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about this passage? Yeah, so there is a temptation
for every preacher to skip some passages, and this is one of
those. But I said no, I am not going to
skip. Do you expect anybody God will
speak to when they read Nehemiah chapter 3 and they will go into
action and do something? Do you believe it?
Can God speak from Nehemiah chapter 3?
Yeah, there was a man who read Nehemiah chapter 3 and after the
war devastated Bangladesh, he went to Bangladesh to build
10,000 houses. Why when he read Nehemiah
chapter 3, he said there is no mention of architect, there is
no mention of the quantity surveyor, there is no mention of
civil engineers, there is no mention of any kind of a
technically highly technical people mentioning there doing
the work. It is the ordinary people doing
an extraordinary work. And he said if they can do, I
can do. And he went to Bangladesh and
built 10000 houses who have lost their houses in the war.
So God can speak, God can speak from Nehemiah chapter 3.
I believe it. If you believe it, shout
Hallelujah, Amen. So now first thing that you see
here in verse one is Elia ship, the high priest and his fellow
priest went to work and rebuild the sheep gate.
We need to look at the map. I need the clicker.
Also, I forgot to mention I need a clicker.
Is the map there? It is on the DRY.
Somebody please help when when it is ready, we can use it.
Yeah, that is the one that is the one as getting ready we will
we will keep focusing on the thing.
So the last week we talked about, I answered them by saying
the God of heaven will give us success.
We his servants will start rebuilding.
But As for you, you have no share in Jerusalem or any claim
or historic right to it. Now, this is very important.
I feel when you particularly, I mean you're talking about
leaders in a church and the pastor, when they are convinced
about a vision, they are convinced about something God
wants them to do. They need to know their enemies
and tell them you have no part in this.
You have no share in this work because you don't share the same
vision. You don't have the same burden.
So Nehemiah made a declaration and told them, As for you, you
have no share in Jerusalem or any claim or historic right to
it, even historic right. Don't even look at this place.
This is not yours. This very strong words of
Nehemiah, and I admire the man because he knows what he's
speaking. This is how it should be.
So what is happening here is Eliashib is a high priest and
his fellow priest they went to work and rebuilt and set it
doors in place, building as far as a tower of 100 which they
dedicated and as far as the tower of Hannel.
So who is this? Eliashib is a high priest.
He's very clear. And priest.
OK. Now where do you know where
Nehemiah started inspecting the walls in the night in chapter 2?
He went to the valley. Valley Gate.
Is that? Oh, yeah.
Valley gate just fading out. Can we have the clicker, please?
The valley gate? Yeah, that green one, you can
see the gate, There's an opening there.
There's a valley gate. So from there he started, went
down South and went up. And when he came to beyond a
fountain gate, when he came beyond fountain gate here, this
gate, he found that the rubble was too much and he couldn't go.
So he had to almost go off the road and go up like this and
then come back the same way and went back to the valley gate
here. But now when the construction
has begun, it started in that gate here.
What that gate here, ship gate. Now if you look at the Jerusalem
map here is very important. When you see the whole of the
Jerusalem map, it's about 90 acres of land, 90 acres.
But you see here the big chunk of land here.
You've got a temple here, and you've got the Temple Mount
here, or right now you've got that Dome of the Rock that is
somewhere here. So from my looking at this map,
I understood that they are two separate things.
But some people think that Under the Dome of the Rock is the
temple. Archaeologists, you know, they
say many things, but some people say no, no, they are two
separate things. You got temple separate and this
is separate place which is high, high up a place.
So this area is about 36 acres. That is roughly 40% of the
Nehemiah's time. Jerusalem was allotted for the
Temple and the Temple Mount and then you got the priest houses
here and you got. So what is happening here is
they rebuild a sheep gate because she this is called sheep
gate because sheep used to be brought in to offer sacrifice
into the temple. Remember one thing about
Jerusalem is it represents every family.
Say it please. It represents every family.
It represents every local church.
Let's say it Jerusalem represents every local church.
Now this has so many gates. You've got here starting here,
Sheep Gate, and then you've got Fish Gate.
You've got Old Jasana Gate and then you have got Valley Gate.
