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That this holy name today in the
House of the Lord Amen. 

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Many times the the Apostolic 
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If I was glad when they said and
to me, let us go into the House 

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of the Lord Amen. 
And that is a great saying in 

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the great verse of Scripture. 
It's even more important known 

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that David was a part of the 
family that for 10 generations, 

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they were not able to go to the 
House of the Lord, Amen. 

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But he was generation #10 the 
first one in 10 that was able to

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go. 
So from the lips of someone that

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had a lineage of wantons that 
couldn't, you can understand 

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those words a little bit better 
when he could, a man enter into 

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the House of the Lord. 
And so we're glad to be here 

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today, glad to see your smiling 
faces, Amen, In the House of the

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Lord this morning. 
And we're going to be turning to

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the the Psalms here today. 
I'm dealing with my collar here.

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I felt like maybe I had a little
Elvis going on or something, 

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like a collar that was slipped 
or something. 

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If it does, we'll just roll with
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But I will not do no Elvis 
gyration. 

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OK, let's look at that clear, 
Amen. 

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We're going to turn to Psalms 
118. 

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Amen. 
I bear the burden really. 

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Friday night we was there at 
that service and we had a pre 

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service prayer in the green room
and I can't remember his last 

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name young man that introduced 
me and we came out of the room. 

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He said, brother McGee, I'm 
supposed to introduce you 

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tonight. 
I said, OK. 

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He said, but I told brother 
Mason, Alex Mason that he needs 

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to send me and tell me some 
stuff about you. 

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He says I just don't really have
anything. 

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He's I said, well you can just 
say there he is. 

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I said that's good enough. 
And he says, well, the only 

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thing that comes to my mind is 
that you remind me a little bit 

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of Jim Carrey. 
And I said that isn't my first 

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rodeo with that. 
It's really not. 

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So if you need to go there, 
we'll go there. 

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OK. 
So praise the Lord. 

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If I've never forgotten, they'll
just say, brother Jim, come on 

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up here. 
And so he'll be OK. 

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Psalms 118 verse #14 here. 
Just we're going to read 2 

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verses of Scripture. 
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strength in song and has become 
my salvation. 

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The voice of rejoicing and 
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of the righteous. 
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the righteous, the right hand of
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Amen. 
For a little while this morning.

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And we're just having one 
service here today. 

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So this, this is it. 
It's one gut, 11 bullet in the 

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barrel. 
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I want to talk to us today about
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behind the walls, Amen. 
And might I say we're glad to 

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have Daniel write with us today.
He's he's in for the big reunion

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time here. 
It's that time of year, Amen, 

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for his family. 
We're glad to have. 

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I told him, I said when he 
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time of year said I have your 
face in that square on my 

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calendar at this this weekend, 
knowing that you're going to be 

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in. 
I said I couldn't fit all of 

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your family's faces because I 
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calendar. 
All right, so, but we're glad 

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that he's here with us today. 
Father, we thank you Jesus, for 

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another opportunity. 
We're thankful for your spirit 

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that we have experienced in this
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I pray, O Lord, that you would 
continue to help us in the next 

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little while through your word 
and will not fail to thank you, 

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God, for what you accomplished 
in this day. 

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In the name of Jesus Christ that
I pray, Amen. 

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You may be seated in Jesus name 
today. 

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Most and maybe not all people 
here today understand that the 

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Bible is not just some very laid
out chronological record from 

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Genesis to Revelation. 
If you've been a part of church 

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a certain set of time, you 
understand that there are 

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certain books of the Bible that 
you really need to take and you 

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need to tuck back into other 
stories of Scripture. 

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And Psalms is one of those 
books. 

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Psalms, all of Psalms is not 
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There's some written by a girl 
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There's some that's unknown, 
really, who wrote them. 

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And so many of the Psalms that 
are pinned go back and are 

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tucked back into like Kings or 
Samuel or some of those other 

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areas. 
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often must ask yourself whenever
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is the background or the 
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What was it that that provoked 
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written? 
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Psalm 118th background is most 
likely the dedication of 

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Jerusalem's restored walls, the 
restored walls and gates during 

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what may have been the Feast of 
Tabernacles that occurred during

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the days of Nehemiah. 
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what took place to get us to 
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Of course, during the time that 
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captivity and they spent their 
70 years there as exiles in a 

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foreign land. 
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that the people of God could 
return to Jerusalem, there were 

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three different groups of 
Israelites that returned home to

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Jerusalem at three different 
times after having been captive 

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for 70 years. 
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was in ruins. 
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the temple was in ruins. 
The the gates and the walls have

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been burned with fire and broken
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All these things had taken 
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So as they are returning, 
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place that they had known that 
had been a part of their life in

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the past. 
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And so there's a situation here 
that's going on whenever 

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Nehemiah comes, because when 
Nehemiah comes, there has been a

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little progress that has been 
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The temple has been re 
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established, but there are still
the walls and the gates around 

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about the city that are 
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They they have a House of 
worship and an altar, but they 

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don't have no perimeter, no 
enclosure for the, the city of 

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Jerusalem. 
The Bible bears it out in Second

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Chronicles 36, Speaking of what 
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vulnerability that it was left 
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It says in verse 18. 
And all the vessels of the House

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of God great and small, and the 
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Lord and the treasures of the 
king and the Princess, and all 

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these he, the, he is the 
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these things away, brought to 
Babylon. 

