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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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WE ARE COMING TO YOU,
LIKE WE DO EVERY WEEK, LIVE.
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IF YOU'RE WATCHING ON OUR
WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR
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IF YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE RADIO
OR TUNING IN TO THE VARIOUS
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TELEVISION NETWORKS -
HOWEVER YOU ARE JOINING US -
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A VERY BIG WELCOME. AND
WE'RE SO EXCITED TO HAVE YOU
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JOINING US AROUND THE PLANET
AND, OF COURSE, EVERYONE THAT IS
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OHERE THIS MORNING, OUR
VISITORS AND OUR REGULARS.
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WE LOOK FORWARD TO SINGING
TOGETHER, OPENING UP GOD'S WORD
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AND STUDYING TOGETHER, AND
SPENDING SOME TIME WORSHIPING
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OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. IF
YOU WILL NOTICE BEHIND ME
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IT'S NOT THE USUAL SIGHT.
WE'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING
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DIFFERENT TODAY AND I AM VERY
EXCITED TO INTRODUCE TO YOU -
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IT'S NOT FOR THE FIRST
TIME BECAUSE I THINK WE'VE BEEN
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HAVING THE ORANGEVALE ADVENTIST
SCHOOL GIRLS' CHORUS FOR SEVERAL
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YEARS NOW. THEY
WERE HERE LAST YEAR AND
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THEY'RE BACK AGAIN AS YOU
CAN SEE. WE LOVE HAVING THEM.
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WE LOVE HAVING YOUNG
PEOPLE INVOLVED IN OUR SERVICES.
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AND SO, TODAY, THEY'RE GOING TO
BE SINGING TWO SONGS FOR US AND
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I WILL TELL YOU A LITTLE ABOUT
THESE GIRLS. THEY ARE GRADES
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5 THROUGH 8 WHICH MEANS AGES 10
TO 14 AND THIS GROUP HAS BEEN -
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HOW MANY YEARS HAVE
YOU HAD THIS GROUP BRAD?
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TWELVE YEARS SO, OF COURSE, IT'S
NOT THE SAME ONES BECAUSE THEY
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GRADUATE BUT THEY HAVE BEEN
SINGING FOR 12 YEARS AND THIS
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YEAR THEY STARTED A BOYS'
SINGING GROUP SO WE HAVEN'T
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HEARD THEM ON THE AIR YET BUT,
HOPEFULLY, NEXT YEAR WE'LL HAVE
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THE BOYS AS WELL.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE SINGING
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'HOPE OF THE NATIONS' AND 'SHINE
ON US' AND BRAD DAVIS IS THEIR
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PRINCIPAL AND HE
IS ALSO THEIR PIANIST.
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AND ONE MORE THING ABOUT THE
GROUP - THE LITTLE BLOND GIRL
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RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE - THE CUTE
ONE WITH GLASSES - SHE WAS A
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FLOWER GIRL IN MY WEDDING SO, OF
COURSE, WHEN I SEE ELSA I FEEL
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REALLY OLD. SO
THEY'RE GOING TO SING FOR US
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AT THIS TIME - 'HOPE OF
THE NATIONS' AND 'SHINE ON US'.
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>>THANK YOU SO MUCH, ORANGEVALE
ADVENTIST SCHOOL GIRLS' CHORUS.
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WASN'T THAT LOVELY? I
LOVE GROUPS AND HARMONY AND
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THEY DEFINITELY HAVE LOVELY
HARMONY. THANK YOU SO MUCH.
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AT THIS TIME IN OUR PROGRAM
LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER
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BEFORE WE HAVE OUR LESSON STUDY.
FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO
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MUCH FOR BLESSING US WITH THE
SPECIAL MUSIC THAT WE'VE BEEN
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ABLE TO LISTEN TO. I
PRAY THAT YOU'LL BE WITH THE
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ORANGEVALE ADVENTIST SCHOOL AS
THEY FINISH OUT THE SCHOOL YEAR.
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WE HAVE SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE
IN THIS CHURCH, IN SACRAMENTO,
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AROUND THE WORLD AND I JUST PRAY
THAT YOU WOULD BE WITH YOUNG
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PEOPLE AS THEY ARE
ASKING QUESTIONS AND THEY ARE
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STRUGGLING AND THEY'RE
LOOKING FOR WHO THEY ARE.
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AND IT'S NOT JUST YOUNG PEOPLE
THAT ARE DOING THAT, BUT I PRAY
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THAT YOU WOULD MAKE YOURSELF
REAL AND THAT YOU WOULD IMPRESS
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UPON EACH OF OUR HEARTS HOW
WE NEED TO BE SO THAT WE CAN BE
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LIKE YOU. FATHER,
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR
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LOVING US, FOR DYING FOR US, AND
FOR GIVING US THE HOPE THAT ONE
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DAY SOON YOU WILL
COME AND TAKE US HOME.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PASTOR
DOUG AND HIS MINISTRY HERE AT
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CENTRAL AND AROUND THE WORLD AND
I PRAY THAT YOU WILL BE WITH HIM
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AS HE BRINGS US THE LESSON STUDY
AND WE JUST PRAY THAT OUR HEARTS
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WILL BE READY FOR
WHAT YOU WANT TO TELL US.
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IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY
WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR
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SENIOR PASTOR,
PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR.
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>>THANK YOU DEBBIE AND I'D LIKE
TO ALSO ADD MY APPRECIATION TO
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THE ORANGEVALE SCHOOL
AND THE GIRLS' CHOIR. THAT
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WAS BEAUTIFUL. IT SOUNDS ANGELIC
WHEN YOU GET A BUNCH OF YOUNG
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GIRLS SINGING LIKE
THAT. WELCOME AGAIN, FRIENDS.
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IT IS GOOD TO
SEE EACH OF YOU HERE.
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SOME MAY BE VISITORS AND WE'RE
VERY THANKFUL THAT YOU'RE HERE.
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I WANT TO WELCOME
OUR REGULAR CLASS.
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WE HAVE A NUMBER OF MEMBERS
- THEY'RE SORT OF THE INTERNET
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MEMBERS OF CENTRAL CHURCH FROM
AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE ONLINE
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MEMBERS AND I DON'T KNOW - WE
MUST HAVE 150 ONLINE MEMBERS AND
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THERE ARE SOME FOLKS SCATTERED
AROUND THE PLANET THAT THEY ARE
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ABLE TO WORSHIP WITH US VIA THE
INTERNET OR SATELLITE BUT THERE
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IS NO LOCAL CHURCH THEY
CAN ATTEND AND SO WE PROVIDE A
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SERVICE TO REACH
OUT TO THOSE PEOPLE.
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I WANT TO THANK PASTOR HAROLD.
HE DOES A GOOD JOB IN STAYING
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CONNECTED WITH
OUR ONLINE MEMBERS.
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IF YOU'RE IN THAT CATEGORY,
FRIENDS, IF YOU'RE OUT THERE AND
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THIS IS YOUR CHURCH - I JUST
TALKED TO SOMEONE LAST NIGHT AND
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THEY SAID THEY - THEIR FAMILY
CAN'T GO TO CHURCH BUT THEY DO
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IT THROUGH SATELLITE OR
TELEVISION AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO
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KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT JUST GO TO
'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND YOU'LL FIND
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INFORMATION ON THAT. WE
ARE GOING TO GET INTO OUR
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LESSON IN A MOMENT BUT, AS
ALWAYS, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER FOR
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THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST
THIS AND WITH THE PROMISE YOU'RE
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GOING TO READ IT. AND IT'S
THE BOOK 'STEPS TO CHRIST' -
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THIS LITTLE VOLUME
HAS PROBABLY DONE MORE FOR
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MY CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE
THAN ANY SINGLE BOOK -
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ASIDE FROM THE BIBLE
- AND WE RECOMMEND THAT
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YOU READ IT IF YOU'VE NOT
READ IT. CALL THE NUMBER ON THE
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SCREEN - 866-STUDY MORE - THAT'S
866-788-3966. ASK FOR OFFER #800
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- THAT'S ALL YOU'VE GOT TO
DO AND WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU.
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YOU CAN ALSO READ IT ONLINE TOO
IF YOU LIKE. AND WITH THAT WE
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ARE CONTINUING IN OUR LESSON
- 'MAJOR LESSONS FROM THE MINOR
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PROPHETS' AND TODAY WE'RE GOING
TO BE DEALING WITH THE BOOK
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FROM THE PROPHET HAGGAI
AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
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THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM HAGGAI
CHAPTER 2 AND THAT'S VERSE 8.
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HAGGAI CHAPTER 2, VERSE 8 AND
YOU'LL FIND THAT EITHER IN YOUR
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BIBLE OR IN YOUR QUARTERLY.
IN THE QUARTERLY IT COMES FROM
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THE NIV VERSION AND LET'S SAY
THAT TOGETHER. ARE YOU READY?
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"'THE SILVER IS MINE
AND THE GOLD IS MINE,'
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DECLARES THE LORD ALMIGHTY.'"
EVERYTHING BELONGS TO THE LORD.
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NOW YOU'LL UNDERSTAND WHY THAT
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VERSE FITS IN THERE WHEN YOU
GET INTO THE BOOK A LITTLE BIT.
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HAGGAI IS THE SECOND SHORTEST
BOOK IN THE OLD TESTAMENT NEXT
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TO OBADIAH AND IT WAS PROBABLY
WRITTEN ABOUT 520 BC BY THE
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AUTHOR HAGGAI - NO ONE CONTESTS
THAT HE IS THE PROPHET THAT
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WROTE THE BOOK - IT'S RIGHT
THERE IN THE BEGINNING AND IT'S
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A VERY INTERESTING - HAGGAI MAY
HAVE BEEN AMONG THE CAPTIVES WHO
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WERE ALIVE IN JERUSALEM BEFORE
NEBUCHADNEZZAR DESTROYED THE
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TEMPLE - THAT WERE
CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON.
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MEANING HE SPENT 70 YEARS
THERE - MEANING HE WAS SOMEWHERE
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BETWEEN 75 AND 80 YEARS OF AGE
WHEN HE WAS CALLED, BRIEFLY, TO
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THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY.
NOW THAT'S NOT UNUSUAL.
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HOW OLD WAS MOSES WHEN
HE WAS CALLED? HE WAS 80.
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AND SO IT COULD BE THAT HE
WAS AMONG THOSE WHO HAD SEEN THE
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FIRST TEMPLE IN ITS GLORY, WHICH
EXPLAINS WHY THE PEOPLE WEPT
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WHEN THEY STARTED TO BUILD THE
SECOND TEMPLE AND IN SCALE IT
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WAS - AND IN GLORY IT WAS SO
MUCH INFERIOR TO WHAT SOLOMON
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HAD BUILT. SOLOMON
HAD JUST BILLIONS OF
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DOLLARS TO WORK WITH AND IT WAS
A PRETTY MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE.
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AND HE ONLY
PROPHECIES FOR FOUR MONTHS.
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THERE'S ONLY A
RECORD OF IT THERE.
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ACCORDING TO THE SEPTUAGINT,
HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH MAY ALSO
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HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE
FOR HELPING WRITE SOME OF THE
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PSALMS. DID YOU KNOW THAT?
ACCORDING TO THAT TRADITION,
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PSALM 138, PSALM 146, 147, 148
- THEY SAY - WERE AUTHORED AND
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PENNED BY HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH.
THAT'S PART OF THE REASON IT'S
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THERE AT THE END OF THE BOOK.
NOW, LET'S GO AHEAD AND OPEN IT.
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I'VE GOT MORE I'LL SHARE WITH
YOU ABOUT THE BOOK OF HAGGAI,
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BUT FIRST LET'S GO RIGHT TO THE
BOOK AND - WE CAN PROBABLY JUST
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READ IT ALL BECAUSE IT'S
TWO CHAPTERS BUT I'M GOING TO DO
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SOME THINGS IN PIECES AND TRY
TO EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT AS WE
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PROCEED. HAGGAI
CHAPTER 1 - IT SAYS, "IN
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THE SECOND YEAR OF KING DARIUS,
IN THE SIXTH MONTH, ON THE FIRST
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DAY OF THE MONTH, THE WORD
OF THE LORD CAME BY HAGGAI THE
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PROPHET TO ZERUBBABEL THE SON OF
SHEALTIEL, GOVERNOR OF JUDAH," -
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NOW THERE WERE THREE WAVES
OF JEWS ONCE BABYLON FELL - THE
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PERSIAN KINGS, THEY CHANGED
IN QUICK SUCCESSION - THE
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MEDO-PERSIAN KINGDOMS - YOU HAD
DARIUS AND YOU HAD CYRUS AND YOU
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HAD ARTEXERXES AND ANOTHER
DARIUS AND THEY CHANGED VERY
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RAPIDLY AND - BUT THEY ISSUED
A SERIES OF DECREES ALLOWING THE
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JEWS TO GO BACK TO JERUSALEM.
THE JEWS CAME FROM PERSIA - OR
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BABYLON - BACK TO
JERUSALEM IN THREE WAVES.
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THE FIRST WAVE HAD SOMEWHERE IN
THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 50,000 JEWS.
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THEY MADE THIS ALMOST LIKE
ANOTHER EXODUS AND THEY CROSSED
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THE DESERT AND THEY CAME TO THE
LAND OF ISRAEL OR TO JERUSALEM,
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IN PARTICULAR JUDEA.
