Part 7 | Moving Beyond the Building
From Nehemiah 7
📖 Nehemiah 6:15 ESV So the wall was finished on the twenty-fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty-two days.
What is God my life .
📖 Ephesians 2:10 ESV For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them.
Moving beyond the building:
1. Don’t just your life; your life.
📖 Nehemiah 7:1-2 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.
What Scripture says to :
A. Your .
📖 Psalm 101:3 ESV I will not set before my eyes anything that is worthless.
B. Your .
📖 Ephesians 5:15–16 ESV Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, 16 making the best use of the time, because the days are evil.
C. Your .
📖 1 Corinthians 15:33 ESV Do not be deceived: ‘Bad company ruins good morals.’
D. Your .
📖 Proverbs 22:1 ESV A good name is to be chosen rather than great riches, and favor is better than silver or gold.
E. Your .
📖 1 Proverbs 4:23 ESV Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life.
📖 Nehemiah 7:3 ESV And I said to them, “Let not the gates of Jerusalem be opened until the sun is hot. And while they are still standing guard, let them shut and bar the doors. Appoint guards from among the inhabitants of Jerusalem, some at their guard posts and some in front of their own homes.”
Moving beyond the building:
2. Don’t just your life; others with your life.
📖 Nehemiah 7:4 ESV The city was wide and large, but the people within it were few, and no houses had been rebuilt.
is in the business so that we can be in the business.
📖 Nehemiah 7:5 ESV Then my God put it into my heart to assemble the nobles and the officials and the people to be enrolled by genealogy. And I found the book of the genealogy of those who came up at the first, and I found written in it:
Don’t turn God’s into your .
📖 Nehemiah 7:2a ESV I gave my brother Hanani and Hananiah the governor of the castle charge over Jerusalem
Moving beyond the building:
3. Don’t just others with your life; them to with your life.
📖 Nehemiah 7:6 ESV These were the people of the province who came up out of the captivity of those exiles whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried into exile. They returned to Jerusalem and Judah, each to his town.
📖 Nehemiah 7:70–72 ESV Now some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave to the work. The governor gave to the treasury 1,000 darics of gold, 50 basins, 30 priests’ garments and 500 minas of silver. 71 And some of the heads of fathers’ houses gave into the treasury of the work 20,000 darics of gold and 2,200 minas of silver. 72 And what the rest of the people gave was 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priests’ garments.
God invites us to “ ” in what Jesus has “ ” .
📖 John 14:2–3 ESV In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, that where I am you may be also.
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