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And they burnt the House of God 
and breakdown on the wall of 

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Jerusalem and burn all the 
palaces thereof with fire and 

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destroyed all the goodly vessels
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And so whenever they came to 
rebuild this, this, this great 

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city that they've known and 
loved it, it, their efforts 

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were, were were taxed with 
difficulties and situations that

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arose. 
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different times they lost heart 
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I remember Nehemiah at one spot 
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to like that halfway mark of 
having rebuilt the wall, that 

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discouragement came into the 
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And so if if rebuilding wasn't 
enough to discourage them, then 

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they had all of the acted 
taunting and interruption of 

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adversaries and enemies that 
were neighboring around about 

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them that constantly tried to 
frustrate their energies even 

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more. 
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from captivity, the adversary 
didn't want Jerusalem rebuilt. 

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The enemies didn't want that 
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that fortified wall to be re 
established and their 

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neighborhood to be restored. 
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rebuilding of the temple and its
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And so there's something today 
that we must understand before I

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go any further today, and that 
is this is that the ancient 

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walls of the Old Testament 
served many functions in old 

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cities of renown. 
The walls were used as a means 

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of the line of defense. 
They were used for safety 

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measures. 
They were used for protection 

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for the inhabitants that were 
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They were walls of defense. 
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visible evidence as to where a 
city's boundaries were, to where

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a city's perimeter and borders 
were at. 

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As a matter of fact, we see in 
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vineyards were off times walled 
or fenced, primarily because 

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whenever they were fenced in or 
walled in, it allowed the 

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landowner to cultivate the 
ground and cultivate the 

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vineyard without any outside 
interference from whether it be 

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beast or animal or persons, any 
type of intrusion. 

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The Bible bears this out in 
Isaiah chapter #5 and verse 

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five. 
He says, and now go to and I 

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will tell you what I will do to 
my vineyard. 

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He said, I'll take away the 
hedge or the wall, the perimeter

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thereof, and it shall be eaten 
up and I'll break down the wall 

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there of and it shall be trodden
down because he's telling us 

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he's he's making association 
that as long as there is the 

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hedge and the wall, it'll be 
safeguarded from being eaten up.

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It'll be safeguarded from being 
trodden down. 

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He says in verse 6, and I will 
lay it waste and it shall not be

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pruned nor dig, but there shall 
come up briars and thorns. 

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It's it's just going to turn 
into the wilderness without any 

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perimeter, without any walls. 
And he says I'll command no rain

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to come up on it. 
So when your defense are gone, 

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when your walls of your city are
broken down, you have you have 

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lost a defense, you have lost a 
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Amen. 
For the inhabitants inside, for 

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that matter, when you look at 
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the Old Testament Tabernacle 
that that outer wall that went 

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around the outer court, it was 
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high according to Scripture. 
And a typical Jew of that day is

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a very short stature. 
They were where between 5 two 

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and five, four inches because 
they're with the, the, the 

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protection and the perimeter of 
the wall that enabled the Jew 

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who's much shorter than the wall
to keep his focus on what's 

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inside the wall, keep us focused
of what's inside that, that 

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outer court, the brazen Laver 
and the brazen altar. 

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Their minds would be focused on 
sacrifice and the cleansing and 

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the purdian. 
And so we had to have the wall. 

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And so gates as well. 
We consider gates, dates are 

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ways not just into a place, but 
they are the entrances that go 

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out of a place. 
And so gates and doors, they 

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control what comes in and they 
control what goes out. 

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Friends, I hope you can permit 
your friends through your gates.

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Your gates may also keep some 
foes all right out of the 

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perimeter of your life. 
And so if your gates are not 

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working properly, what happens? 
Sometimes you keep getting the 

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wrong people in your life, 
right? 

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And then not only that, your 
enemy has access to your life 

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when your walls and your gates 
are broken down. 

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And so, as in Nehemiah's day, 
the adversaries, as they stand 

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around lurking, as they are 
rebuilding these walls and 

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resetting these gates, they are 
there. 

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And we often hear them mocking 
the children of Israel and 

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mocking Nehemiah. 
They say, hey, if a fox would 

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walk up on this wall, it would 
tear down their mocking because 

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the adversary will always mock 
your place of worship and your 

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protection boundaries. 
It's part for the course. 

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Under Ezra, worship is restored,
the temples rebuild. 

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All of that is fine and well, 
and that's the initial step to 

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the restoration of the city of 
Jerusalem. 

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But while that's the initial 
step, that's not the last step 

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because every temple and every 
community that surrounding a 

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temple, they still need some 
walls to safeguard what's on the

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inside. 
Nehemiah arrives in Jerusalem 

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with the temple, but he's still 
telling the men that are about 

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him. 
And this is what he says in the 

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Bible. 
The Bible says that he walked 

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down in the night session. 
He's got a temple. 

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He's got an altar. 
He has all of that. 

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But you know what he's doing? 
He's inspecting the walls. 

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He's looking at the perimeter. 
And he goes back to the people 

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that had come with him under his
command. 

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And you know what? 
He basically tells them we are 

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in trouble. 
You can look at it in verse #17 

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to Nehemiah two, he says, do you
see the distress that we are in?

