Title: To get the people to rebuild the temple of God, Haggai
1To get the people to rebuild the temple of God,
Haggai The prophet of God calls upon them to
Consider your Ways!
2Haggai 15
- Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts
Consider your ways.
3Haggai is saying
- consider one's conduct,
- and lay it to heart
4Before we can get peopleto turn to God
- We , like Haggai, must ask them to
- Consider
- Your
- Ways!!
5- The Book of Haggai is a book of the 12 minor
prophets. - 1 It is a short book, consisting of only
two chapters. - 2. The historical setting dates around
520 BC before the Temple has been rebuilt. - 3. Haggai is assumed to be the writer.
6- Haggai's message is filled with an urgency for
the people to proceed with the rebuilding of the - second Jerusalem temple
- Haggai attributes a recent drought to the
peoples' refusal to rebuild the temple
7Haggai calls upon the people
- To Consider your ways Haggai 15
8Look at yourselvesconsider your ways
- Haggai 16 You have planted much, but have
harvested little. You eat, but never have enough.
You drink, but never have your fill. You put on
clothes, but are not warm. You earn wages, only
to put them in a purse with holes in it."
9Great question asked by the prophet Haggai
- Is it fit that you should be building yourselves
elegant houses, and neglect a place for the
worship of that God who has restored you from
captivity? - You say Haggai 12 Thus speaketh the Lord of
hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not
come, the time that the Lords house should be
built
10Haggai then says
- Then came the word of the Lord by Haggai the
prophet, saying, - Haggai 14 Is it time for you, O ye, to dwell
in your cieled (paneled) houses, and this house
lie waste.?
11One of the commentaries said
- Consider your ways their sinful ways, and repent
of them, and forsake them, particularly their
ingratitude before - and their civil ways, their common ways of
life their labour, work, and business, they were
continually employed in and observe the event of
them what success they had, what these issued
in whether there were not some visible tokens of
the divine displeasure on them, which rendered
all their attempts to support and enrich
themselves and families vain, and of no effect
12Then Haggai says
- Haggai 15 Now therefore thus saith the Lord of
hosts - Consider
- Your
- ways!!
13- Haggai 215 "'Now give careful thought to this
from this day on--consider how things were before
one stone was laid on another in the LORD's
temple.
14God wanted them to Considertheir ways!
- And now, thus saith the Lord of hosts
"Consider," (literally "set your heart upon) your
ways," - 1. what they had been doing,
- 2. what they were doing,
- 3. and what those doings had led to, and
would lead to. - This is ever present to the mind of the
prophets, as speaking God's words, that our acts
are not only "ways" in which we go, each day of
life being a continuance of the day before but
that they are ways which lead, somewhere in God's
Providence and His justice to some end of the
"way," good or bad
15God wants us to
16- Jeremiah Jer 218. "I set before you
- the way of life and the way of death"
17- David Psalm 1611, "Thou wilt show me the path of
life," where it follows, - "In Thy presence is the fullness of joy and
at Thy Right Hand there are pleasures
forevermore"
18Isnt this true????
- Proverbs 623, "Reproofs of instruction are the
way of life"
19- Proverbs 1017, "the way of life who keepeth
instruction and he who forsaketh rebuke,
erreth"
20- Proverbs 1524,
- "The way of life is above
- to the wise,
- that he may depart from
- hell beneath"
21- Proverbs 727.
- "Her house are the ways of hell, going down to
the chambers of death"
22- Proverbs 1412 Proverbs 1625. "There is a way
that seemeth right unto a man, and the end
thereof are the ways of death"
23- Proverbs 418,
- "The path of the righteous is a shining
light, shining more and more until the mid-day"
24- Set your heart on your ways -
- i. e., your affections, thoughts, works, so
as to be circumspect in all things as the
apostle Paul says 1 Timothy 521, - "Do nothing without forethought," i. e.,
without previous judgment of reason
25Is it possible to get all of us here this morning
to
26Listen to what God saysto CONSIDER
27Consider The Lilies
28Learn a lesson from the wild lilies
Matt. 628-30 28. And why take ye thought for
raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how
they grow they toil not, neither do they spin
29. And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon
in all his glory was not arrayed like one of
these. 30. Wherefore, if God so clothe the
grass of the field, which to day is, and to
morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much
more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
29- Luke 1224Consider the ravens for they neither
sow nor reap which neither have storehouse nor
barn and God feedeth them how much more are ye
better than the fowls?
30Overcoming Worry
31Consider The Lilies
32Consider The Lilies
How they Grow
33Glory of The Lily
34Consider The Lilies
35We should not Worry
God cares for the birds and the lilies We are
more precious Why worry about clothing or
necessities ? If God Cares for You, why Worry ?
Consider The Lilies
36But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness and all these things shall be
added unto you. Matthew 633
37Consider The Lilies
38Consider 2
- The Lord God, Eternal Soverign
- of All!!
39Consider
- Deuteronomy 439Know therefore this day, and
consider it in thine heart, that the LORD he is
God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath
there is none else.
40- Psalm 83When I consider thy heavens, the work
of thy fingers, the moon and the stars, which
thou hast ordained - what is man, that thou visiteth him?
41- Gen. 11 In the beginningGod
- Acts 1724,25
- Eph. 41-6
- Heb. 11 G O D !
423.Consider Others Advice
- Deuteronomy 327Remember the days of old,
consider the years of many generations - ask thy father, and he will shew thee
- thy elders, and they will tell thee.
43- Hebrews 137Remember them which have the rule
over you, who have spoken unto you the word of
God whose faith follow, considering the end of
their conversation.
444.Consider your End!
- Deuteronomy 3229O that they were wise, that
they understood this, - that they would consider their latter end!
45 5. Consider What you need to do.
- Judges 1814Then answered the five men that went
to spy out the country of Laish, and said unto
their brethren, Do ye know that there is in these
houses an ephod, and teraphim, and a graven
image, and a molten image? now therefore consider
what ye have to do
466 Consider How Great ThingsHe hath done for
you!!
- 1 Samuel 1224Only fear the LORD, and serve him
in truth with all your heart - for consider how great things he hath done
for you.
47Look who God commends!
- Job 18And the LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou
considered my servant Job, that there is none
like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright
man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?
48God does not forget!
- Hosea 72And they consider not in their hearts
that I remember all their wickedness now their
own doings have beset them about they are before
my face.
49Look at yourself.
- Matthew 73And why beholdest thou the mote that
is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the
beam that is in thine own eye?
50- Galatians 61Brethren, if a man be overtaken in
a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an
one in the spirit of meekness considering
thyself, lest thou also be tempted.
51Of all considerations,this is the greatest of
all.
527 Consider Jesus Christ!
- Hebrews 31Wherefore, holy brethren, partakers
of the heavenly calling, - consider
- the Apostle and High Priest of our
profession, - Christ Jesus
53- Hebrews 123For consider him that endured such
contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye
be wearied and faint in your minds.
54And thats why we need each other
- Hebrews 1024And let us consider one another to
provoke unto love and to good works
55What will you do with thislesson?
- The people responded to Haggais
- Message to consider their ways.
- And they set themselves to rebuilding
- The temple!
56If you are not a Christian,consider your end!
- If you are an erring child of God,
- consider your end!
- Where will you spend ETERNITY?