These are all lessons for us. We have to think like Nehemiah. We have to think in terms of surveying the scene. I got great help from Nehemiah over 50 years ago when my wife and I first came here. We were in a very depleted condition here at the Tabernacle, and there were only a few people. Most of the people were very elderly; they were golden people, most of them, very earnest people, but they were very elderly. And there was no money; there was no funding. Reserves had been spent and the maintenance of the building, even the winter heating bills, were far, far greater than the Sunday offerings. So what was going to happen? We had to think and survey. What must come first? What are the problems? What are we not doing that we need to do? So we surveyed the scene, and we started to think. We have got to have a separate prayer meeting to begin with. We had one of those combined Prayer Meeting/Bible Studies. That wasn't historic; that was not how Spurgeon did it, or our forebears. That had happened since World War II. We need to go back to having a separate prayer meeting. You start with prayer. Then we have to rely upon the Lord. But what do we have? What has the Lord given us? Well he’s given as the gospel. We have got to have an evangelistic service. We have to go back to the old traditions of the church. One of our Sunday services must be an evangelistic service. Every pastor at the Tabernacle in its history, with the exception of one, has believed fervently in the universal tender of salvation, the free offer of the gospel. There’s one who didn't, and that's a very curious thing. John Gill didn't believe in the free offer the gospel. He did not uphold the universal tender of salvation. And yet, curiously, dear John Gill practised the proclamation of the free offer of salvation, even though, if you read his Cause of God and Truth, and his Systematic Theology, his theology is against it. When George Whitfield began to preach the gospel at the beginning of the Great Awakening – and he was preaching the free offer of the gospel all the time – John Gill was one of his greatest supporter. John Gill, in his great fraternal, urged all the ministers to get out their congregations to support him. He sent his church members at the Carter Lane Chapel round all the coffee shops of London, and the crowds came out, 40,000 people on Kennington Common it is variously estimated. And so every pastor that there has ever been in the long history of the Tabernacle since 1650, has practised the free offer of salvation, and we must do the same. We were trying to follow in the steps of Nehemiah, surveying the needs, praying for help, responding to them, implementing the things that should be in position. We had to have a policy, a sense of direction, an aim, and that’s what's badly needed, even today.