Title: After the City, The Citizens

Text: Nehemiah 7:1,2 and 4

I. First Things First Neh 7:1,2

- The End Determines Priorities of how we build.

- V. 1 Worship was the reason for being for Jerusalem.

- The End Determines the Leader/Builder

II. Community is Essential Neh. 7:5, 53

- The Practice of the Presence of God

- Assembling reinforces Who we are and Whose we are; Our Inheritance and our Calling

- TEAM- Together Experiencing a Ministry

III. People of the Book Nehemiah 8:1-3

- Live by the Book; God is the Supreme Architect

- V. 9-10 The Book Brings Balance

- When we Commit to The Book we position our lives for God’s Help

Title: Moving Forward In The Problems We Face

Text: Nehemiah 5 & 6 (NIV)

Moving Foward Requires...

I. Careful Evaluation & Action (5:6-7)

II. A Fearless & Godly Individual (6:3-9)

Title: Overcoming When You’re the Underdog

Text: Nehemiah 4

I. Opposition is inevitable but Success is Optional (Neh. 4:1-6)

- Opposition is angry, mocking, ongoing, and actively recruits others

- Success comes from facing opposition God’s way-our weapons are not carnal but mighty through God

II. Opposition Wears Us Down Or Makes Us Look Up (v. 7-9)

- Opposition is part of the journey – (Ps 23)

- “They have demoralized the builders” (v. 5)

- Because of our enemies- Nehemiah Prayed and Set a Watch

III. Amaris Velez Mazziott Story of Overcoming (v. 10, 14)

IV. Nehemiah’s Keys to Overcoming (v. 15,16)

- People had a mind to work (v. 6)

- Looked up instead of around; they Prayed and Encouraged with God’s Truth

- A Strategy, Communicated it and Executed it (v. 19-20)

Title: And Next To: Strength Through Community

Text: Neh 2:17-18, 3:1-2

I. Community Committed to Godly Success and Strength (Neh 2:17, 18)

II. Community Committed to Repair and Next To (Neh 3:5, 27)

III. Community Consecrated to God’s Work

IV. A Community Committed to the Next Generation (Neh 3:4)

Title: You Can’t Do It Alone

Text: Nehemiah 2

I. His Faith Rested on Four Things

- What Are God’s Promises for You?

II. He Took a Faith Risk (Neh. 2:1-5)

III. He Was Not Surprised by Opposition (Neh. 2:10)

IV. He Under-promised and Over-Delivered (Neh. 2:11-12)

V. He Recruited People to A Big Cause (Neh. 2:17-18)

- “Let us arise and Build” and they put their hands to the work!

- He faced opposition head on (v. 20)

Title: Your Best Life In Spite Of Circumstances

Text: Nehemiah 1:1-11

Main Idea: We need breakthroughs in order to experience the best life God intends for us to have

Experiencing a breakthrough requires...

I. Recognizing the need (1:1-4)

II. Confessing the sin (1:5-7)

III. Looking to His Word (1:8-9)

IV. Praying for His favor (1:10-11)

Title: Jesus is Coming Back

Text: Hebrews 9:26b-28

I. Jesus Came to Inaugurate the Consummation of the Ages

- Introduce the Kingdom of God

- Savior, Healer, Baptizer, King and soon Coming King

II. Jesus Came the First Time to Make a Way for Salvation (v. 26b)

III. He Will Come Back Because All WIll Stand Before God (v. 27)

- To appear before God’s Judgment Seat

- Our account has eternal consequences

IV. Jesus is Coming Back Because He Promised To (v. 28)

- His Second Coming fulfills God’s Plan For All of Creation

- For His Church (Titus 2:11-14)

- Timeline of Events- Rapture (1 Thess. 4:16-17) Great Tribulation (Lk. 21:36), Millennium-Visible return of Christ and Church to Earth and Universal Peace (Rev. 19:11-14) Resurrection and Judgment of the Wicked

- New Heavens and New Earth (Rev. 21:1-5)

Title: Jesus Is King

Text: Hebrews 1:1-4 (ESV)

Main Idea: God restores humanity to the Kingdom of God through King Jesus.

I. Jesus, God's Word (v. 1-2a)

II. Jesus, God's Heir & Agent (v. 2b; John 1:3)

III. Jesus, God With Us (v.3a)

IV. Jesus, God's Sacrifice & Exalted One (v. 3b-4)

Title: Jesus The Healer

Text: Mt. 8:14-17

I. Healing is God’s Provision For Us (Exodus 15:26)

- God is our Healer in the Old Testament and Jesus is our Healer in the NT

- Jesus provides Healing through the Atonement of The Cross (1 Peter 2:24, Isa 53:4-5)

- Healing Belongs to the Kingdom of God

II. Jesus Heals Because of His Great Love and Compassion for Us (Mt. 9:35-36)

- We are God’s Creation and His Children

- He is touched with the feelings of our Infirmities

- Jesus Touched them and Laid hands on them (Lk. 4:40)

III. Jesus Heals to Glorify God (Matthew 15:31)

IV. Jesus Heals Today Through The Church (John 14:12)

- Gift of Healings

- Through laying on of Hands