WEBVTT - How Haters Hate, Part 3 0:00:01.000 --> 0:00:04.520 Isn't it amazing that people who generally don't get along 0:00:04.559 --> 0:00:07.440 get along when it comes to not getting along with you? 0:00:08.800 --> 0:00:12.440 Isn't it amazing how folk that don't like each other 0:00:12.440 --> 0:00:16.160 can find a common ground when it's time to come 0:00:16.160 --> 0:00:16.800 against you? 0:00:24.960 --> 0:00:27.920 You're listening to Treasure Truth with pastor and author James Ford, 0:00:27.920 --> 0:00:30.800 junior senior pastor of the Christ Bible Church in Chicago. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:32.800 I'm Steve Hiller. Glad you're with us today as we 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:35.960 continue the message how haters hate. We're going to be 0:00:35.960 --> 0:00:38.240 in Nehemiah chapter two. So you can grab your Bible 0:00:38.240 --> 0:00:40.680 and get ready to join us there. But, pastor, you 0:00:40.680 --> 0:00:43.760 bring up, uh, something I'm sure that as a pastor 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:47.640 for many years, you've experienced many times. Seems like most 0:00:47.640 --> 0:00:50.239 of the pastors I know are walking around with what 0:00:50.280 --> 0:00:53.280 feels like a target on their back at times. And uh, man, 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:55.640 their enemies do seem to gang up on them. 0:00:55.640 --> 0:00:59.400 Oh, yeah. Well, you know, it's only natural. I remember 0:00:59.440 --> 0:01:05.200 watching the program. It was about 15 years ago now, 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:10.480 but they had about nine different faiths. And a Christian 0:01:10.920 --> 0:01:16.160 and the Christian was Doctor John MacArthur. And, uh, I 0:01:16.160 --> 0:01:21.760 was amazed at how. Everybody focused on him, and everybody 0:01:21.760 --> 0:01:25.000 attacked him. And he had a line that was just. 0:01:25.200 --> 0:01:30.880 So tremendous, so powerful. He said, it's amazing that you 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:37.040 guys don't agree on many things except for agreeing against me. Yeah. 0:01:37.120 --> 0:01:39.760 That was oh, that was classic. Yeah. That was. That 0:01:39.760 --> 0:01:42.480 makes you, you know, things that make you go. Hmm. 0:01:43.440 --> 0:01:47.520 Yes yes yes, yes. And so, you know, it's par 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:51.120 for the course. Why? Because we have the truth. Jesus said, 0:01:51.120 --> 0:01:54.160 I am the way, the truth and the life. So 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.680 then Jesus is the only road to the father. Yeah. 0:01:57.720 --> 0:02:03.040 Jesus is the only truth that never changes. And Jesus 0:02:03.080 --> 0:02:05.120 is the only life that never ends. 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:08.000 So. Exactly. And when you're going to make such an 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:12.480 exclusive claim as Christianity does. We have to expect to 0:02:12.520 --> 0:02:13.600 have a target on your back. 0:02:13.639 --> 0:02:15.560 At times, and it's par for the course, baby. 0:02:15.960 --> 0:02:18.000 Well, as I said a moment ago, we are in 0:02:18.000 --> 0:02:20.680 Nehemiah chapter two, so I hope that you've had a 0:02:20.680 --> 0:02:23.079 chance to grab your Bible and join us there as 0:02:23.080 --> 0:02:27.360 we continue the message how haters hate. Here is Pastor Ford. 0:02:28.520 --> 0:02:31.240 Yeah, because if you don't go to the source, you 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.240 