Join God In His Work Series

I said, “Well, that's great. Some people see the movie, some people read the book. I like to read

the book.” But then here he is telling me about the goldsmiths.

I just thought, wow, what an interesting thing in the passage that these goldsmiths had a job to

do, yet they were willing to do other things. Isn't that true about the body of Christ? You might

be grading or teaching Sunday school or working in the nursery or working in the youth and you

don't even know what that person that you're serving with does? You know there's doctors and

nurses and electricians and people who work at Walmart and stay-at-home moms, all kinds of

people working together. Because the work we do outside of the church isn't as important as the

work we do inside of the church and our relationships together. The goldsmiths, the perfumers

repaired.

Verse 9 – Next to them Rephaiah the son of Hur, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired.

Next to them Jedaiah the son of Harumaph repaired opposite his house. And next to him Hattush

the son of Hashabneiah repaired. Malchijah the son of Harim and Hasshub the son of Pahathmoab repaired another section and the Tower of the Ovens. Next to him Shallum the son of Hallohesh, ruler of half the district of Jerusalem, repaired, he and his daughters.

I go, whoa. Isn't that interesting? I love family ministry. Whenever I see kids serving together,

it’s just a really special thing. And so today when I went down into the Family Life Center, I saw

the people getting ready. I don't know their last name, but it's Jacob and it's Jenny, and then their

two kids were…I forget. Oh, yeah. Okay, so you got them. Alright. So they're all serving

together. I said, “This is family ministry taking place right here. You guys are serving the Lord.

This is great.” If you have children, I'd encourage you to invite them to serve with you. If you're

opening doors on a Sunday morning, someone can help you open the doors. Your children can be

there. If they like to hand out bulletins, they can be there handing out bulletins and support the

usher ministry. Or they're helping them down in the kitchen getting all our food ready so we can

go down there and enjoy some time together. It's just a beautiful thing when families work

together. And it's so powerful in a child's life to help them experience the faith. Not just learn

about it. Not just learn the Bible stories. But experience the faith and serving God is a key

element of that.

Verse 13 – Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah repaired the Valley Gate. They rebuilt it and

set its doors, its bolts, and its bars, and repaired a thousand cubits of the wall, as far as the

Dung Gate. I’m going a thousand cubits? You know that’s 1500 feet. I’m thinking who were

those guys again? Oh that was Hanun and the inhabitants of Zanoah. Well, that's a long way that

they were. They said, “Okay. Let's put this together.” And so they stepped in to do their part of

the work.

Malchijah the son of Rechab, ruler of the district of Beth-haccherem, repaired the Dung Gate.