1 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:06,840 You've tuned into a mega. Church. 2 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:09,600 We are people hungry to encounter God through worship 3 00:00:09,600 --> 00:00:12,040 and His Word being witnesses to the world around us. 4 00:00:12,440 --> 00:00:15,080 We pray this teaching blesses you and trust God will reveal 5 00:00:15,080 --> 00:00:16,560 Himself to you in a new way today. 6 00:00:16,560 --> 00:00:18,760 And. If you need prayer for healing 7 00:00:18,760 --> 00:00:20,920 or breakthrough, Want to find out more about Omega? 8 00:00:20,920 --> 00:00:23,760 Get to our website or Facebook page through the links below. 9 00:00:29,120 --> 00:00:31,800 Now here is very important chapter. 10 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:39,360 This is so fully loaded, I would say I'm afraid to preach on this 11 00:00:39,360 --> 00:00:43,000 passage as well. At the same time, this is not 12 00:00:43,000 --> 00:00:45,000 something I didn't choose. It's just coming along. 13 00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:47,400 After 5 comes chapter 6. So we have to preach. 14 00:00:48,920 --> 00:00:51,720 So what is the main thing here is that you you have this 15 00:00:51,720 --> 00:00:54,920 character called Nehemiah. He is a man of vision. 16 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:00,200 Everybody say man of vision. If you don't have vision, you 17 00:01:00,200 --> 00:01:03,440 cannot be a leader. That's very simple. 18 00:01:04,160 --> 00:01:08,040 Whether it's a company, it's a business family. 19 00:01:08,480 --> 00:01:12,280 There has to be somebody with a vision where the father has a 20 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:15,000 vision for the family or the mother has a vision for the 21 00:01:15,000 --> 00:01:19,120 family the business has got. The CEO must have a vision for 22 00:01:19,120 --> 00:01:21,920 that company. Otherwise things will not work 23 00:01:21,920 --> 00:01:23,280 out. They will not be success. 24 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:30,040 Vision is the key. And when there's a vision and 25 00:01:30,040 --> 00:01:33,960 that man will not back down, will he back down? 26 00:01:34,680 --> 00:01:37,240 No. When I worked for a company, 27 00:01:38,200 --> 00:01:42,240 they had in their mind a vision to prosper the company and sell 28 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:45,960 it for a big money. And they were, they were making 29 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:48,680 changes all the time. They made us read some books and 30 00:01:48,680 --> 00:01:52,120 get caught up with the vision with a lot of resistance. 31 00:01:52,840 --> 00:01:56,240 We all did not like it. Most of us didn't like it. 32 00:01:56,840 --> 00:02:02,400 But ultimately what what he said is you got to obey your boss. 33 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:05,880 So everybody has to do what they say. 34 00:02:06,560 --> 00:02:09,400 I told them you are going to end up with lot of inventory, the 35 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:11,880 parts will be too many on the floor. 36 00:02:12,880 --> 00:02:15,360 Just do what you are told to do. So we did. 37 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:19,080 They end up with one and a half million worth of parts, extra 38 00:02:19,080 --> 00:02:22,960 parts everywhere. But the business grew and they 39 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:29,200 sold it for a big money. So vision is in the boss head 40 00:02:29,400 --> 00:02:33,640 not in the employees. So sometimes there will be 41 00:02:33,640 --> 00:02:36,240 resistance. Change is always resisted by 42 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:39,400 people and that is any management book you read. 43 00:02:39,400 --> 00:02:41,120 I am not telling you anything new. 44 00:02:41,440 --> 00:02:45,640 Any book on management you read, they will say public will resist 45 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:48,920 change. That is one of the things we 46 00:02:48,920 --> 00:02:52,600 have to fight. Even in the church it is easy to 47 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,280 talk about. For Nehemiah to talk about 48 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,120 rebuilding the walls because they have fallen down, broken 49 00:02:58,120 --> 00:03:03,080 down, burnt, it is very easy. But in the modern day, when we 50 00:03:03,080 --> 00:03:07,080 talk about vision for the church, it is more difficult. 51 00:03:07,600 --> 00:03:11,080 It is there in the head or the mind of the pastor. 52 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:16,480 He has the vision and it is his responsibility to communicate it 53 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:20,160 to the congregation. And it is up to the congregation 54 00:03:20,160 --> 00:03:23,000 to say I am joining in with the vision. 55 00:03:24,440 --> 00:03:27,480 And if there is no unity, then there is no progress. 56 00:03:28,880 --> 00:03:30,120 There is no unity, there is no progress. 57 00:03:30,120 --> 00:03:32,360 Let's say we talked about praying for 21 days. 58 00:03:32,880 --> 00:03:36,520 They only have maximum of 15 people came, I suppose, if my 59 00:03:36,520 --> 00:03:40,560 math is right. So half the church was there for 60 00:03:40,560 --> 00:03:42,280 praying, but half the church was not there. 61 00:03:43,360 --> 00:03:46,440 So the half the church, I believe has caught up with the 62 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:48,960 vision of praying and something is going to happen after the 63 00:03:48,960 --> 00:03:52,400 prayer. So we praise God for that. 64 00:03:52,960 --> 00:03:56,720 I would say just did extremely well sustaining them. 65 00:03:56,720 --> 00:03:59,960 Just coming every day between 7:30 and 8:30, praying for an 66 00:03:59,960 --> 00:04:02,120 hour. I'm sure your lives are 67 00:04:02,120 --> 00:04:04,280 different and changed because of that. 68 00:04:04,800 --> 00:04:08,200 Holy Spirit will never abandoned a soul that seeks Him. 69 00:04:08,840 --> 00:04:12,320 So some measure of blessing. I'm sure you all have got it. 70 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:16,399 So now here is a man, Nehemiah, and he had this vision to 71 00:04:16,399 --> 00:04:19,680 rebuild the broken walls and to install the gates. 72 00:04:19,880 --> 00:04:25,280 So he came and he has succeeded to a great extent, was one when 73 00:04:25,280 --> 00:04:28,720 the world came to San Bala, Tobiah, Geshem, the Arab and the 74 00:04:28,720 --> 00:04:32,960 rest of our enemies, that I had rebuilt the wall and not a gap 75 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:37,640 was left in it. There's no gap anymore. 1.8 76 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:43,880 miles or 2.4 kilometers of the perimeter of the Jerusalem 77 00:04:44,160 --> 00:04:48,000 walls, There's no gap left. That's last chapter. 78 00:04:48,000 --> 00:04:53,400 It came up to half the height, and now it is completely built. 79 00:04:53,760 --> 00:04:56,880 Only gates were not set up yet. The doors were not set up yet. 80 00:04:57,160 --> 00:05:02,240 So when the news reached the enemies, they will be always 81 00:05:02,240 --> 00:05:06,840 enemies of the vision. You know, you, you take the 82 00:05:06,840 --> 00:05:12,040 Bible everywhere there will be a man with the vision and there 83 00:05:12,040 --> 00:05:14,040 will be an impact because of the vision. 84 00:05:14,520 --> 00:05:17,080 Think of Joseph, he was a man of vision. 85 00:05:17,560 --> 00:05:22,440 The vision was not just for saving his own family, 70 86 00:05:22,440 --> 00:05:26,560 people, but the vision excelled far beyond to save the nation of 87 00:05:26,560 --> 00:05:29,880 Egypt and surrounding nations, to see them through the famine 88 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:34,520 for seven long years. So that is what a man of vision 89 00:05:34,520 --> 00:05:37,920 can contribute. And think of Daniel who was a 90 00:05:37,920 --> 00:05:42,600 mighty prophet and who was in touch with God and he was able 91 00:05:42,600 --> 00:05:46,520 to be the advisor because he was the most intelligent man and he 92 00:05:46,720 --> 00:05:50,880 successively has been the Prime Minister or the highest post he 93 00:05:50,880 --> 00:05:53,920 held for 5 or 6 kings successively. 