Part 4 | This is the Time
From Haggai 1:1-14
📖 Ezra 3:10-11 ESV And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the LORD, according to the directions of David king of Israel. 11 And they sang responsively, praising and giving thanks to the LORD, “For he is good,for his steadfast love endures forever toward Israel.” And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD was laid.
📖 Haggai 1:2 ESV “Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.”
FIRST: They faced .
SECOND: They faced from their own.
THIRD: They to the .
“When the work ceased, the people turned to private affairs and gradually became used to worshiping among the ruins of the once great temple.”
– James Montgomery Boice.
The , the , and the all want God’s people to say: is the .
📖 Haggai 1:7-8 ESV Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house…
The to life with God: Just .
📖 Zechariah 4:10 NLT “Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand.“
📖 Haggai 1:12 ESV Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.
We get started with God the moment we fear more than or .
Three reasons to build in spite of the opposition:
1. God will .
📖 Haggai 1:7-8 ESV Thus says the LORD of hosts: Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the LORD.
Three reasons to build in spite of the opposition:
2. The will .
📖 Haggai 1:6 ESV You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.
Three reasons to build in spite of the opposition:
3. The Spirit will .
📖 Haggai 1:14 ESV And the LORD stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God,
📖 Hebrews 10:39 ESV 39 But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls.
Sermon in a Sentence:
When we reject and earthly and embrace and heavenly – God blesses, Jesus , and the .
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