If Nehemiah had ended in chapter 12, it would have been like a fairytale ending. However, some time has passed between chapters 12 and 13. By chapter 13, Nehemiah has returned to his former cupbearer job and has requested leave from the king to return to Jerusalem. Upon returning, he finds the people and Jerusalem have turned from God and turned from what had been rebuilt. The people have even housed Tobiah, the one who in Nehemiah 2, was described as one who opposed the work of God, in the temple of the Lord. This has hindered the work of God. Similarly, just as the people had housed a hindrance in the temple of the Lord, as followers of Christ, we are now each the temple of the Lord because the presence of God resides in us. What is our Tobiah? What is the sin that is in our life that hinders us from accomplishing the work of God? Listen to this sermon in Nehemiah about sin hindering the work of God and the final account of Nehemiah in the twelfth and final part of our Rebuild series walking through the book of Nehemiah.
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