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So Nehemiah gets to the city and he's already got enemies trying to stop him from doing doing you know building it up But so he has to go at night and survey the city and see how bad it really is and it's pretty bad He couldn't even go underneath some of the places with some of underneath some of the areas with his horse And he just realized it was totally destroyed So he goes to the people he says in verse 17 then said I unto them you see the distress that we are in How Jerusalem lieth waste and the gates thereof are burnt with fire come Let us build up the wall of Jerusalem that we be no more a reproach Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me as also the king's words That he had spoken unto me and that said let us rise up and build so they strengthen their hands for this good work So neo, you know, it takes a good it takes a leader just to spark these movements of building up the waste places You gotta have a leader. So You know, that's that's what comes first and a leader always has to be part of that church That's going to do great things for God and you know the end but the enemies are going to come and find us You just know it's going to happen and at some point the enemies are gonna fight us And we've had a couple little little flea enemies here at this church But turn over to Nehemiah chapter 6 verse 2 Nehemiah chapter 6 verse 2 there's been a couple, you know, a little annoying people that have tried to oppose us here they're lame, but They're lame Sam Balat and Gisham, you know those guys look at Nehemiah chapter 6 verse 2 It says that Sam Balat and Gisham sent unto me saying come let us meet together in some in some of someone of the villages in the plain of Ono So and he was like, oh no, I'm not going down there But they thought to me They thought to do me mischief and I sent messengers unto them saying I'm doing a great work so that I cannot come down Why should the work cease whilst I leave it and come down to you? So look people are gonna try to come against us and get us to stop doing the work And maybe they'll be successful to a certain extent But look if you're doing the work and you're doing it Right, you're building up the waste places the way God says to do them God's gonna kick in and he's gonna get your back and he's gonna take care of the situation