Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021323
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00:46 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:50 WE ARE COMING TO YOU, LIKE WE DO EVERY WEEK, LIVE. 00:53 IF YOU'RE WATCHING ON OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR 00:57 IF YOU'RE LISTENING ON THE RADIO OR TUNING IN TO THE VARIOUS 01:01 TELEVISION NETWORKS - HOWEVER YOU ARE JOINING US - 01:04 A VERY BIG WELCOME. AND WE'RE SO EXCITED TO HAVE YOU 01:07 JOINING US AROUND THE PLANET AND, OF COURSE, EVERYONE THAT IS 01:10 OHERE THIS MORNING, OUR VISITORS AND OUR REGULARS. 01:14 WE LOOK FORWARD TO SINGING TOGETHER, OPENING UP GOD'S WORD 01:18 AND STUDYING TOGETHER, AND SPENDING SOME TIME WORSHIPING 01:23 OUR HEAVENLY FATHER. IF YOU WILL NOTICE BEHIND ME 01:26 IT'S NOT THE USUAL SIGHT. WE'RE GOING TO DO SOMETHING 01:29 DIFFERENT TODAY AND I AM VERY EXCITED TO INTRODUCE TO YOU - 01:32 IT'S NOT FOR THE FIRST TIME BECAUSE I THINK WE'VE BEEN 01:35 HAVING THE ORANGEVALE ADVENTIST SCHOOL GIRLS' CHORUS FOR SEVERAL 01:39 YEARS NOW. THEY WERE HERE LAST YEAR AND 01:42 THEY'RE BACK AGAIN AS YOU CAN SEE. WE LOVE HAVING THEM. 01:46 WE LOVE HAVING YOUNG PEOPLE INVOLVED IN OUR SERVICES. 01:51 AND SO, TODAY, THEY'RE GOING TO BE SINGING TWO SONGS FOR US AND 01:54 I WILL TELL YOU A LITTLE ABOUT THESE GIRLS. THEY ARE GRADES 01:58 5 THROUGH 8 WHICH MEANS AGES 10 TO 14 AND THIS GROUP HAS BEEN - 02:04 HOW MANY YEARS HAVE YOU HAD THIS GROUP BRAD? 02:06 TWELVE YEARS SO, OF COURSE, IT'S NOT THE SAME ONES BECAUSE THEY 02:09 GRADUATE BUT THEY HAVE BEEN SINGING FOR 12 YEARS AND THIS 02:14 YEAR THEY STARTED A BOYS' SINGING GROUP SO WE HAVEN'T 02:17 HEARD THEM ON THE AIR YET BUT, HOPEFULLY, NEXT YEAR WE'LL HAVE 02:21 THE BOYS AS WELL. THEY'RE GOING TO BE SINGING 02:23 'HOPE OF THE NATIONS' AND 'SHINE ON US' AND BRAD DAVIS IS THEIR 02:27 PRINCIPAL AND HE IS ALSO THEIR PIANIST. 02:31 AND ONE MORE THING ABOUT THE GROUP - THE LITTLE BLOND GIRL 02:35 RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE - THE CUTE ONE WITH GLASSES - SHE WAS A 02:39 FLOWER GIRL IN MY WEDDING SO, OF COURSE, WHEN I SEE ELSA I FEEL 02:43 REALLY OLD. SO THEY'RE GOING TO SING FOR US 02:46 AT THIS TIME - 'HOPE OF THE NATIONS' AND 'SHINE ON US'. 02:54 (MUSIC) 09:40 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH, ORANGEVALE ADVENTIST SCHOOL GIRLS' CHORUS. 09:44 WASN'T THAT LOVELY? I LOVE GROUPS AND HARMONY AND 09:49 THEY DEFINITELY HAVE LOVELY HARMONY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. 09:54 AT THIS TIME IN OUR PROGRAM LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER 09:57 BEFORE WE HAVE OUR LESSON STUDY. FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO 10:01 MUCH FOR BLESSING US WITH THE SPECIAL MUSIC THAT WE'VE BEEN 10:05 ABLE TO LISTEN TO. I PRAY THAT YOU'LL BE WITH THE 10:08 ORANGEVALE ADVENTIST SCHOOL AS THEY FINISH OUT THE SCHOOL YEAR. 10:14 WE HAVE SO MANY YOUNG PEOPLE IN THIS CHURCH, IN SACRAMENTO, 10:20 AROUND THE WORLD AND I JUST PRAY THAT YOU WOULD BE WITH YOUNG 10:24 PEOPLE AS THEY ARE ASKING QUESTIONS AND THEY ARE 10:26 STRUGGLING AND THEY'RE LOOKING FOR WHO THEY ARE. 10:31 AND IT'S NOT JUST YOUNG PEOPLE THAT ARE DOING THAT, BUT I PRAY 10:35 THAT YOU WOULD MAKE YOURSELF REAL AND THAT YOU WOULD IMPRESS 10:40 UPON EACH OF OUR HEARTS HOW WE NEED TO BE SO THAT WE CAN BE 10:48 LIKE YOU. FATHER, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 10:51 LOVING US, FOR DYING FOR US, AND FOR GIVING US THE HOPE THAT ONE 10:56 DAY SOON YOU WILL COME AND TAKE US HOME. 11:00 THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PASTOR DOUG AND HIS MINISTRY HERE AT 11:03 CENTRAL AND AROUND THE WORLD AND I PRAY THAT YOU WILL BE WITH HIM 11:05 AS HE BRINGS US THE LESSON STUDY AND WE JUST PRAY THAT OUR HEARTS 11:09 WILL BE READY FOR WHAT YOU WANT TO TELL US. 11:11 IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 11:15 AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY OUR 11:18 SENIOR PASTOR, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. 11:26 >>THANK YOU DEBBIE AND I'D LIKE TO ALSO ADD MY APPRECIATION TO 11:30 THE ORANGEVALE SCHOOL AND THE GIRLS' CHOIR. THAT 11:33 WAS BEAUTIFUL. IT SOUNDS ANGELIC WHEN YOU GET A BUNCH OF YOUNG 11:35 GIRLS SINGING LIKE THAT. WELCOME AGAIN, FRIENDS. 