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Oh Lord, a heart far away.
The honorary angels, heavenly standing, right?
Who is like the same comes away in the rain and to the brain that time when everything was gonna last landing.
You can only think anything else. You never gave up on why you want to rage and all. I like that's where.
Oh, I remembered it again.
Without his wage and driven by the night while the United States workout under and brought into the light Gran Ren when he heard completely there God.
We listen to the day.
Oh, our branches for I'm saying for what I'm brought to thee. So when I.
Do it. I don't know the way you need your hair, by your thyroid and by.
The mirror right? Sitting on the land pride does and never there. I want to buy my head to do.
By thy heart in the light came, and I started.
All the plastic running, staying in the joy of swords.
To which our hearts rings. Fall on the beginning, for everywhere the Lord.
For wherever with the exact name.
Color and water shall be.
Can be my father. Bless.
Me forever one will be.
It's something I've been enjoying recently. I don't know, it would be very long, but.
We've had two references today to the book of not today, but this conference, umm, on the book of Nehemiah and, uh, I was wondering if we could just look at that book for a few moments.
Something I sort of enjoyed just recently.
Umm, I'm going to speak, uh, I'm going to speak to the younger children, but I guess they've all gone. But it's very interesting if you go to the Book of Nehemiah to find out the number of times that the word great is mentioned.
If you just have some spare time, take out a pencil and a piece of paper.
And go through the book of Nehemiah and discover how many times the word great is mentioned.
And that's what I would like to sort of make my subject this afternoon, although it's not going to be too long, but I'd like to read a few verses first of all.
And uh, Nehemiah, chapter one.
And, uh, starting at verse, umm.
UH-3.
And they said unto me, The remnants that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire. And it came to pass, when I heard these words, that I sat down, and wept, and mourned certain days, and fasted and prayed before the God of heaven.
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And I said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God that keeps covenant and mercy for them, and love him, and observe his commandments. Let thine here now be attentive, and thine eyes open.
But thou mayest hear thy the prayer of Thy servant, which I pray before thee day and night for the children of Israel thy servants, and confess the sins of the children of Israel, which we have sinned against thee, both I and my Father's House of sins. We have dealt very corruptly against Thee, and have not kept the commandments, nor the statutes, nor the uh, judgments which thou commandest thy servant Moses. Remember, I beseech thee, the words that thou commandest thy servant, Moses saying.
If you transgress, I will scatter you abroad among the nations.
And then I'd like to turn to chapter 8.
And just read a couple of verses there.
Umm, verse 5.
And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people, for he was above all the people.
And when he opened it, all the people stood up, and Ezra blessed the Lord the Greek God, and all the people answered Amen, Amen with lifting up their hands. And they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground.
And then umm, on to chapter umm.
Nine Chapter 9.
And verse 31.
Nevertheless, for thy great mercy's sake, thou didst not utterly consume them nor forsake them, for thou art gracious and a merciful God. Now, therefore, our God the great, the mighty.
Come upon us, on our kings, and on our Princess, and on our priests, and on our prophets, and on our fathers, and on our all thy people, since the time of the kings of Assyria unto this day, albeit Thou art just in all that is brought upon us. For thou hast done right, but we have done wickedly. Neither have our kings and our Princess and priests, nor our fathers kept the law, Thy law, nor hearkened unto Thy commandments.
And then, umm, I'd like to look at, uh, chapter 4.
Nehemiah, chapter 4.
And, uh, this time, uh, starting at verse 19.
And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another. In what place thereof ye hear the sound of the trumpet? Resort ye sit there unto us, our God shall fight for us. So we labored in the work, and half of them held the Spears from the rising of the morning till the stars appeared. Likewise at the same time said I under the people.
Let everyone with his servant lodge within Jerusalem, that in the night they may be a guard to us, and leave her on the day. So neither I nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard which followed me, none of us put off our clothes, saving that everyone put off for washing.
And then the 6th chapter.
And uh, verse 2.
