Good Beginnings Do Not Guarantee Happy Endings

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Good Beginnings Do Not Guarantee Happy Endings

• Nehemiah 131-14

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Good Beginnings Do Not Guarantee Happy Endings

• We love stories with happy endings
• Should Nehemiah have ended his story at chapter
  13?
• The Scriptures always speak honestly

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1. Understanding The Background

• When the cat is away the mice do play
• Every promise made in chapter 10 had been broken

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2. Living With The Enemy 1-3

• Careless about church membership
• Confronted by the Word of God
• Willing to put things right

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3. Trapped by Wrong Relationships 4-9

• The man involved
• The fox in the chicken coup
• Take the problem by the throat

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4. A Major Financial Fiasco 10-14

• Gods servants had been neglected
• How the problem was solved

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5. Lessons for Ourselves

• A warning against spiritual carelessness
• Individuals change and so do churches
• Not every story has a happy ending