11:40 IT IS GOOD TO SEE EACH OF YOU HERE. 11:42 SOME MAY BE VISITORS AND WE'RE VERY THANKFUL THAT YOU'RE HERE. 11:46 I WANT TO WELCOME OUR REGULAR CLASS. 11:48 WE HAVE A NUMBER OF MEMBERS - THEY'RE SORT OF THE INTERNET 11:51 MEMBERS OF CENTRAL CHURCH FROM AROUND THE WORLD WHO ARE ONLINE 11:53 MEMBERS AND I DON'T KNOW - WE MUST HAVE 150 ONLINE MEMBERS AND 11:57 THERE ARE SOME FOLKS SCATTERED AROUND THE PLANET THAT THEY ARE 12:00 ABLE TO WORSHIP WITH US VIA THE INTERNET OR SATELLITE BUT THERE 12:03 IS NO LOCAL CHURCH THEY CAN ATTEND AND SO WE PROVIDE A 12:06 SERVICE TO REACH OUT TO THOSE PEOPLE. 12:09 I WANT TO THANK PASTOR HAROLD. HE DOES A GOOD JOB IN STAYING 12:11 CONNECTED WITH OUR ONLINE MEMBERS. 12:14 IF YOU'RE IN THAT CATEGORY, FRIENDS, IF YOU'RE OUT THERE AND 12:16 THIS IS YOUR CHURCH - I JUST TALKED TO SOMEONE LAST NIGHT AND 12:19 THEY SAID THEY - THEIR FAMILY CAN'T GO TO CHURCH BUT THEY DO 12:22 IT THROUGH SATELLITE OR TELEVISION AND IF YOU'D LIKE TO 12:24 KNOW MORE ABOUT THAT JUST GO TO 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND YOU'LL FIND 12:29 INFORMATION ON THAT. WE ARE GOING TO GET INTO OUR 12:32 LESSON IN A MOMENT BUT, AS ALWAYS, WE HAVE A FREE OFFER FOR 12:35 THOSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO REQUEST THIS AND WITH THE PROMISE YOU'RE 12:40 GOING TO READ IT. AND IT'S THE BOOK 'STEPS TO CHRIST' - 12:43 THIS LITTLE VOLUME HAS PROBABLY DONE MORE FOR 12:46 MY CHRISTIAN EXPERIENCE THAN ANY SINGLE BOOK - 12:48 ASIDE FROM THE BIBLE - AND WE RECOMMEND THAT 12:51 YOU READ IT IF YOU'VE NOT READ IT. CALL THE NUMBER ON THE 12:54 SCREEN - 866-STUDY MORE - THAT'S 866-788-3966. ASK FOR OFFER #800 13:02 - THAT'S ALL YOU'VE GOT TO DO AND WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. 13:05 YOU CAN ALSO READ IT ONLINE TOO IF YOU LIKE. AND WITH THAT WE 13:09 ARE CONTINUING IN OUR LESSON - 'MAJOR LESSONS FROM THE MINOR 13:13 PROPHETS' AND TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE DEALING WITH THE BOOK 13:16 FROM THE PROPHET HAGGAI AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE. 13:21 THE MEMORY VERSE IS FROM HAGGAI CHAPTER 2 AND THAT'S VERSE 8. 13:25 HAGGAI CHAPTER 2, VERSE 8 AND YOU'LL FIND THAT EITHER IN YOUR 13:28 BIBLE OR IN YOUR QUARTERLY. IN THE QUARTERLY IT COMES FROM 13:31 THE NIV VERSION AND LET'S SAY THAT TOGETHER. ARE YOU READY? 13:36 "'THE SILVER IS MINE AND THE GOLD IS MINE,' 13:40 DECLARES THE LORD ALMIGHTY.'" EVERYTHING BELONGS TO THE LORD. 13:45 NOW YOU'LL UNDERSTAND WHY THAT 13:46 VERSE FITS IN THERE WHEN YOU GET INTO THE BOOK A LITTLE BIT. 13:51 HAGGAI IS THE SECOND SHORTEST BOOK IN THE OLD TESTAMENT NEXT 13:55 TO OBADIAH AND IT WAS PROBABLY WRITTEN ABOUT 520 BC BY THE 14:00 AUTHOR HAGGAI - NO ONE CONTESTS THAT HE IS THE PROPHET THAT 14:04 WROTE THE BOOK - IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE BEGINNING AND IT'S 14:07 A VERY INTERESTING - HAGGAI MAY HAVE BEEN AMONG THE CAPTIVES WHO 14:14 WERE ALIVE IN JERUSALEM BEFORE NEBUCHADNEZZAR DESTROYED THE 14:19 TEMPLE - THAT WERE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON. 14:22 MEANING HE SPENT 70 YEARS THERE - MEANING HE WAS SOMEWHERE 14:26 BETWEEN 75 AND 80 YEARS OF AGE WHEN HE WAS CALLED, BRIEFLY, TO 14:31 THE PROPHETIC MINISTRY. NOW THAT'S NOT UNUSUAL. 14:35 HOW OLD WAS MOSES WHEN HE WAS CALLED? HE WAS 80. 14:40 AND SO IT COULD BE THAT HE WAS AMONG THOSE WHO HAD SEEN THE 14:44 FIRST TEMPLE IN ITS GLORY, WHICH EXPLAINS WHY THE PEOPLE WEPT 14:47 WHEN THEY STARTED TO BUILD THE SECOND TEMPLE AND IN SCALE IT 14:53 WAS - AND IN GLORY IT WAS SO MUCH INFERIOR TO WHAT SOLOMON 14:56 HAD BUILT. SOLOMON HAD JUST BILLIONS OF 14:59 DOLLARS TO WORK WITH AND IT WAS A PRETTY MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE. 15:03 AND HE ONLY PROPHECIES FOR FOUR MONTHS. 15:07 THERE'S ONLY A RECORD OF IT THERE. 