San valid and send unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together, someone of us in some of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief. And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work so that I cannot come down. Why should the work cease? Uh, whilst I leave it and come down to you. And then just one other passage, the 12Th chapter.
And uh.
Just a few verses there. Verse 31 Then I brought up the Princess of Judah upon the wall and I'm going to read it, I think the way Mr. Garvey was it, and appointed 2 great choirs that gave thanks where up one went on the right hand up on the wall toward the down gate, and after them went hoshai and half the Princess of Judah and so on, and then down to verse umm.
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Uh.
40 So stood the two choirs of them that gave thanks in the House of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me.
Uh, verse 43 also that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced, for God has made them rejoice with great joy. The wise also and the children rejoiced so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard even afar off. Well, I know I have read quite a few scriptures there in the book of Nehemiah, but I've enjoyed this that we really have here.
The word great brought before us many times the 1St 3 passages I read it was the Great God.
And then the second two passages I read. It was a great work.
And, uh, in the last passage that we read, it was great joy and rejoicing.
And, you know, I was just thinking of this day in which Nehemiah lived. You'll notice it wasn't really a day that was very encouraging. Notice the way he speaks there, the third verse.
The first chapter.
Complexion and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem also was broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire.
Uh, I might just say before I start is why, why read about Nehemiah? What, what connection does that have with the day in which we're living? Well, I think that the day in which we're living is really very similar to what we had in the day of Nehemiah. And Nehemiah here he was mourning over the fact that the condition of things and how the walls were broken down the, the temple had fallen into disrepair, although we know what they were working on it. And it says here the gates were burned with fire.
It was really a day of discouragement in some ways. But you know, the wonderful thing is that Nehemiah here, he wasn't getting so occupied with the problems because we find here in the next verse.
That it says I sat down, I went, I mourned, I fasted, and I prayed.
Gmail was a man of prayer. In fact, it's very interesting to go through this book and see how many times it talks about Nehemiah praying. And you know, I think that's something that's really lacking amongst us today. I speak to myself. How much time do we spend in prayer? It's very easy to get occupied with the difficulties, the fact that the meetings are getting smaller and the truer young people and so on. And it's very easy to get occupied with these things. But how much time do we?
Uh, spend in prayer.
Looking to the Lord and what I think is so wonderful here that NIA Maya prays to the great God. And you know, that's something I think that we have to get a hold of in our souls, that we have a great God.
And of course, the Lord Jesus. Is there anyone greater than him?
He came down here in obedience to the Father's will and he went to the cross. This is a confident accomplished that mighty work of redemption. He's made the way of salvation. We know we're a very privileged people. We've been brought into this great, great place of blessing. And I wanted to say, if there's anyone here not saved this afternoon, you know, it says, how shall we escape that we neglect so great salvation. So we have a great Savior, uh, a great salvation and we have a great thought and he is just as evil today.
To look after us and to bless us as it was back in the, in the days when things were much different. You know, I remember when I was, uh.
A young person, I used to go to the Toronto conferences and I suppose there, there might have been 800 people. And then there was the Montreal conferences. I remember going to one where there was 1200 and uh, and we enjoyed so much fellowship and we went to a hymn saying the whole auditorium was full of young people. But you know, things have changed. But the wonderful thing is that we still have the great God. He's just the same today as he was back in the 60s, as he was back in the 1800s.
And uh, you know, Nehemiah, it's interesting to see how he was, uh, certainly burdened by the way things have turned out. But you know, he confessed the failure of, uh, Israel as his own failure. He knows how he talks There in the eighth verse, he says, I beseech thee, I beseech thee the words that thou commandest thy servant Moses saying, if he transgressed, I was, I'm sorry, that's not the verse I want verse seven. We have dealt very corruptly against thee.
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And have not kept the commandments nor the statutes nor the judgments. So he recognized that the reason why these things had happened, uh, to, umm, the children of Israel because of their failure. And you know, we have to look back and we have to say it's a heart failure that things have turned out the way it is. We can't point the finger at others. We can only point the finger at ourselves and myself. But you know, The thing is that Nehemiah want to encourage themselves.