94 00:05:55,120 --> 00:05:58,640 And the Kingdom is better because of Daniel. 95 00:05:59,960 --> 00:06:02,760 Kingdom is better because of Daniel and because of what he 96 00:06:02,760 --> 00:06:07,120 spoke, what Daniel spoke. You have the book of Nehemiah 97 00:06:07,240 --> 00:06:12,440 fulfilling what Daniel has prophesied, Jeremiah has 98 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:16,400 prophesied, Ezekiel has prophesied and now is the time 99 00:06:16,400 --> 00:06:18,520 of fulfillment. And now you have got these 100 00:06:18,520 --> 00:06:23,680 characters, Sun ballot, Tobiah, the Ghesham, the Arab and all 101 00:06:23,680 --> 00:06:27,280 other enemies, many others. We we looked at in in the map 102 00:06:27,280 --> 00:06:30,760 one of the days before the the enemies were there from four or 103 00:06:30,760 --> 00:06:34,880 five directions who want to stop the work. 104 00:06:35,520 --> 00:06:39,520 So there will be opposition. So what is happening here is 105 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,400 Sanbar and Geshem sent me this message. 106 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,720 Come, let us meet together in one of the villages on the plain 107 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:52,200 of Oh no, Oh no, Oh no is the name of the place. 108 00:06:53,160 --> 00:06:54,560 Can we see it on the map, please? 109 00:06:57,480 --> 00:07:03,920 So where is it? Oh no, you got 1 white rectangle 110 00:07:03,920 --> 00:07:06,280 on the top. On the left is Oh no, there's a 111 00:07:06,280 --> 00:07:10,160 dot, block dot. And from there to Jerusalem is 112 00:07:10,160 --> 00:07:15,320 about 37 miles or about 60 kilometers, so 60 kilometers of 113 00:07:15,320 --> 00:07:17,920 distance. They are saying let us meet in 114 00:07:17,920 --> 00:07:21,640 the plains of oh, no, one of the villages, not one particular 115 00:07:21,640 --> 00:07:25,800 place, one of the villages. Now that place has a politically 116 00:07:26,120 --> 00:07:33,400 it is closer to some area that is Tobias Sun Ballads place and 117 00:07:35,440 --> 00:07:38,680 it is something that that actually was not belonging to 118 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:41,400 Israel or to Judah for a quite a long time. 119 00:07:41,400 --> 00:07:44,280 Oh, no, sorry, it's too hard for reading. 120 00:07:44,920 --> 00:07:48,080 I can see a lot of people stretching their eyes, eyes 121 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:53,520 coming out. So if you have the thing, I 122 00:07:53,520 --> 00:07:57,600 could have just pointed it out. It's just here. 123 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,960 Oh no, see Ashdod. And after that on top of the 124 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:06,040 three more places, and then you've got Oh no, And on top of 125 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:09,040 that you've got effect, the big rectangle, not that rectangle, 126 00:08:09,040 --> 00:08:10,880 small one. That big rectangle there next to 127 00:08:10,880 --> 00:08:16,480 the left is oh, no, cool. So basically what they're trying 128 00:08:16,480 --> 00:08:20,600 to do is they want to draw Nehemiah away from his 129 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:25,000 commitment to the vision. A day's journey, they said. 130 00:08:25,000 --> 00:08:27,480 Day's journey, 60 kilometers. In those days, I do not know it 131 00:08:27,480 --> 00:08:31,240 have taken more than a day. Probably many people think it is 132 00:08:31,240 --> 00:08:33,640 a day's journey, 60 kilometers. I do not think they can cover 133 00:08:33,640 --> 00:08:35,679 unless they go on a horse or something like that. 134 00:08:36,600 --> 00:08:37,960 Thank you. Oops, sorry. 135 00:08:40,960 --> 00:08:41,799 That is. Oh, no. 136 00:08:42,799 --> 00:08:47,080 And Jerusalem is here. Yehuda Jhuda, that is. 137 00:08:48,840 --> 00:08:50,280 I think it is Jerusalem. Yeah. 138 00:08:52,000 --> 00:08:57,400 Even I am not able to read anyway, so you have this Tobiah, 139 00:08:57,840 --> 00:09:03,520 sorry Sun ballot Samaria, then Tobiah from somewhere here Ramon 140 00:09:03,800 --> 00:09:07,520 and then you've got enemies when he said other enemies is Ashdod. 141 00:09:07,520 --> 00:09:10,160 And then you do Mia here down South, everywhere you have 142 00:09:10,160 --> 00:09:15,520 surrounded by the enemies and in the times difficult times, he 143 00:09:15,520 --> 00:09:21,880 rebuild the wall in 52 days. Everybody say 52 days if it took 144 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:26,480 for him to travel from Suisa, the capital, to Jerusalem, three 145 00:09:26,480 --> 00:09:30,040 or four months. He wanted things to be so quick 146 00:09:30,240 --> 00:09:33,440 before the message goes to Suisa and comes back. 147 00:09:33,520 --> 00:09:34,960 He wanted the watch to be rebuilt. 148 00:09:35,320 --> 00:09:39,400 There's a time constraint. So he is a man of vision and 149 00:09:39,400 --> 00:09:42,440 because of that vision he had, he was able to motivate the 150 00:09:42,440 --> 00:09:45,560 people a lot. What each one should do. 151 00:09:45,680 --> 00:09:49,040 We say all that in the previous chapter, how he organized the 152 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,200 thing. But when this is all done now 153 00:09:52,200 --> 00:09:54,960 they are still saying, OK, gates are not set up, doors are not 154 00:09:54,960 --> 00:09:56,880 set up. Now is the time we had to stop 155 00:09:56,880 --> 00:09:58,880 the work. So they sent him this letter 156 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:04,000 saying come, let us talk in the villages of Ono to draw him away 157 00:10:04,320 --> 00:10:08,640 so that they can harm him. You know, you have a similar 158 00:10:08,640 --> 00:10:10,320 kind of a situation in the New Testament. 159 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:17,560 The Jewish Jews asked the centurion that Paul be produced 160 00:10:17,560 --> 00:10:22,840 at certain place and when they asked, there were about 30 or 40 161 00:10:22,840 --> 00:10:26,080 people who wowed. They will not eat food until 162 00:10:26,080 --> 00:10:29,880 they kill Paul. So traveling from one place to 163 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:34,960 another is just a big risk and Nehemiah was being exposed to 164 00:10:34,960 --> 00:10:37,360 the risk. And Nehemiah understood their 165 00:10:37,360 --> 00:10:40,800 ulterior motive that he had the discernment to know that they 166 00:10:40,800 --> 00:10:44,600 want to harm him. So he said, what is his 167 00:10:44,600 --> 00:10:47,520 response? He says but the scheming to harm 168 00:10:47,520 --> 00:10:49,640 me. So I send messengers to them 169 00:10:49,640 --> 00:10:52,680 with this reply. I am carrying on a great project 170 00:10:52,760 --> 00:10:57,000 and cannot go down. I'm carrying on a great project. 171 00:10:57,000 --> 00:11:00,320 I'm doing a great work. I cannot leave my work and go. 172 00:11:01,120 --> 00:11:04,080 And this is what will happen with a man of vision. 173 00:11:04,760 --> 00:11:09,160 He will not take any time off. He is just after it all the 174 00:11:09,160 --> 00:11:13,080 time. So, so many times I think about 175 00:11:13,680 --> 00:11:18,280 our own church, Omega. Is there a vision? 176 00:11:19,520 --> 00:11:23,760 Is it out of my own mind? I said we should have a church. 177 00:11:24,040 --> 00:11:29,480 No, we have been disappointed going to church for many years 178 00:11:29,680 --> 00:11:33,240 in New Zealand, many places, many churches, either you will 179 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:36,360 find the word of God preached there and no work of the Holy 180 00:11:36,360 --> 00:11:39,880 Spirit, or you see the demonstration of the Spirit and 181 00:11:39,880 --> 00:11:43,800 no word is being preached. So we were completely, totally 182 00:11:45,200 --> 00:11:46,560 discouraged about the whole thing. 