15:09 ACCORDING TO THE SEPTUAGINT, HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH MAY ALSO 15:13 HAVE BEEN RESPONSIBLE FOR HELPING WRITE SOME OF THE 15:16 PSALMS. DID YOU KNOW THAT? ACCORDING TO THAT TRADITION, 15:21 PSALM 138, PSALM 146, 147, 148 - THEY SAY - WERE AUTHORED AND 15:27 PENNED BY HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH. THAT'S PART OF THE REASON IT'S 15:31 THERE AT THE END OF THE BOOK. NOW, LET'S GO AHEAD AND OPEN IT. 15:36 I'VE GOT MORE I'LL SHARE WITH YOU ABOUT THE BOOK OF HAGGAI, 15:39 BUT FIRST LET'S GO RIGHT TO THE BOOK AND - WE CAN PROBABLY JUST 15:42 READ IT ALL BECAUSE IT'S TWO CHAPTERS BUT I'M GOING TO DO 15:46 SOME THINGS IN PIECES AND TRY TO EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT AS WE 15:49 PROCEED. HAGGAI CHAPTER 1 - IT SAYS, "IN 15:52 THE SECOND YEAR OF KING DARIUS, IN THE SIXTH MONTH, ON THE FIRST 15:57 DAY OF THE MONTH, THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME BY HAGGAI THE 16:00 PROPHET TO ZERUBBABEL THE SON OF SHEALTIEL, GOVERNOR OF JUDAH," - 16:05 NOW THERE WERE THREE WAVES OF JEWS ONCE BABYLON FELL - THE 16:13 PERSIAN KINGS, THEY CHANGED IN QUICK SUCCESSION - THE 16:16 MEDO-PERSIAN KINGDOMS - YOU HAD DARIUS AND YOU HAD CYRUS AND YOU 16:19 HAD ARTEXERXES AND ANOTHER DARIUS AND THEY CHANGED VERY 16:22 RAPIDLY AND - BUT THEY ISSUED A SERIES OF DECREES ALLOWING THE 16:27 JEWS TO GO BACK TO JERUSALEM. THE JEWS CAME FROM PERSIA - OR 16:32 BABYLON - BACK TO JERUSALEM IN THREE WAVES. 16:35 THE FIRST WAVE HAD SOMEWHERE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF 50,000 JEWS. 16:40 THEY MADE THIS ALMOST LIKE ANOTHER EXODUS AND THEY CROSSED 16:42 THE DESERT AND THEY CAME TO THE LAND OF ISRAEL OR TO JERUSALEM, 16:48 IN PARTICULAR JUDEA. THEN A FEW YEARS LATER, DURING 16:52 THE TIME OF - AND EZRA WAS IN THAT FIRST WAVE. 16:57 AND THEN YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER GROUP THAT COMES - OH THE FIRST 16:59 - EZRA WAS IN THE SECOND WAVE AND HE CAME WITH ABOUT 5,000 17:02 MORE THAT CAME, THEN NEHEMIAH WAS IN THE THIRD WAVE THAT CAME 17:07 AND THERE MAY HAVE BEEN 30,000 THAT CAME IN THAT WAVE AND SO 17:11 THEY KIND OF CAME IN DEGREES LIKE THAT. AND WITH THE IDEA 17:16 THAT THEY WOULD REBUILD THE CITY - REBUILD THE TEMPLE, BUT THINGS 17:18 DIDN'T COME TOGETHER VERY QUICKLY AND WHEN THEY FIRST CAME 17:22 BACK THEY CLEARED AWAY THE DEBRIS. THE FIRST THING THEY 17:29 WANTED TO DO WAS THANK THE LORD THEY MADE IT BACK AND THEY 17:31 WANTED TO BE ABLE TO SACRIFICE TO THE LORD SO THEY REPAIRED THE 17:33 ALTAR OF THE LORD WITH THE PLAN THAT THEY'D ULTIMATELY REBUILD 17:36 THE TEMPLE BECAUSE THE KING OF PERSIA - THE FIRST ONE - GAVE 17:39 THEM PERMISSION. CYRUS GAVE THEM PERMISSION TO REBUILD 17:41 THE TEMPLE. BUT THEN THEY WAITED TOO LONG. 17:45 ABOUT 16 YEARS WENT BY AND THEY HADN'T DONE MUCH - I THINK THEY 17:48 HAD A COUPLE OF ROWS THAT - BRICKS THEY PUT BY THE OUTSIDE 17:53 WALL AND THEN AS THEY WERE GOING TO COMMENCE TO BUILD AGAIN SOME 17:57 OPPOSITION ROSE UP AND THAT OPPOSITION CAME FROM - AND YOU 18:01 CAN READ IN - GO TO THE BOOK OF EZRA REAL QUICK. 18:04 EZRA OVERLAPS WITH THE SAME TIME OF HAGGAI. 18:09 THERE WERE ABOUT THREE PROPHETS - OF THE MINOR PROPHETS THREE OF 18:11 THOSE PROPHETS CAME AFTER THEY RETURNED FROM THE BABYLONIAN 18:15 CAPTIVITY AND - LET'S SEE HERE. GO TO CHAPTER 4. 18:22 "NOW WHEN THE ADVERSARIES OF JUDAH AND BENJAMIN HEARD THAT 18:25 THE DESCENDANTS OF THE CAPTIVITY WERE BUILDING THE TEMPLE OF THE 18:28 LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, THEY CAME TO ZERUBBABEL AND THE HEADS OF THE 18:35 FATHERS' HOUSES, AND SAID TO THEM, 'LET US BUILD WITH YOU, 18:38 FOR WE SEEK YOUR GOD AS YOU DO; AND WE HAVE SACRIFICED TO HIM 18:42 SINCE THE DAYS OF ESARHADDON KING OF ASSYRIA, WHO BROUGHT US 18:45 HERE.'" AHH, NOT EXACTLY. BEAR WITH ME. 18:49 YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW THE STORY TO KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING HERE. 18:52 WHEN THE KING OF ASSYRIA CARRIED OFF TEN OF THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL 18:57 - THE FIRST TEN TRIBES OF ISRAEL WERE CARRIED OFF BEFORE 19:00 NEBUCHADNEZZAR CARRIED OFF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM - JUDAH, 19:03 BENJAMIN AND LEVI. WHEN THEY FIRST CARRIED OFF THE 19:05 NORTHERN KINGDOM - THE NORTHERN PART OF ISRAEL - THE TEN TRIBES, 19:08 THE LAND WAS FILLED WITH WILD ANIMALS BECAUSE, BASICALLY, 19:13 ALL OF A SUDDEN ALL THE PEOPLE WERE GONE. 19:14 THE ANIMALS BEGAN TO MULTIPLY AND THE KING OF ASSYRIA, WANTING 19:20 TO GET THE PRODUCE OF THIS LAND, HE SAID, 'LOOK, YOU'VE GOT TO 19:23 SEND SOME PEOPLE BACK THERE TO TAKE CARE OF THE LAND BECAUSE 19:25 THERE'S A LOT OF FOOD THERE. THEY CAN HELP FEED THE KINGDOM. 