Topic: Rebuilding the Wall of Jerusalem
Date: Sunday 20th Feb 2005
Key verse: Nehemiah 4:19-20 "Then I said to the nobles, the officials and the rest of the people, "The work is extensive and spread out, and we are widely separated from each other along the wall. 20 Wherever you hear the sound of the trumpet, join us there. Our God will fight for us!"
Nehemiah as called by God to go back to Jerusalem to rebuild the wall. Where the city wall significant the presence of the King and hus subjects. A destroyed wall is a disgrace to the people and the King. Nehemiah and the people achived in 52 days of the incomplete tasks started some 92 years before. It just shows the mighty power of the Lord and now the Temple is restored, the wall is restored, the people were reformed waiting for the coming of the King. The King indeed came as promised some 400 years later.
Taking a similar line, the church is restoring the kingdom's wall. The restoration takes many dimensions. However, the key is that we are like the Israelites re-building the wall though it may be tough going, but the Lord God is with us. He should enable us as he has done with Nehemiah and the people then, once the wall of his kingdom is restored, his people reformed, the Christ King shall return in triumph.
