Day 343: Nehemiah 4-7 | Read The Bible In A Year | Bible Study with Commentary by Dr. Manny Arango — Transcript

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8. 0:24Hey family, welcome to day 343. We are
9. 0:27continuing our trek through the book of
10. 0:29Nehemiah. Today we are in Nehemiah
11. 0:31chapters four, five, six, and seven. All
12. 0:36right. Uh four solid chapters of the
13. 0:39Bible. Solid solid reading. I had a
14. 0:42blast reading these chapters. And
15. 0:43honestly, I'M INSPIRED BY NEHEMIAH. And
16. 0:47no wonder why there are so many sermon
17. 0:49series attached to Nehemiah as it
18. 0:52relates to building projects and
19. 0:55building programs. I don't know if
20. 0:56you're familiar with this, but in the
21. 0:57Christian space, it's almost like every
22. 1:00time there is a new campus or a building
23. 1:03that that uh leaders are believing God
24. 1:06for and you're trying to raise a lot of
25. 1:09money from your church or doing a
26. 1:11capital campaign, typically people pull
27. 1:14out the book of Nehemiah and and I get
28. 1:16it. You know, it's like, hey, you know,
29. 1:19there's something to build and building
30. 1:22is going to require a lot of our energy
31. 1:24and a lot of our resources. And so,
32. 1:26building is a part of what it means to
33. 1:29be a believer. I I think that building
34. 1:31is just part and parcel of the DNA of
35. 1:34being a part of God's people. I I I I
36. 1:37see myself as a builder. Uh I I see a
37. 1:40lot of Nehemiah's characteristics in me.
38. 1:42You know, I want to build big people. I
39. 1:44want to build an awesome organization.
40. 1:46and I want to build companies that help
41. 1:47people. My dad was a construction
42. 1:49worker, so there's I I'm not necessarily
43. 1:52someone who can construct things
44. 1:54physically with my hands, but man, just
45. 1:56the kind of mind to construct
46. 2:00organizations, businesses, people, I
47. 2:02love it. Obviously, I'm also in the
48. 2:05middle of planting a church right now.
49. 2:06And so, it's just it's building season,
50. 2:09just building people. Typically, we're
51. 2:11in a conference room, me and the team,
52. 2:14and we just got a bunch of names of like
53. 2:16370 people who have joined our launch
54. 2:18team, and we're like, where do we put
55. 2:19everybody? How do we build this so that
56. 2:23systems work, so that policies and
57. 2:26procedures work? I love building, and I
58. 2:29like building things from scratch. And
59. 2:31I'm seeing that in my son right now. He
60. 2:32loves doing Legos. And I'm seeing that
61. 2:35thing in him that is like, okay, this
62. 2:37piece goes here, and this goes here, and
63. 2:39this goes here. that desire to build. I
64. 2:41just I just uh want to encourage anybody
65. 2:44who's listening to this right now and
66. 2:46you're trying to build you're trying to
67. 2:48build your life, you know, you're trying
68. 2:49to build it and brick by brick based on
69. 2:52a blueprint. And so, uh I'm I I can I
70. 2:56can identify with Nehemiah. I'm I'm
71. 2:58reading this in a in a season of my life
72. 3:00where I'm building and I see myself as a
73. 3:02builder and I hope you see yourself that
74. 3:03way, too. Uh all right. Our context
75. 3:06clues, to be honest, are the same as
76. 3:08yesterday. Okay. So we're in Nehemiah
77. 3:10chapters 45 6 and 7. [snorts] Nothing
78. 3:13about our context has changed from
79. 3:15yesterday. Nehemiah is finally in
80. 3:18Jerusalem. And the same way that
81. 3:21Zerubbabel was faced with opposition.
82. 3:24Same way that Ezra comes back and
83. 3:26they're mixed marriages which is
84. 3:27opposition. Nehemiah gets here. He
85. 3:30they're going to start building and of
86. 3:32course there's going to be opposition.