THEN A FEW YEARS LATER, DURING
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THE TIME OF - AND EZRA
WAS IN THAT FIRST WAVE.
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AND THEN YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER
GROUP THAT COMES - OH THE FIRST
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- EZRA WAS IN THE SECOND WAVE
AND HE CAME WITH ABOUT 5,000
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MORE THAT CAME, THEN NEHEMIAH
WAS IN THE THIRD WAVE THAT CAME
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AND THERE MAY HAVE BEEN 30,000
THAT CAME IN THAT WAVE AND SO
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THEY KIND OF CAME IN DEGREES
LIKE THAT. AND WITH THE IDEA
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THAT THEY WOULD REBUILD THE CITY
- REBUILD THE TEMPLE, BUT THINGS
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DIDN'T COME TOGETHER VERY
QUICKLY AND WHEN THEY FIRST CAME
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BACK THEY CLEARED AWAY THE
DEBRIS. THE FIRST THING THEY
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WANTED TO DO WAS THANK THE
LORD THEY MADE IT BACK AND THEY
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WANTED TO BE ABLE TO SACRIFICE
TO THE LORD SO THEY REPAIRED THE
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ALTAR OF THE LORD WITH THE PLAN
THAT THEY'D ULTIMATELY REBUILD
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THE TEMPLE BECAUSE THE KING
OF PERSIA - THE FIRST ONE - GAVE
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THEM PERMISSION. CYRUS
GAVE THEM PERMISSION TO REBUILD
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THE TEMPLE. BUT THEN
THEY WAITED TOO LONG.
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ABOUT 16 YEARS WENT BY AND THEY
HADN'T DONE MUCH - I THINK THEY
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HAD A COUPLE OF ROWS THAT -
BRICKS THEY PUT BY THE OUTSIDE
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WALL AND THEN AS THEY WERE GOING
TO COMMENCE TO BUILD AGAIN SOME
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OPPOSITION ROSE UP AND THAT
OPPOSITION CAME FROM - AND YOU
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CAN READ IN - GO TO THE
BOOK OF EZRA REAL QUICK.
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EZRA OVERLAPS WITH
THE SAME TIME OF HAGGAI.
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THERE WERE ABOUT THREE PROPHETS
- OF THE MINOR PROPHETS THREE OF
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THOSE PROPHETS CAME AFTER THEY
RETURNED FROM THE BABYLONIAN
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CAPTIVITY AND - LET'S
SEE HERE. GO TO CHAPTER 4.
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"NOW WHEN THE ADVERSARIES OF
JUDAH AND BENJAMIN HEARD THAT
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THE DESCENDANTS OF THE CAPTIVITY
WERE BUILDING THE TEMPLE OF THE
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LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, THEY CAME TO
ZERUBBABEL AND THE HEADS OF THE
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FATHERS' HOUSES, AND SAID TO
THEM, 'LET US BUILD WITH YOU,
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FOR WE SEEK YOUR GOD AS YOU DO;
AND WE HAVE SACRIFICED TO HIM
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SINCE THE DAYS OF ESARHADDON
KING OF ASSYRIA, WHO BROUGHT US
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HERE.'" AHH, NOT
EXACTLY. BEAR WITH ME.
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YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW THE STORY
TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE.
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WHEN THE KING OF ASSYRIA CARRIED
OFF TEN OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL
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- THE FIRST TEN TRIBES OF
ISRAEL WERE CARRIED OFF BEFORE
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR CARRIED OFF
THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM - JUDAH,
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BENJAMIN AND LEVI. WHEN
THEY FIRST CARRIED OFF THE
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NORTHERN KINGDOM - THE NORTHERN
PART OF ISRAEL - THE TEN TRIBES,
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THE LAND WAS FILLED WITH
WILD ANIMALS BECAUSE, BASICALLY,
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ALL OF A SUDDEN ALL
THE PEOPLE WERE GONE.
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THE ANIMALS BEGAN TO MULTIPLY
AND THE KING OF ASSYRIA, WANTING
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TO GET THE PRODUCE OF THIS LAND,
HE SAID, 'LOOK, YOU'VE GOT TO
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SEND SOME PEOPLE BACK THERE
TO TAKE CARE OF THE LAND BECAUSE
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THERE'S A LOT OF FOOD THERE.
THEY CAN HELP FEED THE KINGDOM.
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AND SO HE SENT SOME PEOPLE
AND THEY WERE BEING ATTACKED BY
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LIONS AND THAT COULD BE A REAL
PROBLEM AND THERE'VE BEEN TIMES
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WHERE JUST ONE OR TWO LIONS
HAVE KILLED HUNDREDS OF WORKERS.
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AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE HEARD
ABOUT THE LIONS OF TSAVO IN
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AFRICA - WHEN THEY WERE TRYING
TO BUILD A BRIDGE. AND THEY HAD
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A TIGER IN INDIA -
SUPPOSEDLY KILLED 400 PEOPLE IN
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SURROUNDING VILLAGES.
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AND SO LIONS WERE KEEPING PEOPLE
FROM WORKING IN THE FIELDS AND
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THEY SAID, 'WHY IS THIS?'
AND THE ANSWER WAS, 'WELL,
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BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HERE DON'T
KNOW ABOUT THE GOD OF THE LAND.
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THEY HAD SENT ASSYRIANS DOWN
INTO NORTHERN ISRAEL AND THEY
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SAID, 'SEND SOME OF THE PRIESTS
FROM THE HEBREWS TO TEACH US
00:20:04.70\00:20:09.86
ABOUT THE WAYS OF
THE GOD OF THEIR LAND.'
00:20:09.86\00:20:12.33
NOW THESE ARE PEOPLE
LIVING IN AND AROUND SAMARIA.
00:20:12.33\00:20:15.26
SO THEY SENT SOME JEWISH PRIESTS
IN TO TEACH THEM AND THEY TAUGHT
00:20:15.26\00:20:18.26
THEM THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES,
BUT THEY MINGLED THE FIVE BOOKS
00:20:18.26\00:20:21.43
OF MOSES WITH SOME OF THEIR OWN
RELIGION AND CUSTOMS AND INSTEAD
00:20:21.43\00:20:25.96
OF SACRIFICING IN JERUSALEM,
THEY SACRIFICED IN MOUNT
00:20:25.96\00:20:28.36
GARIZIM. DO YOU
REMEMBER WHEN JESUS
00:20:28.36\00:20:30.46
TALKED TO THE WOMAN AT THE WELL?
SHE SAID, 'WHICH WOMAN SHOULD -
00:20:30.46\00:20:33.36
WHICH MOUNTAIN
SHOULD WE SACRIFICE ON?
00:20:33.36\00:20:36.56
JERUSALEM OR MOUNT GARIZIM?'
AND JESUS SAID, 'SALVATION IS OF
00:20:36.56\00:20:40.56
THE JEWS.' PRETTY
CLEAR BECAUSE SAMARITANS
00:20:40.56\00:20:44.23
WERE SORT OF HALF JEWISH
RELIGION AND HALF ASSYRIAN
00:20:44.23\00:20:47.50
RELIGION AND THAT'S WHY
THERE'S SO MUCH ANIMOSITY.
00:20:47.50\00:20:51.90
WELL, WHEN THE SAMARITANS HEARD
THAT THE JEWS WERE GOING TO
00:20:51.90\00:20:55.60
REBUILD THE TEMPLE THEY SAID,
'OH, WE BELIEVE THE FIVE BOOKS
00:20:55.60\00:20:58.10
OF MOSES.' THEY
DIDN'T BELIEVE THE REST OF
00:20:58.10\00:21:00.06
THE SCRIPTURES -
'WE'LL JOIN YOU.'
00:21:00.06\00:21:02.26
AND THE JEWS SAID, 'UH,
THANK YOU - NO THANK YOU.'
00:21:02.26\00:21:05.66
MATTER OF FACT, THEY
WEREN'T AS NICE AS THAT.
00:21:05.66\00:21:07.26
THEY SAID, 'YOU'RE NOT GOING TO
HELP US BECAUSE YOU HAVE KIND OF
00:21:07.26\00:21:10.40
ADULTERATED OUR RELIGION AND YOU
WILL ADULTERATE THE REBUILDING
00:21:10.40\00:21:15.13
OF THE TEMPLE AND OUR WORSHIP
AND WE DON'T THINK THAT'S A GOOD
00:21:15.13\00:21:18.16
IDEA.' WELL, WHEN
SOMEONE'S OFFER OF
00:21:18.16\00:21:22.36
HELP IS SPURNED,
THAT LOVE TURNS TO HATE.
00:21:22.36\00:21:25.43
AND THEY SAID, 'WELL, IF
YOU WANT TO BE THAT WAY - IF YOU
00:21:25.43\00:21:28.53
THINK YOU'RE TOO HOLY FOR
US.' THEN THEY TURNED INTO THEIR
00:21:28.53\00:21:31.26
ENEMIES AND THAT
LASTED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
00:21:31.26\00:21:33.96
THE SAMARITANS AND THE
JEWS - THIS IS WHERE IT ALL GOT
00:21:33.96\00:21:36.00
TRIGGERED. AND SO, THEY CAME TO
HIM AND THEY SAID, 'WE BELIEVE
00:21:36.00\00:21:41.00
LIKE YOU DO.' "BUT ZERUBBABEL
AND JESHUA AND THE REST OF THE
00:21:41.00\00:21:45.10
FATHERS" - BY THE WAY,
JESHUA - JOSHUA - SAME NAME.
00:21:45.10\00:21:48.33
THIS IS JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST
- "AND THE REST OF THE HEADS OF
00:21:48.33\00:21:52.83
THE FATHER'S HOUSES OF
ISRAEL SAID TO THEM, 'YOU MAY DO
00:21:52.83\00:21:56.30
NOTHING WITH US TO BUILD A HOUSE
FOR OUR GOD; BUT WE ALONE WILL
00:21:56.30\00:22:00.40
BUILD TO THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL,
AS KING CYRUS THE KING OF PERSIA
00:22:00.40\00:22:05.03
HAS COMMANDED US.'
THEN THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND
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TRIED TO DISCOURAGE
THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH.
00:22:07.66\00:22:09.70
THEY TROUBLED THEM IN BUILDING,"
- NOTICE HOW QUICKLY THEY WENT
00:22:09.70\00:22:12.20
FROM 'LET US HELP YOU' TO 'WE'RE
GOING TO TRY AND STOP IT.'
00:22:12.20\00:22:15.56
THEY WERE OFFENDED AND THEY GOT
ANGRY - "AND HIRED COUNSELORS
00:22:15.56\00:22:20.16
AGAINST THEM TO FRUSTRATE THEIR
PURPOSE ALL THE DAYS OF CYRUS
00:22:20.16\00:22:24.43
KING OF PERSIA, EVEN UNTIL THE
REIGN OF DARIUS KING OF PERSIA."
00:22:24.43\00:22:27.63
SO THIS WENT ON FOR 16 YEARS.
00:22:27.63\00:22:29.26
THEY TRIED TO STOP IT
SO NOTHING WAS HAPPENING.
00:22:29.26\00:22:32.30
FINALLY, IN THE DAYS OF "THE
REIGN OF AHSUERUS," - NOTICE,
00:22:32.30\00:22:35.16
WE'VE MENTIONED THREE
KINGS ALREADY - "IN THE REIGN OF
00:22:35.16\00:22:37.83
AHSUERUS," - I'M IN VERSE
6 - EZRA 4, VERSE 6 - "IN THE
00:22:37.83\00:22:41.96
BEGINNING OF HIS REIGN, THEY
WROTE AN ACCUSATION AGAINST THE
00:22:41.96\00:22:45.80
INHABITANTS OF
JUDAH AND JERUSALEM."
00:22:45.80\00:22:47.83
AND YOU CAN READ THE LETTER.
WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ IT
00:22:47.83\00:22:50.33
ALL BUT, BASICALLY, THE ESSENCE
OF THE LETTER IS SAYING, 'YOU
00:22:50.33\00:22:53.20
BETTER NOT LET THESE JEWS
REBUILD THE TEMPLE AND REBUILD
00:22:53.20\00:22:55.56
THE CITY. YOU'VE
NOT READ THEIR HISTORY.
00:22:55.56\00:22:57.16
THEY'VE REBELLED AGAINST EVERY
KING ALONG THE WAY AND THAT'S
00:22:57.16\00:22:59.26
WHY NEBUCHADNEZZAR DESTROYED
IT AND THEY'VE HAD MIGHTY KINGS
00:22:59.26\00:23:01.66
THAT TOOK CONTROL LIKE DAVID AND
SOLOMON AND YOU LET THEM REBUILD
00:23:01.66\00:23:04.90
THEY'RE GOING TO
REBEL.' AND THEY SENT THIS VERY
00:23:04.90\00:23:07.33
DIFFICULT LETTER AND THE KING OF
PERSIA WROTE BACK AND SAYS, 'YOU
00:23:07.33\00:23:10.80
KNOW, WE'VE CHECKED
IT OUT AND IT'S TRUE.
00:23:10.80\00:23:12.96
THAT WAS ONCE A MIGHTY KINGDOM
AND THEY HAVE REBELLED SEVERAL
00:23:12.96\00:23:14.90
TIMES AGAINST SEVERAL KINGS.'
