There are always two sources of conflict any leader or any organization faces - external and internal. Believe it or not, by far and away the most dangerous type of conflict is internal. We have already seen how the enemy tries to attack from the outside and one of his primary weapons is criticism, but when he attacks from the inside, he uses an even more powerful weapon – selfishness.

In the first four chapters of Nehemiah we saw how the enemy tried several things to stop the rebuilding of the wall. First he tried derision, then he tried discouragement, then he tried danger, but here in chapter 5 he pulls out his greatest weapon – division. Why is that his greatest weapon? As Jesus said in Mark 3:25, "If a house is divided against itself, that house cannot stand." (Mark 3:25, NIV)

As so…