Forever thy word is settled in heaven, O Lord. Psalm 119, verse 89. I'm Stu Everson. Welcome to this special Wednesday in the Word leader podcast, where we prepare and equip our leaders of this special Bible study outreach breakfast every week to teach through the scriptures. 13 Dario locations.
There's a men's group meeting, and several of the Locations host the women on Thursday morning. Stay tuned. Be encouraged as we jump into this week's Wednesday in the Word. When God calls you to build something, when God calls you into His work, There are always going to be attacks. The enemy is going to raise his ugly face against you, and there's going to be not just attacks from without, as Nehemiah discovered from these enemies.
of God, but there are going to be attacks.
Some of the most insidious attacks from within. The enemy wants to get inside our churches, get inside our people, our families, and destroy us and sow seeds of discord. He is the great deceiver. He's the father of lies. Dr.
Sam Horn. We start to see that in our ongoing series of podcasts, journeying through this great book. Hey. This man came out praying, mourning, fasting when he heard the news of the shambles that his city was in. Jerusalem, the gates were burned, the walls were in rubble.
Nehemiah wept, he mourned, he fasted for a season, then he went into the king. And God worked miraculously. He gave Nehemiah the favor of the Lord. He ends up getting everything he wanted. And the Lord provided through this Pagan king Artaxerxes.
Nehemiah finds himself in the land. They rebuilt the wall in a record 52 days, but in the process of that, These enemies surface who attack their building. We see that in chapter 4. And then in chapter five, There is more attacks that we see this. Beautiful.
Picture. God restoring and healing A deep divide that took place within the body that could have been. worse, they could have left them in more ruin than the walls of Jerusalem, Dr. Horne. And we see this coming out as Nehemiah has to deal with this conflict.
head-on. You got to have a family meeting, and sometimes it's pretty painful.
Sometimes with the children, it's taking what do we call it, that rod of blessing, applying it to the seed of knowledge or understanding. I don't know, I don't want to even remember how that went in my household, but I think I drove my parents crazy. But that's discipline is a very real thing, even in the body today. Yeah, you know, it's interesting as I've been thinking about chapter five, getting ready for this. Um Because I worked on three, four, and five together.
We're halfway through the building project. You know, God has been miraculously preserving His people, He's been enabling His people. We've seen the opposition of Sam, Ballad, and Tobiah, the mockery. And then we've seen them gather an army from Samaria and a coalition, and they're going to come and they're not just going to mock anymore, they're actually going to try to kill these people.
So there's a real danger here. And Nehemiah immediately does what he's always done: he prays to the Lord. And then he talks to the people. And in his talking to the people, he constantly reminds them of the promises of God and of the character and the nature of God. And so the people have put their hands to the work and they are doing the work.
And then halfway through the project in chapter five, it's like we get a pause. You know, like sometimes when you're watching a documentary and there's a storyline unfolding, it's like there's this mental pause that the narrator hits and the story stops and then the narrator starts talking to you about the story. This is one of those pauses because in chapter six, we're going to hit play again, and they're going to keep building, and the wall is going to get done.
So, the stuff in chapter five is an event that took place about halfway through the building. And what's going on here? Is God is not just building The rebuilding, the external wall that had fallen down. He's now going to rebuild some of the internal things that have fallen down in the heart of his people, as you said earlier, that are just as bad as the rubble and the ruin that has happened to the city. There is a theological And moral and spiritual rebuilding that has to happen in the heart of the people, just like there's a physical rebuilding that has to happen to the wall around the people.
And that's what's going on here. Go ahead.
Well, you have 19 verses, and you have kind of two parts of this. You know, Nehemiah just drills this head on. He calls the people out. There's some. Unfortunate usury.
It's like you could call, you could write a book and entitle it when. When people in the church treat other people in church like the world does. I mean, this is just, there's abuse, there's usury, it's unfortunate. And of course, we're not to take advantage of each other, but we're to have this unconditional love in the body. That moves the mission of God forward, and they'll know we are His children.
By our love, by how you love one another. Jesus even prayed that in his great high priestly prayer. This is, you know, he said it in John 13, going into the upper room. He washed their feet. Hey, they're gonna know you're my disciples because you serve each other, you love each other.
That wasn't what was going on. As Nehemiah confronts this in chapter five. And so, how do we break down these 19 verses, Dr. Horn, and what's a simple way to teach through this section, kind of the midpoint of this great book on building on vision and ultimately on the gospel restoring our lives?
