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=====Chapter 1 tells us. The people were neglecting the completion of the temple!===== | =====Chapter 1 tells us. The people were neglecting the completion of the temple!===== | ||
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| − | + | I do not like cilantro. I am told that some people are generically predisposed in a way that cilantro tastes like soap and overruns everything. I must have that because if cilantro is in a dish, that is all I can taste. You can add as much of whatever else you want but the cilantro will corrupt the taste. | |
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====Haggai told the people to remember that disobedience had brought them economic disaster.==== | ====Haggai told the people to remember that disobedience had brought them economic disaster.==== | ||
====And God took credit for the economic disaster in verse 17.==== | ====And God took credit for the economic disaster in verse 17.==== | ||
| − | =====In fact, this is consistent with the promises God had made in Deut. | + | =====In fact, this is consistent with the promises God had made in Deut. 28:15-68===== |
| + | ====The curses proclaimed in Deut. 28:15-68 are for a specific people (Israel) in a specific place (the promised land). But that doesn't mean the principle does not hold.==== | ||
| + | =====Proverbs 3:11-12 (read it) reminds us that God uses discipline to help us to grow.===== | ||
| + | ======Don't despise - reject or take lightly - God's discipline, i.e. don't ignore it.====== | ||
| + | ======Don't resent - abhor or loath - his rebuke - God's verbal correction should be accepted as loving concern.====== | ||
| + | ====Disobedience has consequences and these consequences are important because of the universal truth, sin corrupts!==== | ||
| + | ====However, notice that he phrase is "give careful thought" in verse 15 is missing the "to your ways" Why, because God is about to remind the people to not just think about the past but look to the future!==== | ||
| + | ===However, obedience would bring great blessing. (18-19)=== | ||
| + | ====The entire section of verses 15-19 is supposed to draw the people to make a contrast between the disobedience and discipline of the past with obedience and blessing of the future.==== | ||
| + | ====Haggai calls on the people to look back three months ago and consider what they started.==== | ||
| + | =====Things were bad, disobedience put them in a position where the grain had run out, the fruit crop had failed.===== | ||
| + | =====But, in light of the obedience of the people for the past three months, all of that was about to change!===== | ||
| + | =====Deut. 28:1-14 had promised blessing to the specific people in the specific place and they were about to realize those blessings.===== | ||
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==An applied principle: As joint heirs, we are promised blessing in Christ. (Ephesians 1:3-6)== | ==An applied principle: As joint heirs, we are promised blessing in Christ. (Ephesians 1:3-6)== | ||
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Revision as of 18:53, 23 May 2023
Theological Proposition/Focus: God is worthy of our complete obedience
Homiletical Proposition/Application: God’s standard for obedience is high. Those who know God’s standard are expected to follow God’s standard.
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Setting the Stage:
The stage
Recall that Haggai is prophesying to a people who started rebuilding the temple, but then became distracted and stopped.
On the 24th day of the sixth month the work was restarted (Haggai 1:15)
Now, in verse Haggai 2:10 we see that we are a full three months into the process and Haggai has an important reminder message for the people.
The culture
For an Israelite the priest served a duel role.
Priests presided over ritual sacrifice.
Priests communicated and interpreted the law for the people.
In Haggai 2:10-19, God is going to use this 3-month anniversary to remind the people of the mistakes of the past and the blessings of the future.
Body
A universal truth: While holiness is not contagious, Sin has a corrupting effect! (11-14)
Haggai, in his third prophecy, employs some questions to prove his points. Haggai approaches the priests, the experts int he law, and asks them for a legal opinion. This legal opinion will become the basis for Haggai's argument.
There are no such things as spiritual talismans. (11-12)
Haggai's first question really amounts to the following "can contact with something set apart for God spread that sanctified status?
The answer from the priests is a resounding "No!"
No object is capable of transferring sanctification.
God is the one who sanctifies.
1 Thess. 5:23 Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
John 17:17 Sanctify them in the truth; your word is truth.
2 Thessalonians 2:13 But we ought always to give thanks to God for you, brothers beloved by the Lord, because God chose you as the firstfruits to be saved, through sanctification by the Spirit and belief in the truth.
1 Corinthians 6:11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
Philippians 2:13 For it is God who works in you, both to will and to work for his good pleasure.
On the other hand, sin has the ability to wield devastating corruption. (13-14)
The picture of defilement by a corpse is supposed to remind us of how disgusting sin actually is.
In Leviticus 22:4 (don't read) Moses had written that defilement from contact with a corpse was a significant defilement.
Defilement from a corpse prevented excluded someone from celebrating Passover with everyone else (Numbers 9:6). It seems they were excluded being part of corporate worship until clean (Numbers 5:2).
In verse 14 Haggai applies the text to the people
The people were offering what they thought were sanctified sacrifices.
However, their sinfulness was corrupting the sacrifice in the sight of God
Even if the people thought what they were doing was good, sin was corrupting it before God!
The efforts, intentions, etc. of the people were irrelevant if they did not deal with the sin that was so corrupting.
What had the people done that was so awful as to defile everything else?
Chapter 1 tells us. The people were neglecting the completion of the temple!
Image: When Cilantro tastes like soap.
I do not like cilantro. I am told that some people are generically predisposed in a way that cilantro tastes like soap and overruns everything. I must have that because if cilantro is in a dish, that is all I can taste. You can add as much of whatever else you want but the cilantro will corrupt the taste.
A specific promise: For Israel, faithful obedience brought a promise of blessing. (15-19)
Haggai open the next section of this prophecy with another call to consider carefully. Think about what happened in the past and recognize the significance!
