Good morning, our Fire-starter comes from 2 Kings 25. Our Fire-starter
thought is: the walls had to be broken for someone to have a burden!!!
Our Fire-starter verse is verse 10.

Nebuchadnezzar has come to Jerusalem and has taken captive the people of
Israel due to the sin of God’s people. Here in our text Nebuzaradan
comes and takes the people captive but leaves the poorest of people to
be vinsdressers and husbandmen.

Something I want you to notice is verse 10. The Walls were broken down.

We will be studying the life of Nehemiah later but I want to introduce
you to him. Nehemiah was a cupbearer but he had a burden all because of
what happened here and that was the wall was broken down. See if the
wall had not been broken down we would have never read or heard about
Nehemiah.

How does this apply to us spiritually?

We need to have things broken so we can get a burden for making it better.

The problem we have today is we are being broken by God and we think
it’s the governments fault or those in authority. Have you thought maybe
God is allowing this so his children will get a burden for America
again. We used to be the ones that were in church Sunday morning, Sunday
night and Wednesday night and whenever the doors were opened. Now we go
to Walmart or food lion or whatever grocery store that you may have in
your area. Have you thought maybe God is taking away our food supply so
we can rely on him once again. I’m just saying the wall had to be broken
for Nehemiah to get a burden. By the way, it took one man and his army
to tear the wall down and it took one man and his people to get a burden
to build the wall again.

Next time you complain about the gas prices sky rocketing and the stocks
plunging and the cost of living going up think about what God is doing
he is breaking us so we can have a burden for our country again. It’s
sad when other countries send missionaries to America, the Christian
nation.

Is God breaking things in your life so you will get a burden?
Listen to the call today! Hope you have a great day serving the Lord!

2 Kings 25:1-30 KJV
And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month,
in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came,
he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and
they built forts against it round about. [2] And the city was besieged
unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. [3] And on the ninth day of the
fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread
for the people of the land. [4] And the city was broken up, and all the
men of war fled by night by the way of the gate between two walls, which
is by the king’s garden: (now the Chaldees were against the city round
about:) and the king went the way toward the plain. [5] And the army of
the Chaldees pursued after the king, and overtook him in the plains of
Jericho: and all his army were scattered from him. [6] So they took the
king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave
judgment upon him. [7] And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his
eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of
brass, and carried him to Babylon. [8] And in the fifth month, on the
seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king
Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzar-adan, captain of the guard,
a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: [9] And he burnt the
house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of
Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire. [10] And all
the army of the Chaldees, that were with the captain of the guard, brake
down the walls of Jerusalem round about. [11] Now the rest of the people
that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king
of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar-adan the
captain of the guard carry away. [12] But the captain of the guard left
of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen. [13] And the
pillars of brass that were in the house of the Lord, and the bases, and
the brasen sea that was in the house of the Lord, did the Chaldees break
in pieces, and carried the brass of them to Babylon. [14] And the pots,
and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels
of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away. [15] And the
firepans, and the bowls, and such things as were of gold, in gold, and
of silver, in silver, the captain of the guard took away. [16] The two
pillars, one sea, and the bases which Solomon had made for the house of
the Lord ; the brass of all these vessels was without weight. [17] The
height of the one pillar was eighteen cubits, and the chapiter upon it
was brass: and the height of the chapiter three cubits; and the wreathen
work, and pomegranates upon the chapiter round about, all of brass: and
like unto these had the second pillar with wreathen work. [18] And the
captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the
second priest, and the three keepers of the door: [19] And out of the
city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men
of them that were in the king’s presence, which were found in the city,
and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the
land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in
the city: [20] And Nebuzar-adan captain of the guard took these, and
brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah: [21] And the king of
Babylon smote them, and slew them at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So
Judah was carried away out of their land. [22] And as for the people
that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon
had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of
Shaphan, ruler. [23] And when all the captains of the armies, they and
their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor,
there came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and
Johanan the son of Careah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the
Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of a Maachathite, they and their
men. [24] And Gedaliah sware to them, and to their men, and said unto
them, Fear not to be the servants of the Chaldees: dwell in the land,
and serve the king of Babylon; and it shall be well with you. [25] But
it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah,
the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and
smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were
with him at Mizpah. [26] And all the people, both small and great, and
the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were
afraid of the Chaldees. [27] And it came to pass in the seven and
thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the
twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that
Evil-merodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did
lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison; [28] And he
spake kindly to him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings
that were with him in Babylon; [29] And changed his prison garments: and
he did eat bread continually before him all the days of his life. [30]
And his allowance was a continual allowance given him of the king, a
daily rate for every day, all the days of his life.