The
Sunday
chool
Lesson
John Brayboy, Salem
" Missionary Baptist Church
Cope With Hostility
(Nehemiah -1:1-8, 15-23)
1. Progress and Plots (Neh. -4:6-8)
II- Precaution and Persistence
(Neh. -4:14-18)
III- Plans and Performance (Neh.
4:19-230
/. Progress and Plots
(Nehemiah 4:6-8)
Nchcmiah began working on the
wall from the gate back to the standing
wall. Everything was going well
because everyone had a desire to see
the wall rebuilt.
The devil nc\cr bothers those who
arc not doing anything for the Lord,
but those w ho arc doing that which is
pleasing to God w ill sceptic devil poke
his face up to trv to interfere with the
work.
The rulers around about Jerusalem
heard that Nchcmiah and the people
were working on the wall. This was
disturbing news to Sanballct. Tobiah.
the Ammorilcs and others around
They knew that if the wall went up
then Jerusalem would be protected.
While thc\ conspired among themselves
to bring trouble upon Jerusalem.
there were some who overheard
their plans and conveyed the message
to nchcmiah. They wanted to stop the
work so that God's people would be
defenseless. The people of God need
to keep the walls strong and inlad
around their spiritual life so that the
devil cannot penetrate through and
cause them to be left defenseless.
God had let Nchcmiah know what
was going on. He already had guards
watching out because he knew that
Judah's enemies might try to stop the
work on the wall When he heard of
their plans, he mndc further plans to
protect the continuance of the work.
11. Precaution and Persistence
(Nehemiah 4:15-18) _
The enemy found out that they had
ad lost the clement of a surprise attack
on Jerusalem, so they dropped the
plan of attacking. With Nehemiah
aware of coming attacks, the odds in
their favor changed
As a precaution in the even that the
enemy changed his mind, nchcmiah
set up a line of defense to protect the
people. Half of the people were armed
so they could protect the other half
who were working on the building.
Those who were guarding the workers
ivcrc equipped with spears, shields,
bows and habergeons. Thbse who carried
off the rubbish from the wall
carried a weapon in one hand and
worked with the other hand. Those
who were working on the wall used
" bbtlvdiands but had a sword by their
side.
While we must trust God to lake
care of us in all circumstances, we
must use our God given common sense
and wisdom to do our part in protecting
our walls. We all arc responsible
for our own actions. Nehemiah had
the trumpet blower standing beside
him so that if anything went wrong
then he could*dircct the battle.
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i ///. Plans ami Performance
(Nehemiah 4:19-23)
The work was grcal on ihc wall and
ihe people were spread out far front
each other Nehemiah told the told
that when they heard the sound of the
trumpet, then thc> were to come together
to prepare for the battle Of
course, he reminded the people that
God would fight the battle for them
With a plan of action t place in case of
attack, the work on the building went
on while halfof the people guarded the
other half who were doing the work
They worked frojn sunrise to sunset
Nehemiah realized that iflhc people
got to spread outthcy might be vulnerable
to the enemy. so lie decided that
the) would sla> in Jerusalem and lodge
there. That way they could help protect
thc_city night and day. They did
not remove their clothes night or day.
except for w ashi ng themselves or thci r
clothes.
When we arc dedicated to carrying
out the will of God. then we can be
assured that God w ill protect us from
the enemy God bless all of y ou until
next week. Pray for us
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Along the Robeson Trail
by Dr. Stanley Knick
^ Director, UNCP Native American Resource Center )l
We have seen that the preHuropean-contact
population in
eastern North Carolina ? which
includes the ancestors of the Lumbee
? must have been considerable.
Among the Lumbee ancestors, how
much contact was there among the
people of various villages and groups
before Columbus? Archaeological
evidence suggests that this region was
an area where different Native
American cultures had regular contact
with each other.
The artifacts found on the ground
surface in the land of the Lumbee
reveal a long and consistent
occupation by Indian people. Some of
these artifacts also tell us that those
people were not living here in
isolation. Since we know that there
are no natural stone outcroppings here,
we must conclude that the ancestors
were going elsewhere to get the raw
materials to make their stone tools.
The rhyolite used to make the
majority of these stone tools is not
found in its natural state here in the
Coastal Plain. The ancestors of the
Lumbee who made these points must
have obtained the rhyolite from
Piedmont sources (fifty to one
hundred miles away). They, or
someone with whom they had trade
relations, brought large pieces of
rhyolite here and made points and other
stone tools from the raw material. We
have found a few sizable chunks of
rhyolite in archaeological sites here,
and literally thousands of flakes which
were discarded in the process of
reducing the large chunks to stone
tools, so we know the actual
manufacture of points happened here.
But the raw material had to be carried
here first.
Generation after generation of
Native people brought rhyolite to the
Lumbee River basin to make tools. In
doing so, they must have come into
contact with Native Americans from
different villages and groups. This
contact must have happened a great
many times down the long millennia
of pre-Columbian occupation.
There are also artifacttypes found
in the land of the Lumbee which do not
seem to belong here. That is, they are
types not commonly found here, but
more commonly found elsewhere.
As early as Archaic times, stone
tools appeared which look like they
came from distant cultures. For
example, a very unusual stone
spearhead with notches in its base
(instead of the more common sideand
comer-notches) looks like a type
typically found in Tennessee called
"Eva Basal-Notched." Another very
unusual projectile point, which is
diamond-shaped, looks most like a
type more common in Florida called
"Lake Mojave."
Later, in Woodland times, there
are also artifacts which look like they
belong somewhere else. One is a
projectile point most like the type called
"Roanoke," which is much more
common north of here, and quite
unusual here on the southern inner
Coastal Plain. Another is a projectile
point most like the type called
"Swannanoa," which is much more
common in the mountains. There are
also Woodland ceramics which
apparently reflect contact with Indian
cultures outside this immediate area.
When we put all of these things
together, we may conclude that the
area along the Lumbee has for thousands
of years been a cultural
crossroads. Cultural influences from
north, south, east and west, starting as
early as the Middle Archaic period and
continuing all the way through the
Woodland period, suggest that this
area was one in which many Native
American cultural ideas were
exchanged.
If we understand that this region
had a sizable population and had for a
long time been a place where a lot of
cultural interaction occurred, we may
have also reconstructed an important
part of Lumbee context ? an
explanation of why Native Americans
from various groups moved here in
Colonial times and joined the existing
Indian settlement. Since this was
already a place where different kinds
of Indian folks interacted, it was only
natural for that interaction to continue
during and after European contact.
In the next segment, we will
continue to reconstruct the past in our
search for Lumbee context. For more
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