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Now I want you to pay attention. It wasn't anything in Israel wasn't their military.
Well to be most honest and most emotionally vulnerable my emotions are getting the best of me this morning. Cuz man I'm telling you guys man, I'm sick and tired. And I don't mean sick and tired as in broken going on why why I'm talking about like I want to fight, you know I'm tired of cancer.
I'm sick of it sick of hearing about it. I'm tired of my people getting hurt. Tired of my people being in the hospital. I'm tired of our country continuing to embrace a humanism That is destroying in the arrogance of people who?
Spurn the Word of God yet. We keep seeing successive generations That are imploding because they're walking away from the Word of God and The academia and the pundits and the philosophers keep looking to this euphoric utopia in a world absence of God yet in 8 ,000 years of history.
Every time mankind has walked away from the Word of God They have suffered as a church as a society. It's amazing to me that we can have something in secular history called the dark ages. And then when the Word of God is printed they call it the Renaissance.
We call it the Reformation, but either way Mankind is benefited by the presence and adherence to the Word of God. Yet we sit. And people who call themselves Christians vote for abortionists. People who call themselves Believers are still looking down upon people who don't mimic or look like them in a mirror we still to this day have more allegiance to a Denomination or a stupid church building than we do to the Word of God.
We memorize man's creeds. And we paraphrase God's words. We raise our kids according to culture and then in the height of arrogance. We stand around and wonder what happened when they rebelled. We sit and We take the very thing that is every hope.
It has the eternal benefits of eternal life. And we put so more investment into this world and our 401ks and we're worried about our house and our leisure than we are the work of the gospel and Then stand around and blame the liberals or the Democrats or the Republicans for where we are today.
Some of you young people's Still don't understand The emotional bondage you put yourselves in because of the insecurities of Not being firmly cemented into the Word of God and you pass it again to another generation.
I'll be honest with you. I Know this sounds childish and immature, but I want to fight man, you know, and that's just Stupid. I know that's the old Jeff coming out when I'm scared when I'm hurt I want to grab somebody by the belt buckle and and Witness to him.
How do we respond guys? I mean, that's what these last two sermons or last sermon is sermons about. How do we respond to everything going on in the world last week? We talked about what Nehemiah did. Nehemiah heard about a problem and he stopped and prayed.
Then he made a plan. Okay, and this sermon is brought to you by the letter P. He prayed he planned now. We're going to see two other things that he did number one. We're going to see that he had to create a Partnership to see that plan come to fruition.
He had to create a partnership and in that partnership He had to understand that Perseverance is the way you're going to win guys. I'm telling you I used to train fighters. I used to be in the ring myself once or twice and I tell you it wasn't the guy that Hits the hardest that you got to worry about.
It's the guy that when you hit him He still keeps coming forward. That's the guy that will beat the brakes off of you the guy that does not know quit. The guy that though beaten will never be broken and church.
That is where we are today. Not just my opically Whitten Baptist Church. Oh my gosh the church as a whole. Remember, there is only one church. I don't care what you've been taught when you everywhere in the Greek in the in the New Testament Ecclesia is a singular form.
It is plural in meaning by the individual members. But it never ever meant anything but one body one body one heart one soul go look it up Acts chapter 2 if you're bored go look it up right now. We as God's people have got to start coming to a place where our prayers and our plans Start coming together in fruition.
So here we are. I don't have time to go back and review everything but basically and once again y 'all remember. This is a historical fact. You can look it up on Wikipedia because some of y 'all have more faith in Wikipedia or some snot-nosed punk kid playing Combat zone in his mama's basement on the Internet than you do to the Word of God.
That's fine. There are many many many extra Evidences out there the serious cylinder the Babylonian chronic you can go look up these things this stuff really happened. We're in about 444 BC. Okay. Let me give you a great timeline of when this is.
This is sport. Ah, you know. Same time. Okay, it's around the same time. This this is a group of Jews who have been in captivity in Babylon who have come back to Jerusalem. The temple is rebuilt, but they can't do anything in the town because there's no walls and Raiders Come in and they're just stealing everything.