And then you come down here, you've got this Dung Gate or
yeah, Dung Gate. And then you've got the Fountain
Gate here. And then you have the Watergate
here, and then you have First Gate, East Gate, inspection,
master gate, all these gates. So every family, somehow you,
there are some spiritual truths behind these gates that we can
apply to a family and we can apply to a local church.
We will look into it very shortly.
But then the work began. It began with the sheep gate.
And because he's a priest, high priest, he's concerned about the
temple and he starts rebuilding this place here closer to the
one that is connected with his daily activities.
So you've got the high priest and the priest coming together
and building this, rebuilding this gate, sheep gate, and sheep
gate, remember, it represents sacrifice.
What do they represent? Sacrifice.
And that represents who? Our our Lord Jesus Christ.
So without the sacrifice of Christ, everything crumbles and
he begins. The work begins here, goes
around and comes back here, and it begins with Jesus and goes
around, ends with Jesus. He's the Alpha and Omega,
beginning and the end. And that is how it is.
And we should be so focused on Jesus.
The work of the family and the work of the church must be
centered on Christ. And when it is centered on
Christ, that family will be blessed, that church will be
blessed and we will make an impact on the on the society.
And interestingly, what Neymar has done, he went in the night
from the valley gate, went around and he could not even
keep going using the mule or the donkey that he had.
He had to leave it here and he had to walk, then go inspect and
come back. And now when he decides, he
decides to do from here. Why in every time a foreign army
invaded Jerusalem, they mostly have innovative from the north.
The walls are totally battered that side.
And if you want to have security, because this side is
valley and this side is valley, so that is not so vulnerable to
attack, but this side is very vulnerable.
So Nehemiah was very, very strategic.
He knew where is the most important work to be done and
where to begin. And this is the quality of a
leader. They will have a strategy, they
will have a strategy. And he had a strategy and then
he has implemented it and he talked about it and he inspired
people saying let us rebuild. And they were inspired.
They said let us rebuild. And then it also means he has to
make sure that there's enough of the material required for
rebuilding wood stone, everything is required, has to
be done. And usually the stone is not
somewhere around here. It has to be somewhere out.
It has to be so from outside. Wherever there's a hill, they
have to cut the stone and transport it.
And from the forest that is close by, you have a forest
close by where ASA was in charge.
He has to give the wood and he, they had to transport the wood
to this Jerusalem area to rebuild it.
So, so much of planning has to go behind this.
And he cannot simply say, let's rebuild and then where is the
wood? Where is the stone?
People will ask. So he has to make sure the
material, material is available. That's number 1/2.
Even though the stones have been burned down and the walls have
been broken down, there will be some stones reusable.
So they have to use what's available and then they have to
take what is more needed. So it is not totally starting
from scratch. But then to reuse what is
available is also a skill and they have to do it and they have
done it. Now, the next thing that you see
here is you see, there's a red line all around.
You see from here, there's a red line going down with the numbers
all progressively, and it ends with beginning with one.
It comes to 41. So what Nehemiah did was he
divided the entire wall into 41 sections, and he gave it to
different people to rebuild it. What does this mean?
His church, One man's work, No #2 You see here is there are no
specialists here. There are no specialists here.
Is a high priest equipped to do building?
Is a perfume maker equipped to do building or is a Goldsmith
equipped to do building? What are the things that what I
try to say here is the qualities that you have, your job, your
calling, your training is transferable.
Everybody say transferable, your skills are transferable.
They are useful to the church building.
Whatever you are, whoever you are, God wants to use you for
his church and that's a great news.
That's a great news. When we wanted to, when we start
off starting the church, I told the Lord, I am not the guy you
are looking for, are you? I'm not really the right kind of
a guy. You're looking at the wrong guy
and telling me start the church and it is not ability does not
come from my sufficiency. It comes from his sufficiency.
If he calls, he has to equip. I'm not really great with the
human relationships and things like that.
I know my limitations, but at the same time God gave me
something which I can use for building the church.
So that's how it is. We, whoever we are, our
qualities, our abilities, our education, our mindset is
transferable. It can be brought to the church
and put to use for the glory of His name.
