A New Day (Haggai Pt. 3)
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Transcript
James 4:4–8 (ESV)
***Thank for pastor appreciation meal last week.
Turn in your Bibles to Haggai 2:10
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Recap:
Recap:
Last 2 WEEKS = HOUSE of RUIN…HAGGAI
RETURN FROM EXILE…PEOPLE NEGLECTED REBUILDING the TEMPLE..
GOD’S HOUSE = RUINS…PEOPLE BUSY W/ OWN HOUSES.
WEEK 1 - OVERCAME COMPLACENCY- BEGAN REBUILDING.
WEEK 2 - OVERCAME DISCOURAGEMENT...
EZRA - TEMPLE was FINISHED 5 YEARS LATER
JESUS (GOD IN FLESH) WALKED IN TEMPLE
THIS WEEK…2 PROPHECIES…ADDRESSING DEFILEMENT & HOPE FOR FUTURE
Read Text & Pray
Intro:
Intro:
Have you ever taken a wrong turn while driving?
Have you ever taken a wrong turn and not known it?
LEAVING Andrew’s SOCCER GAME - nearly 10 MINUTES- wrong direction.
LAST WEEK - LEFT WEIS WRONG, FOUND RITE AID.
Nearly Selinsgrove this week...
What’s the most important thing you can do when you realize you are going the wrong way?--Turn around.
WE BEGIN- WRONG WAY.
BORN in SIN.
NO ONE RIGHTEOUS
DESPERATE NEED for SAVIOR
BORN INHERITING DIRECTION of ADAM...
THROUGH 2ND ADAM, WE CAN BE TURNED AROUND.
EVEN THEN, FIGHT TEMPTATION to GO WRONG WAY.
THANK GOD - EVEN WHEN STRAYING - ETERNAL DESTINATION & HOPE REMAINS SAME.
YET, BATTLE DAILY…WHICH DIRECTION will we GO?
.....FOR CHRIST & HIS KINGDOM? OR for SOMETHING ELSE. (ONLY 2 OPTIONS)
In today’s message we’ll see the blessedness of a new day when God turns the fortunes of his people after they fully turn to him.
Haggai 2:10–23 (ESV)
10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet,
DECEMBER 18, 2 MONTHS LATER. (HAGGAI’S ENTIRE BOOK = 3 MONTHS)
INSIGNIFICANT DAY, HAD DONE WINTER PLANTING for SPRING HARVEST is all...
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11 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Ask the priests about the law:
12 ‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’ ” The priests answered and said, “No.”
OT SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM - MEAT = CONSECRATED/HOLY, SET APART for GOD.
MUCH of OT PRIESTHOOD DEALT W/ HOLY VS. UNCLEAN THINGS.
KNOW from LEV. 6 that the PRIEST’S ROBES = HOLY/CONSECRATED WHEN CONTACTED…BUT not TRANSMISSIBLE BEYOND 1 TOUCH!!
HOLINESS = NOT INFINITELY TRANSMISSIBLE.
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HAGGAI ASKS 2ND QUESTION:
13 Then Haggai said, “If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.”
SOFTBALL QUESTION…UNCLEANNESS is HIGHLY CONTAGIOUS && CONSECRATED THINGS could BECOME UNCLEAN
HOLINESS/CONSECRATION COULDN’T TRANSFER:
FROM MEAT
TO GARMENT
TO SOMETHING ELSE (BREAD/WINE, ETC.)
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BUT UNCLEANNESS COULD TRANSFER:
FROM DEAD BODY
TO PRIEST
TO OTHER THINGS
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IDEA EVEN WORKS NATURALLY in LIFE.
When was the last time you caught health from someone?
They’ve been working out, taking vitamins regularly, eating their veggies, they have no sickness whatsoever…and you walk by and suddenly you’re a notch better? It’s never happened.
Yet, you can become sick from someone who became sick from someone else, and then you can make others sick too.
COVID - CONTACT TRACING in schools/SIBLINGS QUARANTINED for months!
SAME WAY - UNCLEANNESS MORE CONTAGIOUS THAN HOLINESS...
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WEIRD SERIES of QUESTIONS…BOOK isn’t ABOUT SACRIFICES…WHAT’S GOING ON??
HAGGAI has been BUILDING an ARGUMENT here…then he says:
14 Then Haggai answered and said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the Lord, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean.
NLT: “everything they offer is defiled by their sin”
HAGGAI takes TRUTHS about SACRIFICES/OFFERINGS…APPLIES to PEOPLE!
THEY HADN’T FULLY TURNED to HIM...
HE SAYS, “THIS PEOPLE/ THIS NATION”
THEIR WORK was UNCLEAN…BECAUSE there were RESERVATIONS in THEIR HEARTS.
Rather, the real failure of the Hebrew community was refusing fully to return to YHWH
THEIR WORK = PREVIOUSLY UNACCEPTABLE, THEIR HEARTS STILL HAD RESERVATIONS...