183 00:11:48,600 --> 00:11:53,680 And the vision is not just after experiencing these things. 184 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:56,800 Vision started in the year 2000 when the Lord gave me a vision. 185 00:11:57,920 --> 00:11:59,640 I'm not trying to make up a vision. 186 00:11:59,640 --> 00:12:02,880 No, it is a vision that God has given me. 187 00:12:03,240 --> 00:12:05,840 And he said come build my church. 188 00:12:06,120 --> 00:12:08,480 And it took more than 20 years before it happened. 189 00:12:09,520 --> 00:12:12,480 I did not want to engineer it. I did not want to create it. 190 00:12:12,480 --> 00:12:14,840 I do not want to force it. I do not want to do any of those 191 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:20,120 things. So the vision is in my heart. 192 00:12:25,080 --> 00:12:30,720 Sometimes vision will be resisted, but we are not trying 193 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:33,720 to be very harsh with anything these matters. 194 00:12:33,960 --> 00:12:37,600 It is natural. It is natural, like I was an 195 00:12:37,600 --> 00:12:43,200 employee, I didn't like what my boss told me, but the boss gives 196 00:12:43,200 --> 00:12:45,640 you an ultimate, OK, either you do what I want or you go. 197 00:12:46,440 --> 00:12:49,200 So I did not want to go. So I did what my boss wanted. 198 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,440 You know, that was I am forced to do it. 199 00:12:51,640 --> 00:12:56,040 But the same way vision always is challenging because not 200 00:12:56,040 --> 00:12:57,920 everybody will understand the vision. 201 00:12:58,800 --> 00:13:00,760 They will only understand partially. 202 00:13:01,240 --> 00:13:03,360 So I cannot find for everyone about it. 203 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:07,760 We can only encourage, that's my job, is to put that vision 204 00:13:07,760 --> 00:13:11,320 before everybody. How we are to study the world 205 00:13:12,120 --> 00:13:16,200 and then how we are to obey the world, to bring that revival, 206 00:13:16,320 --> 00:13:21,360 end time revival in this city. That's my job to keep that 207 00:13:21,360 --> 00:13:25,320 vision fresh all the time. I was just thinking about Billy 208 00:13:25,320 --> 00:13:27,840 Graham. What made a turning point in the 209 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:32,240 life of Billy Graham? Billy Graham had another person 210 00:13:32,360 --> 00:13:35,880 who was more popular than Billy Graham, drawing more people to 211 00:13:35,880 --> 00:13:38,600 his meetings. And suddenly one day he says I 212 00:13:38,600 --> 00:13:40,120 don't believe in this God anymore. 213 00:13:40,680 --> 00:13:46,040 It it was a shock to a young Billy Graham how this man, 214 00:13:46,080 --> 00:13:49,760 intellectually so powerful and who was having the oratory 215 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:52,160 skills were drawing so many thousands of people to his 216 00:13:52,160 --> 00:13:55,200 meetings, suddenly says, I don't believe in God anymore. 217 00:13:56,160 --> 00:13:59,160 He shook him thoroughly. He said, what am I believing? 218 00:13:59,240 --> 00:14:00,920 What is the gospel I am believing? 219 00:14:01,000 --> 00:14:04,080 What am I going to preach? How am I going to sustain my own 220 00:14:04,080 --> 00:14:06,600 faith? Somebody's disbelief has shaken 221 00:14:06,600 --> 00:14:10,080 Billy Graham to the core. And one day he went into the 222 00:14:10,080 --> 00:14:12,240 woods. When he went into the woods, he 223 00:14:12,240 --> 00:14:19,080 found a stump, put the Bible on the stump and said, I believe 224 00:14:19,080 --> 00:14:24,480 that this is the word of God. I believe this is the word of 225 00:14:24,480 --> 00:14:27,720 God. Whatever happens to me, I don't 226 00:14:27,720 --> 00:14:29,760 care, but I believe this is the word of God. 227 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:33,440 And one of the times when he was preaching on the book of Jonah 228 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,800 and he said book of Jonah, you see that the fish followed Jonah 229 00:14:39,320 --> 00:14:43,800 is the is the Bible said that the Jonah swallowed the fish, 230 00:14:43,800 --> 00:14:46,440 the big huge fish. I will still believe it. 231 00:14:47,880 --> 00:14:51,240 What is important is our commitment to believe the Word 232 00:14:51,240 --> 00:14:56,040 of God is very, very important. This word will not change. 233 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:03,400 This word is the one that is given for the church to grow on 234 00:15:03,400 --> 00:15:07,480 it, to become strong. Your vision should come from 235 00:15:07,480 --> 00:15:13,880 this book, no other. That's why we say Bible study is 236 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:19,280 important. Why everything I do in this 237 00:15:19,280 --> 00:15:21,240 church is very well thought about. 238 00:15:21,240 --> 00:15:25,040 It is not random. I have seen a church that they 239 00:15:25,040 --> 00:15:28,440 meet six days in a week. They were tired of going to the 240 00:15:28,440 --> 00:15:31,680 church and there are times there are people who don't care to go 241 00:15:31,680 --> 00:15:34,760 to church. I said if even having personal 242 00:15:34,760 --> 00:15:37,480 quiet time is a struggle to many people because you have a job, 243 00:15:37,480 --> 00:15:39,040 you have got so many commitments. 244 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:41,240 Some days you will read the Bible and pray. 245 00:15:41,240 --> 00:15:43,000 Some days you don't read the Bible and pray. 246 00:15:43,840 --> 00:15:47,880 I know the human weakness. That's the reason why I said if 247 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,520 you get a strong word on a Sunday and a strong word on one 248 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:55,280 of the weekdays, if you obey that word, your life will not be 249 00:15:55,280 --> 00:15:57,360 the same. You will be changed because you 250 00:15:57,360 --> 00:16:00,240 obey the word. I'm going with the minimum 251 00:16:00,240 --> 00:16:03,440 thing, not the maximum. I'm going with the minimum. 252 00:16:04,040 --> 00:16:09,560 I'm not pushing too much. If you have the word 2 days, it 253 00:16:09,560 --> 00:16:13,800 will carry you through 7 days. Cool. 254 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,800 So here is the man of vision and he replies saying I'm doing a 255 00:16:17,800 --> 00:16:20,880 great work. See, that's what everybody 256 00:16:20,880 --> 00:16:24,200 should have. A father must know the vision 257 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,520 for the family, mother must know the vision for the family, the 258 00:16:27,520 --> 00:16:30,840 boss should know the vision for his company, and the pastor 259 00:16:30,840 --> 00:16:32,680 should know the vision for the church. 260 00:16:33,800 --> 00:16:37,360 And if the pastor does not have vision, that is a church that 261 00:16:37,360 --> 00:16:44,800 has no hope. So we need more pastors with 262 00:16:44,800 --> 00:16:47,360 vision. That's very important. 263 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:50,480 If the word of the Lord does not come to a man and starts a 264 00:16:50,480 --> 00:16:53,680 church, he can still start. He can, he can still gather 265 00:16:53,680 --> 00:16:56,600 people. In particularly in large 266 00:16:56,600 --> 00:17:00,200 populous nations like India, anybody can start a church and 267 00:17:00,200 --> 00:17:01,360 there will be people coming there. 268 00:17:03,160 --> 00:17:05,319 It's not very difficult at all to gather a crowd there. 