AND HE COMMANDED, UNTIL FURTHER
00:23:14.90\00:23:19.60
NOTICE, THAT THEY
SHOULD STOP BUILDING.
00:23:19.60\00:23:21.90
WELL, EVENTUALLY THAT KING DIED
- OF PERSIA. AND EVEN THOUGH
00:23:21.90\00:23:26.10
NOW THEY WERE FREE TO REBUILD
AGAIN BECAUSE THEY HAD THE
00:23:26.10\00:23:27.93
ORIGINAL DECREE FROM
CYRUS, THEY WEREN'T BUILDING.
00:23:27.93\00:23:33.50
SO THIS IS WHERE WE ARE
WHEN HAGGAI COMES ALONG.
00:23:33.50\00:23:35.86
THEY HAD GOTTEN SO DISCOURAGED
ABOUT BUILDING THE TEMPLE OF THE
00:23:35.86\00:23:38.83
LORD BECAUSE THEY RAN INTO
OBSTACLES. THEY JUST GAVE UP.
00:23:38.83\00:23:42.36
AND THEN THEY WERE HAVING SUCH A
TOUGH TIME WITH THEIR OWN FARMS
00:23:42.36\00:23:47.10
AND A FAMINE
SEEMED TO BE SETTING IN.
00:23:47.10\00:23:49.26
LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU
HERE FROM THE BOOK 'PROPHETS AND
00:23:49.26\00:23:52.93
KINGS' PAGE 573, "FOR OVER A
YEAR THE TEMPLE WAS NEGLECTED
00:23:52.93\00:23:58.26
AND WELL NIGH FORSAKEN. THE
PEOPLE DWELT IN THEIR HOUSES
00:23:58.26\00:24:01.20
AND THEY STROVE TO ATTAIN
TEMPORAL PROSPERITY BUT THEIR
00:24:01.20\00:24:04.66
SITUATION WAS
DEPLORABLE. WORK AS THEY MIGHT,
00:24:04.66\00:24:07.53
THEY DID NOT PROSPER.
00:24:07.53\00:24:09.33
THE VERY ELEMENTS OF NATURE
SEEMED TO CONSPIRE AGAINST THEM
00:24:09.33\00:24:12.90
BECAUSE THEY HAD LET THE TEMPLE
LIE WASTE. THE LORD SENT UPON
00:24:12.90\00:24:16.76
THEM AND ON THEIR
SUBSTANCE WASTING AND DROUGHT.
00:24:16.76\00:24:20.16
GOD HAD BESTOWED UPON THEM THE
FRUITS OF THE FIELD, THE GARDEN,
00:24:20.16\00:24:23.26
THE CORN, THE WINE, THE
OIL AS A TOKEN OF HIS FAVOR.
00:24:23.26\00:24:26.13
BUT BECAUSE THEY HAD USED THESE
BOUNTIFUL GIFTS SO SELFISHLY THE
00:24:26.13\00:24:29.60
BLESSINGS WERE REMOVED."
THEY WERE SEEKING FIRST THEIR
00:24:29.60\00:24:33.56
OWN KINGDOM NOW
AND NOT GOD'S KINGDOM.
00:24:33.56\00:24:36.16
AND EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD
RUN INTO SOME OPPOSITION, THEY
00:24:36.16\00:24:38.36
SHOULD HAVE MADE THEIR PRIORITY
BUILDING UP THE HOUSE OF GOD.
00:24:38.36\00:24:42.16
NOW THAT'S THE CENTRAL MESSAGE.
THAT'S THE CENTRAL MESSAGE OF
00:24:42.16\00:24:44.86
THIS WHOLE LESSON - THIS
WHOLE BOOK - THAT IF YOU WANT TO
00:24:44.86\00:24:47.46
PROSPER IN YOUR HOME, YOU
MUST BUILD UP THE HOUSE OF GOD.
00:24:47.46\00:24:52.16
AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT CHURCH
FUNDRAISERS - THOUGH THAT'S
00:24:52.16\00:24:54.46
IMPORTANT TOO. THERE'S
MORE TO THE HOUSE OF GOD
00:24:54.46\00:24:58.73
THAN JUST THE CHURCH AND
I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN JUST A
00:24:58.73\00:25:02.83
MOMENT. TELL YOU
WHAT - LET ME SEE HERE.
00:25:02.83\00:25:06.80
FIRST I WANT YOU TO NOTICE -
IF YOU LOOK IN EZRA - IN EZRA 3,
00:25:06.80\00:25:15.20
VERSE 6 IT SAYS, "FROM THE FIRST
DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH THEY
00:25:15.20\00:25:18.80
BEGAN TO OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS
TO THE LORD, ALTHOUGH THE
00:25:18.80\00:25:21.76
FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLE OF
THE LORD HAD NOT BEEN LAID."
00:25:21.76\00:25:24.86
SO THEY STARTED WITH AN
ALTAR BUT THEY HADN'T BUILT THE
00:25:24.86\00:25:27.50
FOUNDATION YET.
00:25:27.50\00:25:28.93
FINALLY, WHEN THEY DID BEGIN TO
LAY THE FOUNDATION - THIS IS A
00:25:28.93\00:25:33.60
VERY STRANGE VERSE -
I'M BACK IN EZRA AGAIN.
00:25:33.60\00:25:35.63
GO TO EZRA CHAPTER 3
AND IF YOU LOOK IN VERSE 13.
00:25:35.63\00:25:40.40
WHEN THEY HAD THE INAUGURATION
AND BEGAN TO LAY THE FOUNDATION
00:25:40.40\00:25:43.43
OF THE TEMPLE IT SAYS, "ALL THE
PEOPLE SHOUTED" - I'M IN EZRA 3,
00:25:43.43\00:25:49.66
VERSE 11 - "THEY SANG
RESPONSIVELY, PRAISING AND
00:25:49.66\00:25:52.73
GIVING THANKS TO THE LORD:
'FOR HE IS GOOD, FOR HIS MERCY
00:25:52.73\00:25:56.00
ENDURES FOREVER'" - THIS MIGHT
BE SOME OF THE REASON THEY THINK
00:25:56.00\00:25:58.60
THAT HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH WROTE
SOME OF THE PSALMS BECAUSE THIS
00:25:58.60\00:26:01.80
IS A QUOTE FROM ONE OF THE
PSALMS - "THEN ALL THE PEOPLE
00:26:01.80\00:26:04.46
SHOUTED WITH A GREAT SHOUT, WHEN
THEY PRAISED THE LORD, BECAUSE
00:26:04.46\00:26:06.86
THE FOUNDATION OF THE
HOUSE OF THE LORD WAS LAID." -
00:26:06.86\00:26:09.46
BIG INAUGURATION CELEBRATION
- "BUT MANY OF THE PRIESTS AND
00:26:09.46\00:26:13.63
LEVITES AND HEADS OF THE
FATHERS' HOUSES, OLD MEN" -
00:26:13.63\00:26:17.80
THERE WERE OLD MEN AND OLD WOMEN
THERE - "WHO HAD SEEN THE FIRST
00:26:17.80\00:26:21.00
TEMPLE," - WHO BUILT THE FIRST
TEMPLE? SOLOMON. IT'S ACTUALLY
00:26:21.00\00:26:25.10
THE SECOND TEMPLE IF YOU COUNT
THE ONE IN THE WILDERNESS - THE
00:26:25.10\00:26:27.76
FIRST PERMANENT TEMPLE - "THEY
WEPT WITH A LOUD VOICE WHEN THE
00:26:27.76\00:26:32.50
FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLE
WAS LAID BEFORE THEIR EYES.
00:26:32.50\00:26:35.13
YET MANY SHOUTED ALOUD FOR JOY,
SO THAT THE PEOPLE COULD NOT
00:26:35.13\00:26:38.46
DISCERN THE NOISE OF THE WEEPING
OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE
00:26:38.46\00:26:43.23
SHOUTED WITH A LOUD SHOUT, AND
THE SOUND WAS HEARD AFAR OFF."
00:26:43.23\00:26:47.16
THAT WAS A
PRETTY STRANGE SERVICE.
00:26:47.16\00:26:49.40
YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO
GREW UP IN BABYLON WHO WERE SO
00:26:49.40\00:26:52.10
HAPPY TO BE BACK IN THEIR
HOMELAND AND FINALLY BUILDING
00:26:52.10\00:26:54.36
THEIR OWN TEMPLE
FOR THEIR OWN GOD.
00:26:54.36\00:26:56.33
THEY WERE SO TIRED OF
ALL THE BABYLONIAN GODS.
00:26:56.33\00:26:58.03
THEY'RE CELEBRATING.
THEY'RE BLOWING THE TRUMPETS.
00:26:58.03\00:26:59.60
THEY'RE
SHOUTING. THEY'RE SINGING.
00:26:59.60\00:27:01.06
AND THEN YOU'VE GOT ALL THE OLD
TIMERS WHO HAD TO BE LIKE, YOU
00:27:01.06\00:27:04.50
KNOW, 75 YEARS OLD - YOU KNOW,
YOU HAVE TO BE AT LEAST FIVE
00:27:04.50\00:27:08.40
YEARS OLD TO REMEMBER WHAT
SOMETHING LOOKED LIKE WHEN YOU
00:27:08.40\00:27:10.66
WERE A KID. SOME OF
THEM MAY HAVE BEEN 90
00:27:10.66\00:27:12.96
AND THEY COULD HAVE REMEMBERED
WHEN THEY WERE 20 YEARS OLD,
00:27:12.96\00:27:16.13
CLEARLY, WHAT THE TEMPLE
OF SOLOMON LOOKED LIKE. IT WAS
00:27:16.13\00:27:19.26
ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD
- IF YOU READ, HE SPENT SEVEN
00:27:19.26\00:27:22.63
YEARS BUILDING IT, HAD WHOLE
ROOMS OF GOLD, THESE ENORMOUS
00:27:22.63\00:27:26.33
PILLARS OF BRASS - THEY STOPPED
COUNTING HOW MUCH WAS IN IT.
00:27:26.33\00:27:29.80
ALL THE WEALTH THAT DAVID
AMASSED FROM CONQUERING THESE
00:27:29.80\00:27:32.10
OTHER NATIONS AND TAXING THEM HE
PUT INTO THE TEMPLE - BILLIONS
00:27:32.10\00:27:35.36
OF DOLLARS. AND THE
SIZE OF THE STONES -
00:27:35.36\00:27:38.83
THEY WERE MASSIVE. AND
SO WHEN THE OLD ELDERS SAW
00:27:38.83\00:27:43.36
THEM SLIDING INTO PLACE THESE
LITTLE BRICKS AND EVERYBODY
00:27:43.36\00:27:46.86
SAYING, 'OH, THE FOUNDATION
OF THE LORD' THEY SAID, 'BOO HOO
00:27:46.86\00:27:49.90
HOO HOO... THIS IS NOTHING
LIKE WHAT WE USED TO HAVE.
00:27:49.90\00:27:53.53
HOW HAVE WE FALLEN.
WHAT'S HAPPENED TO US?'
00:27:53.53\00:27:55.60
AND SO THEY'RE CRYING.
THEY ARE SO DISAPPOINTED.
00:27:55.60\00:27:58.36
IT'S SO SMALL AND THE
OTHERS ARE GOING 'YAY!'
00:27:58.36\00:28:00.83
AND NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT TO
UNDERSTAND BECAUSE HAGGAI TALKS
00:28:00.83\00:28:05.13
ABOUT HOW THE GLORY OF THIS
INFERIOR TEMPLE WAS REALLY GOING
00:28:05.13\00:28:11.20
TO BE GREATER THAN THE
GLORY OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.
00:28:11.20\00:28:16.20
DO YOU KNOW WHY? I'M
NOT GOING TO TELL YOU YET.
00:28:16.20\00:28:20.13
WE'VE GOT TO GO ON
WITH OUR LESSON HERE.
00:28:20.13\00:28:22.43
I HAVEN'T EVEN GIVEN
ANYONE A VERSE TO READ.
00:28:22.43\00:28:24.03
SOMEBODY - SOMEBODY READ FOR ME
ZECHARIAH 1:1. WHO'S GOT THAT?
00:28:24.03\00:28:29.66
OKAY, GENE WE'LL GET TO YOU
IN JUST A SECOND. ZECHARIAH 1:1.
00:28:29.66\00:28:34.23
I WANT TO SHOW YOU JUST HOW THE
DATES OVERLAP HERE AND HOW YOU
00:28:34.23\00:28:36.73
CAN DEPEND ON THE WORD OF
GOD FOR THESE THINGS. IT SAYS
00:28:36.73\00:28:41.63
IN HAGGAI - HAVE YOU NOTICED
IN CHAPTER 1, VERSES 1 AND 2?
00:28:41.63\00:28:44.63
"IN THE SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS,
IN THE SIXTH MONTH, ON THE FIRST
00:28:44.63\00:28:47.76
DAY OF THE MONTH, THE WORD
OF THE LORD CAME BY HAGGAI THE
00:28:47.76\00:28:50.00
PROPHET TO ZERUBBABEL THE SON
OF SHEALTIEL, GOVERNOR OF JUDAH,
00:28:50.00\00:28:54.13
AND TO JOSHUA THE SON OF
JEHOZADAK, THE HIGH PRIEST,
00:28:54.13\00:28:57.40
SAYING, 'THUS SPEAKS THE LORD OF
HOSTS, SAYING, 'THIS PEOPLE SAYS
00:28:57.40\00:28:59.43
'THE TIME HAS NOT COME, THE TIME
THAT THE LORD'S HOUSE SHOULD BE
00:28:59.43\00:29:01.33
BUILT.''" NOW YOU GO AHEAD AND
YOU READ ZECHARIAH 1:1 FOR US.