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Do you see, hey, we we got a 
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Things are well. 
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He says, I still consider 
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temple but no walls. 
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someone say man, He says it's a 
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He said the gates are still 
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falling down around. 
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Jerusalem still in a dilapidated
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temple on the altar, they needed
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And you know what? 
Nehemiah says let's do something

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about this. 
Let let's arrive. 

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He says, look at that verse 17. 
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reproach, if you will, of this 
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Let's remove the disgrace of the
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Because it's disgraceful to have
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no walls of protection. 
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altar and have no gates where 
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came in. 
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when people have broken walls 
and gates and have a move of God

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in their life and worship flows 
in their life, but no 

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precautions have been taken in 
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safeguard that altar and 
safeguard that worship and 

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safeguard that experience. 
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God, but if you leave yourself 
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adversary to just trample on the
ground that God has declared 

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his, you may find yourself in a 
compromising issue. 

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Without a gate or a wall, you're
having unguarded worship because

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still yet in the recess of the 
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He don't like the temple. 
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you haven't build a wall, you've
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attack. 
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understand the Lords guidance 
and helping and aiding to 

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protect them from their enemies,
enabling them to do the work 

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that Nehemiah said let's 
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and build this difficult wall in
oppressive times. 

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The Bible tells us in Nehemiah 
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miracle really or is a miracle 
that the walls of the city were 

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rebuilt in 52 days. 
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end of that 52 days, Nehemiah's 
call them people together 

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because they this is a 
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The wall is going to be 
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the dedication of the walls, at 
the dedication of the walls, it 

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says that there could be shouts 
of joy from Jerusalem heard from

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afar off. 
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that day they offer great 
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dedication to the walls, and 
rejoice, for God had made them 

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rejoice with great joy. 
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rejoice so that the joy of 
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off. 
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some walls and gates and rejoice
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distance from Jerusalem could 
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I want to pause here and point 
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time, because what is 
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is this. 
This just wasn't the men 

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standing together, lifting up 
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and a gay. 
The Bible says the wives also 

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and the children joined in this 
celebration. 

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Because sometimes we have 
divided families that there's 

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one person in the family that 
celebrating the poundry, but we 

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haven't included our children. 
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their celebration over the 
perimeter that had now been 

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created for Jerusalem. 
Look at it now, our text, I know

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you thought I'd never get there.
Verse 14 says the Lord is my 

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strength and song, and this 
become my salvation. 

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Again, the background for this 
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But this isn't the only time we 
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This is not the only time we see
this phrasing. 

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It's recorded about three times,
including this time three times 

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in Scripture, once here during 
the dedication of the walls. 

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The same terminology is used 
after Israel crossed the Red 

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Sea, Amen, out of Egypt and 
crossed over the Red Sea. 

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And this is also spoken 
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Isaiah, Amen, for a future time.
But back at the Red Sea, this is

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what was spoken. 
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They're crossing through the Red
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Pharaoh and his army is behind 
them and their Chariots pursuing

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them. 
They're trying to get out of 

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what they have been bound to for
years. 

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They're trying to get out of 
what they the light that they 

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had known for years. 
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opposite side of the Red Sea, 
Moses starts a song. 

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Moses starts a celebration and 
he says in verse 2, the Lord is 

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my strength and song and he has 
become my salvation. 

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He is my God and I will prepare 
him a habitation, my father's 

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God, I will exalt him. 
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Pharaoh's army had drowned in 
the Red Sea. 

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Israel's enemies were wiped out 
by the Red Sea. 

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But when the waters returned 
upon Pharaoh and his army, those

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waters also then created a 
bound. 

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It wasn't just what destroyed 
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It's what created a boundary so 
that Israel, if she ever decided

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to go back to Egypt from right 
there, they couldn't just turn 

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around and go back over because 
it took them a miracle to get to

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where they are, that water 
boundary. 

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But it also prohibited any other
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right at that point because it 
created a boundary. 

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He says, Moses says God is our 
salvation. 

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That Red Sea became their 
boundary wall, so to speak, in 

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this instance. 
Look at it now, verse 17 of 

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Exodus 13 and it came to pass 
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to leave Egypt. 
It came to pass when Pharaoh had

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let the people go that God let 
them not through the way of the 

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land of the Philistines, which 
was north to went N along the 

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Mediterranean Sea to Israel, 
although it was near for God 

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said let's pre adventure the 
people repent or they return. 

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They make an about face when 
they see war and they return to 

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Egypt. 
I'm afraid they were going to be

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met with some warfare and turn 
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So they didn't take the northern
route because the northern route

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didn't have a boundary like the 
Red Sea to crossover. 

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God didn't want Israel to go 
north out of Egypt because they 

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encountered the Philistines. 
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Fact of the matter is though 
this the Israelites were going 

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to face warfare and enemies and 
opposers and nonetheless whether

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they went N, whether they went S
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they faced the amuletites that 
were coming against those that 

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were straggling in the weak that
were in the back, if you 

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remember it. 
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for the sake necessarily of 
warfare, but he did it more so 

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because he knew he had a 
boundary line. 

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Hey man with the Red Sea that 
would protect them from 

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returning to go back to Egypt. 
And so in Moses song, whenever 

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he says the Lord, what is my 
strength and my song and it's 

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become my salvation. 
God help deliver them out of 

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Egypt and from the Egyptians. 
But even also God safeguarded 

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them with the Red Sea with a 
boundary so they would not turn 

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back. 
I can't stop there because it 

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wasn't just what God did, it was
the Israelites participation 

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with the boundary because it 
still took them picking up their

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feet after that eastern wind had
blown all night to separate the 

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water hit her and thither. 
It still took the desire. 

