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Last Sunday I preached on Nehemiah 3. You can download the sermon<\/a>, listen to it right here, download the video via the vodcast<\/a> or by rightclicking on this download link.<\/a> or read the edited trancript below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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<\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"wMLuZBlpTq\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2024\/03\/stott-reform-dont-follow-church-traditions\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">Stott: Reform, Don\u2019t Follow Church Traditions.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u201cStott: Reform, Don\u2019t Follow Church Traditions.\u201d \u2014 Adrian Warnock\" src=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2024\/03\/stott-reform-dont-follow-church-traditions\/embed\/#?secret=q2TM4b8bmc#?secret=wMLuZBlpTq\" data-secret=\"wMLuZBlpTq\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote><p>Then Eliashib the high priest rose up with his brothers the priests, and they built the Sheep Gate. They consecrated it and set its doors. They consecrated it as far as the Tower of the Hundred, as far as the Tower of Hananel. And next to him the men of Jericho built. And next to them Zaccur the son of Imri built.<\/p>\n<p>The sons of Hassenaah built the Fish Gate. They laid its beams and set its doors, its bolts, and its bars. And next to them Meremoth the son of Uriah, son of Hakkoz repaired. And next to them Meshullam the son of Berechiah, son of Meshezabel repaired. And next to them Zadok the son of Baana repaired. And next to them the Tekoites repaired, but their nobles would not stoop to serve their Lord.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nehemiah 3:1-5<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>We are looking today at Nehemiah, chapter 3. We\u2019re going to look at the chapter as a unit, and although it can, at first glance, seem like a list of names, you can draw a sort of graph of the wall of Jerusalem with all the different gates and places that were built. It might seem like a kind of catalogue, but it\u2019s actually a very important chapter, and it\u2019s important for two main reasons.<\/p>\n<p>The first reason is this\u2014it demonstrates to us that God is interested in people. All of these men and women actually built something for God, and God made sure their names got into the Bible. That\u2019s pretty exciting, isn\u2019t it? So God cares about the individual. He cares about you and he cares about me. The second reason it\u2019s important is because the whole book is about building. And today we\u2019re looking at the chapter when they were actually doing the building.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHY BUILD?<\/strong><br>\nWhy did they build? What prompted them to do it? Why were they interested in building? I think that while we don\u2019t see it directly in this chapter, we have already seen that when Nehemiah arrived, Jerusalem was in disrepair\u2014there was a shame, a mocking that was going on. The line behind that was a concern for the honor and the glory of God. We need to understand that Jerusalem was God\u2019s home. God\u2019s reputation was tied up with Jerusalem because Jerusalem was the place where God dwelt. Originally the temple was in ruins. That had now been rebuilt. But when you see the walls of the city in ruins, what are you going to think about God? \u201cOh, so <em>your <\/em>God is the kind of god that allows his precious city to fall into ruin, is he?\u201d This is the problem we have today, of course, because many people look at the Church, particularly in the West, and say it\u2019s in ruins. It\u2019s a mess. So they were concerned for the glory of God.<\/p>\n<p>So why build? <strong>We build because our motivation for the work is that God may be glorified.<\/strong> We\u2019re not like the people who built the Tower of Babel in Genesis 11:4. Those people said, \u201cCome let us build ourselves a city, and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves.\u201d There are many people today who are interested in making a name for themselves. I trust that we are interested, not in making a name for ourselves, but in making a name for Jesus. We want to see Jesus famous again in the earth. And not just infamous as a swear word, as a blasphemy that is used so often, as a name to be trampled in the mud, a word used in the same way that people use for excrement. One minute they\u2019re saying, \u201cOh excrement!\u201d (whatever that word might be), and the next minute they\u2019re saying the name of our precious Savior. That has to stop. We want to see Jesus famous again. They wanted Jerusalem to be a place that was solid, strong, yet safe from enemies, but more than that, that it would demonstrate that God was who he said he was. That God keeps his promises. Because God\u2019s reputation is on the line. He put his reputation on the line for the Israelis. And he puts his reputation on the line for you and me. If we\u2019re Christians, he cares about us. But also the bounds on his glory. Jesus wept over Jerusalem in his day, saying, \u201cWhy could I not gather you?