Let's Build Something · Earl McClellan · June 28, 2026 · 50m
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from “Expect Opposition”
very disturbed that someone had come to promote the welfare of the Israelites. I'm skipping here. Nehemiah prays, has a moment with the king. Again, you can read it on your own during your Bible study time. Beautiful, just clear book. He didn't know what to say. He just pauses for a second and answers. He prays and then he answers the king and then the king gives him resources to go and accomplish his mission, to rebuild the walls. Now he's on assignment from God to do something on behalf of God, to serve the kingdom of God, to lift the lives of people, to remind God's kids that God is still good and God is still faithful and God has not forgotten about them, to take them from a place of being utterly vulnerable and bringing them into a place of safety and security that is found in God, not just in the walls, but found in the God that loves them and serves them. And as he has all of these resources and he's about to take this step, something happens to him that inevitably will happen to all of us, opposition. Any time you begin to take steps to rebuild walls and to be the man or the woman that God is calling you to be, you can expect, don't be surprised, you can expect that the enemy of your soul is going to bring opposition into your life. These individuals come in and they go, what are you doing? They're trying to stop them. They're trying to push them back. And the unfortunate thing is in today's day and age, not here at this church, just some places, there's a narrative out there that if you're getting resistance, then somehow, some way you must not be in God's will. And I say, the scriptures seem to teach that when you are smack dab in the middle of God's will, there are winds coming against you because you are now trying to move forward to be who God has called you to be. If you're a teenager, if you're a young adult, if you're at school and you're saying, hey, I'm going to start a Bible study. Hey, I'm going to live for God. Hey, we're not partying anymore. Don't expect everybody to applaud you. You can expect some people to go, oh yeah, man, that's great. Good job, bro. I love that. Yeah, man. And they'll dab you up. You can expect some people talking about you behind your back, thinking that you're better than everybody else, thinking that you're holier than thou. But don't let their words stop you from moving forward to build what God is calling you to build. You keep on standing strong and you keep on moving forward. This is the DNA that you have as a follower of Jesus Christ. You're not a pushover. You have the same spirit that raised Jesus from the dead that's alive on the inside of you. I'm going to show you this verse. I'm going to show you one of my favorite verses. I can't get away from this verse. I love this verse. Luke chapter 13. Look at this verse. This verse might surprise some of us. This is Jesus, the meek and mild Savior, the kind, loving, warm Jesus. Okay?
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