So I would start it this way. Oftentimes, in the middle of a great work for God, One of the things that happens is God does a great work in us. And so here are these people doing a great work for God, and now God is going to start working on them. and he's going to work on them internally in three big ways. And the chapter can be really arranged around those three big ways.
later on in the history of the people, like fast forward. The days of Micah. Micah is going to bring a charge against the people of God about what's really been going on in their heart. And they're going to look at Micah and they're going to say, How in the world can God say this about us? And Micah is going to say, well, and he's going to make the case.
And then the people are going to say to Micah, Micah, so what is it that God wants from us anyway? Like, just tell us what he wants. And Micah looks at them and he says, he's already told you what he wants. He told you all the way back in Moses' day. He told you that he wants you to do three things.
He wants you to do justly. He wants you to love mercy. And he wants you to walk humbly before him. Micah 6:8. That's sort of the Micah mandate for all of Israel, and it should be the mandate for our life.
We ought to be people whose lives are marked with doing justly, loving mercy, and walking humbly. And here's what's going on in chapter 5. God is going after those three things. in the life of the nation. And so in the first part of the chapter, he's going to go after the dude justly.
And we're going to find out. that there's a bunch of people. who have not been doing justly in the nation. They have been oppressing their fellow Brother, their fellow Israelite. You can see this.
in verses one through five. There arose a great outcry of the people. and of their wives against their Jewish brothers. This is a formal thing, right? And there were people who were saying, our sons and daughters, we are many.
We need grain, we need food. Apparently there was a famine going on. It was hard to plant crops with the Samaritan Army parked just down the road. And so people were in devastating circumstances.
Meanwhile, They still had to send their yearly tribute. Back to Persia. And so every Israelite had to give a portion of their crops and their wealth to the governor so that he could send it back to Persia. And it was crushing the people. And so, in order to do that, many of the people had to resort.
To something the law provided. They had to go and borrow money from their brothers. But the law prohibited when you loan money to your own brother, like your Jewish brother, you weren't supposed to charge interest. And here's what was going on. These people were charging interest, and it was so burdensome that people couldn't pay.
And because they couldn't pay, two things were happening. The wealthy people who had loaned them the money were taking away their houses, their vineyards, their orchards. That was one thing that was happening. And in order to avoid that, Many of these people were selling themselves into the service, the idea there is bondage. and they were becoming servants of the wealthy.
in order to try to satisfy their debt, which they could never satisfy. And it was crushing. And so finally it had become so great that there was a national outcry. And here's Nehemiah's response in verse 6: I was very angry when I heard their outcry and these words. I took counsel with myself.
And I brought charges against the nobles and the officials. And I said to them, you are extracting interest. Each from his brother, and I held a great assembly against them. And I said to them, We, myself, Nehemiah, We, as far as we were able, have brought back our Jewish brothers who have been sold to the nations. But you sell your brothers that they may be sold to us.
And they were silent, and they could not find a word to say. In other words, they were guilty.
So here is Nehemiah. And God is exposed. A pile of rubble spiritually in the lives of the nation. He had been working on the physical rubble.
Now he's going to turn around and address the spiritual rubble. You have been. Unjust. You have not been doing justly.
Sometimes life in the church gets messy. Life in the children of Israel got messy. But they're taking advantage of their brothers and sisters. They're supposed to be a well-oiled. harmonious unified nation.
Honoring and lauding the praises of their great God who brought them together, who fought for them, who gave them this opportunity to rebuild their city. Historic moment in redemptive history, and yet there's this infighting, and there's this enslaving of those who are poor, their sons and daughters, to those who are wealthy. And Nehemiah, he hit the wall and he calls them out, Dr. Horn. And it seems like there's maybe two sections in here.
I mean, would you break it down, you know, kind of one through. Thirteen or so, there's this indictment and this call to them. Yeah. Come back to God and to honor the Lord. In the Lord's promise.
And then 14 through 19, we have a beautiful picture, a beautiful portrait of a generous man, of Nehemiah's character. Her Nehemiah said, Look, I left everything. I was 800 miles away. I could have stayed gainfully employed, nice 401k, all set under the service of the most powerful king in the world, and yet I left it all to come here and get dirty and nasty and hand me another brick and get the building here. And yet Nehemiah said, I left all that for the glory and honor of God.