00:29:01.33\00:29:04.76
ARE WE READY? YEP, WE'RE READY.
00:29:04.76\00:29:07.36
>>"IN THE EIGHTH MONTH OF THE
SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS, THE WORD
00:29:07.36\00:29:11.83
OF THE LORD CAME TO ZECHARIAH
THE SON OF BERECHIAH, THE SON OF
00:29:11.83\00:29:15.80
IDDO THE PROPHET,
SAYING," >>ALRIGHT, THAT'S GOOD.
00:29:15.80\00:29:20.13
SO YOU NOTICE IT SAID 'IN THE
SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS, IN THE
00:29:20.13\00:29:23.53
SIXTH MONTH' - IN ZECHARIAH IT
SAYS 'IN THE EIGHTH MONTH OF THE
00:29:23.53\00:29:27.23
SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS' - SO
HAGGAI BEGINS TO PROPHECY A FEW
00:29:27.23\00:29:31.76
MONTHS BEFORE ZECHARIAH DOES,
BUT BOTH OF THESE PROPHETS ARE
00:29:31.76\00:29:35.50
PROPHESYING AND IF YOU READ IN
THE BOOK OF EZRA, IT TALKS ABOUT
00:29:35.50\00:29:39.40
HOW THEY APPRECIATED THE
PROPHESYING OF HAGGAI AND
00:29:39.40\00:29:43.83
ZECHARIAH THAT WAS SUPPORTING
THE WORK. MATTER OF FACT,
00:29:43.83\00:29:46.26
IF YOU LOOK AT EZRA
CHAPTER 5 - THIS IS IMPORTANT.
00:29:46.26\00:29:49.60
THIS IS ONE WAY - HOW DO YOU
KNOW CERTAIN BOOKS OF THE BIBLE
00:29:49.60\00:29:52.20
CAN BE DEPENDED ON? ARE
THEY CORROBORATED BY THE
00:29:52.20\00:29:57.40
OTHER BOOKS OF THE
BIBLE? ARE THEY ENDORSED?
00:29:57.40\00:30:00.56
WHAT IS EZRA THE PRIEST - BY THE
WAY, EZRA WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR
00:30:00.56\00:30:03.43
ORGANIZING MUCH OF - HE WAS
A SCRIBE - HE ORGANIZED MUCH OF
00:30:03.43\00:30:07.16
THE OLD TESTAMENT THE WAY WE
HAVE IT TODAY SO HE WAS A GREAT
00:30:07.16\00:30:10.60
MAN OF GOD. IT
SAYS IN EZRA 5, 1 AND 2,
00:30:10.60\00:30:13.90
"THEN THE PROPHET HAGGAI
AND ZECHARIAH THE SON OF IDDO,
00:30:13.90\00:30:17.90
PROPHETS, PROPHESIED TO THE JEWS
WHO WERE IN JUDAH AND JERUSALEM,
00:30:17.90\00:30:22.60
IN THE NAME OF THE GOD OF
ISRAEL, WHO WAS OVER THEM.
00:30:22.60\00:30:25.06
SO ZERUBBABEL THE SON OF
SHEALTIEL AND JESHUA THE SON OF
00:30:25.06\00:30:28.83
JOSADAK ROSE UP AND BEGAN TO
BUILD THE HOUSE OF GOD WHICH IS
00:30:28.83\00:30:32.60
IN JERUSALEM; AND THE PROPHETS
OF GOD WERE WITH THEM, HELPING
00:30:32.60\00:30:35.80
THEM." WHAT
PROPHETS? HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH.
00:30:35.80\00:30:39.80
AND SO THE PROPHECY OF HAGGAI
WAS ENCOURAGING THEM, 'RISE UP
00:30:39.80\00:30:43.63
AND BUILD.' NOW
LET'S LOOK MORE CLOSELY AT
00:30:43.63\00:30:46.30
WHAT EXACTLY DID HE PROPHECY.
GO BACK TO THE BOOK OF HAGGAI.
00:30:46.30\00:30:50.86
JUST TRYING TO GIVE
YOU THE OUTLINE HERE.
00:30:50.86\00:30:56.70
VERSE 2 - HAGGAI CHAPTER 1,
VERSE 2, "THUS SPEAKS THE LORD
00:30:56.70\00:31:00.40
OF HOSTS, SAYING: 'THIS PEOPLE
SAYS, 'THE TIME HAS NOT COME,
00:31:00.40\00:31:03.36
THE TIME THAT THE
LORD'S HOUSE SHOULD BE BUILT.''
00:31:03.36\00:31:06.10
THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME
BY HAGGAI THE PROPHET, SAYING,
00:31:06.10\00:31:08.70
'IS IT TIME FOR YOU YOURSELVES
TO DWELL IN YOUR PANELED HOUSES,
00:31:08.70\00:31:13.66
AND THIS TEMPLE TO LIE
IN RUINS?' NOW THEREFORE,
00:31:13.66\00:31:17.06
THUS SAYS THE LORD OF
HOSTS: 'CONSIDER YOUR WAYS!
00:31:17.06\00:31:19.60
YOU HAVE SOWN MUCH, AND BRING IN
LITTLE; YOU EAT, BUT DO NOT HAVE
00:31:19.60\00:31:23.23
ENOUGH; YOU DRINK, BUT YOU
ARE NOT FILLED WITH DRINK; YOU
00:31:23.23\00:31:26.43
CLOTHE YOURSELVES, BUT NO ONE
IS WARM; AND HE WHO EARNS WAGES,
00:31:26.43\00:31:30.36
EARNS WAGES TO PUT
INTO A BAG WITH HOLES.'" -
00:31:30.36\00:31:32.76
HOW MANY OF YOU
HAVE EVER FELT THAT WAY?
00:31:32.76\00:31:35.90
YOU BRING YOUR CHECK HOME, YOU
DEPOSIT IT IN THE BANK AND THEN
00:31:35.90\00:31:38.56
WHEN YOU GET DONE PAYING THE
BILLS, YOU STILL SEEM TO HAVE NO
00:31:38.56\00:31:41.93
MONEY LEFT. IT'S LIKE YOU PUT IT
IN A POCKET WITH HOLES - "THUS
00:31:41.93\00:31:48.33
SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS:
'CONSIDER YOUR WAYS!" - VERSE 7
00:31:48.33\00:31:51.36
- HE'S SAYING 'THERE'S A REASON
THAT THE LORD IS NOT BLESSING
00:31:51.36\00:31:55.13
YOU. IT'S
BECAUSE YOU ARE PUTTING
00:31:55.13\00:31:57.23
YOUR HOUSE AHEAD OF MY HOUSE.'
NOW SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME
00:31:57.23\00:32:02.70
1 CHRONICLES 17 - FIRST BOOK
OF CHRONICLES - OLD TESTAMENT -
00:32:02.70\00:32:07.60
I'VE SEEN PEOPLE - 17, VERSE 1
- SOMEONE GOT THAT. RIGHT HERE?
00:32:07.60\00:32:10.73
LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
WHO'S GOT THE MIC ON THIS?
00:32:10.73\00:32:12.36
YOU'VE GOT IT ALREADY - ALRIGHT,
LET'S JUST WAIT UNTIL THEY GET
00:32:12.36\00:32:15.23
THE CAMERA FOCUSED ON
YOU. I WANT YOU TO NOTICE
00:32:15.23\00:32:18.30
SPECIFICALLY IN HAGGAI 1:4
IT SAYS, 'IS IT TIME FOR YOU TO
00:32:18.30\00:32:23.53
DWELL IN YOUR PANELED' - OR
SEALED - 'HOUSES, AND THE HOUSE
00:32:23.53\00:32:27.93
LIE WASTE?' AND WHEN YOU READ
HERE THE STATEMENT OF KING DAVID
00:32:27.93\00:32:33.80
YOU'LL SEE WHY THAT'S IMPORTANT.
GO AHEAD, I THINK WE'RE READY.
00:32:33.80\00:32:39.03
>>1 CHRONICLES 17:1, "NOW IT
CAME TO PASS, AS DAVID SAT IN
00:32:39.03\00:32:43.16
HIS HOUSE, THAT DAVID SAID TO
NATHAN THE PROPHET, 'LO, I DWELL
00:32:43.16\00:32:47.73
IN A HOUSE OF CEDARS, BUT THE
ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD
00:32:47.73\00:32:51.86
REMAINETH UNDER CURTAINS.'"
>>YOU NOTICE SOME SIMILAR
00:32:51.86\00:32:55.36
LANGUAGE THERE? HAGGAI
SAYS, 'IS IT TIME FOR YOU
00:32:55.36\00:32:58.63
TO DWELL IN YOUR PANELED HOUSES
AND THE HOUSE - THE TEMPLE OF
00:32:58.63\00:33:02.56
THE LORD IS IN
RUINS?' WHO LIVED FIRST, DAVID
00:33:02.56\00:33:06.20
OR HAGGAI? KING DAVID.
00:33:06.20\00:33:10.03
DID THEY READ WHEN DAVID SAID,
'LORD, IT'S JUST NOT FAIR.'
00:33:10.03\00:33:13.90
SEE, WHEN DAVID'S KINGDOM WAS
BLOSSOMING, THE KING OF TYRE -
00:33:13.90\00:33:17.66
TYRE HAD THE
MOUNTAINS OF LEBANON.
00:33:17.66\00:33:19.86
TYRE WAS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE
THEY HAD LOGS, THEY HAD TREES,
00:33:19.86\00:33:22.40
THEY HAD LUMBER. IF
YOU'VE BEEN TO JERUSALEM OR
00:33:22.40\00:33:24.80
IF YOU'VE BEEN TO THE LAND
OF JUDEA, THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF
00:33:24.80\00:33:27.46
SCRUB BRUSH AND OLIVE TREES
BUT THEY DON'T HAVE LUMBER.
00:33:27.46\00:33:31.93
IF YOU WANTED LUMBER YOU NEEDED
TO BE FRIENDS WITH THE PEOPLE
00:33:31.93\00:33:34.00
NEAR THE MOUNTAINS OF LEBANON
AND THAT WAS TYRE. SO DAVID HAD
00:33:34.00\00:33:37.46
A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIRAM THE
KING OF TYRE, AND HE SAID, 'LOOK
00:33:37.46\00:33:40.90
DAVID, YOU'RE A GOOD KING.
LET ME SEND YOU SOME LUMBER.
00:33:40.90\00:33:42.83
I'M GOING TO HELP
YOU BUILD A HOUSE.'
00:33:42.83\00:33:44.80
AND NEXT THING HE KNEW,
DAVID HAD THIS BEAUTIFUL PALACE.
00:33:44.80\00:33:49.16
A FAR CRY FROM THE FIELDS
OF BETHLEHEM WHERE HE GREW UP.
00:33:49.16\00:33:52.66
AND SO HE'S SITTING IN THIS
BEAUTIFUL PANELED HOUSE HE SAYS,
00:33:52.66\00:33:55.53
'BOY, THIS ISN'T RIGHT. I
LOOK OUT MY WINDOW AND WHAT IS
00:33:55.53\00:33:59.33
THE ARK OF THE LORD IN?' I
MEAN WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE
00:33:59.33\00:34:01.20
TABERNACLE THEY TOOK THROUGH
THE WILDERNESS? IT WAS ALL
00:34:01.20\00:34:04.03
WEATHER BEATEN AND TATTERED AND
THEY'D MOVED IT INTO A TENT AND
00:34:04.03\00:34:08.10
HE SEES THE ARK OF GOD - THE GOD
OF ISRAEL - IT'S IN A TENT AND
00:34:08.10\00:34:13.03
HE'S LIVING IN A PANELED
HOUSE - CEDAR-LINED HOUSE.
00:34:13.03\00:34:17.13
SO HAGGAI REFERS BACK
TO THE ATTITUDE OF DAVID.
00:34:17.13\00:34:20.90
HE SAID, 'YOUR KING DAVID, HE
FELT GUILTY THAT HIS HOUSE WAS
00:34:20.90\00:34:25.16
DOING SO WELL AND THE HOUSE OF
GOD WAS NOT DOING WELL AND THE
00:34:25.16\00:34:29.00
PASSION OF DAVID WAS TO
BUILD THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD.'
00:34:29.00\00:34:32.63
ISN'T THAT WHAT HIS PASSION WAS?
LAST PART OF HIS LIFE HE WAS
00:34:32.63\00:34:34.83
JUST AMASSING MONEY, HE
DREW OUT PLANS FOR SOLOMON.
00:34:34.83\00:34:37.23
HE WANTED TO BUILD IT BUT GOD
SAID TO HIM THROUGH NATHAN THE
00:34:37.23\00:34:40.43
PROPHET, 'DAVID, I
CAN'T HAVE YOU BUILD IT.
00:34:40.43\00:34:42.10
YOUR SON'S GOING
TO BUILD MY HOUSE.'
00:34:42.10\00:34:43.83
BY THE WAY, THAT'S A PROPHECY
ABOUT JESUS - THE SON OF DAVID
00:34:43.83\00:34:46.13
WHO BUILT THE HOUSE OF THE
LORD. JESUS WAS A CARPENTER.