87. 3:34So chapter 4 verse one starts out with
88. 3:36these words. When San Ballot heard that
89. 3:39we were rebuilding the wall, he became
90. 3:41angry and was greatly in incest. Not
91. 3:44like incest uh but like incense like
92. 3:47like lit on fire, right? Like he was
93. 3:49angry. He was upset. He ridiculed the
94. 3:51Jews and in the presence of his
95. 3:54associates and the army of Samaria.
96. 3:57Okay, so Sam Ballad has arrived with an
97. 3:59army. Okay, he said, "What are those
98. 4:03feeble Jews doing? Will they restore
99. 4:06their wall? Will they offer sacrifices?
100. 4:09Will they finish in a day? Can they
101. 4:11bring the stones back to life from those
102. 4:13keeps of rubble burned as they are?
103. 4:16Tobiiah the Ammonite who was at his side
104. 4:20said what they are building, even a fox
105. 4:22climbing up on it would break down their
106. 4:25wall of stones. And uh I know maybe
107. 4:28we're like uh what h how effective could
108. 4:32ridicule be? But to be honest, there are
109. 4:35millions of people who aren't doing what
110. 4:37God's called them to do because the
111. 4:39words or the ridicule of other people
112. 4:42have really impacted them or really hurt
113. 4:44them. And I just want to say, you know,
114. 4:46if you're going to build whatever you're
115. 4:48going to build a marriage, build a
116. 4:50family, build a company, build a build
117. 4:52build a life, build a church, build a
118. 4:54ministry, if you're going to build
119. 4:56stuff, you can't build things and not
120. 4:59assume that there's not going to be
121. 5:02opposition. you have to actually go
122. 5:04ahead and assume there's going to be
123. 5:05opposition there. There's the if if I'm
124. 5:09building something, I want to take
125. 5:10territory. And um it's funny, you know,
126. 5:13we we've got a prayer team and we try
127. 5:16our best to kind of help people to find
128. 5:18their prophetic gifts. And we did a
129. 5:21popup at the House of Blues recently,
130. 5:23the garden, the church that we're
131. 5:24planting. And um afterwards, one of the
132. 5:27girls who has a strong prophetic gift on
133. 5:28our team, her name is Tatiana. And uh
134. 5:31she uh she said, "As we were at the
135. 5:33House of Blues, I could feel like there
136. 5:35were demonic there were idols. There
137. 5:38were there were false gods. There were
138. 5:39demonic powers that are not happy that
139. 5:42we're here." And she's like, "I felt the
140. 5:44presence of the Lord, but I also felt
141. 5:46this like spiritual opposition." And I
142. 5:49said, "Of course, cuz we're building,
143. 5:52and building means that we're taking
144. 5:54territory. We're taking ground. Of
145. 5:56course, there's going to be opposition.
146. 5:57I'm actually not thrown off guard by
147. 5:59opposition. You know, there are all
148. 6:02kinds of spirits that reside here in
149. 6:05this secular venue called the House of
150. 6:06Blues. And we are displacing them. We
151. 6:10are taking back territory in the in the
152. 6:14in the form of souls, but also in the
153. 6:16form of like real estate. Like we want
154. 6:20this land, like this space to be known
155. 6:24not just as a house of blues, the
156. 6:26concert venue, but as a house of God.
157. 6:28Yeah, of course. We've ticked off, you
158. 6:31know, whatever demonic power h is been
159. 6:35set up as a prince or principality in in
160. 6:38this region is not going to be happy
161. 6:40that we're just here. And the enemy will
162. 6:43bring ridicule. He'll bring accusation.
163. 6:46He'll bring distraction. and he'll do
164. 6:48whatever he's got to do to get you to
165. 6:50not build what God's called you to
166. 6:51build. But I love this. Okay. Uh verse
167. 6:54four. Hear us, our God, for we are
168. 6:58despised. Turn their insults back on
169. 7:00their own heads. Give them over as
170. 7:03plunder in a land of captivity. Do not
171. 7:05cover up their guilt or blot out their
172. 7:07sins from your sight. For they have
173. 7:10thrown insults in the face of the
174. 7:12builders. Insults are going to get
175. 7:14thrown in the face of the builders. But
176. 7:16what do we do? We pray. I love this down
177. 7:18in verse 9. Chapter 4:9 says, "But we
178. 7:22prayed to our God and posted a guard day
179. 7:25and night to meet this threat. We didn't
180. 7:27just pray, we posted. We prayed and
181. 7:30posted cuz faith without works is dead."
