October 30, 2025 • 66 mins
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Ever tried to rebuild your life while the mockers get loud and the rubble never ends? We take Nehemiah 3–4 off the page and into the home, turning a spirit-breathed project ledger into a clear plan for families to restore order, courage, and joy. We start where worship leads the work, then we draw a wall map for modern life—marriage, kids, home order, finances, media, hospitality, and safety—and define “doors, bolts, and bars” you can actually inspect. No vibes, just standards you can see and celebrate.
We walk gate by gate, translating ancient landmarks into daily drills. The Sheep Gate anchors our mornings with Scripture and prayer. The Fish Gate turns our trade into witness. The Old Gate keeps doctrine stable with catechism. The Valley and Dung Gates build grit through confession and ruthless purging of sin and time-wasters. The Fountain and Water Gates guard our lifelines with psalms, silence, and nightly reading. The Horse Gate trains readiness: fitness, combatives, and trauma skills. The East and Muster Gates set hope and accountability with fasting and inspection. Each practice is small and doable, yet together they raise a wall that holds.
Opposition follows a script—mockery, rumor, plots, and force—but Nehemiah shows the path: pray, post a guard, and keep laying stone. We show how to throttle fear by limiting rumor loops, setting a truth channel, and naming rally points. The heartbeat is Nehemiah 4:14: remember the Lord and fight for your family by name. Half the team builds; half stands ready. Tools in one hand, a sword in the other, we plan short pushes, celebrate halfway wins, and pre‑stage for the long haul. Prepared is not panicked; it’s steady, hopeful, and useful.
If you’re ready to repair breaches at home, reclaim your routines, and make courage contagious, this one gives you the checklist and the charge. Subscribe, share with a friend who’s rebuilding, and leave a review to help other families lock shields and advance.
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SPEAKER_01 (00:27):
Happy Lord's Day to you.
I hope you had a greatproductive one like we did
around here.
We had just some uh what I wouldcall fidelity work today, making
the property um look godly andum boy kids are special.
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But um hope you had a good day,hope you had a good week.
Uh I know my last sermon wasextremely late.
Today we did some extendedworship.
Um man, that Josiah Queen umsong, Watch Your Mouth Boy,
absolutely crushes me.
It's uh it's a good one if youhaven't heard it.
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Um I'm constantly looking forgood music that is godly out
there, and um I absolutely lovethat song.
So there's a lot of artists thatI am finding now.
My playlist was stagnant forabout a year and a half, and now
um there's I'm just stumblingupon um some really good stuff
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and actually some good workoutmusic too.
There was you know a couple onesout there that I just got a rock
and tune to it that you canactually like throw some weight
around.
So uh so, anyways, welcome toChristian Warrior Mission, Home
Church, Community, Ministry, andFarm, forging Christian Warriors
for today's challenges.
Christian Warrior Mission forgesmen, women, and families into
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battle-ready disciples of KingJesus, locking shields and
advancing on every front.
So Christ is honored, his peopleare protected, and his kingdom
surges into every sphere oflife.
Advance on every front, everyday, no excuses, no retreats.
Okay.
I do everything in this churchfor the individual and for the
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families out there.
You know, we are not a church, abig church with a bunch of
people in here, there's hardlyanyone here.
Um online, I know we have peoplewho follow us, and that's what
matters.
Um, is that we're making aneffect on some people's lives.
So all the talking points, ornot the talk, the takeaway
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points and the application thatwe pull from the Bible, I try to
put it through the lens, theproper biblical lens, and how
where the rubber meets the roadis you and your daily walk with
your family.
Okay, now we here talk aboutthings way more kinetic than
most people.
I mean kinetic, meaning thatyes, we battle against powers
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and principalities and spiritsand and everything else, right?
And you know, and Paul says wedon't battle against flesh and
blood.
But the all those are theultimate enemies, right?
But our enemies do use meatpuppets.
And those are the people that wesee around here.
Those are the rapists and themurderers and the bad guys and
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Atifa and the entire DemocratParty that is insistent on
killing children and mutilatingkids and stuff.
So um, so yeah, we have evil andwe do have to prepare, and we do
have people that want to hurtus, and we have to protect our
homes and our families and allwe hold dear.
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We will not test the Lord, wewill trust the Lord.
Okay.
So some announcements.
Reformation Day, October 31st.
Get your godly costumes ready.
So we're gonna have it here.
We're gonna have a fire outfront, we're gonna get, you
know, have the kids, we're gonnahave, you know, uh bobbin for
apples tank, we're uh trying toget a pinata and all kinds of
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stuff for families to come hereand have a good time and to not
let evil take that day over.
Now, if you think you're gonnashow up like a sexy devil and
get in, you're not getting in,right?
Or the pregnant nun or any ofthose other stupid, blasphemous
or costumes.
If you want to show up assomething wholesome and good,
you're more than welcome.
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I got one girl who's gonna be aprincess, and the other who's
gonna be a crusader knight.
Okay.
If you know my kids, you knowwhich one's which.
Okay.
And then Gus will probably be acow or something.
You know, he's a turkey or acow.
He's he's two.
So whatever cute costume we canput him in, but something
wholesome.
Um and we're gonna be here,we're gonna have a good time.
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You know, so we're gonna becranking godly Christian music,
have good food, and you know,and and redeem the night instead
of letting evil run away with itthat happens on Halloween.
We also have two big processingdays coming up.
I know we're getting ready toprocess Karen, our black Angus
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cow, shortly, and pork chop, ourBerkshire pig.
Those are the next two up on thelist, and we might have to get
another freezer because Karen'sgonna be a lot of meat, and so
is pork chop.
But we're trying to do pork chopcloser or close to the
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Reformation Day party, and maybewe'll do pulled pork and all
that stuff and do a pig roastkind of thing.
He's too big to put on a grill.
I mean, he's gonna be over 300pounds, so that's too big to put
on a grill.
But um, you know, we'll doparts, we'll smoke parts of them
and all that stuff.
So that'll be good.
And then the other thing was wegot to schedule a crossfield
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day.
So the the opening day of ourministry here, we put it out on
Memorial Day, about four yearsago now, that we were gonna
carry a 600-pound cross up ourup the mountain on the back of
our property.
I call it a mountain, it's ahill.
But it's a tall hill, and it'sit's very, very challenging,
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particularly when it's wet,which God made it rain because
he loves a good story.
We had 70-something people showup to carry that cross up.
But the cross up there is needsto be sanded and repainted.
Um, we've got a lot of, youknow, here in Tennessee, the
state flower is uh blackberriesand briars because they grow
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everywhere.
So we get to go up there andreclaim that.
So we're gonna do a work partyif you want to come be a part of
that and help us redeem thatmountaintop again.
We're getting a picnic table andwe get a the big windstorm moved
our giant heavy pavilion, youknow, a few feet off of where
it's supposed to be.
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So we need at least two to sixpeople, or sorry, four to six
people to move that effectively,one on each post to get up and
move it without breaking it.
So um, so we'll have more datesof that.
We'll put it out there and we'llget some people over there and
we'll get it done.
We want to get it looking goodfor this year, and I'm gonna be
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weed whacking down the tree lineso the cross can be seen up and
down the street.
Because boy, does the junglegrow.
It grows.
All right, so you guys knowhere, you've been watching us
long enough, or if you're newhere, we don't do Christianity
accidentally.
We deliberately do Christianityby by doing the following.
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We deliberately fight for arelationship with our Lord and
Savior Jesus by studying hisword and through prayer.
We deliberately raise our familyChristian and we pour into them
every single day.
Every day we pick one and wepour into them and we just keep
rotating through.
We try to be functionally fithere.
You don't have to win a bestbody contest.
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You don't have to be able to runa marathon, but you should be
able to move and you should beable to take care of yourself,
or else, what good are you ifyou're a kosh potato?
I guess you command some phonelines, but that's about it.
Uh, finances, we fight todeliberately use our war chest
that we're blessed with, whichis what God gives us and has
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blessed us with for his kingdomand not ours.
Okay.
And we try to avoid the twopitfalls of, you know, slave to
debt and a slave to, you know,materialism.
And then fundamentals, we try tobe the best asset we can be for
our families as well as ourcommunity by learning as many
skills as you can that arebeneficial.
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Okay, some of them arecarpentry, electrical, plumbing,
gardening, animal husbandry,things I thought I'd never say
as a city kid.
But others are firearms andcombatives and Brazilian jujitsu
and all that other stuff.
So if you're gonna go out and goout this door right here.
The next is fellowship.
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Okay.
Fellowship is we deliberatelytry not to do this life alone.
This godly life alone, it onlyworks if you're doing it with
other people in service to otherpeople.
And then fidelity, we try tomake our whole life look godly.
Now, this is something we havestruggled with here on this
property, as I was injuredalmost all of last year, and you
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know, being quad vocational andLauren almost dying and
everything else, the propertyhas gotten run down here.
And we've been very convicted tomake it godly from the curb to
the back.
And we're starting that process,pecking at it a little bit every
day, but 44 acres takes a longtime, particularly when you work
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multiple jobs and you have afarm and you have three kids,
and none of them are veryeffective at doing anything
other than picking up smallitems, right?
So we're gonna be talking a lotabout that today.
Now, we're I'm teaching Nehemiah3 and 4 today.
Okay, I've never taught Nehemiah3 before.
Nehemiah 3 is kind of just a logof who did what, and I'm gonna
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touch on that because it'simportant.
And then Nehemiah 4, I've taughtprobably almost more than
anything in this church becauseit is the found Nehemiah 4.14 is
the founding like verse of thischurch.
And so I'm going to be coming atit in a in a more applicable way
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for you to apply it to yourlife.
Okay, not always warfare or anyof these other things or
protecting your family.
There's that in there, but it'salso about sanctifying your own
life.
Let's face it, we all aresucking.
Um my family's in a season ofsuck right now.
Everyone's in the grumps orsick, you know, we got sick kids
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and grumpy kids and everythingelse going on.
And it's hard to get a um tostay positive and to be the
light in the room that we needto.
It takes effort.
It takes ungodly effort when youdon't feel like it to be happy
and to project happiness.
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And just, but it is a decision.
It is a decision.
Okay.
That's why I love that song byJosiah Queen, because the whole
first ver uh part of it is he'ssitting there feeling sorry for
himself.
He's, you know, screaming at thesky, I'm done, I'm done.
And then God says, Watch yourmouth, boy.
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Don't you talk like that.
The holes inside my hand showyou have all my love.
And if that doesn't snap you outof your pity party, I don't know
what does, because it does forme.
And I've got I've been known tobe able to throw some pretty
good pity parties for myself.
You know, there's few gripers inthe world like my family, and
then you roll that into lawenforcement who are world-class
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gripers and the military, andyou've got the Pro Bowl, the
best of the best gripers in thewhole entire world.
So fighting that tooth and nailto not be the negative person
that you can be is a for me, isgoing to be one of my lifelong
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thorns in my side that Paultalks about.
You know, and we have to resistthat with everything we have
because it's so easy to rollover and play dead.
And all you're gonna do is makeyourself more miserable.
You know, all you're gonna makeyourself more miserable.
Now, Lauren and the kids wentaway for five days, and I
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thought, I'm gonna have some metime, and that's gonna make me
feel good.
And what I've learned again forthe hundredth time is me time
never makes me feel good.
The me time only makes me feelhorrible, and I just become the
worst version of me during thattime.
The only life worth living, andGod has wired us all this way,
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is the life that Jesus walkedout, which is a life of service
to others.
That is the only way you'regonna wake up with a smile on
your face.
It is the only way you're evergoing to do anything right.
And Nehemiah 4:14, or sorry,Nehemiah 3 and 4, is a version
of this in their life, asthey're walking out, as they're
repairing Jerusalem and the wallaround Jerusalem as it has
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completely been destroyed.
So that's the setting for today.
All right.