don't know whether you have all the news or not. 0:02:35.880 --> 0:02:41.639 Go to the source. Wow. And they're going solely on 0:02:41.639 --> 0:02:44.320 what they're being fed. I tell you what, if I 0:02:44.320 --> 0:02:47.040 started a story right here with Elder Green and had 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:48.960 him pass it around? I guarantee you, by the time 0:02:48.960 --> 0:02:50.800 it got to the back, we wouldn't be able to 0:02:50.800 --> 0:02:54.600 recognize it. We wouldn't be able to recognize it. Uh, 0:02:54.600 --> 0:02:58.920 I'm serious about that. It's like, uh, this actually happened 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.470 to me one time. Somebody called and they said, you know, 0:03:01.510 --> 0:03:03.669 so and so is going to the hospital. And, and 0:03:03.669 --> 0:03:06.470 they may have a serious situation. So I put her 0:03:06.470 --> 0:03:08.150 on the Yahoo group. So and so is going to 0:03:08.150 --> 0:03:11.310 the hospital. They have a serious situation. And so then 0:03:11.310 --> 0:03:13.910 the person called me and said, pastor, that's not what 0:03:13.910 --> 0:03:16.630 I told you. I said, well, I know that's not 0:03:16.669 --> 0:03:19.470 what you told me, but you said they're going to 0:03:19.510 --> 0:03:22.430 the hospital. They may have a serious situation. And so, 0:03:22.590 --> 0:03:24.950 you know, I thought, okay, that's not what he meant, 0:03:25.389 --> 0:03:28.350 you know. Uh, they have a serious situation. And so 0:03:28.350 --> 0:03:32.110 I left them out. He said, well, no, no, no, no, no, pastor, 0:03:32.150 --> 0:03:35.590 that's not what I told you. You know, he's worried 0:03:35.590 --> 0:03:38.910 about going there because it may be a it doesn't 0:03:38.950 --> 0:03:40.830 it's not it don't have to be, but it may. 0:03:40.870 --> 0:03:43.670 I said, well, why don't you just say he's worried 0:03:43.670 --> 0:03:46.790 about going to the hospital? You see what I just did? 0:03:47.830 --> 0:03:53.150 I messed it up and I blamed him. He gave 0:03:53.150 --> 0:03:55.390 it to me the way he wanted it, but I. 0:03:55.470 --> 0:04:00.150 I messed it up. But I blamed him. Look at 0:04:00.150 --> 0:04:03.390 your neighbor and say, who you blaming when you know 0:04:03.390 --> 0:04:08.150 it's your fault? Uh huh. Yeah. And so it's amazing 0:04:08.150 --> 0:04:12.230 to me. Notice. Notice what number I'm on. Seven. Notice 0:04:12.230 --> 0:04:17.270 number seven. They lay aside their differences to accomplish a 0:04:17.270 --> 0:04:21.110 common goal. So they lay aside their differences to accomplish 0:04:21.110 --> 0:04:25.350 a common goal. These three have nothing in common. Sam 0:04:25.350 --> 0:04:31.990 Ballard political. He's a governor. He's a moabite. Tobiah is religious. Ammonite. 0:04:31.990 --> 0:04:35.510 And Gershom is a Arab. He's a pagan. Uh, some 0:04:35.510 --> 0:04:37.909 are from the north. Some are from the south. So 0:04:37.910 --> 0:04:41.710 they have nothing in common except one thing. They're all 0:04:41.710 --> 0:04:46.550 under Persian control. Isn't it amazing that people who generally 0:04:46.550 --> 0:04:49.229 don't get along get along when it comes to not 0:04:49.230 --> 0:04:53.789 getting along with you? Isn't it amazing how folk that 0:04:53.790 --> 0:04:57.710 don't like each other can find a common ground when 0:04:57.710 --> 0:05:01.469 it's time to come against you? Yeah. Oh, man, I'm 0:05:01.470 --> 0:05:04.270 telling you, Jesus had it. You know, if you study 0:05:04.270 --> 0:05:06.390 your Bible, some of the things in the Bible