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IN T ER N A T IO N A L SU N D A Y SCHOO L LESSONS EXPOSITION and PERTINENT QUESTIONS on LESSON - T .C . Horton DEVOTIONAL C O M M E N T ...........................................Dr.F.W.Farr C O M M E N T ................................................... . . Keith L. Brooks ELEMENTARY - - - » - - Mabel L. Merrill
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NEHEMIAH, THE BOLD BUILDER JUNE 10, 1923 Golden Text: Be no t ye afraid of them : remember th e Lord. Neh. 4:14. LESSON TEXT Neh. 4:6-15. Devotional Reading.— Ps. 46:1-7. Outline: (1 ) Nehemiah, th e Cup-bearer—• A Manly Man. (2) Nehem iah, th e City-Builder— The Manifestation of His Man liness. Introduction: acter of Nehemiah which are ou tstand ing. He was a sincere man, not a politician in th e sense in which we are compelled to use th a t term in these days. He would be tru e to his king, but he would never have bowed th e knee to Baal. He was a sympathetic man— his h ea rt went out tow ard his fellows.
The book of Nehem iah continues th e story of th e re tu rn of Israel from cap tivity. Thirteen years afte r E zra’s ex pedition, Nehemiah was led of th e Lord to journey to Jerusa- LESSON lem and rebuild th e EXPOSITION w a l l s which were T. C. H orton broken down. He is not to be confused w ith the Nehemiah mentioned in Ezra 2:2 who accompanied Zerubbabel in th e first retu rn . (1) NEHEMIAH, th e CUP-BEAR ER—a Manly Man. Nehem iah is an example of a clean- cut, honest, honorable layman, w ith an intelligent m ind and a big h eart,— a real manly man. He was cup-bearer to the king, a position of high honor and confidence, sim ilar to th a t of th e bu t ler to th e king of Egypt who was in strum en tal in lifting Joseph to a place of au tho rity next to the king himself. There are th ree things in th e char
He was a sp iritu al man— he believed in God, in His promises, and adapted himself to conditions. When th e sto ry of conditions in Je ru salem was brought to him, he sa t down and wept. His soul was sick. His people In great reproach and affliction and th e gates burned! But why need he_ care? Did he not have a good posi tion? Must he not look out for Num ber One? . But Nehemiah had a h eart like th a t of E lisha (2 Ki. 8 :1 1 ). He mourned and fasted and prayed. And th ere was need of fasting and prayer. Someone must always bear th e burden of sin w ith th e Lord. Daniel was such a man (Daniel 9 :3 ). “ A n d I s e t m y fa c e u nt o the L o to se ek b y pr ay er a n d supplications, f a s t in g , a n d sac kc lot h, a n d ashes No man is a trn e p atrio t who is not deeply distressed over conditions in
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