Nehemiah #6 - What Is The Best Way To Deal With Cruel Enemies?

The Mark Driscoll Podcast

Mark Driscoll

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 23 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In Nehemiah 6, Pastor Mark preaches that a "beating" from a critic oftentimes comes right before a blessing, that all those who say they're "believers" shouldn't necessarily be believed, and that fake news is nothing new.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Ashley Chase welcoming you to the Mark Driscoll podcast.
0:04.0	For more content from my dad, Pastor Mark, senior pastor here at the Trinity Church in Scottsdale, Arizona,
0:09.2	visit real faith.com, where you'll find study guides to go along with each sermon series as he
0:14.0	preaches verse by verse through books of the Bible, daily devotions, free
0:17.7	e-books and more. Now grab your Bibles and get ready for today's sermon.
0:21.3	We're in this dramatic part of Nehemiah, chapter 6.
0:25.4	You got a Bible go there.
0:26.4	Tell me if you've heard this phrase, it's always a fight to the finish.
0:31.4	That's true in a sporting event. The last few minutes tend to be the most exciting and dramatic.
0:35.6	We're even in a season of elections and a lot is riding on the line and it's going to be a fight to the finish. What we see in Nehem I sex, it's literally
0:45.2	the fight to the finish. For 141 years, God's people were vulnerable, they were
0:50.3	endangered, they were unsafe and unprotected.
0:53.2	They were supposed to live in the city of Jerusalem,
0:55.3	surrounded by walls.
0:56.9	The walls were torn down, the gates were burned,
0:59.3	God's people were scattered.
1:01.3	Their version of the church, the temple was closed for 141 years and then
1:06.0	God appoints this guy, Nehemiah, to give it a shot to try and change the fate of human history and safety for God's people.
1:15.0	And at this point they're nearing the end.
1:17.6	The wall is basically rebuilt.
1:20.0	Just in your mind, just envision if somewhere a politician was building a wall and it was coming to
1:26.3	completion how much hope a hypothetical people might have for their safety and future so
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