00:34:46.13\00:34:49.93
HE CAME TO BUILD A
HOUSE CALLED THE CHURCH.
00:34:49.93\00:34:51.96
YOU ARE THAT
HOUSE THAT HE BUILT.
00:34:51.96\00:34:54.13
AND HE SAID, 'DAVID, YOU CAN'T
BUILD IT BECAUSE YOU'RE A BLOODY
00:34:54.13\00:34:57.00
MAN.' NOW TWO REASONS THERE - 1)
00:34:57.00\00:34:59.50
BECAUSE HE WAS A SOLDIER AND
HE HAD SHED MUCH BLOOD AND 2) HE
00:34:59.50\00:35:03.53
KILLED AN INNOCENT
MAN WHEN HE KILLED URIAH.
00:35:03.53\00:35:06.70
HE SAID, 'I CAN'T HAVE A
MURDERER BUILDING MY HOUSE.'
00:35:06.70\00:35:10.83
AND HE SAID, 'BUT YOUR SON,
SOLOMON' - THAT MEANS 'PEACE'
00:35:10.83\00:35:14.70
'SHALOM' - 'HE
WILL BUILD MY HOUSE.'
00:35:14.70\00:35:18.00
AND SO THE SON OF DAVID
BUILT THIS BEAUTIFUL HOUSE.
00:35:18.00\00:35:22.03
WELL NOW, THE PEOPLE DON'T
HAVE THE SAME ATTITUDE AS DAVID.
00:35:22.03\00:35:24.06
THEY'RE MORE INTERESTED IN
PANELING THEIR HOUSES THAN GOD'S
00:35:24.06\00:35:26.86
HOUSE. SO YOU SEE
WHAT HAGGAI IS DOING?
00:35:26.86\00:35:29.13
HE'S POINTING BACK TO THE
ATTITUDE OF DAVID WHEN HE MAKES
00:35:29.13\00:35:32.06
THIS STATEMENT AND DAVID HAD
THE PERSPECTIVE OF MATTHEW 6:33.
00:35:32.06\00:35:39.03
WHO KNOWS WHAT THAT
SAYS? SONG ABOUT IT. (HUMS) -
00:35:39.03\00:35:45.56
YOU ALL KNOW THAT? SEEK
YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD.
00:35:45.56\00:35:50.03
SEEK YE FIRST THE HOUSE OF GOD
AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ALL
00:35:50.03\00:35:54.83
THESE OTHER THINGS - YOUR
HOUSE - WILL BE ADDED TO YOU.
00:35:54.83\00:35:58.06
SO IF WE PUT THE HOUSE OF GOD
- THE KINGDOM OF GOD FIRST, THEN
00:35:58.06\00:36:02.90
GOD SAYS HE'LL TAKE CARE OF ALL
THE OTHER THINGS YOU NEED - YOUR
00:36:02.90\00:36:06.53
HOUSE, YOUR FARMS - 'I'LL BLESS
YOU IF YOU DON'T MAKE ME SECOND
00:36:06.53\00:36:10.16
PLACE.' YOU KNOW, GOD HAD
FORETOLD THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN.
00:36:10.16\00:36:14.13
IF YOU LOOK IN LEVITICUS -
MATTER OF FACT, I THINK I'VE GOT
00:36:14.13\00:36:16.90
A VERSE FOR
SOMEONE ELSE TO LOOK UP.
00:36:16.90\00:36:19.06
WHO HAS - I'LL GET TO IT IN
A MINUTE - WHO HAS JOHN 2:19?
00:36:19.06\00:36:23.43
WE'VE GOT
SOMEONE RIGHT OVER HERE.
00:36:23.43\00:36:25.23
LET'S GET YOU A
MICROPHONE. IT'S NOT FAR AWAY.
00:36:25.23\00:36:27.53
OKAY, WE'LL GET TO YOU
IN A JUST A MINUTE MIKE.
00:36:27.53\00:36:30.63
LEVITICUS 26:16, 'THIS ALSO I
WILL DO TO YOU' - HE SAID, 'IF
00:36:30.63\00:36:37.00
YOU DISOBEY ME AND IF YOU TURN
FROM ME I WILL APPOINT TERROR
00:36:37.00\00:36:41.33
OVER YOU, WASTING DISEASE
AND FEVER THAT WILL CONSUME YOUR
00:36:41.33\00:36:44.66
EYES AND CAUSE SORROW OF HEART.
00:36:44.66\00:36:46.56
YOU WILL SOW YOUR SEED IN VAIN,
FOR YOUR ENEMIES WILL EAT IT.'
00:36:46.56\00:36:50.06
HE SAYS 'I WILL NOT BLESS YOUR
CROPS IF YOU TURN FROM OBEYING
00:36:50.06\00:36:53.40
ME.' DEUTERONOMY 28 - SAME THING
- THIS IS IN THE CHAPTER OF
00:36:53.40\00:36:57.76
BLESSING AND CURSING - IT SAYS,
'IF YOU DO FOLLOW ME, BLESSED
00:36:57.76\00:37:01.60
WILL BE THE FRUIT OF
YOUR BODY' - YOUR CHILDREN -
00:37:01.60\00:37:04.16
'THE PRODUCE OF YOUR GROUND' -
HE SAYS, 'I'LL BLESS THE PRODUCE
00:37:04.16\00:37:07.30
OF YOUR GROUND' - 'THE INCREASE
OF YOUR HERDS, THE INCREASE OF
00:37:07.30\00:37:10.36
YOUR CATTLE AND YOUR
OFFSPRING OF YOUR FLOCKS.
00:37:10.36\00:37:14.06
YOU'LL BE BLESSED IN YOUR
BASKET AND YOUR KNEADING BOWL.'
00:37:14.06\00:37:18.06
BY PUTTING GOD AS OUR FIRST
WORK, IT INVITES HIS BLESSING.
00:37:18.06\00:37:21.60
THERE'S THINGS YOU CAN DO TO
TURN AWAY HIS BLESSING, THERE'S
00:37:21.60\00:37:23.96
THINGS YOU CAN DO
TO INVITE HIS BLESSING.
00:37:23.96\00:37:26.06
NOW SOME OF YOU MIGHT BE
THINKING, 'PASTOR DOUG, YOU
00:37:26.06\00:37:29.00
ORCHESTRATED THIS SABBATH SCHOOL
STUDY SO THAT YOU COULD TALK
00:37:29.00\00:37:31.86
ABOUT A BUILDING PROJECT.'
YES, CENTRAL AND GRANITE BAY
00:37:31.86\00:37:36.83
HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN A BUILDING
PROJECT FOR YEARS AND WE'RE
00:37:36.83\00:37:40.40
PRAYING THE LORD WILL CONTINUE
TO OPEN THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN
00:37:40.40\00:37:43.80
AND MAKE IT POSSIBLE
FOR US TO ULTIMATELY BUILD.
00:37:43.80\00:37:46.63
OUR PROBLEM HAS NOT BEEN THAT
WE'RE RUNNING TO OUR HOUSES, OUR
00:37:46.63\00:37:49.10
PROBLEM HAS BEEN CALIFORNIA
CODES AND RED TAPE IS JUST
00:37:49.10\00:37:53.73
AMAZING. IT'S LEGENDARY.
BUT REALLY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT
00:37:53.73\00:37:57.40
BUILDING UP THE HOUSE,
THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M THINKING OF.
00:37:57.40\00:37:59.76
THIS IS A GOOD SERMON FOR A
CHURCH-BUILDING PROGRAM BUT WHAT
00:37:59.76\00:38:04.43
IS THE CHURCH - WHAT IS
THE REAL CHURCH ON EARTH TODAY?
00:38:04.43\00:38:09.63
MATTHEW 24, VERSES 1 AND 2.
00:38:09.63\00:38:15.60
THE DISCIPLES TOOK JESUS
AND THEY SHOWED HIM THE TEMPLE -
00:38:15.60\00:38:19.66
THIS WAS THE TEMPLE THAT HAGGAI
AND ZECHARIAH PROPHESIED ABOUT.
00:38:19.66\00:38:23.96
IT HAD BEEN GREATLY
EMBELLISHED BY KING HEROD.
00:38:23.96\00:38:28.90
"THEN JESUS WENT OUT AND
DEPARTED FROM THE TEMPLE, AND
00:38:28.90\00:38:30.80
HIS DISCIPLES CAME UP TO
SHOW HIM THE BUILDINGS OF THE
00:38:30.80\00:38:33.03
TEMPLE." - IT HAD
MASSIVE STONES. YOU KNOW,
00:38:33.03\00:38:35.26
THEY HAVE FOUND STONES IN
HEROD'S TEMPLE - NOT SOLOMON'S
00:38:35.26\00:38:37.53
TEMPLE, HEROD'S TEMPLE -
THAT ONE STONE WAS 50 TONS. JUST
00:38:37.53\00:38:42.90
ENORMOUS STONES, YOU
KNOW, 20-FEET LONG. BIG, MASSIVE
00:38:42.90\00:38:47.56
STONES. "AND JESUS SAID TO
THEM, 'DO YOU NOT SEE ALL THESE
00:38:47.56\00:38:51.13
THINGS? ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU,
NOT ONE STONE SHALL BE LEFT HERE
00:38:51.13\00:38:54.93
UPON ANOTHER, THAT
SHALL NOT BE THROWN DOWN.'"
00:38:54.93\00:38:57.43
IS GOD'S PRIMARY INTEREST
THE PHYSICAL CHURCH AND TEMPLE?
00:38:57.43\00:39:02.96
THE TABERNACLE THAT MOSES
BUILT - WHERE IS IT TODAY?
00:39:02.96\00:39:06.60
WE DON'T KNOW WHERE A
THREAD OF IT IS TODAY.
00:39:06.60\00:39:09.70
THE TEMPLE THAT SOLOMON BUILT -
AS GREAT AS IT WAS, WHERE IS IT
00:39:09.70\00:39:12.70
TODAY? WELL,
THERE'S A LITTLE SLIVER OF
00:39:12.70\00:39:15.53
IT LEFT OVER THERE
CALLED THE WAILING WALL.
00:39:15.53\00:39:18.63
A FEW OF THE LOWER STONES MAY
HAVE COME FROM SOLOMON'S TEMPLE
00:39:18.63\00:39:23.66
AND LATER STACKED UP
BY HEROD. NOT MUCH LEFT.
00:39:23.66\00:39:28.26
AND HEROD'S TEMPLE - ALL THAT'S
LEFT OF THAT IS, AGAIN, A FEW
00:39:28.26\00:39:31.50
STONES THAT MAY BE
IN THE WAILING WALL.
00:39:31.50\00:39:35.03
SO WHAT IS THE TEMPLE
THAT REALLY STILL EXISTS TODAY?
00:39:35.03\00:39:39.50
ALRIGHT GO AHEAD.
ARE YOU READY MIKE?
00:39:39.50\00:39:41.63
READ JOHN FOR US,
CHAPTER 2:19 AND 21.
00:39:41.63\00:39:44.80
>>JOHN 2:19 AND 21, "JESUS
ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM,
00:39:44.80\00:39:48.83
'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE, AND IN
THREE DAYS I WILL RAISE IT UP.'
00:39:48.83\00:39:53.46
THEN THE JEWS SAID, 'IT HAS
TAKEN FORTY-SIX YEARS TO BUILD
00:39:53.46\00:39:57.13
THIS TEMPLE, AND WILL YOU
RAISE IT UP IN THREE DAYS?'
00:39:57.13\00:40:00.50
BUT HE WAS SPEAKING OF
THE TEMPLE OF HIS BODY."
00:40:00.50\00:40:03.06
>>ALRIGHT, VERY GOOD.
WHO HAS MATTHEW 26:61?
00:40:03.06\00:40:07.96
WE GAVE OUT SOME VERSES.
00:40:07.96\00:40:10.30
SOMEONE - LOOK AROUND, YOU
MIGHT HAVE THE - OVER HERE?
00:40:10.30\00:40:12.20
ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET
YOU IN JUST A MINUTE JOHN.
00:40:12.20\00:40:13.70
THAT'LL BE MATTHEW 26:61
BUT BEFORE WE GET TO THAT.
00:40:13.70\00:40:16.53
WHEN JESUS MADE THAT CRYPTIC
STATEMENT, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE
00:40:16.53\00:40:21.53
AND IN THREE DAYS I'LL RAISE
IT UP.' AND THEY SAID, 'ARE YOU
00:40:21.53\00:40:23.46
MAD? IT TOOK 46 YEARS
TO BUILD THIS TEMPLE?'
00:40:23.46\00:40:26.26
NOW WHY DID IT TAKE 46
YEARS TO BUILD THE TEMPLE?
00:40:26.26\00:40:29.26
THE TEMPLE OF HAGGAI'S TIME THAT
EZRA TALKS ABOUT, IT WAS FIVE
00:40:29.26\00:40:34.76
YEARS BEING BUILT. THE
46 YEARS THEY'RE TALKING
00:40:34.76\00:40:38.20
ABOUT IS A TEMPLE
RESTORATION PROGRAM.
00:40:38.20\00:40:41.40
YOU KNOW, FROM THE TIME OF EZRA,
NEHEMIAH, HAGGAI, ZECHARIAH -
00:40:41.40\00:40:45.76
WHEN THEY FINALLY REBUILT WHAT
THEY CALLED THE THIRD TEMPLE,
00:40:45.76\00:40:48.46
THE TEMPLE JESUS CAME TO
WAS THAT SAME THIRD TEMPLE.
