1. BUILDING WALLS
Nehemiah 3
‘Hewers of the
stone of the wall’

2. REBUILT UNDER NEHEMIAH
THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM
II Chron.25:23 – Jehoash breaks wall (400 cubits)
II Chron.26:9 – Uzziah repairs wall
II Chron.27:3 – Jotham built on wall of Ophel
II Chron.32:5 – Hezekiah repaired walls
II Chron.33:14 – Manasseh built wall without city
II Chron 36:19 – Chaldeans destroy temple & wall
REBUILT UNDER NEHEMIAH
State of Wall ~ Spiritual Health of Nation

3. SPIRITUAL FOUNDATIONS?
Prov. 24:30-32 – Spiritual Laziness
Prov. 18:10-12 – Walls of Conceit
Prov. 25:28 – No Self Control – Wrecking Ball
Contrast – Prov.16:32
Ecc.10:8-9 – Break the Wall – Own Peril
Ezek. 8:7-12 – A Hole in the Wall
Ezek.13:5,10-16 – Band Aids + Temporary Patches
Is.59:9-15 – Grope for the Wall
Hab.2:9-11 – The Wall Tells a Story
Example – Dan.5:25

4. Build THOU THE WALLS OF JERUSALEM
Ps. 51:17-19
A perpetual process
If we are not building we are regressing
As soon as we stop building the wall
begins to fall

5. MASON Heb. 2796,1443 - ‘an artificer’
- ‘to surround with a fence, hedge,wall,to erect a wall’
II Sam.5:11 – mgn.
I Chron.22:2
I Kings 5:15-18
Character of a Mason in the Ecclesia
Bezaleel – Ex.35:10,21,25,27,30-35
‘cutting of stones, to set them’
‘Repairer (mason) of the breach’
Ezek. 22:30, Is.58:12

6. BUILDING AN ECCLESIA ‘WE ARE NOT BRICKS, WE ARE STONES OF
Eph.2:14 – ‘Christ…broken down the middle wall of partition’
I Cor.3:10-15 – ‘Let every man take heed how he buildeth’
I Pet.2:5 – ‘lively stones’
Roth. ‘being built up’
‘WE ARE NOT BRICKS, WE ARE STONES OF
ALL DIFFERENT SIZES AND SHAPES’
(Bro Art Clarke)

7. The Church of the Holy Rude
Founded in 1129

8. BUILDING the WALLS of NEW
Jerusalem…
Rev.21:15-23
Garnished with precious stones – Mal.3:17
God did lighten it – wall of fire – Zech.2:4-5
Walls called ‘salvation’ – Is.60:18
Everlasting name – Is.56:5
…CONSTRUCTION HAS BEGUN!!

9. TEAMWORK
A Microcosm of an Ecclesia
NEHEMIAH 3

10. ELIASHIB MEN OF JERICHO MEREMOTH v. 1 SEED ON STONY GROUND v. 2
Matt 13:20-21
v. 2
MEN OF JERICHO
NON RESIDENT MEMBERS
MEREMOTH
v. 4
DEDICATED, FOCUSSED, RELIABLE

11. MESHULLAM TEKOITES MELATIAH REPHAIAH SPIRITUALLY UNSTABLE v. 5
COMMONERS – perform the work
NOBLES – watch the work
v. 7
MELATIAH
HEWERS OF WOOD AND DRAWERS OF WATER
v.9
REPHAIAH
WORKING RULER
Exhort - Nobles became common labourers! Our external
vocation doesn’t dictate position in an ecclesia!

12. JEDAIAH SHALLUM MALCHIAH BARUCH NETHINIMS v. 10 FUTURE TEMPLE BUILDER
Zech 6:10-15
v. 12
SHALLUM
SINGLE PARENT
v. 14
MALCHIAH
RECHABITE
BARUCH
v. 20
‘EARNESTLY REPAIRED’
v. 26
NETHINIMS
MENIAL LABOURERS

13. "We are labourers
together with God"
I Cor. 3:9-15