269 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:11,319 So now, but there was scheming to harm me, so I send messages 270 00:17:11,319 --> 00:17:13,440 to them. I am carrying on a great project 271 00:17:13,440 --> 00:17:16,880 that cannot go down. Why should the work stop while I 272 00:17:16,880 --> 00:17:21,800 leave it and go down to you? So we need to know that work 273 00:17:21,800 --> 00:17:25,319 will be stopped. Distracted discouragement and 274 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:28,280 the enemy can attack. That's the reason why the leader 275 00:17:28,280 --> 00:17:31,360 must be focused on the vision, and he was focused on the 276 00:17:31,360 --> 00:17:34,080 vision. And because of that, four times 277 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,680 I sent the same message and each time I gave them the same 278 00:17:37,680 --> 00:17:39,600 answer. That's very important. 279 00:17:40,920 --> 00:17:45,960 Same message was sent. He gave the same reply because 280 00:17:45,960 --> 00:17:49,880 the vision has not changed. The vision to rebuild the walls 281 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:52,880 has not changed, so he had to give the same reply. 282 00:17:53,600 --> 00:17:57,480 So this is the first strategy to discourage Nehemiah from 283 00:17:57,480 --> 00:18:01,480 completing the work. Walls are up now and the doors 284 00:18:01,560 --> 00:18:04,520 have to be fixed and they want to stop it. 285 00:18:05,720 --> 00:18:10,400 So they resorted to strategy #2 plan 2. 286 00:18:10,880 --> 00:18:13,440 Plan 1 is failed. Was the plan 2. 287 00:18:13,680 --> 00:18:19,080 Now they gave a man a messenger. A open letter is not. 288 00:18:19,400 --> 00:18:23,640 It is not a scroll rolled up with a seal on it so that only 289 00:18:23,640 --> 00:18:27,000 the intended recipient will open the break the seal and read the 290 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,960 letter. That is how it was in those 291 00:18:29,960 --> 00:18:34,360 days. It has to be sealed probably 292 00:18:34,360 --> 00:18:38,560 with wax wax or something like that and then the wax is easy to 293 00:18:38,560 --> 00:18:42,240 break and then you open the scroll and read it. 294 00:18:42,440 --> 00:18:50,160 Instead they sent a open letter. Now this is like open letter is 295 00:18:50,160 --> 00:18:53,120 anybody can read basically. It is like gossip. 296 00:18:54,600 --> 00:18:57,560 It is like gossip. It is like bringing the man down 297 00:18:57,560 --> 00:18:59,920 by words that were to discourage the man. 298 00:19:00,280 --> 00:19:05,640 And in fact, yeah, the unsealed letter came in which it was 299 00:19:05,640 --> 00:19:07,720 written. What did he do in this letter? 300 00:19:07,720 --> 00:19:11,840 What did he write in this thing? First thing is it became from 301 00:19:11,840 --> 00:19:16,560 private attack to public attack. Previously they sent four times 302 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:19,640 the sealed envelope. OK, read this for yourself. 303 00:19:20,440 --> 00:19:23,240 That was private. Now its an open letter from 304 00:19:23,240 --> 00:19:27,240 private became public. So they will try to bring the 305 00:19:27,240 --> 00:19:29,960 man down by publicly attacking him with the words. 306 00:19:29,960 --> 00:19:34,840 What are the words they used this they have they said it is 307 00:19:34,840 --> 00:19:38,640 reported among the nations and Geshem says it is true. 308 00:19:38,840 --> 00:19:42,360 You know these, there's a man called War on VSB. 309 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:46,720 In his commentary he says many churches are down, they're 310 00:19:46,720 --> 00:19:52,320 pulled down because of it is reported, it is true. 311 00:19:53,720 --> 00:19:55,600 These are dangerous words in a church. 312 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,400 It is reported, it is true. So everywhere it is reported, it 313 00:19:59,400 --> 00:20:00,760 is true. It is reported, isn't it true? 314 00:20:01,200 --> 00:20:02,960 And then people scatter everywhere. 315 00:20:04,120 --> 00:20:07,280 So we need to be very careful before we open our mouth to 316 00:20:07,280 --> 00:20:11,200 destroy a church. We should be very careful not to 317 00:20:11,200 --> 00:20:13,600 do those kind of things. So they have done it. 318 00:20:14,080 --> 00:20:18,040 Its true that you and the Jews are plotting to revolt and 319 00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:19,760 therefore you are building the wall. 320 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:21,400 What is the purpose of building the wall? 321 00:20:21,480 --> 00:20:23,960 You want to revolt against the king, you want to become the 322 00:20:23,960 --> 00:20:27,520 king and then you want to appoint false prophets to go and 323 00:20:27,520 --> 00:20:33,040 tell the people this man is the king, go from God to proclaim 324 00:20:33,040 --> 00:20:35,200 that he is the king from God. False prophecies. 325 00:20:35,520 --> 00:20:37,160 So that is what they are trying to say here. 326 00:20:37,600 --> 00:20:40,000 Moreover, according to these reports, you are about to become 327 00:20:40,000 --> 00:20:44,080 the king and have even appointed prophets to make this 328 00:20:44,080 --> 00:20:47,960 proclamation about you. In Jerusalem there is a king in 329 00:20:47,960 --> 00:20:50,640 Judah. The prophecy is there is a king 330 00:20:50,640 --> 00:20:52,560 in Judah. Nehemiah is the new king. 331 00:20:52,840 --> 00:20:55,120 That's why you appointed prophets to proclaim it. 332 00:20:56,120 --> 00:20:59,240 How dangerous is that? It is very dangerous. 333 00:21:00,200 --> 00:21:02,760 He has, no, he doesn't have any of these things. 334 00:21:02,880 --> 00:21:08,280 So how do you counter a false report that is circulating in 335 00:21:08,280 --> 00:21:11,520 the community or in the church? Only by speaking the truth. 336 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:14,720 So what is the truth? He spoke, he said I sent him 337 00:21:14,720 --> 00:21:17,320 this reply. Nothing like what you're saying 338 00:21:17,320 --> 00:21:19,560 is happening. You're just making it up out of 339 00:21:19,560 --> 00:21:24,240 your own head. That's your imagination, sun 340 00:21:24,240 --> 00:21:26,080 ballad. That's the imagination, Tobiah, 341 00:21:26,080 --> 00:21:28,360 that's your imagination. And Geshem, that's your 342 00:21:28,360 --> 00:21:30,600 imagination. It's not at all true. 343 00:21:30,720 --> 00:21:33,920 I my intention is not to revolt. My intention is not to become 344 00:21:34,080 --> 00:21:38,080 the king, and I do not have false prophets to proclaim it. 345 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,120 For me. Religion, politics, everything 346 00:21:41,120 --> 00:21:45,160 is mixed up in this chapter. Religion and politics are mixed 347 00:21:45,160 --> 00:21:47,400 up, and that becomes a dangerous explosive. 348 00:21:49,280 --> 00:21:54,400 So what happens here? No. 349 00:21:54,800 --> 00:21:57,200 Now this report will get back to the king. 350 00:21:57,200 --> 00:22:00,800 So come, let us come comfort together. 351 00:22:00,960 --> 00:22:03,480 Let's meet and talk. What they're trying to say is, 352 00:22:03,480 --> 00:22:06,400 hey, you can't be doing things alone. 353 00:22:06,520 --> 00:22:10,560 Let's talk together. Let us have a part from the 354 00:22:10,560 --> 00:22:12,160 beginning. They said you have no part in 355 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:14,760 this. You have no part in this. 356 00:22:15,560 --> 00:22:18,840 And now they're saying, I'm, we want to force your hand to come 357 00:22:18,840 --> 00:22:21,520 to this table to talk. Let's talk. 358 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:24,600 That's, that's that's what they were trying to do. 359 00:22:24,960 --> 00:22:29,240 Then he said they were all trying to frighten us, thinking 360 00:22:29,240 --> 00:22:31,920 their hands will get too weak for the work. 361 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:36,960 Two factors are there. One, psychological warfare is 362 00:22:36,960 --> 00:22:40,160 happening here to frighten Nehemiah and others were 363 00:22:40,160 --> 00:22:41,720 involved in building, rebuilding the walls. 