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If you have a Bible and I hope you or somebody around you does you can look on with or maybe

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open with me to Nehemiah Chapter 13 feel free to use table of contents if you need to Nehemiah 13 and as you're turning I want to welcome those of you and other locations around Metro DC as part of our church family and others online who are physically unable to be with us today.

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Today we're coming to the end,

let's give it up for all those who are visiting, love that.

So we're at the end of a journey,

we've been taking through the book of Nehemiah in the Bible and

we titled this journey what could God do? Because we're looking at this story of a

guy who is not a preacher, not a pastor, not a church leader, he was a cup beer who realized he had an opportunity

to be used by God in his day to bring glory to God and good to others in ways they were far beyond what he could

imagine.

And he said, that's what I want for my life.

He stepped out in faith, he took some risks, he paid a price, and here we are many years later in the book of Nehemiah chapter 13 and just think about what had happened. He had moved to Jerusalem with the

full support of a pagan king who he was afraid at first to even talk to and the

king not only gave him permission to go, but gave him resources and protection as he went.

And despite all kinds of opposition, Nehemiah had led the people of God to rebuild the walls around the city of God, Jerusalem, and that day

where the temple, the presence of God dwelt among his people.

And then on top of all that, in Nehemiah 8, 9, and 10,

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