Tuesday, February 17, 2015

Nehemiah 6:10,11



Nehemiah 6:10,11 Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee. And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in. Satan tried to scare Nehemiah with Sanballat and Tobiah. But that didn’t work. So Satan used a sneaky tactic. He used one of Nehemiah’s friends to give him bad advice and to try to make him fearful. Shemaiah told Nehemiah that he knew that he must be scared. Shemaiah went on to say that he had a safe room in the Temple where Nehemiah could hide for a while. Shemaiah tried to get Nehemiah to come in and lock the door behind him. They would be safe in the Temple behind a locked door. But Nehemiah saw through the suggestion and knew that it was a temptation from Satan. Nehemiah was not afraid. He had too much work on the walls and gates to do. He didn’t have time to hide in the Temple. It was true, Nehemiah was taking a risk to be out in the open supervising the work, but the risk was worth it. Rebuilding the walls was an important job and Nehemiah was doing it for God and for God’s people.

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