November 25, 2025 • 37 mins
Need Prayer? Send us a text on how we can pray for you!
The wall stood tall, but the people were still cracked inside. That’s the tension we unpack as we walk through Nehemiah 9–10: a city secured by stone and a community finally brave enough to face its sin, tell the truth out loud, and sign their names to real change. We trace how public confession, fasting, and the reading of the Law uncovered the true breach—hearts divided by compromise—and how God’s steadfast mercy became the ground where courage could grow.
We revisit the arc from exile to rebuilding and show why renewal always follows a pattern: hear the word, confess the breach, pledge obedience. From intermarriage that pulled affections away from God to Sabbath neglect and debt slavery, the issues feel uncomfortably current. The turning point comes when leaders lead: a written covenant, sealed with names, that commits the community to purity in marriage, Sabbath discipline, worship in order, financial first fruits, and accountability that actually loves people toward holiness.
Then we bring it home. We map those ancient vows to seven modern battlefields—faith, family, fitness, fundamentals, finances, fellowship, and fidelity—and get practical about what obedience looks like this week. Read and pray with purpose. Lead your home with confession and courage. Train your body to serve others. Sharpen skills that make you useful. Tithe and budget to dethrone greed. Lock shields with faithful friends. Keep your word when it costs. Finally, we challenge you to write a household covenant: what ends now, what begins today, what you will guard and build, whom you will serve, and how you will honor Christ—signed and posted where you live.
If this moved you, subscribe for more warrior-minded teaching, share it with a friend who needs strength, and leave a review so others can find the show. Your wall may be up; now let’s rebuild the heart and stand our post together.
CWM Intro with Drums
1:20 TS Ad
CWM Outro with drums
Christian Warrior Mission trains believers to stand firm in a collapsing world.
We are a discipleship ministry, home-based warrior church, and working farm that comes alongside local churches—not to replace them, but to strengthen them by equipping men and women to lead, protect, provide, and disciple according to God’s Word.
We train across the Seven Battlefields:
Faith • Family • Fitness • Fundamentals • Finances • Fellowship • Fidelity
This is not a place for spectators, excuses, or passive Christianity.
This is where believers learn to pick up the Sword of Scripture, fortify their households, and lock shields with other warriors in Christ.
We build households that stand. We strengthen churches. We prepare saints for real-world battle.
No retreat. No surrender. Christ is King.
Join our Live Warrior Church Service Tuesday Nights at 8 pm EST on X, YouTube, Facebook, Rumble, and LinkedIn.
Daily Bible Studies Monday- Friday on X, YouTube, Facebook, Rumble, and LinkedIn
About the Host:
Jason Perry — former Navy SEAL, SWAT officer, and paramedic; CEO of Trident Shield; Pastor of Christian Warrior Church. From a 44-acre homestead, Jason trains believers to meet spiritual and practical threats with courage, clarity, and a shepherd’s heart.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
SPEAKER_01 (01:04):
Welcome.
Happy Tuesday to you.
Um, and welcome to WarriorChurch.
I know we're a little bit latetoday.
It has been a crazy technologyuh past four days.
We've had no internet from awindstorm and then cell troubles
(01:26):
as well with that.
So we've kind of been in atechnological black hole and
trying to climb out of that.
We're so far behind, losing fourbasically four days of work um
due to all this stuff.
So I'm happy to be here.
I'm happy to be here for WarriorChurch.
I'm hope glad you hope glad youguys are here.
Let me tell you what we do hereif this is your first time.
(01:48):
And again, you're like, wow,this clown show.
Yeah, that's what it's been.
So I do see myself on YouTube.
That's good.
And I'm gonna assume I'm gonnago.
So tonight, welcome to ChristianWarrior Mission, a discipleship
(02:09):
ministry, a home-based warriorchurch, and a working farm where
faith is lived, forged, andfought for.
We are not here to be not hereto build fans of Jesus Christ.
We are here to train soldiers ofJesus Christ.
We exist to come alongside localchurches, not compete with them,
(02:29):
not replace them, but tostrengthen the lines, reinforce
the walls, strengthen the homes,and equip believers for the
daily battles they face.
This world is collapsing underthe weight of its own rebellion.
But God has not called us tosit, sulk, or surrender.
(02:51):
We like to say we are forgingChristian warriors for today's
challenges.
It's not a slogan, it's amandate.
We don't gather for comfort, wegather for commitment, we gather
for transformation, we gatherbecause Christ is king.
The war is real and the stakesare eternal.
This is where men and women aretrained to lead with courage,
(03:14):
protect without apology, providewith conviction, and disciple
with authority.
In a world determined to unmakeeverything God has created.
Every Tuesday night we standshoulder to shoulder and train
across the seven battlefieldsbecause the enemy is not just
attacking your mind, he'sattacking your home, your
(03:36):
marriage, your discipline, yourpurity, your fellowship, your
finances, and your readiness.
So, lock in, lock shields withus, stand firm, open your heart,
brace for conviction, andprepare for orders.
The war is real, the king isvictorious, and tonight we
train.
(03:57):
The battlefields of faith,family, fitness, fundamental
finances, fellowship, andfidelity.
We deliberately pursue God ineach one of those battlefields
every day.
All right.
(04:24):
Okay, we do that through Biblestudy, through, you know, which
is reading of his word, prayer,and catechism, understanding
what you believe and being ableto defend it.
You must deliberately pursuegood relationships with your
family.
Okay, you're not gonnaaccidentally have a good
marriage or a good relationshipwith your kids.
(04:50):
Fitness, you're not gonnaaccidentally be fit unless you
have the hardest, one of thehardest jobs out there, right?
Fundamentals, we must pursuesharpening our skill set and
always growing in knowledge,being useful, useful to God,
useful to the kingdom.
(05:11):
We must deliberately pursue wisefinances, avoiding the slavery
of debt and the pitfall of debt,as well as the sin of
materialism.
We must deliberately pursuegodly relationships with other
brothers and sisters in Christ,investing in relationships that
(05:34):
pull you to heaven instead oftrying, you know, lift you to
heaven rather than pull you downto hell.
And fidelity, we must, we mustdeliberately pursue purity,
purity of heart, purity with oureyes, purity with our ears,
purity in our soul.
