Part 13 | Four Battles Every Christian Must Fight
From Nehemiah 13
Broken Promise #1:
📖 Nehemiah 10:39 ESV We will not neglect the house of our God.
📖 Nehemiah 13:4–5 ESV Eliashib the priest, who was appointed over the chambers of the house of our God, and who was related to Tobiah, 5 prepared for Tobiah a large chamber where they had previously put the grain offering, the frankincense, the vessels, and the tithes of grain, wine, and oil, which were given by commandment to the Levites, singers, and gatekeepers, and the contributions for the priests.
📖 Nehemiah 4:3 ESV Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!”
📖 Nehemiah 4:8 ESV And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.
1. The battle for your .
Question: What or is taking up in your ?
📖 Hebrews 12:15 ESV See to it that no one fails to obtain the grace of God; that no “root of bitterness” springs up and causes trouble, and by it many become defiled;
My is for , not the .
📖 Nehemiah 13:8 ESV And I was very angry, and I threw all the household furniture of Tobiah out of the chamber. 9 Then I gave orders, and they cleansed the chambers, and I brought back there the vessels of the house of God, with the grain offering and the frankincense.
📖 2 Corinthians 10:5 ESV We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ,
Broken Promise #2:
📖 Nehemiah 10:37 ESV to bring the first of our dough, and our contributions, the fruit of every tree, the wine and the oil, to the priests, to the chambers of the house of our God; and to bring to the Levites the tithes from our ground, for it is the Levites who collect the tithes in all our towns where we labor.
📖 Nehemiah 13:10 ESV I also found out that the portions of the Levites had not been given to them, so that the Levites and the singers, who did the work, had fled each to his field.
📖 Matthew 6:24 ESV No one can serve two masters… You cannot serve God and money.
2. The battle for your .
📖 Proverbs 22:7 ESV The rich rules over the poor, and the borrower is the slave of the lender.
📖 Nehemiah 13:11-12 ESV So I confronted the officials and said, “Why is the house of God forsaken?” And I gathered them together and set them in their stations. 12 Then all Judah brought the tithe of the grain, wine, and oil into the storehouses.
Broken Promise #3:
📖 Nehemiah 10:31 ESV And if the peoples of the land bring in goods or any grain on the Sabbath day to sell, we will not buy from them on the Sabbath or on a holy day.
📖 Nehemiah 13:15 ESV In those days I saw in Judah people treading winepresses on the Sabbath, and bringing in heaps of grain and loading them on donkeys, and also wine, grapes, figs, and all kinds of loads, which they brought into Jerusalem on the Sabbath day.
3. The battle for your .
📖 Nehemiah 13:17 ESV Then I confronted the nobles of Judah and said to them, “What is this evil thing that you are doing, profaning the Sabbath day?
Anything that separates you from with the is .
📖 Nehemiah 13:18 ESV Did not your fathers act in this way, and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city? Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.”
📖 Nehemiah 13:19 ESV As soon as it began to grow dark at the gates of Jerusalem before the Sabbath, I commanded that the doors should be shut and gave orders that they should not be opened until after the Sabbath. And I stationed some of my servants at the gates, that no load might be brought in on the Sabbath day.
📖 Nehemiah 13:20 ESV Then the merchants and sellers of all kinds of wares lodged outside Jerusalem once or twice.
📖 Nehemiah 13:21 ESV But I warned them and said to them, “Why do you lodge outside the wall? If you do so again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on they did not come on the Sabbath.
When we with God, we are in .
📖 Isaiah 30:15 ESV For thus said the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel, “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and in trust shall be your strength.”
Broken Promise #4:
📖 Nehemiah 10:30 ESV We will not give our daughters to the peoples of the land or take their daughters for our sons.
📖 Nehemiah 13:23 ESV In those days also I saw the Jews who had married women of Ashdod, Ammon, and Moab.
📖 Nehemiah 13:24 ESV And half of their children spoke the language of Ashdod, and they could not speak the language of Judah, but only the language of each people.
4. The Battle for your .
📖 Nehemiah 13:25 ESV And I confronted them and cursed them and beat some of them and pulled out their hair. And I made them take an oath in the name of God, saying, “You shall not give your daughters to their sons, or take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.
📖 Nehemiah 13:26 ESV Did not Solomon king of Israel sin on account of such women? Among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was beloved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel. Nevertheless, foreign women made even him to sin.
📖 Nehemiah 13:30–31 ESV Thus I cleansed them from everything foreign, and I established the duties of the priests and Levites, each in his work; 31 and I provided for the wood offering at appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.
📖 Hebrews 7:23–25 ESV The former priests were many in number, because they were prevented by death from continuing in office, 24 but He holds His priesthood permanently, because He continues forever. 25 Consequently, He is able to save to the uttermost those who draw near to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.
Sermon in a Sentence:
to the Nehemiah, Jesus Christ, who your life, it with His , and gives up on you.
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