1. Using the Old to Build the New Nehemiah 1:1-4; Nehemiah 4:2 (NIV) Sunday, January 4, 2015 Wayne Hartsgrove

2. 1.Nehemiah is a type of the Holy Spirit.

3. 2. A wall does 2 things: a. it keeps things safe inside b. it keeps bad things out

4. 3. Tobiah and Sandballot encouraged the building of the wall? FALSE

5. 4.MEMORIZE 1 John 4:4 (NIV) 4 You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

6. 5.The first part of Nehemiah’s message is it’s not over, it can be rebuilt.

7. 6.The second part of Nehemiah’s message is it’s going to take some work.

8. 7.In Nehemiah 4:3 were Tobiah and Sandballot happy about the wall being built? 3 Tobiah the Ammonite, who was at his side, said, “What they are building—even a fox climbing up on it would break down their wall of stones!” NO

9. 8.In Nehemiah 4:2 how does Tobiah describe the Jews? 2 and in the presence of his associates and the army of Samaria, he said, “What are those feeble Jews doing? Will they restore their wall? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they finish in a day? Can they bring the stones back to life from those heaps of rubble—burned as they are?” FEEBLE

10. Using the Old to Build the New Nehemiah 1:1-4; Nehemiah 4:2 (NIV) What is keeping you from being used by God? Read 1 Corinthians 6:9-11(NIV) and remember the mess you were in before you came to Christ! 9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.