Complainers in Our Midst

Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast

Skip Heitzig

Religion & Spirituality

4.8 • 631 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Complaining is draining! It only takes away energy from today and never solves problems for tomorrow. And what’s more, a complaining tongue reveals an ungrateful heart. Here in Nehemiah 5, we see that tension was growing among God’s people as complainers voiced their grievances. Some of these complaints were legitimate, but Nehemiah set out to fix the issues and stop the protests.

I. The Local Condition (vv. 1-5)

II. The Leader’s Reaction (vv. 6-7)

III. The Loving Solution (vv. 7-19)

Talk with God: Meditate on 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 and ask the Holy Spirit to reveal the situations in your life that you are more prone to complain about than to pray about.

Talk with others: Ask a mentor or trusted believer to hold you accountable to pray and give thanks in everything as you “follow the will of God in Christ Jesus for you” (1 Thessalonians 5:18) this week.

Talk with kids: How does Jesus save us from God’s judgment of sin?

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0:00.0	Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. We're so glad you joined us today. As believers,
0:07.5	we mourn the darkness and decay around us, knowing that a city in shambles reveals more than broken walls.
0:16.4	It mirrors the moral and spiritual condition of its people. In the book of Nehemiah, we find a template for taking ground and responding in faith and
0:25.9	obedience rather than fear or despair.
0:28.7	This message with Pastor Skip will help you transform your grief for a broken world into
0:34.7	a stepping stone to repentance, prayer, and action.
0:48.6	Let's turn in those Bibles to Nehemiah chapter 5, Nehemiah 5, Old Testament book of Nehemiah chapter 5 Nehemiah 5 Old Testament book of Nehemiah.
0:58.5	Name of my message today is complainers in our midst. I want to talk about complaining and I am
1:06.4	going to refrain from asking for a show of hands of anybody who would admit that they are a serial
1:12.7	complainer. For a couple of reasons, I won't do that. Number one, it would be very embarrassing
1:19.0	to admit that. Number two, I don't know how many would actually be honest enough to admit that.
1:23.8	So we'll not do that, but I will say this, nobody likes a complainer. It is an unhealthy
1:31.4	lifestyle. A psychology today said that complaining drains life of pleasure and compromises your capacity to feel joy. More than that, a complaining Christian is a bad
1:50.6	advertisement for Christianity. Because unbelievers are looking at your lives and listening to us,
1:58.5	and they're wondering, what compelling reason can you offer
2:01.8	me for me to leave my darkness and come over into your light? And if they hear the complaints
2:10.0	pouring from our lives, they're going to be reticent to want to join anything we are about.
2:18.0	I heard about two cars who went up to a stoplight.
2:21.2	The light was red.
2:23.4	The man in the lead car was not noticing when the light turned green.
2:28.9	And so the lady behind him gave a tap on her horn to remind him the light is green. He didn't hear it. He didn't respond. His head was down looking at his phone. So cars around the first two went through the intersection. She laid on the horn again, ranted and raved, no movement.
2:51.5	Then the light turned yellow.
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