And uh two coalesce can call his people out. to be a city set on a hill. But if the city is fighting with each other, If we're fighting amongst ourselves, we can't be lighting. Those that need to hear about the true God who keeps his promises and brings redemption to all the nations, to all the peoples. And so, Dr.
Horn. You have a sense of Nehemiah kind of vindicating himself, but it's again. All to the glory and honor of God. I mean, is it a two-part break, or would you say it's a. I think you could take the two-part break, as you put it out.
Let me get my glasses and make sure I got this correct. While you're getting those glasses, we're in a little louder spot here at a coffee shop in Greenville, South Carolina, of all places. But it's great to get the word together among all kinds of people. Who knows?
Someone may approach us and say, What are those books you have open? Those Bibles, and what are you doing? And of course, great opportunity to share the word, but this is such a rich. application In our world today, because our God is rebuilding, He's rebuilding you, He's rebuilding me right now.
So I would take the two passages you talked about, 1 through 13. And in 1 through 13, there are two big ideas. You need to do justly and you need to love mercy. Those are two big ideas in that section. We've already talked about the first big idea.
You need to do justly and you're not. Look at what you're doing with the usury. Look at what you're doing with your brothers. You're actually forcing your own brothers to sell themselves into bondage. And we brought those brothers back from bondage, and now you're bringing them back into bondage.
So you're not doing justly. And so Nehemiah calls them to repent. And notice what he says. In verse 9.
So the thing that you are doing is not good. Ought you not to walk in the fear of God and to prevent the taunts of the nations, our enemies?
So he's protecting God's honor and he's insisting on God's law.
So there's the first big idea: you need to do justly. Second big idea is you need to love mercy. The word mercy is the word for hasad, the idea of loyal love. And you're not being loyal and you're not loving your own brothers. And this is the mark of God.
God is a God of mercy. God is a God of love. And you're not manifesting that to your brothers. And so, what he says. In verse 10, I'm going to give you my example.
My brothers and I are lending them money and we're giving them grain. We're doing what you're not doing, right? Return to this day, to them this day, their fields, their vineyards, their olive orchards. Their houses and the percentage of money, grain, and wine that you have been extracting from them. In other words, it's like you've been prying this out from them.
And then they said, We will restore these things and require nothing from them. We will do. As you say.
So there is this call now to love mercy, and thankfully, the people that Nehemiah is confronting do that. And then he makes him take an oath. Notice what he says. In verse 12, and I call the priests. and made them swear to do as they had promised.
In other words, this had to happen because they weren't just sinning against the people, and they weren't just sinning against Nehemiah, they were breaking the law. They were breaking the Torah of God. They were sinning against God. And I shook out the fold of my garment, and I said, May God shake out every man from his house and from his labor who does not keep this vow.
So that he may be shaken out and emptied. And all of the assembly said, Amen, and praise the Lord. And the people did as they promised. And so in this first section, You have these first two big ideas. We need to be a people who do justly, and we need to be a people.
Who loves mercy. And when we're not, it's a really big deal. It doesn't matter if you've rebuilt the wall in a miraculous way. If while you're doing it, you're not doing justly and you're not loving mercy, it all stops.
So think about how many times we set out to do a great thing for God. In our lives or with our lives. And while we're doing that great thing, we're not living justly. We're not doing the right thing before the Lord. And we're not loving mercy.
And all of that great work that we're doing is just bricks and mortar now. It's not going to have the impact.
Well, and when you think about The The body in this well-oiled building machine that's building one of the most significant building projects in God's economy and redemptive history, a real picture of what Christ would do in our lives and restoring all things. and God's holy people. What's worse Than the attacks of Samballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, the Ammonites, the Ashadites, and all these people, Satan's minions from outside. What's worse is. the disunity And the Acrimony of believers on the inside.
And that makes us easy pickings for the wolves and sheep's clothing to come in and pick us apart and divide us. And well, I never felt love in that church.
Well, the church is full of a bunch of hypocrites, you know, and you know, to which, of course, you say, don't join it because go ahead and join it, you'll add another to it. Or I haven't found a perfect church.
Well, when you find it, don't join it because you'll mess it up. But we make these general statements when, in fact, there are some amazing churches, but every church. That is healthy has had to address the unhealthy things. And you know what the unhealthy things are? Every single person in that church is a sinner.
Every single person in that church brings baggage into the body, just like in a marriage. And we are all a body, and we are all part of God's grace mending and healing and loving. And the church is as much a battleship, like we talked about last time, as it is a hospital. Right, where the great physician is at work, and we need grace, and we need to extend grace. We've got to watch out lest a root of bitterness comes in.