So is there anybody who can say here, I am not required for the
church? You can't say it.
Everybody is needed. Everybody is needed for building
of the church. That is the thing.
So here we have this guy Ilya Shiv, high priest.
When you see later on in chapter 13, this man who was having zeal
for the House of God, the one who is committed to re establish
the temple services, one who was wanting to see the walls rebuilt
and safety brought into the city.
He allowed his daughter was three parts he he allowed his
son to marry Tobias daughter or granddaughter.
Now what am I talking about here?
This guy has an alliance with the enemy an alliance with the
enemy and then after 12 years of Nehemiah staying in Jerusalem
and he goes back to visit the king for a short period of time.
This man area shape gave a room from the temple.
In this temple he allotted a room for Tobiah.
So Tobiah came shifted his residence into the temple and he
was living there. And when when Nehemiah returned
he heard about Tobiah. First thing he does is goes to
the temple, throws out everything that binash to Tobiah
is bed his utensils everything is throwing out so out from
here. And then he ordered that that
that place be sanctified, made holy so many times.
We can begin well, but not end well.
Ilyashi began well, but he did not end well.
He colluded, or he consented to work with the enemy.
He brought the enemy inside the church, inside the temple.
So we need to be very careful with people.
Even though everybody is good, we must keep an eye on the
people when they are turning bad.
Because Elia Ship is being a high priest, Being a high
priest, you don't expect a high priest to say it is all right,
That temple is for God to, for people to come and worship God,
to offer sacrifice, not for coming and put a bed there and
sleep. What does it remind you?
When Jesus went to the temple, he found him doing business and
money changes. He turned the money changes.
He set the birds free, the dows that are supposed to be
sacrificed, the sheep that are there to be bought and sold and
to be sacrificed. He set them free.
Saying this, my house is called House of prayer, is not a
business place, is not a business place.
So Nehemiah was acting like Jesus in cleansing the house,
the temple. OK, let's look.
Go forward. Yeah.
Then they came to, they went down building as a tower of 100,
which is the dedicated. This is another word.
The dedicated word is used only for this part, the ship gate.
Many other gates were established, repaired.
But the word dedicated is not used.
Why? This has a special refresh to
the temple here. It has to be holy.
It has to be declared holy, made holy, set apart for a particular
purpose of worshipping God. So it needs to be dedicated, it
needs to be sanctified. Probably they must have
sacrificed an animal and the blood must have taken and that
blood they must have mixed with water or something and sprinkled
on the gate saying this gate is dedicated now declared holy for
the purpose of worshipping God, so people can come in and
worship. God is dedicated.
So we need to dedicate ourselves.
And I tell you it is the responsibility of the man of the
house to dedicate the house, to dedicate the children.
When the children are born, you dedicate the children.
Why? The day you dedicate it, you're
saying God, this child belongs to you have given it, but I give
back this child to you. Let I am going to take care of
the child, that the child will grow up and bring glory to your
name. And when you say it, the Lord
releases an extra Angel to protect the child.
There's always an Angel with every child.
But when you dedicate, God says, OK, because you honor me, I'll
honor you. I'll send one more Angel to
protect your child. Anybody excited to hear that?
Amen. Let's shout Amen.
OK. The men of Jericho build the
adjoining section and Zakur son of Imbri Builder next to them.
Now this word next. If you see so many times the
word next comes in this whole chapter.
That may look like a simple word next.
But sometimes when you particularly see some particular
guys in verse 4, you see the word Merrymouth son of Oriya,
the son of Hakos repair the next section.
But again when you see in the I think 28 verse 28, you will see
again the name above the horse gate.
The priest made repairs each in front of his own house.
Next to them ZX son of Imam made repairs opposite to his house.
Next to him Shema Sanam. Where is that thing?
Merrimoth? Sorry, here is it in verse 21.
Next to him, Merrimoth, son of Urea, son of Hakos, repair
another section. Why is the man's name mentioned?
2 times? Most of the time we think they
gave me one job. I am going to do only that job,
nothing more. OK.
They asked me to put chairs. I put chairs.
They asked me to stand at the door.
