A Time to Rebuild

A Time to Rebuild

Haggai 2:1-9

The Someday/Maybe List

Procrastination

1. Preoccupation with

Haggai 1:4 (NIV) — “Is it a time for you yourselves to be living in your paneled houses, while this house remains a ruin?”

2. Our Feel Too Big for Us

Haggai 2:3 (NIV) — ‘Who of you is left who saw this house in its former glory? How does it look to you now? Does it not seem to you like nothing?’

What Goes on the “Today List”?

Haggai 2:4 (NIV) — ‘But now be strong, Zerubbabel,’ declares the LORD. ‘Be strong, Joshua son of Jozadak, the high priest. Be strong, all you people of the land,’ declares the LORD, ‘and work. For I am with you,’ declares the LORD Almighty.

Access the of God

Haggai 2:5 (NIV) — ‘This is what I covenanted with you when you came out of Egypt. And my Spirit remains among you. Do not fear.’

Do the of God

Haggai 2:7 (NIV) — I will shake all nations, and what is desired by all nations will come, and I will fill this house with glory,’ says the LORD Almighty.

Haggai 2:9 (NIV) — ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the LORD Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace, ’ declares the LORD Almighty.”