Weekly Sermon
This sermon is a companion to three previous sermons: Consider Your Priorities - Haggai 1:5
Consider the Lord's Pleasure - Haggai 1:8
Consider Our Lord's Purpose - Haggai 2:10-19
Haggai 2:10 gives the report, “In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying.” Then in Haggai 2:18-19 we come to the conclusion of that message where our Lord declared through His prophet, “Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’S temple was laid, consider it. Is the seed yet in the barn? Yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.” Finally, in Haggai 2:20-23 our Lord delivered a second message on the same day through His prophet Haggai. There we read, “And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying, Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.”
In Haggai 2:15-17 the Lord had instructed His people at that time to consider His hand of chastening against them and to consider His purpose in that chastening. Yet in Haggai 2:18-19 the Lord instructed them to consider another matter. In these two verses, the Lord gave promise to reverse their situation. Until that time His hand of chastening had been against them, but from that time forward He promised to open His hand of blessing upon them. At the end of verse 19, the Lord proclaimed, “From this day will I bless you.” He had confronted them and chastened them for their sinful priorities and ways, and they had repented of those sinful priorities and ways. Thus from that day of their repentance forward, the Lord promised to bless them. Even so, the Lord instructed them to consider His promise. In like manner, we ourselves also need to consider our Lord’s promise to those who will repent of their sinful ways and return unto the Lord.
This sermon is a companion to three previous sermons: Consider Your Priorities - Haggai 1:5
Consider the Lord's Pleasure - Haggai 1:8
Consider Our Lord's Purpose - Haggai 2:10-19
Haggai 2:10 gives the report, “In the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet, saying.” Then in Haggai 2:18-19 we come to the conclusion of that message where our Lord declared through His prophet, “Consider now from this day and upward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, even from the day that the foundation of the LORD’S temple was laid, consider it. Is the seed yet in the barn? Yea, as yet the vine, and the fig tree, and the pomegranate, and the olive tree, hath not brought forth: from this day will I bless you.” Finally, in Haggai 2:20-23 our Lord delivered a second message on the same day through His prophet Haggai. There we read, “And again the word of the LORD came unto Haggai in the four and twentieth day of the month, saying, Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I will shake the heavens and the earth; and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the heathen; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride in them; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother. In that day, saith the LORD of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith the LORD, and will make thee as a signet: for I have chosen thee, saith the LORD of hosts.”
In Haggai 2:15-17 the Lord had instructed His people at that time to consider His hand of chastening against them and to consider His purpose in that chastening. Yet in Haggai 2:18-19 the Lord instructed them to consider another matter. In these two verses, the Lord gave promise to reverse their situation. Until that time His hand of chastening had been against them, but from that time forward He promised to open His hand of blessing upon them. At the end of verse 19, the Lord proclaimed, “From this day will I bless you.” He had confronted them and chastened them for their sinful priorities and ways, and they had repented of those sinful priorities and ways. Thus from that day of their repentance forward, the Lord promised to bless them. Even so, the Lord instructed them to consider His promise. In like manner, we ourselves also need to consider our Lord’s promise to those who will repent of their sinful ways and return unto the Lord.