Nehemiah 6

This discourages the soul in the use of means. Unbelief does as Sanballat and Tobiah did to the Jews (Nehemiah 6:9). They made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work.

If this war be brought to a good issue, and those enemies suppressed, whatever other disturbances are given, peace is in the soul with grace and mercy from God, and from the Lord Jesus. Nehemiah was aware of this, as the design of his enemies, when they hired a pretended prophet…

But we should not turn back when God calls us to a valiant resistance. Should such a man as I flee? (Nehemiah 6:11). Observe Peter's dastardliness, when he ventures without a call into the priest's hall; a question of the damsels overturns him.

5. Let us carry ourselves as the children of God in magnanimity and heroicness. The saints are high-born, they are of the true blood-royal, born of God, they must do nothing sneakingly or sordidly, they must not fear the faces of men; as that brave-spirited Nehemiah, shall such…