WHO CAN STOP THE WALL FROM BEING FINISHED?

NEHEMIAH 6

Pastor Rick Jackson

It doesn’t have to be the “wall” in this question- though, obviously, in Nehemiah 6 it is. The question could be worded, “Who can stop the work of God” from being finished? Let us see the lesson of the wall.

I. NOT THE ENEMIES [v. 1-9]

1. Not through Mischief [v. 1-4, Acts 13:10]

 And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

2. Not through Lies [v. 5-8, 1 Timothy 4:1-2]

 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

3. Not through Fear [v. 9, 2 Timothy 1:7]

 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

II. NOT THE FALSE PROPHETS [v. 10-14]

1. We Need the Precedent of the Word [v. 10-11]

2. We Need Perception from the Lord [v. 12-13, 1 John 4:1]

Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.

3. We Need to Put them to the Lord [v. 14, 2 Peter 2:1-2, 9]

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction. And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

III.  NOT THE COMPROMISERS [v. 15-19]

1. God Gives the Victory [v. 15, 1 Corinthians 15:57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.]

2. God Gets the Glory [v. 16, 1 Timothy 1:17]

Now unto the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only wise God, be honour and glory for ever and ever. Amen.

Jude 1:25 To the only wise God our Saviour, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and for ever. Amen.

3. God Graces the Honorable [v. 17-19, 2 Corinthians 6:14-18]