The Devices of the Devil

Known for his unique ability to simplify profound truth so that it can be applied to everyday life, Adrian Rogers was one of the most effective preachers, respected Bible teachers, and Christian leaders of our time. Thanks for joining us for this message. Here's Adrian Rogers. I want you to take your Bibles, please, and turn, if you would, please, to the book of Nehemiah. Nehemiah chapter 4.

I want to talk to you tonight. About His Majesty the Devil. His satanic infernal majesty, who is the God of this age, the prince of this world. And the message tonight really is to sound an alarm. To warn you that you have an enemy.

And you need to know about him. We wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities. against powers, against spiritual wickedness. in high places.

Now our enemy is very deceitful. The Bible tells us in the book of Revelation that he deceives the whole world. and is very cunning and crafty. For example, In Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 11, don't turn to it, but just stay there in Nehemiah. But in Ephesians chapter 6 and verse 11, the Bible says that we're to stand against the wiles of the devil.

And the word wiles methodia is the word we get our word methods from. That is, the devil is very methodical. It doesn't work by happenstance. Not willy-nilly. He has a strategy.

To stop this church. He has a strategy. to ruin your life. The Bible speaks of the wiles of the devil. And in 1 Timothy chapter 2 and verse 24, The Bible speaks.

of the snares of the devil. That is, he has laid a trap. For you.

Now remember that a snare is hidden. When you want to snare somebody if you're going to snare a wild beast for example You put the snare on the ground and then you cover it with leaves and straw. or whatever.

So somewhere sometime Why candid camera? When you least expect it. There is the snare. of the devil. His methods The wilds?

The snares. And then the Apostle Paul said, however, in Second Corinthians chapter 2. And verse 11, For we are not ignorant. Of his Devices. That's the third word.

Wilds snares, and then devices.

Now, thank God we don't have to be in ignorance concerning what Satan is up to. You see, dear friend, in our war, our intelligence department, the Holy Spirit, tells us exactly what our enemy is up to. We don't have to be ignorant. And yet, so many people are saturated with ignorance concerning the work of the devil.

Now, in the book of Nehemiah, we're going to see what I'm going to call tonight. The Devices of the Devil. And I want to mention some things that Satan will do to try to hinder my ministry. to try to hinder your service. To try to stop the work of this church.

and all churches.

Now, these are not fantasies, and the book of Nehemiah is not written as mere history. It is biblically recorded truth. And it is more than an episode of the rebuilding of the walls of Jerusalem. It is indeed didactic in that God has given us this book. To teach us that we would not be ignorant of Satan's devices.

Now, what had happened is this, that God called Nehemiah. as a builder. God called Nehemiah to go return back to Jerusalem. And build the walls, rebuild the walls of Jerusalem that had broken down. And so Nehemiah has gone back to rebuild the walls of Jerusalem.

Now, any work for God will receive satanic opposition. Satan works against your life. You say, well, he doesn't work against me.

Well, don't congratulate yourself. If you haven't met the devil, it's because you and the devil are going in the same direction. You turn around, my dear friend, and you'll have a head-on collision with Satan. He stands against anything that is good, and godly, and holy. But thank God we do not have to be ignorant of His devices.

To be forewarned is to be forearmed. And I thank God for this book of Nehemiah.

Now, Nehemiah is rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem. And today we're rebuilding walls. Walls of orthodoxy have crumbled. And Satan today in the world has developed an educated, polished, juiceless, anemic brand of preacher and minister. Preachers today with humanistic tendencies that deify man and deny the Lord and defy the law and defiled the land.

Walls of orthodoxy have crumbled, and walls of decency have crumbled. Not since Manhattan Island was sold for $24. Has so much filth been sold so cheaply as right here in America. And the demon-possessed, sex-crazed, money-mad world that we live in is ripe for judgment. And walls of freedom are crumbling, and the noose is getting tighter and tighter as totalitarian regimes around the world are flaunting power.

And what we need today in this church. And in our world are some modern-day Nehemiahs.

Now, let me mention what the devil did to try to stop Nehemiah and what the devil will do to try to stop this church or to try to stop you. I'm going to mention some things. The very first thing is what I want to call derision. Look, if you will, in chapter 4, verse 1. But it came to pass that when Sanbalat heard that we builded the wall, He was wroth.

and took great indignation and mocked. The Jews. Do you see that? I just underscore it. He mocked them.

