An Internal Threat (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 18 October 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
While rebuilding Jerusalem’s wall, Nehemiah discovered corruption amongst God’s people. Learn how this leader effectively confronted the internal threat in a constructive manner without condemnation. Study along with us on Truth For Life with Alistair Begg.
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| 0:00.0 | While rebuilding the city of Jerusalem, Nehemiah learned that there was corruption inside |
| 0:29.9 | the walls. Today on Truth For Life, we'll see what it took for him to effectively confront |
| 0:35.6 | the internal threat and to do it without condemnation. |
| 0:39.8 | Alistair Begg is teaching from the opening verses of Nehemiah chapter 5. |
| 0:50.5 | How did Nehemiah deal with the problem? How was the problem solved? Well, verse 6 tells us |
| 0:56.0 | his immediate reaction is he was really angry. I was really angry if you want a subdiple |
| 1:01.4 | call it righteous indignation. Righteous indignation is followed by careful contemplation. |
| 1:07.9 | Verse 7, I pondered them in my mind. Pondered what? What is them refer to? Them refers to the |
| 1:14.6 | charges he's mentioned in verse 6. There were charges brought and he pondered the charges. |
| 1:20.7 | His concern was both controlled and it was constructive. It doesn't launch into a speech that he's |
| 1:25.8 | going to later regret. Righteous indignation, careful contemplation and then direct confrontation. |
| 1:32.6 | I pondered them in my mind and then he was straight at it. There's something very refreshing about |
| 1:39.4 | this. Then I accused the nobles and the officials. People say, well, if you're a nice leader, |
| 1:47.4 | you shouldn't be accusatory. I mean, if you're going to be a nice man and lead God's people, |
| 1:52.6 | then you can't go around accusing people. Well, you should make it the hallmark of your life, |
| 1:59.9 | but there will be times when you must, unless you're just a coward, unless you just want to do |
| 2:05.8 | what everybody else does and that is dealing the realm of political innuendo and maneuverings and |
| 2:11.9 | sand little signals here and there and round and about in the hope that George who is over in the |
| 2:16.6 | far left hand corner will get the signal as a result of having passed it down through section 1, |
| 2:21.5 | 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 because you don't have the guts to go to section 6 yourself and say, hey, George, |
| 2:27.3 | you have a big problem, son. Think how much confusion is caused in the work of the people of God |
| 2:32.8 | because the people of God are unprepared to respond and righteous indignation, careful contemplation |
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