So this guy named Nehemiah makes a prayer. It makes a plan to go back and rebuild the walls. So Jerusalem itself can be built and the people are safe. So he runs down there. He takes four months. He runs down from Susa to Jerusalem.
He gets there and he looks around the city. He goes ninja style and for the first three days. He rests all his people and he goes around the city and recons what happens when he gets to that point. Start with me in chapter 3 verse 8 when he gets to that point.
He sits there and he says chapter 3 verse 8 he says this. After him, I'm sorry. He gets all the people together and he says hey guys. We need to rebuild this quick fast in a hurry. And so he divides the people up and if you look at your little note things last week I showed you where everybody was rebuilding.
This week, yeah. These are the group assignments the people rebuilding the wall and this is oh and some of you get confused. And it's because I didn't have enough space that is north. Okay, and here's how I always remember it a shoe Little Limburger there.
It's a shoe. All right, think of Mount Moriah. Let's do it like this. Think of Mount Moriah the temple by the way, if you look up on Wikipedia right now and look up Jerusalem. You'll see the Arab or the I shouldn't say the Muslim Dome of the Rock.
That's on Mount Moriah right here. This is where Abraham was going to sacrifice Isaac. This is where David bought the threshing floor that Mount Moriah is literally not that road this right here. This Mount Moriah was the place Where the temple Solomon's temple was built, okay, and in 690 The Muslims took over and rebuilt the Dome of the Rock and it's still there today.
But anyways down here is Mount Zion remember Z and toes toes at their end of the foot. That's how I remember it Mount Zion down here. This is where David's palace was. This is where David kind of ruled from okay.
Well all along here in old Jerusalem. There was this wall and once again, you can go look up pictures of Nehemiah's wall in real life. That's still in a lot of places standing there. You can go look it up.
And so what Nehemiah did is when he got there, he said, okay boys. We all need to work together and he divided everybody up amongst their groups and assigned people different parts of that wall. Okay, you with me so far?
All right, and I'm not the greatest teacher in the world. I get it I'm not the greatest preacher, but I just want to make sure y 'all understand it. Okay, and so first of all, he made this partnership and in that partnership here was some realities.
Okay. First thing is this. Everyone works. No one quits in my family when my kids were growing up. I had five children. I Made sure that if one person was working we were all working. If one was working we were all working if one was playing then we all were playing we did stuff together.
We made sure that if if we had a job to do it wasn't just half the people doing it. My daughter and my wife could change oil. They can run a lawnmower. They can swing an axe. They can they work it they work like Hebrew slaves man.
They can cut their own straw for the bricks. That is who and what we were as a family and this is the same thing here in Nehemiah chapter 3 verse 8. It says after him you and I'm not. I'm all have horrible time pronouncing these names.
But we'll call him a son of horror the goldsmith's made repairs and next to him Hania son of the perfumer made the repairs. Y 'all know some guys. Dudes, does everyone in this room know the difference between a guy and a dude?
You know what? I'm saying? Yeah, you know what I'm saying? There's guys out there, you know that Might be a little light in the loafers, you know, or they did, you know, they they don't know how to use tools or.
Y 'all know what I'm saying? Right y 'all all staring at me like you're waiting for me to insult homosexuals. You know what I'm talking about and then there are dudes look at this guys right here. Look who was building the wall.
First of all, it was the goldsmith's and then it was the guy who made perfume. You know what I'm saying? I mean think about that for a second the guy who made and guys I got gay people in here. They're struggling with homosexuality.
Everybody were like some of you new people are like, oh my god, this is awkward. Yeah, that's on purpose. Okay, so relax listen the Word of God and chill out. So The perfumers the goldsmith's the people who weren't used to making bricks walls and blocks.
When it came time to rebuilding the walls this guy wasn't going well, I'm gonna use my spiritual gift. I'm gonna make perfume for everyone. No, you know what he did. He got a shovel and a hammer and went to stinking work.
Some of you in this room need to understand this if you are a member of this church. It doesn't mean you get to sit in a chair in an air-conditioning room. It means that you are taking personal responsibility.
To get to work with the rest of us and build this wall. And I ain't talking about this wall and I even talking about the wall at the Mexican border. Not that wall I'm talking about metaphorically the wall.
