Title Leader Needs to Recover
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Text: Nehemiah 3:1
(1) At that time Eliashib the high priest arose with his brethren priests, and built the sheep gates and sanctified them, and set the doors on them, and built the wall and sanctified it from the tower of Hammea to the tower of Hananel.
Nehemiah (9) Leaders must be restored (Nehemiah 3:1)
< Do not lose faith and trust >
The Czech Republic in Europe believed in Jesus around AD 800 and created the best culture in Eastern Europe. However, as they left God after World War II in 1948, the economy and culture died, and music and literature died. When I left God, I lost a lot.
People are afraid of curses. what is the curse leaving God. What is a blessing? to seek God. Unbelief is scarier than war. Unbelief inevitably leads to destruction. Conversely, with faith comes grace. If you believe well, you will surely receive the grace of God.
If you look at Europe, Western Europe and Eastern Europe are very different in economic and cultural level. The difference is, “Is there a God? Isn't it?" It is no exaggeration to say the difference. Eastern Europe also served God well. However, as they left God and the church fell, it is now an unhappy area. When we leave God and the church falls, we lose everything.
Nowadays, people in the world don't respect church members very much. If you have faith, you have trust, but many church members have lost their trust. There are many people who do not go to church because they do not want to see the wrong actions of believers. If someone keeps away from the church because of my unsightly behavior, no matter how much I gain, it is not a blessed life.
Also, the superstition and undulations that have permeated the church are at a serious level. Some church members go to church and go to fortune-telling during the entrance exam season. You can live according to the Word, but you find people who prophesy just like you would a fortune teller. Looking at the appearance of such a Korean church, it is like looking at the walls of Jerusalem that have been destroyed everywhere. How can the Korean church receive the grace of restoration again?
< Leaders must recover >
In order for the Korean church to receive the grace of restoration, the leader must first be restored. At the beginning of the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem, the high priest Eliashib and his brothers and priests got up together and rebuilt the sheep gate (verse 1). He did not just say that he was a high priest, but first showed an example. Later, in Nehemiah 13, Eliashib appears to have fallen, but when it comes to rebuilding the wall, he took the lead first.
Throw it away yourself before telling others to throw it away. Dedicate yourself first before asking others to give you devotion. Why did God make you a leader? It means to commit first. A leader is not a person who leads others, but a person who dedicates himself first. If you receive the blessing of becoming the head and not the tail, you must first dedicate yourself. Conversely, if you dedicate yourself first, you will receive the blessing of becoming the head and not the tail.
If you want your children to do well, set the example first. When parents devote themselves to sharing, their children do the same, and among such children, there is no child who beggars. Psalm 37:25 says this: “From my youth to old age, I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their descendants begging for food.” When everyone devotes themselves first with the mindset of a leader, broken parts are rebuilt.