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PO - Leonardo da Vinci is know for saying:
“Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.”
TRANS - Series: Haggai for Hands, Hearts, and Heads
(tieback) Previous Messages:
1) Hands on August: The Exhortation
2) Hands on August: The Exhorters
(billboard) Next section:
“Hearts in October”
First section noted God’s call to get to work.
The message was temporal; fix the Temple.
Today the message correlates to the Spiritual; be the church and God takes care of us.
TIE - We noted the people experienced difficulties when following their leaders; opposition from Samaria and other Jews, and God was not blessing them with great crops and abundance.
The people chose to respond, to hear from God, to follow those He placed in charge.
TRANS (TIE) - The fist wave of returning Jews arrived in 538 B.C.
(BILLBOARD) We will see that as they begin rebuilding the temple, they toss in the towel; they want to give up.
Their prophets, both Haggai and Zechariah, stepped in at that time and ministered to the people who returned and they completed the task in 516.
Recall that Haggai warned the people that God was not pleased with their neglect.
The prophet calls on the people to repent and renew their covenant with God.
He tells the people how God will accomplish His purposes for His people and ultimately for the nations of the world.
Rebuilding the temple symbolically shows that God returned to be in fellowship with His people.
(BILLBOARD) As we step inside this story we will see:
Haggai encouraging “patience” and ministering to the hearts of the people.
Temple rebuilding brings weeping and rejoicing.
Seasoned Jews recall the grander Temple of Solomon when comparing to the modest one being rebuilt.
Haggai encouraging the people to focus on the future magnificence of the millennial Temple.
TRANS - First we will look at the text.
Thereafter we will dig in deeper to determine the meaning and how the principles of this text apply today.
What does it say?
And
What does it mean?
TIE - We read the text.
BILL - Next we consider 2 Temple types:
1) temporal or earthly
2) timeless or heavenly
The Temporal First and Second Temples (vv.1-5)
The prophet speaks the “word of the Lord” v.1
Last week we noted the characters in our story: the prince, the priest, the prophet, and the people.
In this fresh word, the prophet again addresses these characters.
Note that the people are the “remnant” v.2.
God is speaking to a particular group; not to everyone in Palestine, nor even all the Jews.
Speaking for the Lord, Haggai asks:
(dialogical transition) Why is the prophet asking something that brings the already discouraged people down more?
God want the people to get honest, get humble, get Him.
ILL - The queen of Sheba came to visit Solomon, and one day she put him to the test.
She brought artificial flowers so perfectly formed that no human eye could detect them from real flowers.
She put them in a vase on Solomon’s table, in his throne room next to his flowers.
As he came in, the queen of Sheba is reported to have said, “Solomon, you are the wisest man in the world.
Tell me without touching these flowers, which are real and which are artificial.”
It is said that Solomon studied the flowers for a long time and spoke nothing, until finally he said, “Open the windows and let the bees come in.”
There are ways to tell the artificial from the real—let the bees come in; they will know where the real is.
If we live with the authentic Jesus long enough, we will recognize the artificial when we see it.
Jesus is real!
He is here today!
You say, “We get that pastor, but what about the psychical temple?”
Glad you ask.
We can count on God to do everything He desires for FBC Minneola.
What God desires for His church, the people, and what God wants for His property, that tangible—as this building is His—God makes all things available.
Now you ask, “Why all the difficulty?
Good question.
What is our part?
2 Things
1) Get Genuine about the condition and nature of what belongs to God.
2) Get Going about the plans God has for His people.
Takes courage, takes faith.
Look at v.4
God communicates “take courage.”
Does that mean the people were scared, weak, not able to do what God asks?
No it does not.
God is communicating He is present with the people and they can do all He asks.
ILL - FBC Minneola has a relationship with God.
You ask, “How is that?”
I’ll tell you.
The Bible tells me we are part of one body:
Water baptism illustrates what happens when a person becomes a Christian.
There is no other baptism, just baptism into the body of Jesus, the church.
If you recall, Corinth was deeply spiritually troubled.
They had all kinds of strange beliefs about what was God.
They spoke in languages they didn’t understand, they worshiped false Gods, they were a mixture of all sorts of beliefs.
Today churches continue to face similar dilemmas.
Laughter, falling down even bearing oneself, and speaking in words they don’t even understand.
Biblical “tongues” is speaking in a known language; just one you learned to speak supernaturally.
Haggai, like Paul in Corinth, is helping people “get real” with themselves and with God.
The word to us is the same:
“Take Courage”
Take courage FBC Minneola, God is present in us.
Just as people needed the word from Haggai, today we need to know:
“God is present with, provisioning, and protecting FBC Minneola.”
Take courage pastor.
Take courage people.
Look at v.4
“Take courage, ‘and work; for I am with you”
If God is with people to rebuild a temporal temple, how much more is God with us to build His church?
I’ll tell you:
The work of FBC Minneola is done in the power of God who is stronger than the forces of evil.
God is building His church everyplace the people put faith first in all matters of church growth.
Look at v.5:
God does not forget!
God’s promises to His people are sure, are certain.
God’s Spirit abides with His people.
This verse says “do not fear!”
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