We got people in this room that are lost dying and going to hell and you have no effort in that job. What is your ministry in this church? Where are you working Anna? Where are you? Do you need help with the girls on Wednesdays in the GA thing?
You don't what ministry in here needs help. Speak. Where are you people with the nurseries for 15 years? I keep hearing we need help with nursery guys and dudes. Stay away. All right, if you're a 40 year old male and want to work in the nursery, I'm gonna punch you in the head.
Okay, but the rest of you peoples, you know. Helping the nursery. Sandra. Sandra you're actually it get to be in here today. You know why she gets to be in here today because someone stepped up we need help in the nursery guys.
Sog ministry our MMA ministry every single thing we do. Jeremiah. Where are you brother Jeremiah? Where brother Jeremiah is back there. Do you need some strong mouth for females to help you in the youth group?
Are you a member of this church? Yes, go to work guys. Everyone works. No one quits and I know for some of you you're like, oh, this is a weird church. Yeah, it's called a real church where you actually work.
I don't care what you're wearing. I don't care what your past has been. I don't care whether you're a murderer. If you have been Regenerated by the power of the Living God and called to be a member of his family then this is a place you can serve.
That's what membership means. Think about responsibility before you think about rights, but number two watch this the Politicians worked look at chapter 3 verse 9 one verse down. It says next to them Refi a son of her ruler over half the district of Jerusalem.
He went to work. How much would you like it one day if the president United States picked up an m16 or an m4 and stood? Watch on a line at that cabal airport. I would love to start seeing some of these four-star generals get off the well-fed behinds and the joint chiefs of staff.
Pick up a rifle and stand post. That's what leadership is if you want to be part of a team that means that no matter how high you think you are. The job has to be done and you have a responsibility to get it done.
Look at this poor people poor people next to them. Chapter 3 verse 30. If you look down chapter 3 verse 30, it says after them Meshulam son of breach. I've made pairs opposite of his room. Guys in Jerusalem, some people had houses, but the poor people couldn't afford a house.
So what they did is here was the wall. They would just simply build like an like an outhouse shed over it and then build little walls in between to separate it. And each person got a little space. The guy that had least to lose.
Still was part of the team. He was still taking personal responsibility. For the thing and then the rich people worked it says the merchants work the business people work in verse 32. The goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.
You want me to tell you the strategy of Satan? It's real simple. Here's the strategy of Satan to separate you from God and to separate us from each other. It's that simple. It's it's not it's he's been doing it since Genesis 3 when he sat there and told Adam and Eve did God really say?
You say he's twisting the Word of God and then he puts enmity or he puts stress between man and woman child and parents. You don't believe me. Okay, go to the mall. You will. I ain't got to prove nothing to you.
Jack go look at our society. I mean it could be that yeah. The Bible is just made up by the Catholic Church in the 300s. I'm a government agent of the federal government trying to trick you and control you.
Societally for the government and there is no God. You dope-smoking idiot. Or there really is a God you're not him. He wrote his word down. He's coming back and your rejection of him is going to cost you an eternal damnation.
Could be one of those two things, but we'll go with you in your sovereign intellectual superiority. Because you have a high intellect and you learn some big words and you can sit there and say well statistically speaking.
You and your statistics are gonna go to hell. I'm telling you this. I don't know how I got off on this. Why is the room getting smaller and I want to wear high heels, I'm. Okay, y 'all are here. All right guys watch this.
Here's the big one and this is for Christians only. Listen this is for church people only all right look here in chapter 3 verse 11. You know else was building the wall and some some of you people that have been in church for a long time.
I remember I had one of my senior ladies tell me this she goes in 50 years. I have never had a pastor correct me. Well, I'm sorry, baby. And that's probably why your children and your children's children are godless heathens because no one's ever corrected you.
But here in this house, this is called accountability when I screw up y 'all correct me when y 'all screw up. We correct each other. That's how it works chapter 3 verse 11. Melchizedek, I can't say his name son of Haram and Hasheba son of whatever made repairs to another section as well as to the Tower of Ovens.