19:28 AND SO HE SENT SOME PEOPLE AND THEY WERE BEING ATTACKED BY 19:31 LIONS AND THAT COULD BE A REAL PROBLEM AND THERE'VE BEEN TIMES 19:37 WHERE JUST ONE OR TWO LIONS HAVE KILLED HUNDREDS OF WORKERS. 19:41 AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT THE LIONS OF TSAVO IN 19:44 AFRICA - WHEN THEY WERE TRYING TO BUILD A BRIDGE. AND THEY HAD 19:46 A TIGER IN INDIA - SUPPOSEDLY KILLED 400 PEOPLE IN 19:50 SURROUNDING VILLAGES. 19:52 AND SO LIONS WERE KEEPING PEOPLE FROM WORKING IN THE FIELDS AND 19:55 THEY SAID, 'WHY IS THIS?' AND THE ANSWER WAS, 'WELL, 19:57 BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HERE DON'T KNOW ABOUT THE GOD OF THE LAND. 20:00 THEY HAD SENT ASSYRIANS DOWN INTO NORTHERN ISRAEL AND THEY 20:04 SAID, 'SEND SOME OF THE PRIESTS FROM THE HEBREWS TO TEACH US 20:09 ABOUT THE WAYS OF THE GOD OF THEIR LAND.' 20:12 NOW THESE ARE PEOPLE LIVING IN AND AROUND SAMARIA. 20:15 SO THEY SENT SOME JEWISH PRIESTS IN TO TEACH THEM AND THEY TAUGHT 20:18 THEM THE FIVE BOOKS OF MOSES, BUT THEY MINGLED THE FIVE BOOKS 20:21 OF MOSES WITH SOME OF THEIR OWN RELIGION AND CUSTOMS AND INSTEAD 20:25 OF SACRIFICING IN JERUSALEM, THEY SACRIFICED IN MOUNT 20:28 GARIZIM. DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS 20:30 TALKED TO THE WOMAN AT THE WELL? SHE SAID, 'WHICH WOMAN SHOULD - 20:33 WHICH MOUNTAIN SHOULD WE SACRIFICE ON? 20:36 JERUSALEM OR MOUNT GARIZIM?' AND JESUS SAID, 'SALVATION IS OF 20:40 THE JEWS.' PRETTY CLEAR BECAUSE SAMARITANS 20:44 WERE SORT OF HALF JEWISH RELIGION AND HALF ASSYRIAN 20:47 RELIGION AND THAT'S WHY THERE'S SO MUCH ANIMOSITY. 20:51 WELL, WHEN THE SAMARITANS HEARD THAT THE JEWS WERE GOING TO 20:55 REBUILD THE TEMPLE THEY SAID, 'OH, WE BELIEVE THE FIVE BOOKS 20:58 OF MOSES.' THEY DIDN'T BELIEVE THE REST OF 21:00 THE SCRIPTURES - 'WE'LL JOIN YOU.' 21:02 AND THE JEWS SAID, 'UH, THANK YOU - NO THANK YOU.' 21:05 MATTER OF FACT, THEY WEREN'T AS NICE AS THAT. 21:07 THEY SAID, 'YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HELP US BECAUSE YOU HAVE KIND OF 21:10 ADULTERATED OUR RELIGION AND YOU WILL ADULTERATE THE REBUILDING 21:15 OF THE TEMPLE AND OUR WORSHIP AND WE DON'T THINK THAT'S A GOOD 21:18 IDEA.' WELL, WHEN SOMEONE'S OFFER OF 21:22 HELP IS SPURNED, THAT LOVE TURNS TO HATE. 21:25 AND THEY SAID, 'WELL, IF YOU WANT TO BE THAT WAY - IF YOU 21:28 THINK YOU'RE TOO HOLY FOR US.' THEN THEY TURNED INTO THEIR 21:31 ENEMIES AND THAT LASTED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS. 21:33 THE SAMARITANS AND THE JEWS - THIS IS WHERE IT ALL GOT 21:36 TRIGGERED. AND SO, THEY CAME TO HIM AND THEY SAID, 'WE BELIEVE 21:41 LIKE YOU DO.' "BUT ZERUBBABEL AND JESHUA AND THE REST OF THE 21:45 FATHERS" - BY THE WAY, JESHUA - JOSHUA - SAME NAME. 21:48 THIS IS JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST - "AND THE REST OF THE HEADS OF 21:52 THE FATHER'S HOUSES OF ISRAEL SAID TO THEM, 'YOU MAY DO 21:56 NOTHING WITH US TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR OUR GOD; BUT WE ALONE WILL 22:00 BUILD TO THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL, AS KING CYRUS THE KING OF PERSIA 22:05 HAS COMMANDED US.' THEN THE PEOPLE OF THE LAND 22:07 TRIED TO DISCOURAGE THE PEOPLE OF JUDAH. 22:09 THEY TROUBLED THEM IN BUILDING," - NOTICE HOW QUICKLY THEY WENT 22:12 FROM 'LET US HELP YOU' TO 'WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND STOP IT.' 22:15 THEY WERE OFFENDED AND THEY GOT ANGRY - "AND HIRED COUNSELORS 22:20 AGAINST THEM TO FRUSTRATE THEIR PURPOSE ALL THE DAYS OF CYRUS 22:24 KING OF PERSIA, EVEN UNTIL THE REIGN OF DARIUS KING OF PERSIA." 22:27 SO THIS WENT ON FOR 16 YEARS. 22:29 THEY TRIED TO STOP IT SO NOTHING WAS HAPPENING. 22:32 FINALLY, IN THE DAYS OF "THE REIGN OF AHSUERUS," - NOTICE, 22:35 WE'VE MENTIONED THREE KINGS ALREADY - "IN THE REIGN OF 22:37 AHSUERUS," - I'M IN VERSE 6 - EZRA 4, VERSE 6 - "IN THE 22:41 BEGINNING OF HIS REIGN, THEY WROTE AN ACCUSATION AGAINST THE 22:45 INHABITANTS OF JUDAH AND JERUSALEM." 22:47 AND YOU CAN READ THE LETTER. WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ IT 22:50 ALL BUT, BASICALLY, THE ESSENCE OF THE LETTER IS SAYING, 'YOU 22:53 BETTER NOT LET THESE JEWS REBUILD THE TEMPLE AND REBUILD 22:55 THE CITY. YOU'VE NOT READ THEIR HISTORY. 