182. 7:33And so the the question is, okay, have
183. 7:36you have you prepared for opposition
184. 7:39spiritually? And then have you prepared
185. 7:41for opposition practically? Don't just
186. 7:44pray. Get a guard. Post a guard up
187. 7:46there. Let's go. But don't just post a
188. 7:48guard. Pray. And And I have found in a
189. 7:51lot of spaces, we're good at doing
190. 7:53either or. And not always good at doing
191. 7:57both. Hey, God actually wants us to do
192. 8:01both of these things. All right.
193. 8:03Obviously, don't uh give in to the
194. 8:06opposition. And then one of the big
195. 8:08nerdy nuggets that I really want to
196. 8:09share that this could be a timeless
197. 8:11truth as well is that the biggest threat
198. 8:14is never gonna be Sand Ballot. You know
199. 8:17what I mean? San Ballot who I can't
200. 8:19remember where he's from. They give his
201. 8:21uh ethnicity at some point. The the the
202. 8:25opposition is never going to come from
203. 8:27Tobaya the Ammonite. You know what I
204. 8:29mean? Like that's not your biggest
205. 8:31threat. Your biggest threat is never
206. 8:33external. Your biggest threat is always
207. 8:35internal. So what's happening in
208. 8:37Nehemiah chapter 5? We're going to have
209. 8:40uh it says this. Now the men and the
210. 8:42wives raised a great outcry against
211. 8:44their fellow Jews. Some were saying we
212. 8:47and our sons and daughters are out are
213. 8:49numerous. In order for us to eat and
214. 8:52stay alive, we must get grain. Others
215. 8:54are saying we are managing our fields,
216. 8:57our vineyards, and our homes to get
217. 8:59grain during the famine. Still others
218. 9:01were saying, "We have had to borrow
219. 9:03money to pay the king's tax on our
220. 9:05fields and vineyards." So, there's
221. 9:07financial oppression happening in the
222. 9:09land. And I love how Nehemiah responds.
223. 9:11Nehemiah uh I'll just read it from my
224. 9:15laptop. Nehemiah 5 6 to8 says this. I
225. 9:19was very angry when I heard their outcry
226. 9:21in these words. I took counsel with
227. 9:23myself and I brought charges against the
228. 9:25nobles and the officials. I said to
229. 9:27them, "You are exacting interest each
230. 9:30from his brother." And I held a great
231. 9:32assembly against them and said to them,
232. 9:35"We, as far as we are able, have bought
233. 9:38back our Jewish brothers who have been
234. 9:41sold to the nations." Like, what in the
235. 9:44world, dude? We're trying to end the
236. 9:47slavery of our own people, not
237. 9:49perpetuate it. But you even sell your
238. 9:51brothers that they may be sold to us.
239. 9:54They were silent and could not find a
240. 9:56word to say. So two big things to pull
241. 10:00out of this probably three. So we'll
242. 10:02start with the first. The first is the
243. 10:04external threat is never as big as the
244. 10:06internal threat. And you know the Roman
245. 10:09Empire didn't collapse because of the
246. 10:11Visigothths or the or you know the Gauls
247. 10:14or the anybody who invaded the the the
248. 10:17Roman Empire crumbled because of a lack
249. 10:19of internal integrity. It's it's it's
250. 10:22never the external threat that's the
251. 10:24problem. It's the internal threat. And
252. 10:27um and and I don't want to be a prophet
253. 10:29of doom and gloom, but if I could just
254. 10:32give a word of like counsel, it's like
255. 10:34the biggest threat to America is never
256. 10:36going to be, [snorts] you know, another
257. 10:39nation or anything like that. It's it's
258. 10:41going to be our lack of unity as a as as
259. 10:44a people. You know, it's us. Like we as
260. 10:47Americans have to unite. Like we as
261. 10:51Americans have to realize no house
262. 10:53divided against itself can stand. Like
263. 10:56the greatest threat to America is not
264. 10:58Russia. The greatest threat to America
265. 11:00is not China. The greatest threat to
266. 11:02America are Americans. And any team like
267. 11:06we don't have to make it that macro.
