Welcome to the Daily Blade. The Word of God is described as the sword of the spirit, the primary

spiritual weapon in the Christian's armor against the forces of evil. Your hosts are Joby Martin

and Kyle Thompson, and they stand ready to equip men for the fight. Let's sharpen up.

All right, guys, I've got to tell you, I'm pretty giddy right now.

So every time I read or teach or even talk about Nehemiah 4, I get pumped up. And so that's

where we're going to be hanging out the next couple of days. And that's what we're going to be

covering. So let's go ahead and get into it. So the very beginning of Nehemiah 4 starting in verse 1. Now when Sambalot heard that we

were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged and he jeered at the Jews. And he said in the presence

of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, what are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for

themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of

rubbish and burned ones at that? Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him and he said, yes, what they are

building. If a fox goes up on it, he will break down their stone wall. Here are God, for we are

despised. Turn back their taunt on their own head and give them up to be plundered

in a land where they are captives. Do not cover their guilt, and let not their sin be blotted out from

your sight, for they have provoked you to anger in the presence of the builders. So we built the wall,

and all the wall was joined together to half its height for the people had mind to work.

But when Sanballa and Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashtadites heard that we were repairing the walls of Jerusalem, and that was going forward, and that the breaches were being closed, they were very angry.

And they all plotted together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause

confusion in it. And we prayed to our God and set a guard as protection against them day and

night. In Judah, it was said, the strength of those who bear the burdens is failing. There is too much

rubble. By ourselves, we will not be able to rebuild the wall. And our enemies said,

they will not know or see till we come among them and kill them and stop the work. At that time,

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