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1. God delivered a message to His people.
(1) A. The messenger and the message.
a. Haggai understood the authority of his message.
“The word of the Lord came”
This was not a message of self help, but one of divine origin.
The phrase “Thus says the Lord”, “The word of the Lord came”, or similar phrases appear 21 times in the 38 verses of Haggai.
Haggai is straight to the point - no long introduction.
He doesn’t give them an illustration to get their attention.
He knows he has God’s Word and that is enough.
Haggai is literally saying: “Here is what God said, now go do it.
The problem is, we often don’t.
We mull it over and find excuses.
We strategize and hypothesize and we find ways around it.
We americanize it and tell our selves that God couldn’t possibly expect that of me.
And we don’t just go do what God told us to do.
a. Haggai understood the authority of his message.
“The Word of the Lord came...”
“By the hand of Haggai”
This is such a beautiful phrase.
This should bring us wonder and excitement!
When we put this phrase together it should cause immediate action in our lives.
God was sending a message to His people and He chose to use a human vessel.
Haggai was simply the conduit.
The one that the message flowed through.
God chose him, and all he had to do was be the mouthpiece for the message given to him.
We are no different!
a. Haggai understood the authority of his message.
We are to speak as the oracles or mouthpiece of God.
We are ambassadors for Christ - pleading with them as though Christ were pleading with them.
So Haggai understood the authority of His message.
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Haggai understood the importance and the implications of his message.
Haggai was chosen by God to deliver a message.
What if Haggai had not delivered the message?
What would have happened to the temple?
What if Haggai decided the message was too direct and offensive?
What if he decided there was no way the people could do it so he simplified it?
What would have happened to the Jews?
What would have happened to the temple?
Haggai understood the importance of clear concise delivery and the eternal implications if he failed to deliver it.
We have been chosen to deliver a message for Christ.
It is an invaluable message with sever eternal implications.
What are we doing about it?
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Haggai understood his role in the message.
He was simply the one who carried the message.
It was not his job to make Jews obey.
He did not have to answer to God for the way it was recieved.
His responsibility was to deliver the message.
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Haggai understood his role in the message.
Our role is to deliver the message.
That is all Christ asks of us!
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Haggai understood his stewardship of the message.
It was not HIS message.
It was an important message that God stewarded to Haggai.
It was not his to do as he wished.
It was not his to keep to himself.
It was not his to ignore.
He couldn’t tell God… well I don’t even know any Jews.
It wasn’t his to give when he got around to or when life’s circumstances became more convenient.
God entrusted him with a message and he had an immediate responsibility to deliver it!
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Haggai understood his stewardship of the message.
There is a message given and we clearly see the implications of not delivering the message.
(1) B. The recipients of the message.
The prophetic message was not given directly to all of Judah.
It was given to two people - however, it is clearly implied that the message is for everyone.
a. Zerubbabel the Governor of Judah.
Zerubbabel represents political power.
He was given this position by Persia.
b.
Joshua the High Priest.
c. God sent the message to the leaders because He expected them to lead.
They themselves were apathetic thus allowing the people to become apathetic.
God called out the leaders and the leaders responded.
We will see that people making excuses.
The leaders make no more excuses.
They respond to the message given by Haggai.
They owned it.
They woke up and they woke the people up.
We need to understand this morning that you and I face the same call out by God.
c. God sent the message to the leaders because He expected them to lead.
If we believe that the Bible is the Word of The Lord then we have some things to think about ourselves...
We too have thus says the Lord or the Word of the Lord things to think about.
We have been called out by God...
Pastors , deacons, fathers, mothers, husbands, wives, workers, bosses, older Christians, younger Christians, the saints.
The message was to the leaders and they were to lead the crowd.
We are leaders too!
We need to lead our crowd no matter how big or small the crowd it.
A theme I kept hearing from Pastor at the conference was about the apathy of their people.
Yet they also said they spend all their time doing church things and with family.
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God sent the message to the leaders because He expected them to lead.
Obey your leaders, follow our way of life.
Remember that we are delivering to you God’s Word.
Not just pastors or deacons, but your disciplers as well.
Let us do it with joy and not groaning.
What does that mean...
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