Rose Ave Baptist Church

Some Walls to Build for Next Year


Nehemiah 2:17 Then said I unto them, Ye see the distress that we are in, how Jerusalem lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we be no more a reproach.


Intro:
A. The Picture of the Wall – separation; sanctification;
) (the OT Tabernacle had curtains)

B. The Purpose of the Wall – to keep in and to keep out

C. The Protection of the Wall – being within the wall
provided safety and protection

D. The Problem of the Wall – in our text, the walls had
been destroyed and the gates burned with fire (ch.1)






I. Build a Wall around your House of God




Jesus is the door!
John 10:7-9

7 Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door
of the sheep.
8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not

hear them.
9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in
and out, and find pasture.


We must protect the church from:

A. The Wolves
Matthew 7:15 Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are
ravening wolves.

Acts 2:29 For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in among you,
not sparing the flock.



B. The World
John 15:18,19

18 If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you.
19 If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not
of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world
hateth you.


1 John 2:15-17

15 Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love
the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes,
and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of
God abideth for ever.



C. The Wickedness

1 Corinthians 5:6-13
6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole
lump?
7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are
unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:
8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven
of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or
extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called
a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a
drunkard, or an extortioner;

12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them
that are within?

13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves
that wicked person.


II. Build a Wall around your Home

Deuteronomy 22:8 When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that
thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.


BATTLEMENT: a low wall at the edge of a balcony, roof, etc., or along the sides of a bridge etc.,




1 Timothy 5:8 But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he
hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.


PROVIDE: to perceive before, foresee; think of beforehand; to provide for one; to take
thought for, care for a thing



III. Build a Wall around your Heart

Proverbs 4:23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.


KEEP: to watch, guard, keep; to preserve, guard from dangers; to keep, observe, guard
with fidelity; keep secret; to be kept close, be blockaded


How do you build a wall around your heart?


A. By building a wall around your eyes.

Psalms 101:3 I will set no wicked thing before mine eyes: I hate the work of them that turn
aside; it shall not cleave to me.

Job 31:1 I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?


B. By building a wall around your mouth

Psalms 39:1 I said, I will take heed to my ways, that I sin not with my tongue: I will keep
my mouth with a bridle, while the wicked is before me.


Psalm 141:3,4

3 Set a watch, O LORD, before my mouth; keep the door of my lips.

4 Incline not my heart to any evil thing, to practise wicked works with men that
work iniquity: and let me not eat of their dainties.


C. By building a wall around your ears.
Ephesians 5:11.12
11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
reprove them.
12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in
secret.

4. The Principle of Reward



First, consider who you are a steward for, who you are serving.