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Happy New Year
Happy New Year!
How is 2020 so far?
I don’t know I can’t make up my mind about how I feel about New years.
My logical side is like what is the big deal it is just another day.
Right?
I mean what is the difference between December 31st and January 1 anyway.
Another trip around the sun, big deal.
No need to change things are going pretty good.
I always make minor tweaks to my life and stay on track.
Maybe you are in that camp, and I get it.
Part of me is like that, but there is another part of me that likes New years too.
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I am from the Windows computer age.
Anyone else use a windows computer a lot.
I admit it isn’t so much like this anymore but this is what used to happen.
When you first turn it on, especially after you first get it, it runs pretty good right.
It is quick and snappy, but as you open more programs and perhaps neglect to close them, after a while of working on it, the computer would get slow.
And what was the solution?
The three finger salute right?
Control-ALt-Delete.
Reboot the computer, it takes a while, the screen goes blank and allows you to have some time and reflect what are doing here at this sluggish computer, then it springs back to life and is snappy as ever and you happy.
Perhaps it is time to give 2019 the old three finger salute, pause and reflect at what we are doing, and embrace a new 2020, going forward.
I really like the idea of a clean slate.
An opportunity at new possibilities.
A time to put the past behind and move forward.
Even when things are good, this can be time to build on the past and move on forward to even better and even greater things.
Believe it or not we aren’t the first people to need a reboot, or a refocus.
To plan at going forward to build on the past.
In fact let me take you back and tell you about a group of people that needed just that.
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Picture yourself living in the Middle East.
Your great-grandparents and all your friends great-grandparents would tell stories of the Jerusalem in the good years.
Of the great temple built by Solomon, and how wonderful it was.
They would fondly remember the bustling city of Jerusalem, that is until the war started.
The war they referred to was when Babylon from the south, or Modern day Iraq invaded.
It was a horrible war, people died, lots of people.
They would remember all the friends they lost.
For the most part they would keep quiet about the horrors of war.
When the war ended those that survived were shackled and had to march all the way from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Probably 1700 miles.
There, in what is now Iraq they lived out the rest of their lives.
Your grand-parents and all your friends grandparents would have only lived in Iraq, yet they always wished they would be allowed to go home, and visit their parents homes and see if anything was left, but they never had the chance, but now you have the chance.
You are young enough and fit enough, you and your friends are allowed to go back.
After all those years.
You set out with enthusiasm, to rebuild what once was.
To be part of something bigger than yourself, to bring Jerusalem back to its glory days.
To see with your eyes the land that you only heard stories about, maybe you could actually find where your great-grandpa’s house was imagine!
So in 538 BC you pack up what you could carry, kiss the elders goodbye, and you and your friends set off on this fantastic, life-changing journey to reclaim your past.
But man, 1700 miles on foot is a long way.
You have a couple of leaders who are real motivators, and they are pushing you along, giving you hope, but it is a long way.
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Eventually you arrive, and the first glimpse of this city you heard so many stories about is depressing to say the least.
It is overgrown, you have to dig through the weeds to find any remains of walls or buildings, you will never find your great grandparents house, and as far as the eye can see, nothing but weeds, and rocks and wilderness.
Suddenly a sinking feeling hits your stomach and you think, what have I done?
But again there is this great motivator guy, named Ezra and they keep cheering you on.
The work looks overwhelming but they say start here, and they tell you about one day how great this place will be so they keep you going.
You take a deep and although the task seems overwhelming and impossible, with faith in God, you pitch in.
You put your life on hold.
ANd you work.
Hard in the hot desert sun, for two solid years.
ANd in 536 BC you and all your friends complete the foundation of the temple.
A cheer goes up, people are celebrating, and things are going to be good.
You can almost see the temple standing again it all its glory.
To your complete surprise, not everyone feels this way.
There is a group of people who are less than enthused about this project.
The samaritans.
The samaritans are the group of people that lived just to the north of Jerusalem.
They weren’t fully jewish, they were a mixed people.
Kinda half jewish.
If you remember, the nation of Israel divided, many many years before.
The northern tribes, separated from the southern tribes.
The southern tribes had Jerusalem and the temple.
The place to worship God.
The northern tribes had to make due without the temple.
So they had their own places, called high places.
Without the torah and the priests to teach them and they ended up worshipping in a way that was more pagan.
They took the true pure religion and mixed it with the world.
This while it didn’t start the feud certainly kept it going.
The people in Jerusalem were trying to worship the true God, and the samaritans, had their own system and the two didn’t get along.
So now with the temple going up, they were quite unhappy.
Why are you bringing up this thing all over again?
As a result, they cause trouble.
Real trouble.
Life and limb type trouble.
They got the kings involved by writing a letter fabricating charges of they sop ANd so the work comes to a halt.
Now you and your friends, kinda throw up your hands, You wonder what is going on here.
What is God doing we had a good start.
As the years go by the foundation sits in the ground, and weeds start to cover it, the dream seems more out of reach.
You are done fighting, after all if God would have wanted this, he would have overcome the obstacles, so you begin to find other things to do.
Maybe you find a nice girl or a guy to settle down with.
You start a business, you have a few kids.
You raise some livestock, life gets good.
Maybe you have been meeting with a few people to pray and honor God but life gets busy earning a living, maintaining the house, and raising the kids.
Then on August 29th 520 BC something remarkable happens, a man named Haggai comes and explains what God said to him.
That sets the stage for the book of Haggai.
I will read from chapter 1.
Before I begin reading let me pray.
Pray
verse 1
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