Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.

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So you got a Bible go to Nehem I 4,

and here's where we find ourselves in the story.

We like to go through the scriptures,

and this week the question is,

how can you build your life and protect it from your enemies,

amen.

So I wore my special t-shirt just to kind of memorialize

this moment.

I'm not for everyone.

I was thinking about it this week

as I was preparing the sermon and I got an email and it went to my junk file but I saw it so I clicked on it and it showed

the Google reviews that I tend to get and what I noticed was interesting all one in five stars that's all I get

so you're welcome at least we're clear here amen so the point is some people are

gonna love you some people are gonna hate you what do you do with the ones who want to stop you?

That's where he finds ourselves in Nehemiah 4.

God called this man Nehemiah to lead this special ministry to rebuild the walls, to re-hang the gates, and to reopen the church so that God

could be worshipped, and then the nations could hear about the coming of Jesus from

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