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-Please turn back to the O.T. book of Haggai

It may be easier to start at Matthew...

…and turn backwards 3 books.

-Prior to tonight, we’ve been looking (almost exclusively)...

…at introductory material related to this little book.

We haven’t covered much ground at all in the actual text...

Just a couple of verses.

This evening, we’re going to begin to work through the book itself.

-And Let me remind you that though this book:

Is Small...

Was written during an obscure and inglorious period of Israel’s history....

…It is still:

Very Large and very rich in its theology...

Very Clear in its many spiritual applications!

I believe it will be time well spent for us as a church.

So, let’s read our text, beginning back at verse 1.

Haggai 1:1–11 (ESV)

1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest:

2 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.”

3 Then the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet,

4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins?

5 Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways.

6 You have sown much, and harvested little.

You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill.

You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm.

And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes.

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5 minutes

Introduction:

Verse 1 begins with an unusually precise historical description:

It says that these events began to take place:

Haggai 1:1 (ESV)