268. 11:08like any team. Sometimes the enemy will
269. 11:11make sure that there's so much locker
270. 11:13room drama that the issue is not going
271. 11:16to be the team that you're facing on the
272. 11:17court, but your own teammates in your
273. 11:20own locker room. And so we immediately
274. 11:22go from, hey, there's, you know, Tobaya
275. 11:24and Sam Ballot and all these people are
276. 11:27expo, you know, opposing the plan of
277. 11:29God, but then Nehemiah is looking at his
278. 11:32own people. And what is what had
279. 11:34actually happened is that the work on
280. 11:35the wall involved so many of Jerusalem's
281. 11:38citizens and its surrounding land
282. 11:41inhabitants that normal life was being
283. 11:42affected. With so many working on the
284. 11:45wall, there weren't as many in the
285. 11:46fields, in farms, or even in everyday
286. 11:49trade and commerce. This had led to a
287. 11:52loss of both income and food within the
288. 11:54community. This had a devastating effect
289. 11:57on the less well-off with families using
290. 12:00their land to secure loans and were now
291. 12:03threatened with foreclosure and also had
292. 12:06Persian taxes they needed to pay. Some
293. 12:08of the poorest had even already sold
294. 12:11their children into debt slavery. And
295. 12:13Nehemiah is completely angry at this.
296. 12:16Okay, they had been freed from slavery
297. 12:18to Babylon only to be enslaved by their
298. 12:21own people. Nehemiah demands that all
299. 12:23foreclosures be suspended, that all
300. 12:25interest wiped from the loans, and to
301. 12:28return what they had already taken from
302. 12:31them. They agree to do this under oath.
303. 12:33And Nehemiah adds a curse on them just
304. 12:36to make sure they do what they say.
305. 12:38That's 5 12-13. And then you can just
306. 12:42kind of see Nehemiah's integrity as the
307. 12:44governor. In a complete contrast to the
308. 12:47nobles and other officials, Nehemiah,
309. 12:49who had just been appointed governor of
310. 12:51Judah, refused to take from the people.
311. 12:53He even refused to take the allotment of
312. 12:55food and tax he was legally allowed to
313. 12:57levy, not taking any that he was due for
314. 13:0112 years. This basically meant that
315. 13:03during his time as governor, Nehemiah
316. 13:05paid all of his staff, all of the
317. 13:07guards, and all of the expenses and his
318. 13:11own expenses as governor. Okay? Uh so
319. 13:14just tons of integrity. What are we
320. 13:16talking about? So the number one thing,
321. 13:18the internal threat is always bigger
322. 13:20than the external threat. Uh I can't
323. 13:22stop the fact that Satan hates me and
324. 13:25he's going to oppose, you know, our
325. 13:27church. But what I can do is make sure
326. 13:29that there's there's not an achen in the
327. 13:32camp, someone who's secretly, you know,
328. 13:35stealing and and causing the favor of
329. 13:38God to not rest on us. Okay. uh gossip,
330. 13:42discord, division, these are actually
331. 13:44the things that are happening right
332. 13:46under our noses. And as leaders, we got
333. 13:49to be a little bit more scared and
334. 13:50vigilant about the internal threats and
335. 13:52the external threats. Number two, we
336. 13:55continue to see this picture throughout
337. 13:57the Bible, okay? That caring for the
338. 13:59poor is not some liberal idea. It's a
339. 14:02biblical idea. And I know like we're
340. 14:05just living in this world right now
341. 14:07where personal integrity and morality
342. 14:10seems to be like a conservative thing
343. 14:13and then like social justice and caring
344. 14:15for the poor and protecting the orphan,
345. 14:17the widow, and the immigrant seems to be
346. 14:18like a leftist thing. And here we go.
347. 14:22Here's the Bible again just like jacking
348. 14:24with all those categories because Ezra
349. 14:26and Nehemiah is supposed to be one book.
