2023.10.29 - Crisis - Alone

2023.10.29 - Crisis - Alone 

Genesis 2:18 And the LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him. KJV

Saturday, October 28, 2023

7:14 PM

 

noun,plural cri·ses [krahy-seez]. a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, especially for better or for worse, is determined; turning point. a condition of instability or danger, as in social, economic, political, or international affairs, leading to a decisive change.

 

 

 

 

In Genesis 1 God says "it is good" six (6) times

On the seventh (7th) time He says what He has created is "very good" 

 

In Genesis 2:18 God for the first time says something is "not good" and that is that a man should not be alone 

 

BARNA STATISTICS

From 15000 interviewed, just one in three 18–35-year-old respondents tells Barna they often feel deeply cared for by those around them (33%) or that someone believes in them (32%).Meanwhile, nearly one in four (23%) acknowledges encountering feelings of loneliness and isolation.

Ecclesiastes 4:9 Two are better than one; because they have a good reward for their labour.

10 For if they fall, the one will lift up his fellow: but woe to him that is alone when he falleth; for he hath not another to help him up.

11 Again, if two lie together, then they have heat: but how can one be warm alone?

12 And if one prevail against him, two shall withstand him; and a threefold cord is not quickly broken. KJV

 

1. • Isolation is a breeding ground for sin 
2. • Casting down imaginations

2023.10.04 - Nehemiah Stuff

2023.10.04 - Nehemiah Stuff 

Wednesday, August 23, 2023

9:55 AM

 

1. 1. Time Stands Still 

1. a. Nehemiah 1:1 The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace, 2 That Hanani, one of my brethren, came, he and certain men of Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which were left of the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. KJV

1. b. Nehemiah 2:1 And it came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence. KJV

1. i. Per commentators it had been almost four months from the time when Nehemiah had learned of what was happening in Jerusalem

1. ii. It was between 70 - 140 years from the time it was burned to the time it began to be rebuilt

1. iii. It only took Nehemiah 52 days to get it done once he was on the job 

1. 2. While You Wait

1. a. Opposition - 

1. i. Nehemiah 2:10 When Sanballat the Horonite, and Tobiah the servant, the Ammonite, heard of it, it grieved them exceedingly that there was come a man to seek the welfare of the children of Israel. KJV

1. ii. Nehemiah 4:1 But it came to pass, that when Sanballat heard that we builded the wall, he was wroth, and took great indignation, and mocked the Jews. 2 And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria, and said, What do these feeble Jews? will they fortify themselves? will they sacrifice? will they make an end in a day? will they revive the stones out of the heaps of the rubbish which are burned? 3 Now Tobiah the Ammonite was by him, and he said, Even that which they build, if a fox go up, he shall even break down their stone wall. KJV

1. 1. It seems like there are most against us than there are with us - but God has promised 1 John 4:4 Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. KJV

1. b. Obscurity And Loneliness - 

1. i. Jesus asked the disciples could you not tarry one hour?

1. ii. Nehemiah 2 he slipped out in the night with just a few to survey the damage.  He had not yet told the city officials what he was doing there or planned to do                                                                             

1. 1. Sometimes not everyone sees what you see and is impacted the way you are by what is seen.  

1. c. Doubt - what must Nehemiah have thought when his donkey could not get through to finish the inspection because of the rubble . . .