Hey, what's going on, everybody?

Thank you so much for joining this week's message at Zoe Church.

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We have a very special guest with us today.

Pastor Robbie Hilton from Johnson City, Tennessee is bringing the message today.

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But let's jump into this week's message from our special guests, the one and only Pastor Robbie Hilton.

We're going to jump into a massive story in the Old Testament.

There's a man named Nehemiah who God has put on his heart this burden to rebuild the walls

that surround the city of Jerusalem. Now the temple has been repaired and the people are trying to

worship but what's interesting about this is because the walls are still not back in place, they're being

hindered in their worship. They're afraid

of attack. The city is not secure, so their worship is hindered. Isn't that an interesting thing

that you can have a temple and it's all together and it's ready to go, but if the walls are not

where they need to be, then it affects the way we worship on the inside of the temple because there are still threats that we are worried about on the outside because of the walls.

And so I think about our own lives.

The Bible says that we are the temple of the living God, that God lives on the inside of us.

We have become a temple, but if we are not careful to make sure that we have

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