350. 14:28And Ezra has an issue, a moral issue
351. 14:32with the intermarriage of of Jewish
352. 14:36people with pagans. Like, hey, nah, you
353. 14:38need to be sexually pure. So, this is a
354. 14:41sexual ethic, a conservative sexual
355. 14:44ethic. Yep. And guess what Nehemiah is
356. 14:47going to say? And you need to care for
357. 14:48the poor. So, the Bible doesn't have
358. 14:50these boxes or these categories. The
359. 14:52equation that I've kind of written down
360. 14:54is that morality
361. 14:56and justice is righteousness. So if you
362. 14:59want to be biblically righteous, you got
363. 15:02to love the Lord your God with all your
364. 15:04heart, all your mind, all your strength,
365. 15:05all your soul, and love your neighbor as
366. 15:07yourself. that it is both the love of
367. 15:10God which would make you sexually pure
368. 15:13and the love of your neighbor which
369. 15:15would make you you know act towards them
370. 15:17w in a financial way that's not that's
371. 15:20not taking advantage of them or that's
372. 15:22not uh what's the word exploitative in
373. 15:25nature and again in our current world
374. 15:29these are just in their own different
375. 15:30categories but in the biblical world
376. 15:33this is just righteousness this is all
377. 15:35just righteousness not exploiting your
378. 15:37neighbor
379. 15:38treating the the the the person who's
380. 15:42poor fairly and also having control over
381. 15:47your own sexual behaviors is all wrapped
382. 15:53in one. These are not two different
383. 15:54things. Okay? Uh and it is morality plus
384. 15:58justice that equal righteousness. Also,
385. 16:01we've got a kayazm. Okay? So, we've got
386. 16:04chapter 3:es 1-32. the work on the walls
387. 16:07is begun. Okay? And then chapter 6:es 15
388. 16:11to 19, the work on the walls is
389. 16:12finished. Okay? So that's going to
390. 16:13bookend our kayazm. And then if you go
391. 16:16one layer in chapter 4:es 1-23, there's
392. 16:20plots against the builders. And then in
393. 16:21chapter 6:es 1-4, there's plots against
394. 16:24Nehemiah. And then if you get into the
395. 16:27middle, we've got chapter 5:es 1-9.
396. 16:30Nehemiah is a leader full of
397. 16:32righteousness and integrity. [snorts]
398. 16:34And I think we all want to be the kind
399. 16:36of leader who's like Nehemiah. What good
400. 16:38is it if we can have the charisma to
401. 16:42rally people to build a wall, but then
402. 16:44don't have the character to actually
403. 16:47like forego our own finances and not
404. 16:51exact taxes from people. That's just
405. 16:54character. So Nehemiah has the kind of
406. 16:57charisma that can get a bunch of people
407. 17:00get like rallied around a project, but
408. 17:02then just the personal character to make
409. 17:05financial sacrifices personally so that
410. 17:08the project can go forward. He's not
411. 17:10trying to get rich off of the assignment
412. 17:12of God on his life. And man, that's
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437. 18:16In the plot against Nehemiah, there's
438. 18:18this verse in Nehemiah 6:3. Uh they want
439. 18:22him to they're trying to meet him out at
440. 18:24a field cuz really they they they want
441. 18:26to kill him. Uh so verse two, it
442. 18:28actually says Sam Ballad and Gisham sent
443. 18:31me this message. Come let us meet
444. 18:33together in one of the villages on the
445. 18:35plain of Ono. And you know Nehemiah's
446. 18:39response is oh no. Get it? On the plains
447. 18:42of Ono. And his response is, "Oh no."