00:40:48.46\00:40:51.40
IT WENT THROUGH A MAJOR
RENOVATION THAT WAS STARTED EVEN
00:40:51.40\00:40:55.40
BEFORE THE TIME
OF HEROD THE GREAT.
00:40:55.40\00:40:57.93
IT WAS STARTED, ACTUALLY, DURING
THE TIME OF HEROD THE GREAT AND
00:40:57.93\00:41:00.36
COMPLETED - THEY WERE STILL
WORKING ON IT EVEN AFTER HE WAS
00:41:00.36\00:41:02.83
DEAD BUT THEY GREATLY
EMBELLISHED IT AND FIXED IT UP,
00:41:02.83\00:41:06.36
BUT IT WAS STILL
CONSIDERED THE THIRD TEMPLE.
00:41:06.36\00:41:08.66
AND SO THEY SPENT - TALK ABOUT
A 46-YEAR BUILDING PROGRAM.
00:41:08.66\00:41:12.30
OH YEAH, YOU WERE GOING
TO READ JOHN, OVER HERE.
00:41:12.30\00:41:16.16
READ MATTHEW 26:61.
>>MATTHEW 26:61, "AND SAID,
00:41:16.16\00:41:24.10
'THIS FELLOW SAID, 'I AM ABLE TO
DESTROY THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND TO
00:41:24.10\00:41:28.36
BUILD IT IN THREE DAYS.''"
>>NOW DID JESUS SAY THAT?
00:41:28.36\00:41:33.06
SOMETHING CLOSE TO THAT
BUT WHAT WAS HE TALKING ABOUT?
00:41:33.06\00:41:36.90
IT SAYS HE SPOKE OF HIS
BODY. ISN'T THAT WHAT JOHN SAID?
00:41:36.90\00:41:39.26
HIS BODY. WELL, WHAT
IS THE CHURCH CALLED?
00:41:39.26\00:41:43.00
THE BODY OF CHRIST. HIS
BODY ROSE UP IN THREE DAYS
00:41:43.00\00:41:46.03
BUT HE ALSO ROSE THE CHURCH UP
IN THREE DAYS BECAUSE THE CHURCH
00:41:46.03\00:41:48.50
WAS REALLY BORN DURING
THE RESURRECTION, RIGHT?
00:41:48.50\00:41:51.10
SAME EVENING OF THE RESURRECTION
HE KIND OF INAUGURATED THE NEW
00:41:51.10\00:41:54.73
CHURCH AND, MORE OFFICIALLY, AT
PENTECOST BUT HE'S ALSO TALKING
00:41:54.73\00:42:01.60
MORE ABOUT THAT. MARK
- YOU KNOW, DURING THE
00:42:01.60\00:42:03.73
TRIAL OF CHRIST THEY TRIED
TO GET TWO WITNESSES TO AGREE.
00:42:03.73\00:42:06.23
THE ONLY TWO WITNESSES THEY
COULD GET TO SOMEWHAT AGREE YOU
00:42:06.23\00:42:09.76
FIND IN MARK 14:57.
"THEN SOME ROSE UP AND BORE
00:42:09.76\00:42:14.66
FALSE WITNESS AGAINST
HIM, SAYING, 'WE HEARD HIM SAY,
00:42:14.66\00:42:17.16
'I WILL DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE
WITH HANDS, AND WITHIN THREE
00:42:17.16\00:42:19.93
DAYS I WILL BUILD
ANOTHER MADE WITHOUT HANDS.''
00:42:19.93\00:42:21.90
BUT NOT EVEN THEN DID
THEIR TESTIMONY AGREE."
00:42:21.90\00:42:24.36
TWO WITNESSES
SAID SOMETHING SIMILAR.
00:42:24.36\00:42:26.03
MATTER OF FACT, ONE IS IN
MARK AND ONE IS IN MATTHEW.
00:42:26.03\00:42:28.26
YOU FIND THAT THEIR
WORDING IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT.
00:42:28.26\00:42:30.36
BUT JESUS DID SAY SOMETHING LIKE
THAT: 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE
00:42:30.36\00:42:34.20
WITH HANDS AND IN THREE DAYS
I'LL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS.'
00:42:34.20\00:42:36.70
WHAT IS THAT TEMPLE?
WHEN HE WAS ON THE CROSS THEY
00:42:36.70\00:42:39.73
THREW THAT BACK
AT HIM, DIDN'T THEY?
00:42:39.73\00:42:41.63
'YOU WHO DESTROY THE TEMPLE AND
BUILD IT UP IN THREE DAYS - IF
00:42:41.63\00:42:44.10
YOU'RE SO GREAT, COME DOWN FROM
THE CROSS.' WHAT IS THE TEMPLE?
00:42:44.10\00:42:49.30
EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSE
19, "NOW, THEREFORE, YOU ARE NO
00:42:49.30\00:42:54.93
LONGER STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS,
BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE
00:42:54.93\00:42:59.03
SAINTS AND MEMBERS OF THE
HOUSEHOLD OF GOD, HAVING BEEN
00:42:59.03\00:43:02.76
BUILT ON THE FOUNDATION OF
THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, JESUS
00:43:02.76\00:43:06.46
CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF
CORNERSTONE, IN WHOM THE WHOLE
00:43:06.46\00:43:10.33
BUILDING, BEING FITTED TOGETHER,
GROWS INTO A HOLY TEMPLE IN THE
00:43:10.33\00:43:15.53
LORD, IN WHOM YOU ALSO ARE BEING
BUILT TOGETHER FOR A DWELLING
00:43:15.53\00:43:18.80
PLACE OF GOD IN THE SPIRIT."
IS THAT PRETTY CLEAR THAT GOD
00:43:18.80\00:43:22.33
STILL HAS A TEMPLE ON EARTH?
CHRIST IS THE CORNERSTONE, YOU
00:43:22.33\00:43:26.46
AND I ARE LIVING STONES. WE'RE
BRICKS IN THIS TEMPLE THAT IS
00:43:26.46\00:43:29.03
BEING - COMING TOGETHER.
THE LORD WANTS TO DWELL IN US.
00:43:29.03\00:43:32.73
OUR BODIES ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE
HOLY SPIRIT, BUT NOT JUST OUR
00:43:32.73\00:43:35.70
BODIES. YOU KNOW, ANOTHER TIME
HE SAID, 'WHAT, DO YOU NOT KNOW
00:43:35.70\00:43:38.96
THAT YE COLLECTIVELY' - 1
CORINTHIANS - 'ARE THE TEMPLE
00:43:38.96\00:43:43.56
OF GOD?' NOT JUST YOUR
BODY, YOU AND - COLLECTIVELY
00:43:43.56\00:43:47.86
AS A GROUP ARE THE TEMPLE.
LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE.
00:43:47.86\00:43:50.00
1 PETER 2, VERSES 4 AND 5,
"COMING TO HIM AS TO A LIVING
00:43:50.00\00:43:57.36
STONE, REJECTED INDEED BY MEN,
BUT CHOSEN BY GOD AND PRECIOUS,
00:43:57.36\00:44:02.96
YOU ALSO, AS LIVING STONES,
ARE BEING BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL
00:44:02.96\00:44:06.53
HOUSE, A HOLY PRIESTHOOD, TO
OFFER UP SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES
00:44:06.53\00:44:10.86
ACCEPTABLE TO GOD
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST."
00:44:10.86\00:44:14.10
AND SO, DOES GOD
STILL HAVE A TEMPLE TODAY?
00:44:14.10\00:44:18.63
WE'RE TO BE THAT LIVING TEMPLE.
DOES HE STILL HAVE A PRIESTHOOD?
00:44:18.63\00:44:21.30
YEAH, HE'S GOT THIS SPIRITUAL
PRIESTHOOD. MATTER OF FACT, EVEN
00:44:21.30\00:44:24.16
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT HE
CALLED THEM A NATION OF PRIESTS.
00:44:24.16\00:44:27.43
THEY WERE TO BE PRIESTS TO THE
WORLD AND HELP MAKE ATONEMENT TO
00:44:27.43\00:44:30.36
THE WORLD AND BRING
THE GENTILE NATIONS TO GOD.
00:44:30.36\00:44:32.93
NOW, WITH THAT IN MIND, HOW DO
WE APPLY HAGGAI'S MESSAGE TODAY?
00:44:32.93\00:44:37.40
WHAT DOES GOD SAY ABOUT TITHING?
AND, BY THE WAY, THAT'S MALACHI
00:44:37.40\00:44:40.33
WHO'S ANOTHER MINOR PROPHET
DURING THE SAME TIME PERIOD.
00:44:40.33\00:44:43.23
HE SAYS, IF YOU'RE FAITHFUL
IN TITHE, WHAT WILL HE DO TO THE
00:44:43.23\00:44:46.03
PESTILENCE? 'I'LL
REBUKE THE DEVOURER.'
00:44:46.03\00:44:49.23
THE THINGS THAT DEVOUR
OUR INCREASE WILL BE REBUKED.
00:44:49.23\00:44:52.53
'I'LL BLESS THE OTHER 90 PERCENT
YOU HAVE LEFT IF YOU'RE FAITHFUL
00:44:52.53\00:44:55.63
IN PAYING YOUR
TITHE AND YOUR OFFERING.
00:44:55.63\00:44:57.70
SO THAT WOULD BE EVEN LESS THAN
90 PERCENT, BUT HE'LL BLESS THE
00:44:57.70\00:45:00.80
REMAINDER IF WE'RE FAITHFUL.
IF WE DO NOT PUT GOD IN HIS
00:45:00.80\00:45:05.80
TEMPLE FIRST - NOW, WHAT IS
THE TEMPLE? IT'S THE PEOPLE.
00:45:05.80\00:45:10.46
IT'S THE CHURCH.
IT'S THE WORK OF GOD.
00:45:10.46\00:45:14.43
IF WE ARE THINKING ABOUT
OUR HOUSE AND WE'RE NOT THINKING
00:45:14.43\00:45:17.43
ABOUT HIS HOUSE, OUR
PRIORITIES ARE MESSED UP.
00:45:17.43\00:45:20.96
NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN SOLOMON AND HEZEKIAH.
00:45:20.96\00:45:25.10
FIRST OF ALL, WAS HEZEKIAH
A GOOD KING OR A BAD KING?
00:45:25.10\00:45:28.93
GOOD KING. SOLOMON - AT
LEAST AT THE BEGINNING -
00:45:28.93\00:45:32.80
GOOD KING OR
BAD KING? GOOD KING.
00:45:32.80\00:45:35.10
YOU NOTICE WHEN SOLOMON -
YOU LOOK IN 1 KINGS CHAPTER 3,
00:45:35.10\00:45:38.46
'SOLOMON LOVED THE LORD WALKING
IN ALL THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE
00:45:38.46\00:45:40.50
LORD.' AND THEN
GOD APPEARS TO SOLOMON
00:45:40.50\00:45:42.76
AND HE SAYS, 'ASK
WHAT I'LL DO FOR YOU.'
00:45:42.76\00:45:44.23
AND HE WAS SO HUMBLE HE
SAID, 'LORD, YOUR KINGDOM.
00:45:44.23\00:45:46.46
IT'S YOUR KINGDOM. YOUR KINGDOM
- WHAT CAN I - I NEED WISDOM.'
00:45:46.46\00:45:49.40
GOD GAVE HIM WISDOM.
WHAT'S THE FIRST THING
00:45:49.40\00:45:51.00
SOLOMON DID? BUILT
THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD.
00:45:51.00\00:45:54.23
GOD WORKS A MIRACLE FOR
HEZEKIAH, MAKES THE SUN GO
00:45:54.23\00:45:58.00
BACKWARDS - EVEN AMBASSADORS
FROM BABYLON COME TO FIND OUT
00:45:58.00\00:46:01.20
ABOUT GOD. 'TELL
US ABOUT YOUR GOD.
00:46:01.20\00:46:03.90
SHOW US YOUR TEMPLE.'
AND INSTEAD OF SHOWING THE
00:46:03.90\00:46:05.93
TEMPLE, WHERE DOES
HEZEKIAH TAKE HIM? TO HIS HOUSE.
00:46:05.93\00:46:09.53
HE SAID, 'DO YOU WANT TO SEE
MY HOUSE? LOOK AT MY VERANDA.
00:46:09.53\00:46:12.83
LOOK AT MY BALCONY.
LOOK AT MY OINTMENTS.
00:46:12.83\00:46:15.10
LOOK AT MY ARMORY - MY SECURITY
SYSTEM. LOOK AT MY STUFF.'
00:46:15.10\00:46:19.26
AND ISAIAH SAID,
'WHAT DID THEY SEE?'
00:46:19.26\00:46:20.73
'I SHOWED THEM EVERYTHING
IN MY HOUSE.' MY HOUSE.
00:46:20.73\00:46:23.36
HE SAID, 'YOU'RE
GOING TO LOSE EVERYTHING.
00:46:23.36\00:46:26.20
IT'S ALL GOING TO GET CARRIED TO
BABYLON BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T SEEK
00:46:26.20\00:46:28.03
FIRST GOD'S KINGDOM.' THAT
TWO - THOSE TWO PRINCIPLES,
00:46:28.03\00:46:32.40
WE ALL HAVE IN OUR HEARTS.