That is, he derided them. That is, he laughed at them. That is, he ridiculed them. And he spake before his brethren and the army of Samaria and said, Ha ha ha. What do these feeble Jews?

Will they fortify themselves? Will they sacrifice? Will they make an end in a day? Will they revive the stones out of the heaps of rubbish which were burned? Can you hear the sarcasm?

Can you hear the biting, withering scorn in the mouth of this man named Sanbalat, who hated the work of Christ?

Now, what is happening is this: that the devil is trying to laugh. God's people away from a work for God. Have you ever been laughed at for your faith? Have you? I have.

I've had people since I was a high school kid to laugh at me because of the things I do and would not do. You see, you might as well admit the fact that true Christians are going to be the laughingstock of this world. I mean, have you noticed any of the situational comedies on television where they make fun of Bible-believing Christians? Have you noticed that if there is a minister of the gospel, I mean, if he is a Bible-believing preacher, he's made to look like some fool?

Some freak, some fanatic. All true Bible believers in the eyes of the world are going to be called do-gooders. Blue noses. Puritans? Fundamentalist.

fanatics, whatever it is. They're going to try to laugh us away from a work for God. My dear friend, I want to tell you that that scorn is the work of the devil.

Now, do you say, Brother Rogers, there must be something wrong with us if they laugh at us, they don't respect us? My dear friend, the servant is not better than his Lord. And they mocked and laughed and ridiculed the Lord Jesus. One of the most Poignantly sad verses in all of the Bible is found in the book of Mark, chapter 5, and verse 40, where the Lord Jesus was getting ready to raise a little girl from the dead, and the Bible says. Listen to it.

They laughed him to scorn. I'm talking about Jesus. They're holding their sides. They're laughing! Literally mocking.

The Lord of glory. Can you stand up under that kind of ridicule? Can you carry your Bible to work and let them laugh? Can you pray over your meal? And let them laugh.

It's hard. Ridicule has its sting and the devil knows it.

Now, the response of Nehemiah and his crowd was a wonderful response. Notice what they did in chapter 4, verse 6: So built we the wall, and all the wall was joined together into the half thereof, for the people had a mind to work.

Now let me tell you what you ought to do when people begin to laugh at you for what you believe. Just go to work for the Lord Jesus Christ. And before long, you'll wipe that laughter off their face. Notice. But when it came to pass that when Sanbalat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashtodites heard that the walls of Jerusalem were made up and that the breaches began to be stopped, then They were very wroth.

No laughter now. My dear friend, there are people in this city who would laugh at the faith that we hold as a church, but we just need to have a mind to work. Just keep on doing what God has called us to do, and before long, when they see what God is doing, their laughter. Will turn to anger. Notice in verse 9: Nevertheless, we made our prayer unto our God and set a watch against them day and night because of them.

I love it. Here's the laughter. And the people had a mind to work in verse 6. They had a heart to pray in verse 9. They had an eye to watch in verse 9.

And so they went on and built the work. Because they were more concerned about the approval of God than they were the ridicule of men. I just thank God for men who are not ashamed of Jesus Christ. And I want some of you lily-livered.

So-called Christian men out here to be bold for the Lord Jesus Christ. And don't you let the devil laugh you out of a work. for God. They laughed at Jesus. Let them laugh.

And just go to work.

Now, the devil tried derision, and that didn't work.

So he's not finished yet.

Now he tries discouragement. Look, if you will, in verse 10. And Judah said, This is Nehemiah 4, verse 10. And Judah said, The strength of the bearers of burdens is decayed, and there is much rubbish. And oh, listen to this next phrase: so that we are not able to build the wall.

Now Judah was inspired of the devil because they were able. But here's a man who says, We are not able. It seems that the devil always puts some into the ranks of the believers who say it can't be done. God deliver us from the Judas. It will be done, but no thanks to them.

These people are like a drink of water to a drowning man. I mean, dear friend, I've seen them in every church I've pastored. I remember down in the little church that I pastored on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. We decided we needed a little educational building. I was pastoring that church as a seminary student.

And we cleared off the spot. and poured a slab of concrete to build an educational building on. I remember one of the members of that church who came to me and looked at that foundation and was literally. Angry. Angry.