Be a man of your word.
(05:56):
Okay.
Make sure what you what youreyeballs are seeing is what's
something that you would watchwith Jesus in the room.
Because he is.
Same thing with what you'relistening to.
And boy, is this hard today.
Trying to find good workoutmusic is one of the greatest
challenges that I face on adaily basis.
(06:20):
Trying not to go back to oldplaylists and deleting songs and
all these other things because,well, they're straight from
hell.
So those are the sevenbattlefields, and that's pretty
much where your entire life fitsif you think about it.
Today, well last week wasVeterans Day, and we talked
(06:43):
about that.
The week before, we talked aboutyou know what a warrior is, what
a Christian warrior is and whyGod loves them.
But prior to that, we've beenworking since Charlie Kirk's
assassination, we've beenworking through the book of
Nehemiah.
Today, we are in Nehemiah 9through 10.
I'm going to finish it.
There's only 13 chapters, andthen we'll finish it before we
(07:03):
get into some topicals, okay?
So I'm gonna do a quick reviewon things because it's been
weeks and um, well, it's beenthinking it's almost been a
month.
Um, and then we'll drive on.
So the wall is built, but whatabout the heart?
(07:24):
The book of Nehemiah is oftencelebrated for its account of
rebuilding Jerusalem's wall, afeat of leadership, courage, and
communal effort.
Yet as Nehemiah 9 and 10reveals, the true spiritual
battle begins after the stonesare set.
The external wall, thoughessential for securing identity,
(07:44):
is not enough.
The internal walls of the heart,compromised by sin, apathy, and
divided loyalties, must also berebuilt.
For the Christian warrior andfor every believer, these
chapters offer a clarion call.
Repent, recommit, and re-engage.
(08:09):
We're going to explore Nehemiah9 and 10 as a spiritual battle
for a moment, drawing onhistorical, theological, um, and
pastoral insights to equipChristian men and families for
spiritual warfare leadership,household discipleship, and
kinetic warfare.
So the historical context,covenant renewal after exile,
(08:32):
the road to Nehemiah 9:10.
The events of Nehemiah 9:10 areset against the backdrop of the
Babylonian exile and thesubsequent return of the Jewish
remnant to Jerusalem in about586 BC.
Okay, Jerusalem fell to Babylon.
You know, Jerusalem had beenconquered many times, and
(08:55):
Judah's elites were deported.
Seventy years later, asprophesied by Jeremiah, Cyrus II
of Persia issued an edictpermitting the exiles to return
and rebuild their temple, apolicy confirmed by Cyrus
Cylinder, an archaeologicalartifact known in the British
Museum.
This return unfolded in waves,first under Shesh Bazaar and
(09:20):
Zerubbabel, rebuilding the altarand the temple, and under Ezra,
Torah reform, and finally underNehemiah, rebuilding the city
walls.
The Persian period was marked byboth opportunity and challenge.
While the second temple wasrebuilt in 516 BC, remember we
(09:41):
count down BC and up A.D.
The people struggled withspiritual lethargy,
intermarriage with paganneighbors, Sabbath neglect, and
economic exploitation.
Prophets like Haggai, Zechariah,and Malachi confronted these
(10:01):
breaches, preparing the way forthe covenant renewal described
in Nehemiah 9:10.
The wall and the word, asequence of revival.
Nehemiah's 52-day wall projectfrom 445 to 444 BC transformed
Jerusalem from a symbol ofdisgrace to a defensible city,
(10:27):
restoring a sense of identity asa kingdom of priests, as
mentioned in Exodus 19.6.
Yet as the narrative shows,physical security created a
space for spiritual reflection.
When they weren't fighting fortheir lives and trying not to
get victimized and slavery andrape and everything else, they
(10:49):
had a moment to breathe and thenreflect on their current
predicament as a soul, as apeople.
The public reading of the Torahand the seventh month in
Nehemiah 8, which we'll cover,triggered deep conviction and
tears amongst the people,leading to a period of
(11:11):
confession, fasting, andultimately covenant renewal.
The socioeconomic and thespiritual pressures of the time,
the need for renewal is notmerely spiritual, but also
socioeconomic.
Intermarriage threateneddoctrinal purity, usury, and
(11:31):
debt slavery slavery.
So that's the charging ofinterest for loans.
And debt slavery violated Mosaiccompassion.
Sabbath commerce underminedGod's sign of creation and
redemption.
These infractions mirrored thesins that had led to exile, and
(11:55):
leaders feared a repetition ofjudgment.
We see this in Jeremiah 16,sorry, 17, 19 through 27.
So we see a repeating covenantuh pattern of covenant renewal
in his Israel's story.
In Nehemiah 10, which is whatwe're going to finish with, fits
a well-established biblicalpattern of covenant renewal.
(12:17):
Sinai, Exodus 24, the planes ofMoab and Deuteronomy 29 and 30,
Sheshem under Joshua and Joshua24, and later reforms under
Pesa, Hezekiah, and Josiah.
Each renewal renewal involvespublic reading of the law,
confession, and a solemn oath,often sealed with written
(12:40):
documentation signatories.
I don't know if you guys canhear my son.
It sounds like he's right nextto me, but I swear he's not.
He's rums away.
He's just got some lungs.
Archaeological and textualcorroboration.
Archaeological finds, such asthe Yehud coin series, seals
bearing the names of Nehemiah'sofficials and per and Persian
(13:03):
period fortificationscorroborate the historical
setting of Nehemiah 9.10.
This is not fantasy.
The Bible is not fantasy.
Manuscript evidence from Qumranconfirms the textual stability
of these chapters.
In summary, the historicalcontext of Nehemiah 9.10 is one
(13:23):
of return, rebuilding, and theurgent need for spiritual
renewal.
Covenant must be the oh, sorry,spiritual renewal.
The external wall is up, but theinternal covenant must be
restored.
A pattern with deep roots inIsrael's history and enduring
relevance for the church.
(14:02):
Nehemiah 9:10 doesn't happen ina vacuum.
Like I said, the wall isfinished, the gates are set, the
enemies have been pushed back.
Jerusalem finally looks securefrom the outside.
But inside, the people are stillspiritually fractured.
This is the moment that everywarrior must understand.