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15 Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the Lord,
AGAIN, HAGGAI calls the people to "CONSIDER”, or to give careful attention to something…literally “set/place your heart on this”
this ECHOES his COMMENTS in CH. 1, challenging the people to “CONSIDER YOUR WAYS”
LOOK to THE PAST…CONSIDER…& KEEP THIS IN MIND AS WE MOVE INTO FUTURE...
16 how did you fare? When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.
GRAIN HARVEST = 50% of EXPECTED...
WINE was only 40%!
STAPLES of DIET…NOT THERE. CONSIDER/REMEMBER THIS...
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17 I struck you and all the products of your toil with blight and with mildew and with hail, yet you did not turn to me, declares the Lord.
RECOUNTING PAST TRIALS BEFORE TEMPLE CONSTRUCTION...
GOD BROUGHT DIFFICULTY BC of COMPLACENCY & SIN
GOD SAYS “I STRUCK YOU” - HE TAKES CREDIT…NOT COINCIDENCE.
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18 Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid, consider:
19 Is the seed yet in the barn? Indeed, the vine, the fig tree, the pomegranate, and the olive tree have yielded nothing. But from this day on I will bless you.”
AGAIN, “CONSIDER” 3X THIS MESSAGE…2X IN CH. 1
SEED STILL in BARN? NO...
BC THEY HAD SOWN! BUT HADN’T REAPED.
VARIOUS STAPLES, FIGS, OLIVES, GRAPES, & POMEGRANATES... NOT REAPED...
YET, NOW THEY WERE in WINTER, HAD SOWN for SPRING HARVEST....NOW AWAITING GOD to TURN their SITUATION, AS THEY DID THEIR PART.
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(V19) GOD SAYS, “BUT FROM THIS DAY ON, I WILL BLESS YOU”
Bless here is a PIEL- denoting CONTINUAL BLESSING over time. Not a one time thing!
THE DAY THEY GOT RIGHT W/ GOD, THEIR LIVES WOULD TURN AROUND…A NEW DAY WAS DAWNING...
He said, “On December 18, 520 B.C. your fortunes are turning around because you have TRULY AND FULLY turned around.”
Big Idea:
Big Idea:
The day you truly turn to God wholly in faith is a brand new day and the beginning of a new life.
BECAUSE THEY HAD NOW BECOME RIGHT W/ GOD HE WOULD TURN THEIR SITUATION...
NO LONGER - WORK OF HANDS = UNCLEAN.
THERE WAS A DAY, ON CALENDAR, WHEN THEY TURNED in THEIR HEARTS FULLY to YAHWEH...
THIS DAY, THEY TURNED THEIR CAR AROUND & SET OUT in RIGHT DIRECTION…FRESH START, NEW DAY.
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SPECIAL DAY- HAGGAI RECEIVES 2 WORDS from GOD.
20 The word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month,
21 “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth,
22 and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother.
GOD AGAIN says he will “SHAKE” the HEAVENS and the EARTH, he will OVERTHROW, he will DESTROY, and again that he will overthrow kingdoms, nations, their armies, etc.
GOD is again OFFERING HOPE to HIS PEOPLE..
HE’S SOVEREIGN OVER ALL NATIONS…COMFORTING REMINDER AFTER CAPTIVITY, LIVING UNDER PERSIAN RULE.
PROMISES FOUNDED IN GOD’S HISTORICAL ACTS - DESTRUCTION OF PHARAOH’S ARMY, SODOM & GOMORRAH, ETC.
23 On that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the Lord, and make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the Lord of hosts.”
ZERUBABBEL = GOVERNOR, NOT KING.
God says he will make Zerubabbel as a SIGNET RING...
DENOTED LEVEL of AUTHORITY...
PERSONAL REPRESENTATIVE
STONE SET in RING…ENDORSING/SEALING OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.
METAPHOR = ZERUBABBEL IS GOD’S ENDORSED LEADER.
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VERY SIGNIFICANT...
LAST INDEPENDENT KING of JUDAH BEFORE BABYLON - JEHOIACHIN/CONIAH...
24 “As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off
GOD SAYS, HE’LL RIP RING OFF HIS FINGER..BEFORE EXILE.
So God is saying, I effectively had torn this ring off, and now with Zerubabbel, it is coming back.
SIGNIFICANT:
RESTORATION of DAVIDIC DESCENDANT OF RULERS
GOD’S COVENANT W/ DAVID---DESCENDANT SITTING ON THRONE, NEVER LACK A MAN TO SIT ON THRONE...
DAVID’S LINE was WHERE GOD PRESERVED “THE SEED”
15 I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and her offspring; he shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise his heel.”
So this "SEED” travels down THROUGH DAVID’S LINE...
WE DON’T KNOW MORE ABOUT ZERUBABBEL- NO IDEA WHAT HAPPENED (NATURALLY)
BUT HE’S A REPRESENTATIVE in THIS PASSAGE, LIKE DAVID & MOSES in OTHER PLACES...
ULTIMATELY, THIS SPEAKS of OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST…THE “SEED”, THE DESCENDANT OF DAVID, WHO WOULD INAUGURATE HIS KINGDOM A FEW HUNDRED YEARS LATER.