22:57 THEY'VE REBELLED AGAINST EVERY KING ALONG THE WAY AND THAT'S 22:59 WHY NEBUCHADNEZZAR DESTROYED IT AND THEY'VE HAD MIGHTY KINGS 23:01 THAT TOOK CONTROL LIKE DAVID AND SOLOMON AND YOU LET THEM REBUILD 23:04 THEY'RE GOING TO REBEL.' AND THEY SENT THIS VERY 23:07 DIFFICULT LETTER AND THE KING OF PERSIA WROTE BACK AND SAYS, 'YOU 23:10 KNOW, WE'VE CHECKED IT OUT AND IT'S TRUE. 23:12 THAT WAS ONCE A MIGHTY KINGDOM AND THEY HAVE REBELLED SEVERAL 23:14 TIMES AGAINST SEVERAL KINGS.' AND HE COMMANDED, UNTIL FURTHER 23:19 NOTICE, THAT THEY SHOULD STOP BUILDING. 23:21 WELL, EVENTUALLY THAT KING DIED - OF PERSIA. AND EVEN THOUGH 23:26 NOW THEY WERE FREE TO REBUILD AGAIN BECAUSE THEY HAD THE 23:27 ORIGINAL DECREE FROM CYRUS, THEY WEREN'T BUILDING. 23:33 SO THIS IS WHERE WE ARE WHEN HAGGAI COMES ALONG. 23:35 THEY HAD GOTTEN SO DISCOURAGED ABOUT BUILDING THE TEMPLE OF THE 23:38 LORD BECAUSE THEY RAN INTO OBSTACLES. THEY JUST GAVE UP. 23:42 AND THEN THEY WERE HAVING SUCH A TOUGH TIME WITH THEIR OWN FARMS 23:47 AND A FAMINE SEEMED TO BE SETTING IN. 23:49 LET ME READ SOMETHING TO YOU HERE FROM THE BOOK 'PROPHETS AND 23:52 KINGS' PAGE 573, "FOR OVER A YEAR THE TEMPLE WAS NEGLECTED 23:58 AND WELL NIGH FORSAKEN. THE PEOPLE DWELT IN THEIR HOUSES 24:01 AND THEY STROVE TO ATTAIN TEMPORAL PROSPERITY BUT THEIR 24:04 SITUATION WAS DEPLORABLE. WORK AS THEY MIGHT, 24:07 THEY DID NOT PROSPER. 24:09 THE VERY ELEMENTS OF NATURE SEEMED TO CONSPIRE AGAINST THEM 24:12 BECAUSE THEY HAD LET THE TEMPLE LIE WASTE. THE LORD SENT UPON 24:16 THEM AND ON THEIR SUBSTANCE WASTING AND DROUGHT. 24:20 GOD HAD BESTOWED UPON THEM THE FRUITS OF THE FIELD, THE GARDEN, 24:23 THE CORN, THE WINE, THE OIL AS A TOKEN OF HIS FAVOR. 24:26 BUT BECAUSE THEY HAD USED THESE BOUNTIFUL GIFTS SO SELFISHLY THE 24:29 BLESSINGS WERE REMOVED." THEY WERE SEEKING FIRST THEIR 24:33 OWN KINGDOM NOW AND NOT GOD'S KINGDOM. 24:36 AND EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD RUN INTO SOME OPPOSITION, THEY 24:38 SHOULD HAVE MADE THEIR PRIORITY BUILDING UP THE HOUSE OF GOD. 24:42 NOW THAT'S THE CENTRAL MESSAGE. THAT'S THE CENTRAL MESSAGE OF 24:44 THIS WHOLE LESSON - THIS WHOLE BOOK - THAT IF YOU WANT TO 24:47 PROSPER IN YOUR HOME, YOU MUST BUILD UP THE HOUSE OF GOD. 24:52 AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT CHURCH FUNDRAISERS - THOUGH THAT'S 24:54 IMPORTANT TOO. THERE'S MORE TO THE HOUSE OF GOD 24:58 THAN JUST THE CHURCH AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN JUST A 25:02 MOMENT. TELL YOU WHAT - LET ME SEE HERE. 25:06 FIRST I WANT YOU TO NOTICE - IF YOU LOOK IN EZRA - IN EZRA 3, 25:15 VERSE 6 IT SAYS, "FROM THE FIRST DAY OF THE SEVENTH MONTH THEY 25:18 BEGAN TO OFFER BURNT OFFERINGS TO THE LORD, ALTHOUGH THE 25:21 FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD HAD NOT BEEN LAID." 25:24 SO THEY STARTED WITH AN ALTAR BUT THEY HADN'T BUILT THE 25:27 FOUNDATION YET. 25:28 FINALLY, WHEN THEY DID BEGIN TO LAY THE FOUNDATION - THIS IS A 25:33 VERY STRANGE VERSE - I'M BACK IN EZRA AGAIN. 25:35 GO TO EZRA CHAPTER 3 AND IF YOU LOOK IN VERSE 13. 25:40 WHEN THEY HAD THE INAUGURATION AND BEGAN TO LAY THE FOUNDATION 25:43 OF THE TEMPLE IT SAYS, "ALL THE PEOPLE SHOUTED" - I'M IN EZRA 3, 25:49 VERSE 11 - "THEY SANG RESPONSIVELY, PRAISING AND 25:52 GIVING THANKS TO THE LORD: 'FOR HE IS GOOD, FOR HIS MERCY 25:56 ENDURES FOREVER'" - THIS MIGHT BE SOME OF THE REASON THEY THINK 25:58 THAT HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH WROTE SOME OF THE PSALMS BECAUSE THIS 26:01 IS A QUOTE FROM ONE OF THE PSALMS - "THEN ALL THE PEOPLE 26:04 SHOUTED WITH A GREAT SHOUT, WHEN THEY PRAISED THE LORD, BECAUSE 26:06 THE FOUNDATION OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD WAS LAID." - 26:09 BIG INAUGURATION CELEBRATION - "BUT MANY OF THE PRIESTS AND 26:13 LEVITES AND HEADS OF THE FATHERS' HOUSES, OLD MEN" - 26:17 THERE WERE OLD MEN AND OLD WOMEN THERE - "WHO HAD SEEN THE FIRST 26:21 TEMPLE," - WHO BUILT THE FIRST TEMPLE? SOLOMON. IT'S ACTUALLY 26:25 THE SECOND TEMPLE IF YOU COUNT THE ONE IN THE WILDERNESS - THE 26:27 FIRST PERMANENT TEMPLE - "THEY WEPT WITH A LOUD VOICE WHEN THE 26:32 FOUNDATION OF THE TEMPLE WAS LAID BEFORE THEIR EYES. 26:35 YET MANY SHOUTED ALOUD FOR JOY, SO THAT THE PEOPLE COULD NOT 26:38 DISCERN THE NOISE OF THE WEEPING OF THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE 26:43 SHOUTED WITH A LOUD SHOUT, AND THE SOUND WAS HEARD AFAR OFF." 26:47 THAT WAS A PRETTY STRANGE SERVICE. 