I'll get into that a little bitmore.
Warrior Catechism, we're on weeknine.
Warrior, what is the church?
The assembly of all truebelievers called out to worship,
disciple, equip, and advanceGod's kingdom in the world.
Warrior, what is the church?
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The assembly of all truebelievers called out to worship,
disciple, equip, and advanceGod's kingdom in the world.
One more time.
Warrior, what is the church?
The assembly of all truebelievers called out to worship,
disciple, equip, and advanceGod's kingdom in the world.
The other thing I want to coveris our is our uh Christian
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warrior Patreon page, which isum, you know, the it has
undergone massive changes andsoftening to make it more
palatable for people to do.
Um, it is a community and asupport group of people who are
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just like you.
And we come there and wedeliberately pursue those seven
principles.
But if you're doing theChristian, there's there's two
ways to do it.
The Christian warrior way,right?
Which is basically you get onthere and you post when you can
what you do, and you just logwhat day you're on, right?
And if you don't do everything,that's fine.
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Just post what you're doing andbe honest.
And you'll see, guys, in there,I am so proud of the men that I
see in there right now.
And Lauren's starting, I think,Monday again, because you know,
you know, with the trip andeverything else, she was having
a hard time doing that.
And uh watching people beextremely vulnerable and owning
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up to their faults, theirvictories, their struggles,
their their needs, andeverything else.
And it has been so it's the onlyreason it gets me out of the bed
sometimes.
Okay.
You know, I don't have a bigchurch with a bunch of smiling
faces looking at me that I'mdoing stuff.
People only show up here forthis church usually when when
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their whole life is fallingapart and they need a reset and
they come to church.
Okay, or someone's gettingmarried, or someone died, and
that's where it comes in becauseall of a most of our congregants
are out of state or out of townor far away.
So watching these guys walkthrough their lives there and
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knowing owning their struggleshas been amazing.
Absolutely amazing, and it makesme want to be more vulnerable in
there.
Because of that, we put itbehind a small paywall.
Now you can donate as much asyou want in there to be a part
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of it, but it's a it's like amonthly subscription service
where I think you can do it with10 box.
I can't remember where I set thebasement at, but it's cheap.
And that's just to make sopeople can't come in there and
see what everyone else is doingand leech you off of it.
They have to have some skin inthe game, and there's a way, you
know, they're they're paying, sothey're real people, you know,
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they're not bots, they're notanything else, and it just adds
a layer of privacy to it.
It gets us some skin in thegame, and um, so we did that.
So I encourage you to do thatbecause the other way is the
real hard one, and that's theforging, and that's 90 days
straight.
And you can't like we made it sohardcore because we went really
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light with the Christian warriorway, and we're all on the
Christian Warrior way, right?
That is basically for the restof your life, you're gonna be
doing this, and hopefully you'rejournaling because that's all
this really is.
This is group journalingtogether, and it's a support
group for that, right?
People are praying for me inthis ministry, I'm praying for
other people, I'm praying fortheir family members, you know,
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and you're and you're gettingall these guns pointed in the
right direction and and andlocking shields to one another,
and it's really great.
But the the the forging is whenyour life is a mess or your
faith has not grown.
And that is when you do 90 days,you don't miss a post, you don't
miss a day, or you start over.
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Okay, I'm starting over thethird time.
So no one's perfect, no one'sgonna be perfect, and it's it is
humbling, and it's gonna be oneof the hardest things you ever
do, but it is also the wayyou'll get the most growth.
So that's all that.
So um let's go ahead and pray itin.
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King Jesus, good shepherd,captain of our salvation, we
praise you for gathering thiscompany.
Set your good hand upon us,consecrate our hands, our homes,
and our tools as the sheepgate.
Sorry, tools at the sheepgate.
Drive back the schemes of theevil one, ignite Baruch's zeal
in our bones, steal us withNehemiah's courage, and wheel
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and weld us shoulder toshoulder, so there are no gaps
in the wall.
Teach us to pray like warriors,work like craftsmen, and watch
like sentries.
Breathe upon us by your spirit,make us quick to repent, swift
to forgive, dangerous to thedarkness, and gentle to the
weak.
Establish the work of our handsfor the defense of your people
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and the exaltation of your name.
Amen.
Not gonna do the Lord's Prayertoday.
We get a lot to cover, so we didthat one, and we're just gonna
drive on.
So the context, we did Nehemiah1 and 2 already.
We are in uh 44 445 BC underArtax of Xerces.
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Okay, our tax Xerces uh first,Nehemiah, cupbearer, turned
governor now, um, returns tobuild Jerusalem's wall.
The cupbearer isn't just a guywho carries a cup, it's more of
a bodyguard type position, likea secret service position.
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Um, so the thing to know aboutNehemiah 3 is an operations
ledger.
We're gonna hit a couple verses,a few verses in there just so
you the just so you can see whatand why.
And then Nehemiah 4 is thecombat conditions.
Together they make literally thesword and the trowel.
A brief review of Nehemiah 1 and2, recon, repentance, and rally.
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Nehemiah 1, report, weeping,fasting, prayer.
Nehemiah hears of great evil andreproach.
I don't know if you guys canhear all the kids screaming.
If you can, I'm sorry, they'rein the kitchen right now going
nuts.
Nehemiah hears of a great eviland reproach.
The wall of Jerusalem is brokendown.
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He sits, weeps, fasts, andprays.
A model of adoration,confession, personal and
corporate.
He confesses and repents for allof his sin and his people's sin.
Covenant remembrance andpetition for favor.
In Nehemiah too, we see favor,planning, recon, and charge.
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And Nisan, or Nisan, whatever,N-I-S-A-N.
God grants favor before ourtaxerces.
Nehemiah arrives with letters,timber, and authority.
Does a night reconnaissance,then gives the charge.
You see the bad situation we arein.
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Come, let us rebuild.
The people respond, let us ariseand build.
Opposition mocks, but Nehemiahanswers, the God of heaven will
make us prosper.
All right, so the lessons fromone and two.
Crisis to prayer reflex.
This is something I have tobattle with, everything I have.
When crisis comes for me, Ialmost never instantly go to
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prayer.
When crisis comes to me, unlessit's something I can't control.
When Lauren almost died ingiving birth to um to um her
son, I immediately went toprayer because I can't, I
couldn't do anything.
It was out out of my hands.
But typically when crisis comes,I massive action is what I do.
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And that's not the right way todo it.
We before you make plans, whichyou should be doing plans before
you're acting, seek God.
And if you have time, seek Godwith fasting.
Okay.
Next, name sin, not justenemies.
Own your own mistakes for thesituation you're in.
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Pray God, scripture back to God.
We always pray our wish list,our want list, and all these
things.
God loves hearing his word.
It's his language.
Praying his word back to him.
Proves you're his.
Plan everything like it dependson you.
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Ask for time, timber, andtransition.
Build a real checklist.
Okay?
Plan like it depends on you.
Again, ask for time, timber, andtransition.
Or transit.
Build a real checklist.
Recon and silence.
I told no one.
Nehemiah went in the silence ofthe night to look at the
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problems.
Inspect at night, map gate,seems rubble.
Expect at your worst.
That's at night.
At your worst.
It doesn't have to be at night.
That is just for that situation.
That's what it was.
And then charge with hope.
Tie work to God's hands.
Anytime you're tying somethingto glorifying God, it's a good
thing.
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The good hand of my God was uponme, is what Nehemiah said.
Answer mockery with theology andboundaries.
Nehemiah told his mockers, Youhave no portion or right of or
remembrance in Jerusalem.
Okay, so what do we do asfamilies with what we reviewed?
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As a family, list your top threebreaches at home.
Marriage communication, maybechild discipleship, finances,
debt, household order, safetyreadiness, destructive media
habits, strained neighbors.
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You know what they are.
Those are just some.
List them.
List your top three.
Fast and pray on Wednesday.
Fast from Tuesday night toWednesday night.
And pray Nehemiah 1, 5 through11 aloud.
Now, this isn't just somethingyou should do for this week.
I recommend you do what we'rehighlighting today for a season.
SPEAKER_00 (25:50):
For a season.
Okay.
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Name your spouse and children in specific breaches.
Okay.
So as a family, when you seethose breaches, if it's somebody
in your family specifically thatis causing that, name them.
Okay?
Name them and tie them to thebreaches.
Build an ask list.
Time timber transit.
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Time.
Block calendar slots forscripture, family councils,
repairs, training.
As a family, we're doing a lotright now with this.
We're walking this out in realtime as we are reclaiming our 44
acres for the Lord here.
He blessed us with it, and weneed to make it look like it's
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God's.
Okay.
Timber, these are items andskills needed.
Bibles, door hardware, ammo, medkits, budget tools, parenting
class, you know, whatever,right?
Transit, get your permissions.
Okay.
If you're gonna start concealedcarrying, go to a class, get
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your concealed carry permit.
If you're going to have a gun inyour house, get good storage,
learn how to use it.
If you're gonna if you'resomebody who lives alone and you
wanna be able to protectyourself and you decided that
you're not gonna be a victim andyou're gonna go get a firearm,
go get the right training andknow how to do it, and make sure
they train you for yoursituation.
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Okay, your situation.
If you're not mobile, don't letthem make you go out and do
ridiculous things that some ofthese guys do.
All right.
Next, so this is also so sorryfor translation.
This is like bedtimes, screens,spending rules, charm rotations,
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we might ask for us, as well asyou know, sanctioned things from
the city, state, federalgovernment.
Run a night recon or a home walkthrough.
It doesn't have to be a night,it's just walk when it's at its
worst.
Quietly walk the perimeterrooms, identify your gates,
front back, garage doors,bedroom doors, internet, TV,
content gate, your cell phones,budget for you guys with older
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kids who are on their cellphones, budget money gate, list
the doors, bolts, and barsyou'll see.
Needing repair.
You remember these doors, bolts,bars, you're gonna see this
standard.
Needing repair, both hardware,locks, lights, numbers, habits,
devotion time, scream rules,emergency roles, all these
things need to be deliberate.
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And this is gonna sound cheesy,but for those of you leading
your house and you're a newChristian and you're trying to
figure out what are you gonnado, draft a family rally speech,
one paragraph to your household.
You see the bad situation we arein.
Come let us rebuild.
Okay?
This is again you leading, youtaking ownership, you stepping
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up and not commanding, butleading through inspiration.
Propose two concrete steps andwhen you'll do them.
Pick one repair to starttomorrow.
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Name the owner, the standard ofwhat needs to be done, and what
it needs how it needs to look,and check back in time.
So now, without further ado,let's get into Nehemiah 3.
All right, we're gonna do threeNehemiah 3-1, 3-5, 3-10, 3-12,
3-20, and 3-32.
We're gonna jump around and I'mgonna read them all and then
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I'll unpack them.
3 1.
Then Elishaab and the highpriest arose with his brothers,
the priests, and built the sheepgate, and they sanctified it and
set up its doors.
They started, the priestsstarted.
Moreover, and three down tothree five, next to him, the
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Tekuites repaired, but theirnobles did not put their
shoulders to the work of theLord.
Okay, so there's someone beingcalled out for being lazy.
And next to them, Jediah, theson of Harum, sorry, Harumap,
repaired opposite his house,proximity, you'll see.
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And next to him, Shalom repairedhe and his daughters.
So there he's incorporating thegirls and the women.
After him, Baruch zealouslyrepaired another section.
There is someone getting praise.
And between the upper chambersin the corner of the sheep gate,
the goldsmiths and the merchantsrepaired.
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All right, so what does this allmean?
It just sounds like work list,right?
What the MIR3 actually is is aspirit-breathed project ledger.
God records who worked, wherethey worked, and with what
standard.
A lot of people, anytime theywant to do good something for
God, they volunteer, theydonate, and what is it?
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They give their worst efforts,they donate their junk, right,
instead of the best.
