To get the people to rebuild the temple of God, Haggai - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

1 / 56
About This Presentation
Title:

To get the people to rebuild the temple of God, Haggai

Description:

We , like Haggai, must ask them to: Consider Your Ways!! The Book of Haggai is a book of the 12 minor prophets. [1] It is a short book, consisting of only ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

Number of Views:328
Avg rating:3.0/5.0
Slides: 57
Provided by: Arthu91
Category:
Tags: book | god | haggai | people | rebuild | temple

less

Transcript and Presenter's Notes

Title: To get the people to rebuild the temple of God, Haggai


1
To get the people to rebuild the temple of God,
Haggai The prophet of God calls upon them to
Consider your Ways!
2
Haggai 15
  • Now therefore thus saith the LORD of hosts
    Consider your ways.

3
Haggai is saying
  • consider one's conduct,
  • and lay it to heart

4
Before 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

7
Haggai calls upon the people
  • To Consider your ways Haggai 15

8
Look 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."

9
Great 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

10
Haggai 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.?

11
One 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

12
Then 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.

14
God 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

15
God wants us to
  • Consider
  • Your
  • Ways

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"

18
Isnt 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

25
Is it possible to get all of us here this morning
to
  • Consider
  • Your
  • Ways?

26
Listen to what God saysto CONSIDER
27
Consider The Lilies
28
Learn 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?

30
Overcoming Worry
31
Consider The Lilies
32
Consider The Lilies
How they Grow
33
Glory of The Lily
34
Consider The Lilies
35
We 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
36
But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his
righteousness and all these things shall be
added unto you. Matthew 633
37
Consider The Lilies
38
Consider 2
  • The Lord God, Eternal Soverign
  • of All!!

39
Consider
  • 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 !

42
3.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.

44
4.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

46
6 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.

47
Look 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?

48
God 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.

49
Look 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.

51
Of all considerations,this is the greatest of
all.

52
7 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.

54
And thats why we need each other
  • Hebrews 1024And let us consider one another to
    provoke unto love and to good works

55
What will you do with thislesson?
  • The people responded to Haggais
  • Message to consider their ways.
  • And they set themselves to rebuilding
  • The temple!

56
If you are not a Christian,consider your end!
  • If you are an erring child of God,
  • consider your end!
  • Where will you spend ETERNITY?
Write a Comment
User Comments (0)
About PowerShow.com