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It still took the will of the 
people after the water was dried

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on that land for them to pick up
their feet and walk through that

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boundary. 
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fathers with mothers with their 
children, hand in hand and said,

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what are we doing, Dad? 
We're walking across this water.

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Because when we get on the other
side, it will become a boundary 

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to our new destiny. 
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they crossed a definitive line 
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Separated them from Egypt. 
Definitive. 

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It was visible, you could see 
it. 

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You could stand on the eastern 
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the western bank was Egypt. 
Someone say, man, going north, 

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they're going to cross a region 
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Egypt, but the boundary wouldn't
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Red Sea. 
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that, the children of Israel, 
moms and dads and children 

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rejoice and sing their song. 
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But in our text, the Bible tells
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salvation. 
There once again was 

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deliverance. 
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Why? 
Because again, there's an 

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established boundary that has 
been provided the wall, and they

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talk about a den that the Lord 
is their strength and their song

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and has become their salvation. 
This is listen to me, folks. 

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This is not coincidence that the
deliverance from Egypt, Amen, is

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associated also with a boundary 
line and their songs are 

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rejoicing, and that in the day 
of Nehemiah there is a 

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deliverance from the captivity 
and the enemies that are around.

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And it's also associated with a 
boundary line that produces song

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and thanking God for salvation. 
But verse 15 even goes a little 

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further and it tells us the 
voice of rejoicing and salvation

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is in the tabernacles, or if you
will, the tents of the 

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righteous, and the right hand of
the Lord does valiantly. 

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That statement, brother Daniel, 
was made after God had become 

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their salvation, after God had 
become their salvation. 

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The shouts of joy and victory 
follow it. 

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And as we already looked at 
Nehemiah, he said the wives 

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also, and the children rejoice. 
Someone say Amen. 

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Nehemiah, 12, speaks a lot about
the rejoicing that took place in

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the city. 
But Psalms 118 gets a little bit

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more personal for us. 
It doesn't leave it to the 

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generality that's there's 
rejoicing in the city, but he 

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makes it more personal. 
There's some rejoicing going on 

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in the household. 
He takes it from just the 

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generality of the city or the 
generality of the sanctuary or 

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the generality of the church. 
And he says they are celebrating

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the boundary and the deliverance
in their home, among their 

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family at the dinner table. 
Listen to me, folks. 

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This thing has to get beyond the
city. 

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This thing has to get beyond the
church. 

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We got to celebrate the 
deliverance and the boundary, 

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Brother Fred, in our households 
and in our homes and with our 

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wives and with our children. 
It's not good enough for daddy 

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to like it. 
We need Mama to join in the 

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celebration. 
It's not good enough for the 

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parents to adopt it. 
We need the children in the 

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home. 
Yes, if the only time of 

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rejoicing is at church. 
And there's never a time of 

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rejoicing over those things in 
the house. 

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Jesus name baptism in the church
at home. 

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Never spoken about what God what
Lord, what faith, what baptism 

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in the church at home. 
Not a word uttered about it. 

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Sanctification being separate 
unto God in the church, Yeah, at

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home, no guidelines given. 
It doesn't just need to be in 

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the sanctuary, but in the 
tabernacles, in the tents, the 

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dwelling of the people. 
When God becomes your salvation,

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it'll impact the ambience of 
your home. 

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It'll impact the ambience of 
your household. 

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Salvation brings along joyous 
and victorious shouts even in 

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our dwellings, even in our 
houses. 

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And if the joy and the victory 
over the boundary and God's 

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deliverance has waned in your 
house, you might need to ask God

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restore unto me joy of my 
salvation. 

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You might need a fresh 
deliverance to encourage your 

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celebration in your home. 
We got confusion in the home all

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across America, even Christian 
homes, because what's acceptable

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home is different than what's 
acceptable at church. 

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And I know God's the same 
yesterday, today and forever, 

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but he's not like the other gods
of the Old Testament. 

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He's not. 
He's not confined to a 

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geographic location. 
I know they had their gods of 

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the wood and gods of the stone 
and gods of fertility. 

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If he was in a certain area, you
need to address that God because

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he's the God of that geographic 
area. 

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That's not our God. 
He knows no bounds. 

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He's the God of the hills and 
the valleys. 

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He's the God of the rivers and 
the woods. 

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He's the God of the sanctuary in
the house. 

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He's it's what we expect in the 
sanctuary needs to proliferate 

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through the tents in the homes 
and Israel rejoiced on the banks

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of the Red Sea. 
They were happy, yes, that God 

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had drowned the Egyptians. 
You know what they were also 

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they were pleased that they had 
crossed over and I said at the 

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beginning of the wall project, 
he said he told him he said the 

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God of heaven, he will prosper 
us, but he didn't leave it 

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there. 
No in our English Bibles there's

451
00:30:02,280 --> 00:30:05,520
a little semi colon. 
He says, therefore we his 

452
00:30:05,520 --> 00:30:10,640
servants will arise and build. 
He's not saying we're leaving 

453
00:30:10,640 --> 00:30:15,120
this all up to God, He said, but
we're going to do our part in 

454
00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:18,080
this too. 
The God of heaven is going to 

455
00:30:18,080 --> 00:30:22,640
prosper us, therefore we're 
going to rise and we're going to

456
00:30:22,640 --> 00:30:25,040
build. 
Someone say Amen. 