26:49 YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO GREW UP IN BABYLON WHO WERE SO 26:52 HAPPY TO BE BACK IN THEIR HOMELAND AND FINALLY BUILDING 26:54 THEIR OWN TEMPLE FOR THEIR OWN GOD. 26:56 THEY WERE SO TIRED OF ALL THE BABYLONIAN GODS. 26:58 THEY'RE CELEBRATING. THEY'RE BLOWING THE TRUMPETS. 26:59 THEY'RE SHOUTING. THEY'RE SINGING. 27:01 AND THEN YOU'VE GOT ALL THE OLD TIMERS WHO HAD TO BE LIKE, YOU 27:04 KNOW, 75 YEARS OLD - YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO BE AT LEAST FIVE 27:08 YEARS OLD TO REMEMBER WHAT SOMETHING LOOKED LIKE WHEN YOU 27:10 WERE A KID. SOME OF THEM MAY HAVE BEEN 90 27:12 AND THEY COULD HAVE REMEMBERED WHEN THEY WERE 20 YEARS OLD, 27:16 CLEARLY, WHAT THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON LOOKED LIKE. IT WAS 27:19 ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE WORLD - IF YOU READ, HE SPENT SEVEN 27:22 YEARS BUILDING IT, HAD WHOLE ROOMS OF GOLD, THESE ENORMOUS 27:26 PILLARS OF BRASS - THEY STOPPED COUNTING HOW MUCH WAS IN IT. 27:29 ALL THE WEALTH THAT DAVID AMASSED FROM CONQUERING THESE 27:32 OTHER NATIONS AND TAXING THEM HE PUT INTO THE TEMPLE - BILLIONS 27:35 OF DOLLARS. AND THE SIZE OF THE STONES - 27:38 THEY WERE MASSIVE. AND SO WHEN THE OLD ELDERS SAW 27:43 THEM SLIDING INTO PLACE THESE LITTLE BRICKS AND EVERYBODY 27:46 SAYING, 'OH, THE FOUNDATION OF THE LORD' THEY SAID, 'BOO HOO 27:49 HOO HOO... THIS IS NOTHING LIKE WHAT WE USED TO HAVE. 27:53 HOW HAVE WE FALLEN. WHAT'S HAPPENED TO US?' 27:55 AND SO THEY'RE CRYING. THEY ARE SO DISAPPOINTED. 27:58 IT'S SO SMALL AND THE OTHERS ARE GOING 'YAY!' 28:00 AND NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND BECAUSE HAGGAI TALKS 28:05 ABOUT HOW THE GLORY OF THIS INFERIOR TEMPLE WAS REALLY GOING 28:11 TO BE GREATER THAN THE GLORY OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE. 28:16 DO YOU KNOW WHY? I'M NOT GOING TO TELL YOU YET. 28:20 WE'VE GOT TO GO ON WITH OUR LESSON HERE. 28:22 I HAVEN'T EVEN GIVEN ANYONE A VERSE TO READ. 28:24 SOMEBODY - SOMEBODY READ FOR ME ZECHARIAH 1:1. WHO'S GOT THAT? 28:29 OKAY, GENE WE'LL GET TO YOU IN JUST A SECOND. ZECHARIAH 1:1. 28:34 I WANT TO SHOW YOU JUST HOW THE DATES OVERLAP HERE AND HOW YOU 28:36 CAN DEPEND ON THE WORD OF GOD FOR THESE THINGS. IT SAYS 28:41 IN HAGGAI - HAVE YOU NOTICED IN CHAPTER 1, VERSES 1 AND 2? 28:44 "IN THE SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS, IN THE SIXTH MONTH, ON THE FIRST 28:47 DAY OF THE MONTH, THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME BY HAGGAI THE 28:50 PROPHET TO ZERUBBABEL THE SON OF SHEALTIEL, GOVERNOR OF JUDAH, 28:54 AND TO JOSHUA THE SON OF JEHOZADAK, THE HIGH PRIEST, 28:57 SAYING, 'THUS SPEAKS THE LORD OF HOSTS, SAYING, 'THIS PEOPLE SAYS 28:59 'THE TIME HAS NOT COME, THE TIME THAT THE LORD'S HOUSE SHOULD BE 29:01 BUILT.''" NOW YOU GO AHEAD AND YOU READ ZECHARIAH 1:1 FOR US. 29:04 ARE WE READY? YEP, WE'RE READY. 29:07 >>"IN THE EIGHTH MONTH OF THE SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS, THE WORD 29:11 OF THE LORD CAME TO ZECHARIAH THE SON OF BERECHIAH, THE SON OF 29:15 IDDO THE PROPHET, SAYING," >>ALRIGHT, THAT'S GOOD. 29:20 SO YOU NOTICE IT SAID 'IN THE SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS, IN THE 29:23 SIXTH MONTH' - IN ZECHARIAH IT SAYS 'IN THE EIGHTH MONTH OF THE 29:27 SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS' - SO HAGGAI BEGINS TO PROPHECY A FEW 29:31 MONTHS BEFORE ZECHARIAH DOES, BUT BOTH OF THESE PROPHETS ARE 29:35 PROPHESYING AND IF YOU READ IN THE BOOK OF EZRA, IT TALKS ABOUT 29:39 HOW THEY APPRECIATED THE PROPHESYING OF HAGGAI AND 29:43 ZECHARIAH THAT WAS SUPPORTING THE WORK. MATTER OF FACT, 29:46 IF YOU LOOK AT EZRA CHAPTER 5 - THIS IS IMPORTANT. 29:49 THIS IS ONE WAY - HOW DO YOU KNOW CERTAIN BOOKS OF THE BIBLE 29:52 CAN BE DEPENDED ON? ARE THEY CORROBORATED BY THE 29:57 OTHER BOOKS OF THE BIBLE? ARE THEY ENDORSED? 