I stand at the door. They asked me to make the
morning tea. I make the morning tea.
Good. But these people have done more
than what they were asked to do. Everybody say more than What
does it mean? What does more than mean?
It is as he was explaining, as over I was explaining, giving
all to God. What does it mean?
You don't hold back. You have no rights.
You are completely sold out of the purpose of God for the
Kingdom of God and you will do more than what is asked of you
next section. Even though you have done what
is allotted to you, you take a one more and do that as well and
take one more and do that as well.
You see the priests have done at three different places.
They rebuild the wall. They could have said, OK, we
have done this part sheep gate, that's all important coming to
the temple, nothing more. No, they took up some parts
here, some parts here and they did two other places.
Priests rebuild the wall again. They did more than they were
asked to do. And you know when you when you
think of the more than you are reminded of the words of Jesus.
What did Jesus say? If somebody greets you and you
greet them back, what have you done?
More. If you are going to help
somebody because you're going to get back, what are you doing
more? I tell you, to follow Jesus is a
very hard job. Not easy one because we are
called to do more than we are supposed to do, more than we are
supposed to do. We need to love our enemies and
that is doing more than if you love your friend.
What is the problem? You go to play tennis once a
week with him. You are meeting you at some
other social event. You are going bowling.
We are bowling with him and it is mutual because he needs you.
He, you need him. So you spend time with him.
Nothing great. What about that guy who looks at
you and curses you? And another day you find him in
the market and go to him? Hey, how are you today?
That is doing more than so we need to do more than what we are
supposed to do and that is the way we have to study this
chapter 3 is God speaking now? Is he speaking now?
Can I hear a Amen? Yes, that's what we are supposed
to do more than. And then you see here that next
one as a fish gate was 3. Fish gate was rebuilt by the
sons of Hassena. They laid his beams and put his
doors and bolts and bars in place.
Merima Sanaburaya son of Hakos repaired the next section.
Next to him Meshullah Sanab Berekaya son of Meshes Abel made
repairs and next to him ZX Sanab Bana also made repairs.
The next section was repaired by the men of Tekoa, but their
neighbors would not put their shoulders to the work under
their supervisors. Now you must be wondering, what
is this? Takeover?
Let's look at Takeover. Can I have the next one?
Yeah, please. Thank you.
See here the Takeover men of Takeover.
If you remember the Old Testament, there's a guy.
There was a lady from Takeover who was a wise woman who was
brought to King David to tell a story.
She was from Takeover. And these people were very, very
intelligent, supposed to be intelligent people.
The nobles refused to be partaking in the rebuilding of
the temple. The leaders are saying no, we
are not part of it, it's nothing to do with us.
But the people of Takeover, they said no, we have to do this.
Do we have to appreciate them? Should we appreciate them or
not? We had to appreciate the people
of takeover. Even though the leaders are not
part of it, they don't want to put their shoulder to it.
They said we are leaders. We are not going to put our
shoulders. We are not going to work in the
Kingdom of God. There's no menial work in the
Kingdom of God. There are no menial work.
Every work is holy. Every work is holy, you know,
even those people who are trying to clean up in the temple of
God, when there is a bronze altar on which you sacrifice the
whole animal and burn it and there will be ashes and the
people who clear the ashes go down from there.
Can we go back one step, please? Yes.
Now you offer sacrifice in the temple.
Those ashes you are taking and you're going down to dump in the
Dunk Gate here outside when he know and when they come back,
they had to wash their clothes and take a bath because clearing
the ashes is a holy work. Everybody say holy work is holy.
There are no menial jobs in the Kingdom of God, in the in the
temple of God. So they have to carry the ashes
all the way from there down here, dump it here, and then go
back, shower and change their clothes and then they are OK to
be accepted. I'm telling you, when you
understand the word of God that blows your mind and makes
demands on you which you feel sometimes is too difficult, but
by the power of the Holy Ghost we can live that life for the
glory of His name. Hallelujah.
Now the fish gate. What does fish stand for?
Most probably the people who are catching fish in the
Mediterranean Sea. They'll bring through the fish
gate and bring in here and do business pretty close to the
temple. But for us, fish stand for what?
