Sermon Notes: Nehemiah 1—God Renews His People By Sharing His Burden
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Nehemiah's Response (2 of 3)
Nehemiah quickly responded to the news from Hanani, the news of the brokenness of the city, with his own inward brokenness. The conditions in and around Jerusalem began to mirror the conditions in his inner man. He wept and mourned for days. Not religious mourning, a sort of obligatory external show of grief, but genuine hurt within. Nehemiah's pain played out in fasting and prayer. He couldn’t bring himself to take a meal. He could only bring himself to cry out to God. The burden of his heart had truly run deep...
11 Minutes / 2100 Words
Read moreNehemiah's Willingness (3 of 3)
The close of Nehemiah’s prayer is one of my favorites in all of Scripture. Up until this point in the narrative, Nehemiah’s position in the Persian kingdom is unknown, but at the end of this prayer, we discover that he was the cupbearer to the king. Nehemiah, like Daniel before him, had received great favor and promotion in a foreign empire. As the cupbearer, Nehemiah was a right-hand man of sorts to this Persian King Artaxerxes. Nehemiah was influential and positioned well to make a request of the king, his government, and his nation...
7 Minutes / 1300 Words
Read moreNehemiah's Response (2 of 3)
Nehemiah quickly responded to the news from Hanani, the news of the brokenness of the city, with his own inward brokenness. The conditions in and around Jerusalem began to mirror the conditions in his inner man. He wept and mourned for days. Not religious mourning, a sort of obligatory external show of grief, but genuine hurt within. Nehemiah's pain played out in fasting and prayer. He couldn’t bring himself to take a meal. He could only bring himself to cry out to God. The burden of his heart had truly run deep...
11 Minutes / 2100 Words
Read moreNehemiah's Concern (1 of 3)
God is intensely concerned with people. This should be evident by observing the natural order, things like the seasons or the finely tuned human body, but should be most evident in the cross of Christ, that “God so loved the world that He sent His only Son” (John 3:16). Nehemiah, like his God, was intensely concerned with people...
7 Minutes / 1400 Words
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