This is Not a Drill!

Notes: This Is Not a Drill!

Greg Laurie

 Nehemiah: The Rebuilt Life

Sunday, January 14, 2018

Nehemiah 10

Music: Harvest Worship Band

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In Hawaii there was a false alarm sent out to All smartphones saying that a nuclear missile was heading towards them.

 In Nehemiah they were in a revival after the walls were rebuilt.

The evening of your life is determined in the morning of your life. The same is true in the Christian life.

You know you are growing spiritually when you know you need to grow spiritually, we all need to grow!

1. They surrendered to the word of God.

Nehemiah 10:28-29 NKJV

[28] Now the rest of the people-the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding- [29] these joined with their brethren, their nobles, and entered into a curse and an oath to walk in God's Law, which was given by Moses the servant of God, and to observe and do all the commandments of the LORD our Lord, and His ordinances and His statutes:

When you make your stand for Christ at Baptism.

When you make that stand of faith with your non believing friends.

2. They separated themselves from Ungodly Influences 

Nehemiah 10:28 NKJV

[28] Now the rest of the people-the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all those who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the Law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and understanding-

The cause and effect: they separated in order to obey.

Proverbs 3:13-20 NKJV

[13] Happy is the man who finds wisdom, And the man who gains understanding; [14] For her proceeds are better than the profits of silver, And her gain than fine gold. [15] She is more precious than rubies, And all the things you may desire cannot compare with her. [16] Length of days is in her right hand, In her left hand riches and honor. [17] Her ways are ways of pleasantness, And all her paths are peace. [18] She is a tree of life to those who take hold of her, And happy are all who retain her. [19] The LORD by wisdom founded the earth; By understanding He established the heavens; [20] By His knowledge the depths were broken up, And clouds drop down the dew.

The believer does not pull the nonbeliever up; the nonbeliever pulls the believer down.

2 Corinthians 6:14-18 NKJV

[14] Do not be unequally yoked together with unbelievers. For what fellowship has righteousness with lawlessness? And what communion has light with darkness? [15] And what accord has Christ with Belial? Or what part has a believer with an unbeliever? [16] And what agreement has the temple of God with idols? For you are the temple of the living God. As God has said: "I will dwell in them And walk among them. I will be their God, And they shall be My people." [17] Therefore "Come out from among them And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean, And I will receive you." [18] "I will be a Father to you, And you shall be My sons and daughters, Says the LORD Almighty."

While it’s a bad idea to marry a nonbeliever, this does not mean we have no contact. Separation does not mean isolation.

Because you love them enough to tell them the truth about what the Bible says.

Judging someone does not mean to condemn them. 

Galatians 6:1 NKJV

[1] Brethren, if a man is overtaken in any trespass, you who are spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness, considering yourself lest you also be tempted.

1 Corinthians 5:10 NKJV

[10] Yet I certainly did not mean with the sexually immoral people of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or idolaters, since then you would need to go out of the world.

There are unbelievers, that frankly , don’t know any better.

3. They were invested in God’s kingdom.

Nehemiah 10:32 NKJV

[32] Also we made ordinances for ourselves, to exact from ourselves yearly one-third of a shekel for the service of the house of our God:

Everything we have came from God, yet we usually have such a hard time giving back anything.

Matthew 5:21 NKJV

[21] "You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder, and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.'

Every believer should give of their finances to the Lord.

1.  We are to give systematically.

1 Corinthians 16:2 NKJV

[2] On the first day of the week let each one of you lay something aside, storing up as he may prosper, that there be no collections when I come.

2. We are to give proportionally.

3. We are to give joyfully.

2 Corinthians 9:6-7 NKJV

[6] But this I say: He who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and he who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. [7] So let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver.

4. If you want to be happy, do what God asks.

2 Corinthians 9:8 NKJV

[8] And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may have an abundance for every good work.

God did not promise to meet our greeds; He promised to meet our needs.

Some of the Israelites started to go back to their old ways. They even let Tobiah back in.

Nehemiah 13:6-8 NKJV

[6] But during all this I was not in Jerusalem, for in the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon I had returned to the king. Then after certain days I obtained leave from the king, [7] and I came to Jerusalem and discovered the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing a room for him in the courts of the house of God. [8] And it grieved me bitterly; therefore I threw all the household goods of Tobiah out of the room.

Out with the old...in with the new.