Souls to be saved. So evangelism is part of the
House of God. Evangelism should be part of the
family. The 1st place your children
should hear the gospel is in your home, not in the Sunday
school. 1st place they should hear the gospel is in your home.
When I, I was just as I was preparing, I was thinking about
what did I do in my family? Did I do something for my kids?
I remembered that John was six years old when he gave his life
to the Lord. Not because I told him, John,
come here, you have to do this. No, no, no.
I was just standing and preaching in a camp for the
students, medical students. And he was very young.
And he would he would go around, you know, make sound like a
scooter. And he'll come back and sit,
stand there and listen to me as I'm teaching.
Then he'll go back again and then come back, stand there and
listen to me for a while. And then something happened in
that boy who was only 6 years old.
And he said, I need this Jesus. And he didn't even tell us on
the Sunday. Somebody encouraged him.
He goes to the front, he picks up the mic and he says, I
received tears into my heart last week.
And that was the news to us. And same thing with Joseph.
He was hardly six years old. One of the nights in the bed I
was putting to bed, putting him to bed, I said, do you want to
ask Jesus to come into your heart?
He said, yeah, OK, say it. I let him into the prayer.
That is what we need to have in our houses.
We need to have that fish gear should be operating in the
family before it operates in the temple of God.
Ah, it is rising from inside of Maine because many people think
it is not their job. But I say, if you're a child of
God, that is your job, full stop, period.
Don't want to say any more about it, but that's very important.
And the men of takeover, when I said men of takeover again, next
map, we'll have to go. Yeah.
So now this is Beth, Jerusalem to Bethlehem, maybe 5-6 or eight
miles of eight kilometers from there to another 8 kilometers.
This is outside Jerusalem. You see all these people are
mentioning here, Hazer, Bethel, Jericho, Bethlehem, Takeover,
Bezoor, Kila, Adullam, Zora, Gazer, all these are places
mentioned. There are the people have come
from outside Jerusalem to build the walls of Jerusalem.
What can they say easily? What does it benefit me?
Why should I do it? Why should I do it?
It's none of my business, Jerusalem.
I'm living outside Jerusalem. It doesn't have anything to do
with me, but I tell you, the House of God needs people from
outside, from inside everywhere. We need everyone for building
the Kingdom of God. Running out of time.
Cool. And then you have OK, I'll
summarize it. That is the easy way to do
things. Everybody say everyone has a
role. Second thing is unity in
diversity. We have got all these people,
Goldsmith, you got these people perfume makers, and you got
this, all kinds of professions, but they all are united in heart
to build the walls of Jerusalem. What do we need?
This morning I read from Psalm 133 how beautiful it is when
brothers live in unity. That is what we need in the
church. That's what we need in the
family. We need unity.
Next thing is some of the times, not that one, please, some of
the times. Nehemiah allotted a wall to be
rebuilt to a family living close to it.
Ah, you are living here. That's your house.
Take care of that wall there. Oh, you are living there.
Take care of the wall there. You are living here.
Take care of the wall there. You need to work near where you
are. Where you are there is the place
of work and evangelism. You do in your house, you do in
your workplace, you do everywhere.
In fact, I was warned, I was warned at the workplace by one
guy. I was trying to talk to him two
times and third time he told me, Ramana, I don't want to talk
about this. So I had to leave him alone.
So you need to be intentional. Probably I made a mistake.
I should have said, come home for a meal.
I'll give you some Dal and rice, you know, And then he would have
listened to what I wanted to say.
The way to the heart is through the mouth, through the stomach.
Remember that if somebody resists you, invite him for a
meal and you will again hammer that same gospel with the
stronger hammer. Way to the heart is to the
stomach. So use it.
Use it. Give that beans and toasted
bread and the beans, put some butter on it and hammer that
gospel into their heart. I tell you, that's the way to
live intentionally. We have to live for God.
OK, next is just do it. Let others see you and follow.
Just do it it others do. Others see and follow.
And so many times people will see you and then follow you.
Why? Because when you're working at
that particular job, when you're intentionally doing something,
they catch. That is the spirit in you making
you do it. And when they don't respond to
it, they'll be judged by your passion.
