God Wins (5 of 5)
Series: Consider Your Ways
Tim Badal
Haggai 2:20-23
Let’s turn to the Book of Haggai. We’ve been in a series entitled ‘‘Consider Your Ways’’ and have been asking the question, ‘‘Am I about God’s business or am I about my own?’’ We’ve used the illustration of two doors and we’ll talk about those a couple of different times today. As we make decisions and pursue different moments in our lives, are we going through the door of our ways or the door of God’s ways? Are we choosing to follow Him and His ways? Over these past studies, the prophet Haggai has taught us much through a book with which many of us were unfamiliar. The Book of Haggai has taught us about our priorities, perspectives and purity as a people who want to follow and trust Christ with everything. Today we’re going to look at a message of promise. As we’ve seen, these messages have different purposes. In week one, we started out with a message of exhortation. It was a biting indictment to the people because their priorities were all out of whack. Then in the second message, God came back with His prophet Haggai and encouraged the people. We went from exhortation in message one to encouragement in message two. Then the third message Haggai shared was exhortation again. In some ways, he was kind of knocking the people against the wall and calling them to be a people of purity. So the pattern in Haggai is one of exhortation, encouragement, exhortation and then encouragement again. This is a message that I hope will encourage you greatly. In this final message, the people of God are somewhat discouraged and God shares a message with one particular person-a man named Zerubbabel. For any of you ladies who are pregnant right now and expecting a boy, Zerubbabel is a great name. We don’t have it in the directory yet so we’re looking forward to one of you having our first Zerubbabel. Now, we don’t know much about Zerubbabel, but we do know a couple of things from the genealogies. We know h ...
Series: Consider Your Ways
Tim Badal
Haggai 2:20-23
Let’s turn to the Book of Haggai. We’ve been in a series entitled ‘‘Consider Your Ways’’ and have been asking the question, ‘‘Am I about God’s business or am I about my own?’’ We’ve used the illustration of two doors and we’ll talk about those a couple of different times today. As we make decisions and pursue different moments in our lives, are we going through the door of our ways or the door of God’s ways? Are we choosing to follow Him and His ways? Over these past studies, the prophet Haggai has taught us much through a book with which many of us were unfamiliar. The Book of Haggai has taught us about our priorities, perspectives and purity as a people who want to follow and trust Christ with everything. Today we’re going to look at a message of promise. As we’ve seen, these messages have different purposes. In week one, we started out with a message of exhortation. It was a biting indictment to the people because their priorities were all out of whack. Then in the second message, God came back with His prophet Haggai and encouraged the people. We went from exhortation in message one to encouragement in message two. Then the third message Haggai shared was exhortation again. In some ways, he was kind of knocking the people against the wall and calling them to be a people of purity. So the pattern in Haggai is one of exhortation, encouragement, exhortation and then encouragement again. This is a message that I hope will encourage you greatly. In this final message, the people of God are somewhat discouraged and God shares a message with one particular person-a man named Zerubbabel. For any of you ladies who are pregnant right now and expecting a boy, Zerubbabel is a great name. We don’t have it in the directory yet so we’re looking forward to one of you having our first Zerubbabel. Now, we don’t know much about Zerubbabel, but we do know a couple of things from the genealogies. We know h ...
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