By the way, those towers are still there. You can go look at them right now, but watch this. You know this cat was well back 15 years earlier when the guy Ezra and Zerubbabel were in town rebuilding the temple.
This guy was in a mixed marriage. He was now let's talk about this. You can go look this up. I even wrote the Ezra chapter 10 verse 31. Let's talk about this if you are a white man married to some chick, that's not white.
You're godless. You're gonna go to hell right Jeremiah right. Man, let's keep them races pure white power, right? No, man. That's not what scripture saying every time you see in Scripture every time you see him talking about unequally yoked or Mixed marriage or stuff.
It has nothing to do. Please guys. Please stop eating paint chips and think and read scripturally. It's not talking about the color of your stupid skin. It's talking about a lost person and a saved person being together.
You know why because there's two cannot walk together unless they're agreed. One of you people need to get right one of you guys need to get focused guys. This kid right here. He had married a non-believing pagan and Ezra said dude.
What are you doing? You cannot be serious. But this little majab guy was so insecure and he thought he would never find somebody else and he you know. That we had been shacked up together. And well, you just don't understand our culture today and all that other crap God said do not be unequally yoked has nothing to do with skin color or culture or anything like that.
So he got put in his place. They repented they got right 15 years later. He's still in Jerusalem rebuilding that wall. Why is that important pastor? I'm gonna tell you why. Guys, I am a licensed ordained senior pastor.
I have been a pastor and a counselor for now going on 31 years. I Am I I know scriptures. I can read Greek. I can read Latin. I'm okay with Hebrew. I don't really understand them. But anyways them Jews, but anyways I'm all that.
But if I did not have you people holding me accountable, I'd be stealing this church blonde. I would. Oh Pastor you would never do that. Oh, yeah. Does that shake some of you to hear me say that? Well, it's because you have a very jacked up view of what total depravity is.
You see there is nothing inside of me of Jeff of my humanity that gets me one step closer to God. Some of you people are banking your eternal life on that. You're a good person. You know what God says about you being your good works.
He calls them filthy rags. You know what that is. Those are used minstrel rags of the Old Testament. That's what he thinks about you going to church and you giving money and you being helping an old woman across the street.
That's what he thinks about your good works. That don't mean nothing see inside of me. There is nothing worthy. Oh, but the cross and the grace of God. The fact that I am saved not by my works. But by the grace of Almighty God the fact that I can stand here today is not because I'm a great guy guys.
I'm a drug addict ex-drug addict high school dropout. That's who I am. That's what I am in the flesh. But when you add Jesus Christ to a regenerated heart man when you can get corrected and have the humility to accept that correction and Still do the work God calls you to do.
That's humility and and I'm going to give you a piece of advice here today. If you are struggling with discouragement depression Despondency, you're not you're disenfranchised with the world and you don't know what to do with your life.
Let me help you out humble yourself therefore beside in the sight of God and he will lift you up. Talking about little humility will help you go a long way. Hey fellow drug addicts in here. Huh fellow alcohol.
Yeah, go ahead raise them hands up. That's right. That's right. How well does your sobriety work with pride? It ain't gonna happen now. Some of you go. Well, I'm not a drug addict. Are you addicted to an insecure codependent relationship?
Welcome to addiction you arrogant self-righteous pig that arrogance and think well I'm not like that is the very arrogance is keeping you codependent on something other than God. It's not that hard. It really isn't.
I'm sorry. I'm getting carried away. But here's the point guys. Even a person who was corrected had enough humility to hear God and obey God. Rather than what's he gonna look like in front of everybody else?
There that humility is gonna carry you a long way. Look at this real quick dad gum it real quick. Watch this not just Politicians poor rich and corrected people watch this chapter 3 verse 12. Besides him shallom son of hallow hash.
I Don't know. Why did hash just run through my brain anyways ruler over half the district of Jerusalem made repairs. He and his daughters were making sandwiches now I know that you know that I know that you know that all you chicks in this room.
You are good for two things in the body of Christ. Come on now. Let's all be serious. God said thou shalt be in the kitchen or in the nursery and. No. Yeah, it's in Hezekiah chapter 4 go look up the bank of Hezekiah chapter 4 right now.