\u201d Also, the heavenly Jerusalem is seen as a picture of the Church. We are the new Jerusalem. And one day Jerusalem will come out of heaven, the heavenly Jerusalem, and will be here on earth. The dwelling of God will be with men and women forever. We will no longer be separated from God.<\/p>\n<p>You will notice that when Nehemiah comes to the people, he actually, in the short-term, doesn\u2019t promise them anything. He doesn\u2019t say, \u201cI\u2019m going to give you lots of money if you work.\u201d Instead he says, \u201cI\u2019ll give you sweat.\u201d It\u2019s a bit like when Winston Churchill said\u2014\u201cAll I have to offer you is blood and sweat and tears . . .\u201d and the whole nation of Britain rose up as one man. Why? Because we have a desire within us to live for something bigger than ourselves. A reason, if you like, beyond ourselves. <strong>Living for the glory of God.<\/strong> If you live for the glory of God, then a number of things become the norm. It becomes normal to love God, it becomes normal to have a passion for his Church, to care about his bride, the bride that so many people diss today, that so many people are negative about today, hateful about, say all sorts of evil things about. God loves his bride and God loves his glory, and he loves those who love his glory. The question is very simply this\u2014Will we do what God\u2019s glory deserves? It\u2019s not so much what God will do for us. It\u2019s what we can do for God and for his glory. What can we do for God\u2019s glory? If we will respect God and live accordingly, then God will actually honor us and bless us too. Our purpose is to be those who live for the glory of God. There\u2019s the old Puritan saying, the old statement of faith\u2014What is the chief end of man? It\u2019s this\u2014to glorify God and to enjoy him forever and ever.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHAT EXACTLY DO WE BUILD?<\/strong><br>\nWe\u2019re not building a physical temple. We at Jubilee meet in a cinema. We don\u2019t even have our own building. But even if we had our own building we wouldn\u2019t be so concerned about the building. What we are concerned about is the people. How are you building your life? The Bible thinks of our lives as being like a building. Matthew 7:24-27 says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And when the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on the rock. And everyone who hears these words of mine and does no do them will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell, and great was the fall of it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are many things that shake us in this world. Things can shake us individually. Things can shake us as families. Things can shake us as communities. Things can shake us as whole nations. And right now there are things that are shaking us as the whole world. We are facing some interesting financial storms at this time. We have to ask, \u201cWere the banks building on sand or on a rock?\u201d Oh, it can look very nice for a number of years. It can look very attractive. You can start talking about billions of pounds; in fact, trillions of pounds\u2014and that can all be wiped out when the storm comes, as the foundations are exposed. I want to challenge you this morning not to assume that you have the foundation right. I want you to ask, \u201cHave I got the foundation right?\u201d Jesus tells us in those words how we know if we\u2019ve got the foundation right. This is not <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">how<\/span> you get the foundation right. Please understand there\u2019s a big difference here. Being a Christian is about a relationship with Jesus. But how do you <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">know<\/span> if you\u2019ve got that right? How do you know if you\u2019ve been born again? Let me tell you. Jesus said this\u2014if you do the things Jesus says, that\u2019s how you know. Do you do the things that Jesus says? Do you live a godly life? Or is your life no different from the world? Are you sleeping around? Are you consuming too much alcohol? Are you rowing with your wife or your husband in an inappropriate way? Well, Jesus would seem to say here\u2014be careful! Is your foundation right? Look again at your foundation. The truth is this, of course\u2014we all sin. We all fail. Even Christians who have been Christians for ten, twenty, thirty years still sin. I\u2019m not saying we have to be perfect to know that we\u2019re going to heaven. The question is simply this\u2014is the foundation there? And what is that foundation? The foundation is Christ himself. He\u2019s the solid rock on which we stand. All other ground is sinking sand. If you stand today on the basis of \u201cOh well, I\u2019m a good Christian. I go to church. I pray. I read my Bible.