They'll be judged by your commitment.
When Noah was building the building the ark for more than
100 years, they must be he must be taking that hammer, driving
the nail through it. And somebody passing, they will
laugh at what are you doing? I'm building the ark.
Why are you building the ark? Rain is coming.
We have never seen rain. Anytime that is going to kill
you. Why are you wasting your time?
100 years? People jeered at him, laughed at
him. But on the day when the rain
came, he was safe and they were not.
And in the book of Hebrews, it says Nova condemned his
generation by his righteousness, by his obedience.
That's the way it is. You got to live life fully so
that the world can see and catch what you have.
There are no days off, no Saturday, no Sunday for
spiritual life, no days off. And I tell you, children watch
you at home and catch that. Jesus, the revelation of Jesus,
they get it through you, through you, they catch it.
So we need to do it. Then we talked about Meshulam.
Meshulam again, this is again interesting thing.
Verse 4, Meshulam we talked about already.
He is a guy who has did more than what he should do.
But one other thing is this guy, his daughter was married to
Tobias son. Tobias son was married to
Mishelam's daughter. Now Tobias is an enemy.
He doesn't want the watch to be built.
And you are in relationship to that man.
Should Nehemiah use this guy Mishelam?
Huh. Your daughter is married to the
son. You can't build the wall.
Can he say that? But what did Naimaya do?
He said. Is your heart right?
Do you love God? You have to build the walls.
Go ahead. I don't care if you are related
to Tobaya. You have to keep Tobaya out and
the Lord in. That is how we need to judge the
people who are wanting to part of the church.
We need to look at their heart and see whether they have the
material that God can use for building the church.
You don't look at the relationship, don't look at the
outward life and condemn them and say you cannot have a part.
Did Namah say to Tobiah that you have no part?
He did say, but did he say that the Mishallam?
No. So we need to be willing to have
that kind of open mind. Open mind to let people be
involved in the church because that's very important.
And then you have shared vision. When people are given the
vision, when they share the vision, the momentum picks up.
The momentum picks up with a shared vision.
We have talked about 21 days of prayer, 10 this 21 days of
prayer. We are about 12 to 15 people
have gathered there day after day and every day we prayed.
But what about other people? I want you to catch that.
I want you to share the same vision because that is going to
change you, your family, and then it is going to change the
church and it's going to make God more powerfully and then
he's going to bring the revival. And we had somebody say, I see
clouds being stored like angels of God coming over the church.
So we are looking forward for that breakthrough for the
church. No, we are five years old.
We are not even 50 people yet. Regularly all those who come on
and off, you put them together. It will be 50, but we have to be
50 on any day. Even when some people don't turn
up. It should be 100, it should be
200. This is the vision that we need
to share. And when you share in a vision,
you will pray whether you stay in your house and pray for one
hour, whether you come there to Alex House and you pray.
We are praying because we share in the vision.
We are praying because we are sharing in the vision and the
momentum comes with it. Momentum comes because our
shared vision and the Lord will show up and bless the people who
are doing the warfare. Prayer is warfare, Prayer is
warfare. I'll quickly just visit some of
the gates and then finish that for today.
I have a lot more to say there. You may look into my Bible.
I got written Everything Everywhere, all over, so many
notes, but I don't have much time.
So now if you go into this broad wall here, think of the broad
wall that's some maps have got the broad wall, not like this,
but they're like this. I don't know about it.
That's the archaeological thing. But now it is confirmed broad
wall is dugout. Now recently the width of the
broad wall is 7 meters, 7 meters.
You can have two rooms in your bedroom.
You know whatever rooms you have in your house, you can have two
rooms on that in the same width. 7 meters hardly have got 3
meters in a in a room or 3 1/2. So you'll so broad that it was
so important. It was built by Hezekiah during
the times when he found that the the Babylonians were coming and
attacking and he said we need to make it strong.
And then he built this wall. Hezekiah built the wall and that
is how this is called broad wall.
And that also means all other walls are not as broad as this
broad wall. So now you go to Jerusalem, you
will find a length of length of it, which is 7 meters wide.
