“Nehemiah, The Man & The Legend” Book Available Fall of 2023
NEHEMIAH GETS A PROMOTION
Discovering what to do in a “crunch.” Crunch time is often the time when leaders tend to hesitate. It shows what that leader is made of—the proof in the pudding.
When all else fails, read the instruction manual; for us, that’s the Word of God. God has spent most of the Bible detailing how the people are to live. Today, that’s Christ Jesus. During Nehemiah’s time, it was the old covenant and the words that God had mankind record for the people.
The top ten errors Nehemiah avoided. As I have studied leadership through the years, I have come up with ten items leaders should avoid. This is going to be an exciting part of our study.
Replicating Nehemiah’s method of solving dilemmas. Where did he learn such things? Did he get it from God directly, or was it a part of the mentorship process he experienced while under the regional king?
Connecting Nehemiah’s methodologies to Christ and prophecy.
PROBLEMS, PROBLEMS, AND MORE PROBLEMS
In chapter five, we see that further problems arose, this time from within. If Satan can’t defeat you with his forces from without, he will seek to wreck you from the forces within—a common and predictable madness method Satan uses that works almost every time. The church’s greatest enemies are not the atheists or those godless forces outside the church, but statistics prove they are from the self-proclaimed Body members of Christ—factions of body-life hatred within the church. Usually, the thing behind it is jealousy, which rises in the church from greed and differing opinions of the end times, and minimally occurs through self-as-God views of the Holy Scriptures. Tragically, infighting within the church sets the enemy up to destroy the protective walls from the inside out. You would think that the church would wake up to the fact that we are all one Body working together for one King, one Lord. But no, they work to destroy each other with their demonic wisdom, which is none other than a self-perceived interpretation of what God means by what God says. Tragically the church does not realize we should be working together for the cause of the indwelling life of Christ by rebuilding the walls surrounding the Body of Christ. The problem is that some haven’t correctly identified the enemy or are functioning in the stupidity that Satan doesn’t exist.
Our enemy isn’t the church, opinionates of the Bible, or loved ones who betray us; they are the spirit of the antichrist who uses both real and fake body members to practice demonic doctrines. When we explore the warnings Jesus gave almost all the seven churches, we find a common denominator; the enemy uses the same technique of attacking from without while embedding spies within. He uses fake Christians to create unsettling differing doctrines of what Jesus said and what His first generational leaders proclaimed during that time. The technique of attacking from the outside shifts the focus of the people so that the spies the enemy sends into the churches begin to create controversies, differing doctrines, and internal fighting.
James 3:13-15 communicates a compelling statement: “Who among you is wise and understanding? Let him show by his good behavior his deeds in the gentleness of wisdom. But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth. This wisdom is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.”
Self-interpretation is one of the leading causes of destroying local fellowships. I agree the pastor must keep his focus on the Word of God, and whatever comes out of the mouths of these pastors better be verified by the authentic Word. But when many congregants find a weakness in their pastors, they start doing self-interpretation to combat the leader God put in place. The same modality took place during Nehemiah’s time of commitment when fulfilling God’s orders of rebuilding the wall around Jerusalem and reactivating the faith of the Jews.
A golden secret of the spirit of deception is that Satan uses two modalities simultaneously: first, attacking the authentic believers externally, and second, attacking real-deal believers from within the church walls. In Nehemiah’s case, that was within the walls of Jerusalem. Satan does this through the modality of the flesh, which remains in each of God’s people.
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Nehemiah: Getting a Promotion