\u201d That\u2019s no foundation. No, Christ is the foundation, and what he did for us on the cross. Paul explains this very well in 1 Corinthians 3. I do want us to be slightly unsettled for a moment and again look at our foundation. Am I relying on Christ for my salvation or am I relying on my own good works? Do I think I can be good enough for God? No, none of us can be good enough for God. 1 Corinthians 3 says this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . like a skilled master builder, I laid a foundation, and someone else is building on it. Let each one take care how he builds upon it. For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And when I say \u201cJesus Christ,\u201d what I mean is this\u2014I mean his perfect life, his sinless life. I mean his undeserved death, taking our punishment for us. And I mean his resurrection from the dead, raised to life, glorious, victorious, conquering death that we might not have to suffer death eternally. Oh, we may taste death at some point in our lives, but we will not suffer it eternally if we are saved. That\u2019s the foundation\u2014his life, his death, his resurrection\u2014what is laid, Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n<p>Now maybe you do have the foundation right. But Paul says, \u201cBe careful!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Now if anyone builds on the foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw\u2014each one\u2019s work will become manifest, for the Day will disclose it, because it will be revealed by fire, and the fire will test what sort of work each one has done. If the work that anyone has built on the foundation survives, he will receive a reward. If anyone\u2019s work is burned up, he will suffer loss, though he himself will be saved, but only as through fire.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are two key questions that we need to ask ourselves here.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Do you have the foundation right?<\/span> Are you a believer? Has God caused you to be born again? Has God granted you that new life? Are you aware that you are relying on him, on Jesus, on what Jesus has done? Have you truly repented from your sins? Have you truly given your heart to him? Have you given yourself to follow him? That\u2019s just the foundation for that. But if that foundation is there, then you will go to heaven. But so many Christians stop there and say, \u201cWell, if I\u2019m going to heaven, that\u2019s fine.\u201d But notice this. Paul is saying here that there\u2019s building to be done.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">How are you building your life? Are you building your life for the glory of God?<\/span> Or are you building your life for comfort? Are you building your life to get more money? Are you\u2014dare I say it?\u2014even shamefully trying to use God as a means to get more money so that you can be more comfortable? Nehemiah never offered them comfort. In fact, he said, \u201cCome away from your comfortable houses now and work. Pick up the trowel.\u201d I want to challenge you. Have you picked up the trowel in your own life? Or is your life a ruin? Is your life a mess? So many lives are wasted. So many lives are wasted by wrong decisions and the consequences of those wrong decisions working themselves out over years and years and years. Sometimes a life needs to be knocked down and rebuilt by the grace of God. If you have wasted your life, God can help you restore it and renew it. God is in the business of restoring. And he doesn\u2019t just want you to get to heaven by the skin of your teeth. He wants you to get to heaven where he can look you in the eye and say, \u201cWell done, good and faithful servant. We worked together. We built together. We built together in your life. We built together in your family.\u201d Its not just for the sake of your kids being comfortable and you having that nice modern life style, but for the glory of God.But notice this. It\u2019s also about the Church. In Matthew 16:18, Jesus says this: \u201cI will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.\u201d Actually, the church is built up with lots and lots of lives that themselves are being built well. If your life is being built well, God would challenge you, not just to be a passenger, not just to be a seat warmer in these nice comfortable seats, thinking, \u201cOh, yes, I liked that sermon. Or, I didn\u2019t like that one as much. Wish we could get the other preacher back.\u201d Or, \u201cThe worship was okay this morning.\u201d No, the question is this\u2014what are you contributing? Are you building the Church? Are you building the life of your neighbor? The person sitting next to you? The person in your small group? Are you actively seeking what God might want you to do? And I want to challenge your this morning. If you are a Christian here this morning, it\u2019s time to pick up the trowel. And if you\u2019re not a Christian, this is an opportunity to get a foundation that is laid by Christ. You see, only Christ can lay the foundation, but we all, with God\u2019s help, can build on that foundation.