Sermons on Nehemiah

Nehemiah 13 Amen. Turn in your copy of God’s word to Nehemiah 13. I mentioned earlier, this is, this is it. So we’ll carry on to other things as you’re turning there. Remember, this has covered a little over a hundred years of exiles returning from punishment. banishment in Babylon, not everybody came back, but a sufficient number did that allowed them to rebuild the temple, to reestablish the cultic practices of the Jewish faith. It allowed them to rebuild…

Nehemiah 13 Amen. Turn to your copy of God’s word to Nehemiah chapter 12 tonight and then next week will be the end of our series in Ezra, Haggai and Nehemiah. And then I believe we might head to Judges. So we’ve done Genesis and Exodus on Wednesday nights, probably do Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy down the line. A year ago, we did Joshua in here. So I think Judges is where we’ll go next. So if you come to…

Nehemiah 11:1-12:26 Amen. Turn in your copy of God’s word to Nehemiah 11. Tonight we’ll read 11 one through 12 26. And it is one of those glorious passages full of names. And I don’t know what’s more difficult you to follow them or me to pronounce them. But we do want to remember and esteem this as the word of God. He put this in a couple pages of scripture. He could have used the space otherwise, but in…

Nehemiah 10 Well, let’s give our attention to God’s word. We’re in chapter 10 of Nehemiah and we have some names, uh, to, to bear through. Uh, this is a section about, uh, the people of God renewing covenant officially, uh, with, with God and with one another. Um, so I’m gonna back up to verse 38, just one verse before chapter 10 begins. It says, because of all this, we make a firm covenant in writing on the seal…

Nehemiah 9 Amen. Turn in your copy of God’s word to, uh, Nehemiah chapter nine. We’re coming down the backstretch, um, 13 chapters, maybe just a couple more sermons. Uh, chapter nine, uh, is a continuation of what we looked at last week. where Ezra read the law and the hearing of the people, they began to mourn. And he said, no, wait, hold up. You need to have joy first. And so for the next week, while they celebrated…

Nehemiah 8 Amen. Please turn in your copy of God’s word to Nehemiah. Chapter eight is our passage for this evening. It has 18 verses. When we ended last week with chapter seven, we really finished the first half of the book, maybe not numerically, but at least thematically. The wall was finished and there was a desire of the people of God to repopulate the city, to get the city filled again with the right people to do the…

Nehemiah 7 Turn in your copy of God’s word to Nehemiah. Nehemiah chapter seven is a super duper long section. And before you get terribly afraid, it is a repeat of the other chapter of the list of names. So we will only read a portion of chapter seven. will not suffer through me reading all the Hebrew names again. But as you’re making your way to chapter seven, I want to point out to you a literary feature of…

Nehemiah 6 Let’s give our attention to God’s word. Nehemiah chapter six, beginning at verse one. Now in Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem, the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it. Although up to that time, I had not set up the doors and the gates. Sanballat and Geshem sent to me saying, come and let us meet together. at Hackith Farim in the…

Nehemiah 5:14-19 Let’s give our attention to God’s word. Nehemiah chapter five, beginning at verse 14. Moreover, from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the 20th year to the 32nd year of Artaxerxes, the king, 12 years, neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor. The former governors who were before me laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them their daily ration, 40…

Nehemiah 5:1-13 Nehemiah chapter five, beginning at verse 13, I’m sorry, beginning at verse one and reading through 13. Now there arose a great outcry of the people and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. For there were those who said with our sons and our daughters, we are many. So let us get grain that we may eat and keep alive. There were also those who said we are mortgaging our fields and our vineyards and our houses…

Nehemiah 4:15-23 Let’s give our attention to God’s word. Nehemiah chapter four, beginning at verse 15. This is Nehemiah speaking, and he says, when our enemies heard that it was known to us that God had frustrated their plan, we all returned to the wall, each to his work. 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…

Nehemiah 4:1-14 Amen. Turning your copy of God’s word, uh, to Nehemiah chapter four, uh, both tonight and next week, we’ll split up chapter four, uh, into two parts. Uh, tonight we’ll look at the opposition. Uh, next week we’ll look at the laborers, uh, working with a sword in one hand and a trowel and the other hand. Nehemiah chapter four, beginning at verse one. Now, when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and…