From Ruin to Righteousness
Trennie L Williams PhDc
Christ Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Neh 1:1 — Neh 1:3
The Book of
NEHEMIAH
Chapter 1
1​ “The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah.
It came to pass in the month of Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the citadel, that Hanani one of my brethren came with men from Judah; and I asked them concerning the Jews who had escaped, who had survived the captivity, and concerning Jerusalem. And they said to me, “The survivors who are left from the captivity in the province are there in great distress and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

Although escaped and survived, people can be still caught in captivity, distress, reproach, broken down, and burned to destruction. As we look at today’s situations, there are many of us who are in such troubling times in body, mind and soul.

Joe 1:11 — Joe 1:12
“Be ashamed, you farmers,
Wail, you vinedressers,
For the wheat and the barley;
Because the harvest of the field has perished.
The vine has dried up,
And the fig tree has withered;
The pomegranate tree,
The palm tree also,
And the apple tree—
All the trees of the field are withered;
Surely joy has withered away from the sons of men.”

There is a way to return to not. There is a way out through:

1. Repentance

2. Recovery

3. Righteousness

Hag 2:15 — Hag 2:19
Promised Blessing
“‘And now, carefully consider from this day forward: from before stone was laid upon stone in the temple of the Lord— since those days, when one came to a heap of twenty ephahs, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty baths from the press, there were but twenty. I struck you with blight and mildew and hail in all the labors of your hands; yet you did not turn to Me,’ says the Lord. “Consider now from this day forward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid—consider it: Is the seed still in the barn? As yet the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have not yielded fruit. But from this day I will bless you.’ ”