457
00:30:25,040 --> 00:30:28,640
Do you know why the husbands and
wives and children are resorted 

458
00:30:28,920 --> 00:30:32,080
rejoicing? 
Yes, God help them, but you know

459
00:30:32,080 --> 00:30:34,880
another reason why? 
Because they weren't sitting 

460
00:30:34,880 --> 00:30:38,720
over on the sidelines detached 
from the perimeter and boundary.

461
00:30:38,880 --> 00:30:40,920
They had a hand in re 
establishing it. 

462
00:30:40,920 --> 00:30:47,640
Is that doing OK? 
Let's look at Nehemiah one more 

463
00:30:47,640 --> 00:30:49,200
time. 
You can look at Nehemiah 3 and 

464
00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:51,800
verse #10 and there's several 
verses in there I'm just going 

465
00:30:51,800 --> 00:30:55,400
to reference and not necessarily
read, but in Nehemiah 3 in like 

466
00:30:55,400 --> 00:31:01,280
verse #10 the Bible says Jediah 
made repairs over against his 

467
00:31:01,280 --> 00:31:05,320
house. 
Verse 23 says certain men who 

468
00:31:05,480 --> 00:31:08,640
made repairs over against their 
house. 

469
00:31:09,840 --> 00:31:14,520
The Bible says Azariah made 
repairs besides his house. 

470
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:20,440
Verse 30 mentions that Meshulem,
son of Burekia, who made repairs

471
00:31:20,440 --> 00:31:24,760
over against his chin. 
What are you? 

472
00:31:25,320 --> 00:31:31,320
What are you telling us, Nemi? 
Nemi says I made each family 

473
00:31:33,040 --> 00:31:35,880
follow me. 
He says I made each family 

474
00:31:36,440 --> 00:31:41,760
responsible for rebuilding the 
boundary that was close to their

475
00:31:41,760 --> 00:31:47,320
house. 
He says I didn't just dispatch a

476
00:31:47,320 --> 00:31:49,120
bunch of Masons say rebuild the 
wall. 

477
00:31:49,640 --> 00:31:53,560
No, I made the members of the 
family that was close to a 

478
00:31:53,560 --> 00:31:55,280
certain section that was broken 
down. 

479
00:31:55,600 --> 00:31:58,760
You be responsible for 
rebuilding the boundary close to

480
00:31:58,760 --> 00:32:06,800
your husbands, wives, children. 
You all have a hand. 

481
00:32:11,240 --> 00:32:15,520
You all have a hand in getting 
mortar and brick and stone and 

482
00:32:15,520 --> 00:32:17,520
lifting stones and setting it 
back up. 

483
00:32:17,760 --> 00:32:21,120
Can I put this in there just as 
a as a little clarity? 

484
00:32:21,520 --> 00:32:24,760
It wasn't there. 
It wasn't their obligation to 

485
00:32:24,760 --> 00:32:26,680
determine where the boundary 
was. 

486
00:32:26,880 --> 00:32:29,840
It was their obligation to 
recreate the boundary that had 

487
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:36,440
been there. 
Sister Cox, their family didn't 

488
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:38,440
get a committee together and 
say, where do we want the 

489
00:32:38,440 --> 00:32:40,240
boundary at our section of the 
wall? 

490
00:32:40,480 --> 00:32:41,760
And they got some plans 
together. 

491
00:32:41,800 --> 00:32:43,720
You know what? 
We're going to move this 20 feet

492
00:32:43,720 --> 00:32:45,160
more out from where it used to 
be. 

493
00:32:49,000 --> 00:32:52,040
That wasn't it. 
They had to go where there was 

494
00:32:52,040 --> 00:32:54,840
some broken down pieces. 
The walls of Jerusalem are a 

495
00:32:54,840 --> 00:32:57,160
patchwork, really. 
Over generations and 

496
00:32:57,160 --> 00:33:00,000
generations, the walls have been
broken down many, many times. 

497
00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,560
And they say if you dig deep, 
you see that the walls of 

498
00:33:02,560 --> 00:33:06,520
Jerusalem is a patchwork of 
several different eras where 

499
00:33:06,520 --> 00:33:09,480
it's been broken down and people
rebuild where always where it 

500
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:12,880
was before. 
So you have a certain course of 

501
00:33:12,880 --> 00:33:15,640
stone and a little different 
change of a course because this 

502
00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,160
air always built back up on 
where it was before. 

503
00:33:21,800 --> 00:33:24,920
So I'm not, I'm not over here on
my side thinking, well, 

504
00:33:24,960 --> 00:33:27,880
whatever's best for Johnny and 
what's whatever's best for Dad 

505
00:33:27,880 --> 00:33:30,640
and whatever's best for Susie, 
We'll, we'll make sure the 

506
00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:34,520
boundary is all inclusive for 
our family and that it fits us 

507
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:37,800
and it's comfortable to us. 
No, no, no, God said long ago 

508
00:33:37,800 --> 00:33:40,760
when he got Jerusalem built. 
Here's where the wall goes. 

