Haggai 2:1-9 Consider your Future - Revision history

Wakefien: /* MTR: Take a second and ask yourself where have you allowed your focus on tester-year to take your eyes off of God? */

2023-06-03T21:07:01Z

‎MTR: Take a second and ask yourself where have you allowed your focus on tester-year to take your eyes off of God?

Wakefien: /* Ultimately, the ultimate display of God's glory is in his grace and mercy (9). */

2023-05-29T18:55:15Z

‎Ultimately, the ultimate display of God's glory is in his grace and mercy (9).

Wakefien: /* I think that god is trying to bring this into the open so that He can remind the people that they are focusing on the wrong thing. */

2023-05-29T18:38:18Z

‎I think that god is trying to bring this into the open so that He can remind the people that they are focusing on the wrong thing.

Wakefien: /* Solomon's temple was magnificent as evidenced in these notes from Dick on 2 chronicles 3= */

2023-05-29T17:25:56Z

‎Solomon's temple was magnificent as evidenced in these notes from Dick on 2 chronicles 3=

Wakefien at 16:58, 29 May 2023

2023-05-29T16:58:22Z

Wakefien: /* Recognize that it is God who brings glory not a physical object (7b-8). */

2023-05-29T16:55:44Z

‎Recognize that it is God who brings glory not a physical object (7b-8).

Wakefien: /* Recognize that it is God who brings glory not a physical object (7b-8). */

2023-05-29T16:54:58Z

‎Recognize that it is God who brings glory not a physical object (7b-8).

Wakefien: /* Image: Reflecting on yesteryear is so common but "back in my days" is a dangerous path. */

2023-05-29T16:53:36Z

‎Image: Reflecting on yesteryear is so common but "back in my days" is a dangerous path.

Wakefien: /* Image: Reflecting on yesteryear is so common but "back in my days" is a dangerous path. */

2023-05-29T16:52:21Z

‎Image: Reflecting on yesteryear is so common but "back in my days" is a dangerous path.

Wakefien at 16:52, 29 May 2023

2023-05-29T16:52:01Z

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 <p>Here we are 10 months into construction. We have hit snags and these snags have caused some delays. We have had victories. We could focus on the wins, we could focus on the losses. But in both cases, our focus is not on God! We need to focus on the God who has given wins and the God who has brought us through losses.</p>
 ====Remember, it is not about the building, it is about the God who is giving us the building.====
-===MTR: Take a second and ask yourself where have you allowed your focus on tester-year to take your eyes off of God?===
+===MTR: Take a second and ask yourself where have you allowed your focus on yester-year to take your eyes off of God?===
 ==''Frustration'' and ''disappointment'' should be confronted with ''strength'' and ''faith'' (2:4-5).==

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 =====God wanted his people to realize that it was not the Gold that made the temple important it was God himself!=====
-===Ultimately, the ultimate display of God's glory is in his grace and mercy (9).===
+===Ultimately, the ultimate display of God's glory is in His grace and mercy (9).===
 ====Okay you say but the temple of Solomon housed the Ark of the Covenant the seat of God!====
 =====Nevertheless, something better was to come, just over 500 years later, God Himself in the flesh, Jesus would walk this temple!=====
 <p>Something that no temple could do was bring peace between God and man. The temple was marked by a veil or separation, the veil was there because sin permanently separates sinners from God. </p>
 ======Matthew 27:51 tells us the temple veil was torn in two when Jesus died. Peace, that only God could bring, is far more valuable than all the riches.======
 ===Image: Trying to recreate something special without special people.===
 ====Galactic Battlegrounds====

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 ====God called the people to task saying "make the comparison, then realize it is not the right focus."====
 <blockquote><p>God told Haggai to ask three questions to surface the people’s unfavorable comparison: Who of you … saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing? These questions are essentially rhetorical, causing the people to face openly the fact that their temple was not going to be as splendid as Solomon’s. Implied is the fact that some of those present, perhaps even Haggai himself, had seen the glories of the Solomonic edifice prior to its destruction 66 years before (in 586 B.C.). <ref>F. Duane Lindsey, “Haggai,” in The Bible Knowledge Commentary: An Exposition of the Scriptures, ed. J. F. Walvoord and R. B. Zuck, vol. 1 (Wheaton, IL: Victor Books, 1985), 1541.</ref></p></blockquote>
-====I think that god is trying to bring this into the open so that He can remind the people that they are focusing on the wrong thing.====
+====I think that God is trying to bring this into the open so that He can remind the people that they are focusing on the wrong thing.====
 ===Image: Our construction project===
 <p>Here we are 10 months into construction. We have hit snags and these snags have caused some delays. We have had victories. We could focus on the wins, we could focus on the losses. But in both cases, our focus is not on God! We need to focus on the God who has given wins and the God who has brought us through losses.</p>

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 ====God wants His people to know that His direct intervention in creation is immanent!====
 ===Recognize that it is God who brings glory not a physical object (7b-8).===
-====Solomon's temple was magnificent as evidenced in these notes from Dick on 2 chronicles 3=====
+=====Solomon's temple was magnificent as evidenced in these notes from Dick on 2 chronicles 3=====
 ======600 talents (~23 tons) of fine gold used (v. 8), Decorative gold nails used (v. 9)======
 ======Temple curtain: blue, purple, and crimson yarn with fine linen; cherubim motif (v. 14), Two great pillars at front of temple: “Jachin” and “Boaz” (vv. 15–17) Pillars were ~53 ft tall======
 ====However, all the wealth in the world is God's and it pales in comparison to God's glory.====
 =====God wanted his people to realize that it was not the Gold that made the temple important it was God himself!=====

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 '''Homiletical Proposition/Application: We must realize that we ultimately serve God and if we keep God at the center then we won’t be disappointed.'''
-=Introduction:=
+=Introduction: Memory verse: Haggai 2:9=
 ==Image: Reflecting on yesteryear is so common but "back in my days" is a dangerous path.==
 The other day Emily and I were talking about our days in school and I caught myself saying something like, "back when we were in school they would have never let us..." Once I realized what I had said I thought, oh no, I can't believe I did that. But it is a temptation we face as we grow, a temptation to focus on what used to be and not realize that our focus should be on Christ.

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 ====Solomon's temple was magnificent.====
 =====Notes from Dick on 2 chronicles 3=====
-======600 talents (~23 tons) of fine gold used (v. 8)======
+======600 talents (~23 tons) of fine gold used (v. 8), Decorative gold nails used (v. 9)======
 ======Temple curtain: blue, purple, and crimson yarn with fine linen; cherubim motif (v. 14)======
 ======Two great pillars at front of temple: “Jachin” and “Boaz” (vv. 15–17) Pillars were ~53 ft tall======
 ====However, all the wealth in the world is God's and it pales in comparison to God's glory.====
 =====God wanted his people to realize that it was not the Gold that made the temple important it was God himself!=====
 ===Ultimately, the ultimate display of God's glory is in his grace and mercy (9).===
 ====Okay you say but the temple of Solomon housed the Ark of the Covenant the seat of God!====