Breaking Loose From Condemnation

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Breaking Loose From Condemnation

• Rebuilding the REAL You
• Assessing the Damage Identify, Confront, Conquer
• Dr. Jack Hayford

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Nehemiah Name Comforter, Consoler
Nehemiah Type (foreshadow) of the Holy Spirit

• Cupbearer to the King of Persia, emperor
  Artaxerxes.
• When Nehemiah inquired of recent visitors
  returning from Jerusalem, about the people and
  city.
• They said to me, Those who survived the exile
  and are back in the province are in great trouble
  and disgrace. The wall of Jerusalem is broken
  down, and its gates have been burned with fire.
  When I heard these things, I sat down and wept.
  For some days I mourned and fasted and prayed
  before the God of heaven. Nehemiah 13,4
• Nehemiah asked the King and received permission
  and provision from the King to return to
  Jerusalem and rebuild the wall.

REVIEW
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Nehemiah Allegory of Restoration

• 2 Cor. 318 And we, who with unveiled faces all
  reflect the Lord's glory, are being transformed
  into his likeness with ever-increasing glory,
  which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.
• Phil. 16 being confident of this, that he who
  began a good work in you will carry it on to
  completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
• 2 Cor. 110 He has delivered us from such a
  deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we
  have set our hope that he will continue to
  deliver us

KEY SCRIPTURES
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Surveying the Damage

• So I came to Jerusalem and was there three days.
  Then I arose in the night, I and a few men with
  me I told no one what my God had put in my heart
  to do at Jerusalem nor was there any animal with
  me, except the one on which I rode. And I went
  out by night through the Valley Gate to the
  Serpent Well and the Refuse Gate, and viewed the
  walls of Jerusalem which were broken down and its
  gates which were burned with fire. Then I went on
  to the Fountain Gate and to the King's Pool, but
  there was no room for the animal under me to
  pass. So I went up in the night by the valley,
  and viewed the wall then I turned back and
  entered by the Valley Gate, and so returned..
  Nehemiah 211-15

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Analogy - Application

• after staying there three days I set out during
  the night with a few men. Gods plan of
  restoration is methodical and intentional. It is
  not based on the time-clock of man.
• Nehemiah took with him trusted people.
• No assessment, no progress. Identify, Confront
  and Conquer.
• Be cautious of over-announcing.
• Waiting on God waiting for God is one of the
  most difficult things for even the mature
  Christian. Nehemiah waited three days

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By Night

• Private seasons of the soul, night sessions.
  Prayer, intercessions, hearing from God.
• Psalm 1213, 4 He who keeps you will not
  slumber. Behold, He who keeps Israel Shall
  neither slumber nor sleep.
• Psalm 305b Weeping may endure for a night,
  but joy comes in the morning.
• Psalm 636 On my bed I remember you I think of
  you through the watches of the night.

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By Night

• Genesis 32 Jacob wrestled with the Angel of the
  Lord through the night and received his new
  identity Israel.
• Acts 1625-26 About midnight Paul and Silas were
  praying and singing hymns to God, and the other
  prisoners were listening to them. Suddenly there
  was such a violent earthquake that the
  foundations of the prison were shaken. At once
  all the prison doors flew open, and everybody's
  chains came loose.

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By Night

• Exodus 12 Israels deliverance Passover
  occurred during the night.
• Judges 7 Gideons battle unto victory began in
  midnight hours.

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Analysis Analogy

• Picture of Hell
• Life outside of Christ the will of God.
• The Holy Spirit says, Well start here.
• It is finished.
• Whom the Son sets free is free indeed. John 836

• Survey team exited at the Valley Gate.
• Valley of Hinnom Valley of the Flames of Fire.
• Hell of Life, Refuse
• Beauty for Ashes Isaiah 613-4

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Isaiah 613-4

• 3 To console those who mourn in Zion,       
  To give them beauty for ashes,        The oil of
  joy for mourning,        The garment of praise
  for the spirit of heaviness That they may be
  called trees of righteousness, The planting of
  the LORD, that He may be glorified.
• 4 And they shall rebuild the old ruins,
         They shall raise up the former
  desolations,        And they shall repair the
  ruined cities,        The desolations of many
  generations.

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Analysis Analogy

• Valley Gate near the Serpent Well.
• Geographical site.
• Snake Creek, or Devil Mountain traditional
  names based on historic logic or superstition.

• Graphic A thirsty man seeking water attacked
  by a snake.
• The Son of God has risen to smite the Serpents
  head allowing access to those seeking Living
  Water.

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John 414 Living Water

• Jesus said but whoever drinks of the water
  that I shall give him will never thirst. But the
  water that I shall give him will become in him a
  fountain of water springing up into everlasting
  life.
• Holy Spirit would say, I want to bring you to a
  Well where you will drink with joy, and rest
  without fear where the Serpent is pressed under
  your feet and My dominion rules in your life.
  You are no longer subject to the accusations of
  the liar concerning any aspect of your past sin
  and failure. R.T.R.Y. JWH

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Break Free From Condemnation

• If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just
  to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all
  unrighteousness. 1 John 19
• As far as the east is from the west, so far has
  He removed our transgressions from us. Psalm
  10312
• Who is a God like You, pardoning iniquity and
  passing over the transgression, You will again
  have compassion on us, and will subdue our
  iniquities. You will cast all our sins into the
  depths of the sea. Micah 718-19

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Break Free From Condemnation

• Come now, let us reason together, says the
  Lord, though your sins are like scarlet, they
  shall be as white as snow though they are red
  like crimson, they shall be as wool. Isaiah
  118
• I have blotted out, like a thick cloud, your
  transgressions, and like a cloud, your sins.
  Return to Me, for I have redeemed you. Isaiah
  4422
• Then He adds, Their sins and their lawless
  deeds I will remember no more. Hebrews 1017

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Your Sin Record Divine Eradication Gods
Choice for YOU.

• God chooses to forget our sins. Applying to you
  the record of His only-begotten, sinless Son.
• Justified!
• Live in this confidence! Rejoice in
  condemnation-free-living.