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"Through the Bible" Week 33

"Through the Bible" Week 33. Nehemiah and the "Nay Sayers" Nehemiah 4:2. The "nay sayer" is someone who says, "It can't be done." One of the worst examples of this is when parents tell their children, "You'll never amount to anything.".

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"Through the Bible" Week 33

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  1. "Through the Bible" Week 33 • Nehemiah and the • "Nay Sayers" • Nehemiah 4:2

  2. The "nay sayer" is someone who says, "It can't be done." • One of the worst examples of this is when parents tell their children, "You'll never amount to anything."

  3. Rather than say, "You can do anything you want to," it would be more correct to say something like this: "You can do anything you want to do as long as it is something that is morally and ethically good, as long as it is in line with the gifts God has given you, and as long as you are willing to work very hard to accomplish it.“

  4. The Seven Last Words of the Church: "We've never done it that way before." • Or, "We've done that before - it won't work."

  5. The "nay sayer" is lower on the scale than a pessimist.

  6. We have examples of "nay sayers" in the Bible. • Namaan • Peter • Agabus • Moses • Jeremiah

  7. When Nehemiah began to rebuild the walls around the decimated city of Jerusalem, the "nay sayers" were quick to mockingly ask, "Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble -- burned as they are?" (Nehemiah 4:2)

  8. Nehemiah spoke to his opposition with boldness, "The God of heaven will give us success. We his servants will start rebuilding, but as for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to it." (Nehemiah 2:20)

  9. "What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble -- burned as they are?" "What they are building -- if even a fox climbed up on it, he would break down their wall of stones!" (4:2,3)

  10. How did Nehemiah respond to these classic "nay sayers"? • He prayed

  11. How did Nehemiah respond to these classic "nay sayers"? • He prayed • He instructed the wall builders to arm themselves

  12. How did Nehemiah respond to these classic "nay sayers"? • He prayed • He instructed the wall builders to arm themselves • He kept on building

  13. Distractions are more harmful than persecutions. If the enemy can simply get us to take our eye off the ball, he knows the win will be his.

  14. Perhaps we don't have a wall to build like Nehemiah, but we do have a personal spiritual life to build, many of us have a godly marriage and family to build, and all of us have a message to share and a cause to uphold - the message and cause called the • Gospel of • Jesus Christ.

  15. But there's an even more dangerous threat to the Christian's faith. It's the "nay sayers" who urge us to give up the faith entirely, to walk away saying, "I guess God doesn't exist after all."

  16. "Many there be which say of my soul, 'There is no help for him in God.'" • "But thou, O Lord, are a shield for me, the glory and the lifter of my head." • (From Psalm 3:2)

  17. Job 19:25 • "I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God."

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