1. Nehemiah
Rubble Removal

2. We all face opposition

3. We all face opposition Internal opposition External human opposition
External spiritual opposition

4. Humans are NOT our enemy… No matter how much they have hurt you!

5. Winston Churchill "You have enemies. Good
Winston Churchill "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

6. JC Ryle “True Christianity will cost a man the favor of the world
JC Ryle “True Christianity will cost a man the favor of the world. He must be content to be thought ill of by man if he pleases God. He must count it no strange thing to be mocked, ridiculed, persecuted, and even hated.”

7. Heb 10:36 (NIV) “36 You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.”

8. Nehemiah 4:7-23

9. Overcoming Opposition

10. Overcoming Opposition
With Grace

11. Luke 23:34 “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.”

12. Overcoming Opposition
With Grace
With Determination

13. Neh 4:13 “So…”

14. Overcoming Opposition
With Grace
With Determination
With Resolve

15. Neh. 6:1-3 “1 Now when Sanballat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arab and the rest of our enemies heard that I had built the wall and that there was no breach left in it (although up to that time I had not set up the doors in the gates), 2 Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come and let us meet together at Hakkephirim in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to do me harm. 3 And I sent messengers to them, saying, “I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work stop while I leave it and come down to you?””

16. Overcoming Opposition
With Grace
With Determination
With Resolve
With Team

17. James 4:1 “1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you
James 4:1 “1 What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions are at war within you?”

18. “Discipline is simply remembering what it is that you really want… “

19. 1 Thes 5:15 “See that no one repays anyone evil for evil, but always seek to do good to one another and to everyone.”

20. The one discipline that sets the course of society is how we handle opposition!

21. Psalm 56