A Job Well Done

Nehemiah 6:15 – 7:3

1. God Reveals His presence.

• The Work was completed in fifty-two days. 6:15
• God’s enemies were dismayed because they realized that only through God could such a thing be done. 6:16
• We must recognize that with God nothing is impossible!
• Where there is no vision, the people perish: Proverbs 29:18 KJV

2. Fighting for the other side.

• The nobles were playing on the other team; their allegiance was to Tobiah, Nehemiah’s enemy. 6:17
• The nobles had been a drag on Nehemiah’s efforts from the beginning. 3:5
• The nobles make the discernment that their bread is buttered on Tobiah’s side, and so they work against Nehemiah. 6:18
• We need to pray with humility, for wisdom and discernment that we would not be found in all sincerity to be fighting in the ranks of the enemy of God.
• Churches are more often destroyed by our inability to get along than by problems from the outside.

3. Leadership for the future.

• Nehemiah appoints his brother Hanani the man who had moved him to come to Jerusalem. 7:2 & 1:2
• Nehemiah also appoints Hananiah; two reasons are given:
• He was a man of integrity. 7:2
• He feared God more than most men do. 7:2
• We need to be people of integrity who are growing in our understanding of Nehemiah’s God.