You can win the external battleand still learn and learn, uh
(14:25):
lose eternally or internally.
A rebuilt wall means nothing ifsin still rules the heart.
And we see this horribly in ourveteran community, our first
responder community was suicide.
You can win wars, you can winbattles, you can come home, and
(14:49):
still sin can take you.
Show us the external mission.
Now in chapters nine and ten,God turns their eyes inward.
Before God advances his people,he purifies his people.
(15:10):
Before he gives new orders, herestores their obedience.
Nehemiah 9:10 is the turningpoint.
Repentance for past failures,recommitment to future
obedience, re-engagement withGod's mission.
This is the same turning pointevery warrior faces.
Tonight, we step into it.
(15:31):
So let's review Nehemiah 1through 8.
Before we enter the covenantrenewal of chapters 9 and 10, we
need to grasp the battlefield ofthe first eight chapters.
Nehemiah 1, the burden.
Nehemiah hears Jerusalem's wallsare broken and its people
disgraced.
He is cut to the heart, fasts,prays, confesses the sins of
(15:55):
Israel, takes ownership of them,and asks God for favor before
the Persian king.
This is where every warriormission begins with a burden
from God.
Nehemiah 2, the mission.
God answers the prayer.
The king says Nehemiah withauthority, letters, and
resources.
Nehemiah inspects the ruins atnight and rallies the people.
(16:15):
Let us rise up and build.
The mission is born.
Nehemiah 3, the teams, families,craftsmen, priests, nobles.
Every household takes a sectionof the wall.
Ordinary people doingextraordinary work.
Warriors building side by side.
Nehemiah 4, the enemy attacks,mockery, threats, plots, fear.
(16:38):
Nehemiah responds with prayer,vigilance, and sword in one
hand, and tool in the other,readiness.
Fight for your brothers, yoursons, your daughters, your
wives, and your homes.
That's where this ministry, thatverse is where Nehemiah 414 is
where this ministry was born.
Nehemiah 5, internal corruption,financial oppression, and
(17:04):
internal injustice.
Nehemiah rebukes the nobles, hecurses them, restores the
people, and models sacrificialleadership.
The wall is nothing if the heartis corrupt.
Nehemiah 6, psychologicalwarfare and information warfare,
(17:24):
and the first like documentedcase of fake news.
Distraction, deceit, slander,fake news, assassination
attempt, assassination attempts.
Nehemiah refuses to be baited,to come off the wall.
I am doing a great work andcannot come down.
The wall is finished in 52 days.
(17:45):
A miracle.
Nehemiah 7, repopulation andrecords.
A city, a secured city must befilled with faithful people.
Nehemiah re-establishes order.
Genealogy, roles, leadership,and structure matters.
Nehemiah 8, the word isrestored.
(18:08):
Ezra reads the law to the peoplefrom morning to midday.
Understanding returns.
Worship returns.
Joy returns.
They celebrate the Feast ofBoose for the first time since
Joshua.
Revival begins.
Now, Nehemiah 9.
(18:29):
I'm only again, these are twopretty long chapters, so I'm
only going to read selectverses.
Um so again, when we go backthrough and we pick this up and
we're able to take the time togo verse by verse, we will.
But right now, we're going tojust do kind of a summary of
these two chapters.
Now you got to remember that oneof the longest prayers ever is
(18:52):
in chapter 9, all right, in theBible.
So it's worth, again, the wholebook of Nehemiah.
I find it fantastic.
Um, it's one of my favoritebooks.
So now on the 24th day, thepeople of Israel were assembled
with fasting and in sackcloth,lived further down, and they
stood and confessed their sinsand their iniquities of their
(19:13):
fathers.
Verse 9, 1 and 2.
But you live further down, butyou are a God ready to forgive,
gracious and merciful, slow toanger and abounding in steadfast
love.
Many times you delivered themaccording to your mercies.
Nevertheless, in your greatmercies you did not make an end
(19:37):
of them.
Chapter 10 is recommitment,sealing new orders in writing,
(19:58):
one without the other collapses.
The warrior who repents butdoesn't recommit stays weak.
A warrior who commits withoutrepenting becomes a hypocrite.
The people of God do both, andnow we walk with them.
In Nehemiah 1 through 5, we seerepentance is a battlefield, not
(20:19):
a feeling.
No comfort to it at all.
It's itchy and coarse.
(20:40):
They put ashes on them to not toshow that they are suffering.
They separate this and they do aseparation from compromise.
All the sins they were doingbefore.
Standing for hours under theword.
Warriors don't hide sin, theydrag it to the light.
There's only one way to dealwith sin, and that's to bring it
(21:01):
into the brightest daylight youcan, own it, and move on.
You can't fight the enemyoutside if you're compromised
inside.
Real men repent.
Real women repent.
Weak people make excuses.
(21:22):
And verses six throughthirty-one, that's a pretty big
gap.
Remembers Israel remembers thislong history of failures.
They name their failures outloud: stubbornness, idolatry,
ignoring God, complaining,rejecting his word, killing his
prophets, loving Egypt more thanfreedom, loving slavery more
(21:48):
than freedom.
A lot of those sound like ustoday, do they not?
A warrior doesn't pretend he'sbetter than he is, he tells the
truth and stands before Godwithout spin.
We must own our faults, see themclearly, and repent of them.
It's the only way to get free ofthem.
(22:10):
And then we see in verses 17,19, 28, and 31, God's
faithfulness is greater thantheir failure.
God stays, God rescues, Godrestores, God refuses to quit on
his people.
Repentance only works if youbelieve God's mercy is greater
than your mess.
(22:31):
Part of our problem as a people,as a human, as a as a as a human
being, is that we either thinktoo highly of ourself, I'm a
good person.
I'm not Hitler.
Well, way to go, choosing one ofthe most evil people on the
(22:52):
planet, everyone's better thanHitler, except for Stahl and
Emmal.
Right?
You just pick three of the mostevil people ever walked the
planet Earth.
When your comparison to them, ofcourse not.
But when compared to God, you'revile.
When you're compared to hisstandard, you are vile, sin
(23:13):
incarnate.
And only you can only be cleanedby the blood of Jesus Christ.
Accepting him as your Lord andSavior.
Not Jesus, bro, not Hug Italculture, not you know, hippie
Jesus.
