Lower you get the marriage, you'll find yourself with a secret on massage. He had to go away, bringing us to the valley gate, but it's a brightest place to be. We'll find ourselves close to our Lord's Savior Jesus Christ there and notice through that. In that very 13th verse, a measurement is indicated. A measurement is the only measurement indicated on the entire wall. How would you think that Nehemiah were describing a building on a wall?
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Quite a number of years ever, No, but once. The only measurements mentioned in the whole wall is right here by the valley gate. The power of the furnaces, then the valley gate, and 1000 cubits specified. To me the thought is sweet.
I believe that in the in the counsel of God, there is that which is meted out and measured out to you and me, and the hand of God is never laid upon with any indifference or fearlessness or forgetfulness in the Lord. Ladies, hand on you or on me and bring this down, down to the barricade in order to black our souls. Doesn't leave your hand there a little longer than necessary.
Does he make that affliction or testing time a little more severe than necessary budget for gather money during to us never grow up on it's all never goes to us.
You know, when our little boy daddy, about 10 years ago we met with a serious automobile accident. Our little boy was just between life and back for some weeks in the hospital. And I received a letter from your brother Brown here from Des Moines.
One second, it was so fast to me, I memorized it, he said. Brother, never forget that every circumstance in her life is carefully weighed out in the balances of a sanctuary towards packed on the youth. Every circumstance in your life is carefully weighed out in the bounces of the sanctuary before it's passed on to you.
Suddenly, unexpectedly, and apparently someone else's fault, you find yourself in ways of a Flexman file. And what do we do? Do we turn and blame the one who seems to be the cause, or do we realize that this is the hand of God?
With Rick blessing behind 1000 measured cubits are mentioned here in the only measurement mentioned in all the walls. God knows what he's doing. God has blessing for you my dear friend Rich blessing now for all eternity if you got all three learned the lessons that he has for us in the circumstances that are brought into our life.
Oh, I go here, we have to leave things, you know, and one of the neighbors back into my car and that's it.
I'd be invited that. Wouldn't you to blame the name of the bit.
But it seems that if there's anyone else that can be blamed, we're pretty quick to do it. Some brother in reading spread the false report. Do we not feel that our first responsibility is to get that brother straightened out as quickly as we can? Much suppose that the latte lighting were to strike through from my home.
Whom do I blame now? Can't blame my brethren, I can't blame my neighbor. I have to look up and say, well the hand of the Lord is in this, may I learn the lesson. But if anyone else to blame, I come to be so quick to see someone else responsibility. Oh man, with each one remember that that which is brought into our mind is brought by our hand that was nailed to the top of Calvary and love for you and me.
The 14th verse but the gun gate repaired my archives on a repair the ruler a part of the Heckler.
He built it and set up the door of their house. They lost their house and the bar thereof who built it.
One man filled all along. You notice the previous gate there were quite a number works on, but this gate only one man. Who would want a job like this? It doesn't sound like a very attractive endeavor. The building of the Dominique was built by the ruler of part of the heckery.
What would that sell? Oh, I'm sure on your side of God, who was, I think, the experience of a believer around that wall first.
The valley gate and then the down gate does not remind us of the experience of the beloved apostle for all we hold in the fourth of Philippians. You remember he said there what things were gain to me? No life counted lost for Christ. That past tense isn't it? He's looking back in Philippians. He's an older man and he's looking back for the days of his youth.
Playing on the road to the rest, if he made a reckoning and the reckoning was that what things were gained to him from that day forward with Tony Coxham lost her friend, but he records it as something happened long ago.
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But things were gained and he goes like houses lost for like. But what does an expert say? Yay, doubtless. And I count an older man now, but I don't regret the choice I made in my youth present. Yeah, all things but lost for the Excellency of knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord.
And do count them, but God.
There was a man who built the Dundee, who built it with it, another one. He built it all alone. And I believe he put locks and bars on his. I believe that those things which were natural advantages to the beloved Apostle Paul, he shut them outside the dungeon and called them. That's what they were, and but locked and barred on the gate. And my dear young believer, there's that equipment offered to you and me as being so worthwhile.
So important so to be fought after as you come yet to the dumb date, you'll have to come there alone. No one has to build a skateboard, you must build it yourself. Only don't grant this down here too serious in your life and mine the fact which this world be faster. That's what this world finds so necessary for its entertainment and distraction, I might say.
You and I, by God's grace.
To be willing to put the dung gate between that and ourselves. We love the Lord. And it was locked and bars above my feet. That could be that. The enemy keeps hammering it. He doesn't want you to be a separate expression. He doesn't want you to walk to the arm glory of the Lord either. He knows that it will be landlord and the happiness of your own Catholic and he'll hammer at every one of these gates.
Do not need to have a block and bar, and I trust that the lesson of this case will not be lost upon us and out of this verse. But the gate of the fountain repair shall in the front all over the ruler part of Mr. Egypt and covered it. Covered it. The only gate that was covered the only gate that had a covering upon it. You and I want to enjoy.
And sweet and precious fountains of refreshments the Lord has for you and me.
Why is it, dear Christian? Why is it that some believers are so happy?
One believer they're bubbling over with the joy of the Lord and you just know when you meet them, they're going to master it right into your heart. They're going to pop about the Lord they're going to refer to this precious book and others of us with questions too. We know the Lord Jesus as our Savior requires it that we look at their happiness and their joy and we just know that it isn't our experience as it is there. Why is that as the Lord does indiscriminately give a larger portion of happiness to.
Smaller portions of another idle, I believe here, children of God, we can't go any farther. Our time is up. But I believe that you and I put this factor fairly ready before God and sought to learn the lecture individually and as a family and as an assembly, that there would be the richest blessing in the Lord in your own personal life.
And in your whole life?
And nearly a family as well. Are we willing to do it? It's not simply going from portion to fortunately after and learning a few unusual thoughts that are in it. It's a question my dear child is always I need ever so much is prayerfully before God to the people that these elections might be reality in your life and mine. It is possible to be happy all the way home, yet it truly is.
Oh, you're single by both. Dangerous, flexible, disappointment, sorrow.
I say it's quite possible to have joy in the midst of all those circumstances.
2nd Corinthians fix, the apostle says. As powerful, yet all we rejoice, Second Corinthians 7, the apostle says.
In a great.
I must turn to it. I'm holding the wrong factor back at Corinthians Chapter 7. I'll just read it.
I am exceeding thoughtful in all our tribulations. Second Corinthians 8, verse 2, Albany, great trial of affliction. The abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded to me. This is very striving. Here's soul and joy. Here is tribulation and exceeding joy, and here is a friction, deep poverty, and a fundamental absorb.
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Invest the experience of every question No, of course it's not even by no no very very easily we get down under the circumstances down under the trial Someone has to come along and encourage us a bit fine, Let's just talk about that but all dear children of God. I really believe that it was prayerfully went through the exercise of the fear of God would speak to him before us in this most 13 wondrous chapter there would be in your.
Blessings of the Lord. May I repeat this box? No, I believe the lessons of me of archery are intended to be personal left. Personal actions for each and every individual here, but I believe they're intended to be family left.
And I believe they're intended to be assembly left if you and die off to be certainly and individually exercising for God to walk according to the truth of this book and in separation from the poor guilty on the golfy world. When I say separation, I certainly don't mean that our heart on the long that they may know our practice failure and to think every opportunity to prevent hearts to them and all his mother.
All your child is all near the wall.
That belongs between you and this world, long between your children and this world, and belong between their family. Gather the second name of the Lord Jesus Christ and that which is not according to such truth.