KAREN AND I SOMETIMES ENJOY
00:46:32.40\00:46:37.93
WATCHING A PROGRAM WHERE THEY
SHOW PEOPLE RENOVATING THEIR
00:46:37.93\00:46:40.76
HOUSES AND THEN THEY'VE GOT THIS
OTHER PROGRAM - I'M EMBARRASSED
00:46:40.76\00:46:43.73
TO TELL YOU THIS BUT
I'M JUST BARING MY SOUL.
00:46:43.73\00:46:47.16
THEY'VE GOT THIS PROGRAM - THEY
GO AROUND THE WORLD AND LOOK AT
00:46:47.16\00:46:49.36
THESE BEAUTIFUL HOMES AND THESE
BEAUTIFUL BEACHES AND ISLANDS
00:46:49.36\00:46:52.53
AND STUFF. AND
I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU,
00:46:52.53\00:46:53.83
FRIENDS, I COVET A LITTLE
BIT WHEN I LOOK AT ALL OF THAT.
00:46:53.83\00:46:56.33
I THINK, 'WELL, I WOULDN'T
MIND LIVING IN THAT HOUSE.
00:46:56.33\00:46:59.20
THAT'D BE PRETTY NICE. AND
IT'S SO EASY FOR US TO THINK
00:46:59.20\00:47:03.03
ABOUT WHAT KIND OF RETIREMENT
HOUSE WOULD I HAVE AND - WE ALL
00:47:03.03\00:47:06.03
WANT TO BE COMFORTABLE.
RIGHT NOW, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT
00:47:06.03\00:47:09.23
YOU BUT WE'VE BEEN DOING A
LITTLE SPRING CLEANING AND YOU
00:47:09.23\00:47:11.36
WANT TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR HOUSE.
BUT WE CAN GET SO PREOCCUPIED
00:47:11.36\00:47:14.76
WITH OUR HOUSES WE FORGET ABOUT
GOD'S HOUSE. AND THAT'S JUST -
00:47:14.76\00:47:19.50
NOT JUST THE BUILDING. WE
HAD A WORK BEE HERE NOT TOO
00:47:19.50\00:47:22.33
LONG AGO. IT'S GOOD TO DO
SPRING CLEANING AND TAKE CARE OF
00:47:22.33\00:47:24.70
THE CHURCH, BUT
IT'S THE WORK OF GOD.
00:47:24.70\00:47:27.90
GOD HAS A HOUSE NOT JUST
IN SACRAMENTO OR WHATEVER TOWN
00:47:27.90\00:47:30.23
YOU'RE WATCHING FROM,
BUT IT'S ALL OVER THE WORLD.
00:47:30.23\00:47:32.83
AND WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT
HIS CHURCH AND THE MISSION OF
00:47:32.83\00:47:37.43
HIS CHURCH AND
BUILDING UP THE CHURCH.
00:47:37.43\00:47:44.80
WAS THE OLD TESTAMENT THE ONLY
TIME THE WALLS OF GOD HAD BEEN
00:47:44.80\00:47:47.03
BROKEN DOWN? COULD
IT BE THAT EVEN TODAY
00:47:47.03\00:47:51.13
THERE ARE BREACHES IN THE WALLS?
WHAT MADE NEHEMIAH SO SAD? HE
00:47:51.13\00:47:56.56
WEPT BEFORE THE KING BECAUSE, HE
SAID, 'THE CITY'S BROKEN DOWN.
00:47:56.56\00:48:01.36
STILL GOT A CITY, BUT THERE
ARE BREACHES IN THE WALLS.'
00:48:01.36\00:48:04.26
WILL WE - WILL WE MEET WITH
OPPOSITION FROM THE ENEMY WHEN
00:48:04.26\00:48:08.60
WE TRY TO BUILD UP THE
CITY AND THE TEMPLE OF GOD?
00:48:08.60\00:48:11.93
DID THEY MEET WITH OPPOSITION?
EVEN IN THE PROPHECY ABOUT JESUS
00:48:11.93\00:48:15.06
IT SAID, 'THE STREET AND
THE WALL WILL BE BUILT AGAIN IN
00:48:15.06\00:48:17.90
TROUBLOUS TIMES.'
WHENEVER YOU'RE BUILDING UP THE
00:48:17.90\00:48:21.13
TEMPLE OF GOD IT'S GOING TO
BE TROUBLOUS TIMES BECAUSE THE
00:48:21.13\00:48:23.80
DEVIL'S NOT GOING TO STAND BACK
AND SAY - APPLAUD - 'HERE'S SOME
00:48:23.80\00:48:26.80
MONEY, GO AHEAD AND BUILD.'
IT'S ALWAYS WITH OPPOSITION YOU
00:48:26.80\00:48:30.26
TRY TO BUILD UP THE CHURCH OF
GOD. IT'S ALWAYS WITH OPPOSITION
00:48:30.26\00:48:33.40
YOU TRY TO BUILD UP THE
TEMPLE OF GOD IN YOUR BODY.
00:48:33.40\00:48:36.83
WHENEVER YOU TRY AND HAVE REFORM
AND YOU TRY AND BUILD THINGS UP
00:48:36.83\00:48:39.13
AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY
PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY,
00:48:39.13\00:48:41.80
YOU'RE GOING TO FIND ALL KINDS
OF TEMPTATION AND OPPOSITION
00:48:41.80\00:48:44.63
FROM THE DEVIL AND CIRCUMSTANCES
AND THE DEVIL JUST DOESN'T WANT
00:48:44.63\00:48:48.73
TO SEE THE TEMPLE BUILT UP.
AND GOD THEN SAYS - WE'RE UNDER
00:48:48.73\00:48:53.26
THIS NEXT SECTION - 'DO NOT
FEAR' DO NOT BE AFRAID BECAUSE
00:48:53.26\00:48:58.96
HE WILL SUPPORT.
I'M GOING TO JUMP AHEAD.
00:48:58.96\00:49:01.00
'GOD'S GREATEST PROMISE'.
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME, PLEASE,
00:49:01.00\00:49:04.23
ISAIAH 41:10. WHO HAS THAT?
WE'VE GOT A HAND BACK HERE.
00:49:04.23\00:49:09.30
I THINK, VIRGINIA?
LET'S GET HER A MICROPHONE.
00:49:09.30\00:49:11.20
HOLD YOUR HAND UP
SO THEY SEE IT, OKAY?
00:49:11.20\00:49:14.80
AND WHILE - YEAH, WHILE YOU'RE
TAKING THE MIC BACK THERE, LET'S
00:49:14.80\00:49:17.60
TALK ABOUT GOD'S GREATEST
PROMISE. GENESIS 28:15-18.
00:49:17.60\00:49:21.93
FOUR WORDS, 'I AM WITH YOU.'
THAT'S THE GREATEST PROMISE.
00:49:21.93\00:49:30.40
'I AM' - WHAT HAPPENED
TO ADAM AND EVE AFTER SIN?
00:49:30.40\00:49:33.76
THEY WERE SEPARATED FROM GOD.
THEY RAN FROM GOD, HE DIDN'T RUN
00:49:33.76\00:49:37.43
FROM THEM. BUT
THEY WERE SEPARATED.
00:49:37.43\00:49:38.96
YOUR SINS HAVE
SEPARATED YOU FROM GOD.
00:49:38.96\00:49:40.73
WHAT IS THE PURPOSE
OF THE PLAN OF SALVATION?
00:49:40.73\00:49:43.33
BRING US BACK TOGETHER
AGAIN. ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
00:49:43.33\00:49:46.80
TO BE RECONCILED WITH GOD.
SO WHEN GOD SAID IN GENESIS 28,
00:49:46.80\00:49:51.10
TO JACOB, 'I AM WITH YOU.
BEHOLD, I AM WITH YOU AND WILL
00:49:51.10\00:49:54.20
KEEP YOU WHEREVER YOU GO,
AND WILL BRING YOU BACK TO THIS
00:49:54.20\00:49:56.00
LAND; FOR I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU
UNTIL I HAVE DONE WHAT I HAVE
00:49:56.00\00:49:58.73
SPOKEN TO YOU.'" I
LIKE WHAT HE SAID TO GIDEON.
00:49:58.73\00:50:03.03
SOMETIMES IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE
GOD'S WITH US AND THAT'S HOW
00:50:03.03\00:50:05.33
GIDEON RESPONDED.
JUDGES 6:12, "AND THE ANGEL OF
00:50:05.33\00:50:08.36
THE LORD APPEARED TO HIM, AND
SAID TO HIM, 'THE LORD IS WITH
00:50:08.36\00:50:10.83
YOU, YOU MIGHTY MAN OF VALOR!'"
AND GIDEON SAID, 'O, IF THE
00:50:10.83\00:50:13.36
LORD IS WITH US THEN WHY
ARE WE HAVING SO MUCH TROUBLE?'
00:50:13.36\00:50:16.80
COULD THE LORD STILL BE
WITH YOU AND YOU HAVING TROUBLE?
00:50:16.80\00:50:20.33
MATTER OF FACT, SOMETIMES THAT'S
WHAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
00:50:20.33\00:50:22.96
SAID, 'GOD WENT TO PHARAOH
AND SAID, 'LET MY PEOPLE GO' AND
00:50:22.96\00:50:24.86
THINGS GOT WORSE.
00:50:24.86\00:50:26.73
THEN THEY WOULDN'T EVEN GIVE
THEM STRAW TO MAKE BRICK AND
00:50:26.73\00:50:29.46
THEN THEY CHASED AFTER THEM AND
THEY SAID, 'OH, IT WOULD HAVE
00:50:29.46\00:50:32.06
BEEN BETTER TO DIE IN EGYPT.'
AND SO, WHENEVER YOU'RE TRYING
00:50:32.06\00:50:35.13
TO DO GOD'S WILL AND FOLLOW GOD,
YOU'RE GOING TO SAY, 'IF GOD'S
00:50:35.13\00:50:38.70
WITH US, WHY ARE WE
HAVING ALL THESE PROBLEMS?'
00:50:38.70\00:50:41.90
LOOK AT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL
GOING THROUGH THE WILDERNESS.
00:50:41.90\00:50:44.20
DID THEY HAVE PROBLEMS?
WAS GOD WITH THEM? YEAH.
00:50:44.20\00:50:48.26
HE'S STILL WITH HIS PEOPLE.
ALRIGHT, READ FOR US PLEASE
00:50:48.26\00:50:51.63
ISAIAH 41:10.
>>ISAIAH 41:10, "FEAR NOT, FOR
00:50:51.63\00:50:56.53
I AM WITH YOU; BE NOT
DISMAYED, FOR I AM YOUR GOD.
00:50:56.53\00:51:01.46
I WILL STRENGTHEN YOU, YES, I
WILL HELP YOU, I WILL UPHOLD YOU
00:51:01.46\00:51:06.86
WITH MY RIGHTEOUS RIGHT HAND."
00:51:06.86\00:51:09.50
>>THAT'S THE GREATEST
PROMISE OF ALL, 'I AM WITH YOU.'
00:51:09.50\00:51:13.10
MATTHEW 28, JESUS SAID,
'LO I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS.'
00:51:13.10\00:51:16.53
AT THE END OF HIS LIFE
HE SAYS, 'I AM WITH YOU.'
00:51:16.53\00:51:18.60
AND WHAT'S THE PROMISE
ABOUT CHRIST WHEN HE FIRST CAME?
00:51:18.60\00:51:21.30
HIS NAME WILL BE
CALLED IMMANUEL, WHICH MEANS
00:51:21.30\00:51:23.90
'GOD WITH US'. THEN
YOU GET TO REVELATION -
00:51:23.90\00:51:26.60
WHAT'S THE ULTIMATE
PROMISE IN REVELATION?
00:51:26.60\00:51:29.30
"I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN
SAYING" - 21:3 - REVELATION 21:3
00:51:29.30\00:51:33.26
- "BEHOLD THE TABERNACLE OF GOD
IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL
00:51:33.26\00:51:37.46
WITH THEM, AND THEY
SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE.
00:51:37.46\00:51:40.06
GOD HIMSELF WILL BE
WITH THEM AND BE THEIR GOD."
00:51:40.06\00:51:43.70
WOW, ISN'T THAT THE
BEST THING ABOUT HEAVEN?
00:51:43.70\00:51:46.03
EXCEPT WE WON'T
HAVE ANY OPPOSITION THEN.
00:51:46.03\00:51:48.40
NOW, I TOLD YOU I WAS
SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST.
00:51:48.40\00:51:50.63
WHY WAS THIS TEMPLE, THIS SECOND
TEMPLE THAT HAGGAI PROPHESIED
00:51:50.63\00:51:54.73
ABOUT, GOING TO BE GREATER
THAN THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON?
00:51:54.73\00:51:59.43
DO YOU REALIZE WHEN MOSES
DEDICATED THE TEMPLE IN THE
00:51:59.43\00:52:02.26
WILDERNESS THE GLORY
CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN?
00:52:02.26\00:52:04.83
FIRE CAME FROM HEAVEN
DOWN ON THE SACRIFICE.
00:52:04.83\00:52:07.30
FIRE FELL FROM HEAVEN TO SHOW
HIS APPROVAL OF THIS TEMPLE.