He is your king.
(23:38):
And that word king can't be bigenough because he's the creator
of the universe.
Let us continue on.
Nehemiah 10.
Because of all this, we see in10, this is a 1038, because of
all this, we make a firmcovenant in writing.
On the sealed document are thenames.
(23:59):
We will not neglect the house ofour God in 1039.
Transition from repentance torecommitment.
Chapter 9 exposes the heart, butGod never leaves his warriors on
the ground.
He raises them to their feet andcalls them into action.
Repentance clears the field.
(24:22):
Recommitment establishes a newformation.
Now we move from confession tocovenant.
Nehemiah 10.
Real repentance produces realcommitment.
Israel signs their names.
(24:43):
Leaders go first.
Men commit their families.
Priests, Levites, gatekeepers,worshipers, everyone joins.
This is the battle roster.
This is a warrior covenant.
This is the accountability inwriting.
Warriors put their obedience inink.
(25:04):
What do they commit to?
First thing they commit to ispurity and marriage.
This is so important, and it'svery important to us in the
church now.
It is supremely important in ourchurch now.
You want your sons anddaughters, and if you are
(25:26):
single, you want to marry agodly kingdom spouse.
Okay.
You don't want your daughtersmarrying an atheist or a pagan
or any other religion.
Okay, because the odds of hergetting sucked into that are
pretty high.
(25:47):
We are called to marryChristians, as were the Jews,
called to marry Jews.
Because you become one with thatflesh.
Now, if you get saved and you'remarried to someone, you
(26:09):
shouldn't leave them.
You should work on them and praywith one.
But before you do that, beforeyou get married, marry a godly
(27:40):
man, a woman, please.
For your own sake.
A marriage that isn't underChrist's rule.
Where do you go to resolve yourproblems?
When Lauren and I have aproblem, which is rare, the
(28:02):
Bible decides.
(29:26):
Chapter and verse.
Where am I wrong?
Show me.
Show me where I'm wrong.
Or I'll show you where you'rewrong.
And then it's not her arguingwith me, or me arguing with her.
It's the person who's wrongarguing with God, and good luck
(29:46):
with that.
I've been in a marriage beforewhere um You don't have that.
And it's constant strife.
It's horrible.
(30:06):
It's darkness incarnate.
I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Godly marriage.
God will not bless a marriagethat is not under him.
You're gonna need in this world,you're gonna need every blessing
(30:29):
you can get from God.
Every blessing and more.
The next thing they commit to isSabbath discipline.
Okay?
Not working on the Sabbath,resting for a day.
This is good news.
(30:52):
You don't have to take yourSabbath on Sunday or Saturday as
the Seventh-day Mists do, or theJews.
Just make sure you're takingyour day of rest to focus on Him
and recharge.
On worship order, they commit toworshiping God the way they know
(31:21):
they're supposed to, the way Godtold them to.
Financial faithfulness.
They commit to tithing.
They know that God is not gonnabless them if they don't give
him his offering.
The first fruits.
(31:45):
And I don't like churchesbeating that brow, whatever.
And I'm not saying you gottagive to a church, but you better
be giving to somebody that needsit.
The worst thing you can do issend it overseas to someone who
you'll never know and you can'tfollow up with.
Invest in someone you'll knowand someone who you can follow
(32:07):
up with and help stay on thetrack.
All right?
The help and the aid that you'regiving them is one step that may
open their heart or solve aproblem that really drives home.
Wow, God really does love me.
This Christian came over andhelped me, and I wasn't looking
for it.
(32:28):
God really does love me.
And now you're there to followup.
And then communityaccountability.
And this is what we suck at.
And well, it's what Christianlight sucks at.
Oh, you just God just loves youas you are.
(32:51):
He just don't you're all sad.
Nope.
God doesn't send sin to hell, hesends people to hell.
He told you how to get toheaven.
He won't force you to do it.
You go to hell willingly.
You go to hell willingly.
(33:13):
You choose it.
You know what you're supposed todo.
And guess what?
And even if you say you don't,you know where you're supposed
to go to find out.
But it's written on your heart.
You know what's a sin and what'snot.
But you can find compromisedchurches out there with rainbow
(33:34):
flags that will.
Deny this very book, the bookthat they're supposedly
preaching from, which they'renot.
Warriors say, no, not my home,not my children, not my
marriage, not my walk.
(33:57):
And they put God's house first,10, 32 through 39.
We will not neglect the house ofour God.
Warriors don't give Godleftovers, they give him first
fruits.
So Nehemiah 10 is not ancientpaperwork, it's a warrior's
covenant.
The people didn't justacknowledge truth, they bound
(34:21):
themselves to obedience.
Every battlefield in your lifemust reflect the same
seriousness.
Their covenant commitments mapdirectly to our seven
battlefields.
The applications across ourseven battlefields.
Faith, clean your weapon, returnto the Bible, prayer, worship,
(34:42):
and catechism.
Family, lead from the front,confess failure, protect,
provide, disciple.
Fitness, discipline your body,repent of neglect, and rebuild
your strength.
Fundamentals, sharpen yourskills, trust God, don't test
God.
Preparedness, protection,medical, firearms and
(35:05):
combatives, master them all.
Finances, steward for thekingdom, honor God first, kill
consumerism inside you.
Fellowship, lock shields, engagewith one another, invest in one
another, train together, noisolation.
We are a part of a body.
(35:27):
The enemy wants you to cutyourself off, cut your thumb
off, and you're in the thumb andput it over there and away from
the body.
After enough time, it'll rot.
And it'll die.
And that's what you do.
Fidelity.
Purity is warfare.
(35:48):
Repent of lust, porn,compromise, lies.
Be a man of your word.
Or a woman of your word.
Integrity is everything.
Rebuild walls, renew hearts,restored mission.
(36:08):
The flow of Nehemiah 9:10 is theflow of every Christian warrior.
Repent clears the debris.
Recommitment establishes neworders.
Reengage, get back on the walland fight.
What Israel wrote in ink, youmust write in your life.
(36:29):
So we must repent, recommit, andre-engage.
This week, make a writtencovenant for your household.
Do this.
Write down what you will stopdoing that is against God.
Write down what you will start.
(36:51):
Write down what you willprotect.
