Sunday Evening, March 1, 2015

1. The work is great & large
Heritage Addition church of Christ
By Jim Bradshaw
Sunday PM March 1, 2015

2. The work is great & large
At 2,722 ft tall and 163 floors, the
Burj Khalifa in Dubai is the world’s
tallest building by any measure. By
comparison the Burj Khalifa towers
over the Willis (formerly Sears)
Tower in Chicago, which stands in
only at 1729 ft to top of antenna
and only 108 floors.

3. Do You Remember Your First Real Job?
The William H. Natcher Bridge is 4,505 feet (1,373 m) in
length (including its approaches) and 67 feet (20 m) wide. It
is supported by cables connected to two identical diamond-
shaped towers, each 374 feet (114 m) tall. At the time of its
construction, it was the United States' longest cable-
supported bridge over an inland waterway.

4. Christians have a great work to do
Mat 28:18-20 NKJV And Jesus came and spoke to them,
saying, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and
on earth. (19) Go therefore and make disciples of all the
nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of
the Son and of the Holy Spirit, (20) teaching them to
observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I
am with you always, even to the end of the age." Amen.
Read Nehemiah 4:1-6

5. The World Mocks Us
Nehemiah 4:1 KJV But it came to pass, that when Sanballat
heard that we built the wall, he was wroth, and took great
indignation, and mocked the Jews.
1. Wroth means to blaze up of anger; indignation means
extreme anger mingled with contempt disgust or
abhorence.
2. Out of his anger, Sanballat mocks God’s people.

6. The World Mocks Christianity today

7. There World Mocks Christianity today
“That is the definition of faith –
acceptance of that which we imagine to
be true, that which we cannot prove.
Every religion describes God through
metaphor, allegory, and exaggeration,
from the early Egyptians through
modern Sunday school” (Brown 369)
Hebrews 11:1 ESV Now faith is the
assurance of things hoped for, the
conviction of things not seen.
(Hupostasis – a setting under, a solid
foundation, assurance.)

8. There World Mocks Christianity today
James Cameron has been called a “Pseudo-Historian”
“Pseudo” means false or fake.
In scripture there are:
Pseudo-adelphos –false brothers, pseudo-apostolos –
false apostles, pseudo-marturia – false witness,
pseudo-prophetes – false prophet, pseudo-christos –
false christ

9. God Will Not Be Mocked
Gal 6:7 NKJV Do not be
deceived, God is not
mocked; for whatever a
man sows, that he will
also reap.

10. Let us turn to God
Neh 4:4 NKJV Hear, O our God,
for we are despised; turn their
reproach on their own heads, and
give them as plunder to a land of
captivity!
When we are troubled we can
turn to God:
1Pe 5:7 NKJV casting all your care
upon Him, for He cares for you.
Who do we trust?

11. In God We Trust
Psalms 25:1-3 KJV Unto thee, O
LORD, do I lift up my soul. (2) O
my God, I trust in thee: let me not
be ashamed, let not mine enemies
triumph over me. (3) Yea, let
none that wait on thee be
ashamed: let them be ashamed
which transgress without cause.
Rom 8:31-32 NKJV What then shall we say to these things? If
God is for us, who can be against us? (32) He who did not
spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall
He not with Him also freely give us all things?

12. God Will Fight for Us
Neh 4:20 NKJV Wherever
you hear the sound of the
trumpet, rally to us there.
Our God will fight for
us."

13. We Must Work With Great Fervor
Neh 4:6 NKJV So we built the wall, and the entire wall was
joined together up to half its height, for the people had a
mind to work.
If a church today just had a willing mind to work.
2Co 8:5 NKJV And not only as we had hoped, but they first
gave themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of
God.

14. Sometimes we must fight for our beliefs
When is the last time you
stood up publically for
Christianity?

15. The Work is Great and Large
Nehemiah 4:19-23 ESV And I said to the nobles and to the
officials and to the rest of the people, "The work is great and
widely spread, and we are separated on the wall, far from one
another. (20) In the place where you hear the sound of the
trumpet, rally to us there. Our God will fight for us." (21) So
we labored at the work, and half of them held the spears
from the break of dawn until the stars came out. (22) I also
said to the people at that time, "Let every man and his
servant pass the night within Jerusalem, that they may be a
guard for us by night and may labor by day." (23) So neither I
nor my brothers nor my servants nor the men of the guard
who followed me, none of us took off our clothes; each kept
his weapon at his right hand.

16. The Work is Great and Large
Mat 9:37-38 NKJV Then He said to
His disciples, "The harvest truly is
plentiful, but the laborers are few.
(38) Therefore pray the Lord of the
harvest to send out laborers into His
harvest."
Are you a servant of Christ?
1. Servants must work.
2. We must be willing to work
hard.
3. We must be united in our
work.