Title: God's Wish/Haggai 2:10-19
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: The Minor Prophets
: Haggai 2:10-19 :
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1. Overview
There are four sermons in Haggai, and the main text is the third sermon.
Rebuke for the reality that we are not receiving God's blessings due to our bad worship life
It is a suggestion of improvement measures for this. In 15-19, the promise of a bountiful harvest was given.
2. Sermon
Title: God's Wish
Main content: God wants all the saints to be blessed.
Introduction
1. What is the common wish of parents with children?
2. It is a characteristic of parents to sacrifice themselves as much as they want for their children.
3. God, our spiritual Father, also has a wish for us.
I. There is a reason for not being blessed (10-14).
A. I lived a self-centered life.
The words of 1.11-13 are a figurative expression of Israel's offerings before God.
The point is a rebuke for wrongdoing.
2. Their problem is not because they did not worship. The problem is that they did it wrong.
3. It is a tragedy and misfortune that faith and life are separated. These two must coincide.
do.
4. Holiness cannot be transmitted. You must keep the law to become holy yourself.
I have the characteristic of being contagious quickly.
5. Judas was so unclean before the temple was built.
He entered holiness when he started building the temple.
B. God wants holy worship.
1. We must offer proper worship. We are a few people around us who have been blessed with right worship.
It is necessary to refer to the example of
2. For proper worship, faith and life must match.
II. I will bless you (15-19).
A. Recall past discipline (15-17).
1. The result of the people of Judah not putting in timely effort to build the temple was an economic disaster.
They delayed the construction of the temple on the excuse of their own circumstances, but the result was an economic disaster.
this came
2. A remarkable phenomenon was the result of a decrease in yield (16).
3. It even overlapped with a virtual natural disaster (17).
4. Does working late at night make you rich? That's true. But more importantly, disaster strikes.
you have to avoid me
1) The Koreans in LA lost most of the fortunes they had worked so hard to accumulate during the black riots in an instant.
lost
2) There are people who have burned down decades of hard work in an instant due to a sudden fire.
Before the temple, aiming for the main tree, I mobilized all my capital to find and store things.
There are merchants all lost because of this fire.
3) No matter how much you earn, if you come here and there to eat for free, all the hard work
can only be in vain. Reviewers must not catch up.
B. Blessings will come from now on (18-19).
1. "Remember from the day the temple promotion work was completed". However, this statement may be misunderstood
The emphasis here is on “obedience.” God delights in the sacrifice of obedience.
you do
2. Until now, the bread ran out and it did not bear any fruit, but after obedience
It will definitely be sweet.
3. The first king of Judea, Saul, disobeyed the word of God told through Samuel.
Rigo lived his own stubbornness. So he was abandoned.
4. The people God seeks are “those who obey.”
5. Obedience is the source of blessing.