God's standard, if you're gonnaput God's name on it, it better
be the best you can do.
Okay.
They work to what standard?
That means ordinarycraftsmanship, family ownership,
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immeasurable finish or theology,not just admin.
The thing that's great here iseach family was given ownership.
And they weren't working faraway, they weren't going to
Haiti to do something, they wereworking at what was right at
their feet.
So, some terms that if you hadread the we had read the whole
thing, you'd hear over and overagain.
Some refrain.
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With meaning, next to him orafter him.
The wall rises by adjacenteffort, meaning by effort of
people next to one another, notisolated heroics.
Every section touches anothersection.
Scenes are owned where two arejoined.
Not assumed.
SPEAKER_00 (32:11):
Your obedience enables your neighbors.
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (32:16):
You walking out a godly existence serves as an
example of what a Christianshould be to your neighbors.
Oh, that can be prettyconvicting when your house and
everything and your propertiesrun down.
Right?
Right?
Yeah.
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Okay, so again, nothing in thischapter.
Everything was done deliberatelyand handed off, and there was
ownership and accountability allthe way through.
You hear this term, opposite hishouse, you'll hear you would
have heard over and over again.
Assignments are approximate,meaning right where you're
standing.
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Families repair what they livebeside.
Your first ministry is yourfront door, your marriage, your
children, your budget, yourhabits, and your literal locks.
SPEAKER_00 (33:13):
That's your first ministry in that.
That's something we all gonna dobetter at what you do here.
SPEAKER_01 (33:26):
Get this right before you go here.
Okay?
Doors, bolts, bars.
God requires finished to spec,meaning a standard, not vibes.
Gates aren't done until theyclose, lock, and hold.
So when you write yourstandards, write acceptable
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acceptance criteria for yourwork at home.
What does done look like?
When the kids, before the kidsgo to bed, they're gonna go
around and the floor is gonna beclean of all the toys, all
debris, and swept vacuum.
Like, where is the standard?
So you can come out and say thestandard wasn't met.
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Okay.
So some things and why itmatters.
Worship leads the work.
The priests started.
The priests sanctify the sheepgate first.
And the circuit ends there,meaning that's where it starts
at the sheep gate, goes all theway around, ends at the sheep
gate.
Frame your labor in prayer andconsecration.
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Proximity assignsresponsibility.
Refrain.
Okay, that's not like, don't dothat.
This is something like a musicwhere it's constantly brought up
over and over again andrepeated.
God expects near field repairsfirst.
Before you sail away to amillion miles away to do
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something for somebody else, getyour own house in order.
Okay, cohesion closes seams.
The editorial stitch next to himensures no gaps.
Cooperate across seams.
Don't leave hands up handoffsfuzzy.
You know, this is just goodsolid practice.
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Always know when your job's doneand you're handing it on to
somebody else to do somethingthat that is done to its
fullness.
Standards are defined.
Okay.
Quality and inspection aregodly.
Women were included.
Shalem works with his daughters.
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Train and honor women asco-builders.
Zeal honored.
Karuoch is singled out for zeal.
God notices pace and heart.
And then slackers are named.
Takoa's nobles refuse to bendthe neck.
Yet the people of Tokoa work twosections.
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Titles don't measurecontribution, faithfulness does.
So gate discipleship, symbol andpractice.
Each one of these gates actuallymeans something.
I mean, this book is amazing.
Sheepgate, worship andatonement.
Start with God, dedicate yourlabor.
Practice, uh, practice, open theday with scripture and a short
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family prayer.
You should be doing thatanyways, right?
Fish gate, witness work, marketneed morale or morals.
Your trade, your job is yourpulpit.
Practice one intentional gospelconversation or mercy act
weekly.
Should be doing that anyways,right?
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The old Jashana gate, doctrineand stability, keep the ancient
past, practice catechism, QA.
Memorize a catechism each week.
Valley gate, humility andendurance, low places, build
grit.
Own your own sin as a family,forgive, plan, and repair.
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The dung gate.
Who thought you'd find that inthe Bible?
Dung gate.
Repentance and refuse removal.
This is a hard one for most ofus.
Throw out what defiles.
Whatever is dragging you down,and whatever is defiling your
soul.
Throw it out.
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Practice weekly trash list, onesin habit and one time waster
purged.
SPEAKER_00 (37:32):
You know how hard that is gonna be for a lot of
us?
To purge your time wasters.
SPEAKER_01 (37:40):
So my girls are practicing service without me
telling them.
And they both bought me twoglasses of water to be kind to
me.
The fountain gate, life in thespirit.
Guard your lifelines.
Okay?
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Daily psalm and two minutes ofsilence with God minimum.
Water gate, word saturation.
Scripture is at the center.
Practice nightly chapter, readaloud with one comprehensive
question.
You should be reading yourBible, anyways.
These are just deeper ways to doit.
Try to come up with as many waysas I can because some people
learn some ways and some peoplelearn in other ways.
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By reading it out loud, itcauses you some people to
process it deeper.
The horse gate, my favorite.
Readiness and defense.
Prepared to protect.
Practice combatives, fitness,and tactical skills along with
trauma skills.
Eastgate, watchful hope.
Start the day with expectation.
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A fasting prayer once a week.
Give thanks.
Ask big.
Start your day with prayinghope.
SPEAKER_00 (38:52):
And on that Wednesday, make that your big
one, your fasting day.
And then the muster gate,inspection, accountability.
SPEAKER_01 (39:04):
Review and inspect everything that your family's
supposed to be doing.
Don't trust that it's done.
Always verify.
Okay.
Household drills.
Draw your wall map, paper, orwhiteboard with eight to ten
sections (39:23):
marriage, kids, home, home order, finances, media,
hospitality, safety, work.
Write one breach and one repairunder each.
Two, write one standard for yourdoors, bolts, bars.
That's some in chapter three,it's mentioned over and over.
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Pick a task you usually wing,meaning that you do it half, I
almost said halfway.
Um family worship, budget,bedtime routine, door security.
Define what done means.
Do everything as if you're doingit for God and watch your life
change.
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Okay.
And if you want to write itdown, one to three things and
what's done, act like you'rebecause we've we're all starting
this.
And very few of us have beendoing this from Go.
And if you're training youngkids or teenagers, God help you.
Write it down as if a guest iscoming over and how to lock up,
what to do.
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Name your adjacent seam.
List who is next to you, anotherfamily, neighbor, family member,
small group friend.
Write one way you will supporttheir section this week.
Watch kids for an hour, sharetools, pray together, check on a
way on a widow.
Honor zeal and confront slack.
Publicly praise the Baruch inyour home, the person who's
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doing a good job.
Privately address the noble ofTokoa.
That's your slacker.
Behavior in yourself, excusemaking, and replace it with a
small act of obedience today.
Okay, so if you've got a littlebit of tacoa in you, get rid of
it.
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Okay, now I was gonna doNehemiah 4 in addition to that,
but that took a long time.
So we're gonna go ahead.
Actually, no, we started reallylate.
We started at 20 pass, so I gottime.
All right, so Nehemiah 4, 1through 23.
Nehemiah again, Nehemiah 4 isone of my favorite chapters in
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the whole book.
So I'm gonna go through this andwe'll break it down as we go.
Nehemiah 4, 1 through 23.
Now it happens that Sam Ballat,who was a bad guy, heard that we
were rebuilding the wall.
He became furious and very angryand mocked the Jews.
He spoke in the presence of hisbrothers and the wealthy men of
Sumaria and said, What are thesefeeble Jews doing?
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Are they going to restore itthemselves?
Can they offer sacrifices?
Can they finish in a day?
Can they revive the stones fromthe dusty heaps, even burned
ones?
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was nearhim and he said, Even what they
are building, if a fox shouldjump on it, he would break down
their stone wall.
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So they're being mocked, they'rebeing made fun of.
Mockery is an open salve, anopening salvo.
Opposition often begins withcontempt to sap your morale, to
drain morale, kill your morale.
Expect ridicule when you'redoing great things.
Don't debate scoffers whileyou're while you're laying the
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course.
Just get back to work.
Proverbs says, Whoever is slackin his work is a brother to him
who destroys.
Teach your family that when wewhen we are mocked, we pray,
keep pace, and recite ourstandard.
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Picking up verse four.
Hear, O God, how we aredespised.
Return their reproach on theirown head and give them up to
plunder in a land of captivity.
Do not cover their iniquity anddo not let their sin be wiped
out before you, for they haveprovoked you to anger before
their builders.
Nehemiah is not afraid to prayagainst his enemies.
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Nehemiah goes vertical first,straight to God.
Prayer is petition for righteousreversal.
Psalm style honesty beatshorizontal venting.
Right?
Instead of battling with themhere, go here to go to God.
Commit your works to Yahweh andyour plans will be established.
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Proverbs 16:3.
Write a one-sentence prayeragainst specific pressure you
face.
Pray it aloud.
Whatever it is that's draggingyou down, pray it aloud.
Pray against it.
4-6.
So we rebuilt the wall, and thewhole wall was joined together
to half its height.
And the people at heart to work,they're making progress.
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The whole wall, as everyone'sdoing, is half the height it
should be.
Okay?
It's half the height it shouldbe.
That means the gates aren'thanging yet because guess what?
You can't hang gates on half awall, but they're making
progress, and the people aremotivated.
Unity of will acceleratesprogress.
Celebrate halfway wins.
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Momentum matters.
When you hit check marks, oryour kids hit check marks, or a
family member kicks a problem ordoes something great, celebrate
it.
The plan of the diligence surelyleads to advantage, Proverbs 21.
Put a visible progress bar onyour wall.
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Budget, declutter, catechism,heart, whatever it is, whatever
it is you're doing, a progressbar motivates people to go and
keep doing things forward.
I think that's a great idea.
4-7.
Now it happened that whenSambelat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the
Ammonites, and the Astroditesheard the repairs in the wall of
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Jerusalem went on, and that thebreaches began to be closed,
they were very angry.
And all of them conspiredtogether to come fight against
Jerusalem and to cause adisturbance in it.
Escalation to plots, ridiculeand rumor, and then violence
planning.
Application, build concentricrings, prayer, policy, posture,
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preparedness.
A prudent man sees evil andhides himself.
Proverbs 22, 3.
Name your three rings for theLord for the Lord's Day.
Consecration, prayer.
You know, so when you're gettingready to do your Lord's Day,
what are the three things thatyou're going to do?
The things that you'rechallenged by.
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So there's that posture.
We're not going to be easyvictims.
We're going to resist you thewhole way.
We're not going to be targets.
You know, so often in crime,particularly in the city, but
crime anywhere, is often becausethere is no resistance.
The irresistible draw of an easytarget to an evil person is
awful.
SPEAKER_00 (46:34):
So pray and post a guard, 4-9.
SPEAKER_01 (46:40):
Scripture marries devotion to diligence.
Too often we as Christians wejust pray, but we don't do the
diligence part.
We don't do our part.
Spiritual and practical isobedience, not unbelief.
SPEAKER_00 (46:51):
The horse is prepared for the day of battle,
but the victory belongs toYahweh.
SPEAKER_01 (47:00):
Thus, in Judah it was said, the strength of the of
the burden bears is failing, yetthere is much rubble, and we
ourselves are unable to rebuildthe wall.
So here comes the negativespeakers.
Here comes the people trying toshatter the morale.
This is eternal fatigue and dragand people who just want to
quit.
Internal friction can outweighan external threat.
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Remove clutter, short loops,plan rest.
So much of what we do here onthis farm, and I don't mean to
always bring it back to me, butI'm trying to make it
applicable, is we don't have theright equipment, we don't have
the right people, we don't havethe right horsepower, we don't
have the right knowledge,nothing is optimal, and
everything we're doing is sixtimes harder than it should be.
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So we are deliberately trying toimprove our processes.
As the kids age and they becomemore useful, we are trying to
give them tasks that they canhandle.
