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IS REVIVAL • Haggai POSSIBLE? 1:2-15

• 2“This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: The people are saying, ‘The @me has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.’” • 3Then the LORD sent this message through the prophet Haggai:4“Why are you living in luxurious houses while my house lies in ruins? 5This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you! 6You have planted much but harvest liQle. You eat but are not sa@sfied. You drink but are s@ll thirsty. You put on clothes but cannot keep warm. Your wages disappear as though you were puSng them in pockets filled with holes! 3

• 7“This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: Look at what’s happening to you! 8Now go up into the hills, bring down @mber, and rebuild my house. Then I will take pleasure in it and be honored, says the LORD. 9You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, while all of you are busy building your own fine houses. 10It’s because of you that the heavens withhold the dew and the earth produces no crops. 11I have called for a drought on your fields and hills—a drought to wither the grain and grapes and olive trees and all your other crops, a drought to starve you and your livestock and to ruin everything you have worked so hard to get.” 4

• Obedience to God’s Call • 12Then Zerubbabel son of Sheal@el, and Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the whole remnant of God’s people began to obey the message from the LORD their God. When they heard the words of the prophet Haggai, whom the LORD their God had sent, the people feared the LORD. 13Then Haggai, the LORD’s messenger, gave the people this message from the LORD: “I am with you, says the LORD!” • 14So the LORD sparked the enthusiasm of Zerubbabel son of Sheal@el, governor of Judah, and the enthusiasm of Jeshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the enthusiasm of the whole remnant of God’s people. They began to work on the house of their God, the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, ( on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month,) of the ancient Hebrew lunar calendar. This event occurred on September 21, 520 B.C. of the second year of King Darius’s reign. 5

1. Signs of Spiritual Apathy , v 2 • To be apathe=c is to be indifferent, lack of passion, mo=va=on, or even interest. • a. Replace God’s Word – ‘THESE PEOPLE SAY.’

“ You Say… ” vs God ’ s Words • No one • Whose report will you trust? believed in • Psa 136: 16 Your eyes have seen my unformed me substance; And in Your book were all wriQen The days that were ordained for me… • I have • 2 Cor 9:6 “[Remember] this: he who sows nothing to sparingly and grudgingly will also reap sparingly give (sow) and grudgingly, and he who sows generously will also reap generously and with blessings.” 7

“ You Say… ” vs God ’ s Words • “ I don ’ t have • Psa 1:1,2 Blessed [fortunate, prosperous, @me to pray or and favored by God] is the man who does TAWG or go to not walk in the counsel of the wicked church [following their advice and example], Nor stand in the path of sinners, Nor sit in the seat of [b] scoffers (ridiculers). But his delight is in the law of the LORD, And on His law [His precepts and teachings] he [habitually] meditates day and night. 8

“ You Say… ” vs God ’ s Words • It seems like • Phil 3:13,14 13 Brothers and sisters, I do every @me not consider that I have made it my own I ’ m geSng yet; but one thing I do : forgeSng ahead, what lies behind and reaching forward to something what lies ahead, 14 I press on toward the bad happens ” goal to win the [heavenly] prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus. 9

b. Resist God’s Word, v 3,4 • Focus on “Self” leads us being resistant to God’s Word.

2. Signs of Spiritual Atrophy, V5-6 • Spiritual atrophy is the loss of spiritual strength and awareness from lack of use. • a. Dissa=sfac=on – God says, “Consider carefully what you are doing.” • Nothing seems good enough!

b. Disappointment • Verse 9 : “You expected much, but it amounted to li]le.” • The world seems unfair and perhaps God is also not fair? • The outcome is that we want to blame someone else up to and including God.

3. Signs of Spiritual Awareness • a. Recognize the Problem – “My house is in ruins because you have placed yourself above me.”

b. Realize the Penalty • Verse 10-11 : “It is your fault that a famine will come on whatever you a]empt to do.”

4. Signs of Spiritual Awakening • a. Rousing of the Lord. – Verse 14. God s=rred up or roused Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the whole remnant of people.

b. Respect for the Lord, v12 • The people feared the Lord

c. Response to the Lord. • They obeyed God’s Word by rebuilding the Temple ( a task God had given them almost 20 years earlier).