Write down what you will build.
Write down who you will serve.
Where you will train, and howyou will honor Christ.
Put your name on it.
Put your family under it.
(37:11):
Put your life behind it.
Christian warriors, the wall isup, but the battle for the heart
continues.
Let Nehemiah 9:10 be your guide.
Repent of compromise.
Recommit to God's covenant andre-engage in the fight for your
(37:32):
soul, your family, and yourcommunity.
For the God who restoredJerusalem's walls is the same
God who in Christ rebuilds thebroken places of our lives and
calls us to be living temples ofhis presence.
We are called to be temples ofhis presence.
(37:52):
Let us pray.
Lord Jesus Christ, Lord of King,cleanse us, restore us, renew
us, strip away excuses, breakchains, ignite obedience,
strengthen every marriage, guardevery child, purify every heart.
We say together, we will notneglect your house.
(38:15):
We will not abandon our post.
We will not come off the wall.
We belong to you and we willobey in your mighty name.
Amen.
God bless you, and I'll see youtomorrow for Bible study.
Bye.
SPEAKER_00 (38:31):
Thank you for watching Christian Warrior
Mission.
Please comment, like, share, andsubscribe.
Click the link in thedescription to join our
Christian Warrior Missioncommunity, where you will find
brotherhood, accountability,support, and training.
Welcome.
Happy Tuesday to you.
Um, and welcome to WarriorChurch.
I know we're a little bit latetoday.
It has been a crazy technologyuh past four days.
We've had no internet from awindstorm and then cell troubles
(01:26):
as well with that.
So we've kind of been in atechnological black hole and
trying to climb out of that.
We're so far behind, losing fourbasically four days of work um
due to all this stuff.
So I'm happy to be here.
I'm happy to be here for WarriorChurch.
I'm hope glad you hope glad youguys are here.
Let me tell you what we do hereif this is your first time.
(01:48):
And again, you're like, wow,this clown show.
Yeah, that's what it's been.
So I do see myself on YouTube.
That's good.
And I'm gonna assume I'm gonnago.
So tonight, welcome to ChristianWarrior Mission, a discipleship
(02:09):
ministry, a home-based warriorchurch, and a working farm where
faith is lived, forged, andfought for.
We are not here to be not hereto build fans of Jesus Christ.
We are here to train soldiers ofJesus Christ.
We exist to come alongside localchurches, not compete with them,
(02:29):
not replace them, but tostrengthen the lines, reinforce
the walls, strengthen the homes,and equip believers for the
daily battles they face.
This world is collapsing underthe weight of its own rebellion.
But God has not called us tosit, sulk, or surrender.
(02:51):
We like to say we are forgingChristian warriors for today's
challenges.
It's not a slogan, it's amandate.
We don't gather for comfort, wegather for commitment, we gather
for transformation, we gatherbecause Christ is king.
The war is real and the stakesare eternal.
This is where men and women aretrained to lead with courage,
(03:14):
protect without apology, providewith conviction, and disciple
with authority.
In a world determined to unmakeeverything God has created.
Every Tuesday night we standshoulder to shoulder and train
across the seven battlefieldsbecause the enemy is not just
attacking your mind, he'sattacking your home, your
(03:36):
marriage, your discipline, yourpurity, your fellowship, your
finances, and your readiness.
So, lock in, lock shields withus, stand firm, open your heart,
brace for conviction, andprepare for orders.
The war is real, the king isvictorious, and tonight we
train.
(03:57):
The battlefields of faith,family, fitness, fundamental
finances, fellowship, andfidelity.
We deliberately pursue God ineach one of those battlefields
every day.
All right.
(04:24):
Okay, we do that through Biblestudy, through, you know, which
is reading of his word, prayer,and catechism, understanding
what you believe and being ableto defend it.
You must deliberately pursuegood relationships with your
family.
Okay, you're not gonnaaccidentally have a good
marriage or a good relationshipwith your kids.
(04:50):
Fitness, you're not gonnaaccidentally be fit unless you
have the hardest, one of thehardest jobs out there, right?
Fundamentals, we must pursuesharpening our skill set and
always growing in knowledge,being useful, useful to God,
useful to the kingdom.
(05:11):
We must deliberately pursue wisefinances, avoiding the slavery
of debt and the pitfall of debt,as well as the sin of
materialism.
We must deliberately pursuegodly relationships with other
brothers and sisters in Christ,investing in relationships that
(05:34):
pull you to heaven instead oftrying, you know, lift you to
heaven rather than pull you downto hell.
And fidelity, we must, we mustdeliberately pursue purity,
purity of heart, purity with oureyes, purity with our ears,
purity in our soul.
Be a man of your word.
(05:56):
Okay.
Make sure what you what youreyeballs are seeing is what's
something that you would watchwith Jesus in the room.
Because he is.
Same thing with what you'relistening to.
And boy, is this hard today.
Trying to find good workoutmusic is one of the greatest
challenges that I face on adaily basis.
(06:20):
Trying not to go back to oldplaylists and deleting songs and
all these other things because,well, they're straight from
hell.
So those are the sevenbattlefields, and that's pretty
much where your entire life fitsif you think about it.
Today, well last week wasVeterans Day, and we talked
(06:43):
about that.
The week before, we talked aboutyou know what a warrior is, what
a Christian warrior is and whyGod loves them.
But prior to that, we've beenworking since Charlie Kirk's
assassination, we've beenworking through the book of
Nehemiah.
Today, we are in Nehemiah 9through 10.
I'm going to finish it.
There's only 13 chapters, andthen we'll finish it before we
(07:03):
get into some topicals, okay?
So I'm gonna do a quick reviewon things because it's been
weeks and um, well, it's beenthinking it's almost been a
month.
Um, and then we'll drive on.
So the wall is built, but whatabout the heart?
(07:24):
The book of Nehemiah is oftencelebrated for its account of
rebuilding Jerusalem's wall, afeat of leadership, courage, and
communal effort.
Yet as Nehemiah 9 and 10reveals, the true spiritual
battle begins after the stonesare set.
The external wall, thoughessential for securing identity,
(07:44):
is not enough.
The internal walls of the heart,compromised by sin, apathy, and
divided loyalties, must also berebuilt.