And that person said, what foolishness is this? What foolishness is this? Look at that. We will never. Build a building.

on that slab. What a waste of God's money.

Now you go down there today, you'll see that building. on that slag, my dear friend. Because here was an individual who said, it can't be done. And God said to my heart, It will be done. And it was done.

I remember the same thing in Fort Pierce, Florida, the first church I took after seminary. We decided we needed some space. We needed to raise some money. I remember a dear man, bless his heart. He loved God.

But he came to me, he had an expression, low me. That's the way he'd say it. His voice would crack. Low me, he would say. He looked at that, he said, Low me.

We'll never do it. I said to myself, by the grace of God, we will. And my dear friend, we did. We did. But the devil will try always to put someone around who says that it can't be done.

And some of you get discouraged.

Some of you are Sunday school teachers. You're ready to quit that Sunday school class. You've got a class of bad boys. You say those boys are incorrigible.

Well, who do you think needs a Sunday school teacher if it's not incorrigible boys? I mean, dear friend, that's why God puts you in that class. You say there's so much rubbish. where you can't build on rubbish, but remove the rubbish of anger and pride and temper. They that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.

Discouragement is one of the greatest tools of Satan. I read somewhere years ago the fact that Satan, it's just a parable, but Satan was auctioning off some of his tools. There was one tool well worn. It wasn't for sale. They said, What is that tool, Satan?

He said, that tool is discouragement. It's my best tool. I can't sell it. He said, I use discouragement to pry a man's life open, and once I get in with that tool, I can do whatever I want. Once I'm on the inside, discouragement is of the devil.

If you're discouraged tonight, may I tell you that the devil is on your trail and God deliver us from those ministers of discouragement, those human wet blankets. The Bible says in Galatians chapter 6 and verse 9: Be not weary in well-doing.

Now, let me give you a third device of the devil. If derision would not do it, and discouragement would not do it, then he uses actual danger. Look in verse 11. And our adversary said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come in in the midst among them and slay them and cause the work to cease.

Now the devil is not against physical intimidation. The devil is not against actually causing bodily harm to the children of God. He would like to be more dainty if he could. But the devil will actually threaten you, and I have been threatened. In the ministry, I've had my very life threatened.

I have received threatening notes and letters and all of those things, and every child of God. Who will stand up for the Lord Jesus will have someone who will say, I am going to do you bodily harm. It's one of the devices of the devil.

Well, what did these people do? How did they react to what the devil said that he was going to do?

Well, they did three things. First of all, they remembered the Lord. Look, if you will, in verse 14. And the Bible says here And I looked and rose up and said unto the nobles and to the rulers and to the rest of the people, Be not afraid of them, remember the Lord, which is great and terrible. That's the very first thing you need to do.

When somebody intimidates you, remember the Lord. He is greater than the enemy. A little boy asked his dad, Dad, how big is the devil? And his dad said, Well, I really don't know. He said, Well, is he bigger than I am?

And the dad said, Well, son, I reckon he is. He said, well, Daddy, is he bigger than mommy? Said, yes, son, I think he is. Or daddy? Is he bigger than you?

Her dad said, Yes, son, I believe he is. The little boy's getting pretty frightened. He said, Daddy. Is he bigger than Jesus? And the dad said, no, son, he's not.

Then the little fellow said, Then I am not afraid of him. I like that. Greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world. And what does Nehemiah say to these people who make threats? He says, Remember the Lord.

Remember the Lord, but not only remember the Lord, remember your loved ones. Look in verse 14. And I looked and rose up and said unto the nobles and to the rulers and the rest of them, Be not afraid of them. Remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your houses. Remember the Lord and not fight in order to be pugnacious, not fight in order to take more ground, but fight for your loved ones.

Be not afraid. Remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, your daughters, your wives, and your houses. All that we hold dear is at stake and in the balance. And don't you let the devil intimidate you. You need to intimidate him.

The Bible says in James 4, verse 7: Submit yourselves therefore to God, resist the devil, and he. will flee from you.

Well, the devil is not finished yet. Let me give you another of the devices of the devil. Not only danger, but discord. Look in chapter 5 and verse 1. And there was a great cry of the people and of their wives against their brethren.

The Jews. Now. The devil says, well. If I can't get at them with derision, If I can't get at them with discouragement, if I can't get at them with danger, then I'll get at them with discord. I will divide up the body and I will put discord in the ranks.