are 0:05:06.390 --> 0:05:08.590 to make you smile. At least now I know some 0:05:08.589 --> 0:05:11.309 of y'all ain't gonna ever laugh, but but but it 0:05:11.670 --> 0:05:15.030 ought to make you smile. Why? Because the Pharisees were 0:05:15.029 --> 0:05:19.109 the religious elite. They were the evangelicals of the day. 0:05:19.310 --> 0:05:23.950 And they they had a corner on morality. You know, 0:05:24.270 --> 0:05:28.430 the Sadducees, they were more more into the money thing 0:05:28.589 --> 0:05:33.510 and more into the power thing. And the Pharisees, real spiritual, 0:05:33.630 --> 0:05:36.990 you know, don't care about the body. And then the Herodians, 0:05:37.029 --> 0:05:41.710 neither one of them like them, because the Herodians were idumaeans. 0:05:41.710 --> 0:05:45.789 They were mixed Jews and sitting on the throne of 0:05:45.830 --> 0:05:51.670 their Messiah. But they all came together. Hey! Try it. 0:05:51.670 --> 0:05:55.109 I done been in it plenty of times. I guarantee you, 0:05:55.110 --> 0:05:58.150 I'll be at the health club talking about Jesus and 0:05:58.150 --> 0:06:01.150 Muslims come against me and Jehovah Witnesses come against me, 0:06:01.150 --> 0:06:04.270 and Mormons come against me, and Buddhists and all these, 0:06:04.310 --> 0:06:07.950 they all team up because they can't stand each other. 0:06:07.950 --> 0:06:10.870 But they hate me more because I tell them Jesus 0:06:10.870 --> 0:06:13.990 Christ is the way, the truth and the life. No man, woman, 0:06:13.990 --> 0:06:16.589 boy or girl come to the father but by. I 0:06:16.589 --> 0:06:19.510 tell them that the Bible says everybody that doesn't worship 0:06:19.510 --> 0:06:29.030 God through Jesus Christ is worshiping demons. First Corinthians 1022. 0:06:30.270 --> 0:06:32.630 And some of y'all ought to know, because I could 0:06:32.630 --> 0:06:36.590 preach about everything, but you let me preach about homosexuality 0:06:36.589 --> 0:06:39.950 and some of us who have homosexual in our in 0:06:39.950 --> 0:06:43.750 our family. You think you think God like the way 0:06:43.750 --> 0:06:45.670 you did that? Well, he liked the way I talked 0:06:45.670 --> 0:06:48.510 about drunkenness. He liked the way I talked about adultery. 0:06:48.550 --> 0:06:50.950 He liked the way I talked about fornication. Why wouldn't 0:06:50.950 --> 0:06:53.390 he like the way I talked about homosexuality? I said 0:06:53.390 --> 0:07:02.230 it from his word. That's right. Amen. Yeah. You don't 0:07:02.230 --> 0:07:06.750 like it? Yeah. And so. And you know what? Let's 0:07:06.750 --> 0:07:09.630 give them their kudos. What were you. What kudos. Listen 0:07:09.630 --> 0:07:11.470 to what they were able to do. They were able 0:07:11.470 --> 0:07:14.870 to come together and they were able to change what 0:07:14.910 --> 0:07:21.150 God said about male female, about marriage. And they're not 10% 0:07:21.150 --> 0:07:24.390 of our population. There's 7%. So what do they do? 0:07:24.430 --> 0:07:27.030 They came together, didn't care whether they were black or white, 0:07:27.070 --> 0:07:29.390 rich or poor, whether they lived in the country or 0:07:29.390 --> 0:07:31.830 the city. They didn't care whether you're educated or whether 0:07:31.830 --> 0:07:35.230 you're whether you had PhD or no. D they all 0:07:35.230 --> 0:07:39.390 came together. They got that thing through. Yes. And it's 0:07:39.390 --> 0:07:42.270 amazing to me that we say we're 38% of the 0:07:42.270 --> 0:07:45.150 population and we can't get nothing done. You want to 0:07:45.190 --> 0:07:49.030 know why? Because we're too busy hating on each other. Yeah. 0:07:50.630 --> 0:07:56.710 That's why. They come out of the closet. You. We 0:07:56.710 --> 0:08:03.190 ought to come out to. Yeah. Yeah. And so look 0:08:03.190 --> 0:08:05.270 at this. Eight, nine and ten. Let me, let me 0:08:05.270 --> 0:08:06.510 give it to you so we can get up out 0:08:06.550 --> 0:08:10.830 of here. Here we are. So they work on assumptions, 0:08:10.830 --> 0:08:16.190 perspectives and motives of others. They come accusing rather than asking. 