364 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:43,520 Fear. They won't put fear. 365 00:22:43,800 --> 00:22:46,880 Hey, if you build the walls, the king is going to come to know 366 00:22:46,920 --> 00:22:48,920 and he will send the army and you are all gone. 367 00:22:48,920 --> 00:22:52,080 You are all dead. So that was, that is the fear 368 00:22:52,080 --> 00:22:55,320 they are trying to create. And the second thing is his 369 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,600 hands will go limp. That means you will be 370 00:22:57,600 --> 00:23:01,280 discouraged. He will not have the motivation. 371 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:04,480 He will not have the energy to do what he wants to do. 372 00:23:05,160 --> 00:23:09,360 And what Nehemiah did, he exactly prayed something similar 373 00:23:09,360 --> 00:23:12,040 to what they were wanting to happen, but in the opposite 374 00:23:12,040 --> 00:23:15,160 effect. He prayed a simple prayer and he 375 00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:21,600 said, I prayed now strengthen my hands, strengthen my hands, 376 00:23:21,680 --> 00:23:24,560 strengthen me because I want to do your work. 377 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:26,520 I want to do the vision that you have. 378 00:23:28,040 --> 00:23:30,960 You know, it puzzles me. Whenever I think of Nehemiah's 379 00:23:30,960 --> 00:23:35,000 life, it puzzles me. He is fulfilling every prophecy 380 00:23:35,000 --> 00:23:37,880 that has been foretold beforehand through Daniel, 381 00:23:38,000 --> 00:23:40,520 through Jeremiah, Eskil, everybody. 382 00:23:41,760 --> 00:23:44,680 But he himself doesn't have a vision in the sense a 383 00:23:44,680 --> 00:23:47,920 supernatural communication, an Angel appearing to him, having a 384 00:23:47,920 --> 00:23:53,360 dream, none of these things. But why it is important is for 385 00:23:53,360 --> 00:23:57,200 us New Testament Christians, when you are committed to the 386 00:23:57,200 --> 00:24:03,440 world and obey the world, that revival will come, the revival 387 00:24:03,440 --> 00:24:06,400 will come. And when when it comes to 388 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:08,800 vision, sometimes you know it will be like Paul. 389 00:24:09,120 --> 00:24:12,600 Paul had a vision, vision that they should not set sail. 390 00:24:12,800 --> 00:24:16,080 The weather is going to be rough, its going to cost human 391 00:24:16,080 --> 00:24:18,000 life. He told the captain, hey 392 00:24:18,000 --> 00:24:21,320 captain, we should not be sailing now because this is not 393 00:24:21,320 --> 00:24:23,640 the right season for us. Let's winter here. 394 00:24:23,920 --> 00:24:26,040 They said no, no, no. Everybody said no, no, we are 395 00:24:26,040 --> 00:24:28,640 not going to listen to you. And then they go and get stuck 396 00:24:28,640 --> 00:24:32,320 in the storm for two weeks. There are no sun and you know 397 00:24:32,320 --> 00:24:37,640 rest of the story. Sometimes it is very rare. 398 00:24:37,640 --> 00:24:40,600 It is a negative example of a vision I am trying to give here 399 00:24:40,600 --> 00:24:44,440 is not a positive. Like Joseph is a +1, Daniel is a 400 00:24:44,440 --> 00:24:49,400 +1, but Paul is a -1 He had the vision. 401 00:24:49,800 --> 00:24:53,720 No one listened to him and they landed up in the storm. 402 00:24:54,720 --> 00:24:59,520 But because of that vision of the one man, they were all saved 403 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:03,120 with their life. The ship is gone, it was broken 404 00:25:03,120 --> 00:25:06,520 into pieces, the cargo is gone, but they all were shared. 405 00:25:06,640 --> 00:25:10,640 Because of the one man's vision. An Angel of God stood by him and 406 00:25:10,640 --> 00:25:14,680 said not a hare will be lost, Paul, because I am with you and 407 00:25:14,680 --> 00:25:16,560 all the people on the ship I give to you. 408 00:25:17,200 --> 00:25:20,120 They were all saved. They all believed in the name of 409 00:25:20,120 --> 00:25:23,520 Jesus because of one man. So whether it is positive 410 00:25:23,520 --> 00:25:25,720 vision, negative vision, vision is very important. 411 00:25:25,920 --> 00:25:28,760 Whether you are driving or the captain having a vision, or you 412 00:25:28,760 --> 00:25:32,160 are a sailor or you are just a passenger having a vision, when 413 00:25:32,160 --> 00:25:34,840 the vision is from God, that vision will succeed. 414 00:25:34,960 --> 00:25:38,200 Nobody can stop it. That's why Jesus said, I build 415 00:25:38,200 --> 00:25:41,840 my church on this rock and the gates are fell shall not prevail 416 00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:45,880 against it. And the pastor is one of those 417 00:25:45,880 --> 00:25:50,480 guys who should have a vision to lead the church. 418 00:25:52,280 --> 00:25:58,120 So next thing you see here is a plan 2 also failed and 419 00:25:58,120 --> 00:26:04,920 afterwards they have a plan 3. Now the plan 3 is in the plan 2. 420 00:26:04,960 --> 00:26:06,960 What are the things that did is false accusation. 421 00:26:07,520 --> 00:26:09,080 Nieman accounted them with the truth. 422 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:12,880 They attributed a wrong motive to become a king. 423 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:16,720 They attributed to him that is going to revolt against the king 424 00:26:16,720 --> 00:26:19,920 of Persia and then he was they were he was they were telling 425 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:22,720 that they were using he was using the false prophets to 426 00:26:22,720 --> 00:26:26,680 proclaim he is a king. But in fact, they use those same 427 00:26:26,680 --> 00:26:29,880 strategy again another time. We will see very soon. 428 00:26:30,080 --> 00:26:35,560 So what is the what is the plan 3 They selected a man called 429 00:26:35,560 --> 00:26:38,360 Shimaya. He has a reputation of being a 430 00:26:38,400 --> 00:26:43,160 prophet, but this prophet, he must have had a reputation being 431 00:26:43,160 --> 00:26:48,160 a prophet, but now he's sold. You know when a house is sold, 432 00:26:48,160 --> 00:26:51,000 they put a sticker, sticker sticker house is sold. 433 00:26:51,440 --> 00:26:55,040 So this man is a sole prophet. So what did what they did, they 434 00:26:55,040 --> 00:26:58,360 paid the money and said you have to prophecy. 435 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,120 So he shot himself in the house. He didn't want to move out as if 436 00:27:02,120 --> 00:27:05,760 he has got a burden full a vision and he's got a message 437 00:27:05,880 --> 00:27:08,800 and a prophecy and he's so burdened he cannot go out of the 438 00:27:08,800 --> 00:27:10,920 house. So he called Nehemiah to his 439 00:27:10,920 --> 00:27:13,600 house. So Nehemiah goes to the House of 440 00:27:13,600 --> 00:27:19,120 Shamaya and he says, hey, they are going to kill you tonight, 441 00:27:19,480 --> 00:27:23,360 you are going to be killed. So let us go and hide inside the 442 00:27:23,360 --> 00:27:25,840 temple. Where? 443 00:27:27,280 --> 00:27:29,360 Inside the temple? Why? 444 00:27:30,520 --> 00:27:33,800 If he listens to the advice of the man and goes into the 445 00:27:33,800 --> 00:27:38,480 temple, what is going to happen is he is going to disobey the 446 00:27:38,480 --> 00:27:41,360 word of God. He's going to deserve the word 447 00:27:41,360 --> 00:27:42,840 of God. How he's going to deserve the 448 00:27:42,840 --> 00:27:46,440 word of God because he does not belong to the he's not a Levite, 449 00:27:46,480 --> 00:27:49,840 he's not a priest, and he is not supposed to go inside the temple 450 00:27:49,840 --> 00:27:51,760 of God. Inside the temple of God, 451 00:27:53,080 --> 00:27:57,360 anybody is not a priest can only go as far as that altar, bronze 452 00:27:57,360 --> 00:28:00,320 altar where you offer the whole bond offerings. 453 00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,920 You cannot go farther. You can bring your offering 454 00:28:04,920 --> 00:28:07,880 there, put it on it, that's it. You can't go further. 