And there's doubt from the language in chapter 5 that Nehemiah confronts and that he hears coming to him, which angered him with a holy indignation. There is a lot of bitterness, there's a lot of vitriol in this body of builders.
So they may be building on the outside, but there's something tearing them up on the inside, like you said. And so, what God does is He comes in with a Micah 6-8 heart. God comes in as the restorer of our soul. Psalm 23, and he heals those things, Hosea, which the locusts have eaten, and he can heal the hearts. The very hearts of us.
He can create in us a clean heart, like David prayed in Psalm 51.
So, Dr. Horn, with that in mind, Nehemiah. Points out toward the end of this chapter. Boy, it's refreshing to hear how he kind of gives his testimony, like, you know, in this book, right here in these final verses. Take us through these final verses.
So I think this is really important to catch because Nehemiah is able to speak this way to the nobles. And to the leaders who have been disregarding the law of God because he's been living a life of integrity. He's been walking with transparency and authenticity. And so remember, Micah 6:8. Do justly, love mercy, and walk humbly before your God.
Nehemiah has been walking humbly from chapter one on. He has been displaying a life marked by genuine integrity and deep humility. before the Lord. He's been submissive to God. And now it shows up in the last part of the chapter because Nehemiah had a right.
Nehemiah had something that the king had given him as the governor. He had been given by the king the right to take some of the tribute and keep it for himself. And in fact, all the governors before him had been doing that. It says so right here in the text. Moreover, from the time.
that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah. From the 20th year to the 32nd year, so that's 12 years. Neither I nor my brothers ate the food allowance of the governor. The former governors laid heavy burdens on the people and took from them for their own daily rations 40 shekels of silver. There's no possible way a governor in that little land needed that much food allowance a day.
Even their servants lorded it over the people. But I did not do so because of the fear of the Lord. And so here's what Nehemiah did: I feared the Lord. And the fear that I had for the Lord. The humility that engendered in me caused me to walk with integrity in front of the people.
I didn't abuse the people. I didn't extort from them things and I didn't uh I didn't lord it over them. The reason the nobles felt free to do this is that the former governors were doing it. What the leaders do, the other leaders around them are emboldened to do. And so if Nehemiah was gonna fix it.
At the management level, he had to change it at the CEO level, right? He had to change it at the top, as it were. I'm not trying to say he was the CEO.
So, in other words, what he does, he says, look, Nothing changed. My responsibilities continued. I had to send tribute back to the king. I had to keep building on the wall. I had to entertain 150 people.
Regularly at my table, I had to feed that many people. But I did not extort things. from the people. I only took what was necessary. to do what needed to be done for the people.
and in the name of the Lord. And I did not demand the food allowance of the governor. because the service was too heavy on the people. And then he says this, Lord. Please remember me.
In other words, you provided for everyone. You provided for the people, you provided strength, you provided protection. And now I'm trying to really live humbly before these people, and I've got all of these extra burdens as the governor. I need you to remember me. Oh my God, for all that I have done for this people.
In other words, Nehemiah says, and the Lord let it stand: the reason I'm the governor is not because I want to. Make it good for me. The reason I'm the governor is I want to make it good for the people. Think about human leadership. Why do we want to have Why why does somebody want to be the mayor of a city?
Or, why does somebody want to be the governor of a state? And if you ask them publicly, it's like, oh, for the good of the state, or I really want to work for the good of the city. But oftentimes, what drives a person to that is they know if they get in that job. it's going to be good for them down the road. They're going to make a ton of contacts.
They're going to get a ton of open doors. And when they get done with their public service, their private wealth is going to explode. And Nehemiah makes sure, and the Holy Spirit makes sure to inspire it. That's not what drove him. He was there for one reason.
The glory of God. on the theological side of that reason and the good of the people. And that's the only reason you and I should serve. in the positions we're in. If we all literally adopted that, if we walked.
Humbly before God. If we did justly, And we loved mercy and we walked humbly. What could God do for his glory and for the good of people? We've seen markers of this book written by Nehemiah. He speaks in the first hand, talks about my king, my people, my city, all these things.
Well, here he gives one of the most powerful prayers I've seen. In verse 19, and it's a prayer. I mean, what a way to. Prayer is a powerful unifier. Prayer is a, you know, if you're at odds with someone, Go pray with that person.