0:08:17.230 --> 0:08:21.230 In Joshua 22, we study that before two they had 0:08:21.230 --> 0:08:24.350 just got done defeating the enemy. And so two and 0:08:24.350 --> 0:08:25.830 a half tribes say, we want to stay on the 0:08:25.830 --> 0:08:28.270 east side of Jordan. And they said, okay, ten and 0:08:28.270 --> 0:08:30.950 a half. We're going on the west side. And, you know, 0:08:30.990 --> 0:08:34.950 they said, West Side is the best side. And so 0:08:34.950 --> 0:08:38.150 what happens? The people on the East side said, let's 0:08:38.150 --> 0:08:41.750 build an altar that resembles that one, so that they 0:08:41.750 --> 0:08:45.230 will know in future generations if they ever forget that 0:08:45.230 --> 0:08:48.190 we belong to them. Because the river divides us, the 0:08:48.190 --> 0:08:51.430 sea divides us. Uh, then they'll see it and say, hey, 0:08:51.429 --> 0:08:53.910 they got they have something like we have. They belong 0:08:53.950 --> 0:08:58.270 to us over here. Somebody saw and said, all snap. 0:08:58.429 --> 0:09:01.260 It's on like neck bone. Oh, no. It ain't going 0:09:01.260 --> 0:09:03.740 down like that, man. You see what they doing over there? 0:09:03.900 --> 0:09:06.260 They built an altar just like this one. But worship 0:09:06.260 --> 0:09:08.260 is supposed to be on this side. They built that 0:09:08.260 --> 0:09:13.260 for worship. No. Yeah, man. Look at it. It looked 0:09:13.260 --> 0:09:15.300 just like this one over here. What do we do 0:09:15.300 --> 0:09:17.220 over here? Worship. What do you think they going to 0:09:17.220 --> 0:09:20.620 do over there? Worship. Yeah. And so you know what 0:09:20.620 --> 0:09:23.059 they did? They put on their armor to fight the 0:09:23.059 --> 0:09:26.820 ones that just won the battle with them. And so 0:09:26.860 --> 0:09:29.860 they put on all their armor. A civil war is 0:09:29.860 --> 0:09:33.100 about to break out. And so what happens? There's one 0:09:33.100 --> 0:09:37.420 person who's biblical. His name is Phineas. He says, okay, 0:09:37.460 --> 0:09:41.180 it does look like that, but we don't know anybody's heart. 0:09:41.460 --> 0:09:44.660 I can't tell their motives. And you can't either. Can 0:09:44.700 --> 0:09:48.260 we just ask them why they did it? Or we 0:09:48.260 --> 0:09:49.980 could ask them, but it's on now. We ain't taking 0:09:49.980 --> 0:09:52.140 off our armor. We're going over there with you, too. 0:09:52.179 --> 0:09:54.020 And if they say it's for worship, we're going to 0:09:54.059 --> 0:09:57.060 jack em. Yeah, we're going to jack em. He goes over, 0:09:57.340 --> 0:10:01.380 why did you build this? Well, in future generations you 0:10:01.380 --> 0:10:04.460 might forget us and our children. So we wanted a 0:10:04.460 --> 0:10:07.740 replica not to sacrifice, but to remind you that we 0:10:07.740 --> 0:10:10.300 belong to you. And isn't it amazing the thing that 0:10:10.300 --> 0:10:14.260 they built to remind them that they belong to them, 0:10:14.300 --> 0:10:22.179 divided them? Thank God for geniuses who understand what the 0:10:22.179 --> 0:10:26.700 proverb says in Proverbs 1813. He that answereth a matter 0:10:26.700 --> 0:10:30.420 before he heareth it, it is a folly and a 0:10:30.420 --> 0:10:36.420 shame unto him. John 751 Nicodemus, when talking about Jesus, 0:10:36.420 --> 0:10:39.140 he says, doth our law judge any man before it 0:10:39.140 --> 0:10:42.059 hear him, and know what he doeth? They were trying 0:10:42.059 --> 0:10:46.339 to guess what Jesus, he said, asking, and here's what 0:10:46.340 --> 0:10:51.380 gets me. These people Sanballat, Tobiah and and Gershom. Guess 0:10:51.380 --> 0:10:56.540 who they are the least qualified to be doing this. Why? 0:10:56.820 --> 0:11:01.060 They don't live in Jerusalem, and they're not Jews. Now 0:11:01.059 --> 0:11:03.500 you apply. I don't have time, I gotta stop, but listen. 0:11:03.540 --> 0:11:05.340 You say how you apply it. How are you going 0:11:05.340 --> 0:11:09.900 to tell youth ministry workers how to do youth ministry work? 0:11:10.020 --> 0:11:12.980 And you ain't never tried to help youth ministry workers 0:11:13.020 --> 0:11:19.020 do youth ministry work? How are you going to tell 0:11:19.340 --> 0:11:23.900 somebody what to do? And you never tried to do 0:11:23.940 --> 0:11:24.780 what they're doing. 0:11:27.220 --> 0:11:29.380 It's really a helpful look at how we deal with 0:11:29.380 --> 0:11:33.580 criticism on today's broadcast. A message called How Haters Hate 0:11:33.900 --> 0:11:37.500 a helpful look at Nehemiah chapter two. You know, maybe 0:11:37.500 --> 0:11:39.620 you missed one of the broadcasts in the short series. Well, 0:11:39.620 --> 0:11:41.860 you can always listen to it online. Come to Treasure 0:11:41.860 --> 0:11:45.580 Truth Radio for. Another way to listen is to download 0:11:45.580 --> 0:11:48.260 the Moody Radio app. Now you can find that by 0:11:48.300 --> 0:11:51.340 going to your favorite app store like iTunes or Google Play, 0:11:51.340 --> 0:11:55.140 and simply search for the Moody Radio app, or we'll 0:11:55.140 --> 0:11:57.459 link you to that when you come to our website. 0:11:57.740 --> 0:12:01.660 Treasure truth radio George. All right, let's go back to 0:12:01.700 --> 0:12:04.580 the message once again from Nehemiah chapter two. Here is 0:12:04.580 --> 0:12:05.460 Pastor Ford. 0:12:06.179 --> 0:12:07.420 Here it is. Let me give you these. Let me 0:12:07.420 --> 0:12:10.780 give you the last three. The criticism usually comes in 0:12:10.780 --> 0:12:13.660 a form that is least helpful. Look at this, look 0:12:13.660 --> 0:12:16.339 at this, look at this. It says they laughed us 0:12:16.340 --> 0:12:18.380 to scorn and despised us and said, what is this 0:12:18.380 --> 0:12:20.620 thing that you do? Will you rebel against the King? 0:12:20.780 --> 0:12:26.339 Listen what they're doing. They use laughter, ridicule, and then said, 0:12:26.340 --> 0:12:28.579 what are you trying to do? Here's what they did. 0:12:28.620 --> 0:12:34.980 Bottom line, they tried to make them feel silly, self-conscious 0:12:35.300 --> 0:12:40.580 and incompetent. You didn't go to school. You don't have 0:12:40.580 --> 0:12:46.579 a degree. Here's. Here's what I see. One, two, three, four, five. 0:12:46.980 --> 0:12:49.780 Here's what haters will do. Number one, they'll jump on 0:12:49.780 --> 0:12:55.620 every mistake you make. Number two, they will undermine your influence. 0:12:56.140 --> 0:13:00.900 Number three, they will discredit your ministry. Number four. They'll 0:13:00.900 --> 0:13:07.660 attack your family. And number five, they'll talk about your mama. Now, 0:13:07.660 --> 0:13:09.340 let me get these last two real quick. Let me 0:13:09.340 --> 0:13:12.100 give you these last two. So they're attributing motive. Let 0:13:12.100 --> 0:13:13.860 me give you these last two real quick. Real quick. 