455 00:28:08,400 --> 00:28:13,000 There was a king called Ujjaya. He dared to offer a strange 456 00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,640 fire. He took the golden censor, put 457 00:28:15,640 --> 00:28:18,520 the fire on it, put the frankincense and everything and 458 00:28:18,520 --> 00:28:22,080 went into the presence of God. And leprosy broke out on his 459 00:28:22,080 --> 00:28:27,320 face instantly. And the priest said, King, there 460 00:28:27,320 --> 00:28:29,360 is leprosy on you. Leave the place now. 461 00:28:30,240 --> 00:28:33,400 Rest of his life he had to be separated from his own palace. 462 00:28:33,600 --> 00:28:35,920 They had to build a separate house for him to live. 463 00:28:36,160 --> 00:28:40,680 And his son ruled in his place. So you don't play with God. 464 00:28:42,080 --> 00:28:43,720 Basically, we don't play with God. 465 00:28:44,200 --> 00:28:51,400 And this man, he is now being forced to hide inside so that 466 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:54,240 they can say, hey, you are thinking Nema is your leader. 467 00:28:54,320 --> 00:28:56,480 Don't believe that guy. He went into the temple. 468 00:28:56,480 --> 00:29:01,080 He was afraid, He got afraid because we have forced him to be 469 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:03,680 afraid and he got afraid, got into the temple. 470 00:29:03,800 --> 00:29:06,920 Why do you follow him? He has desecrated the temple by 471 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:09,400 going into the temple. He is not allowed to go in. 472 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,760 So that is how they said, thinking that he will commit sin 473 00:29:15,200 --> 00:29:18,760 and they can take advantage of it and talk negatively about 474 00:29:18,760 --> 00:29:22,520 him, to put Him down in the eyes of the people, to challenge his 475 00:29:22,520 --> 00:29:25,360 leadership, to challenge his vision, to bring it to nothing, 476 00:29:25,480 --> 00:29:27,880 to stop the vision. They were playing that this is a 477 00:29:27,880 --> 00:29:31,960 plan #3 they brought it. So what happened? 478 00:29:31,960 --> 00:29:40,680 Now the other other motive also is that God by himself might 479 00:29:40,680 --> 00:29:42,920 kill him. If he goes disobeys and goes 480 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:47,120 inside the temple, God will be his enemy, just like the 481 00:29:47,120 --> 00:29:55,040 Moabites in do entice the the Israelites and Israelis went and 482 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,520 offered worship their idols and indulged in sex with the people 483 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:02,400 and God's anger came upon them. Many thousands died. 484 00:30:04,520 --> 00:30:07,800 So that's the reason why they thought they can force him to 485 00:30:07,960 --> 00:30:12,080 deserve a God, to make God his enemy and to discredit him. 486 00:30:12,400 --> 00:30:19,400 But he said, should such a man as I flee, should such a man as 487 00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,920 I run away for my own life, my life is nothing. 488 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:26,640 I am not afraid to die. Guys. 489 00:30:26,640 --> 00:30:31,280 You can't frighten me anymore. So Niema stood up his ground and 490 00:30:31,280 --> 00:30:37,040 plan #3 failed. Are we together? 491 00:30:38,280 --> 00:30:43,720 You following how Niema has been attacked so that he will not be 492 00:30:44,000 --> 00:30:47,400 a good person doing the work of God. 493 00:30:47,720 --> 00:30:54,320 Sure, such a man as I run away and then they has they have 494 00:30:55,160 --> 00:30:57,880 hired false prophets. Verse 12. 495 00:30:58,960 --> 00:31:02,440 What does verse 12 say? But I say, should a man run away 496 00:31:02,560 --> 00:31:05,160 or should one like me go into a temple to save his life? 497 00:31:05,240 --> 00:31:08,680 I will not go. I realized that God had not sent 498 00:31:08,680 --> 00:31:12,160 him, but that he had prophesied against me because Tobiah and 499 00:31:12,160 --> 00:31:15,200 Sanbarak had hired him. There's so many things there. 500 00:31:15,360 --> 00:31:20,160 Three main points is that he first thing is he discerned that 501 00:31:20,160 --> 00:31:25,080 God did not send these people. The the particular prophet. 502 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:26,640 God did not send the prophet. Why? 503 00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,880 He was telling him to disobey and do something contrary to the 504 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,920 will of God. That's already expressed in the 505 00:31:31,920 --> 00:31:35,680 Bible book of Numbers or Deuteronomy. 506 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,960 No one other than a priest can enter the temple of God. 507 00:31:40,000 --> 00:31:42,480 So there he is. When somebody tells you to 508 00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:45,600 disobey the word of God, then you start from God. 509 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:50,040 It's very simple. Even a prophecy somewhere I 510 00:31:50,040 --> 00:31:54,480 think Jeremiah himself says how do you know a prophecy is from 511 00:31:54,480 --> 00:31:58,680 God when it is fulfilled? It is a prophecy from God. 512 00:31:59,320 --> 00:32:04,600 And secondly says even if a prophecy is fulfilled, but the 513 00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:09,480 the essence of the prophecy says go and worship idols, that 514 00:32:09,480 --> 00:32:14,440 prophecy is not right. Whatever prophecy that takes you 515 00:32:14,440 --> 00:32:17,520 away from God and his vision is false prophecy. 516 00:32:18,680 --> 00:32:21,880 So we need to train our mind with the word of God shedding 517 00:32:21,880 --> 00:32:25,800 the word we are train our mind and then the light comes into us 518 00:32:25,880 --> 00:32:29,640 and gives us the gift of discerning of the spirits and we 519 00:32:29,640 --> 00:32:32,680 will be saved from committing sin against God in all this 520 00:32:32,720 --> 00:32:36,040 endeavor. So then what happened? 521 00:32:36,520 --> 00:32:40,040 He had prophesied against me because Tobiah and Sanbar had 522 00:32:40,040 --> 00:32:44,080 hired him. So you got the enemy, you got 523 00:32:44,080 --> 00:32:46,960 the false prophecy, and it involves money. 524 00:32:46,960 --> 00:32:51,040 He was hired because he took the money. 525 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:53,920 He's speaking the prophecy. Those three things are there in 526 00:32:53,920 --> 00:32:56,760 that verse. Then verse 13, he had been hired 527 00:32:56,760 --> 00:33:01,760 to intimidate me so that I would commit a sin by doing this, and 528 00:33:01,760 --> 00:33:04,720 then they would give me a bad name to discredit me. 529 00:33:05,400 --> 00:33:08,680 The sin is entering the temple of God is a sin, and then they 530 00:33:08,680 --> 00:33:11,240 are going to use it to discredit him, to give him a bad name. 531 00:33:11,840 --> 00:33:13,560 What a scheme they have come up with. 532 00:33:14,400 --> 00:33:17,960 But when a man is committed to the vision and a man is 533 00:33:17,960 --> 00:33:21,840 committed to obey God, honor God, do his will, he will not be 534 00:33:21,840 --> 00:33:25,160 shaken. He will not be shaken. 535 00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,960 A man of vision will not be shaken. 536 00:33:28,200 --> 00:33:29,840 This I am very, very clear about it. 537 00:33:30,280 --> 00:33:33,480 Remember Toby and Sanbarat, Oh my God, because of what they 538 00:33:33,480 --> 00:33:35,800 have done. Remember also the prophet, 539 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:39,720 prophetess, no idea. And the rest of the prophets who 540 00:33:39,720 --> 00:33:41,640 have been trying to intimidate me. 541 00:33:41,720 --> 00:33:45,120 So this is from one prophet. It went a female prophetess and 542 00:33:45,120 --> 00:33:46,600 it went down to many other prophets. 