Now, in this particular chapter, if you read, the discord was over money. Many churches have been divided over discord over money, but it could be over anything. The devil loves a church fuss. But the Bible says God hates him that sows discord among brethren. One of the great proofs of the deity of Jesus Christ is the unity of the church.

Jesus prayed in John chapter 17 that believers would be one, that the people of this world, O any, one, That the people of this world would believe that God the Father had sent the Lord Jesus Christ. John 17, verses 20 and 21.

Now the reason we must stay together is very easily seen if you look in chapter 5 and verse 9. Here's what Nehemiah said to these brethren, these brethren who were at one another's throat. Also, I said, it is not good that ye do. Ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God? because of the reproach of the heathen Our enemies.

Nehemiah said, we must. We must Stay together. My dear friend, as your pastor, I want to say to you, we must. We must stay together.

Now, I'm not going to divide with you, and you're not going to divide with me, and we're not going to divide with one another over the color of the carpet, or the placement of the organ, or the size of a building, or incidence in a budget, or anything else. The only thing that we would ever, ever have to take division would be Bible doctrine and moral standards. My dear friend, we cannot ever let Satan in any way drive a wedge into our fellowship, and the people said. And you guard our fellowship with your very life. The devil.

Is so divisive. The Bible says God hates him that sows discord among brethren.

Well, what happened? How did they handle this?

Well, look, if you will, in chapter 5, verse 11, Nehemiah said, Restore, I pray you to them, even this day, their lands, their vineyards, their olive yards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the corn and the wine and the oil that ye exact of them. And they said, We will restore them and will require nothing of them.

So will we do as thou sayest? And I called the priest and took an oath of them that they should do according to this promise.

Now, what happened is this. There was a problem that could have caused even greater discord. They had spiritual leadership, they got together, and there was repentance, there was restoration, there was resumption of the work. Let me tell you something, dear friend. There are no problems too big to solve.

Just people too small to solve them. We can solve almost any problem if we attack the problem rather than one another.

Well, the devil's not finished yet.

So, if discord did not stop them from building the wall, he tried something else. And it's what I want to call diversion. Diversion. Look, if you will, in chapter 6 and verse 1.

Now it came to pass that when Sanbalat and Tobiah and Geshem the Arabian and the rest of our enemies heard that I had builded the wall and that there was no breach left therein, but at that time I had not set up the doors or the gates, that Sanbalat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come. Let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought. to do me mischief. And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down.

Why should the work cease while I leave it? And come down to you. Don't you just love that? Look in verse 4. Yet they sent unto me four times after this sort, and I answered them after the same manner.

Now the devil, he... He's so wily. He is so methodical. He is so. divisive in his devices.

So when he sees these other things are not working, he says Uh Nehemiah. What we need to do now is to have a conference. I want you to leave the work. I want you to stop what you're doing. and come down here to one of the villages and we're going to talk it over.

Now notice the devil. The Bible says he appears either as a roaring lion. Or what? An angel of light. He roared against them.

And they kept on working.

So now no longer is he roaring.

Now he says, hey. Blessed be gentlemen. Come down here and let's just talk this over. And my dear friend, when you do the work of God, you beware of the snare of the world's friendship. Satan's motivation has never changed.

I've seen so many churches, so many Christians, so many pastors who are doing a good work for God, and the devil who cannot stop them in any other way makes a friend out of them and diverts them from what God has called them to do. And the good becomes the enemy of the best. You beware of any conferences That causes you to compromise. Think it over. I've had so many people come to me.

Okay. All of my ministry. And say, Adrian, I'd like for you to do this. I'd like for you to get in that. I want you to try this.

And I know it was of the devil. I know it was a plan of Satan. I'm not saying that we have to be locked into one narrow band, but we have to make certain, dear friend, that all that we do is of the Lord and that we don't get diverted from doing a good work, what God has called us to do. I remember talking with Dr. Billy Graham.

He told me how they tried to make a United States Senator out of him. He told me how that Hollywood I came to him. He told me how some business people came to him. But God said, Billy, you keep on doing what I have called you. to do.

Nehemiah said, I'm doing a great work. Why should I come down? The devil's very clever. I heard of a man. who was on a bear hunt one day, And he went out into the field and he saw just the bear he wanted.

