Working Together
Calvary Church with Skip Heitzig Audio Podcast
Skip Heitzig
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🗓️ 18 May 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
One of the greatest coaches of all time, Vince Lombardi, said, “Individual commitment to a group effort—that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work.” Nehemiah 3 records the rebuilding of Jerusalem’s walls by individuals committed to this group effort. Here we can learn several practical and spiritual principles.
I. God's Work Should Be Orderly
II. There's a Place for Everyone
III. Your Service Should Fit You
IV. Some Work Harder Than Others
V. Work Should Be Tied to Purpose
Talk with God: Meditate on Proverbs 3:5-6 this week and ask the Lord to “show you which path to take” (NLT) as you seek His will in every area of your life.
Talk with others: If you’re struggling with brokenness in your life—spiritually, mentally, or physically—ask a mentor or trusted fellow believer to stand with you as you start rebuilding.
Talk with kids: Why can we trust God to provide for our needs?
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. |
| 0:50.5 | Turn in your Bibles, please, to the book of Nehemiah. |
| 0:55.0 | You know, I just sort of dawned on me today that that is a weird sounding name. |
| 1:00.7 | If you're not familiar with the Bible, I know this church is, but if you even told the average |
| 1:06.5 | Christian the book of Nehemiah, they might look at you like, what is that? |
| 1:12.0 | Because it's an Old Testament book. He is rather an obscure individual in most of believers' minds. And yet we are studying this book |
| 1:21.7 | because of valuable lessons about, I think, the city we live in, the country we live in, the times we live in, and in many |
| 1:31.0 | cases even the situations that we find ourselves in. So while we are in Nehemiah chapter three, |
| 1:40.0 | and it is a lengthy kind of a chapter. There's a lot of names in it and places in it, but we're going to try to make some sense of it. |
| 1:48.5 | I want to begin with something that I found that somebody wrote. |
| 1:52.5 | He said, yes, I'm tired. |
| 1:55.5 | For several years, I've been blaming it on Middle Age, iron poor blood, lack of vitamins, air pollution, water |
| 2:05.7 | pollution, obesity, dieting, underarm odor, and a dozen other maladies that make you wonder |
| 2:14.3 | if life is really worth living. |
| 2:21.2 | But now I find it isn't that. |
| 2:25.9 | I'm tired because I'm overworked. |
| 2:30.9 | The population of this country is over 200 million. |
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