By the way, there is no book of Hezekiah guys, let me let's talk just for a second, please. Let's talk just for a second. Besides the arrogance and the church adopting the culture of the world instead of impressing the culture of Jesus Christ.
Here's the other thing we've done. And you young people when I'm dead and gone you young pastors when I'm dead and gone you remember this remember. We have literally cut ourselves in half. Cut ourselves in half.
Because here's the truth of God's Word y 'all come on in. I'm just getting started, man. Listen we have cut ourselves in half by taking. Look people look up here. They're just people walking. Walk this way.
Yeah right here. Here you go. How you doing young fella? Good. See you man. What's your name? Christian that's a good name boy. That's a real good name. The same spirit of God that's in me is the same spirit of God's in this little girl right here.
Yeah, are you a Christian? Okay, then the same spirit of God's in me. Here's the hardest one to believe the same spirit of God that's in me the same spirit of God that's in blonde women. Okay, granted when they're blonde.
It's a little less academically and you know. Yeah, if you ever get around if you ever get around Candace and you hear the wind whistling it's not the wind it's just. But you know how you drowned a blonde chick put a scratch-and-sniff sticker at the bottom of the pool.
Okay, anyways guys a Partnership is this is that we stop saying this is women's work or this is men's work now before you liberals. Amen, come back over here. Okay, because there are roles for men and roles for women.
But the equality of value in worth Scripturally speaking is the same guys. You know that there were women deacons not in the office of deacon, but there are went go look up Roman 16. There were women who were servants of God's people.
There are women in this room that are better preachers than I am. Remember, I'm not a preacher. I'm a pastor who happens to preach. Okay. My job is to guide protect and lead this place. I guarantee a Karina or tears.
Oh, yeah, they're not here, but I guarantee Karina could teach better than I ever will. Hey, whoa. Slow that roll baby slow that roll. Here's what happens if you're so insecure. That you are threatened by someone else's ability to do something better than you you're never going to be a leader.
You always be a tyrant and a totalitarian men. Sometimes we fail as fathers and husbands because we get threatened by our own insecurities. And that somebody else doing something will then by default motivate us to actually get up and go do something and so what we try to do is suppress and pull them down instead of lead them in the way they should go and.
Then you're the idiot who's gonna stand around and wonder what happened? Why are my kids so rebellious? Because you're a hypocritical inconsistent loser, that's why. It ain't magic guys. Cause and effect it's going to happen.
Watch this. Gravity still works. The Word of God is still true. Partnership you've got to include everyone who is saved and that is I don't care if you're a chick. I don't care if you're a dude. I don't care who and I don't care what color you are.
I don't care what freaking church you used to go to. I don't care what your opinion is. Right because our opinions don't matter the Word of God if you are saved and regenerated. Calls you to ministry and service.
Galatians says this there is neither Jew nor Greek nor male nor female. For we are all one in Jesus Christ. You want to get this church strong? Understand this it's only gonna be strong together. We are either gonna come together as one and win or we're gonna die Individually each one of us day by day by that thing and I'm gonna close with this.
Yeah, I'm gonna get to point two, but it's gonna be really abbreviated. Okay? I know y 'all get frustrated but guys I got to be considerate of you people's time to look here. Look here. Watch this. Partnership is great.
So we start with prayer. We went and made a plan then we made partners now watch this. Here's where most of us get screwed up in our spiritual lives our perseverance. Peters out, man I am a real Baptist preacher.
I got four peas don't I? Okay, watch this chapter 3 verse 5. Here are things that are going to discourage you here are things that are going to discourage you. Watch this. Besides them the koites made repairs, but the nobles did not lift a finger to help their supervisors.
You know what will discourage you in ministry? When you're sitting there working and you see a fellow believer in Christ going. I wouldn't do it like that. You know I've seen it. I've been I've sat there and been working my brains out and someone walk in and go.
You tired? What do you want to do Vicki. Right. Here's what I want to do. Hey, come here for a second. He come over here I want to beat their brains in right and he gets so discouraging man. It gets so stinking discouraging or you're sitting there and you're working your brains out to get something done and somebody Doesn't even say thank you for it.