448. 18:44Any any whatever. You'll get it
449. 18:46tomorrow. Uh but they were scheming to
450. 18:48harm me. So I sent messages to them uh
451. 18:50with the reply, "I am carrying on a
452. 18:52great project and cannot go down. Why
453. 18:55should the work stop while I leave it to
454. 18:57go down to you?" Four times they sent me
455. 18:59the same message and each time I gave
456. 19:01them the same answer. I love that
457. 19:04answer. I'm busy doing what God called
458. 19:06me to do. So many times people ask me,
459. 19:09"Hey, have you heard about such and
460. 19:10such?" Nope. I'm busy doing what God
461. 19:12told me to do. Hey, have you heard about
462. 19:14No, I'm busy doing what God told me to
463. 19:17do. So much drama in life can be just
464. 19:20avoided by you just being like, "No, I'm
465. 19:23busy doing what God told me to do. I'm
466. 19:25about my father's business." Had David
467. 19:27just been doing the work that he'd been
468. 19:30called to do, which is out being out
469. 19:33fighting a military battle, he wouldn't
470. 19:35have been tempted by Beth Sheba bathing.
471. 19:38So, a lot of it is just why aren't you
472. 19:41just doing what you're called to do?
473. 19:43Like just focus on what God called you
474. 19:46to do and be someone of singular focus.
475. 19:50This is what God called me to.
476. 19:51Fantastic. And so Nehemiah avoids, you
477. 19:55know, a murderous plot just by sticking
478. 19:58to the plan. Don't get distracted. No
479. 20:00sideways energy. Don't miss the plot.
480. 20:03Just do what God told you to do. And you
481. 20:05know what? It is the assignment that
482. 20:08will actually keep you safe from all
483. 20:11kinds of evil plots against you. I bet
484. 20:14there's so many things that I don't even
485. 20:17manage to get into because I'm just
486. 20:20focused just focused on what God called
487. 20:22me to do. So that's my last nugget. All
488. 20:23right, leads really good into a timeless
489. 20:26truth. There's two things that I want to
490. 20:28highlight. Number one, actually I only
491. 20:30got time to do one, so we'll do one. uh
492. 20:32is that the workers, they build and
493. 20:35defend simultaneously. And that's a
494. 20:38timeless truth for you and I, isn't it?
495. 20:40That we're going to have to build and
496. 20:42defend simultaneously. Uh we've got to
497. 20:44have the the work ethic to build what
498. 20:47God wants us to build, but then the
499. 20:50courage or the the fight to know when to
500. 20:56use a sword in in leadership. Here's
501. 20:59what I've realized is that tools, you
502. 21:02can fight with a tool and you could try
503. 21:05to build with a weapon, but you really
504. 21:08want to fight with weapons and build
505. 21:09with tools. And what I've seen a lot of
506. 21:12times in ministry is uh leaders don't
507. 21:15know what requires a hammer and what
508. 21:17requires a sword. And so there's some
509. 21:19people who it's like, man, you really
510. 21:21need to build that guy on your team up.
511. 21:23And instead of building that person up,
512. 21:25you whip out the sword. you start
513. 21:27fighting with someone who you should be
514. 21:28building and you need to know the sword
515. 21:32is for enemies and the the hammer or the
516. 21:36tools are to build and I've seen a lot
517. 21:39of passers especially do a lot of damage
518. 21:42to a lot of people on their team. Uh
519. 21:44because your tongue can either be a tool
520. 21:48that you use to build people up or it
521. 21:50can be a weapon that you use to cut
522. 21:52people down. And wise leaders know when
523. 21:56to use a hammer and when to use a sword.
524. 21:58And I, as a leader, have had to get
525. 22:01better and better and better at using
526. 22:03the sword on people who need the sword,
527. 22:06but using the hammer on people who need
528. 22:08the hammer because my tongue has the
529. 22:10power to be both. And I have to be the
530. 22:13kind of leader who knows how to defend
531. 22:15but also the kind of leader who knows
532. 22:17how to build and not to conflate the two
533. 22:20or confuse the two because they can
534. 22:22easily easily easily easily get confused
535. 22:24with each other. And that's not just
536. 22:26true in 444 BC with Nehemiah. That's
537. 22:29true for you and I today as leaders.
538. 22:31Tomorrow we got Nehemiah chapters 89 and
539. 22:3510. We're going to be uh diving into day
540. 22:38344 on the podcast. I'm super super
541. 22:41excited. I'll be here same time, same
542. 22:44place. I love you. I'm proud of you.
543. 22:46Till tomorrow. Peace. Thanks so much for
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