So he spoke about the great God.
And so let's go on. I don't want to take too much time, but we went on to the 8th chapter.
And when we come to the 8th chapter, things have changed.
Uh, instead of the walls being broken down and the temple and disrepair and, uh, the children of Israel taken into captivity, what do we find? Well, umm, we find here that the, uh, walls have been, were, were repaired, umm.
The, uh, temple was, uh, rebuilt and uh, things were going along a lot better. And, uh, so it says here in the, uh, sixth verse, Ezra, bless the Lord, the great God and all the people answered Amen and Amen. You know, sometimes we can get so occupied with the failure and the condition of things that, uh, we forget the things that the Lord has done for us.
And uh, you know, we can look back and we can look and see what the Lord has done for us. What a wonderful privilege it is to be gathered to the name of the Lord Jesus to be able to meet together in this way. Just look what the Lord has done for us this past weekend.
Filling this room and giving this comfortable place for us to be. And, umm, many of us here or most of us here were brought up in Christian homes. We were brought up with the word of God was, uh, uh, was preached and, uh, where it was, uh, obeyed, uh, at least maybe not entirely, but certainly, uh, there wasn't a desire to walk in obedience to the word. These are things that we can be thankful for. And so instead of being occupied here with the difficulties, uh, that, that the, uh, children of Israel here and Nehemiah, they were thanking God.
For the place that, that he had brought them to. And uh, they said here, as I said, Ezra blessed the Lord, the great God. And that's what we need to do to thank the Lord for all that he has done for us and trust him for all that's become, uh, and so that's what we have here. And then when you go to the 9th chapter.
You, you'll have to forgive me if I don't just get this in exactly the way I want to put it. But in the 9th chapter, you find again, Nehemiah recounts all the things that the Lord had done for the, for the, the people of God, and yet how failure had come in over and over and over again. And umm, he comes then to the 30, uh, 31St verse and he says, nevertheless, for thy great mercy's sake.
Thou didst not utterly consumed nor forsake them, for thou art gracious and a merciful God. Now therefore our God, but great, the mighty and the terrible God, who keep us covenant of mercy. Let not all the trouble seem little before the IT just seems like Nehemiah is saying Lord.
I know the way things have gone, but you know, you are a merciful God and please keep us, Keep us going on, uh, in spite of the failure. And oh Lord it, isn't it true that that's what we want today, even though things aren't what they, we would like them to be still, how wonderful to think that the Lord is coming very, very soon, and he wants us to keep on and He'll keep us. He'll preserve us. If we have a desire to walk in obedience to His word, He will keep us until that moment when He gives the shout.
And we can trust him, He's the great God. And we can see the way the Lord has worked in the past by often I'm amazed at looking at history from God's viewpoint, as it were back in the, UH-16 hundreds. We think of a terrible state of things there, uh, and Christendom in Europe. And what happens, God raises up, uh, Martin Luther and, uh, he restores the truth of justification by faith. And one man is, is raised up of God to take on, you might say, the whole.
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Uh, church system and that truth is restored justification by faith. Then in the next century, what happens? God raises up gospel preachers, people like David Breinhardt and George Whitfield and others.
And the gospel is sounded out in England and in North America and many other places, and thousands of people are are brought to know the Lord as Savior.
Then you go to the 1800s and what do you find? God raises up man, the godly man who began to understand what it was that the truth of the one body and being gathered through the Lord's name. They were gathered out of systems and hundreds of, of uh, of umm, gatherings were, were raised up in England and in Europe and in North America. Again, we can see God working in spite of the failure.
And you know, I believe the Lord is still working today.
And He's the great God, and He's quite capable of preserving a testimony until He comes in spite of our failure. All He wants us to do is to walk in obedience to His Word and recognize that He is in control and He's the one that can keep us coming on for Him.
Well then, if you turn to the 4th chapter, the 4th chapter of Nehemiah.
Umm, Iran's old versus and here it's not so much the great God that is brought before us.
But it says here in the 19th verse I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one part from another. In what place thereof you hear the sound of the trumpet? Resort ye feather unto us, our God shall fight for us. So here is talking about a great work.
