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BUILDING WALLS

BUILDING WALLS. Nehemiah 3. ‘Hewers of the stone of the wall’. THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM. II Chron.25:23 – Jehoash breaks wall (400 cubits) II Chron.26:9 – Uzziah repairs wall II Chron.27:3 – Jotham built on wall of Ophel II Chron.32:5 – Hezekiah repaired walls

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BUILDING WALLS

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  1. BUILDING WALLS Nehemiah 3 ‘Hewers of the stone of the wall’

  2. THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM II Chron.25:23 – Jehoash breaks wall (400 cubits) II Chron.26:9 – Uzziah repairs wall II Chron.27:3 – Jotham built on wall of Ophel II Chron.32:5 – Hezekiah repaired walls II Chron.33:14 – Manasseh built wall without city II Chron 36:19 – Chaldeans destroy temple & wall REBUILT UNDER NEHEMIAH State of Wall ~ Spiritual Health of Nation

  3. SPIRITUAL FOUNDATIONS? Prov. 24:30-32 – Spiritual Laziness Prov. 18:10-12 – Walls of Conceit Prov. 25:28 – No Self Control – Wrecking Ball Contrast – Prov.16:32 Ecc.10:8-9 – Break the Wall – Own Peril Ezek. 8:7-12 – A Hole in the Wall Ezek.13:5,10-16 – Band Aids + Temporary Patches Is.59:9-15 – Grope for the Wall Hab.2:9-11 – The Wall Tells a Story Example – Dan.5:25

  4. Build THOU THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM Ps. 51:17-19 • A perpetual process • If we are not building we are regressing • As soon as we stop building the wall • begins to fall

  5. MASON Heb. 2796,1443 - ‘an artificer’ - ‘to surround with a fence, hedge,wall,to erect a wall’ II Sam.5:11 – mgn. I Chron.22:2 I Kings 5:15-18 • Character of a Mason in the Ecclesia • Bezaleel – Ex.35:10,21,25,27,30-35 • ‘cutting of stones, to set them’ • ‘Repairer (mason) of the breach’ • Ezek. 22:30, Is.58:12

  6. BUILDING AN ECCLESIA Eph.2:14 – ‘Christ…broken down the middle wall of partition’ I Cor.3:10-15 – ‘Let every man take heed how he buildeth’ I Pet.2:5 – ‘lively stones’ Roth. ‘being built up’ ‘WE ARE NOT BRICKS, WE ARE STONES OF ALL DIFFERENT SIZES AND SHAPES’ (Bro Art Clarke)

  7. The Church of the Holy Rude Founded in 1129

  8. BUILDING the WALLS of NEW Jerusalem… • Rev.21:15-23 • Garnished with precious stones – Mal.3:17 • God did lighten it – wall of fire – Zech.2:4-5 • Walls called ‘salvation’ – Is.60:18 • Everlasting name – Is.56:5 …CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN!!

  9. TEAMWORK A Microcosm of an Ecclesia NEHEMIAH 3

  10. v. 1 ELIASHIB SEED ON STONY GROUND Matt 13:20-21 v. 2 MEN OF JERICHO NON RESIDENT MEMBERS MEREMOTH v. 4 DEDICATED, FOCUSSED, RELIABLE

  11. MESHULLAM SPIRITUALLY UNSTABLE v. 5 TEKOITES COMMONERS – perform the work NOBLES – watch the work v. 7 MELATIAH HEWERS OF WOOD AND DRAWERS OF WATER v.9 REPHAIAH WORKING RULER Exhort - Nobles became common labourers! Our external vocation doesn’t dictate position in an ecclesia!

  12. v. 10 JEDAIAH FUTURE TEMPLE BUILDER Zech 6:10-15 v. 12 SHALLUM SINGLE PARENT v. 14 MALCHIAH RECHABITE BARUCH v. 20 ‘EARNESTLY REPAIRED’ v. 26 NETHINIMS MENIAL LABOURERS

  13. "We are labourers together with God" I Cor. 3:9-15

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