{"id":8492,"date":"2024-12-07T17:30:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-08T00:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=8492"},"modified":"2024-12-05T07:59:12","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T14:59:12","slug":"lay-wall-builders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/?p=8492","title":{"rendered":"Lay Wall Builders"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We left Nehemiah challenging the people of Jerusalem<\/a> to get the wall built. They agreed, and the work begins:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The high priest Eliashib and his fellow priests were up and at it: They went to work on the Sheep Gate; they repaired it and hung its doors, continuing on as far as the Tower of the Hundred and the Tower of Hananel. The men of Jericho worked alongside them; and next to them, Zaccur son of Imri. (Nehemiah 3.1, 2, MSG)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With our theme of secular\/sacred, laity\/clergy<\/a>, note that the wall was built by untrained wall builders! Read Nehemiah 3<\/a> and look at the professions: not a builder among them, as far as we know: priests, goldsmiths, perfumers, government officials, Levites. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s amazing what can get done with just the resources you have. Jesus had a pretty motley crew if you look closely…and they changed the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 The members of the council were amazed when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, for they could see that they were ordinary men with no special training<\/strong> in the Scriptures. They also recognized them as men who had been with Jesus. (Acts 4.13, NLT, emphasis mine)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We left Nehemiah challenging the people of Jerusalem to get the wall built. They agreed, and the work begins: The high priest Eliashib and his fellow priests were up and at it: They went to work on the Sheep Gate; they repaired it and hung its doors, continuing on as far as the Tower of … Continue reading Lay Wall Builders<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8X9bo-2cY","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8492"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8495,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8492\/revisions\/8495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drbobewell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}