And you know.
It might not seem like a great work. Umm, perhaps you're in a little assembly and there's a, a little Sunday school work. There might be 10 or 12 Children that come. I think this isn't very much, but you know, if it's done for the Lord, it's a great work. And perhaps, umm, the Lord would have you to go and visit some shut insurance and seek to be an encouragement to them. It's a great work because we're serving a great God. And I think the primary thought here in these verses.
Is that it says that they were separated one for another, far from another. And you know, that's often the case. I know. I think of this little assembly here in Corner Brook. There's seven hours from, uh, St. John's and, uh, they're about the same distance to the skeleton. The meetings are not close together. I think of our brother John here and Carmen in Denver, and I think you feel how far away some of the assemblies are.
But you know, it says here, when you hear the sound of the trumpet, resort ye thither unto us. Our God shall point for us. But I think the thought is of being together. You know, I think we need to do this more than ever today. I think the enemy just delights to keep us separated and how doing our own thing and forgetting that we're all members of that one body would have us to be together to help each other, to encourage one another. And I wanna say what a tremendous encouragement.
I'm not from this assembly, but I know what a tremendous encouragement is been, uh, for the Saints to feel the exercise to come here and to be an encouragement to that. You're saying it's not only in Corner Brook.
But in St. John's and the Maritime provinces.
We need to be together, we need to encourage one another. It's a great work that the Lord has given us to do and He wants us to continue until He comes. And so it talks here about a great work. And yet, you know, the enemy is always busy to try and stop this. And so when you come down to the 6th chapter and you know these things, I don't have to really go into them. We find here in the early part of the 6th chapter.
San Ballot and Geekshem. Umm.
They're opposed to what was going on in the building of the wall. And they say, here, let us meet together, uh, in some of the villages of the Plain of Ono. In other words, they didn't want that wall to be constructed. They wanted to hinder it. So they asked Nehemiah and the others to come down to the Plain of Ono. And it's often been said that, umm, it was the plane of Ono, the place where Nehemiah had to say, Oh no.
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We're not going to do that. We're not going to do it. How could they, umm, carry on the great work that the Lord had given them to do and go down and meet with these men? And yet, you know, that's what the enemy is always trying to do. He's trying to steal our hearts away, uh, towards the world and to get occupied with things that aren't important and, uh, to leave off the work. And, umm, I want to say that, you know, it's easy to do that.
It's easy to, umm, go to the meeting and say, well, I don't have to worry too much about thinking about the chapter tonight because brother so and so is there. He'll look after things and he'll, uh, carry on the meeting. I can just relax. It's easy to be like that, isn't it? Let somebody else do the work. But we need to be exercised. Each one of us. The Lord has given us something to do. It might be encouraging someone or, umm, helping in a physical way.
Umm, there's many little things the Lord would have us to do, and he doesn't want us to be distracted by the enemy who would seek to turn our hearts aside.
From doing that great work that he has given us to do.
Well.
I I don't want to take too much time here, but the last chapter or at least the 12Th chapter.
We've talked about a great God who was able to come in for us. We talked about a great work that the Lord has would have us to carry on for him. And what's next? I believe in this 12Th chapter. We have great results, great results. And I think what's so wonderful at the end of this book, we have the people coming together and it says they are in the 1St, 31St verse.
Then I brought up the Princess of Judah upon the wall and appointed 2 great choirs. I think that's the way Mr. Darby puts it. 2 great Flyers that gave thanks. And then as you go down, uh, in verse UH-30, it says from the gate of Ephraim and above the old gate and above the fish gate and the tower of Hannah Neil and the tower of Mia, even under the sheep gate, they stood still in the prison gates.
Umm, they so stood the two choirs that gave thanks to the House of God.
So here we have, umm, the results of what have been going on and how wonderful there were these great wires singing joyfulness.
And it's interesting that they stood in front of the prison gigs. It's just as if they remembered being captive back there in Babylon. Umm, you know, we often, uh, read those verses in the book of the Psalms. Umm, now just read it. I'm not good at quoting, but, uh, remember how they said in Psalm 137, how shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land? If I forget the old Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning and so on.