0:13:13.900 --> 0:13:15.660 But listen, let me say this. Let me say this. 0:13:15.660 --> 0:13:17.819 I have to go on record to say this. Say what? Pastor? 0:13:17.860 --> 0:13:19.460 Say it. What? You say it. Yeah, I'll say it. 0:13:20.260 --> 0:13:23.300 I'm not up here trying to grind an ax. So 0:13:23.300 --> 0:13:25.980 all of you who are thinking, I wonder what happened. 0:13:26.260 --> 0:13:29.420 Why is he preaching this? Something must have happened. I'm 0:13:29.420 --> 0:13:33.980 telling you, you fit in this category. That's what you're doing. 0:13:34.020 --> 0:13:36.260 No no no no no no. Imma tell you why 0:13:36.260 --> 0:13:39.459 I'm preaching this. Because we are to turnaround church and 0:13:39.460 --> 0:13:43.620 and we are. We are gradually increasing the changes in 0:13:43.620 --> 0:13:47.620 this church. We're seeing a new cadre of leadership being 0:13:48.059 --> 0:13:51.300 raised up. So we're not throwing away the old leadership. 0:13:51.300 --> 0:13:54.060 We're passing the baton to the new leadership. And I 0:13:54.059 --> 0:13:57.180 hope that message has been coming across because I told 0:13:57.179 --> 0:13:59.660 it to the leaders over and over and over again, 0:13:59.980 --> 0:14:04.100 But I know that people don't like change. But change 0:14:04.100 --> 0:14:07.380 is here and change will continue. And so I want 0:14:07.380 --> 0:14:12.060 to make those individuals aware of what to expect because 0:14:12.059 --> 0:14:16.060 I don't want them resigning, taking sabbaticals and all those 0:14:16.059 --> 0:14:19.620 other kind of things because the opposition is going to 0:14:19.660 --> 0:14:25.980 come if it hasn't already come expected. Yeah, because you're 0:14:25.980 --> 0:14:27.980 not going to do things the way I do things. 0:14:28.020 --> 0:14:30.700 I was telling them Wednesday night, uh, brothers, I was 0:14:30.700 --> 0:14:33.700 telling them Wednesday night. Listen, I come up here and 0:14:33.700 --> 0:14:38.979 this is casual for me. The new pastor, whenever that happens, 0:14:38.980 --> 0:14:42.900 he may come up with a t shirt, Jimmy's and shorts. 0:14:46.620 --> 0:14:52.380 I have never been in the pulpit. In shorts. Never. 0:14:54.620 --> 0:14:55.980 And by the grace of God, you ain't going to 0:14:55.980 --> 0:14:59.060 see that I'm old school in the house. I'm different. 0:15:01.210 --> 0:15:06.250 I've met with some young pastors. Two weeks ago, 150 pastors. 0:15:06.250 --> 0:15:10.970 I was the only one suited and booted. I come in, 0:15:11.010 --> 0:15:13.370 they say, pastor, you may want to get comfortable, I am. 0:15:14.250 --> 0:15:21.130 I got on a vest and a tie. I am comfortable, right? Yeah, 0:15:21.130 --> 0:15:24.810 but things are going to happen. We don't want to hear. 0:15:25.770 --> 0:15:31.570 You know, Pastor Ford never did it that way. You know, 0:15:31.570 --> 0:15:35.850 Elder Green wouldn't have done it that way. And, see, 0:15:35.850 --> 0:15:38.930 you got some of these bold millennials who'll say, I 0:15:38.930 --> 0:15:46.609 ain't Pastor Ford and I ain't Elder Green. I'm so-and-so. Amen. Amen. 0:15:47.810 --> 0:15:50.650 And so it's coming. Number nine. They attack the leader. 