Just go pray with them right now. Just say, Look, I want to pray for you. I want to pray with you. I want to confess my sin. Let's pray together.
It'll bring. The most amazing healing. And at the end of this whole discourse, both publicly with all the priests present and all that. This guy's a cupbearer. He's not a priest.
He's not a minister. He's not a pastor, evangelist. He's a cupbearer, a government worker. But here he is leading. Humbly, leading as a servant, leading in a Micah 6:8 way, humbly before his God.
And here he praised, Remember me, O my God, for good, according to all that I have done for this people.
So he's asking God. For God's blessing. He's living in confidence. He's living in the hopes and in the faith that God will vindicate him. And it The attacks are going to continue.
I mean, in chapter six, there's more attacks, there's more conspiracies. These enemies on the outside are continuing, and they're inflaming those on the inside, and on and on and on. But all these are seeds being sown for a really national repentance we're going to see. through a man of God named Ezra, who's kind of, who's kind of a... Robin to Nehemiah's Batman, or vice versa, coming up in a couple chapters.
But, Dr. Horn, how do you wrap up your thoughts and how do we take this? To the feet of Jesus? How do we bring healing in those rifts.
Someone listening has had someone do them damage.
Someone do them great harm. and they're thinking about lawsuits, they're thinking about vindication, they're thinking about what, you know, How can I exact a pound of flesh out of them when, in fact, maybe that's not. what we learned from Nehemiah and from Who Nehemiah points to, Jesus, who came to heal the heart, who came to bring us together as one. diverse people of many nations who honestly some of these People hated each other before Nehemiah showed up, and there's a love now that had never been experienced before. picture A forecast of what the body of Christ will look like and what heaven will be like someday, Dr.
Horn. So, how do we kind of get there? as we wrap up the chapter five with our groups this week. I had a mentor who he used to say, and he used to really bug me when he said it, but the older I get, the more I see that it's true. He said everybody wants to be a servant until they're actually treated like one.
That's really powerful, right? Because we all like the idea of being a servant leader. But the problem with being a servant leader is that sooner or later, if God actually calls you to be a servant leader, you're going to get treated like a servant and not like a leader. And when you get treated like a servant, that cuts against... every ounce of pride that is in you.
And that's what's going on here. Here are leaders of God's people, the nobles and the princes. Who should be serving the people, right? Leaders. Are not there to get people to do what they want.
Leaders are there to serve the people they lead so they can do the will of God and thrive. And here were leaders who were taking advantage of the people that were under them and gaining vineyards and houses and lands and money. And Nehemiah comes in and he goes, This is not right. This is not good. This is not walking justly.
How many times in my life Here's my question. If Nehemiah were to come and really take a long, hard look at my life in every nook and cranny, would he look at me and say, Sam, you're not doing justly? That's a really important question. If somebody like Nehemiah were to come and look at how I actually lead the people around me, my family, what's really motivating me for the things I do, would he say, you're not loving mercy, you're loving money? You're loving power.
You're loving what people can do for you. You're not doing justly. And not only are you not doing justly, you're not loving mercy. Look at what's going on in the life of the people you're leading. Look at their life.
They are broken down. They are burdened. They are hurting. You're not leading them well. Look at your family.
Your wife can barely. Look at you in the eyes. Your kids are afraid to even talk to you. You're not loving mercy. You're loving something else.
And so Nehemiah would be looking at me, going, You have got to repent. And then here's the third thing. He would have to ask me: are you really walking humbly? It's not just: are you obeying the law and are you making it good for others? Are you actually walking humbly?
Are you living the way that you want these other people to live? And so when I come to Nehemiah 5, this is a big chapter, right? It isn't just about. A pause in the story. It's about an internal dive into something that is going on in the nation.
That if it doesn't get repaired, it doesn't matter if the walls get rebuilt. The blessing of God doesn't come.
Well, it's this is a very important housekeeping moment without which there's going to be no success. The last thing you want is, what do they say? It can be a house but not be a home. The last thing you want is a nice structure, a nice two-car garage. But people inside that structure that hate each other's guts.
The last thing you want is a nice building with a nice steeple and a bunch of pews where no one can't stand to be with each other. But the opposite of that is true, and it comes back to Jesus. Nehemiah is pointing us. to the one who came. And said these words in Matthew 20, verse 26, which is my verse for 2026.
He said, The Son of Man did not come. To be served, but he came to serve.
