Title: Overcoming Satan's Obstacles
Contents
Overcome Satan's obstacles (Nehemiah 4:1-3)
? Nehemiah prays and rebuilds the walls of Jerusalem.
? What God Allowed
A. It's fast.
B. It's easy.
C. Many.
? There are obstacles in historical affairs. “Sanballat and Tobiah.”
A. Sanballat - “Are you going to rekindle the burnt pile of stones?”
B. Tobiya - “The wall will fall even if the fox climbs it.”
1. They are exhausted.
? 4:10 “We cannot build a city.”
A. When Satan works, it causes all the energy of the phenomena that appear.
2. They are discouraged.
? 4:10 “We cannot build a city.”
A. I have negative thoughts and talk that I can't do anything about.
B. Part 3 Don't be fooled. This is the history of Satan.
C. Satan works through people close to him.
3. They were afraid.
? 4:11 “I will run in and slaughter and put an end to history.”
A. A word that incites war on the premise that it will happen.
? How to respond to criticism
1. “Pray”
? Neh 4:4 “Hear, O God”, “We are despised.”
2. “Do your best in the current situation.”
? 4:16 Half of the people stood behind the house of Judah with their spears.
? 4:17 “He builds a city with one hand, and with the other he carries weapons”
? 4:18 “The trumpeter stood by me.”
? 4:22 “They will watch for us by night, and they will work for us by day.”
? 4:23 “The watchmen did not take their clothes off.”
※ Prayer does not exclude human effort.
3. Remember and fight the great and fearful Lord.
? Nehemiah said of God as a great God.
A. “The Great God”
? It means that the problem in front of me is bigger than that.
? It means that the event in front of me is bigger than that.
B. “The God of Fear”
? Remember and fight the great and fearful Lord.
? What people should fear is God.