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Haggai encouraged the people of Judah to resume rebuilding the temple after it had been abandoned for 16 years. He reminded them that their lack of priority for God was displeasing and that they needed to consider their priorities and get to work on the temple. Haggai promised that God would bless their efforts and that the future glory of the rebuilt temple would be greater than the past. He urged the people to change their ways from that day forward and to remember that God ultimately rules over all kingdoms and nations.

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Lessons From The Prophet Haggai Haggai 1:5
Background of Haggai Judah taken into Babylonian captivity 606 BC After 70 years (Jeremiah 25:11-12) God used Cyrus (Isaiah 44:28; Ezra 1:1-5) to allow them to return to the land and rebuild the temple. This work had started shortly after the first exiles returned from Babylon in 538 BC (led by Zerubbabel). The building activity was soon abandoned because of discouragement and oppression (Ezra chapter 4).
Background of Haggai 520 BC, Haggai and his fellow prophet, Zechariah, were given the responsibility to help the people to resume the task. Conditions werent good. (1:6) What was their message? From Haggai 1:5, 7 Consider your ways! What is there for us to learn today?
Consider Your Priorities - 1:1-15 Is it time? (1:2, 4) A lack of time for God is considered to be displeasing (1:8) and irreverent (1:12) How do we use our time? Perhaps the clearest and most honest means of reflecting our priorities. Matthew 6:33
Consider Your Priorities - 1:1-15 They needed stirred up (1:14) which comes from Gods message. 2 Peter 1:12-13; 3:1 Our challenge to build the Lords house not physical but spiritual. (1 Corinthians 3:6-17; Ephesians 2:19-22; 4:15- 16). Our responsibility is to seek and teach the lost, to worship and to serve and to not allow our personal gratification and pleasures to take first place. Sinful or not! Luke 14:16ff; Hebrews 12:1
The best is yet to come 2:1-9 Times were hard (1:9-11) Memories of what used to be (2:3-4) Ezra 3:12 Get to work and God will bless (2:7-9) Start where you are Acts 8:35 Use what you have Luke 21:2 Do what you can Mark 14:8
The best is yet to come 2:1-9 The best? Its not now, it wasnt yesterday or any time before. The glory of this house will be greater than the former verse 9 God says, dont focus on right now! Focus on what will be for the best is yet to come. Wheres our focus? Now or later? 2 Corinthians 4:16ff; Romans 8:18-25 Ecclesiastes 7:8-10 the end is better than the beginning. Are we convinced that the best is yet to come?
From this day onward 2:15, 18 We cant change or undo the past but we can alter our future. The Jews couldnt undo their past ways but from this day onward they could put God first. We can press forward with resolve to keep our priorities straight.
From this day onward 2:15, 18 Philippians 3:7-16 forgetting what lies behind, pressing forward to what lies ahead. To the woman caught in adultery, Jesus said, from this day onward, Sin no more John 8:11; 5:14. From this day onward, there is to be a change, a new walk. 1 Peter 4:1-4; Ephesians 4:17ff; Colossians 3:1-11.
God Rules 2:20-23 God reminds us all that He will always rule in the realm of mankind. He alone can overthrow thrones or kingdoms; render the power of nations powerless. The lesson Nebuchadnezzar had to learn. Daniel 4:17, 25, 32
God Rules 2:20-23 Does he rule in my life? Is Jesus my Lord? Matthew 7:21-23 Am I His disciple? Matthew 10:24-25 Have we taken the yoke of Jesus upon us? Matthew 11:28 Have we decided to follow Him? John 21

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Consider Your Ways (2).ppt

  • 1. Lessons From The Prophet Haggai Haggai 1:5
  • 2. Background of Haggai Judah taken into Babylonian captivity 606 BC After 70 years (Jeremiah 25:11-12) God used Cyrus (Isaiah 44:28; Ezra 1:1-5) to allow them to return to the land and rebuild the temple. This work had started shortly after the first exiles returned from Babylon in 538 BC (led by Zerubbabel). The building activity was soon abandoned because of discouragement and oppression (Ezra chapter 4).
  • 3. Background of Haggai 520 BC, Haggai and his fellow prophet, Zechariah, were given the responsibility to help the people to resume the task. Conditions werent good. (1:6) What was their message? From Haggai 1:5, 7 Consider your ways! What is there for us to learn today?
  • 4. Consider Your Priorities - 1:1-15 Is it time? (1:2, 4) A lack of time for God is considered to be displeasing (1:8) and irreverent (1:12) How do we use our time? Perhaps the clearest and most honest means of reflecting our priorities. Matthew 6:33
  • 5. Consider Your Priorities - 1:1-15 They needed stirred up (1:14) which comes from Gods message. 2 Peter 1:12-13; 3:1 Our challenge to build the Lords house not physical but spiritual. (1 Corinthians 3:6-17; Ephesians 2:19-22; 4:15- 16). Our responsibility is to seek and teach the lost, to worship and to serve and to not allow our personal gratification and pleasures to take first place. Sinful or not! Luke 14:16ff; Hebrews 12:1
  • 6. The best is yet to come 2:1-9 Times were hard (1:9-11) Memories of what used to be (2:3-4) Ezra 3:12 Get to work and God will bless (2:7-9) Start where you are Acts 8:35 Use what you have Luke 21:2 Do what you can Mark 14:8
  • 7. The best is yet to come 2:1-9 The best? Its not now, it wasnt yesterday or any time before. The glory of this house will be greater than the former verse 9 God says, dont focus on right now! Focus on what will be for the best is yet to come. Wheres our focus? Now or later? 2 Corinthians 4:16ff; Romans 8:18-25 Ecclesiastes 7:8-10 the end is better than the beginning. Are we convinced that the best is yet to come?
  • 8. From this day onward 2:15, 18 We cant change or undo the past but we can alter our future. The Jews couldnt undo their past ways but from this day onward they could put God first. We can press forward with resolve to keep our priorities straight.
  • 9. From this day onward 2:15, 18 Philippians 3:7-16 forgetting what lies behind, pressing forward to what lies ahead. To the woman caught in adultery, Jesus said, from this day onward, Sin no more John 8:11; 5:14. From this day onward, there is to be a change, a new walk. 1 Peter 4:1-4; Ephesians 4:17ff; Colossians 3:1-11.
  • 10. God Rules 2:20-23 God reminds us all that He will always rule in the realm of mankind. He alone can overthrow thrones or kingdoms; render the power of nations powerless. The lesson Nebuchadnezzar had to learn. Daniel 4:17, 25, 32
  • 11. God Rules 2:20-23 Does he rule in my life? Is Jesus my Lord? Matthew 7:21-23 Am I His disciple? Matthew 10:24-25 Have we taken the yoke of Jesus upon us? Matthew 11:28 Have we decided to follow Him? John 21

Editor's Notes

  • #4: The Temple was completed five years later, about 515 B.C.
  • #5: How about our energy?
  • #7: Ezra 3:10-13 Now when the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord according to the directions of King David of Israel. 11 They sang, praising and giving thanks to the Lord, saying, "For He is good, for His lovingkindness is upon Israel forever." And all the people shouted with a great shout when they praised the Lord because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid. 12 Yet many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers' households, the old men who had seen the first temple, wept with a loud voice when the foundation of this house was laid before their eyes, while many shouted aloud for joy, 13 so that the people could not distinguish the sound of the shout of joy from the sound of the weeping of the people, for the people shouted with a loud shout, and the sound was heard far away.
  • #8: Focus: Colossians 3:1-2; Hebrews 11:24-26; 12:1-2