And this heir is not only the King of the Jews, or the King of Israel…but he is the King of Kings and Lord of Lords who rules the entire universe that he co-created with the Father
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WHEN HE CAME to EARTH…HE FREED US to NEW LIFE...
Gospel
Gospel
IN HAGGAI’S DAY…THEIR UNCLEANNESS AFFECTED EVERYTHING THEY DID.....FOR US AS WELL.
DISEASE of SIN....INFECTED ALL of CREATION
WE WERE STAINED W/ SIN…RIGHTEOUSNESS = FILTHY RAGS…NONE RIGHTEOUS…GOOD DEEDS CORRUPT BC OF SIN!
**TODD from YOUTUBE, DOG IS NOT A GOOD BOY?
But God, in his mercy, sent his son, the offspring of the woman, the descendant of David, the true signet ring, who came to earth to heal our disease!
See holiness was only transmitted by direct contact in the OT and now through contact with the Lord Jesus Christ we can receive his holiness in place of our sin, be freed from this disease by faith, so that now our lives and the works of our hands are no longer stained with sin and uncleanness! From that day on, we have a new life!
SOMETIMES WE CAN FORGET…BUT THERE WAS A DAY on the CALENDAR...
WASHED in HIS BLOOD
BORN AGAIN to A LIVING HOPE...
TRANSFERRED from DOMAIN of DARKNESS to KINGDOM of GOD’S BELOVED SON...
NAME WRITTEN DOWN in LAMB’S BOOK OF LIFE...
RECEIVED CHRIST in YOU, HOPE of GLORY...
How easy is it to forget that there was a day in time when our eternal direction and destination changed?
RECENT DEACON’S MEETING: BILL, “Do you have a spiritual birthday?”
THIS NEW DAY = HOPE of the N.C. THAT OT SAINTS LOOKED FORWARD TO.
Q- Have you had a spiritual birthday? Is there a specific day you can point to on the calendar where Jesus Christ came into your life as your Lord and savior?
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HAGGAI’S FINAL MESSAGE: ENCOURAGEMENT…INHERITING NEW DAY of BLESSING…STAND STRONG DESPITE WHAT COMES, GOD is COMING to SET UP HIS KINGDOM.
WE HAVE SAME HOPE:
LIVING BETWEEN “ALREADY & NOT YET”
INAUGURATED, NOT CONSUMMATED KINGDOM of GOD…
And like these Old Testament saints, we await the day when God shakes the heavens and the earth. We know that on that day there will be the sound of a trumpet and our Lord will descend from heaven to take his church and set up his kingdom.
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Takeaways:
Takeaways:
FINISHING SERIES = 4 KINDS of PEOPLE MIGHT be HERE TODAY...
There are THOSE who have NOT YET BECOME a part of GOD’S PEOPLE, who haven’t joined the family of faith. OT Israel, NT church.
For you, the MOST IMPORTANT THING you can do is to TURN TO CHRIST IN FAITH, receive FORGIVENESS for your SINS and be SAVED from eternal damnation and separation from God.
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Are THOSE who are PART of GOD’S PEOPLE, the Church…that have become COMPLACENT SPIRITUALLY.
These are those who have LOST THEIR FIRST LOVE…they put Jesus Christ in the backseat of their lives...
They are BUSY with their OWN HOUSES, while GOD’S HOUSE lies in RUINS...
I ask of you today to TURN AGAIN to CHRIST…don’t be deterred in this life, HE is SUPPOSED to BE our EVERYTHING.
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Are THOSE who are PART of GOD’S PEOPLE who have become DISCOURAGED and DISHEARTENED, WEARY while DOING GOD’S WORK...
I want to encourage you all that GOD SEES your LABOR of LOVE…and that your LABOR is NOT in VAIN in the LORD...God has a promise for what he has called us to.
DON’T GROW WEARY in well-doing, you’ll REAP if you DON’T FAINT...
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Are THOSE who are AMONGST GOD’S PEOPLE, who are DOING WELL. You AREN’T COMPLACENT and you AREN’T DISCOURAGED…you’re experiencing this TIME of BLESSING.
CONGRATS, BE THANKFUL for this!
KNOW that GOD is PLEASED with you.
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Application Point:
Application Point:
EXAMINE your LIFE: WHAT CAMP? WHAT ARE IMPLICATIONS OF THIS??
KNOW YOU CAN TURN AT ALL TIMES!!
U - TURNS NOT ILLEGAL!! -
***CLASSMATE WHO ALMOST KILLED US W/ U-TURN?
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Something PRACTICAL I want you to do this week (and as long as you can remember)…when you GET INTO your CAR in the MORNING…to go to work, to visit someone, or to go to the store, whether or not you need a GPS.............
I want you to ask yourself, what road am I traveling on (spiritually), and with how I am traveling, what is my destination?
SEE if YOU’RE ON TRACK…OR if YOU NEED to TURN AROUND...
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^^^Closing: Love Lifted Me
“I was sinking deep in sin, Far from the peaceful shore, Very deeply stained within, Sinking to rise no more, But the master of the sea heard my despairing cry, from the waters lifted me, now safe am I…Love lifted me”
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