From Nehemiah 6-7

4 Tactics of the Enemy & 4 Responses to Keep Moving.

First Tactic of the Enemy: & .

📖 Nehemiah 6:1–3 ESV Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates), 2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come and let us meet together at Hakkephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to do me harm. 

📖 Nehemiah 6:3 ESV And I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?”

Our response to / is .

Operating by means you the .

Operating by means the leads .

Second Tactic of the Enemy: . 

📖 Nehemiah 6:5–7 ESV In the same way Sanballat for the fifth time sent his servant to me with an open letter in his hand. 6 In it was written, “It is reported among the nations, and Geshem also says it, that you and the Jews intend to rebel; that is why you are building the wall. And according to these reports you wish to become their king. 7 And you have also set up prophets to proclaim concerning you in Jerusalem, ‘There is a king in Judah.’ And now the king will hear of these reports. So now come and let us take counsel together.”

📖 Nehemiah 6:8 ESV Then I sent to him, saying, “No such things as you say have been done, for you are inventing them out of your own mind.”

📖 Nehemiah 6:9a ESV For they all wanted to frighten us, thinking, “Their hands will drop from the work, and it will not be done.” 

📖 1 Peter 5:8 ESV Be sober-minded; be watchful. Your adversary the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 

📖 Nehemiah 6:9b ESV But now, O God, strengthen my hands.

Our response to is .

📖 1 Peter 2:12 ESV Keep your conduct among the Gentiles honorable, so that when they speak against you as evildoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day of visitation.

Third Tactic of the Enemy: from .

📖 Nehemiah 6:10 ESV Now when I went into the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, who was confined to his home, he said, “Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple. Let us close the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you. They are coming to kill you by night.” 

📖 Nehemiah 6:12 ESV And I understood and saw that God had not sent him, but he had pronounced the prophecy against me because Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him. 

Do not every “ ”. 

Our response to is .

📖 Nehemiah 6:11a ESV But I said, “Should such a man as I run away?

📖 Nehemiah 6:11b ESV And what man such as I could go into the temple and live? I will not go in.”

📖 Numbers 18:7 ESV any outsider who comes near shall be put to death.”

1. comes from of the . 

📖 Hebrews 5:14 ESV But solid food is for the mature, for those who have their powers of discernment trained by constant practice to distinguish good from evil.

2. comes from the . 

📖 1 Corinthians 12:10-11 ESV the ability to distinguish between spirits… 11 All these are empowered by one and the same Spirit, who apportions to each one individually as He (the Holy Spirit) wills.

Fourth Tactic of the Enemy: .

📖 Nehemiah 6:17–18 ESV Moreover, in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters to Tobiah, and Tobiah’s letters came to them.

📖 Nehemiah 6:18 ESV For many in Judah were bound by oath to him, because he was the son-in-law of Shecaniah the son of Arah: and his son Jehohanan had taken the daughter of Meshullam the son of Berechiah as his wife.

📖 Nehemiah 6:19 ESV Also they spoke of his good deeds in my presence and reported my words to him. And Tobiah sent letters to make me afraid. 

Our response to is .

📖 Nehemiah 7:1 ESV Now when the wall had been built and I had set up the doors, and the gatekeepers, the singers, and the Levites had been appointed, 2 I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem, for he was a more faithful and God-fearing man than many. 

and with the .

Sermon in a sentence:

When the Enemy rings, stay in God’s , to God’s , to God’s , with God’s , and with God’s .

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