For the Christian warrior andfor every believer, these
chapters offer a clarion call.
Repent, recommit, and re-engage.
(08:09):
We're going to explore Nehemiah9 and 10 as a spiritual battle
for a moment, drawing onhistorical, theological, um, and
pastoral insights to equipChristian men and families for
spiritual warfare leadership,household discipleship, and
kinetic warfare.
So the historical context,covenant renewal after exile,
(08:32):
the road to Nehemiah 9:10.
The events of Nehemiah 9:10 areset against the backdrop of the
Babylonian exile and thesubsequent return of the Jewish
remnant to Jerusalem in about586 BC.
Okay, Jerusalem fell to Babylon.
You know, Jerusalem had beenconquered many times, and
(08:55):
Judah's elites were deported.
Seventy years later, asprophesied by Jeremiah, Cyrus II
of Persia issued an edictpermitting the exiles to return
and rebuild their temple, apolicy confirmed by Cyrus
Cylinder, an archaeologicalartifact known in the British
Museum.
This return unfolded in waves,first under Shesh Bazaar and
(09:20):
Zerubbabel, rebuilding the altarand the temple, and under Ezra,
Torah reform, and finally underNehemiah, rebuilding the city
walls.
The Persian period was marked byboth opportunity and challenge.
While the second temple wasrebuilt in 516 BC, remember we
(09:41):
count down BC and up A.D.
The people struggled withspiritual lethargy,
intermarriage with paganneighbors, Sabbath neglect, and
economic exploitation.
Prophets like Haggai, Zechariah,and Malachi confronted these
(10:01):
breaches, preparing the way forthe covenant renewal described
in Nehemiah 9:10.
The wall and the word, asequence of revival.
Nehemiah's 52-day wall projectfrom 445 to 444 BC transformed
Jerusalem from a symbol ofdisgrace to a defensible city,
(10:27):
restoring a sense of identity asa kingdom of priests, as
mentioned in Exodus 19.6.
Yet as the narrative shows,physical security created a
space for spiritual reflection.
When they weren't fighting fortheir lives and trying not to
get victimized and slavery andrape and everything else, they
(10:49):
had a moment to breathe and thenreflect on their current
predicament as a soul, as apeople.
The public reading of the Torahand the seventh month in
Nehemiah 8, which we'll cover,triggered deep conviction and
tears amongst the people,leading to a period of
(11:11):
confession, fasting, andultimately covenant renewal.
The socioeconomic and thespiritual pressures of the time,
the need for renewal is notmerely spiritual, but also
socioeconomic.
Intermarriage threateneddoctrinal purity, usury, and
(11:31):
debt slavery slavery.
So that's the charging ofinterest for loans.
And debt slavery violated Mosaiccompassion.
Sabbath commerce underminedGod's sign of creation and
redemption.
These infractions mirrored thesins that had led to exile, and
(11:55):
leaders feared a repetition ofjudgment.
We see this in Jeremiah 16,sorry, 17, 19 through 27.
So we see a repeating covenantuh pattern of covenant renewal
in his Israel's story.
In Nehemiah 10, which is whatwe're going to finish with, fits
a well-established biblicalpattern of covenant renewal.
(12:17):
Sinai, Exodus 24, the planes ofMoab and Deuteronomy 29 and 30,
Sheshem under Joshua and Joshua24, and later reforms under
Pesa, Hezekiah, and Josiah.
Each renewal renewal involvespublic reading of the law,
confession, and a solemn oath,often sealed with written
(12:40):
documentation signatories.
I don't know if you guys canhear my son.
It sounds like he's right nextto me, but I swear he's not.
He's rums away.
He's just got some lungs.
Archaeological and textualcorroboration.
Archaeological finds, such asthe Yehud coin series, seals
bearing the names of Nehemiah'sofficials and per and Persian
(13:03):
period fortificationscorroborate the historical
setting of Nehemiah 9.10.
This is not fantasy.
The Bible is not fantasy.
Manuscript evidence from Qumranconfirms the textual stability
of these chapters.
In summary, the historicalcontext of Nehemiah 9.10 is one
(13:23):
of return, rebuilding, and theurgent need for spiritual
renewal.
Covenant must be the oh, sorry,spiritual renewal.
The external wall is up, but theinternal covenant must be
restored.
A pattern with deep roots inIsrael's history and enduring
relevance for the church.
(14:02):
Nehemiah 9:10 doesn't happen ina vacuum.
Like I said, the wall isfinished, the gates are set, the
enemies have been pushed back.
Jerusalem finally looks securefrom the outside.
But inside, the people are stillspiritually fractured.
This is the moment that everywarrior must understand.
You can win the external battleand still learn and learn, uh
(14:25):
lose eternally or internally.
A rebuilt wall means nothing ifsin still rules the heart.
And we see this horribly in ourveteran community, our first
responder community was suicide.
You can win wars, you can winbattles, you can come home, and
(14:49):
still sin can take you.
Show us the external mission.
Now in chapters nine and ten,God turns their eyes inward.
Before God advances his people,he purifies his people.
(15:10):
Before he gives new orders, herestores their obedience.
Nehemiah 9:10 is the turningpoint.
Repentance for past failures,recommitment to future
obedience, re-engagement withGod's mission.
This is the same turning pointevery warrior faces.
Tonight, we step into it.
(15:31):
So let's review Nehemiah 1through 8.
Before we enter the covenantrenewal of chapters 9 and 10, we
need to grasp the battlefield ofthe first eight chapters.
Nehemiah 1, the burden.
Nehemiah hears Jerusalem's wallsare broken and its people
disgraced.
He is cut to the heart, fasts,prays, confesses the sins of
(15:55):
Israel, takes ownership of them,and asks God for favor before
the Persian king.
This is where every warriormission begins with a burden
from God.
Nehemiah 2, the mission.
God answers the prayer.
The king says Nehemiah withauthority, letters, and
resources.
Nehemiah inspects the ruins atnight and rallies the people.
(16:15):
Let us rise up and build.
The mission is born.
Nehemiah 3, the teams, families,craftsmen, priests, nobles.
Every household takes a sectionof the wall.
Ordinary people doingextraordinary work.
Warriors building side by side.
Nehemiah 4, the enemy attacks,mockery, threats, plots, fear.
