1. Nehemiah
Rubble Removal

2. “2008 to 2017 suicide among children and adolescents increased 82%, young adults 36%, and adults ages 35 and older 12%.”
Trust for America’s Health (public health policy, research and advocacy group)

3. Our defenses are down.
God is still in control.
He has a SPECIFIC plan.
It includes you.

4. Neh. 2:11-15 “11 So I went to Jerusalem and was there three days
Neh. 2:11-15 “11 So I went to Jerusalem and was there three days. 12 Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with me. And I told no one what my God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem. There was no animal with me but the one on which I rode. 13 I went out by night by the Valley Gate to the Dragon Spring and to the Dung Gate, and I inspected the walls of Jerusalem that were broken down and its gates that had been destroyed by fire. 14 Then I went on to the Fountain Gate and to the King’s Pool, but there was no room for the animal that was under me to pass. 15 Then I went up in the night by the valley and inspected the wall, and I turned back and entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned.”

5. 2.5 miles long | 38ft high | 8.2ft thick 34 watchtowers | 7 main gates
Jerusalem’s Wall:
2.5 miles long | 38ft high | 8.2ft thick watchtowers | 7 main gates

6. Jerusalem Stone

7. CaCO3 + Heat = Co2 (gas) + CaO

8. Neh 1:9 “The wall of Jerusalem is broken down, hand its gates are destroyed by fire.”

9. Jer 52:12-14 “12 In the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month—that was the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon—Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard, who served the king of Babylon, entered Jerusalem. 13 And he burned the house of the Lord, and the king's house and all the houses of Jerusalem; every great house he burned down. 14 And all the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls around Jerusalem.”

10. 3. Nehemiah’s Attention to God’s Word
1. Nehemiah’s Prayer
2. Nehemiah’s Giving
3. Nehemiah’s Attention to God’s Word

11. So The Stones of the Wall were Still Good for Building!

12. Neh. 4:1-3 “1 Now when Sanballat heard that we were building the wall, he was angry and greatly enraged, and he jeered at the Jews. 2 And he said in the presence of his brothers and of the army of Samaria, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Will they restore it for themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they finish up in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish, and burned ones at that?” 3 Tobiah the Ammonite was beside him, and he said, “Yes, what they are building—if a fox goes up on it he will break down their stone wall!””

13. Jerusalem’s walls were Redeemed!
Psalm 68:6 “God sets the lonely in families.”

14. 1 Pet 2:4-5 “4 As you come to him, a living stone rejected by men but in the sight of God chosen and precious, 5 you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.”

15. Are you willing to move out of your rubble?

16. Mark 10:17-22
John 8:10-11