Why Serving God Is So Hard
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
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🗓️ 25 May 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Being a Christian can be hard in the current climate of hostility—where believers worldwide face physical oppression and persecution. In our own culture, the church is labeled archaic and irrelevant in its stance on modern issues. Today we will consider a few reasons for the opposition we face as Christians and how we can face it victoriously.
I. Opposition is Normal
II. Opposition is Verbal
III. Opposition is Continual
IV. Opposition is Conquerable
Talk with God: Ask the Lord for the courage to stand firm in Christ, despite opposition.
Talk with others: Encourage a believer or family member who’s been struggling this week and remind them that their “labor is not in vain in the Lord” (1 Corinthians 15:58).
Talk with kids: Why did Moses need help leading the people?
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig. We're so glad you joined us today. As believers, |
| 0:07.5 | we mourn the darkness and decay around us, knowing that a city in shambles reveals more than broken walls. |
| 0:16.4 | It mirrors the moral and spiritual condition of its people. In the book of Nehemiah, we find a template for taking ground and responding in faith and |
| 0:25.9 | obedience rather than fear or despair. |
| 0:28.7 | This message with Pastor Skip will help you transform your grief for a broken world into |
| 0:34.7 | a stepping stone to repentance, prayer, and action. |
| 0:51.3 | Turn in your Bibles, please, to Nehemiah chapter 4. |
| 0:55.4 | This is a series we're calling City in Chambles. |
| 0:58.4 | It's all about the city that was in Chambles, the city of Jerusalem. |
| 1:03.1 | It had been in a state of disrepair for over a century until Nehemiah heard about it |
| 1:10.2 | and decided to leave where he was working in |
| 1:12.8 | Persia, go all the way 900 miles, and rebuild the city. And we've made it all the way through |
| 1:17.9 | chapter 3. We're in chapter 4, and we're going to look at the first nine verses this morning. |
| 1:23.7 | Now, if you have a bulletin and you have noticed the title of this message, you're thinking, |
| 1:29.5 | what's up with this title? |
| 1:31.1 | Why serving God is so hard. |
| 1:34.8 | And you're thinking maybe Skip needs a vacation. |
| 1:39.4 | And he's about to take it out on us. |
| 1:42.7 | And maybe you're thinking thoughts like, |
| 1:45.1 | Pastor, if you're trying to recruit more people to join the Christian faith, |
| 1:49.9 | this is not a great message title, |
| 1:53.1 | why it's so hard serving the Lord. |
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