0:15:50.650 --> 0:15:53.290 Notice what it says in here. What is this thing 0:15:53.290 --> 0:15:57.570 that you do? Will you rebel against the king? He 0:15:57.610 --> 0:16:01.770 is singular. So now they're attacking Nehemiah. Why are they 0:16:01.770 --> 0:16:04.610 attacking him, man, if you cut off the head. Uh, man, 0:16:04.610 --> 0:16:06.770 you you you are going to get some things done. 0:16:07.250 --> 0:16:10.530 You undermine the head, and it's the head of a ministry, 0:16:10.530 --> 0:16:13.330 a head. You let somebody come along and undermine you 0:16:13.330 --> 0:16:17.290 as the elder over, uh, evangelism and the feeding ministry 0:16:17.290 --> 0:16:21.570 and all of that, and see what happened. Chaos. Chaos. 0:16:22.530 --> 0:16:24.450 But but I should have picked somebody else because I 0:16:24.490 --> 0:16:26.650 don't think they're going to try to try to stand up, 0:16:26.690 --> 0:16:28.410 elder green. Stand up, Elder Green. I don't think they're 0:16:28.410 --> 0:16:30.330 going to try to undermine. I don't think they I 0:16:30.330 --> 0:16:36.290 don't think they're going to try to. And here's the 0:16:36.290 --> 0:16:40.090 last one. You've been so gracious. They never give up, man. 0:16:40.090 --> 0:16:42.290 If I wish I had time to walk you through here, 0:16:42.330 --> 0:16:44.290 let me tell you what happens. There's only 13 chapters. 0:16:44.290 --> 0:16:46.690 Read it when you go home. It's powerful stuff. Um, 0:16:46.690 --> 0:16:49.010 matter of fact, I'm doing my leadership commentary. I'm doing 0:16:49.010 --> 0:16:51.570 a book on leadership out of Nehemiah, and I'm working 0:16:51.570 --> 0:16:54.290 on it now. But anyway, here it is. Look what happened. 0:16:54.290 --> 0:16:58.650 Look what happened. Sam. Tobiah. Come. If nothing works. Sam 0:16:58.930 --> 0:17:03.090 and Tobiah and Gershom. Nothing works. Sanballat. Tobiah and the 0:17:03.090 --> 0:17:06.250 Ammonites and Ashdod. Nothing works. So you know what he does. 0:17:07.130 --> 0:17:11.290 He got somebody on the inside. You know that's. That's 0:17:11.330 --> 0:17:17.489 on the committee. And he said, you you read it. 0:17:17.530 --> 0:17:19.370 It's it's in there. It's in chapter 30. He said, 0:17:19.970 --> 0:17:25.850 get him to come into the temple and have resident there. 0:17:25.890 --> 0:17:28.810 Tell him somebody's out there getting so he'll run to 0:17:28.850 --> 0:17:32.649 the temple. So Eliab the priest said, hey, I got 0:17:32.650 --> 0:17:36.690 a room for you in the temple. It made Nehemiah say, huh? Yeah, 0:17:36.690 --> 0:17:37.889 I got a room for you in the temple, and 0:17:37.890 --> 0:17:40.490 you can come there and, uh, they're going to try 0:17:40.490 --> 0:17:43.210 to kill you, but you have safety there. Nehemiah said, now, 0:17:43.210 --> 0:17:45.810 you know I'm not supposed to be in the temple. Now, 0:17:45.810 --> 0:17:47.810 you know God will kill me if I go into 0:17:47.810 --> 0:17:51.170 the temple. If I go where you told me to go, 0:17:51.210 --> 0:17:53.210 God will kill me because I'm not a Levite. I'm 0:17:53.210 --> 0:17:56.850 not a priest. No, let them kill me out here 0:17:56.850 --> 0:18:00.570 rather than God. Kill me in there. Amen. They don't 0:18:00.570 --> 0:18:05.410 give up. They don't give up. And I'm telling you. Listen, listen. 0:18:05.410 --> 0:18:09.570 It's coming, it's coming, it's coming. So, so. So what happened? 0:18:09.650 --> 0:18:11.530 Let me. Let me close this thing down. Some of 0:18:11.530 --> 0:18:15.290 you disengage from me because you were wondering whatever happened 0:18:15.290 --> 0:18:22.609 to Skippy? When I went home, I told my mama. 0:18:23.050 --> 0:18:26.530 Skippy robbed me and took my stick. She said, that's it. 0:18:26.530 --> 0:18:30.890 No more papers. But that was $5 a week. So 0:18:30.890 --> 0:18:33.970 I thought, you know what? I'm going to take care 0:18:33.970 --> 0:18:36.850 of this, mama. If you let me, I guarantee you 0:18:36.850 --> 0:18:40.649 I'm going to be alright. I have a friend. His 0:18:40.650 --> 0:18:45.810 name is Carl Williams, but we called him Country Carl. Now, 0:18:45.810 --> 0:18:48.570 Skippy was two years older than both of us. He 0:18:48.570 --> 0:18:52.490 was my age, but country. Carl was from the country. 