We are bartering and trainingservices and product to get
people here to help with whatwe're doing here.
All right.
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My wife's a reformed city girl.
We don't didn't have theknow-how.
We had to acquire it.
Proverb, by wisdom a house isbuilt through knowledge, his
rooms are filled.
Proverbs 24, 3 and 4.
Every day before you go to bed,20-minute rubble sweep.
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Physical clutter, or if you'reworking and say that's that's
one part of your problem.
Let's say that's not a problem.
Budget leaks.
We're looking at your budget.
Calendar bloat.
You got too much stuff scheduledin there.
Whatever it is, before the nextbuild, before the next task,
deal with it.
411, our adversary said theywill not know or see until we
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are coming among them to killthem and put a stop to the work.
So let me read that again.
Sorry, my eyes aren't doing sogood today.
Our adversary said they will notknow or see until we come among
them to kill them and to put astop to the work.
Now it happened that when theJews who lived near them came,
they told and told us ten timesthey will come up against us
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from every place where you mayturn.
So now they're threatening.
And now the cowards are showingthemselves.
Ten times the surrounding peoplewanted, you know, came up and
told them that they were gonnaget killed.
This is psyops and rumor loops.
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Fear multiplies by repetition.
Proximity to fear sources spikeanxiety.
The more you're around a fearfulperson, the more they
contaminate you.
The more you're around acourageous person, the more they
the more braver you're going tobe.
Courage is contagious as isfear.
Cut the fear cancers out of yourlife.
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They will kill you and you willlive a life of doing nothing
because all they do is panic andfear everything.
You can be cautious.
You can see the eye, the worldwith eyes wide open, and then
counter it.
But get away from cancerouscowards.
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Establish a truth channel, uhthrottle.
This is our news.
I drink the poison of the newsfor our family.
I have to sit there and siftthrough Fox and Twitter and the
rest to be informed so ourfamily knows what's going on in
the world.
And it is a cancerous, awfulthing that I have to do.
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But someone's got to do it.
I'm the throttle.
Okay.
A smart emergency thing to do,just throwing this in there, is
uh particularly for everyonewho's got older kids.
Again, we get younger ones thatdon't have cell phones, they're
not gonna have them for a verylong time, all that stuff.
But start a group Family TextNow that's an emergency channel.
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So when you need it, it's thereand you can communicate instead
of having to build it in time.
413, and then I stationed men inthe lowest parts, the space, uh,
lowest parts of the space behindthe wall, in the exposed places.
And I stationed the people infamilies with their swords,
spears, and bows.
The key word there is families.
These people were fighting fortheir own families.
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You know who, if you're notgonna fight for your families,
who are you gonna fight for?
The most tenacious fightingyou'll ever do is for your
family.
Okay, and Nehemiah is nowcountering what he's hearing
from the rule.
I mean, he's an amazing leader.
I mean, I can't wait to meet himin heaven.
Um defense is local andfamilial.
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Tools are visible.
Your first priority is yourhousehold and gathering.
The wise man scales the city ofthe mighty, Proverbs 21, 22.
414.
Then I saw their fear.
So now Nehemiah is telling themstuff and he sees they're
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scared.
So as a commander, he'srecognizing this.
And here he says, this is theverse 414, my favorite one of my
favorite verses in the Bibles.
And I stood and I said to thenobles and the officials and the
rest of the people, do not fearthem.
Remember the Lord who is greatand fearsome, and fight for your
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brothers, your sisters, yourdaughters, your wives, and your
houses.
The antidote to fear is rememberGod and fight for named loved
ones.
Tie missions to faces.
If I'm fighting for somewhatever, if I'm fighting for my
wife, my daughter, my mom, myson, forget it.
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Like there's nothing I'm gonnafight harder for than that.
The name of Yahweh is a strongtower.
The righteous run into it andthey're set on high.
Proverbs 18.10.
Here's a drill for you to do.
Speak 414 aloud before theLord's day.
Each person's name is whothey're fighting for this week.
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Again, this is something weshould be doing for a long time,
not just this week.
415.
Now it happened when our enemiesheard that it was known to us
and that God had frustratedtheir counsel.
Then we all returned to the walland each one to his work.
God frustrates the plots,they're not an easy target
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anymore.
Nehemiah has countered them.
Wise teams sprint whenpressure's lift.
Now they've got momentum,they're taking off.
Keep a reticue, exploit when uhopen doors.
You know, depending on what youdo and how you do it, if all of
a sudden, like here on the farm,I'm gonna bring it back to that.
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If a friend of mine's like, heyJay, I got some time and I've
got this, you know, I've got askid steer, you know, can I come
on over and help?
We're gonna drop everything andbe ready to go help that guy do
that.
So we can, instead of him beingable to do one mile of stuff,
he'll be able to do five becausewe're there to help him.
And we're gonna seize on thatmomentum.
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Maintain a short list ofrepairs.
Um, and then when some when anopportunity comes around,
execute it immediately.
So, again, that's just seizingopportunities as they come.
416.
Now it happened from that day onthat half of my servants did
work, while half of them heldspears and shields and the bows
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and the body armor, and thecommanders were behind all the
houses of Judah.
Those who were rebuilding thewall, and those who carried
burdens carried with one handdoing the work and with the
other holding a weapon.
Again, this carrying concealedand being an armed citizen is
not new.
Here, we're talking thousands ofyears ago, they're already doing
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it.
Okay, and this is how we need tolive today, because we are
surrounded by evil andwickedness.
Half guard, half build.
Carriers do dual tasks.
They have they build and they'rearmed.
Define rules, builders, guards,runners, overseers.
Okay, this is more fororganizations.
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Without counsel, plans arefrustrated, but with many
counselors they succeed.
SPEAKER_00 (55:43):
All right.
SPEAKER_01 (55:44):
As for the builders, each wore his sword, girded at
his side, while the trumpeterstood beside me.
Sword at his side, trumpeterbeside the leader.
Keep tools where they belong.
Specific who triggers the alert.
Prepare your work outsideoutside and make it ready for
yourself in the fail, Proverbs24-7.
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Again, you know, having comms,we have radios, we have phones,
we have all that stuff.
You can't, you know, thetrumpet, they had to rely on a
trumpet back in the EMIS day.
And you can only have one.
All right.
We don't necessarily need justone, right?
Because if there's a bunch oftrumpets going, then they would
think the attacks everywhere.
Okay.
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As we'll see here in the nextsection.
We're getting there.
And I said to the nobles andofficials and the rest of the
people the work is great andextensive, and we are separated
on the wall, far from oneanother.
At whatever place you hear thesound of the trumpet, gather to
us there, or God will fight forus.
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So they spread out teams.
Teams need a rally point and agot and Godward confidence.
So here they are.
I love this because it is soapplicable.
Where you hear the sound of thetrumpet, go there, right?
Go there and God will fight foryou.
Not, hey, we're not going to doanything, God's gonna fight for
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us, which is what so many dotoday.
21.
So we labored in the work, andhalf of them held spears from
dawn until the stars appeared.
So there are seasons for longhours.
Set a 30-day push with a plannedfeast at the end.
So, like for us, we are rightnow, we have eight months to
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reclaim this farm before thenext growing season, really.
May is when this place explodes.
Okay.
So we are going to do this inlike two-month blocks and then
celebrate.
Do a trip, do something.
Another two months, anothertrip, another two months,
another trip.
Hard work should be rewarded.
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Hard work should be rewarded.
The hand of the diligent willrule, 1224, Proverb.
SPEAKER_00 (58:03):
Okay, and then here we go.
SPEAKER_01 (58:09):
At that time, I also said to the people, let each man
with his servant spend the nightwithin Jerusalem, so they may be
a guard for us by night and alaborer by the day.
Sleeping in kit, stage close tomission.
Pre-stage supplies andresponsibility for big pushes.
The prudent sees evil and hideshimself again, Proverbs 27, 12.
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Again, having your med kit, yourdechoker, your go bag, battery
pack for when power goes out,all that stuff is stuff that we
recommend.
And then lastly, so neither Inor my brothers, my servants,
nor my men of the guard whofollow me, none of us removed
our clothes.
Each took his weapon even to thewater.
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Prepared is not panicked.
Okay, and and hygiene continueswhether you're prepared or not.
Okay.
I remember when I wasbodyguarding a billionaire and I
was staying in a condo.
I had no dog, I had no alarmsystem, I had nothing, and I had
to shower every day.
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And I'm like, well, I can thinkof 51 billion reasons that
somebody would want to hurt mebecause of who I protect.
And I had to come up with a wayto stay sane when I showered
because think of that, you'revulnerable.
You close that curtain, youdon't know what's on the other
side of the door, you can't seeanything, you got auditory
exclusion, you got steam, yougot everything in your face,
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you're washing your hair.
That's why that scene fromPsycho, the old Norman Bates, is
so terrifying because you're sovulnerable.
You're naked.
So I had to come up with asolution.
I went and bought Bing Bongalarms and I put them
everywhere.
So if somebody opens somethingand make noise, and I had, of
course, have my firearm in thebathroom, but that's just an
example.
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Keep your heart with alldiligence.
From it flow the springs oflife.
Proverbs 423.
Establish lawful, contextappropriate, carry, keep or
carry, get habits, keepspiritual discipline flowing.
So some famous voices.
Spurgeon, pray as is pray as ifeverything depended on God.
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Work as if everything dependedon you.
Calvin said, John Calvin, thewelfare of the whole depends on
the fidelity of each part.
And John Christosom said, thework is common, the reward is
one.
So we covered all those.
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So let's go ahead and docommunion.
All right.
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Almighty God, Sovereign Lord ofhosts, we approach your table
today not because we are worthy,but because Christ is worthy.
We come not trusting in our ownrighteousness, but cling to the
righteousness of Christ alone.
We remember his body broken, hisblood poured out for the new
covenant.
We bow in humble gratitude, welift up our hearts in reverent
awe.
Sanctify this bread in this cupand sanctify us your people as
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we proclaim the death,resurrection, and coming kingdom
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We pray this in his mighty,matchless name.
Amen.
The Lord Jesus, in the night inwhich he was being betrayed,
took bread, and when he hadgiven thanks, he broke it and
said, This is my body which isfor you.
Do this in remembrance of me.
Remember, this symbolizes hisbody, pear's beaten, and
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sacrifice for you.
Let us partake of the breadtogether and remember Christ's
broken body for us.
Go ahead and eat.
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Do this as often as you drink inremembrance of me.
This symbolizes his blood.
The blood that purchased ourforgiveness sealed the
everlasting covenant.
Let us partake of the cuptogether to remember Christ's
blood poured out for us.
Go ahead and drink.
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For as often as you eat of thebread and drink of the cup, you
proclaim the death of the Lorduntil he comes.
By this eating and drinking wepublicly proclaim Christ has
died, Christ is risen, Christwill come again.
We are his soldiers in theeverlasting kingdom.
Commander Christ, builder ofyour church and guardian of your
people, we come to you at theclosure of this charge.
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Remember us for good, and setyour good hand upon our work.
Forgive our breaches, cleanseour houses, consecrate our tools
and our time, make our laborworship.
Stir our hearts like BarakBaruch.
Kindle holy zeal.
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Steady our spines like Nehemiahto look mockery in the eye and
answer with faith.
Knit us next to one another,family to family, seam to seam,
so there are no gaps in thewall.
Teach us to pray like warriors,work like craftsmen and watch
like sentries.
Arm us with the sword of yourspirit, which is the word of
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God.
Place in our other hand thetrowel of service.
Strengthen feeble knees, liftdrooping hands, let courage rise
as we remember Yahweh, great andawesome, and fight for our
brothers, our sons, ourdaughters, our wives, and our
houses.
Give us clean hands, clean eyes,and willing hearts.
