From Failure to Success (Part 2 of 2)
Truth For Life Daily Program
Alistair Begg
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🗓️ 4 October 2023
⏱️ 25 minutes
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When Nehemiah inquired about Jerusalem, he was dismayed to hear of ruin rather than progress—but he didn’t get stuck in his grief! Listen to Truth For Life as Alistair Begg outlines the crucial steps Nehemiah took before initiating any action to rebuild.
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| 0:00.0 | When Nehemiah asked for news about Jerusalem, he was troubled to learn of the |
| 0:29.9 | ruin rather than progress. But he didn't get stuck in his grief. Today on Truth for Life, |
| 0:36.9 | we'll learn the crucial steps he took before he initiated any action to rebuild the city. |
| 0:42.6 | Alaskar Begg is teaching from Nehemiah chapter 1. We're focusing today on verse 4. |
| 0:53.8 | Back to Nehemiah. His reaction is described for us at one poignant sentence. When I heard these things, |
| 0:59.6 | I sat down and I went. This reveals to us the depth of his devotion, the extent of his compassion. |
| 1:08.7 | I find myself greatly challenged by the fact that it is very difficult to identify with Nehemiah |
| 1:14.0 | 1.4 and far too easy to identify with Luke chapter 18 and the description that is provided there. |
| 1:20.5 | You may want to turn to it with me. I'll read it for you. Luke chapter 18, Jesus is moving through the |
| 1:27.4 | crowd. He's on the outskirts of Jericho and a blind man was sitting by the roadside and he was |
| 1:35.0 | begging. And given the fact that he couldn't see any kind of commotion caused by a crowd would be a |
| 1:40.9 | matter of intrigue to him. And so verse 36 of Luke 18, when he heard the crowd going by, he asked |
| 1:47.2 | what was happening. And they told him, Jesus of Nazareth is passing by. And so he called out, |
| 1:54.1 | Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me. As the honest cry of someone's heart, now look at the |
| 2:02.5 | response. Those who led the way rebuked him and told him to be quiet. Far from the response of |
| 2:11.6 | the crowd to the predicament of the man producing tears in them, it produced rebukes. |
| 2:17.3 | Jesus, can you do anything for me? An old blind beggar? Jesus, would you shut up? |
| 2:29.4 | You know that we're going to Jericho? Do you know how long we've been walking here? |
| 2:34.5 | Do you know how busy Jesus is? Do you know that we've been in the front of this line for ages? |
| 2:40.3 | Jesus, Jesus! So you have to time, we don't hear the cries of the crowd because we're so caught up in the |
| 2:49.6 | march. We got our church thing down so good we can't hear people shouting in the streets. |
| 2:58.3 | We can't hear the cries in the music of our day. We don't hear the cries in the young people's |
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