Friends Church Sermons

In Chapter 4 the walls around the city are half way built and Nehemiah finds himself surrounded by enemies. In chapter 5 we find the walls almost completed but a new enemy raises its head and it’s more deadly than anything the world has to throw at Nehemiah. The Enemy Within – there arose a great outcry of the people and their wives against their Jewish brothers. This new enemy is far more dangerous than Sanballat or Tobiah ever thought of being. What the world cannot do from the outside the wall the people inside the wall can do for themselves. Outside enemies pulled the workers together but now the people themselves begin to turn on each other. How do we fight this internal scourge?