How to Handle Promotion

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How to Handle Promotion

• Nehemiah 514-19

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How to Handle Promotion

• Review Nehemiah 1-5
• Believers have learnt how to survive persecution
• They have not learnt how to survive prosperity
• One man standing alone for 30 years

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Dont be Afraid to Accept Responsibility 514

• Nehemiah accepted his promotion
• Today we also need Christians in influential
  positions - 1 Chronicles 410 - Proverbs 292

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B. Promotions Bring Privileges 514-18

• Nehemiahs privileges
• Our privileges- Expense accounts- Increased
  privacy- Opportunities to build our own
  empires- Access to inside information

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C. Promotions Affect People 518b

• How previous governors behaved
• Why Nehemiah treated people differentlyTwo
  biblical principles motivated him- Reverence
  for God- Compassion for people

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Nehemiah passed the prosperity test do you?