Part 4 | Faith Under Fire: How to Stand Strong When Opposition Comes
From Nehemiah 4
📖 Nehemiah 4:1 ESV Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews.
📖 Nehemiah 4:2 ESV And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?”
How do I respond to opposition/enemies?
1. – God is through me.
📖 Matthew 5:11–12 ESV “Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. 12 Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
Why should l in ?
A. can mean I’m something.
B. means I’m the .
C. reveals God is me.
📖 Romans 5:3-4 ESV Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope.
How do I respond to opposition/enemies?
2. .
📖 Nehemiah 4:4-5 ESV Hear, O our God, for we are despised. Turn back their taunt on their own heads and give them up to be plundered in a land where they are captives. 5 Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders.
to , not your .
📖 Nehemiah 4:7 ESV But when Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and that the breaches were beginning to be closed, they were very angry.
📖 Nehemiah 4:8 ESV And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause confusion in it.
How do I respond to opposition/enemies?
3. up .
📖 Nehemiah 4:9 ESV And we prayed to our God and set a guard as a protection against them day and night.
📖 Nehemiah 4:10 ESV In Judah it was said, “The strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much rubble. By ourselves we will not be able to rebuild the wall.”
📖 Nehemiah 4:11 ESV And our enemies said, “They will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work.”
📖 Nehemiah 4:12 ESV At that time the Jews who lived near them came from all directions and said to us ten times, “You must return to us.”
📖 Nehemiah 4:13 ESV So in the lowest parts of the space behind the wall, in open places, I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.
Do I know my ?
📖 Ephesians 6:10 ESV Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of his might.
📖 Joshua 1:9 ESV Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
📖 Nehemiah 4:13b-14 ESV I stationed the people by their clans, with their swords, their spears, and their bows. 14 And I looked and arose and said to the nobles and to the officials and to the rest of the people, “Do not be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your homes.”
Your will determine your .
📖 Nehemiah 4:15 ESV When our enemies heard that it was known to us and that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work.
How do I respond to opposition/enemies?
4. a .
📖 Nehemiah 4:16-17 ESV From that day on, half of my servants worked on construction, and half held the spears, shields, bows, and coats of mail. And the leaders stood behind the whole house of Judah, 17 who were building on the wall. Those who carried burdens were loaded in such a way that each labored on the work with one hand and held his weapon with the other.
Sermon in a sentence:
I can rejoice in my resistance because it me to God, it me to the , and it my .
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