30:00 WHAT IS EZRA THE PRIEST - BY THE WAY, EZRA WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR 30:03 ORGANIZING MUCH OF - HE WAS A SCRIBE - HE ORGANIZED MUCH OF 30:07 THE OLD TESTAMENT THE WAY WE HAVE IT TODAY SO HE WAS A GREAT 30:10 MAN OF GOD. IT SAYS IN EZRA 5, 1 AND 2, 30:13 "THEN THE PROPHET HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH THE SON OF IDDO, 30:17 PROPHETS, PROPHESIED TO THE JEWS WHO WERE IN JUDAH AND JERUSALEM, 30:22 IN THE NAME OF THE GOD OF ISRAEL, WHO WAS OVER THEM. 30:25 SO ZERUBBABEL THE SON OF SHEALTIEL AND JESHUA THE SON OF 30:28 JOSADAK ROSE UP AND BEGAN TO BUILD THE HOUSE OF GOD WHICH IS 30:32 IN JERUSALEM; AND THE PROPHETS OF GOD WERE WITH THEM, HELPING 30:35 THEM." WHAT PROPHETS? HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH. 30:39 AND SO THE PROPHECY OF HAGGAI WAS ENCOURAGING THEM, 'RISE UP 30:43 AND BUILD.' NOW LET'S LOOK MORE CLOSELY AT 30:46 WHAT EXACTLY DID HE PROPHECY. GO BACK TO THE BOOK OF HAGGAI. 30:50 JUST TRYING TO GIVE YOU THE OUTLINE HERE. 30:56 VERSE 2 - HAGGAI CHAPTER 1, VERSE 2, "THUS SPEAKS THE LORD 31:00 OF HOSTS, SAYING: 'THIS PEOPLE SAYS, 'THE TIME HAS NOT COME, 31:03 THE TIME THAT THE LORD'S HOUSE SHOULD BE BUILT.'' 31:06 THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME BY HAGGAI THE PROPHET, SAYING, 31:08 'IS IT TIME FOR YOU YOURSELVES TO DWELL IN YOUR PANELED HOUSES, 31:13 AND THIS TEMPLE TO LIE IN RUINS?' NOW THEREFORE, 31:17 THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: 'CONSIDER YOUR WAYS! 31:19 YOU HAVE SOWN MUCH, AND BRING IN LITTLE; YOU EAT, BUT DO NOT HAVE 31:23 ENOUGH; YOU DRINK, BUT YOU ARE NOT FILLED WITH DRINK; YOU 31:26 CLOTHE YOURSELVES, BUT NO ONE IS WARM; AND HE WHO EARNS WAGES, 31:30 EARNS WAGES TO PUT INTO A BAG WITH HOLES.'" - 31:32 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE EVER FELT THAT WAY? 31:35 YOU BRING YOUR CHECK HOME, YOU DEPOSIT IT IN THE BANK AND THEN 31:38 WHEN YOU GET DONE PAYING THE BILLS, YOU STILL SEEM TO HAVE NO 31:41 MONEY LEFT. IT'S LIKE YOU PUT IT IN A POCKET WITH HOLES - "THUS 31:48 SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: 'CONSIDER YOUR WAYS!" - VERSE 7 31:51 - HE'S SAYING 'THERE'S A REASON THAT THE LORD IS NOT BLESSING 31:55 YOU. IT'S BECAUSE YOU ARE PUTTING 31:57 YOUR HOUSE AHEAD OF MY HOUSE.' NOW SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME 32:02 1 CHRONICLES 17 - FIRST BOOK OF CHRONICLES - OLD TESTAMENT - 32:07 I'VE SEEN PEOPLE - 17, VERSE 1 - SOMEONE GOT THAT. RIGHT HERE? 32:10 LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. WHO'S GOT THE MIC ON THIS? 32:12 YOU'VE GOT IT ALREADY - ALRIGHT, LET'S JUST WAIT UNTIL THEY GET 32:15 THE CAMERA FOCUSED ON YOU. I WANT YOU TO NOTICE 32:18 SPECIFICALLY IN HAGGAI 1:4 IT SAYS, 'IS IT TIME FOR YOU TO 32:23 DWELL IN YOUR PANELED' - OR SEALED - 'HOUSES, AND THE HOUSE 32:27 LIE WASTE?' AND WHEN YOU READ HERE THE STATEMENT OF KING DAVID 32:33 YOU'LL SEE WHY THAT'S IMPORTANT. GO AHEAD, I THINK WE'RE READY. 32:39 >>1 CHRONICLES 17:1, "NOW IT CAME TO PASS, AS DAVID SAT IN 32:43 HIS HOUSE, THAT DAVID SAID TO NATHAN THE PROPHET, 'LO, I DWELL 32:47 IN A HOUSE OF CEDARS, BUT THE ARK OF THE COVENANT OF THE LORD 32:51 REMAINETH UNDER CURTAINS.'" >>YOU NOTICE SOME SIMILAR 32:55 LANGUAGE THERE? HAGGAI SAYS, 'IS IT TIME FOR YOU 32:58 TO DWELL IN YOUR PANELED HOUSES AND THE HOUSE - THE TEMPLE OF 33:02 THE LORD IS IN RUINS?' WHO LIVED FIRST, DAVID 33:06 OR HAGGAI? KING DAVID. 33:10 DID THEY READ WHEN DAVID SAID, 'LORD, IT'S JUST NOT FAIR.' 33:13 SEE, WHEN DAVID'S KINGDOM WAS BLOSSOMING, THE KING OF TYRE - 33:17 TYRE HAD THE MOUNTAINS OF LEBANON. 33:19 TYRE WAS VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE THEY HAD LOGS, THEY HAD TREES, 33:22 THEY HAD LUMBER. IF YOU'VE BEEN TO JERUSALEM OR 33:24 IF YOU'VE BEEN TO THE LAND OF JUDEA, THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF 33:27 SCRUB BRUSH AND OLIVE TREES BUT THEY DON'T HAVE LUMBER. 33:31 IF YOU WANTED LUMBER YOU NEEDED TO BE FRIENDS WITH THE PEOPLE 33:34 NEAR THE MOUNTAINS OF LEBANON AND THAT WAS TYRE. SO DAVID HAD 33:37 A RELATIONSHIP WITH HIRAM THE KING OF TYRE, AND HE SAID, 'LOOK 33:40 DAVID, YOU'RE A GOOD KING. LET ME SEND YOU SOME LUMBER. 33:42 I'M GOING TO HELP YOU BUILD A HOUSE.' 33:44 AND NEXT THING HE KNEW, DAVID HAD THIS BEAUTIFUL PALACE. 33:49 A FAR CRY FROM THE FIELDS OF BETHLEHEM WHERE HE GREW UP. 33:52 AND SO HE'S SITTING IN THIS BEAUTIFUL PANELED HOUSE HE SAYS, 33:55 'BOY, THIS ISN'T RIGHT. I LOOK OUT MY WINDOW AND WHAT IS 33:59 THE ARK OF THE LORD IN?' I MEAN WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO THE 34:01 TABERNACLE THEY TOOK THROUGH THE WILDERNESS? IT WAS ALL 34:04 WEATHER BEATEN AND TATTERED AND THEY'D MOVED IT INTO A TENT AND 34:08 HE SEES THE ARK OF GOD - THE GOD OF ISRAEL - IT'S IN A TENT AND 34:13 HE'S LIVING IN A PANELED HOUSE - CEDAR-LINED HOUSE. 