They they couldn't sing in a strange lounge when they had been taking captive. Now they're back in the land and what can they do? They can sing, They can rejoice at what the Lord has done. And so we find that the case and it says there in verse 43 that the day and also that day they offered great sacrifices and rejoiced where God had made them rejoice with great joy. And so how wonderful.
That the Lord had worked in their lives and they had brought great blessings. And you know, we often sing that little hymn, don't we? We'll praise Him for all that is past and trust Him for all is to come. We can look back and we can see how the Lord has undertaken in so many different ways. We have so much to be thankful for, to rejoice over. And so we find that these people here, they were rejoicing.
And they were encouraging one another at what the Lord had done. So I want you just to think of these verses, Meditate on we have a great God, we're doing a great work, and we're doing an obedience to the word of God and there'll be great results and we're looking to him. May the Lord encourage us in these last days of small things to go on for him until he gets the ship.
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Encouraging words we've had from God's precious word. I'd just like to for a very few minutes, uh, continue looking at the book of Nehemiah.
And.
I'd like to refer to.
Two scriptures involving walls.
I'm not a stone make Mason, I'm not a brick player, but.
Uh, my mother had several brothers that were stonemason.
And brick layers.
And over the years, I had a chance to see their handiwork.
And some years ago, our brother Don Bella Sally came to our house and.
Help me put in a wood stove.
And uh.
Year or so after that was last somewhat unfinished, it was functional.
But I had an uncle, an unmarried uncle that came and lived with us. He was a bricklayer by professor.
And he helped me. I shouldn't say he helped me. I helped him a little bit.
Put up.
A very impressive brick wall on both sides of that fireplace.
Finally put it up.
Would have been straight.
You would have seen the results of my incompetence or my lack of training.
But everything was exact, straight, plump.
We're told.
In Scripture, not only to be careful what we build with, but how we build.
And in the book of Nehemiah.
There's concern with building a wall.
And.
It's warm around the city.
But if we go to the book of Deuteronomy, which occurs before Nehemiah.
There's instructions given when a new house is being constructed.
These homes have flat roofs.
And often a lot of the daily activities.
Took place.
Flatulence.
If there were vegetables and fruit to be dried, it was spread out on that roof.
If there were children that were sent out to play, they were sent out to play often on that flat roof. But there is specific instruction in the book of Deuteronomy about constructing battlements.
Or a wall around that house.
And.
It should be.
Something that we as parents and grandparents should be very concerned about.
Constructing battle mix.
Around the roofs or walls of our homes. But let's just look for a moment concerning some of the builders on the wall.
In chapter 3.
One of the first two days long expansion is a Lion ship, the High Street and.
We see that there was a failure.
On his part.
It seems that he was engaged in some aspects of the work and perhaps he did some work, but as we read further in verse 21.
It says after him repaired Merrimoth, the son of Urijah, the son of Cause, another piece from the door of the House of Eliaship, even to the end of the House of Eliaship. So it appears that Eliaship did not build the wall in front of his own house. And as we refer to this morning, we saw through intermarriage that that led to a very deplorable condition.
Found at the end of the book of Nehemiah.
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What is encouraging?
To see.
Some that are building adversary. But the fish gate to the sons of Pasanaya build, who also laid the beams thereof and set up the doors thereof and the locks thereof, and the bars are off, and these were necessary then.
And they're necessary now.
And again we see some that did not apply themselves. In verse five it says next unto them that the Koites repaired, but their nobles putting off their necks to the work.
No, at school we're always told to lead by example.
What were the nobles to have done? They were to have met by example, which they seemed to fail to do.
But we see another case mentioned here where since they built earnestly and we even see the daughters of an individual also engaged in the work and in the building. Now I'd like to just go over to the book of Proverbs, Proverbs for a moment.
And there's some very practical instruction given in Proverbs.
The wall fell under disrepair time of near Maya for a particular reason.