But here's the danger Christians you cannot get martyr messiah complex. You cannot sit there and start going. Oh I'm the only one doing anything if it wasn't for me. This whole place would fall down. Oh.
You can't start doing that in your families. You can't start doing that. Oh if my husband would only do this or if my wife would only do this or if my kids would only do this. You have been called to a ministry.
And if you're the only one Swinging a hammer on that wall you swing it to the glory of God not to the praises of men. Because remember you ain't home yet. The award ceremony ain't gonna happen on this side of glory the recognition Isn't gonna happen on this you keep your wooden plaques.
You can keep your Jeff Shipley ministries or Tanksley building keep your dumb memorials. I don't want them. I'm waiting for the big prize when I get home and that big prize is this well done now good and faithful servant with my Daddy issues here in God telling me good job boy.
Oh, it's gonna be a good day. It's gonna be a real good day. Don't let the sinners Discourage you look at this. Look at this chapter 4 verses 1 through 3 here come these idiots. Sam ballot heard that we were rebuilding the wall and became furious.
He mocked the Jews before his colleagues and the powerful men of Samaria and said this what are these pathetic Jews? Do it can they restore it by themselves? Well, they offer sacrifices. Will they ever finish it?
Can they bring these burnt stones back to life then look at verse 3 then Tobiah the Ammonite said this. Who was beside them even if a fox climbed up on what they were building he would break down their stone wall.
Let me tell y 'all some truths about dissensions. Dissenters, they're called cowards. Okay, they're called cowards. People who don't want to be a part of the job. They don't just simply sit. They snipe, you know what I'm talking about.
You know what I'm talking about. They'll start picking out to assuage the guilt of their laziness. To assuage the conviction if they're Christians of the Holy Spirit, they'll start going. Well, I wouldn't have done it like that.
You wouldn't done it at all you lazy bum or you would have been doing it and remember when I got here 17 years ago. There was six inches of mud in the bottom of that building over there on the ground floor.
Six inches and I asked I'm like, what's the deal? They said well the water keeps pouring in and you know flood in the basement. Right, I mean, I mean I didn't graduate high school, but dad well why bother we're never gonna use that building again.
You know what the problem of this church was. Wasn't that it was old people. Wasn't that you know, it was everyone had lost the vision and the hope to think we could rebuild this place guys. People will cut you down and cut you back the same guy who was in charge this place when I got here he and I got in an argument because I spent three dollars and 45 cents on a pair of reflectors for this back driveway because little me some leechers Kennedy couldn't see to turn in and He had more titles than he had leadership.
He was the chairman of the Deacon the chairman of the pulpit committee. He was the guidance counselor Briarcrest school. He was the Sunday school teacher. He was all that in a bag of chips. He had every title but no intention real Christian leadership.
Real perseverance is not just pointing out the problem. It's actually doing something about it. It's actually taking a step forward in sacrificing your comfort. It's sacrificing something who and what you are to the betterment of something in someone else, by the way for all you Millennials.
That's also called love. Love is sacrifice. It is not an emotion. Please stop equating love with emotion. Okay, and make an appointment to come see me because you need it guys. Here, let me tell you something else about discouraging people.
They run with other people who like to discourage. They're like a pack of wolves man, they're like a pack of wolves. They just want to rule the ruins. Some of you people's in this room. Listen, you know how you the conviction that you're feeling right now that some of this is applying to you.
You know what? You're gonna want it to do. You're gonna want to walk out these doors get in your car go home and explain to somebody else and have them affirm the fact. That you don't agree and that that guy's not right.
He's too fat. He's bald and he's stupid. And that Bible is just a bunch of moral, whatever. Did I just hit you? It's not because I'm smart. It's because God's Word convicts and the same human idiocies that were around 3 ,000 years ago are the same human idiocies that are here now.
Now the good news for you is the same faith that saved Abraham the same faith that could save you. Book it. Watch this. Come on y 'all. Can y 'all give me three five more minutes? Y 'all y 'all mind and look I tell you what if you're bored and you got to go go on but just five more minutes cuz Everybody yells at me on Monday mornings instead.