(16:38):
Nehemiah responds with prayer,vigilance, and sword in one
hand, and tool in the other,readiness.
Fight for your brothers, yoursons, your daughters, your
wives, and your homes.
That's where this ministry, thatverse is where Nehemiah 414 is
where this ministry was born.
Nehemiah 5, internal corruption,financial oppression, and
(17:04):
internal injustice.
Nehemiah rebukes the nobles, hecurses them, restores the
people, and models sacrificialleadership.
The wall is nothing if the heartis corrupt.
Nehemiah 6, psychologicalwarfare and information warfare,
(17:24):
and the first like documentedcase of fake news.
Distraction, deceit, slander,fake news, assassination
attempt, assassination attempts.
Nehemiah refuses to be baited,to come off the wall.
I am doing a great work andcannot come down.
The wall is finished in 52 days.
(17:45):
A miracle.
Nehemiah 7, repopulation andrecords.
A city, a secured city must befilled with faithful people.
Nehemiah re-establishes order.
Genealogy, roles, leadership,and structure matters.
Nehemiah 8, the word isrestored.
(18:08):
Ezra reads the law to the peoplefrom morning to midday.
Understanding returns.
Worship returns.
Joy returns.
They celebrate the Feast ofBoose for the first time since
Joshua.
Revival begins.
Now, Nehemiah 9.
(18:29):
I'm only again, these are twopretty long chapters, so I'm
only going to read selectverses.
Um so again, when we go backthrough and we pick this up and
we're able to take the time togo verse by verse, we will.
But right now, we're going tojust do kind of a summary of
these two chapters.
Now you got to remember that oneof the longest prayers ever is
(18:52):
in chapter 9, all right, in theBible.
So it's worth, again, the wholebook of Nehemiah.
I find it fantastic.
Um, it's one of my favoritebooks.
So now on the 24th day, thepeople of Israel were assembled
with fasting and in sackcloth,lived further down, and they
stood and confessed their sinsand their iniquities of their
(19:13):
fathers.
Verse 9, 1 and 2.
But you live further down, butyou are a God ready to forgive,
gracious and merciful, slow toanger and abounding in steadfast
love.
Many times you delivered themaccording to your mercies.
Nevertheless, in your greatmercies you did not make an end
(19:37):
of them.
Chapter 10 is recommitment,sealing new orders in writing,
(19:58):
one without the other collapses.
The warrior who repents butdoesn't recommit stays weak.
A warrior who commits withoutrepenting becomes a hypocrite.
The people of God do both, andnow we walk with them.
In Nehemiah 1 through 5, we seerepentance is a battlefield, not
(20:19):
a feeling.
No comfort to it at all.
It's itchy and coarse.
(20:40):
They put ashes on them to not toshow that they are suffering.
They separate this and they do aseparation from compromise.
All the sins they were doingbefore.
Standing for hours under theword.
Warriors don't hide sin, theydrag it to the light.
There's only one way to dealwith sin, and that's to bring it
(21:01):
into the brightest daylight youcan, own it, and move on.
You can't fight the enemyoutside if you're compromised
inside.
Real men repent.
Real women repent.
Weak people make excuses.
(21:22):
And verses six throughthirty-one, that's a pretty big
gap.
Remembers Israel remembers thislong history of failures.
They name their failures outloud: stubbornness, idolatry,
ignoring God, complaining,rejecting his word, killing his
prophets, loving Egypt more thanfreedom, loving slavery more
(21:48):
than freedom.
A lot of those sound like ustoday, do they not?
A warrior doesn't pretend he'sbetter than he is, he tells the
truth and stands before Godwithout spin.
We must own our faults, see themclearly, and repent of them.
It's the only way to get free ofthem.
(22:10):
And then we see in verses 17,19, 28, and 31, God's
faithfulness is greater thantheir failure.
God stays, God rescues, Godrestores, God refuses to quit on
his people.
Repentance only works if youbelieve God's mercy is greater
than your mess.
(22:31):
Part of our problem as a people,as a human, as a as a as a human
being, is that we either thinktoo highly of ourself, I'm a
good person.
I'm not Hitler.
Well, way to go, choosing one ofthe most evil people on the
(22:52):
planet, everyone's better thanHitler, except for Stahl and
Emmal.
Right?
You just pick three of the mostevil people ever walked the
planet Earth.
When your comparison to them, ofcourse not.
But when compared to God, you'revile.
When you're compared to hisstandard, you are vile, sin
(23:13):
incarnate.
And only you can only be cleanedby the blood of Jesus Christ.
Accepting him as your Lord andSavior.
Not Jesus, bro, not Hug Italculture, not you know, hippie
Jesus.
He is your king.
(23:38):
And that word king can't be bigenough because he's the creator
of the universe.
Let us continue on.
Nehemiah 10.
Because of all this, we see in10, this is a 1038, because of
all this, we make a firmcovenant in writing.
On the sealed document are thenames.
(23:59):
We will not neglect the house ofour God in 1039.
Transition from repentance torecommitment.
Chapter 9 exposes the heart, butGod never leaves his warriors on
the ground.
He raises them to their feet andcalls them into action.
Repentance clears the field.
(24:22):
Recommitment establishes a newformation.
Now we move from confession tocovenant.
Nehemiah 10.
Real repentance produces realcommitment.
Israel signs their names.
(24:43):
Leaders go first.
Men commit their families.
Priests, Levites, gatekeepers,worshipers, everyone joins.
This is the battle roster.
This is a warrior covenant.
This is the accountability inwriting.
Warriors put their obedience inink.
(25:04):
What do they commit to?
First thing they commit to ispurity and marriage.
This is so important, and it'svery important to us in the
church now.
It is supremely important in ourchurch now.
You want your sons anddaughters, and if you are
(25:26):
single, you want to marry agodly kingdom spouse.
Okay.
You don't want your daughtersmarrying an atheist or a pagan
or any other religion.
Okay, because the odds of hergetting sucked into that are
pretty high.
(25:47):
We are called to marryChristians, as were the Jews,
called to marry Jews.
Because you become one with thatflesh.
Now, if you get saved and you'remarried to someone, you
(26:09):
shouldn't leave them.
You should work on them and praywith one.