And we're gonna read now about another wall that.
Fell into a state, uh, state of disrepair for another reason. And if we look at verse 30, it says I went by the field of the Swaffle and by the vineyard of the man void of understanding and law was all grown over with thorns and nettles.
And covered the face thereof and the Stonewall thereof.
Was broken down with chapter brother. That's chapter 24 of Proverbs and verse 30.
So what are the horrible state this was?
The wall hardly could have been found.
And.
The stones were broken. Uh, the nettles had covered the face of the wall.
But then.
It goes on to say to verse 32. Then I saw and considered it. Well, I looked upon it and received instruction.
How often do we look upon things that are not right?
Some kind of gloss over them?
And we don't receive the instruction that we should get.
From looking at particular situation.
What a blessed state to be in to look at something.
And to receive instructions.
There's another way that a wall is viewed, and Proverbs chapter 25.
And it involves our own spirits. Verse 28. He that hath no rule over his own spirit.
Is like a city.
That is broken down.
And without this.
Walls were built for protection.
And I've had.
The privilege to travel quite a bit in Europe.
I've been to some.
All cities in Germany that were walled cities.
And in some cases, those walls were 10 or 12 feet thick.
To provide instruction.
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I've also been to some castles and cities.
In Romania that were wolves cities.
Even a number of the churches and monasteries had walls around them for fear of the Ottoman Turks or invaders.
But those walls were there to provide protection.
And so here we have another practical word concerning.
Having the rule over our own spirit. Not going to elaborate much on that, but.
It's, uh, something that we have each have to consider.
And let's also turn to the 8th chapter of Ezra.
Not not as Ezekiel, I'm sorry, Ezekiel.
Chapter 8.
We see beginning and verse five how the temple of the Lord was profaned and detached upon that at the end of Nehemiah.
And in verse six it says, He said Furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do, even the great abominations that the House of Israel committed here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary.
But turn me yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.
And he brought me to the door of the court, and when I looked, behold a hole in the wall.
Then he said unto me, Son of Man, dig now in the wall. And when I had digged in the wall to hold a door, he said unto me, Go in, and behold the wicked abominations that they do.
So I went in and saw, and we hold every form of creeping things and abominable beast, and all the idols of the House of Israel portrayed upon the wall round about.
And there stood before them seventy men, 70.
Number of responsibilities of the ancients of the House of Israel. In the midst of them stood.
Uh, jazz Andaya, the son of Shayfan, every man has censored in his hand. And a thick cloud of incense went up, said unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the House of Israel do in the dark? Every man.
In the chambers of his imagery for the same. For they say, the ward seeth us not, and the Lord hath forsaken the earth. And he said unto me, turn thee again, and thou shalt see greater abominations. We don't have to look into those greater abominations. We see many of these things before us today, but there's something very solemn that we have in verse 16.
And.
It says between the porch and the altar were about 5 and 20 men.
With their backs towards the temple of the Lord and their faces towards the east.
Recently I I read a biography of a man who was converted in India. His name is Ravi Zacharias.
Some perhaps I've read some of his books.
But his biography is entitled Journey from the East to the West.
And he was brought up.
And the environment of the Buddhist Hinduism.
Every form of ISM. I guess that you can think of all these oriental religions.
He was well acquainted with them.
But he was wonderfully converted.
And still recall one statement that he makes in his book.
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He said it is so sorrowful to see.
Many in the United States and Canada that have been brought up.
In a privileged nation.
Looking to the East, Looking to Hinduism, Looking to Buddhism.
For all the answers, well, we're thankful for that diligence of Ezra, that diligence of Nehemiah to repair that which was fallen. And I'm sure our brother made reference to the fact that when Nehemiah went out to view that wall, who was in such a state of disrepair that.
The donkey could hardly go through the wall.
And I'm sure it brought so many fears to his eyes.
But.
It's also solemn to read the fact that after Nehemiah left that city for a period of time, a period of declension set in, and so in the last chapter, there had to be a lot of things set into order.
Thou may the Lord desire to keep us, each one going on faithfully and consistently for Him. How we failed in so many ways.
