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There are basically three kinds of people in the world, those who make things happen, those who watch things happen & those who wonder what happened? Over 100 years ago, Henry Spence-Jones made the observation that leaders “have no easy task. No sooner have they provided a remedy for one evil than another presents itself.” So, we see in Nehemiah 5. Nehemiah had the herculean task of rebuilding walls that lay in ruins while powerful enemies encircled employing enumerable dirty tricks to try disrupt God’s work. Going back to the first return under Zerubbabel, we have grown accustomed to reading of the difficulties put in the way of the returned exiles by those opposed to the work of God, but now the threat comes from within. In many ways this is a far more dangerous menace because it strikes at one of God’s people’s most important assets: our unity. Morale low from exhaustion & spirits beat down from oppression by the relentless opposition had taken its toll on God’s people, yet nothing is as morale sapping as taking blows from one’s own. What we can stomach from our unsaved neighbor, is hard to accept coming from our brothers & sisters. Which is why Satan insidiously & tenaciously tries to fracture our unity. He does this by tempting us to think more highly of ourselves than we ought. To look out primarily for our own interests instead of those of others. In the midst of this sad story, there is a silver lining. It is that the Bible records the truth, even the harsh truth of our sometimes hard hearts. It soberly & truthfully reminds us that even as we can be working towards God’s goals we also can be working against one another. In Nehemiah 5 we see deep problems among God’s people. Problems of selfishness about to cause the work of God to cease. What Satan could not accomplish by attacking from the outside in, he was about to achieve by attacking from the inside out. We are going to invest three sessions together in Nehemiah 5. This week we will endeavor to uncover the depth of the problem, next week the depth of the solution & we will end on week three by discovering the depth of the leader. Grab your Bible, a pen, & print out the free downloadable sermon outline & accompanying study guide at www.washedintheword.life & let's get Washed in the Word!
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