So Jesus Christ, Nehemiah is pointing to a picture of Christ. Christ was not a taker. Christ was a giver. He came and poured out his life. He came in the humility.
He came into a rubble of a country. You know, it was just been. Ransacked by sin and disease and evil and usury and plunder, and he came and he poured his life out. And he humbled himself even to the point of death, even the death of the cross. Philippians 2 tells us.
Then he's exalted. And so before there can be exaltation. There's got to be humility. And Nehemiah recognizes that, and there's so much pride in the camp, there's so much sin in the camp. The Miami's like, we don't want to be another Aiken.
Or we fall to AI because we just have sin in the camp, it's not dealt with. And so these are some tough words in Chapter 5, but he calls the people on it. And we're going to see more of this as it builds to kind of this climactic revival moment. But, Dr. Horn, maybe close us out with a word on.
on housekeeping and how we need to get our make our accounts right within the body. This is so important because there's a watching world and there's a waiting world. They want to know why these people love each other. I mean, the positive side of this is when we love each other, when we truly. come together People see this love.
They say, How could these two guys love each other? I think about when I was in Sudan and I saw. I saw Men from different tribes and ethnicities. one group had actually murdered The families of another group. They were they were radical.
in their Islam And but when they were driven out of their homes, by the more radical groups that came in. They came to the Christian villages The people that they had tormented. Uh And the Christian villages, instead of saying, now it's our turn to get you, now we're going to kill you, and we're going to. Burn you and throw you into a well and kill your children. No, they said, We forgive you.
And it became one of the greatest points of evangelism you've ever seen. And so it's just appears. You think about Jim Elliott's family, you know, and Nate Saint. I mean, they went back to the same people that brutally murdered. These five valiant missionaries who are reaching this unreached people group in Ecuador on that beachhead, they murdered them.
The families, the wives, the widows, man, come home and. File a lawsuit against the country of Ecuador or come home and just have a pity party and just, you know, disappear. They went back. I called them back to leave those villainous. murdering people to Christ.
And I just, I see that, the power of God to forgive, but that's got to be most. Most remarkably Marketably manifest within the body of Christ. We are His Body on this earth doing different functions, but we're one. And We have a deep love for one another, and this is where they're getting, but it's a tough road to get there sometimes, Dr. Horne.
Well I closes out this way, you know, they built a wall, it was a wonderful wall. And you can go to Jerusalem today. It's not the same wall exactly, but the city of Jerusalem has a wall around it. but it's dead inside. When you go inside that wall, there's no Jesus.
There's the ruin of a temple. There's of people who are caught up in legalism. And there's no Jesus inside Jerusalem today. Thankfully, there are Christians that are bringing him, but I mean, just from a national standpoint, because they didn't do justly, they didn't love mercy, and they didn't walk humbly. And when the Son of God appeared in their midst, they didn't recognize him.
and they killed him. I think about that a lot in my life. I can build a beautiful ministry. I can build. all kinds of outer things.
I can do so much in the name of God, but if I don't love mercy and I don't walk humbly and I don't do justly, I'm going to be as empty inside as the city of Jerusalem is with the wall that was built around it. And so the work of our hands matters. We gotta build the wall. It matters. but it only matters if the internal wall is strong.
And so my prayer for myself and for you and for all of our listeners and the people that are studying the Bible is let's not just do great things for God. Let's let God do a great thing in us. Let us let him in so that he can expose the places where we're not doing justly. We're not doing the right thing. We're not loving mercy.
and we're not walking humbly, and then let's respond in humility like Nehemiah did. And let's become the model for that in our family. Let's become the model for that in our church. Let's become the model for that at our gym or at our job. We don't have to announce it with big announcements.
Let's just go do it. Let's just be people who love God enough to do justly, love mercy. And walk humbly. Let me pray that God will help us. Lord, thank you that we could be together.
Thank you for these two wonderful. Chapters, chapter three and four, and now chapter five.
So, three wonderful chapters. And Lord, may the truths that we mind out of them be truths that transform us. And we'll thank you in Jesus' name. Amen. Thank you, Dr.
Horn, and thank you for joining us for this Wednesday in the Word podcast. Learn more at wedintheword.com. Follow us on YouTube. Facebook and all social media, including in Stu Graham, and be encouraged, stay in the word. Read it.
Share it, study it, memorize it, and Meditate on God's Word. Every word of God is pure. He is a shield to those who put their trust in him. Proverbs 30 verse 5.