Now you can see it, it's still there, the stones are still
there. And then you got Valley Gate.
From Valley Gate you've got 500 yards.
Somebody built not only Valley Gate, but they even build the
wall up to 500 yards. That is quite longer distance
and nearly little less than half a kilometer.
And why do they do more than what they are asked for?
Because they are passionate to see the walls restored, safety
come to Jerusalem. Then you have got House of
Heroes here, somewhere here. What is House of Heroes in King
David's a cavalry. There were different kind of
leaders. Leaders over 30 people, leaders
over three people, leaders over 10 people.
You know, those who are done mighty works and they were
people of valor and brave people and they were given a place to
live inside Jerusalem. Why do you need those people who
are the ones who are going to jump up and act in terms of a
threat? These brave people, they have
the ability to take care of the people under them, 100 people or
50 people or 10 people or three people they are going to take
care of, motivate them and bring them to war.
So they were given a place inside Jerusalem that is the
House of heroes, and they got Pool of Siloam here.
And what is the importance of Pool of Siloam?
There was a guy, blind guy was asked to go and wash his eyes in
in the Pool of Siloam and that talks for Revelation, then the
city of Revelation. We need to walk in Revelation.
We need to help the children to walk in Revelation and we want
the church to walk in Revelation.
We want our eyes to be open to see in the spiritual realm and
ears open to hear the spiritual realm and that is how we should
live. And then you have got Kings
Garden here and the Dung Gate. This Dung Gate plays a very
important role. We may not appreciate the truck
coming and taking your red bin and your green bin and your
yellow bin on different days of the week, but it's a very
important job. If they don't come and clear the
rubbish, garbage, what will happen?
You will have garbage in your house.
So this is the place where the garbage goes.
This is the place where garbage goes.
In fact, King Manasseh sacrifice the children in this place.
Very bad thing. But that's where it is.
And when this is also Valley of Hinnom, its called Valley of
Hinnom from which you get the word Gehenna.
Gehenna stands for the hell basically.
And the the the word the catch word they use here is that the
fire doesn't go out because they are burning the rubbish in this
place. Fire burner never goes out and
that is how hell is described as a place where it is not
happening. And then you have OK, Watergate,
you need water and you got horse gate is readiness.
This talks about warfare. Horses would come into the city
of Jerusalem. The King's horses would come in
and the Eastgate is imported because Eastgate is facing the
sun. All the other region, all other
religions, they worship the sun. But our one temple faces this
way. Even though the entrance is on
the east, it actually faces the West, the Holy of Holies in the
West. So you need to know these
things. We need to have right alignment
in our lives. These are fixed things in your
mind. The glory of God has to be a
fixed element in your mind and you should be facing the right
direction. Eastgate and well, inspection
gate when they had to go for war, that's where they call for
roster or muster and then they call the roles of the people.
Or do you have this leader here or well, you are a leader of 100
people. Are you 100 people there?
Yes, you are in a leader of 50, Are they?
That all is done here. And I tell you, we need this
warfare strategy in the church and in the family.
Prayer is very important. Prayer is a today's warfare
strategy and you are strong in prayer.
Your family is safe. You're strong in prayer.
The church is safe. Hallelujah.
I think I had to stop there. You know, let's pray.
Father, we thank you for your word.
We thank you for your word. We give you glory, honor and
praise. Bless my Father.
The words that I have spoken in the name of Jesus, these are not
my words, but your words. I have spoken your thoughts and
I thank you Father, let this vision be transferred,
transferred to your children to build the church through prayer.
And as we have completed nearly one week, give us grace for two
more weeks and help us to see your power and glory coming to
the church. Power and glory, touch the
families. Power and glory touching the
hearts of people, leading people for salvation, healing,
deliverance in the name of Jesus.
Father, I pray raise us up to be warriors in your Kingdom who
will war, do warfare through prayer to the glory of your
name. Let the walls of the church be
rebuilt to the glory of your name.
Let the walls of the city be rebuilt on prayer so that the
revival will come into the city to the glory of your name.
We worship you, we praise you in Jesus name.
We ask and everybody says Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega.
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