But before you do that, beforeyou get married, marry a godly
(27:40):
man, a woman, please.
For your own sake.
A marriage that isn't underChrist's rule.
Where do you go to resolve yourproblems?
When Lauren and I have aproblem, which is rare, the
(28:02):
Bible decides.
(29:26):
Chapter and verse.
Where am I wrong?
Show me.
Show me where I'm wrong.
Or I'll show you where you'rewrong.
And then it's not her arguingwith me, or me arguing with her.
It's the person who's wrongarguing with God, and good luck
(29:46):
with that.
I've been in a marriage beforewhere um You don't have that.
And it's constant strife.
It's horrible.
(30:06):
It's darkness incarnate.
I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Godly marriage.
God will not bless a marriagethat is not under him.
You're gonna need in this world,you're gonna need every blessing
(30:29):
you can get from God.
Every blessing and more.
The next thing they commit to isSabbath discipline.
Okay?
Not working on the Sabbath,resting for a day.
This is good news.
(30:52):
You don't have to take yourSabbath on Sunday or Saturday as
the Seventh-day Mists do, or theJews.
Just make sure you're takingyour day of rest to focus on Him
and recharge.
On worship order, they commit toworshiping God the way they know
(31:21):
they're supposed to, the way Godtold them to.
Financial faithfulness.
They commit to tithing.
They know that God is not gonnabless them if they don't give
him his offering.
The first fruits.
(31:45):
And I don't like churchesbeating that brow, whatever.
And I'm not saying you gottagive to a church, but you better
be giving to somebody that needsit.
The worst thing you can do issend it overseas to someone who
you'll never know and you can'tfollow up with.
Invest in someone you'll knowand someone who you can follow
(32:07):
up with and help stay on thetrack.
All right?
The help and the aid that you'regiving them is one step that may
open their heart or solve aproblem that really drives home.
Wow, God really does love me.
This Christian came over andhelped me, and I wasn't looking
for it.
(32:28):
God really does love me.
And now you're there to followup.
And then communityaccountability.
And this is what we suck at.
And well, it's what Christianlight sucks at.
Oh, you just God just loves youas you are.
(32:51):
He just don't you're all sad.
Nope.
God doesn't send sin to hell, hesends people to hell.
He told you how to get toheaven.
He won't force you to do it.
You go to hell willingly.
You go to hell willingly.
(33:13):
You choose it.
You know what you're supposed todo.
And guess what?
And even if you say you don't,you know where you're supposed
to go to find out.
But it's written on your heart.
You know what's a sin and what'snot.
But you can find compromisedchurches out there with rainbow
(33:34):
flags that will.
Deny this very book, the bookthat they're supposedly
preaching from, which they'renot.
Warriors say, no, not my home,not my children, not my
marriage, not my walk.
(33:57):
And they put God's house first,10, 32 through 39.
We will not neglect the house ofour God.
Warriors don't give Godleftovers, they give him first
fruits.
So Nehemiah 10 is not ancientpaperwork, it's a warrior's
covenant.
The people didn't justacknowledge truth, they bound
(34:21):
themselves to obedience.
Every battlefield in your lifemust reflect the same
seriousness.
Their covenant commitments mapdirectly to our seven
battlefields.
The applications across ourseven battlefields.
Faith, clean your weapon, returnto the Bible, prayer, worship,
(34:42):
and catechism.
Family, lead from the front,confess failure, protect,
provide, disciple.
Fitness, discipline your body,repent of neglect, and rebuild
your strength.
Fundamentals, sharpen yourskills, trust God, don't test
God.
Preparedness, protection,medical, firearms and
(35:05):
combatives, master them all.
Finances, steward for thekingdom, honor God first, kill
consumerism inside you.
Fellowship, lock shields, engagewith one another, invest in one
another, train together, noisolation.
We are a part of a body.
(35:27):
The enemy wants you to cutyourself off, cut your thumb
off, and you're in the thumb andput it over there and away from
the body.
After enough time, it'll rot.
And it'll die.
And that's what you do.
Fidelity.
Purity is warfare.
(35:48):
Repent of lust, porn,compromise, lies.
Be a man of your word.
Or a woman of your word.
Integrity is everything.
Rebuild walls, renew hearts,restored mission.
(36:08):
The flow of Nehemiah 9:10 is theflow of every Christian warrior.
Repent clears the debris.
Recommitment establishes neworders.
Reengage, get back on the walland fight.
What Israel wrote in ink, youmust write in your life.
(36:29):
So we must repent, recommit, andre-engage.
This week, make a writtencovenant for your household.
Do this.
Write down what you will stopdoing that is against God.
Write down what you will start.
(36:51):
Write down what you willprotect.
Write down what you will build.
Write down who you will serve.
Where you will train, and howyou will honor Christ.
Put your name on it.
Put your family under it.
(37:11):
Put your life behind it.
Christian warriors, the wall isup, but the battle for the heart
continues.
Let Nehemiah 9:10 be your guide.
Repent of compromise.
Recommit to God's covenant andre-engage in the fight for your
(37:32):
soul, your family, and yourcommunity.
For the God who restoredJerusalem's walls is the same
God who in Christ rebuilds thebroken places of our lives and
calls us to be living temples ofhis presence.
We are called to be temples ofhis presence.
(37:52):
Let us pray.
Lord Jesus Christ, Lord of King,cleanse us, restore us, renew
us, strip away excuses, breakchains, ignite obedience,
strengthen every marriage, guardevery child, purify every heart.
We say together, we will notneglect your house.
(38:15):
We will not abandon our post.
We will not come off the wall.
We belong to you and we willobey in your mighty name.
Amen.
God bless you, and I'll see youtomorrow for Bible study.
Bye.
SPEAKER_00 (38:31):
Thank you for watching Christian Warrior
Mission.
Please comment, like, share, andsubscribe.
Click the link in thedescription to join our
Christian Warrior Missioncommunity, where you will find
brotherhood, accountability,support, and training.
Popular Podcasts
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Ding dong! Join your culture consultants, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, on an unforgettable journey into the beating heart of CULTURE. Alongside sizzling special guests, they GET INTO the hottest pop-culture moments of the day and the formative cultural experiences that turned them into Culturistas. Produced by the Big Money Players Network and iHeartRadio.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.