Why didn't you finish your sermon? Okay, so I'm gonna be finished just a second. Okay. Yeah. I know I just turned the page. I ain't gonna preach it all but watch this. Here's the other thing. Here's the other thing guys when you make a partnership and people mock you when that mocking doesn't work.
They're gonna take it to the next level. Okay. Now some of you kids. Have y 'all ever been in a fight? I'm talking about a fight now. There's different kinds of fighting. There's the the fighting at school for most that you know, you little middle-class utopian suburban kids.
This is what you think a fight is pastor stand up. This is what it is like. Man, come on, man. Come on, man. No, come on, man. You come on what that is is you both are scared to actually throw a punch, but you don't want to lose face.
So you sit there like two Kansas City two weirdos. Pushing on each other to try to save face. That is not a fight. That's two kids looking dumb. I'm talking about that one will you get clipped and your knees go a little bit weak and front of your britches got a little wet and the room spinning and you got that sick vomit feeling in your throat in your belly.
I Didn't. I don't have anatomy. I'm talking about that kind of fight. Yeah, okay. Guys that kind of fight scary. It's scary man. It's scary as mess. I bounced a bar nevermind while back and Most of the time all I do is wash dishes to be honest with you.
That's all I did and sit at a little desk and drink orange juice and stamp people's hands. It's not like in the you know, you don't do nothing except move chairs and wash dishes. But anyways, there was this one group of ROTC guys and they were pinching Christie's Backside and so I just walked up.
I'm like, hey guys. Enough, you know, she's working. She ain't your toy, right? So I went back and sat down now. I never worried about the guys that were stood up and go. I'm gonna kill you man. I'm gonna beat you up because they all way across the room.
They just showing out for the ladies and you just act scared and they calm down. This dude walked up to me all by himself and just leaned over my desk and said hey, let's mean you go outside. That's the kind of fight I'm talking about.
That's the guy he wasn't showing out man. He wanted to Tune me up guys. When discouragement and dissension doesn't work threats will start coming and Some of you men and or women in here you use threats as leverage in your relationships with your kids.
You know, there's a never a time. You should threaten your kids ever. Why don't touch that? They touched it you tune them up. It's called consistency. That's all it is. Please don't ever be one of those idiot parents who goes one two three.
Because all it's going to do is have your kid be in my office when they're 15 16 years old. Okay, trust me on this. I've raised five of them. All right, I get it threats will come from dissension, but then here's Last two things.
I promise I'm done. I promise look at verse 14 of chapter 4. Look at verse 14 of chapter 4. What did Nehemiah do? Somebody read it? Out loud. Stop. First of all, you're a woman. You shouldn't read in church.
Read baby read that again enunciate those first six words. Stop, you know how you deal with threats guys. When you see them, would you just say brother? It's time for us to stand up kids. It's time for us to stand up guys, I Promise you this.
Picking at problems. Don't make them better. If you ignore them you just storing up interest for you gonna have to deal with it later. You know how we deal with threats. Oh pastor. We're gonna they're gonna shut you down if you don't require everybody to get vaccinated that comes in your building.
Come on, try to shut me down. Well, they're gonna you're gonna lose your tax-exempt status. Take it. Well, they're gonna condemn your church building. I'll meet in the parking lot. You cannot defeat the people of God.
They've been trying it for 6 ,000 years and all you do is spread us like wildfire. You can't beat us because the worst thing you could do to me is kill me and send me home. That's it. See the difference is I really believe this crap.
This is not just a job for me. This isn't a Sunday morning belief. This is innate in the core of my soul. I Know that I know that I know. For I know whom I have believed in and persuaded that he is able to keep all of that.
Which I have committed unto him against that day. Do you got that faith then dissension and threats won't hurt you. And what do you got to do? You got to stand up. Don't be a punk either when you stand up when I used to coach fighters I didn't let him talk trash.
Man, I'm gonna kill you. I'm gonna be about your heart out of your children. Mike Tice. No, you're not. You're gonna get in there and swing hands. We're all gonna go home. Hey, no one gonna kill nobody.
