series: ruin to restoration

Repentance, hope, transformation, covenantal God - who God is in the end., we break the covenant and he renews it. Our one hope moving forward is not how good we are at transformation, but how good God is at bringing us back. It’s not up to us. By the way, the Israelites kept breaking the covenant. Base our hope and transformation on his goodness, not our discipline. God who keeps his covenants, and Jesus who came to renew the covenant between us and God. Hope is not in the commitment itself, Israel breaks it. Hope is in Christ.

Nehemiah 6

When the enemy fails in his attacks from the outside, he then begins to attack from within; and one of his favorite weapons is selfishness. If he can get us thinking only about ourselves and what we want, then he will win the victory before we realize that he is even at work. Selfishness means putting myself at the center of everything and insisting on getting what I want when I want it. It means exploiting others so I can be happy and taking advantage of them just so I can have my own way. Today, Nehemiah challenges us to "Stop and Look around for others." So let's begin this morning by trying to get a better handle on exactly what the problem was, shall we?

Pastor Andrew begins our series in Nehemiah, "Ruin to Restoration."