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Establish the work of our hands,build the walls of our homes,
fortify our marriages, discipleour children, bless our
neighbors, make us dangerous tothe darkness and gentle to the
weak.
Let us rally, be sure, let ourrally be sure, our trumpet
clear, our standard firm, doors,bolts, and bars secure.
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And now, God of peace, equip usin every good work to do your
will, working in us that whichis pleasing to in your sight
through Jesus Christ.
Make us steadfast, immovable,always abounding in the work of
the Lord, knowing that the Lordare that in the Lord our labor
is not in vain.
For unless Yahweh builds thehouse, those who build it and
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labor in vain.
King Jesus lead on.
We rise to build and stand toGod for your glory and for the
good of your people.
Amen.
Go ahead and rise.
The God of heaven will make usprosper, and he will and his
servants will arise and build.
Go, encourage charity, and quietconfidence.
Lock shields and love yourneighbors.
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In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
God bless you.
Happy Lord's Day to you.
I hope you had a greatproductive one like we did
around here.
We had just some uh what I wouldcall fidelity work today, making
the property um look godly andum boy kids are special.
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But um hope you had a good day,hope you had a good week.
Uh I know my last sermon wasextremely late.
Today we did some extendedworship.
Um man, that Josiah Queen umsong, Watch Your Mouth Boy,
absolutely crushes me.
It's uh it's a good one if youhaven't heard it.
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Um I'm constantly looking forgood music that is godly out
there, and um I absolutely lovethat song.
So there's a lot of artists thatI am finding now.
My playlist was stagnant forabout a year and a half, and now
um there's I'm just stumblingupon um some really good stuff
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and actually some good workoutmusic too.
There was you know a couple onesout there that I just got a rock
and tune to it that you canactually like throw some weight
around.
So uh so, anyways, welcome toChristian Warrior Mission, Home
Church, Community, Ministry, andFarm, forging Christian Warriors
for today's challenges.
Christian Warrior Mission forgesmen, women, and families into
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battle-ready disciples of KingJesus, locking shields and
advancing on every front.
So Christ is honored, his peopleare protected, and his kingdom
surges into every sphere oflife.
Advance on every front, everyday, no excuses, no retreats.
Okay.
I do everything in this churchfor the individual and for the
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families out there.
You know, we are not a church, abig church with a bunch of
people in here, there's hardlyanyone here.
Um online, I know we have peoplewho follow us, and that's what
matters.
Um, is that we're making aneffect on some people's lives.
So all the talking points, ornot the talk, the takeaway
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points and the application thatwe pull from the Bible, I try to
put it through the lens, theproper biblical lens, and how
where the rubber meets the roadis you and your daily walk with
your family.
Okay, now we here talk aboutthings way more kinetic than
most people.
I mean kinetic, meaning thatyes, we battle against powers
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and principalities and spiritsand and everything else, right?
And you know, and Paul says wedon't battle against flesh and
blood.
But the all those are theultimate enemies, right?
But our enemies do use meatpuppets.
And those are the people that wesee around here.
Those are the rapists and themurderers and the bad guys and
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Atifa and the entire DemocratParty that is insistent on
killing children and mutilatingkids and stuff.
So um, so yeah, we have evil andwe do have to prepare, and we do
have people that want to hurtus, and we have to protect our
homes and our families and allwe hold dear.
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We will not test the Lord, wewill trust the Lord.
Okay.
So some announcements.
Reformation Day, October 31st.
Get your godly costumes ready.
So we're gonna have it here.
We're gonna have a fire outfront, we're gonna get, you
know, have the kids, we're gonnahave, you know, uh bobbin for
apples tank, we're uh trying toget a pinata and all kinds of
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stuff for families to come hereand have a good time and to not
let evil take that day over.
Now, if you think you're gonnashow up like a sexy devil and
get in, you're not getting in,right?
Or the pregnant nun or any ofthose other stupid, blasphemous
or costumes.
If you want to show up assomething wholesome and good,
you're more than welcome.
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I got one girl who's gonna be aprincess, and the other who's
gonna be a crusader knight.
Okay.
If you know my kids, you knowwhich one's which.
Okay.
And then Gus will probably be acow or something.
You know, he's a turkey or acow.
He's he's two.
So whatever cute costume we canput him in, but something
wholesome.
Um and we're gonna be here,we're gonna have a good time.
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You know, so we're gonna becranking godly Christian music,
have good food, and you know,and and redeem the night instead
of letting evil run away with itthat happens on Halloween.
We also have two big processingdays coming up.
I know we're getting ready toprocess Karen, our black Angus
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cow, shortly, and pork chop, ourBerkshire pig.
Those are the next two up on thelist, and we might have to get
another freezer because Karen'sgonna be a lot of meat, and so
is pork chop.
But we're trying to do pork chopcloser or close to the
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Reformation Day party, and maybewe'll do pulled pork and all
that stuff and do a pig roastkind of thing.
He's too big to put on a grill.
I mean, he's gonna be over 300pounds, so that's too big to put
on a grill.
But um, you know, we'll doparts, we'll smoke parts of them
and all that stuff.
So that'll be good.
And then the other thing was wegot to schedule a crossfield
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day.
So the the opening day of ourministry here, we put it out on
Memorial Day, about four yearsago now, that we were gonna
carry a 600-pound cross up ourup the mountain on the back of
our property.
I call it a mountain, it's ahill.
But it's a tall hill, and it'sit's very, very challenging,
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particularly when it's wet,which God made it rain because
he loves a good story.
We had 70-something people showup to carry that cross up.
But the cross up there is needsto be sanded and repainted.
Um, we've got a lot of, youknow, here in Tennessee, the
state flower is uh blackberriesand briars because they grow
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everywhere.
So we get to go up there andreclaim that.
So we're gonna do a work partyif you want to come be a part of
that and help us redeem thatmountaintop again.
We're getting a picnic table andwe get a the big windstorm moved
our giant heavy pavilion, youknow, a few feet off of where
it's supposed to be.
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So we need at least two to sixpeople, or sorry, four to six
people to move that effectively,one on each post to get up and
move it without breaking it.
So um, so we'll have more datesof that.
We'll put it out there and we'llget some people over there and
we'll get it done.
We want to get it looking goodfor this year, and I'm gonna be
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weed whacking down the tree lineso the cross can be seen up and
down the street.
Because boy, does the junglegrow.
It grows.
All right, so you guys knowhere, you've been watching us
long enough, or if you're newhere, we don't do Christianity
accidentally.
We deliberately do Christianityby by doing the following.
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We deliberately fight for arelationship with our Lord and
Savior Jesus by studying hisword and through prayer.
We deliberately raise our familyChristian and we pour into them
every single day.
Every day we pick one and wepour into them and we just keep
rotating through.
We try to be functionally fithere.
You don't have to win a bestbody contest.
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You don't have to be able to runa marathon, but you should be
able to move and you should beable to take care of yourself,
or else, what good are you ifyou're a kosh potato?
I guess you command some phonelines, but that's about it.
Uh, finances, we fight todeliberately use our war chest
that we're blessed with, whichis what God gives us and has
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blessed us with for his kingdomand not ours.
Okay.
And we try to avoid the twopitfalls of, you know, slave to
debt and a slave to, you know,materialism.
And then fundamentals, we try tobe the best asset we can be for
our families as well as ourcommunity by learning as many
skills as you can that arebeneficial.
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Okay, some of them arecarpentry, electrical, plumbing,
gardening, animal husbandry,things I thought I'd never say
as a city kid.
But others are firearms andcombatives and Brazilian jujitsu
and all that other stuff.
So if you're gonna go out and goout this door right here.
The next is fellowship.
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Okay.
Fellowship is we deliberatelytry not to do this life alone.
This godly life alone, it onlyworks if you're doing it with
other people in service to otherpeople.
And then fidelity, we try tomake our whole life look godly.
Now, this is something we havestruggled with here on this
property, as I was injuredalmost all of last year, and you
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know, being quad vocational andLauren almost dying and
everything else, the propertyhas gotten run down here.
And we've been very convicted tomake it godly from the curb to
the back.
And we're starting that process,pecking at it a little bit every
day, but 44 acres takes a longtime, particularly when you work
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multiple jobs and you have afarm and you have three kids,
and none of them are veryeffective at doing anything
other than picking up smallitems, right?
So we're gonna be talking a lotabout that today.
Now, we're I'm teaching Nehemiah3 and 4 today.
Okay, I've never taught Nehemiah3 before.
Nehemiah 3 is kind of just a logof who did what, and I'm gonna
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touch on that because it'simportant.
And then Nehemiah 4, I've taughtprobably almost more than
anything in this church becauseit is the found Nehemiah 4.14 is
the founding like verse of thischurch.
And so I'm going to be coming atit in a in a more applicable way
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for you to apply it to yourlife.
Okay, not always warfare or anyof these other things or
protecting your family.
There's that in there, but it'salso about sanctifying your own
life.
Let's face it, we all aresucking.
Um my family's in a season ofsuck right now.
Everyone's in the grumps orsick, you know, we got sick kids
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and grumpy kids and everythingelse going on.
And it's hard to get a um tostay positive and to be the
light in the room that we needto.
It takes effort.
It takes ungodly effort when youdon't feel like it to be happy
and to project happiness.
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And just, but it is a decision.
It is a decision.
Okay.
That's why I love that song byJosiah Queen, because the whole
first ver uh part of it is he'ssitting there feeling sorry for
himself.
He's, you know, screaming at thesky, I'm done, I'm done.
And then God says, Watch yourmouth, boy.
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Don't you talk like that.
The holes inside my hand showyou have all my love.
And if that doesn't snap you outof your pity party, I don't know
what does, because it does forme.
And I've got I've been known tobe able to throw some pretty
good pity parties for myself.
You know, there's few gripers inthe world like my family, and
then you roll that into lawenforcement who are world-class
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gripers and the military, andyou've got the Pro Bowl, the
best of the best gripers in thewhole entire world.
So fighting that tooth and nailto not be the negative person
that you can be is a for me, isgoing to be one of my lifelong
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thorns in my side that Paultalks about.
You know, and we have to resistthat with everything we have
because it's so easy to rollover and play dead.
And all you're gonna do is makeyourself more miserable.
You know, all you're gonna makeyourself more miserable.
Now, Lauren and the kids wentaway for five days, and I
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thought, I'm gonna have some metime, and that's gonna make me
feel good.
And what I've learned again forthe hundredth time is me time
never makes me feel good.
The me time only makes me feelhorrible, and I just become the
worst version of me during thattime.
The only life worth living, andGod has wired us all this way,
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is the life that Jesus walkedout, which is a life of service
to others.
That is the only way you'regonna wake up with a smile on
your face.
It is the only way you're evergoing to do anything right.
And Nehemiah 4:14, or sorry,Nehemiah 3 and 4, is a version
of this in their life, asthey're walking out, as they're
repairing Jerusalem and the wallaround Jerusalem as it has
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completely been destroyed.
So that's the setting for today.
All right.
I'll get into that a little bitmore.
Warrior Catechism, we're on weeknine.
Warrior, what is the church?
The assembly of all truebelievers called out to worship,
disciple, equip, and advanceGod's kingdom in the world.
Warrior, what is the church?
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The assembly of all truebelievers called out to worship,
disciple, equip, and advanceGod's kingdom in the world.
One more time.
Warrior, what is the church?
The assembly of all truebelievers called out to worship,
disciple, equip, and advanceGod's kingdom in the world.
The other thing I want to coveris our is our uh Christian
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warrior Patreon page, which isum, you know, the it has
undergone massive changes andsoftening to make it more
palatable for people to do.
Um, it is a community and asupport group of people who are
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just like you.
And we come there and wedeliberately pursue those seven
principles.
But if you're doing theChristian, there's there's two
ways to do it.
The Christian warrior way,right?
Which is basically you get onthere and you post when you can
what you do, and you just logwhat day you're on, right?
And if you don't do everything,that's fine.