And I just wanna look.
Back at Nehemiah, for one.
One or two further versus.
Mm-hmm.
With one first. I'm just trying to locate it right now, but.
Nehemiah prays specifically to the ward.
To strengthen the knee.
One thing to ask the Lord to strengthen others.
But we each have to come to the point.
Where were each responsible.
And each of us have to seek his help.
And going on in our pathway for him.
Individually and then proactively.
OK, yeah, it's peak of one thing.
That needed to be done.
The the end we've done was speaking one thing that we all.
Expect to happen soon, and that's the Lord coming.
That's something which we expect expect next to happen.
Better I have some more scriptures I just.
Like to mention.
And the first one signed served with 27.
You already heard that.
List four. One thing have I desired? Absolutely.
That's where I see that.
Then I may dwell in the House of the Lord called the face of my life.
To behold the beauty of the Lord.
To enquire in this and through and through, enquire in this template.
Well, that's what we all want to do until the Lord comes.
There's in other words.
Delivery at 313 or the apostrophe S Apostle.
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Regimen I can't run myself to have apprehended.
But this one thing I do.
For getting those things which are behind and reaching for us until those things which are before.
Address through the mark on the price of the high quality of God Dream Christ Jesus.
Well, that's these are the things that we are pressing on today still.
At the apostrophe.
That we don't.
Do anything which is.
Not pleasing to the Lord Jesus. We have that high calling.
Not and there's another scripture that speaks about it. That is somebody, somebody who requires this.
1-6 and two defend with his head and.
John 925 So we know what that means of.
The blind man.
He said.
The aunt and said.
His parents were first asked.
I'll be a client inside.
Because usually impossible for anybody to apply it at all.
The Pharisees wanted to know details once again.
So his parents said therefore that his parents he is of age as 10.
Then again called the man that was blind, and said unto him.
Give God this praise. We know that this man is a Sinner, but how could they know that they could fail?
He answered and said.
Whether he feels sooner or no, I know not one thing I know.
That were as I was blind.
Now I see.
It reminds me of an incident in June and now in Chicago.
I had the lentil.
Quite a few months there and she room and board.
And I also had a man there who gave me some words when I first.
It came back from the army.
And but one time we my wife and I were visiting their friends lady and.
There came a man visiting, whom we knew I still.
And we knew him, that he was a believer.
So we all started talking about.
Salvation, the Sinner of the Lord.
Anne said this man gave a good testimony.
And that is something I have to explain. There's a word in German that means product.
And that, that, that says Pyrrhic. In German it means crazy.
And after he gave his testimony, she she said to him.
You are crazy and that same word means.
You have been moved like if I move this table. I have corrected it. I have moved it.
And this brother said you are right.
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I have been moved from darkness into light.
I thought that was the perfect thing.
And there's another.
Instant. I would like to read out and look again body to body please.
Stop.
Stop.
The incident is.
38 Now it's going to pass.
As they went that he entered into a certain village, and a certain woman named Martha received them into her house.
And she had a sister called Mary, which also said that Jesus's speed.
Android didn't worry.
But Martha was stumbled about much serving and came to him and said.
Lord, that sound not fair that my sister has left me to serve alone.
With her, therefore.
That she asked me.
We would think that it was quite a boldness picked up the Lord Jesus.
But he answered very gently.
And Jesus answered and said unto her, Martha, Martha, thou art careful about.
And troubles about many things.
But one thing is needed.
And for Mary has chosen that good which shall not be taken away from her.
Well, I would like to stop here.
They both of y'all have chose that good product to sit and eat the Lord Jesus, which we have done this conference actually, and we thank the Lord that you could do that.
That's great.
We thank dear God and that we have many instances which speak about things which encourage us.
And we thank thee that the Lord to his source is a great encourageous and.
Character for us.
Go on.
The steps which he has tried before.
That we go on in his steps and that we watch us that.
That we might be exercise always to please him.
And through that drove his right and his safe. He had the Lord Jesus that.
Down to campus and doing this replacement.