Well, I remember someone Rocky Marciano. You ain't Rocky Marciano. Shut up. Ain't nobody gonna die. You're gonna fight. You're just scared to act like a punk to try to play that dude out. Man, get in there.
Let your hands and feet talk when you deal with threats. Just sit there and go. Okay, man I'm you don't even have to go bring it or anything like that carry. You don't have to go bring it, right? Yeah, you gotta do that.
Just keep building the wall. If they want to fight bring them on now last thing watch last thing. Hold on. I'm almost done. Now they know a fat guy could run huh? Watch this watch this. By the way, if you look at chapter 3 verse 1, you know the first guy to swing the hammer.
You know who it was pastor pastors pastors. If you want to try to find a church and you find one that sits there and goes God will just accept you the way You are leave. Because that ain't a pastor if you smile God loves you.
God that that's bullcrap. Okay. All right. Look at verses 4 5. Look at verses 4 5 of chapter 4. Listen to Nehemiah's prayer. Nehemiah is not being nice. Listen our God for we are despised. Make their insults return on their own heads and let them be taken plunder to a land of captivity.
Do not cover their guilt or let their sin be erased from your sight. Wow now I Was never raised in church, but I bet a lot of you who were raised up in church would always told this forgive. Don't ever get angry.
Don't ever be angry. Fine. I will give you a thousand dollars if you can find me anywhere in Scripture says do not be angry. And that's all it says good. I know some of y 'all are going to Ephesians 4 right now.
It says be angry and sin not. Anger is an emotion. It is emotion. Okay there the emotion is not wrong. What you choose to do with it is wrong. Okay guys I'm almost done. Hang with me. Nehemiah prays this prayer and says this God let him go to hell.
That's what he says. Let him go to hell. Do not forgive them of their sins. That is not very nice. Right. I mean, where's the holly hobby my little pony Jesus dude, right? Not there then look what Nehemiah does look what he does in the next 18 verses.
This is what he does. He sits there and says, okay, they're gonna kill us. All right, everybody in this room. Get your sword right now. And this is what Nehemiah does. You people who are bringing bricks from the mortar pits to the walls.
Bring only enough bricks that you can carry one hand and carry a spear in the other. You people that are building the walls put that sword on you and here's what I'm gonna do. I'm gonna as the leader walk around this wall.
I'm gonna have a guy with a trumpet with me. If you hear me blow that trumpet drop your little tools draw your swords and come running. That's not very Christian. You know it seriously. Let me think about that.
Is that very Christian Diana? I mean, you know like We have armed guards. Look at them on the doors in the hallway in front of the children's department down there. We had armed guards and when I say armed I'm not talking to flashlight, okay.
All right. There's probably more firepower in this building right now than the most all most law enforcement agencies and I'm good with that. Okay, I'm good with that. What's that mean? Pastor should you forgive people?
Absolutely. I forgive you. I forgive you but notice this Galatians says this for whatever a man sows that shall he reap you come down to tear this wall up. It's not gonna be a good day for you. It just is not it's not gonna be a good career move for you because you're gonna get jacked up.
Guys, I know for some of you that feels awkward and weird in a church. Because you're dumb enough to actually believe that you're sitting in a church. You were raised in religion to believe this is a church.
This is the church. To save people in this room and we have a responsibility to protect each other now. You right-wing black helicopter dudes in here that have like 400 million rounds of ammunition buried in your backyard with little granola bars.
And you know, you got the big Rambo knife and you know, you practice you got the little like paint on your face. You're sneaking around the woods cool. I mean if that's you cool cool. All right, cool.
Let's notice that there's no government or form of protection in here. They had no other choice those churches that like are like training people to take over the world or I'm here to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I'm here to spread the gospel of Jesus Christ. That's my mission. We're not going to have gun turrets on the roof or any. That you'll know about or anything like that, okay that's not that's not what I'm here to do, but Guys, you feel when depression turns the threat and threats turn to action.
We're gonna make a quick prayer. We're gonna stand post on the wall and we're gonna do what God calls us to do no matter who tells us to stop. Now pastors you come up music people you come up. Yes, you can relax.
I'm done talking. Listen and I know I went long today. Hold on. I know I went long today, but listen to me. Listen to me.