He leveled his gun on the bear, and the bear put up both paws and said, Wait a minute, hold it. Don't pull that trigger. I mean, listen, man, we need to sit down and have a talk about this thing. And the man said, what do you mean? He said, well, be reasonable.

Now evidently you want to shoot me because you want to skin me. You want a fur coat. And I'm on the prowl because I'm hungry. I'm looking for a good meal.

Now, listen, we both have our own personal interests. Let's sit down and talk it over.

So the man laid down his gun, went out in the middle of the road, and The bear and the man had a conversation. And when it was over, they both had what they wanted. The bear had a good meal and the man had a fur coat. Dear friend. These are are the methods of Satan.

Some of you are going to get sidetracked. I've seen deacons and soul winners. They get in a church like this. They have a Sunday school class. They go to work for the Lord.

And then some civic organization comes along and taps them. And they stop serving the Lord and they stop working in the church. And they get in some organization and become the first vice president for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Orphaned Grandmothers with Athletes' Foot. And they're no longer. Working for Jesus.

Sidetrack. diverted from the work. Nehemiah wouldn't buy it. The devil's not finished yet. Let me show you what else he does: it's defamation.

Oh, listen, what a bag of tricks he has. Look in chapter 6 and verse 5. Then said Sanballat his servant unto me in like manner the fifth time, with an open letter in his hand. wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen and Gashmu saith it. that thou and the Jews think to rebel.

For which cause thou buildest the wall? That thou mayest be their king according to all these words. And thou hast also appointed prophets. to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah, and now shall it be reported unto the king according to these words. Come now, therefore, and let us take counsel together.

Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest. but thou feignest them out of thine own heart. What is the next thing the devil does? Defamation. Defamation!

The devil started a dirty rumor. And what the devil said was this. that Nehemiah is filled with pride. and self-seeking. The only reason that Nehemiah wanted to rebuild the walls was that he was building a little kingdom for himself.

And that will be said about any man of God. And any church. We will be accused of building a kingdom for ourselves. And the devil is not too dirty to do that. As a matter of fact, the Bible says that the Sand Valley came with an open letter.

What does that mean? Very much like a letter to the editor. Have you ever read some person who will sit down and write an open letter for everybody to read, and it's a letter slandering the people of God? May I tell you that you're never more like Satan than when you slander. Where you say, Pastor Rogers, what can we do to keep from being slandered?

Nothing. Nothing. You live for Jesus Christ and they will slander you. Remember again that the servant is not better than his Lord. Jesus was called a wine bibber, he wasn't.

He was called a glutton, he wasn't. They said of Jesus Christ, he was in league with the devil. You expect to be defamed. If you live for the Lord Jesus Christ. I heard about a little four-year-old boy who said his prayers.

And he thought he was praying while he heard everybody else pray in church. And he prayed this, Lord, forgive us our trash baskets.

Some of us need to pray that prayer because we've allowed our ears to be trash baskets. We listen to the dirty insinuations of the devil. Don't you let somebody use your ears for a trash basket? There are always those who will attack the people of God. I heard about a pastor of a church.

He had two people in the congregation, two men. who called on him and said, Pastor, We think your work here at this church is finished. And um We think it's time for you to move on. The pastor said, well, he said, I'll pray about it. They came back later and said, Did you pray about it?

He said, I sure did. The Lord said he'd never heard of you two guys. My dear friend, there are always those who want to slander God's people. How are you going to deal with slander?

Well, the more you protest sometimes, the more guilty you sound. The best way is to simply do what Nehemiah did, is just to state the truth and go on. Your best defense is a pure life and a clear conscience. Henry Ward Beecher said life would be a perpetual flea hunt. If a man were obliged to run down all the innuendos, The invoracities, the insinuations, and the misrepresentations which are uttered against him.

I like what Abraham Lincoln said. Abraham Lincoln. The great president of the United States who was criticized. And by the way, the way to escape criticism is to say nothing, do nothing, and be nothing. Abraham Lincoln said, if I were to try to read, much less answer all of the attacks made on me.

This shop may as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

Well, that's good, isn't it? I'm just going to keep on serving the Lord. But, dear friend, be careful that you're not in the business of defaming. The people of God. Oh, you're never more like the enemy himself when you do that.

Then, again, what does the devil do?