0:18:52.609 --> 0:18:59.290 Corn fed, bull throwing, cow milking. I'm serious. He was. 0:18:59.330 --> 0:19:02.530 I mean, he was country. He not only country. And 0:19:02.530 --> 0:19:06.609 he was country strong. I'm telling you, fast on a 0:19:06.609 --> 0:19:10.490 track team, you know, all that kind of stuff. Real quiet. Dude. 0:19:10.490 --> 0:19:13.689 And and we were friends, and I went to Carl, 0:19:13.690 --> 0:19:19.250 and I said. I said, Skippy rob me, man. He said, yeah, 0:19:19.290 --> 0:19:22.050 because he was a courier boy, too, but he had 0:19:22.050 --> 0:19:24.409 a different route. He said, Skippy, Rob, okay, I tell 0:19:24.410 --> 0:19:26.490 you what I'm going to do. We do my route early, 0:19:26.490 --> 0:19:29.609 then I'm gonna help you do your route. And so, uh, 0:19:29.609 --> 0:19:32.290 we do his route, then we do my route. Now, 0:19:32.290 --> 0:19:35.290 here's what Skip would do. This is a wall. Okay? 0:19:35.450 --> 0:19:38.530 Skip would put half his body out the wall and 0:19:38.530 --> 0:19:41.890 half behind it and then look like that. That was so, 0:19:41.930 --> 0:19:46.370 you know, he was there. You better not run. He 0:19:46.369 --> 0:19:50.410 came out. He said, who's this? Got somebody else, too. 0:19:51.010 --> 0:19:56.410 And country. Carl said, that's my friend. You rob my friend? Yeah. 0:19:56.410 --> 0:20:04.369 What about it? Bill. Bam, bam. Country, Carl. Joked that boy, 0:20:04.650 --> 0:20:07.369 I mean he and you know, because whenever he came down, 0:20:07.369 --> 0:20:13.610 I kind of backed up behind Carl. Man. Carl had 0:20:13.609 --> 0:20:17.609 that jacked him up, whooped him, and then took his 0:20:17.609 --> 0:20:21.890 money and gave it to me. Then while he had 0:20:21.890 --> 0:20:23.970 it down with his foot on his chest, said, let 0:20:23.970 --> 0:20:26.930 me tell you something. This is paper route. He's going 0:20:26.930 --> 0:20:31.530 to do it by himself, because if he sees you, 0:20:32.250 --> 0:20:36.130 you going to see me? I delivered paper for two years. 0:20:38.290 --> 0:20:40.050 As a matter of fact, there are times when I 0:20:40.090 --> 0:20:48.610 saw Skippy. Yeah. Let me tell you something. Jesus is 0:20:48.609 --> 0:20:54.250 your hater handler. Because whenever you and I were being 0:20:54.250 --> 0:20:57.690 whipped by the world, the flesh and the devil and 0:20:57.690 --> 0:21:00.879 took everything that we possess. Why? Because the devil came 0:21:00.880 --> 0:21:05.600 to kill, steal and destroy. But Jesus Christ came into 0:21:05.600 --> 0:21:10.879 the picture, died on Calvary, and became our hater handler. 0:21:11.000 --> 0:21:14.600 And he handled the world, the flesh and the devil. 0:21:14.760 --> 0:21:19.080 And he beat them on Calvary's cross. And then he 0:21:19.080 --> 0:21:22.480 let them know whenever you see them they are more 0:21:22.480 --> 0:21:26.920 than conquerors, because I love them. They don't fight for victory. 0:21:26.920 --> 0:21:30.080 They fight from victory. Then he took back what the 0:21:30.080 --> 0:21:33.359 devil took from us, and he blessed us with all 0:21:33.359 --> 0:21:38.000 spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. So here's 0:21:38.000 --> 0:21:40.960 all I got to say. Bring on the hate. 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