509
00:33:41,080 --> 00:33:44,200
And from here on out, if it ever
gets demolished or broken down, 

510
00:33:44,520 --> 00:33:47,880
rebuild it where it's at. 
But I want you to have a hand. 

511
00:33:49,400 --> 00:33:51,560
Damn. 
I says God's going to prosper 

512
00:33:51,560 --> 00:33:58,400
us, but I want you to have a 
hand in the interest of the 

513
00:33:58,400 --> 00:34:00,920
boundary that's close to your 
household. 

514
00:34:06,400 --> 00:34:10,199
Yes, Sir. 
And say, man, what are you 

515
00:34:10,199 --> 00:34:12,080
saying, pastor me? 
I'm saying start at home. 

516
00:34:17,679 --> 00:34:18,719
We've got scripture precedence 
this. 

517
00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:21,280
Let me just blow and win. 
We got biblical evidence verse 

518
00:34:21,280 --> 00:34:25,159
#12 still in Nehemiah 3. 
And that's the hymn repaired 

519
00:34:26,080 --> 00:34:32,000
Shalom, the son of Halohesh, the
ruler of the half part of 

520
00:34:32,000 --> 00:34:34,199
Jerusalem. 
This is a, this is an 

521
00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:37,440
influential figure here. 
He's the ruler of half the part 

522
00:34:37,440 --> 00:34:40,440
of Jerusalem. 
And it says he, he's, he's 

523
00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:49,000
repairing he and his daughters. 
Shalom is Shalom is rebuilding, 

524
00:34:49,000 --> 00:34:52,400
he and his daughters. 
Isn't that amazing? 

525
00:34:52,560 --> 00:34:55,840
Can you picture this? 
A father out there with his two 

526
00:34:55,840 --> 00:34:59,320
girls? 
I mean, they're girls, Dad, You 

527
00:34:59,400 --> 00:35:07,280
know, stones rough on those 
fragile lush hands that they've 

528
00:35:07,280 --> 00:35:13,840
been soaking in buttermilk to be
smooth, rubbing goats cheese on 

529
00:35:13,840 --> 00:35:16,520
their fingernails so that they 
would glimmer and shine. 

530
00:35:17,040 --> 00:35:22,280
These are girls. 
They may be girls, but I want 

531
00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:36,830
them involved so that they know 
where the Valley folks, the next

532
00:35:36,830 --> 00:35:41,190
generation will never involve 
their hands in the work or 

533
00:35:41,190 --> 00:35:46,520
appreciate the boundaries if 
when they're young, we as 

534
00:35:46,520 --> 00:35:51,040
parents don't include their 
hands and don't encourage them 

535
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:55,920
at a young age to know where 
it's at and have ownership. 

536
00:36:02,080 --> 00:36:07,080
So there's rejoicing in the 
Tabernacles, there's rejoicing 

537
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,160
in the dwellings of Israel, men,
women, children. 

538
00:36:10,160 --> 00:36:13,640
Because everyone, I'd say like 
this, everyone settled with 

539
00:36:13,640 --> 00:36:19,440
that. 
They built where it stood. 

540
00:36:20,640 --> 00:36:26,960
They had a temple already, had 
an altar already. 

541
00:36:28,160 --> 00:36:30,040
But now they had a guarded 
temple. 

542
00:36:31,680 --> 00:36:35,720
Now they had a guarded altar, 
now they had a guarded 

543
00:36:35,920 --> 00:36:40,360
household. 
And they're rejoicing, Isaiah 

544
00:36:40,360 --> 00:36:44,600
says in Isaiah 12 and two a 
little later, actually, I think 

545
00:36:44,600 --> 00:36:47,640
it's verse #1 of Isaiah that 
says this, that in that day and 

546
00:36:47,920 --> 00:36:50,920
the day that Isaiah is referring
to is the day of the Messiah, 

547
00:36:50,920 --> 00:36:53,640
the day of Christ Jesus. 
You can see that from Chapter 11

548
00:36:54,000 --> 00:36:55,800
of Isaiah that that's what he's 
referring to. 

549
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:57,920
But in verse 12, he says, here 
it is again. 

550
00:36:57,920 --> 00:37:01,200
He says in that day, the day of 
Christ, the day of the Messiah, 

551
00:37:01,200 --> 00:37:03,920
he sees. 
He said behold God, you'll say 

552
00:37:03,920 --> 00:37:08,640
God is my salvation. 
I will trust and be not afraid 

553
00:37:08,640 --> 00:37:13,160
for the Lord Jehovah is my 
strength and my song. 

554
00:37:13,280 --> 00:37:17,520
He also has become my salvation,
Folks, if the other two are 

555
00:37:17,520 --> 00:37:20,680
precedents for the third 
occurrence, if the first one 

556
00:37:20,680 --> 00:37:23,920
involved deliverance and 
salvation and a boundary line. 

557
00:37:24,200 --> 00:37:27,600
If at Nehemiah's day it was 
deliverance and salvation and a 

558
00:37:27,600 --> 00:37:30,360
boundary line, there is no 
difference then for me in the 

559
00:37:30,360 --> 00:37:32,760
future as He's Speaking of 
Christ day, it will be 

560
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:37,120
deliverance and salvation, but 
also accompanied by a boundary 

561
00:37:37,120 --> 00:37:39,800
line. 
He is my strength and my song, 

562
00:37:39,800 --> 00:37:44,200
and He has become my salvation. 
And it creates shouts in the 

563
00:37:44,240 --> 00:37:48,200
household when the household is 
involved. 

