When idols become invisible

Exegetical summary:

After using Haggai to rebuke the exiles for seeking sanctuary in earthly endeavors to the neglect of Yahweh’s temple, God Almighty empowers them to obey the Lord.

Story summary

Outline proposal

I. Introduction (2-3min, 300 words)

Story about something defective and how it is done away with, discarded, and forgotten.

Question: What Does God do with backslidden Christian’s?

II. Story (17min, 2000 words)

Setting the Scene

Retell the Story with a focus on the theme desired to be emphasized in the message.

III. Point (5 min, 650 words)

What does this mean?

God rebukes backsliders to restore them to his everlasting presence.

God calls backsliders to repentance to restore them to the sanctuary of his presence.

Haggai’s prophetic message to restore the temporary, house of God, anticipates, the prophetic messiah whose message makes us living stones in His eternal sanctuary.

In Haggai, The the Lord’s Word comes through the prophet calling sinners to seek the presence of God, but in the Christ, the Word of God became flesh, dwelt among us, and died and rose for our sins that we might be with him forever.

And now

who’s call res

Explain how this story..

anticipates Christ (Hallelujah!) ^^^

is a miniature picture of the daily Christian life

IV. Application (15min, 1700 words)

I want to provide for us a few lessons from the story.

How does this story relate to..

Christ

Individual Christian

Christian coporately

Christian in the community

V. Conclusion (1min, 50-100 words)

What does God do for backslidden Christians?

He.. rebukes backsliding saints to restore them to and reassure them of his everlasting presence.

all because of Christ who’ blood was shed for us so that as the Psalmist says “Goodness and mercy shall follow you all the days of your life, and so that you may one day dwell in the house of the Lord forever. Let’s pray.

English Standard Version Psalm 23

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me

all the days of my life,

and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD

forever.

the gospel message in Haggai 1.

What does God do with backslidden Christians?

What will God does God do with sidetracked, sidelined, and dejected saints of his. Does he do away with them? Does he abandon, and

HI: God rebuked the remnant’s to restore them to and reassure them of his everlasting presence.

HI: God rebukes backsliding saints to restore them to and reassure them of his everlasting presence.

All in anticipation of the day when he would restore humanity to himself through Christ, Immanuel, God with us.

We have in Haggai chapter one a miniature image of the ongoing life of the Christian,

All in anticipation of the day when he would restore humanity to himself through Christ, Immanuel, God with us.

Application.

believers

In this era, God’s Spirit only empowered the remnant, and even the leaders for a time, but because of Christ, we have the presence of God forever with us through his Spirit dwelling within us.

Your awareness of God’s nearness to your life does not determine His presence in your life.

unbelievers

Pursue God’s presence today, while there is still time left.

If you don’t want God’s presence today, and right now, in our broken, shattered world, what makes you think you’ll enjoy his presence in the age to come?

Monday

2.5 hrs

Tuesday

Message:

God’s rebuke meets the one who finds security in earthly affairs,

God will remove our welfare in order to

God’s rebuke will remove your earthly welfare in order to restore you to restore you to his lasting presence.

Whose house will you set your ways upon?

Set your ways upon the house whose host is the Lord almighty.

God almighty will starve our earthly cravings in order to remind us of him we need most

God almighty sets straight his most sidetracked people.

Don’t look for eternity in what’s earthly.

The eternal life they were seeking in their earthly affairs is only found in God almighty.