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PO - C.S. Lewis stated, “God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
INTRO - Last week was Liberty Sunday.
We noted the wonderful blessing of living in the U.S. Despite what so many say, we do live in the best country in the world.
The week prior we started this six part series from the book Haggai.
We began Haggai for Hands, the first part of this three section six message series.
I ended the service by asking you to read this short, two chapter, book.
I know all you you had read the book and are eager to dive in to discover the deeper meaning and how the principles of the Word given to us through Haggai apply today.
We began the study with a short run through the Bible.
We noted:
Beginnings
Adam and Eve, the Fall, Flood, and tower of Babel
Patriarchs
Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, son of Isaac and Rebecca, name changed to Isreal, father of the 12 tribes.
Joeseph, Isreal son, taken as a slave to Egypt.
Egyptian Slavery
Moses leads people Egypt
40 years wilderness
Settlement of Canaan
Judges, Kings, 1) Saul, 2) David, 3) Solomon
Temple built
Kingdom Split
Fall of Samaria
Prophets
Elijah, Elisha, Jonah, Amos, Hosea, Isaiah,
Micah
Over hundred years
Zephaniah, Jeremiah, Nahum, Habakkuk
Daniel
Exile
Dedication of Second Temple
Haggai
In that message we noted God’s command to rebuild, how people drift toward compliance, and that God will chastise people because He wants His glory and to bless those He loves.
Verse 1:4 really grabbed our attention:
ILL - (showing two plastic figures) “Let’s say these are Jennifer and I.
We are made by God.
Now we go shopping (show basket) and buy all this stuff (showing play food).
Then we see God, in Publix because that is where shopping is a pleasure and God only shops there :-).
We like Him, and want Him to come home with us.
So, we toss Him in the basket with everything else.
When we want something, we simply pull out what we found at Publix.”
In many ways that is how we treat God.
We add Him to the other stuff in our collection and when we need Him we pull Him out and tell Him what we want.
Instead of God being Lord, we want Him to be our slave and do what we want when we want.
TRANS - Now that we are enlightened by that reprisal from the fist message in this series, lets move on toward this week.
We will continue in our series looking at the first of three sections, Haggai for Hands.
What does it say?
Now that we are enlightened by that, I suppose we can all go home :-)
Seriously, we need to visit this text in it’s period.
It was different then.
BAK - The returned exiles faced years of hardship, privation, and insecurity.
They had to make a fresh start in a strange land.
They were dogged by a succession of poor seasons and partial crop failures.
Recall last we discussed this:
We’re not there yet, but we will see that again in chapter two:
Neighbors, especially the aristocracy of Samaria, were openly hostile.
Tensions between the returned exiles and the resident members of the community were ever present.
The Jews resident in the land regarded it as theirs:
They were reluctant to share it with the newcomers.
There was tension and bitterness between the different groups of people.
The rest of our passage for today is:
and
We will focus in on the three servants:
Zerubbabel (Judah’s governor), Jeshua (or Joshua—the high priest), and Haggai (Judah’s prophet).
What does it mean?
Zerubbabel the Prince
Civil leader and governor.
God spoke and the leaders responded.
What is the contemporary relevance of this OT teaching?
Consider what Jesus said in Matthew’s Gospel:
“Seek first His...”
Jesus identified our priorities.
Sure it is liberating.
We now know what to do, when to do it, and even the power in which we get it done.
But, it is a responsibility with demands.
The work of reaching people for Jesus in in your hands.
You are responsible to do kingdom work.
You can’t say, “They, them, you, or somebody will do it.”
We are in an interesting time.
The only correct response is “I am doing kingdom stuff before I even consider doing anything else.”
When we do this, the necessities of life are handled by God for us.
It seems that every generation from the time of Jesus must again learn this basic lesson God teaches.
Our leader, Jesus, both king and high priest, led out to do what God says.
Our part, is trusting in Him, and doing the work trusted to us.
TRANS - Pretty simple message so far.
Trust Jesus, He is in charge and will take very good care of you when you do your part.
Zerubbabel, the priest, set example for us, “Do what God says and people follow.”
Let’s shift to consider the priest, the high priest in our text.
Jeshua the Priest
BAK - on the first day of the month Jews are brining special offerings to the sanctuary
it’s a busy day for Jeshua the spiritual leader and high priest.
In comes Haggai during this very busy time to reveal the sin of the people with regard to the unfinished sanctuary.
POINT - How much like God to interrupt people in the middle of being busy?
Do you know how many people say things like, “I’m waiting on God to tell me.” or “I’m just waiting on God and don’t want to get ahead of Him.”
To those people I ask, “Did you watch TV last night?”
and “Did God tell you to watch TV?”
See, God is telling us something, but too often we put lesser things before the greater things.
Are lessor things greater than Godly things?
We asked God to help us reach people so He can grow this church.
He always answers that prayer because God loves those unreached people in ways we can’t imagine.
God fired back, have your pastor, that’s me, work with you and I’ll provide the way.
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