All right this is our last message in the series the blueprint God's master plan for your life

and we've talked about all these things that are part of God's plan for our life and most of the messages have had a title like

fishing is part of his plan or shepherds are part of his plan

rest is part of his plan blessing is part of his plan

uh... pastor David Smith and i were talking about this the other day.

It's amazing to watch how a series takes shape.

And we made the comment yesterday that probably most of you look at the titles and the series and the way

it's shaped and you think that we actually planned it that way. But we didn't. I really believe it's the Holy Spirit leading in these series in these

messages to take us somewhere and it surprises me too how it turns out.

So this week's message is protection is part of his plan.

Protection is part of his plan.

Let me remind you that Nehemiah 13, the chapter 13, is when Nehemiah sets in place three principles that the people

of God had let slip when they came back into the land.

And we've already talked about two of those principles,

and so this is the third one.

Nehem I 13, verse 23.

In those days I also saw Jews who had married women of Ashdod Ammon and Moab and half of their children spoke the

language of Ashdod and could not speak the language of Judah but spoke according

to the language of one or the other people.

A verse 25 is the verse that we read last week in the living Bible and this is the verse that I base my theory on that Nehemiah was a part of a motorcycle gang before he got saved.

Look at verse 25. So I continued with them and cursed them, struck some of them, and pulled out their hair and made them swear by God saying you shall not give

your daughters as wives to their sons nor take their daughters for your sons or for yourselves.

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