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Just post what you're doing andbe honest.
And you'll see, guys, in there,I am so proud of the men that I
see in there right now.
And Lauren's starting, I think,Monday again, because you know,
you know, with the trip andeverything else, she was having
a hard time doing that.
And uh watching people beextremely vulnerable and owning
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up to their faults, theirvictories, their struggles,
their their needs, andeverything else.
And it has been so it's the onlyreason it gets me out of the bed
sometimes.
Okay.
You know, I don't have a bigchurch with a bunch of smiling
faces looking at me that I'mdoing stuff.
People only show up here forthis church usually when when
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their whole life is fallingapart and they need a reset and
they come to church.
Okay, or someone's gettingmarried, or someone died, and
that's where it comes in becauseall of a most of our congregants
are out of state or out of townor far away.
So watching these guys walkthrough their lives there and
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knowing owning their struggleshas been amazing.
Absolutely amazing, and it makesme want to be more vulnerable in
there.
Because of that, we put itbehind a small paywall.
Now you can donate as much asyou want in there to be a part
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of it, but it's a it's like amonthly subscription service
where I think you can do it with10 box.
I can't remember where I set thebasement at, but it's cheap.
And that's just to make sopeople can't come in there and
see what everyone else is doingand leech you off of it.
They have to have some skin inthe game, and there's a way, you
know, they're they're paying, sothey're real people, you know,
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they're not bots, they're notanything else, and it just adds
a layer of privacy to it.
It gets us some skin in thegame, and um, so we did that.
So I encourage you to do thatbecause the other way is the
real hard one, and that's theforging, and that's 90 days
straight.
And you can't like we made it sohardcore because we went really
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light with the Christian warriorway, and we're all on the
Christian Warrior way, right?
That is basically for the restof your life, you're gonna be
doing this, and hopefully you'rejournaling because that's all
this really is.
This is group journalingtogether, and it's a support
group for that, right?
People are praying for me inthis ministry, I'm praying for
other people, I'm praying fortheir family members, you know,
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and you're and you're gettingall these guns pointed in the
right direction and and andlocking shields to one another,
and it's really great.
But the the the forging is whenyour life is a mess or your
faith has not grown.
And that is when you do 90 days,you don't miss a post, you don't
miss a day, or you start over.
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Okay, I'm starting over thethird time.
So no one's perfect, no one'sgonna be perfect, and it's it is
humbling, and it's gonna be oneof the hardest things you ever
do, but it is also the wayyou'll get the most growth.
So that's all that.
So um let's go ahead and pray itin.
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King Jesus, good shepherd,captain of our salvation, we
praise you for gathering thiscompany.
Set your good hand upon us,consecrate our hands, our homes,
and our tools as the sheepgate.
Sorry, tools at the sheepgate.
Drive back the schemes of theevil one, ignite Baruch's zeal
in our bones, steal us withNehemiah's courage, and wheel
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and weld us shoulder toshoulder, so there are no gaps
in the wall.
Teach us to pray like warriors,work like craftsmen, and watch
like sentries.
Breathe upon us by your spirit,make us quick to repent, swift
to forgive, dangerous to thedarkness, and gentle to the
weak.
Establish the work of our handsfor the defense of your people
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and the exaltation of your name.
Amen.
Not gonna do the Lord's Prayertoday.
We get a lot to cover, so we didthat one, and we're just gonna
drive on.
So the context, we did Nehemiah1 and 2 already.
We are in uh 44 445 BC underArtax of Xerces.
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Okay, our tax Xerces uh first,Nehemiah, cupbearer, turned
governor now, um, returns tobuild Jerusalem's wall.
The cupbearer isn't just a guywho carries a cup, it's more of
a bodyguard type position, likea secret service position.
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Um, so the thing to know aboutNehemiah 3 is an operations
ledger.
We're gonna hit a couple verses,a few verses in there just so
you the just so you can see whatand why.
And then Nehemiah 4 is thecombat conditions.
Together they make literally thesword and the trowel.
A brief review of Nehemiah 1 and2, recon, repentance, and rally.
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Nehemiah 1, report, weeping,fasting, prayer.
Nehemiah hears of great evil andreproach.
I don't know if you guys canhear all the kids screaming.
If you can, I'm sorry, they'rein the kitchen right now going
nuts.
Nehemiah hears of a great eviland reproach.
The wall of Jerusalem is brokendown.
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He sits, weeps, fasts, andprays.
A model of adoration,confession, personal and
corporate.
He confesses and repents for allof his sin and his people's sin.
Covenant remembrance andpetition for favor.
In Nehemiah too, we see favor,planning, recon, and charge.
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And Nisan, or Nisan, whatever,N-I-S-A-N.
God grants favor before ourtaxerces.
Nehemiah arrives with letters,timber, and authority.
Does a night reconnaissance,then gives the charge.
You see the bad situation we arein.
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Come, let us rebuild.
The people respond, let us ariseand build.
Opposition mocks, but Nehemiahanswers, the God of heaven will
make us prosper.
All right, so the lessons fromone and two.
Crisis to prayer reflex.
This is something I have tobattle with, everything I have.
When crisis comes for me, Ialmost never instantly go to
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prayer.
When crisis comes to me, unlessit's something I can't control.
When Lauren almost died ingiving birth to um to um her
son, I immediately went toprayer because I can't, I
couldn't do anything.
It was out out of my hands.
But typically when crisis comes,I massive action is what I do.
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And that's not the right way todo it.
We before you make plans, whichyou should be doing plans before
you're acting, seek God.
And if you have time, seek Godwith fasting.
Okay.
Next, name sin, not justenemies.
Own your own mistakes for thesituation you're in.
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Pray God, scripture back to God.
We always pray our wish list,our want list, and all these
things.
God loves hearing his word.
It's his language.
Praying his word back to him.
Proves you're his.
Plan everything like it dependson you.
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Ask for time, timber, andtransition.
Build a real checklist.
Okay?
Plan like it depends on you.
Again, ask for time, timber, andtransition.
Or transit.
Build a real checklist.
Recon and silence.
I told no one.
Nehemiah went in the silence ofthe night to look at the
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problems.
Inspect at night, map gate,seems rubble.
Expect at your worst.
That's at night.
At your worst.
It doesn't have to be at night.
That is just for that situation.
That's what it was.
And then charge with hope.
Tie work to God's hands.
Anytime you're tying somethingto glorifying God, it's a good
thing.
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The good hand of my God was uponme, is what Nehemiah said.
Answer mockery with theology andboundaries.
Nehemiah told his mockers, Youhave no portion or right of or
remembrance in Jerusalem.
Okay, so what do we do asfamilies with what we reviewed?
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As a family, list your top threebreaches at home.
Marriage communication, maybechild discipleship, finances,
debt, household order, safetyreadiness, destructive media
habits, strained neighbors.
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You know what they are.
Those are just some.
List them.
List your top three.
Fast and pray on Wednesday.
Fast from Tuesday night toWednesday night.
And pray Nehemiah 1, 5 through11 aloud.
Now, this isn't just somethingyou should do for this week.
I recommend you do what we'rehighlighting today for a season.
SPEAKER_00 (25:50):
For a season.
Okay.
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Name your spouse and children in specific breaches.
Okay.
So as a family, when you seethose breaches, if it's somebody
in your family specifically thatis causing that, name them.
Okay?
Name them and tie them to thebreaches.
Build an ask list.
Time timber transit.
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Time.
Block calendar slots forscripture, family councils,
repairs, training.
As a family, we're doing a lotright now with this.
We're walking this out in realtime as we are reclaiming our 44
acres for the Lord here.
He blessed us with it, and weneed to make it look like it's
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God's.
Okay.
Timber, these are items andskills needed.
Bibles, door hardware, ammo, medkits, budget tools, parenting
class, you know, whatever,right?
Transit, get your permissions.
Okay.
If you're gonna start concealedcarrying, go to a class, get
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your concealed carry permit.
If you're going to have a gun inyour house, get good storage,
learn how to use it.
If you're gonna if you'resomebody who lives alone and you
wanna be able to protectyourself and you decided that
you're not gonna be a victim andyou're gonna go get a firearm,
go get the right training andknow how to do it, and make sure
they train you for yoursituation.
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Okay, your situation.
If you're not mobile, don't letthem make you go out and do
ridiculous things that some ofthese guys do.
All right.
Next, so this is also so sorryfor translation.
This is like bedtimes, screens,spending rules, charm rotations,
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we might ask for us, as well asyou know, sanctioned things from
the city, state, federalgovernment.
Run a night recon or a home walkthrough.
It doesn't have to be a night,it's just walk when it's at its
worst.
Quietly walk the perimeterrooms, identify your gates,
front back, garage doors,bedroom doors, internet, TV,
content gate, your cell phones,budget for you guys with older
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kids who are on their cellphones, budget money gate, list
the doors, bolts, and barsyou'll see.
Needing repair.
You remember these doors, bolts,bars, you're gonna see this
standard.
Needing repair, both hardware,locks, lights, numbers, habits,
devotion time, scream rules,emergency roles, all these
things need to be deliberate.
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And this is gonna sound cheesy,but for those of you leading
your house and you're a newChristian and you're trying to
figure out what are you gonnado, draft a family rally speech,
one paragraph to your household.
You see the bad situation we arein.
Come let us rebuild.
Okay?
This is again you leading, youtaking ownership, you stepping
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up and not commanding, butleading through inspiration.
Propose two concrete steps andwhen you'll do them.
Pick one repair to starttomorrow.
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Name the owner, the standard ofwhat needs to be done, and what
it needs how it needs to look,and check back in time.
So now, without further ado,let's get into Nehemiah 3.
All right, we're gonna do threeNehemiah 3-1, 3-5, 3-10, 3-12,
3-20, and 3-32.
We're gonna jump around and I'mgonna read them all and then
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I'll unpack them.
3 1.
Then Elishaab and the highpriest arose with his brothers,
the priests, and built the sheepgate, and they sanctified it and
set up its doors.
They started, the priestsstarted.
Moreover, and three down tothree five, next to him, the
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Tekuites repaired, but theirnobles did not put their
shoulders to the work of theLord.
Okay, so there's someone beingcalled out for being lazy.
And next to them, Jediah, theson of Harum, sorry, Harumap,
repaired opposite his house,proximity, you'll see.
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And next to him, Shalom repairedhe and his daughters.
So there he's incorporating thegirls and the women.
After him, Baruch zealouslyrepaired another section.
There is someone getting praise.
And between the upper chambersin the corner of the sheep gate,
the goldsmiths and the merchantsrepaired.
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All right, so what does this allmean?
It just sounds like work list,right?
What the MIR3 actually is is aspirit-breathed project ledger.
God records who worked, wherethey worked, and with what
standard.
A lot of people, anytime theywant to do good something for
God, they volunteer, theydonate, and what is it?
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They give their worst efforts,they donate their junk, right,
instead of the best.
God's standard, if you're gonnaput God's name on it, it better
be the best you can do.
Okay.
They work to what standard?
That means ordinarycraftsmanship, family ownership,
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immeasurable finish or theology,not just admin.
The thing that's great here iseach family was given ownership.
And they weren't working faraway, they weren't going to
Haiti to do something, they wereworking at what was right at
their feet.
So, some terms that if you hadread the we had read the whole
thing, you'd hear over and overagain.
Some refrain.
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With meaning, next to him orafter him.
The wall rises by adjacenteffort, meaning by effort of
people next to one another, notisolated heroics.
Every section touches anothersection.
Scenes are owned where two arejoined.
Not assumed.
SPEAKER_00 (32:11):
Your obedience enables your neighbors.
Okay.
SPEAKER_01 (32:16):
You walking out a godly existence serves as an
example of what a Christianshould be to your neighbors.
Oh, that can be prettyconvicting when your house and
everything and your propertiesrun down.
Right?
Right?
Yeah.