543 00:33:46,680 --> 00:33:51,000 That means they are buying the rest of the people to team up 544 00:33:51,000 --> 00:33:55,880 with them. Is it looking like a 2500 year 545 00:33:55,880 --> 00:33:58,200 old story? Are it looking like a modern day 546 00:33:58,200 --> 00:34:04,480 church story? So we need to be very, very 547 00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:06,960 clear. We need to be very clear. 548 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:11,440 So in summary, in verse 15. So the wall was completed on the 549 00:34:11,440 --> 00:34:15,600 25th of Elul in that 52 in 52 days. 550 00:34:15,840 --> 00:34:21,719 That's the record time 52 days. And because of the emergency, 551 00:34:21,840 --> 00:34:25,040 because of its importance, because of the time that is 552 00:34:25,040 --> 00:34:28,760 running out, Nehemiah motivated them, gave them the vision. 553 00:34:28,760 --> 00:34:31,360 The vision is transferred from the mind of Neymar to the people 554 00:34:31,360 --> 00:34:34,520 of Judah and they rebuild the walls. 555 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,320 And it included some of the people who were who were married 556 00:34:38,320 --> 00:34:40,440 into the family of Tobiah and Sun Ballot. 557 00:34:42,320 --> 00:34:45,560 The A family was involved in rebuilding the walls, but they 558 00:34:45,560 --> 00:34:48,199 were married to Sunbharat and Tobiah. 559 00:34:48,320 --> 00:34:52,880 So you will see that there is a communication going on between 560 00:34:52,880 --> 00:34:56,840 the enemies of Nehemiah and the people who are involved in the 561 00:34:56,840 --> 00:35:00,040 building of the wall. You will see it in verses 17. 562 00:35:00,320 --> 00:35:06,760 You see there one more thing. What is the outcome of all this 563 00:35:06,760 --> 00:35:09,080 work when the walls are built in 52 days? 564 00:35:09,080 --> 00:35:13,440 What was the outcome? The enemies of Judah came to 565 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:17,480 know one thing, that this work has been done by the help of 566 00:35:17,480 --> 00:35:19,760 God. Everybody said they did it with 567 00:35:19,760 --> 00:35:24,640 the help of God, and because it is done with the help of God, 568 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:30,000 fear came on them until now they are attacking. 569 00:35:30,360 --> 00:35:34,440 But when the work is done, they said, oh, this is a hand of God, 570 00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:41,240 this is the power of God. When Jacob was fleeing from his 571 00:35:41,240 --> 00:35:43,840 brother and the brother comes and meets him and other things. 572 00:35:44,040 --> 00:35:50,600 And then the their daughter Dina was raped by the mites, and the 573 00:35:50,600 --> 00:35:54,080 brothers rose up in the night. They talked nicely with them, 574 00:35:54,080 --> 00:35:56,720 you know, made them circumcised. And that night they went and 575 00:35:56,720 --> 00:36:02,600 invaded and killed every male. And then when the sons came to 576 00:36:02,680 --> 00:36:06,400 the father, he said, what have you done now everybody is going 577 00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,280 to come together and finishes off. 578 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:16,160 Whole family is going to die. And then Jacob, he set up an 579 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:22,320 altar and offered the sacrifice and the fear of God fell on all 580 00:36:22,320 --> 00:36:27,200 the surrounding people. Nobody touched him and he went 581 00:36:27,200 --> 00:36:29,000 safely back to his father's house. 582 00:36:31,120 --> 00:36:36,640 When we are being attacked the only recourse is to pray and 583 00:36:36,640 --> 00:36:40,840 when you pray Gods fear will fall on those who attack you and 584 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:45,800 were trying to work against you and that's the only way you can 585 00:36:45,800 --> 00:36:48,600 survive. Pray, pray, pray, pray. 586 00:36:48,800 --> 00:36:52,280 Look to God. When you think you are finished, 587 00:36:52,520 --> 00:36:55,360 look to God. When you think tomorrow is I may 588 00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:58,920 not be alive, look to God and you will see tomorrow and day 589 00:36:58,920 --> 00:37:02,520 after tomorrow also because you have looked to God, He will 590 00:37:02,520 --> 00:37:07,240 sustain you. So they hired people and all 591 00:37:07,240 --> 00:37:09,800 these things. And in verse 17 how it says in 592 00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:12,480 those days the nobles of Judah were sending many letters of 593 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:16,240 Tobiah and replies from Tobiah kept coming to them. 594 00:37:17,320 --> 00:37:21,600 That is communication going on. And then again in verse 19. 595 00:37:21,680 --> 00:37:24,720 Moreover, they kept reporting to me his good deeds and then 596 00:37:24,800 --> 00:37:28,840 telling him what I said and to Tobias and let us to intimidate 597 00:37:28,840 --> 00:37:30,600 me. They were coming and giving good 598 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:34,640 reports to Nehemiah. Tobiah is a very nice man son 599 00:37:34,640 --> 00:37:37,840 Ballot, he's a very nice man. You had to be careful and 600 00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:39,960 somebody praises somebody. Why they are praising? 601 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,400 You have to ask the question, what is the motivation behind 602 00:37:42,400 --> 00:37:46,720 the praising? And they were taking the words 603 00:37:46,720 --> 00:37:50,240 of Nehemiah and communicating to Sun Ballot and Tobiah. 604 00:37:51,400 --> 00:37:54,280 They are praising Tobiah and Sun Ballot to Nehemiah and taking 605 00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,360 the words of Nehemiah and telling it to Sun Ballot and 606 00:37:56,520 --> 00:37:58,360 Tobiah and Geshem and other people. 607 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:00,640 So the communication is going on. 608 00:38:01,240 --> 00:38:06,880 But I tell you, on this rock I will build my church and the 609 00:38:06,880 --> 00:38:08,920 gates of hell shall not prevail against it. 610 00:38:09,840 --> 00:38:12,960 That's the word of Jesus and we go with that word. 611 00:38:13,920 --> 00:38:18,160 We go with the Word and we shall accomplish the vision that He 612 00:38:18,160 --> 00:38:21,800 has given and we will see the revival that is going to come 613 00:38:22,040 --> 00:38:26,160 into the city today. Don't look at today, 2025 people 614 00:38:26,160 --> 00:38:28,640 are sitting there. What is this small people are 615 00:38:28,640 --> 00:38:31,600 going to do? How is revival going to come? 616 00:38:32,280 --> 00:38:34,320 That's the reason why we had 21 days of prayer. 617 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:39,240 That should not stop with the 21 days. 618 00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,720 I have not stopped. I have not stopped. 619 00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:46,320 You pray every day. Set aside, say God, what is my 620 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:50,440 role? If those people, those who are 621 00:38:51,400 --> 00:38:55,440 lifting the rock, putting in the place, they should know why they 622 00:38:55,440 --> 00:38:58,600 are doing it. If they don't know why they are 623 00:38:58,600 --> 00:39:02,960 doing it, they will not do it. So if you don't know why you are 624 00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:07,760 praying, you will not pray. If you don't know what happens 625 00:39:07,760 --> 00:39:09,240 when you pray, you will not pray. 626 00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:15,480 Prayer is the force that God is going to use to bring the 627 00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:19,560 revival. Sometimes it will be very, very 628 00:39:21,000 --> 00:39:22,560 simple. It is. 629 00:39:22,880 --> 00:39:25,480 I always impressed by Jonathan Edwards. 630 00:39:26,480 --> 00:39:30,320 He was a scholar, but he had a visual impairment. 631 00:39:30,560 --> 00:39:34,240 He used to wear glasses and the glass used to be so thick. 