Life Isn’t Trivial (2 of 2)
Series: Diminishing Returns
Scott Maze
Haggai 2
Today, I want to sound the trumpet on the Need for Endurance and Perseverance. There are many things we are called to endure. Today's message is designed to offer you fuel for the race to endure. I think of the early church martyr Polycarp, the Bishop of Smyrna. Polycarp was eighty-six years old when he was burned at the stake. He could have saved his life had he chosen to curse Christ. But he said, ''Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He has done me no wrong; how then can I blaspheme my king who saved me.''
Turn in your Bibles to Haggai Two. As your turning to the book of Haggai, let me tell you a little about him. Haggai is only mentioned one other time in your Bibles, in Ezra 5 and 6. His book is the second shortest book in the Old Testament. And his name means ''festival'' or ''pilgrim to a festival.'' The word is very much like the Arabic word hajj (''to go on a pilgrimage''). So Haggai means one who has been on a pilgrimage.
''In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, 2 ''Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say, 3 'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes? 4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the Lord. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the Lord. Work, for I am with you, declares the Lord of hosts, 5 according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not. 6 For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land. 7 And I will shake all nations, so ...
Series: Diminishing Returns
Scott Maze
Haggai 2
Today, I want to sound the trumpet on the Need for Endurance and Perseverance. There are many things we are called to endure. Today's message is designed to offer you fuel for the race to endure. I think of the early church martyr Polycarp, the Bishop of Smyrna. Polycarp was eighty-six years old when he was burned at the stake. He could have saved his life had he chosen to curse Christ. But he said, ''Eighty and six years have I served Him, and He has done me no wrong; how then can I blaspheme my king who saved me.''
Turn in your Bibles to Haggai Two. As your turning to the book of Haggai, let me tell you a little about him. Haggai is only mentioned one other time in your Bibles, in Ezra 5 and 6. His book is the second shortest book in the Old Testament. And his name means ''festival'' or ''pilgrim to a festival.'' The word is very much like the Arabic word hajj (''to go on a pilgrimage''). So Haggai means one who has been on a pilgrimage.
''In the seventh month, on the twenty-first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, 2 ''Speak now to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and to all the remnant of the people, and say, 3 'Who is left among you who saw this house in its former glory? How do you see it now? Is it not as nothing in your eyes? 4 Yet now be strong, O Zerubbabel, declares the Lord. Be strong, O Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land, declares the Lord. Work, for I am with you, declares the Lord of hosts, 5 according to the covenant that I made with you when you came out of Egypt. My Spirit remains in your midst. Fear not. 6 For thus says the Lord of hosts: Yet once more, in a little while, I will shake the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land. 7 And I will shake all nations, so ...
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