Pastor Robert Jeffress clarified the real point of his inauguration morning sermon where he said that "God is not against building walls." The remarks made the headlines considering newly-installed President Donald Trump repeatedly mentioned he would build a wall on the southern border of the United States.

In an Interview with The Christian Post, Jeffress, a senior pastor at First Baptist Church of Dallas, explained that the central message behind his sermon is not the building of walls, but God choosing Nehemiah, a builder, to lead Judah for a purpose.

"I know the liberals would love to take it out of context. But look, the point was God was the one who raised up Nehemiah, who was not a politician, who wasn't a priest, who was a builder, and gave him a job to do," said Jeffress in the post-inauguration interview. He stressed that building a wall with the intention of protecting the people is not unbiblical. Jeffress quoted Nehemiah's account from the Old Testament where he rebuilt the walls of Jerusalem to defend the city from its enemies.

Jeffress delivered the sermon in front of Trump and Vice President Mike Pence at the St. John's Episcopal Church before the new president was officially sworn in. "What I concentrated on in my message to Mr. Trump and Mr. Pence and their cabinet was the fact that God blessed Nehemiah for some unique reasons," he added.

The leader of the Dallas-based megachurch also joined the Faith Freedom & Future Inaugural Ball at the Hyatt Regency in Capitol Hill Friday night, an event attended by various conservative Christian organizations. Presented by the Family Research Council, a leading policy organization in the United States, the Ball aimed to celebrate religious freedom under the Trump presidency.

Jeffress, one of the most prominent evangelical leaders who supported the president's candidacy in 2015, believes Trump's triumph over Hillary Clinton in the elections was a "reprieve" from pro-abortion and pro-LGBT laws that could affect conservative Christians' freedom to express their faith without fear from any form of curtailment from the government.

"I think the great irony of history will be that it was a secular billionaire from New York who turned out to be the most faith-friendly president in history," he added.