632 00:39:34,240 --> 00:39:38,520 It used to come out like a horn. He has to look through that 633 00:39:38,920 --> 00:39:44,200 little glass. It used to come out and he had a 634 00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:50,000 candlelight and he has written down his message, sinners in the 635 00:39:50,000 --> 00:39:53,080 hands of angry God. And he did not preach with 636 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:54,840 passion. There's no passion, there's 637 00:39:54,840 --> 00:39:58,320 nothing. He simply read the message from 638 00:39:58,320 --> 00:40:02,160 that piece of paper and the people said we don't want to 639 00:40:02,160 --> 00:40:05,200 face the wrath of God. They're holding the pillar in 640 00:40:05,200 --> 00:40:07,400 the church. Please fall on us. 641 00:40:08,040 --> 00:40:13,480 Because the Holy Presence of God was manifest in the church and 642 00:40:13,480 --> 00:40:19,280 the great river broke out. What it needs is being faithful 643 00:40:19,280 --> 00:40:26,440 to the Word of God. This Word has the power to 644 00:40:26,440 --> 00:40:31,640 change our individual life, our families, church, community, and 645 00:40:31,640 --> 00:40:35,640 the nation and the world. This is only hope. 646 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:43,560 We should come back like Billy Graham, take that word, put it 647 00:40:43,560 --> 00:40:47,880 on a tree stump or even any, any place and say I will believe 648 00:40:47,880 --> 00:40:51,240 this word. I will believe this word. 649 00:40:52,320 --> 00:40:54,200 And that is the foundation we need. 650 00:40:55,600 --> 00:40:58,600 Just think about, you know, if you walk, if you drive from here 651 00:40:58,600 --> 00:41:02,000 to Lincoln, so many fields are there and you will find a lot of 652 00:41:02,000 --> 00:41:07,080 trees planted which grow like a wall to break the wind. 653 00:41:08,680 --> 00:41:11,720 If just imagine a funny conversation, somebody goes from 654 00:41:11,720 --> 00:41:14,920 near my and says, hey, why do you want to be waste so much of 655 00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:16,760 your energy and time building the wall. 656 00:41:16,920 --> 00:41:19,320 Let's plant these trees. They'll become like a wall. 657 00:41:19,840 --> 00:41:23,040 You will laugh at that man. The wall is a wall. 658 00:41:23,880 --> 00:41:25,320 You cannot substitute with the trees. 659 00:41:26,120 --> 00:41:28,440 So vision is very important for a church. 660 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:32,080 Vision is important, Leader must have the vision and that vision 661 00:41:32,080 --> 00:41:34,800 must be caught by the people around him. 662 00:41:35,000 --> 00:41:39,760 Then the work gets accomplished. So what is the best thing I 663 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:45,400 would say is when you go back home, I heard this man say so 664 00:41:45,400 --> 00:41:48,480 many things, but why am I in Omega? 665 00:41:49,600 --> 00:41:51,600 Ask the simple question, Holy Spirit, speak to me. 666 00:41:51,600 --> 00:41:56,560 Why am I in the Omega? Do you want to be part of that 667 00:41:56,560 --> 00:41:59,200 big revival that God is sending, going to send? 668 00:41:59,760 --> 00:42:02,200 Don't look at the 25 people today, 30 people today. 669 00:42:02,680 --> 00:42:05,120 Look at the revival that he's going to send. 670 00:42:05,840 --> 00:42:09,240 And that will give you that vision, will give you power, 671 00:42:09,320 --> 00:42:12,040 motivation to become a man and a woman of prayer. 672 00:42:12,920 --> 00:42:15,120 And that is what God is going to accomplish. 673 00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:31,720 There's such a silence. Can we show the Hallelujah so 674 00:42:31,720 --> 00:42:35,240 when we do the will of God, great fear will come on all 675 00:42:35,880 --> 00:42:38,080 because this is done with the help of God. 676 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:43,760 With the help of God we are looking forward for that vision. 677 00:42:44,000 --> 00:42:47,520 We are looking forward for that mighty revival that will come 678 00:42:47,520 --> 00:42:51,160 into Christchurch, sweep through the churches, carry the people, 679 00:42:51,360 --> 00:42:53,400 thousands and thousands turning to Christ. 680 00:42:54,080 --> 00:42:56,280 We don't have even 1,000,000 people in Christchurch. 681 00:42:57,040 --> 00:43:00,840 Let's pray for that 1 million or 800,000 or 900,000 people in 682 00:43:00,840 --> 00:43:04,480 Christchurch. God, every suburb there must be 683 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,040 revival. Every street must be filled with 684 00:43:07,040 --> 00:43:10,320 the power and every home Holy Spirit must enter. 685 00:43:11,320 --> 00:43:14,320 You know in Egypt he entered the house wherever there was number 686 00:43:14,320 --> 00:43:18,560 blood and people were dead. Now you say, I put that blood of 687 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:21,920 Jesus on every home. Holy Spirit, enter every home. 688 00:43:22,160 --> 00:43:25,080 Convict them of sin, righteousness and judgment. 689 00:43:25,440 --> 00:43:28,280 Let the revival come. Let the revival come. 690 00:43:28,480 --> 00:43:31,680 That blood when you put up on every home, every home in 691 00:43:31,680 --> 00:43:34,640 crushes, Holy Spirit will enter every home and bring the 692 00:43:34,640 --> 00:43:37,240 revival. If you believe it, shout 693 00:43:37,240 --> 00:43:40,360 Hallelujah. Let's pray. 694 00:43:42,120 --> 00:43:46,280 Thank you, Jesus. Sahara Saara Sandrano 695 00:43:46,760 --> 00:43:51,880 Barasaktukundo sanamare bandre sastaroni hosta boroni mandastar 696 00:43:51,880 --> 00:43:56,720 saharani Karachi sandasta sastaroni Rosso ko borono mane 697 00:43:56,800 --> 00:44:00,920 harabashi sandarano Rosso boroni. 698 00:44:01,280 --> 00:44:04,600 The Lord says I'm a God who makes streams in the desert. 699 00:44:04,840 --> 00:44:08,120 I will lay a road in the desert and I will lead you, says the 700 00:44:08,120 --> 00:44:10,560 Lord. Sakthi bandaram mahastaro 701 00:44:10,640 --> 00:44:17,440 hoshana mahandasta koroni. We pray to Jesus because it it 702 00:44:17,440 --> 00:44:20,400 is who who he who was, who is, who is to come. 703 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:22,880 You are God who fills time, space and history. 704 00:44:23,080 --> 00:44:27,440 And we worship you and we invite you now into our own hearts. 705 00:44:27,440 --> 00:44:31,720 Right now in our own hearts. We invite the Holy Spirit to 706 00:44:31,720 --> 00:44:36,480 come and to magnify the name of Jesus and the bread of Jesus, 707 00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,240 the power of the bread of Jesus that we may believe. 708 00:44:39,560 --> 00:44:43,680 And we may, oh God, hope that this vision that we have for 709 00:44:43,680 --> 00:44:47,360 Omega, the end time revival will come to the word of God. 710 00:44:47,560 --> 00:44:50,960 And we have committed to pray. And I pray that you stir up 711 00:44:50,960 --> 00:44:55,240 everybody that they will allot a certain amount of time every day 712 00:44:55,440 --> 00:44:59,920 to pray in your presence, to wait upon you and to know why 713 00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:05,440 they are here in this church. Help them know why they are part 714 00:45:05,440 --> 00:45:07,720 of Omega. To the glory of your name, I 715 00:45:07,720 --> 00:45:10,360 worship you. I praise you Lord, thank you for 716 00:45:10,360 --> 00:45:13,680 your word. Let it build the walls of our 717 00:45:13,680 --> 00:45:18,600 own heart and our families and the church, the glory of your 718 00:45:18,600 --> 00:45:20,880 name. In Jesus name we ask and 719 00:45:20,880 --> 00:45:29,240 everybody says Amen, Amen. Thanks for joining us at Omega. 720 00:45:29,440 --> 00:45:32,440 If you need prayer for healing or breakthrough, or simply to 721 00:45:32,440 --> 00:45:35,440 find out more, please head to our website or Facebook page in 722 00:45:35,440 --> 00:45:36,200 the links below.