Well, he's not finished yet. And so he tries another trick, not defamation by attacking people's motivation and character, but dismay. Look, if you will, he actually tries to put fear in your life. Chapter 6 and verse 9, look at it again. And the Bible says, and they all made us afraid.

For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done.

Now, therefore, O God, strengthen my hands. And afterward, I came to the house of Shemaia, the son of Deliah, the son of Mahedebiel, who was shut up. And he said, Let us meet together in the house of the Lord. within the temple. and let us shut the doors of the temple.

For they will come to slay thee. Yea, in the night they will come to slay thee. And I said, Should such a man as I flee? And who is there that being as I am who would go into the temple to save his life? I will not go in.

Now what the devil had done here now, is to bring his sinister minister of fear out. Reach into his bag of tricks and pull out another weapon that's almost as good as discouragement, and it's fear. What he said to Nehemiah was, run for your life. Fear has power to weaken, according to verse 9. The Bible says in 2 Timothy chapter 1 and verse 7.

That God hath not given us the spirit of fear. But of power. and of love. and of a sound mind. The Bible teaches when a man truly fears God.

He has to fear no man.

Now the devil will shoot his poisoned arrow of fear. And if you let him get that hour into your heart, it'll do several things. It'll degrade the Father. Because it's saying, Father, you're not able to take care of me. It'll disturb your friends.

You see, fear is infectious and it will make you a stumbling block. It will delight your foes. The devil loves to see you intimidated. We play into the devil's hands when we're afraid.

Now, Last of all, I want you to see the very last thing that the devil wants to do, and it's deception. How very devilishly deceptive the devil is. Look in chapter 6, beginning in verse 12.

Now, this man has said to Nehemiah. Listen, buddy. They're after you. And what you need to do is to flee into the temple. and shut the door and there you'll be safe.

But now notice in chapter 6 and verse 12, and lo, I perceived that God had not sent him.

Now you see, he came in the name of the Lord, but Nehemiah says, I perceived that God had not sent him, but he pronounced this prophecy against me. For Tobiah and Sanbalet had hired him. Therefore was he hired that I should be afraid. That is, here was a trap of the devil. Here was a man who was a hireling, not a true prophet of God, who came supposedly to give advice to Nehemiah that was good advice, but it was meant by the sinister minister of fear, the devil, to cause fear.

And he says, Therefore, he was hired that I should be afraid and do so and sin. That they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me. My God, think thou upon Tobiah and Sanbalat according to these their works, and on the prophetess Noadiah and the rest of the prophets that would have put me in fear.

Now what Nehemiah did was just tell God on them. You see, here's what the devil did. He disguised himself as an angel of light. And he got some merchants of fear. And he said Now, Nehemiah This is a message from God.

You're in real danger. And what you need to do is to go into the temple and hide yourself. Nehemiah knew the word of God. It would have been a sin for Nehemiah to go into the holy place because he was not a priest. And Nehemiah knew that.

But you see, Nehemiah was the kind of a man who had his antenna up.

Now the devil will many times come to you with Quote, religious advice. And how are you going to know the difference?

Well, my dear friend, you better know the Word of God and be filled with the Spirit of God. You better keep your knees on the floor and your eyes on this book, or you're going to be deceived.

Now in all of these things, can you not see the hand of the devil?

Well, how does this story end? Do you like stories that have a happy ending? Then look in chapter 6 and verse 15. I love it. I love it.

The wall was finished. In the twenty and fifth day of the month, of Elul. In 50 and 2020. days. And less Then a year.

They built the wall. And it came to pass. When our enemies heard thereof, And all the heathen that were about us saw these things. They were much cast down in their own eyes. And now listen to this.

For they perceived. that this work was wrought By our God. Don't you like that? Don't you like that? The wall was built.

And you know what the people did? I don't know whether they had this song or not. But surely if they had it, they would have sung to God. Be the glory. Great things.

He hath done. But wouldn't it be wonderful? For us to soul love God. And so love one another. That together we would do something.

That all hell can't stop. and something that will shut the mouth of the devil. and something that cannot be explained. apart from the good hand of our God. And they had to confess.

that God was with them. My dear friend, we get our hearts right with God and keep it right with God. And the work of God will go through Satan's devices like a white-hot cannonball. through a crate of eggs. Let's believe God.

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