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1. God delivered a message to His people.
2. There was an indifference to the mission.
3. The people gained a Holy discontentment.
3. The people gained a Holy discontentment.
(2) A. The people were called to consider what was happening.
Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways.”
This is a personal challenge.
Your way, not your neighbors way, not their enemy.
Your own way.
I tend to judge myself according to other people.
And I find people who don’t have it together as well as I do.
I also tend to make excuses according other’s decisions.
If they are doing it, then I will too.
God said look at yourself.
This was a challenge to examine their lives.
Consider your way of life.
Give careful attention to their decisions.
(2) A. The people were called to consider what was happening.
We need to regularly think about our lives.
When you do that, compare it to who God is and what His expectations are for us.
Not the God that we have made Him to be.
Not what we have made His expectations to be.
Not as a God that we add on to our life.
(2) A. The people were called to consider what was happening.
I no longer live.
My wants.
My desires.
My will.
My time.
Anything that is MINE no longer matters.
It has been crucified with Christ.
The only reason I live is because of Christ who gave Himself for me.
When I consider my life, my way...
This is the standard I need to use.
(2) A. The people were called to consider what was happening.
This is our measuring stick.
Does my life match up to a Holy God?
You may say that: “God can’t expect those things of me...”
Isaiah’s proper view of God caused him to consider his way.
He saw that he was an undone man.
Yet those sins were forgiven.
This moved him to action!
Our theology determines our practice.
Our view of God drives our decisions.
The Jew’s view of God was low.
They let persecution stop them.
They walked passed the foundation of the temple daily.
While it was in ruins they were building luxurious houses for themselves.
It was time to consider the decisions they had been making.
(2) B. The people finally realized what God had been doing.
They consider their lives!
(2) B. The people finally realized what God had been doing.
They were struggling economically.
Their homes were nice, but they were working harder that they should normal.
They were not gaining ground.
You have planted a lot and harvested a little bit.
The people were disappointed.
You eat, but you are not full.
The people were discontent.
You earn wages but you put them in a bag with holes.
Not only were the farmers struggling but those who worked.
They were paid in grain.
The picture was that the grain would unknowingly drain out.
They worked hard but there was nothing left over at the end of the month - if they were able to make ends meet.
This had been going on for a while, but in their indifference they were not seeing the problem.
God calls this problem out.
He jolts them awake.
A Crystallization of Discontent or A Holy Discontentment?
Study’s show that almost everyone wants to change something about their life.
Their social status.
Their budget.
Their personality.
Their career.
The list goes on and on.
This is rooted in discontentment.
Strikingly, not everyone is doing something about it.
Psychologist Roy Baumeister had a thought he called “crystallization of discontent”.
Once people begin to see patterns of shortcoming they reshuffle their cor values and priorities to improve things.
This makes sense but often this kind of outward change doesn’t last.
It is more important that we have a holy discontentment.
When we begin to look around and see possible years of decisions in our lives have brought us to a point we are not content with.
Sometimes we wake up from one big event, but often it is through the process of becoming aware of many thing that become a tipping point.
God gave the people of Judah a Holy Discontentment.
Slothful: a delay
Zeal: diligence and purpose but denoting the urgency that the purpose is carried out.
A Crystallization of Discontent or A Holy Discontentment?
Lexham English Bible
As Haggai delivered the message, the people woke up!
(2) C. The people finally realized what needed to change.
(2) C. The people finally realized what needed to change.
Sometime the way out of our indifference is easier than we think.
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There was a clear plan of action out of their indifference.
There was a clear direction to point their Holy Discontentment.
They were now aware of their discontentment because of their indifference.
Haggai will deliver God plan for them to act on.
GO CUT TREES
This is not the only thing that needs done, but it is the first step.
I wonder if God thought they would get overwhelmed.
So He gave them the first step.
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