Everybody, what is going on? You know what time it is. You're listening to join the Journey podcast with your host, Emma, daughter.

Thanks for joining. Today, we are reading Nehemiah 11 through 13, and I am back in the podcast studio with Scott Sangbush.

Hello.

We are jumping into really this final discussion through Nehemiah. We learn about project management. So tell us a little

bit more about the final aspect of project management. Yeah, one of the things that we see in this

final section is the faithful people that stayed in the city and how they separated. And then we see

a dedication of the wall that was built and how that is a celebration of God's protection, both current and in future.

And then we see the final reforms come in chapter 13.

Now, I think most of us would have loved the book to end on 13.3 that says, as soon as the people heard the law, they separated from Israel all those of foreign descent. And so that's, again, a call back to Ezra and separating those that were outside of Israel. But Nehemiah then continues to leave and go give a report to Arctic Xorcises. And we leaves, Israel falls back into the ways of the past and not following the laws.

And we get another call back to the fathers.

And he says, as he's noticing people, not observe the Sabbath, did not your fathers act in this way and did not our God bring all this disaster on us and on this city?

Now you are bringing more wrath on Israel by profaning the Sabbath.

And this isn't the only thing that he sees going wrong.

But the thing that I'm seeing here is from a project management standpoint, you want to inspect what you expect.

Say that again. That's good. You want to inspect what you expect. Say that again, that's good. You want to inspect what you expect.

Let's say you're in charge of people for join the journey, getting stuff done, right?

You have hundreds of people writing devotionals.

Yep.

You have editors that inspect every single devotion. Yeah, what we're expecting

them to turn in. That's good. Exactly. And so it would be foolish of you to not check those things

and something gets through that maybe is theologically wrong or misses the context of the verse or the

section that they're reading. And then you put that out

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