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003 A Crystallization of Discontent or A Holy Discontentment?
(Part 2)
1. God delivered a message to His people.
2. There was an indifference to the mission.
2. There was an indifference to the mission.
(1) A. Being indifferent to the mission impacts our fellowship with God.
“Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people...”
Here is another detail we don’t want to miss.
(1) A. Being indifferent to the mission impacts our fellowship with God.
God has an affection for His people.
He loves them as a father loves his children.
Yet here God simply says “these people”
It reminds me of when I come home and Amy says: “Guess what YOUR kids did today.”
That is never followed by something good.
In reality this is much more serious.
Our sin is a serious thing.
It is directly against God.
If we find our selves in the same position as the Jews then we have sinned.
(1) A. Being indifferent to the mission impacts our fellowship with God.
Our relationship as God’s child is never impacted, but our fellowship is.
The people of Judah were still part of God’s chosen nation.
They were still the ones He loved.
But their sin had caused a rift in their fellowship.
God simply refers to them as “these people”.
This should cause us to think about the seriousness of what is happening in the book of Haggai.
The Jews had been disowning God with their actions for 16 years.
Now God uses terms that acknowledge their choices.
(1) A. Being indifferent to the mission impacts our fellowship with God.
I have become convinced that the responses I’ve seen by Christians to everything that has happened in the last couple of years has been because of an indifference to the mission.
A love for worldly things has crept in.
We have become more focused on our worldly comforts than carrying out the mission God put us here to do.
Thus, when those comforts get challenged we respond negatively.
Because what we truly love is being taken away.
Because our fellowship with God has been compromised.
(1) B. Being indifferent to the mission causes us to make excuses.
They are saying the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.
Notice they are not telling God the WON’T do it.
They are saying they won’t do it now, they want to do it later.
According to the leaders and the people, the time isn’t quite right yet.
They fully intended to do the work.
They may have even truly believed that the time was not right.
They seemed quite confident in their excuses.
They believed what the were saying.
They were looking for...
A better time to rebuild.
An easier time to rebuild.
(1) B. Being indifferent to the mission causes us to make excuses.
Rebuilding the temple had been difficult.
Rebuilding the temple had been dangerous.
They were looking for an opportunity when it would be easier.
Their mission was hard, but God didn’t expect them to stop.
God didn’t cut them slack because they were being persecuted.
(1) B. Being indifferent to the mission causes us to make excuses.
Jesus didn’t tell us that our mission would be easy.
Jesus simply said carry out the mission.
(1) C. Our focus on self causes us to be indifferent to the mission.
Notice he condition of the temple.
The foundation was laid but sat for 15-16 years.
Weeds were growing through the cracks.
There were places it was crumbling and falling apart.
Every day the Jews would walk by and see it.
The temple was in ruins and destruction.
Notice the condition of their houses.
They were living in paneled houses.
Houses that were ceiled.
They were made of tongue in-grooved wood and ceiled tightly together.
The didn’t run down to Home Depot and pick up some wood.
This took time.
They were living in nice luxurious houses.
Most of us in America live in much nicer houses than the rest of the world.
Taking care of your family is not wrong.
But the people had spent so much time focusing on self that they had become indifferent to the things of of God.
They had become indifferent to what really mattered.
Let’s not rush past this...
There is an indifference to the mission in Christians.
You and I fight that indifference everyday.
That’s why Paul tells us...
(1) C. Our focus on self causes us to be indifferent to the mission.
I am going to transparently share my heart with you.
Talk to pastors anywhere and they will tell you...
a. Christians are indifferent to church growth.
All across America, churches are declining or even at the end of their life.
And in many cases there is an indifference in the leaders and the people.
They lament the decline of their church...
But the raw truth is that they don’t understand what the heart of the problem is.
There is a lack of love for their neighbors.
a. Christians are indifferent to church growth.
Often we are not concerned enough about their spiritual lives and eternity to pursue them the way we should.
Church growth is not the problem.
It is a symptom of a greater problem.
They often don’t want to put in the work and suffer through the hard things.
Often the blame goes to the pastor.
There is blame to be put there.
But there what many Christians want is church growth while they sit and watch.
Cheering from the stands.
We generally don’t tell God “no”.
I’ve never had someone come up to me after preaching or teaching on evangelism and tell me “NO”.
But I could write a list of excuses I have heard about why the time has not come for them to actively begin praying for and pursuing someone for the gospel.
I have to continue to work to make sure I don’t become indifferent to church growth either.
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