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Command One: Be strong.
Command Two: Get to work.
COMMAND 3: Fear not.
Take courage.
I am with you.
First, this...
According to the promise I made with you when you came out of Egypt.
They were ONE!
God speaks to them as if they were the very people that came out of Egypt.
God’s promise to them remained.
This was an all encompassing promise!
(Pack that away for a minute)
Most accurately: “Remember” or “take to heart”
Let those words sink in this morning.
There are a lot of heavy things going amongst our church family.
People are walking down life changing roads.
Things are being thrown our way to discourage us.
Fear not.
Just as God’s promise to Israel still stood.
Just as God saw the Jews as one.
So does God see the Church as one.
The the promise to the disciples.
I am with you always!
Sometimes we just need to be reminded like the Jews needed reminding.
God doesn’t just tell us not to be afraid.
But...
COMMAND 3: Fear not.
This seems like a strategic way for God to say this.
He could have just told them He was with them.
Instead He purposefully pointed them back and caused them to see His faithfulness for generations!
Not only do we need reminded not to fear, but sometimes we need to be pointed back to God’s faithfulness.
God calls us to work.
But He promises to be right there with us through it all.
We have no reason to fear.
We have no reason not to work.
Be strong.
Work hard.
Fear not.
These commands together draw us a picture of persistent obedience.
A couple of months before this they were ready to go.
God shook them up.
They had a holy discontentment.
They went to the hills and started cutting trees.
Then they realized how slow it would be.
They realized how much work and how hard it would be.
The saw it wasn’t turning out like they thought it should.
And they got discouraged.
They were discouraged because they were not seeing things from God’s perspective.
Next He will tell them that their persistent obedience would lead to greater things than they could imagine.
Here is one of the reasons I love local church ministry and wouldn’t want to be an itinerant preacher.
Yes - major decisions are good.
Often they don’t last.
The ones that last are usually preceded by many small decisions.
Persistent obedience is better!
God encourages them with three future promises.
God encourages them with three future promises.
PROMISE 1: I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, the dry land, and the nations.
I will shake.
An incredible action by the almighty God.
The Israelites were afraid of the powerful nations that opposed them.
God’s promise was meant to bring comfort and courage.
Once more
I will, once more...
Looks ahead with imminence.
A sure promise that will happen at a time in the future.
There has already been a shaking.
Haggai is saying: One more time.
There was already a shaking.
PROMISE 1: I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, the dry land, and the nations.
The previous shaking gave the Jews the law.
This shaking made the condemnation of the human race obvious.
PROMISE 1: I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, the dry land, and the nations.
This was already showing us our need for Christ.
There are 1,189 chapters in the Bible.
The human race made it to chapter 2 before they ruined what God started.
In chapter 3 we already see the promise of a Messiah.
God shook the earth to show us our need for a Savior.
There will be another shaking.
But, there will only be one more shaking.
The author of Hebrews quotes Haggai.
PROMISE 1: I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, the dry land, and the nations.
In a little while
First: Hebrew - one little bit.
One single brief space until something happens.
Looking ahead to the future.
Helping us understand the prophetic nature of the shaking.
By the way… “a little while”… over 500 years until the birth of Christ.
Then thousands until the finality of the prophecy.
If this is a little while, what is a few months or years to God?
PROMISE 1: I will shake the heavens, the earth, the sea, the dry land, and the nations.
All of this shaking is ultimately preparation for the reign of Christ.
A violent trembling of the earth.
As judgement and wrath are poured out on the enemies of God.
The people of Haggai’s day feared world powers.
Haggai is assuring them that these powers will fall.
Christ will be victorious.
PROMISE 2: The glory of this temple will be will be greater than the former temple.
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