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As we've finished up the Gospel of Luke that we were in a series in for quite a while, it seems like last week from Ezekiel 37, this Sunday from Haggai.
I'm getting to preach some of my favorite messages.
If you've been around here a while, you've heard this before, but it's not the same exact message, but from the same passage of Scripture.
But I did feel like this is what the Lord would have for us today.
Haggai chapter one and verse one, the Bible says, In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord to Haggai the prophet, unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come.
The time that the Lord's house should be built.
The context of this short little prophetic book in the Old Testament, the prophet Haggai is, he is a prophet to the remnant of Jews after the 70-year captivity into Babylon.
He's a contemporary with Ezra, Ezra being the first of the post-captivity books.
And we see in Ezra that the Jewish remnant, the people came back and they laid the foundation for the rebuilding of the temple.
And Haggai is mentioned a couple times in the book of Ezra, and it's interesting how he's mentioned.
You can look it up for yourself in Ezra 5.1 and 6.14.
But he says that he caused the people, the Jewish people, the remnant, he caused them to prosper by his prophesying.
He actually went and encouraged the people to continue the work of the Lord.
See, the temple foundation had been laid, and then because of different things, discouragement, I would say, as we're going to see in this passage this morning, one of the big reasons they stopped building the temple was because of distractions.
They had setbacks, and the rebuilding of the temple had stopped for years.
And I love this book because it's so simple.
It's short messages with very practical applications.
Don't you appreciate that? And you hear something and you're like, okay, what do I do? So what's the takeaway? What am I supposed, how am I supposed to put this into practice? And that's certainly something that he does.
He addresses the issue, addresses the problem, but then gives a very practical application, very practical solution.
His messages that he preaches here, each one, as we've already read in verse one, each one of these messages, he gives exact dates for the message.
And this is all of them that are kind of in that September timeframe, 520 BC.
And he starts his first message is that he said, the Lord said that you said now is not the time to do the Lord's work.
Think about that for a second.
As we've finished up the Gospel of Luke that we were in a series in for quite a while, it seems like last week from Ezekiel 37, this Sunday from Haggai.
I'm getting to preach some of my favorite messages.
If you've been around here a while, you've heard this before, but it's not the same exact message, but from the same passage of Scripture.
But I did feel like this is what the Lord would have for us today.
Haggai chapter one and verse one, the Bible says, In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord to Haggai the prophet, unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying, Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, saying, This people say, The time is not come.
The time that the Lord's house should be built.
The context of this short little prophetic book in the Old Testament, the prophet Haggai is, he is a prophet to the remnant of Jews after the 70-year captivity into Babylon.
He's a contemporary with Ezra, Ezra being the first of the post-captivity books.
And we see in Ezra that the Jewish remnant, the people came back and they laid the foundation for the rebuilding of the temple.
And Haggai is mentioned a couple times in the book of Ezra, and it's interesting how he's mentioned.
You can look it up for yourself in Ezra 5.1 and 6.14.
But he says that he caused the people, the Jewish people, the remnant, he caused them to prosper by his prophesying.
He actually went and encouraged the people to continue the work of the Lord.
See, the temple foundation had been laid, and then because of different things, discouragement, I would say, as we're going to see in this passage this morning, one of the big reasons they stopped building the temple was because of distractions.
They had setbacks, and the rebuilding of the temple had stopped for years.
And I love this book because it's so simple.
It's short messages with very practical applications.
Don't you appreciate that? And you hear something and you're like, okay, what do I do? So what's the takeaway? What am I supposed, how am I supposed to put this into practice? And that's certainly something that he does.
He addresses the issue, addresses the problem, but then gives a very practical application, very practical solution.
His messages that he preaches here, each one, as we've already read in verse one, each one of these messages, he gives exact dates for the message.
And this is all of them that are kind of in that September timeframe, 520 BC.
And he starts his first message is that he said, the Lord said that you said now is not the time to do the Lord's work.
Think about that for a second.
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