564
00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:57,440
Stay with me this morning. 
Many today experience worship. 

565
00:37:57,880 --> 00:38:01,680
We experience God's presence. 
But we lack the protective 

566
00:38:01,680 --> 00:38:03,640
boundaries of spiritual walls 
and gates. 

567
00:38:05,920 --> 00:38:11,240
And so Nehemiah teaches us, even
through the songs, that a 

568
00:38:11,240 --> 00:38:13,960
restored temple without walls 
leaves us vulnerable. 

569
00:38:14,680 --> 00:38:17,760
We're vulnerable to attack. 
We're vulnerable to compromise. 

570
00:38:19,720 --> 00:38:23,040
We need, you need to tell 
yourself, I need some spiritual 

571
00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:28,760
boundaries to protect my 
relationship with God. 

572
00:38:30,680 --> 00:38:32,920
Yeah. 
His salvation brings joy in it. 

573
00:38:33,080 --> 00:38:35,960
It overflows from the sanctuary 
to the household, or at least it

574
00:38:35,960 --> 00:38:37,960
should. 
He's our strength. 

575
00:38:37,960 --> 00:38:40,440
He's our song. 
All of these things in the tents

576
00:38:40,440 --> 00:38:44,240
of the righteous. 
We hear the rejoicing in the 

577
00:38:44,240 --> 00:38:49,720
temple and in the home because 
they had taken part and invested

578
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:55,040
in rebuilding the walls. 
If you are on this side of the 

579
00:38:55,040 --> 00:38:57,360
fence this morning, I want to 
tell you differently. 

580
00:38:57,800 --> 00:39:00,160
If you think rebuilding our 
spiritual walls is about 

581
00:39:00,160 --> 00:39:01,600
restriction, you've missed the 
boat. 

582
00:39:03,160 --> 00:39:10,480
Our walls are about protection. 
Our walls are about protection. 

583
00:39:12,240 --> 00:39:15,080
It's a call to secure our lives,
our homes, our communities, our 

584
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:17,360
families. 
It's about teaching the next 

585
00:39:17,360 --> 00:39:19,600
generation to value God's 
boundaries. 

586
00:39:21,160 --> 00:39:25,000
When we rise to build, God adds 
his strength. 

587
00:39:25,800 --> 00:39:29,480
He prospers our efforts. 
You know what that does in the 

588
00:39:29,480 --> 00:39:32,840
end? 
It transforms our homes, the 

589
00:39:32,840 --> 00:39:37,560
places of songs and rejoicing 
and victory. 

590
00:39:39,240 --> 00:39:40,640
Well, I don't. 
I just don't know. 

591
00:39:40,640 --> 00:39:41,400
Brother McGee. 
What? 

592
00:39:41,400 --> 00:39:42,840
What should I do? 
I'll tell you what you need to 

593
00:39:42,840 --> 00:39:45,640
do. 
You need to examine the walls 

594
00:39:45,640 --> 00:39:51,080
and the gates of your life. 
Do you have any spiritual 

595
00:39:51,080 --> 00:39:54,720
boundaries in place this morning
or are they broken down? 

596
00:39:56,280 --> 00:39:59,200
Are you protecting what God has 
entrusted to you? 

597
00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:02,680
Where is your enemy? 
Finding ways to infiltrate your 

598
00:40:02,680 --> 00:40:09,640
home, your heart, your mind, 
just as every member of the 

599
00:40:09,640 --> 00:40:13,600
family of Nehemiah's day. 
Had to hand them building the 

600
00:40:13,600 --> 00:40:17,280
wall near their home. 
I'm calling you today through 

601
00:40:17,280 --> 00:40:21,040
scripture to secure and defend a
spiritual boundary at your 

602
00:40:21,040 --> 00:40:26,680
house, at your dwelling. 
Get involved. 

603
00:40:28,280 --> 00:40:29,880
Don't leave it up to the 
preacher. 

604
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:33,880
Don't leave it up to the Sunday 
school teacher. 

605
00:40:34,920 --> 00:40:37,840
Don't leave it up to brethren. 
Sister Mason, as the Ignite 

606
00:40:37,880 --> 00:40:40,320
Youth directors, they'll distill
it in them on their trips. 

607
00:40:40,320 --> 00:40:46,240
Don't leave it up to them. 
You get your hands on the hands 

608
00:40:46,240 --> 00:40:50,600
of your kids and take them to 
the boundary line and get them 

609
00:40:50,600 --> 00:40:56,880
involved. 
We don't want just join the 

610
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,600
church house. 
We want the joy to be heard in 

611
00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:02,360
your house. 
He'll be your strength. 

612
00:41:02,920 --> 00:41:06,160
He'll be your song. 
He'll be your salvation. 

613
00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:09,040
You can trust him to help you 
build. 

614
00:41:09,440 --> 00:41:12,360
But somebody's got to walk 
across the dry Red Sea. 

615
00:41:13,000 --> 00:41:16,040
Somebody's got to get their hand
involved in the boundary of 

616
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:24,350
Jerusalem. 
Amen. 

617
00:41:25,270 --> 00:41:26,790
Listen, this morning, these are 
not the words. 