00:52:07.30\00:52:10.30
WHEN SOLOMON BUILT HIS
TEMPLE THE SAME THING HAPPENED.
00:52:10.30\00:52:13.06
THAT WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST
MIRACLES OF SOLOMON'S LIFE - A
00:52:13.06\00:52:15.23
VISUAL - LIKE ELIJAH - FIRE CAME
DOWN, CONSUMED THE SACRIFICE,
00:52:15.23\00:52:20.03
FILLED THE TEMPLE WITH GLORY.
THE PRIESTS COULDN'T EVEN GO IN
00:52:20.03\00:52:22.56
TO SOLOMON'S TEMPLE BECAUSE
OF THE GLORY IN THE TEMPLE.
00:52:22.56\00:52:25.66
AND NOW THEY'VE BUILT THIS
COMPARATIVELY SMALL SHED THEY'RE
00:52:25.66\00:52:30.03
CALLING A TEMPLE. I
MEAN, IT WAS PRETTY MAJESTIC
00:52:30.03\00:52:31.80
BUT COMPARED TO THE
OTHERS IT WASN'T ANYTHING.
00:52:31.80\00:52:34.30
AND GOD SAID, 'DON'T YOU FEAR.'
HE SAYS IN HAGGAI 2, VERSE 3,
00:52:34.30\00:52:41.36
"WHO IS LEFT AMONG YOU WHO SAW
THIS TEMPLE IN ITS FORMER GLORY?
00:52:41.36\00:52:44.66
AND HOW DO YOU SEE IT NOW?
00:52:44.66\00:52:46.43
IN COMPARISON WITH IT, IS THIS
NOT IN YOUR EYES AS NOTHING?"
00:52:46.43\00:52:50.80
BUT THEN HE SAYS - GO TO VERSE
6 - HAGGAI 2:6 - "FOR THUS SAYS
00:52:50.80\00:52:54.80
THE LORD OF HOSTS: 'ONCE
MORE (IT IS A LITTLE WHILE) I
00:52:54.80\00:52:57.86
WILL SHAKE HEAVEN AND EARTH,
THE SEA AND DRY LAND; AND I WILL
00:52:57.86\00:53:00.56
SHAKE ALL NATIONS, AND THEY
SHALL COME TO THE DESIRE OF ALL
00:53:00.56\00:53:04.76
NATIONS,'" - YOU EVER READ
THAT BOOK 'DESIRE OF AGES'?
00:53:04.76\00:53:07.56
IT'S BASED ON THIS VERSE - "'THE
DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS, AND I
00:53:07.56\00:53:11.60
WILL FILL THIS TEMPLE WITH
GLORY,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS."
00:53:11.60\00:53:17.53
AND THEN YOU GO TO VERSE 9,
"THE GLORY OF THIS LATTER TEMPLE
00:53:17.53\00:53:21.06
SHALL BE GREATER THAN THE
FORMER,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS.
00:53:21.06\00:53:25.00
'AND IN THIS PLACE I WILL GIVE
PEACE,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS."
00:53:25.00\00:53:28.13
WHY COULD HE SAY THAT THE GLORY
OF THIS TEMPLE WOULD BE GREATER?
00:53:28.13\00:53:31.43
LUKE 2, VERSE 46, "NOW SO IT WAS
THAT AFTER THREE DAYS" - JESUS
00:53:31.43\00:53:41.43
IS 12 YEARS OLD, HE GOES TO
JERUSALEM WITH HIS PARENTS FOR
00:53:41.43\00:53:45.13
THE FEAST, THEY LOSE TRACK OF
HIM AND THEY SEARCH EVERYWHERE
00:53:45.13\00:53:49.03
AND FINALLY THEY BACKTRACK.
IT SAYS, "I WAS THAT AFTER THREE
00:53:49.03\00:53:52.56
DAYS THEY FOUND
HIM IN THE TEMPLE."
00:53:52.56\00:53:55.46
WHO ACTUALLY CAME
TO THAT TEMPLE? JESUS.
00:53:55.46\00:54:03.03
GOD, THE MESSIAH HIMSELF,
WOULD COME TO THIS THIRD TEMPLE.
00:54:03.03\00:54:08.23
THAT'S WHY THE GLORY OF
THIS TEMPLE WOULD BE GREATER.
00:54:08.23\00:54:10.66
JESUS SAID IN MATTHEW 21, VERSE
13, HE SAID, "'IT IS WRITTEN,
00:54:10.66\00:54:15.53
'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A
HOUSE OF PRAYER,' BUT YOU HAVE
00:54:15.53\00:54:18.03
MADE IT A 'DEN OF THIEVES.'"
WHEN JESUS - IF YOU COULD SEE
00:54:18.03\00:54:20.76
A VIDEO OF THAT DAY WHEN JESUS
WAS IN THE COURTYARD AND THEY
00:54:20.76\00:54:23.70
WERE SELLING ALL THE GOATS AND
THE DOVES AND THE SHEEP AND HE
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CHASED THEM OUT, DIVINITY
FLASHED THROUGH HIM THAT DAY IN
00:54:26.43\00:54:31.03
THE TEMPLE AND IT SENT THEM ALL
SCURRYING OUT OF THERE TAKING
00:54:31.03\00:54:34.16
THEIR FLEA MARKET
APPARATUS WITH THEM.
00:54:34.16\00:54:36.63
THE GLORY - IT SAYS, 'THE ZEAL
OF THINE HOUSE HAS EATEN ME UP.'
00:54:36.63\00:54:39.80
THE GLORY OF GOD DID APPEAR
IN THAT TEMPLE. JESUS CAME.
00:54:39.80\00:54:44.40
YOU REMEMBER WHEN MARY MAGDALENE
WAS CAUGHT IN ADULTERY IN THAT
00:54:44.40\00:54:46.80
TEMPLE AND HE SPOKE THERE AND
HE SENT ALL OF HER ACCUSERS OUT.
00:54:46.80\00:54:51.23
HE FORGAVE HER THERE IN THAT
TEMPLE AND THEN ALL THE CHILDREN
00:54:51.23\00:54:53.23
CAME INTO THE TEMPLE AND THEY
WERE SINGING, 'HOSANNA TO THE
00:54:53.23\00:54:56.76
SON OF DAVID' IN THAT TEMPLE.
AND SO, HE SPENT A LOT OF TIME
00:54:56.76\00:54:59.56
TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE.
IT SAYS, 'DAILY HE WAS IN THE
00:54:59.56\00:55:01.96
TEMPLE'. AND SO
THE GLORY OF THE THIRD
00:55:01.96\00:55:04.23
TEMPLE IS BECAUSE THE
MESSIAH WAS IN THAT TEMPLE.
00:55:04.23\00:55:08.53
FINALLY, LAST - LAST PART OF
HAGGAI - I'VE GOT JUST A MOMENT
00:55:08.53\00:55:12.66
OR TWO - IT SAYS, 'THE LORD'S
SIGNET RING' - YOU CAN READ IN
00:55:12.66\00:55:16.90
HAGGAI WHERE IT TELLS ABOUT
ZERUBBABEL WOULD BE LIKE THE
00:55:16.90\00:55:19.96
LORD'S SIGNET RING. NOW
WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT
00:55:19.96\00:55:22.96
ZERUBBABEL IS, FOR ONE THING,
HIS NAME IS FUN TO SAY, RIGHT?
00:55:22.96\00:55:27.33
HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE THAT ON
YOUR LIST OF BABY NAMES FOR YOUR
00:55:27.33\00:55:30.96
CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN?
ZERUBBABEL - THEY'D HAVE A HARD
00:55:30.96\00:55:35.06
TIME AT SCHOOL, WOULDN'T THEY?
YOU KNOW WHAT'S INTERESTING
00:55:35.06\00:55:37.73
ABOUT THAT GUY WITH
THE INTERESTING NAME?
00:55:37.73\00:55:40.20
YOU TRACE THE GENEALOGY OF MARY
AND THEN YOU TRACE THE GENEALOGY
00:55:40.20\00:55:44.50
OF DAVID - OF JESUS - THROUGH
JOSEPH AND THEY'RE A LITTLE
00:55:44.50\00:55:48.70
PARALLEL BUT THEY'RE SEPARATE.
YOU KNOW WHERE THEY CROSS OVER?
00:55:48.70\00:55:51.80
A GUY NAMED ZERUBBABEL.
ZERUBBABEL WAS A DESCENDENT OF
00:55:51.80\00:55:55.20
DAVID AND BOTH THE GENEALOGY OF
DAVID TRACKS BACK TO ZERUBBABEL
00:55:55.20\00:56:00.10
AND THE GENEALOGY OF JOSEPH
- MARY, RATHER, AND JOSEPH BOTH
00:56:00.10\00:56:05.06
TRACK BACK TO HIM BECAUSE HE
WAS A DESCENDENT OF KING DAVID.
00:56:05.06\00:56:08.60
FURTHERMORE, DURING THE TIME
OF ZERUBBABEL, HE WAS A GOVERNOR
00:56:08.60\00:56:12.03
WHO OVERSAW THE
BUILDING OF THE HOUSE.
00:56:12.03\00:56:15.26
HE IS ANOTHER TYPE OF
CHRIST. HE IS A SON OF DAVID.
00:56:15.26\00:56:18.16
HE BROUGHT THEM FROM CAPTIVITY
OF BABYLON TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:56:18.16\00:56:21.80
DOESN'T JESUS BRING US FROM
CAPTIVITY TO THE PROMISED LAND?
00:56:21.80\00:56:24.73
NO - WAIT, WAIT - I KNOW I'M
OUT OF TIME, BUT JUST LISTEN.
00:56:24.73\00:56:27.00
THIS IS IMPORTANT. WHY
DOES HE SAY 'SIGNET RING'?
00:56:27.00\00:56:30.43
IT IS A REVERSAL OF WHAT HE SAID
ABOUT THE SIGNET RING BEFORE
00:56:30.43\00:56:34.36
THEY WENT TO BABYLON.
00:56:34.36\00:56:35.80
THE SON OF DAVID,
JECONIAH, HE WAS AN EVIL KING.
00:56:35.80\00:56:40.46
HE WAS THE SON OF JOSIAH WHO
WAS GOOD, BUT JECONIAH WAS BAD.
00:56:40.46\00:56:43.73
AND IT SAID IN JEREMIAH 22:24,
'THOUGH HE WERE THIS SIGNET ON
00:56:43.73\00:56:47.73
MY RIGHT HAND, YET I WOULD PLUCK
HIM OUT; AND GIVE HIM INTO THE
00:56:47.73\00:56:50.93
HAND OF THOSE
THAT SEEK HIS LIFE.'
00:56:50.93\00:56:52.46
A SIGNET WAS THE CLOSEST THING
YOU HAD - IT WAS YOUR SEAL, IT
00:56:52.46\00:56:55.23
WAS YOUR AUTHORITY,
IT WAS YOUR PIN NUMBER.
00:56:55.23\00:56:57.50
AND IT SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, EVEN
THOUGH IF HE WAS A SIGNET ON MY
00:56:57.50\00:57:01.06
HAND, BECAUSE YOU'VE TURNED
FROM ME I GIVE HIM TO THE ENEMY.
00:57:01.06\00:57:04.53
NOW, THE ANCESTOR OF DAVID,
AFTER THE CAPTIVITY, COMES BACK
00:57:04.53\00:57:10.23
AND GOD SAYS, 'HE WILL
BE MY SIGNET ON MY HAND.
00:57:10.23\00:57:13.03
I'M GOING TO
RESTORE MY SUPPORT FOR HIM.'
00:57:13.03\00:57:16.26
AND SO HE WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST
AND HE HELPED BUILD UP THE
00:57:16.26\00:57:18.63
TEMPLE LIKE JESUS. HE
BROUGHT THEM OUT OF CAPTIVITY
00:57:18.63\00:57:21.70
LIKE JESUS, AND HE DEFENDED THEM
FROM THEIR ENEMIES, LIKE JESUS.
00:57:21.70\00:57:25.43
AND SO, THERE'S
A LOT MORE THERE.
00:57:25.43\00:57:26.93
SIGNET RING, WHAT DID GOD - WHAT
DID THE KING GIVE TO ESTHER TO
00:57:26.93\00:57:32.86
SAVE THEM FROM THE
PLOT TO DESTROY THEM?
00:57:32.86\00:57:35.63
HE SAID, 'HERE'S MY RING.
I'LL LET YOU MAKE A LAW THAT
00:57:35.63\00:57:38.50
WILL DELIVER YOU.'
WHAT DID THE FATHER GIVE THE
00:57:38.50\00:57:40.96
PRODIGAL SON WHEN HE CAME HOME
AS A SIGN THAT HE WAS BACK AS
00:57:40.96\00:57:44.43
PART OF THE FAMILY?
IT WAS THE SIGNET RING -
00:57:44.43\00:57:46.16
FAMILY SEAL. IT WAS
THE KEY TO THE SAFETY
00:57:46.16\00:57:49.23
DEPOSIT BOX SO TO SPEAK.
SO ANYWAY, WE'VE RUN OUT OF
00:57:49.23\00:57:52.16
TIME. A LOT YOU
CAN LEARN FROM HAGGAI.
00:57:52.16\00:57:54.03
YOU COULD READ IT
IN JUST 20 MINUTES.
00:57:54.03\00:57:56.83
IT'S PRETTY EASY. (MUSIC)
00:57:56.83\00:57:57.83