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>HOW SHOULD WE BUILD?<\/strong><br>\nMy third point is simply this\u2014How did they build? And of course, \u201cHow then should we build?\u201d<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>An interesting thing is this\u2014<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">when they built, <\/span><strong>they had a strategy<\/strong>. And they built in such a way that the work was designed in a very clever way by Nehemiah. Nehemiah rode around the wall and he identified different bits of the wall. And he said, \u201cOkay. This bit of wall you can do. And this bit of wall you can do. This group of people\u2014you can go there.\u201d So they submitted themselves to Nehemiah. I wonder when you read a story like Nehemiah whether you have a tendency to identify with Nehemiah and say, \u201cOh, yes, God is calling ME to be a Nehemiah, and God is going to give ME a vision.\u201d And maybe that\u2019s right. God will give us a vision. But I wonder actually whether we ought not to be looking to identify with these ordinary people. Not everyone can be a Nehemiah. I know I\u2019m not a Nehemiah. But I do know this. I can serve a Nehemiah\u2019s vision. And I can build. And actually, I can build with a team alongside me. I haven\u2019t invented my own vision. I have no desire to do that. I\u2019m building the Church of God that has been purchased by Jesus. And I\u2019ve given my life to that. I\u2019ve given my life to this place; to helping in whatever way I can. With maybe a group of people who are under me, if you like, who I\u2019m leading and supervising and helping\u2014yes.But what if the question is this\u2014What can I do to help? How can I serve? There are many ways in which you can serve in church. There are all kinds of things. It\u2019s not just about preaching. It\u2019s not just about leading worship. Sometimes people come into church and the very first thing you hear from them is\u2014\u201cOh, yes, I used to do this and that and the next thing in my last church.\u201d But hold on for a second. The question is this\u2014Will you just muck in? Will you just do what God is calling you to do? Will you just do what is needed? There are all kinds of jobs. Welcome people are needed to show others the way in from the car park when it\u2019s cold. And it\u2019s going to get harder in the English winters soon. I can just see it now, shivering out there, while everyone in here is singing, \u201cOh, we worship Jesus!\u201d And you\u2019re saying, \u201cYou know, I\u2019m just freezing for Jesus.\u201d But that\u2019s what you\u2019re doing\u2014you\u2019re freezing for Jesus. And God will reward what is done in secret. There\u2019s a God who will honor you and who will give maybe a bigger crown to you than to that person you\u2019re envying, who is at the front every week. God sees when you miss a sermon to go out and teach, not to a whole room full of people, but to a few kids. And I can tell you this. Thirty years on\u2014I still remember one of my Sunday School teachers particularly. A lady called Janita Ring. She wasn\u2019t a preacher on a Sunday morning. She didn\u2019t lead a church. She didn\u2019t do any of those things. But she inspired a young boy to love God, and I\u2019m very grateful for Janita Ring. I\u2019m very grateful for my Christian parents. I\u2019m very grateful for all the other Sunday School teachers whose names I don\u2019t necessarily remember, but I do remember the impact. And God remembers. God sees. There was some guy who invited Billy Graham to a crusade when he wasn\u2019t saved. Imagine that! Your job in life could be to invite a young boy to a crusade! If that was all he did in his whole Christian life, that would have been pretty impressive, no? And I don\u2019t even remember his name.<\/li>\n<li>What we see if we look in the Scripture here is that <strong>every man is committed to the work<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">, everyone of them.<\/span> Look in verse 1\u2014what do we have? The priests simply sanctify the wall. I wonder what that looked like. They said they sanctified the wall. Have you thought about that? It probably involved a lot of blood because everything in the Old Testament involved blood. The priests were pretty enthusiastic, and there were two other places that they built as well. Then you have the men of Jericho. In verse 2, we see the men of Jericho. They did their bit then in verse 7, the men of Gibeon and Mizpah. We\u2019re talking about aliens. We\u2019re talking about people who are not from Jerusalem. We\u2019re here in London, God loves London. We\u2019re building a church here in the midst of London for the glory of God that we want to see hve an impact on our city. We want to see a changing expression of Christianity in this city. We want to see people take notice that there\u2019s something