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Okay, so again, nothing in thischapter.
Everything was done deliberatelyand handed off, and there was
ownership and accountability allthe way through.
You hear this term, opposite hishouse, you'll hear you would
have heard over and over again.
Assignments are approximate,meaning right where you're
standing.
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Families repair what they livebeside.
Your first ministry is yourfront door, your marriage, your
children, your budget, yourhabits, and your literal locks.
SPEAKER_00 (33:13):
That's your first ministry in that.
That's something we all gonna dobetter at what you do here.
SPEAKER_01 (33:26):
Get this right before you go here.
Okay?
Doors, bolts, bars.
God requires finished to spec,meaning a standard, not vibes.
Gates aren't done until theyclose, lock, and hold.
So when you write yourstandards, write acceptable
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acceptance criteria for yourwork at home.
What does done look like?
When the kids, before the kidsgo to bed, they're gonna go
around and the floor is gonna beclean of all the toys, all
debris, and swept vacuum.
Like, where is the standard?
So you can come out and say thestandard wasn't met.
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Okay.
So some things and why itmatters.
Worship leads the work.
The priests started.
The priests sanctify the sheepgate first.
And the circuit ends there,meaning that's where it starts
at the sheep gate, goes all theway around, ends at the sheep
gate.
Frame your labor in prayer andconsecration.
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Proximity assignsresponsibility.
Refrain.
Okay, that's not like, don't dothat.
This is something like a musicwhere it's constantly brought up
over and over again andrepeated.
God expects near field repairsfirst.
Before you sail away to amillion miles away to do
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something for somebody else, getyour own house in order.
Okay, cohesion closes seams.
The editorial stitch next to himensures no gaps.
Cooperate across seams.
Don't leave hands up handoffsfuzzy.
You know, this is just goodsolid practice.
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Always know when your job's doneand you're handing it on to
somebody else to do somethingthat that is done to its
fullness.
Standards are defined.
Okay.
Quality and inspection aregodly.
Women were included.
Shalem works with his daughters.
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Train and honor women asco-builders.
Zeal honored.
Karuoch is singled out for zeal.
God notices pace and heart.
And then slackers are named.
Takoa's nobles refuse to bendthe neck.
Yet the people of Tokoa work twosections.
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Titles don't measurecontribution, faithfulness does.
So gate discipleship, symbol andpractice.
Each one of these gates actuallymeans something.
I mean, this book is amazing.
Sheepgate, worship andatonement.
Start with God, dedicate yourlabor.
Practice, uh, practice, open theday with scripture and a short
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family prayer.
You should be doing thatanyways, right?
Fish gate, witness work, marketneed morale or morals.
Your trade, your job is yourpulpit.
Practice one intentional gospelconversation or mercy act
weekly.
Should be doing that anyways,right?
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The old Jashana gate, doctrineand stability, keep the ancient
past, practice catechism, QA.
Memorize a catechism each week.
Valley gate, humility andendurance, low places, build
grit.
Own your own sin as a family,forgive, plan, and repair.
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The dung gate.
Who thought you'd find that inthe Bible?
Dung gate.
Repentance and refuse removal.
This is a hard one for most ofus.
Throw out what defiles.
Whatever is dragging you down,and whatever is defiling your
soul.
Throw it out.
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Practice weekly trash list, onesin habit and one time waster
purged.
SPEAKER_00 (37:32):
You know how hard that is gonna be for a lot of
us?
To purge your time wasters.
SPEAKER_01 (37:40):
So my girls are practicing service without me
telling them.
And they both bought me twoglasses of water to be kind to
me.
The fountain gate, life in thespirit.
Guard your lifelines.
Okay?
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Daily psalm and two minutes ofsilence with God minimum.
Water gate, word saturation.
Scripture is at the center.
Practice nightly chapter, readaloud with one comprehensive
question.
You should be reading yourBible, anyways.
These are just deeper ways to doit.
Try to come up with as many waysas I can because some people
learn some ways and some peoplelearn in other ways.
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By reading it out loud, itcauses you some people to
process it deeper.
The horse gate, my favorite.
Readiness and defense.
Prepared to protect.
Practice combatives, fitness,and tactical skills along with
trauma skills.
Eastgate, watchful hope.
Start the day with expectation.
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A fasting prayer once a week.
Give thanks.
Ask big.
Start your day with prayinghope.
SPEAKER_00 (38:52):
And on that Wednesday, make that your big
one, your fasting day.
And then the muster gate,inspection, accountability.
SPEAKER_01 (39:04):
Review and inspect everything that your family's
supposed to be doing.
Don't trust that it's done.
Always verify.
Okay.
Household drills.
Draw your wall map, paper, orwhiteboard with eight to ten
sections (39:23):
marriage, kids, home, home order, finances, media,
hospitality, safety, work.
Write one breach and one repairunder each.
Two, write one standard for yourdoors, bolts, bars.
That's some in chapter three,it's mentioned over and over.
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Pick a task you usually wing,meaning that you do it half, I
almost said halfway.
Um family worship, budget,bedtime routine, door security.
Define what done means.
Do everything as if you're doingit for God and watch your life
change.
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Okay.
And if you want to write itdown, one to three things and
what's done, act like you'rebecause we've we're all starting
this.
And very few of us have beendoing this from Go.
And if you're training youngkids or teenagers, God help you.
Write it down as if a guest iscoming over and how to lock up,
what to do.
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Name your adjacent seam.
List who is next to you, anotherfamily, neighbor, family member,
small group friend.
Write one way you will supporttheir section this week.
Watch kids for an hour, sharetools, pray together, check on a
way on a widow.
Honor zeal and confront slack.
Publicly praise the Baruch inyour home, the person who's
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doing a good job.
Privately address the noble ofTokoa.
That's your slacker.
Behavior in yourself, excusemaking, and replace it with a
small act of obedience today.
Okay, so if you've got a littlebit of tacoa in you, get rid of
it.
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Okay, now I was gonna doNehemiah 4 in addition to that,
but that took a long time.
So we're gonna go ahead.
Actually, no, we started reallylate.
We started at 20 pass, so I gottime.
All right, so Nehemiah 4, 1through 23.
Nehemiah again, Nehemiah 4 isone of my favorite chapters in
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the whole book.
So I'm gonna go through this andwe'll break it down as we go.
Nehemiah 4, 1 through 23.
Now it happens that Sam Ballat,who was a bad guy, heard that we
were rebuilding the wall.
He became furious and very angryand mocked the Jews.
He spoke in the presence of hisbrothers and the wealthy men of
Sumaria and said, What are thesefeeble Jews doing?
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Are they going to restore itthemselves?
Can they offer sacrifices?
Can they finish in a day?
Can they revive the stones fromthe dusty heaps, even burned
ones?
Now Tobiah the Ammonite was nearhim and he said, Even what they
are building, if a fox shouldjump on it, he would break down
their stone wall.
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So they're being mocked, they'rebeing made fun of.
Mockery is an open salve, anopening salvo.
Opposition often begins withcontempt to sap your morale, to
drain morale, kill your morale.
Expect ridicule when you'redoing great things.
Don't debate scoffers whileyou're while you're laying the
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course.
Just get back to work.
Proverbs says, Whoever is slackin his work is a brother to him
who destroys.
Teach your family that when wewhen we are mocked, we pray,
keep pace, and recite ourstandard.
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Picking up verse four.
Hear, O God, how we aredespised.
Return their reproach on theirown head and give them up to
plunder in a land of captivity.
Do not cover their iniquity anddo not let their sin be wiped
out before you, for they haveprovoked you to anger before
their builders.
Nehemiah is not afraid to prayagainst his enemies.
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Nehemiah goes vertical first,straight to God.
Prayer is petition for righteousreversal.
Psalm style honesty beatshorizontal venting.
Right?
Instead of battling with themhere, go here to go to God.
Commit your works to Yahweh andyour plans will be established.
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Proverbs 16:3.
Write a one-sentence prayeragainst specific pressure you
face.
Pray it aloud.
Whatever it is that's draggingyou down, pray it aloud.
Pray against it.
4-6.
So we rebuilt the wall, and thewhole wall was joined together
to half its height.
And the people at heart to work,they're making progress.
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The whole wall, as everyone'sdoing, is half the height it
should be.
Okay?
It's half the height it shouldbe.
That means the gates aren'thanging yet because guess what?
You can't hang gates on half awall, but they're making
progress, and the people aremotivated.
Unity of will acceleratesprogress.
Celebrate halfway wins.
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Momentum matters.
When you hit check marks, oryour kids hit check marks, or a
family member kicks a problem ordoes something great, celebrate
it.
The plan of the diligence surelyleads to advantage, Proverbs 21.
Put a visible progress bar onyour wall.
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Budget, declutter, catechism,heart, whatever it is, whatever
it is you're doing, a progressbar motivates people to go and
keep doing things forward.
I think that's a great idea.
4-7.
Now it happened that whenSambelat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the
Ammonites, and the Astroditesheard the repairs in the wall of
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Jerusalem went on, and that thebreaches began to be closed,
they were very angry.
And all of them conspiredtogether to come fight against
Jerusalem and to cause adisturbance in it.
Escalation to plots, ridiculeand rumor, and then violence
planning.
Application, build concentricrings, prayer, policy, posture,
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preparedness.
A prudent man sees evil andhides himself.
Proverbs 22, 3.
Name your three rings for theLord for the Lord's Day.
Consecration, prayer.
You know, so when you're gettingready to do your Lord's Day,
what are the three things thatyou're going to do?
The things that you'rechallenged by.
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So there's that posture.
We're not going to be easyvictims.
We're going to resist you thewhole way.
We're not going to be targets.
You know, so often in crime,particularly in the city, but
crime anywhere, is often becausethere is no resistance.
The irresistible draw of an easytarget to an evil person is
awful.
SPEAKER_00 (46:34):
So pray and post a guard, 4-9.
SPEAKER_01 (46:40):
Scripture marries devotion to diligence.
Too often we as Christians wejust pray, but we don't do the
diligence part.
We don't do our part.
Spiritual and practical isobedience, not unbelief.
SPEAKER_00 (46:51):
The horse is prepared for the day of battle,
but the victory belongs toYahweh.
SPEAKER_01 (47:00):
Thus, in Judah it was said, the strength of the of
the burden bears is failing, yetthere is much rubble, and we
ourselves are unable to rebuildthe wall.
So here comes the negativespeakers.
Here comes the people trying toshatter the morale.
This is eternal fatigue and dragand people who just want to
quit.
Internal friction can outweighan external threat.
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Remove clutter, short loops,plan rest.
So much of what we do here onthis farm, and I don't mean to
always bring it back to me, butI'm trying to make it
applicable, is we don't have theright equipment, we don't have
the right people, we don't havethe right horsepower, we don't
have the right knowledge,nothing is optimal, and
everything we're doing is sixtimes harder than it should be.
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So we are deliberately trying toimprove our processes.
As the kids age and they becomemore useful, we are trying to
give them tasks that they canhandle.
We are bartering and trainingservices and product to get
people here to help with whatwe're doing here.
All right.
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My wife's a reformed city girl.
We don't didn't have theknow-how.
We had to acquire it.
Proverb, by wisdom a house isbuilt through knowledge, his
rooms are filled.
Proverbs 24, 3 and 4.
Every day before you go to bed,20-minute rubble sweep.
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Physical clutter, or if you'reworking and say that's that's
one part of your problem.
Let's say that's not a problem.
Budget leaks.
We're looking at your budget.
Calendar bloat.
You got too much stuff scheduledin there.
Whatever it is, before the nextbuild, before the next task,
deal with it.
411, our adversary said theywill not know or see until we
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are coming among them to killthem and put a stop to the work.
So let me read that again.
Sorry, my eyes aren't doing sogood today.
Our adversary said they will notknow or see until we come among
them to kill them and to put astop to the work.