618
00:41:27,070 --> 00:41:30,750
I'm not mad, upset or anything, 
but I am concerned. 

619
00:41:37,070 --> 00:41:41,400
The primary teachers of the Old 
Testament, we're the parents in 

620
00:41:41,400 --> 00:41:44,840
the home. 
The reason why Deuteronomy 6 

621
00:41:44,840 --> 00:41:48,760
tells us here, O Israel, the 
Lord our God is 1 Lord, how we 

622
00:41:48,760 --> 00:41:50,280
should live with all of our 
heart minds. 

623
00:41:50,280 --> 00:41:55,120
So how we then should teach our 
children when they lay down and 

624
00:41:55,120 --> 00:41:59,520
when they wake up, we have it on
the doorpost and the gate of our

625
00:41:59,520 --> 00:42:03,600
house. 
They were the teachers. 

626
00:42:04,440 --> 00:42:07,520
They were the examples, they 
were the modelers. 

627
00:42:08,880 --> 00:42:11,600
Thank God for an altar in 
worship. 

628
00:42:12,600 --> 00:42:18,160
But honey, if it's unguarded, 
Jude, I believe it was, that 

629
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,760
there would be a day he said 
that silly women would creep in 

630
00:42:21,760 --> 00:42:24,920
unawares. 
You know how things just creep 

631
00:42:24,920 --> 00:42:28,800
in when there's no walls and 
there's no gates? 

632
00:42:30,520 --> 00:42:35,040
That's how stuff just creeps in.
Well, you know, came to the 

633
00:42:35,040 --> 00:42:36,840
scene. 
My house has been robbed. 

634
00:42:38,160 --> 00:42:39,240
Yeah, it's horrible. 
It's been robbed. 

635
00:42:39,240 --> 00:42:40,080
They took this. 
That. 

636
00:42:40,120 --> 00:42:42,320
Were your doors locked? 
No. 

637
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:43,560
I always leave my doors 
unlocked. 

638
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:46,720
Some of us even have gates, but 
we don't keep them secure. 

639
00:42:50,160 --> 00:42:52,640
There's a reason why the gates 
were open all during the day, 

640
00:42:52,640 --> 00:42:54,480
but the Bible says at night they
locked them. 

641
00:42:59,560 --> 00:43:01,280
Folks, we're living in a night 
season. 

642
00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:07,400
We bow our heads all across this
place. 

643
00:43:09,080 --> 00:43:15,400
It's the songs that are behind 
the walls, songs that's behind 

644
00:43:15,400 --> 00:43:17,680
the walls. 
So ma'am, I don't care where you

645
00:43:17,680 --> 00:43:20,280
are right now in your 
relationship with God or where 

646
00:43:20,280 --> 00:43:29,280
you are in your season of life. 
If you are simply just attending

647
00:43:29,280 --> 00:43:32,240
church, coming to church, 
feeling the experience and the 

648
00:43:32,240 --> 00:43:35,240
blessing of God, but you have no
perimeters, you have no 

649
00:43:35,240 --> 00:43:37,640
boundaries. 
You need to make touch with 

650
00:43:37,640 --> 00:43:41,200
God's Spirit in God's word and 
say, Lord, help me to work on 

651
00:43:41,200 --> 00:43:45,640
the perimeter at my house. 
Help me to work on the perimeter

652
00:43:45,640 --> 00:43:48,040
of my house. 
Help us God. 

653
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:51,480
These altars are open today. 
For someone that might just say,

654
00:43:51,480 --> 00:43:56,560
God, this thing is too, too, too
meaningful to me for it to be 

655
00:43:56,560 --> 00:43:58,960
unguarded. 
This thing is too meaningful to 

656
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:03,320
me to just be open to anything, 
just to walk in and walk out of 

657
00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:06,400
my life for anything, just to 
walk in and try to corrupt, 

658
00:44:06,720 --> 00:44:08,840
Amen. 
What I have found in you, this, 

659
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:11,800
this is too meaningful to me, 
Amen. 

660
00:44:12,080 --> 00:44:16,120
For me to allow the the walls to
stay dilapidated and and 

661
00:44:16,120 --> 00:44:18,440
corrupted. 
It's too meaningful for me for 

662
00:44:18,440 --> 00:44:22,520
you to open a path and for me to
walk not over it and have 

663
00:44:22,520 --> 00:44:24,640
victory. 
It's too meaningful to me. 

664
00:44:24,840 --> 00:44:29,640
God, I want some songs on the 
backside of the walls where my 

665
00:44:29,640 --> 00:44:34,080
house is, where my home is, 
where my God, I want to gather 

666
00:44:34,080 --> 00:44:37,640
with my husband and my wife. 
I want to gather with my 

667
00:44:37,720 --> 00:44:43,280
children as we celebrate and say
the Lord is our strength and I 

668
00:44:43,400 --> 00:44:48,920
saw he's become our salvation. 
Someone start now. 

669
00:44:49,080 --> 00:44:52,560
Someone build now. 
Someone get their hand in the 

670
00:44:52,560 --> 00:44:55,520
word. 
Now God will prosper you. 

671
00:44:57,440 --> 00:45:00,120
God will prosper you. 
Let's talk to him right now. 

672
00:45:00,360 --> 00:45:02,680
Help me, God. 
Help me God.