glorious going on. And some of us actually didn\u2019t come from London. Some of us didn\u2019t even come from England. I came from England, but not from London\u2014God called me here, and God called many people here. We have many people in our church who God has taken from other nations\u2014 for example from Africa. Everyone can play a part. In verse 13, we have Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah\u2014I mean, who are these people from Zanoah? In verse 8, we have the goldsmiths, and they also seem to be pretty keen. They get up to it again in verses 31 and 32. We have perfumers. I mean, whoever taught perfumers how to build a wall? And in verse 9, we see the ruler of half the district building, and that happens again, actually, later on\u2014rulers building. And verse 10 is just someone building opposite his own house. Have you ever thought about your neighbors? What can you do for God with your neighbors? In verse 12, we see it says, \u201cand his daughters helped,\u201d so it\u2019s not just the men, it\u2019s the women too. And then we see a ruler building the Dung Gate. And we see goldsmiths and merchants, basically business people. Business people can make a difference for God. And many of you think, \u201cI want to lead the church. I want to work for God full-time.\u201d You can work for God full-time and be paid, not by the church, but by some other master.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>So I urge the Christian\u2014<em>Please don\u2019t be like the nobles<\/em>. The Tekoite nobles wouldn\u2019t stoop to serve their Lord. Perhaps a small group leader comes up to you. \u201cWould you mind doing the Bible study this week?\u201d And you reply, \u201cOh, I\u2019m not sure I can really manage. I think I\u2019ll leave that up to you. Because, you know, I\u2019m still quite a young Christian.\u201d And you think you\u2019re being humble\u2014you\u2019re not. Actually, you\u2019re being proud. You saying, \u201cI refuse to stoop to serve my God.\u201d Or someone comes up to you and says, \u201cWould you come early one week and help with the teas and coffee?\u201d And you say, \u201cWell, I might be at a party the night before.\u201d You won\u2019t stoop to serve the Lord. That\u2019s the posture of humility\u2014to stoop. If it\u2019s for the glory of God, then I will do it. Will you do it for the glory of God? It\u2019s not about your glory. It\u2019s not about your fame. It\u2019s about the glory of God. Whatever he asks us, we need to be prepared to do it.<\/p>\n<p>I want to close with one verse of a psalm. Psalm 127:1 says this, \u201cUnless the Lord builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.\u201d I want to ask you this, \u201cAre you still trying to build your own house? Are you someone who maybe has the foundation right, but you know you\u2019re building with straw. And you think, \u201cIt\u2019s okay. I\u2019ll get to heaven.\u201d I would challenge you, because the Bible isn\u2019t very clear sometimes about how we know, how we determine who is one of those people who is going to get to heaven by the skin of their teeth because the foundation is right. They do believe in Jesus. They\u2019re just messed up a bit as their life has gone on. They haven\u2019t really contributed. They haven\u2019t really earned their place in the universe, if you like. And who will be the ones who Jesus will look in the eye and say this, \u201cAway from me, I never knew you.\u201d My passion is this\u2014I don\u2019t want anyone in this room to be in that group because there will be church-goers in that group. They will even be church leaders in that group, because the Bible says that there will be those who have cast out demons in the name of Jesus. There will be those who have healed the sick in the name of Jesus. And you sit there thinking, \u201cWell, I\u2019m all right. I\u2019ll just scrape in by the skin of my teeth.\u201d Are you so sure? Are you so proud that you think, \u201cOh, yeah, I know better than God.\u201d See, what God says to you is this\u2014Give me your whole life. Let\u2019s do this business of life together. Let\u2019s build your life my way. Let\u2019s do things my way. And then on that glorious day when the fire comes, what you have built will stand a lot better than the British banking system. I saw a statistic today. Apparently if you want to put your money somewhere safe, they say send it to Botswana. The Botswana banks are safer than the British ones right now. That\u2019s what it said! I guess they haven\u2019t loaned out so much money foolishly. Don\u2019t be like the British bankers. Put your life on a firm foundation, on a sure foundation, on trust that\u2019s not trust in some half-witted idea that money is going to keep on growing forever. No, it\u2019s trust in the living God who loves you, who came, who died for you to save you, and to give you that new life.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Sunday I preached on Nehemiah 3. 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