Now it happened that when theJews who lived near them came,
they told and told us ten timesthey will come up against us
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from every place where you mayturn.
So now they're threatening.
And now the cowards are showingthemselves.
Ten times the surrounding peoplewanted, you know, came up and
told them that they were gonnaget killed.
This is psyops and rumor loops.
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Fear multiplies by repetition.
Proximity to fear sources spikeanxiety.
The more you're around a fearfulperson, the more they
contaminate you.
The more you're around acourageous person, the more they
the more braver you're going tobe.
Courage is contagious as isfear.
Cut the fear cancers out of yourlife.
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They will kill you and you willlive a life of doing nothing
because all they do is panic andfear everything.
You can be cautious.
You can see the eye, the worldwith eyes wide open, and then
counter it.
But get away from cancerouscowards.
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Establish a truth channel, uhthrottle.
This is our news.
I drink the poison of the newsfor our family.
I have to sit there and siftthrough Fox and Twitter and the
rest to be informed so ourfamily knows what's going on in
the world.
And it is a cancerous, awfulthing that I have to do.
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But someone's got to do it.
I'm the throttle.
Okay.
A smart emergency thing to do,just throwing this in there, is
uh particularly for everyonewho's got older kids.
Again, we get younger ones thatdon't have cell phones, they're
not gonna have them for a verylong time, all that stuff.
But start a group Family TextNow that's an emergency channel.
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So when you need it, it's thereand you can communicate instead
of having to build it in time.
413, and then I stationed men inthe lowest parts, the space, uh,
lowest parts of the space behindthe wall, in the exposed places.
And I stationed the people infamilies with their swords,
spears, and bows.
The key word there is families.
These people were fighting fortheir own families.
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You know who, if you're notgonna fight for your families,
who are you gonna fight for?
The most tenacious fightingyou'll ever do is for your
family.
Okay, and Nehemiah is nowcountering what he's hearing
from the rule.
I mean, he's an amazing leader.
I mean, I can't wait to meet himin heaven.
Um defense is local andfamilial.
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Tools are visible.
Your first priority is yourhousehold and gathering.
The wise man scales the city ofthe mighty, Proverbs 21, 22.
414.
Then I saw their fear.
So now Nehemiah is telling themstuff and he sees they're
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scared.
So as a commander, he'srecognizing this.
And here he says, this is theverse 414, my favorite one of my
favorite verses in the Bibles.
And I stood and I said to thenobles and the officials and the
rest of the people, do not fearthem.
Remember the Lord who is greatand fearsome, and fight for your
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brothers, your sisters, yourdaughters, your wives, and your
houses.
The antidote to fear is rememberGod and fight for named loved
ones.
Tie missions to faces.
If I'm fighting for somewhatever, if I'm fighting for my
wife, my daughter, my mom, myson, forget it.
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Like there's nothing I'm gonnafight harder for than that.
The name of Yahweh is a strongtower.
The righteous run into it andthey're set on high.
Proverbs 18.10.
Here's a drill for you to do.
Speak 414 aloud before theLord's day.
Each person's name is whothey're fighting for this week.
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Again, this is something weshould be doing for a long time,
not just this week.
415.
Now it happened when our enemiesheard that it was known to us
and that God had frustratedtheir counsel.
Then we all returned to the walland each one to his work.
God frustrates the plots,they're not an easy target
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anymore.
Nehemiah has countered them.
Wise teams sprint whenpressure's lift.
Now they've got momentum,they're taking off.
Keep a reticue, exploit when uhopen doors.
You know, depending on what youdo and how you do it, if all of
a sudden, like here on the farm,I'm gonna bring it back to that.
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If a friend of mine's like, heyJay, I got some time and I've
got this, you know, I've got askid steer, you know, can I come
on over and help?
We're gonna drop everything andbe ready to go help that guy do
that.
So we can, instead of him beingable to do one mile of stuff,
he'll be able to do five becausewe're there to help him.
And we're gonna seize on thatmomentum.
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Maintain a short list ofrepairs.
Um, and then when some when anopportunity comes around,
execute it immediately.
So, again, that's just seizingopportunities as they come.
416.
Now it happened from that day onthat half of my servants did
work, while half of them heldspears and shields and the bows
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and the body armor, and thecommanders were behind all the
houses of Judah.
Those who were rebuilding thewall, and those who carried
burdens carried with one handdoing the work and with the
other holding a weapon.
Again, this carrying concealedand being an armed citizen is
not new.
Here, we're talking thousands ofyears ago, they're already doing
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it.
Okay, and this is how we need tolive today, because we are
surrounded by evil andwickedness.
Half guard, half build.
Carriers do dual tasks.
They have they build and they'rearmed.
Define rules, builders, guards,runners, overseers.
Okay, this is more fororganizations.
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Without counsel, plans arefrustrated, but with many
counselors they succeed.
SPEAKER_00 (55:43):
All right.
SPEAKER_01 (55:44):
As for the builders, each wore his sword, girded at
his side, while the trumpeterstood beside me.
Sword at his side, trumpeterbeside the leader.
Keep tools where they belong.
Specific who triggers the alert.
Prepare your work outsideoutside and make it ready for
yourself in the fail, Proverbs24-7.
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Again, you know, having comms,we have radios, we have phones,
we have all that stuff.
You can't, you know, thetrumpet, they had to rely on a
trumpet back in the EMIS day.
And you can only have one.
All right.
We don't necessarily need justone, right?
Because if there's a bunch oftrumpets going, then they would
think the attacks everywhere.
Okay.
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As we'll see here in the nextsection.
We're getting there.
And I said to the nobles andofficials and the rest of the
people the work is great andextensive, and we are separated
on the wall, far from oneanother.
At whatever place you hear thesound of the trumpet, gather to
us there, or God will fight forus.
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So they spread out teams.
Teams need a rally point and agot and Godward confidence.
So here they are.
I love this because it is soapplicable.
Where you hear the sound of thetrumpet, go there, right?
Go there and God will fight foryou.
Not, hey, we're not going to doanything, God's gonna fight for
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us, which is what so many dotoday.
21.
So we labored in the work, andhalf of them held spears from
dawn until the stars appeared.
So there are seasons for longhours.
Set a 30-day push with a plannedfeast at the end.
So, like for us, we are rightnow, we have eight months to
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reclaim this farm before thenext growing season, really.
May is when this place explodes.
Okay.
So we are going to do this inlike two-month blocks and then
celebrate.
Do a trip, do something.
Another two months, anothertrip, another two months,
another trip.
Hard work should be rewarded.
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Hard work should be rewarded.
The hand of the diligent willrule, 1224, Proverb.
SPEAKER_00 (58:03):
Okay, and then here we go.
SPEAKER_01 (58:09):
At that time, I also said to the people, let each man
with his servant spend the nightwithin Jerusalem, so they may be
a guard for us by night and alaborer by the day.
Sleeping in kit, stage close tomission.
Pre-stage supplies andresponsibility for big pushes.
The prudent sees evil and hideshimself again, Proverbs 27, 12.
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Again, having your med kit, yourdechoker, your go bag, battery
pack for when power goes out,all that stuff is stuff that we
recommend.
And then lastly, so neither Inor my brothers, my servants,
nor my men of the guard whofollow me, none of us removed
our clothes.
Each took his weapon even to thewater.
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Prepared is not panicked.
Okay, and and hygiene continueswhether you're prepared or not.
Okay.
I remember when I wasbodyguarding a billionaire and I
was staying in a condo.
I had no dog, I had no alarmsystem, I had nothing, and I had
to shower every day.
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And I'm like, well, I can thinkof 51 billion reasons that
somebody would want to hurt mebecause of who I protect.
And I had to come up with a wayto stay sane when I showered
because think of that, you'revulnerable.
You close that curtain, youdon't know what's on the other
side of the door, you can't seeanything, you got auditory
exclusion, you got steam, yougot everything in your face,
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you're washing your hair.
That's why that scene fromPsycho, the old Norman Bates, is
so terrifying because you're sovulnerable.
You're naked.
So I had to come up with asolution.
I went and bought Bing Bongalarms and I put them
everywhere.
So if somebody opens somethingand make noise, and I had, of
course, have my firearm in thebathroom, but that's just an
example.
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Keep your heart with alldiligence.
From it flow the springs oflife.
Proverbs 423.
Establish lawful, contextappropriate, carry, keep or
carry, get habits, keepspiritual discipline flowing.
So some famous voices.
Spurgeon, pray as is pray as ifeverything depended on God.
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Work as if everything dependedon you.
Calvin said, John Calvin, thewelfare of the whole depends on
the fidelity of each part.
And John Christosom said, thework is common, the reward is
one.
So we covered all those.
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So let's go ahead and docommunion.
All right.
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Almighty God, Sovereign Lord ofhosts, we approach your table
today not because we are worthy,but because Christ is worthy.
We come not trusting in our ownrighteousness, but cling to the
righteousness of Christ alone.
We remember his body broken, hisblood poured out for the new
covenant.
We bow in humble gratitude, welift up our hearts in reverent
awe.
Sanctify this bread in this cupand sanctify us your people as
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we proclaim the death,resurrection, and coming kingdom
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We pray this in his mighty,matchless name.
Amen.
The Lord Jesus, in the night inwhich he was being betrayed,
took bread, and when he hadgiven thanks, he broke it and
said, This is my body which isfor you.
Do this in remembrance of me.
Remember, this symbolizes hisbody, pear's beaten, and
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sacrifice for you.
Let us partake of the breadtogether and remember Christ's
broken body for us.
Go ahead and eat.
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Do this as often as you drink inremembrance of me.
This symbolizes his blood.
The blood that purchased ourforgiveness sealed the
everlasting covenant.
Let us partake of the cuptogether to remember Christ's
blood poured out for us.
Go ahead and drink.
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For as often as you eat of thebread and drink of the cup, you
proclaim the death of the Lorduntil he comes.
By this eating and drinking wepublicly proclaim Christ has
died, Christ is risen, Christwill come again.
We are his soldiers in theeverlasting kingdom.
Commander Christ, builder ofyour church and guardian of your
people, we come to you at theclosure of this charge.
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Remember us for good, and setyour good hand upon our work.
Forgive our breaches, cleanseour houses, consecrate our tools
and our time, make our laborworship.
Stir our hearts like BarakBaruch.
Kindle holy zeal.
(01:04:02):
Steady our spines like Nehemiahto look mockery in the eye and
answer with faith.
Knit us next to one another,family to family, seam to seam,
so there are no gaps in thewall.
Teach us to pray like warriors,work like craftsmen and watch
like sentries.
Arm us with the sword of yourspirit, which is the word of
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God.
Place in our other hand thetrowel of service.
Strengthen feeble knees, liftdrooping hands, let courage rise
as we remember Yahweh, great andawesome, and fight for our
brothers, our sons, ourdaughters, our wives, and our
houses.
Give us clean hands, clean eyes,and willing hearts.
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Establish the work of our hands,build the walls of our homes,
fortify our marriages, discipleour children, bless our
neighbors, make us dangerous tothe darkness and gentle to the
weak.
Let us rally, be sure, let ourrally be sure, our trumpet
clear, our standard firm, doors,bolts, and bars secure.
(01:05:08):
And now, God of peace, equip usin every good work to do your
will, working in us that whichis pleasing to in your sight
through Jesus Christ.
Make us steadfast, immovable,always abounding in the work of
the Lord, knowing that the Lordare that in the Lord our labor
is not in vain.
For unless Yahweh builds thehouse, those who build it and
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labor in vain.
King Jesus lead on.
We rise to build and stand toGod for your glory and for the
good of your people.
Amen.
Go ahead and rise.
The God of heaven will make usprosper, and he will and his
servants will arise and build.
Go, encourage charity, and quietconfidence.
Lock shields and love yourneighbors.
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In Jesus' name we pray.
Amen.
God bless you.
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