YOU LOVE WHAT YOU PRIORITIZE

Haggai 1:1-15 Haggai is a prophet sent to the children of Israel after they have started the migration from Babylon back to Israel. They have been freed or released from captivity, but were still living contrary in many ways to the Lord their God. Contemporary of Zachariah and Ezra

Degree of Darius/Cyrus 538

Exiles Return 536 led by Zerubbabel and Joshua the High Priest , followed latter by Ezra the Priest & Scribe

Haggai starts his preaching in 520

14 years later that rebuilding of the temple restarted and was finally completed in 516.

The Temple, what did it mean, and why should it have been important to them in their day?

Temple represented the Presence and Favor of God

Solomon's Temple

2nd Temple/Herods Temple

What their attitudes and behaviors communicated about their spiritual conditions or positions

Qualitative (Relationship)

Quantitative (Works or methodologies)

3 Major types of Believers

People who get delivered and forget what they are delivered from and who they are delivered to

Hearers and not doers

James 1:22-25

Selfish Lifestyle with little to No quantitative (works) or qualitative (relationship) with God

Matt 6:19-21, 24

Religious, solely based on Quantitative methods (Works)

Used manipulatively with the hopes of appearing qualitative (relational) with the hope of acquiring material blessings and looking Godly.

Rom 3:20

Gal 2:16

Spirituality concept but no (Works) or works based on ignorance not the truth of scripture

John 4:21-24

Rom 10:1-3

James 2:17-19

God’s favor and Blessings

Ezra 7:9-10

Study (Learn for our lives)

Do it (Work it out in our lives)

Teach it (Make disciples through our lives)