34:17 SO HAGGAI REFERS BACK TO THE ATTITUDE OF DAVID. 34:20 HE SAID, 'YOUR KING DAVID, HE FELT GUILTY THAT HIS HOUSE WAS 34:25 DOING SO WELL AND THE HOUSE OF GOD WAS NOT DOING WELL AND THE 34:29 PASSION OF DAVID WAS TO BUILD THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD.' 34:32 ISN'T THAT WHAT HIS PASSION WAS? LAST PART OF HIS LIFE HE WAS 34:34 JUST AMASSING MONEY, HE DREW OUT PLANS FOR SOLOMON. 34:37 HE WANTED TO BUILD IT BUT GOD SAID TO HIM THROUGH NATHAN THE 34:40 PROPHET, 'DAVID, I CAN'T HAVE YOU BUILD IT. 34:42 YOUR SON'S GOING TO BUILD MY HOUSE.' 34:43 BY THE WAY, THAT'S A PROPHECY ABOUT JESUS - THE SON OF DAVID 34:46 WHO BUILT THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. JESUS WAS A CARPENTER. 34:49 HE CAME TO BUILD A HOUSE CALLED THE CHURCH. 34:51 YOU ARE THAT HOUSE THAT HE BUILT. 34:54 AND HE SAID, 'DAVID, YOU CAN'T BUILD IT BECAUSE YOU'RE A BLOODY 34:57 MAN.' NOW TWO REASONS THERE - 1) 34:59 BECAUSE HE WAS A SOLDIER AND HE HAD SHED MUCH BLOOD AND 2) HE 35:03 KILLED AN INNOCENT MAN WHEN HE KILLED URIAH. 35:06 HE SAID, 'I CAN'T HAVE A MURDERER BUILDING MY HOUSE.' 35:10 AND HE SAID, 'BUT YOUR SON, SOLOMON' - THAT MEANS 'PEACE' 35:14 'SHALOM' - 'HE WILL BUILD MY HOUSE.' 35:18 AND SO THE SON OF DAVID BUILT THIS BEAUTIFUL HOUSE. 35:22 WELL NOW, THE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THE SAME ATTITUDE AS DAVID. 35:24 THEY'RE MORE INTERESTED IN PANELING THEIR HOUSES THAN GOD'S 35:26 HOUSE. SO YOU SEE WHAT HAGGAI IS DOING? 35:29 HE'S POINTING BACK TO THE ATTITUDE OF DAVID WHEN HE MAKES 35:32 THIS STATEMENT AND DAVID HAD THE PERSPECTIVE OF MATTHEW 6:33. 35:39 WHO KNOWS WHAT THAT SAYS? SONG ABOUT IT. (HUMS) - 35:45 YOU ALL KNOW THAT? SEEK YE FIRST THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 35:50 SEEK YE FIRST THE HOUSE OF GOD AND HIS RIGHTEOUSNESS AND ALL 35:54 THESE OTHER THINGS - YOUR HOUSE - WILL BE ADDED TO YOU. 35:58 SO IF WE PUT THE HOUSE OF GOD - THE KINGDOM OF GOD FIRST, THEN 36:02 GOD SAYS HE'LL TAKE CARE OF ALL THE OTHER THINGS YOU NEED - YOUR 36:06 HOUSE, YOUR FARMS - 'I'LL BLESS YOU IF YOU DON'T MAKE ME SECOND 36:10 PLACE.' YOU KNOW, GOD HAD FORETOLD THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN. 36:14 IF YOU LOOK IN LEVITICUS - MATTER OF FACT, I THINK I'VE GOT 36:16 A VERSE FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO LOOK UP. 36:19 WHO HAS - I'LL GET TO IT IN A MINUTE - WHO HAS JOHN 2:19? 36:23 WE'VE GOT SOMEONE RIGHT OVER HERE. 36:25 LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. IT'S NOT FAR AWAY. 36:27 OKAY, WE'LL GET TO YOU IN A JUST A MINUTE MIKE. 36:30 LEVITICUS 26:16, 'THIS ALSO I WILL DO TO YOU' - HE SAID, 'IF 36:37 YOU DISOBEY ME AND IF YOU TURN FROM ME I WILL APPOINT TERROR 36:41 OVER YOU, WASTING DISEASE AND FEVER THAT WILL CONSUME YOUR 36:44 EYES AND CAUSE SORROW OF HEART. 36:46 YOU WILL SOW YOUR SEED IN VAIN, FOR YOUR ENEMIES WILL EAT IT.' 36:50 HE SAYS 'I WILL NOT BLESS YOUR CROPS IF YOU TURN FROM OBEYING 36:53 ME.' DEUTERONOMY 28 - SAME THING - THIS IS IN THE CHAPTER OF 36:57 BLESSING AND CURSING - IT SAYS, 'IF YOU DO FOLLOW ME, BLESSED 37:01 WILL BE THE FRUIT OF YOUR BODY' - YOUR CHILDREN - 37:04 'THE PRODUCE OF YOUR GROUND' - HE SAYS, 'I'LL BLESS THE PRODUCE 37:07 OF YOUR GROUND' - 'THE INCREASE OF YOUR HERDS, THE INCREASE OF 37:10 YOUR CATTLE AND YOUR OFFSPRING OF YOUR FLOCKS. 37:14 YOU'LL BE BLESSED IN YOUR BASKET AND YOUR KNEADING BOWL.' 37:18 BY PUTTING GOD AS OUR FIRST WORK, IT INVITES HIS BLESSING. 37:21 THERE'S THINGS YOU CAN DO TO TURN AWAY HIS BLESSING, THERE'S 37:23 THINGS YOU CAN DO TO INVITE HIS BLESSING. 37:26 NOW SOME OF YOU MIGHT BE THINKING, 'PASTOR DOUG, YOU 37:29 ORCHESTRATED THIS SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY SO THAT YOU COULD TALK 37:31 ABOUT A BUILDING PROJECT.' YES, CENTRAL AND GRANITE BAY 37:36 HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN A BUILDING PROJECT FOR YEARS AND WE'RE 37:40 PRAYING THE LORD WILL CONTINUE TO OPEN THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN 37:43 AND MAKE IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO ULTIMATELY BUILD. 37:46 OUR PROBLEM HAS NOT BEEN THAT WE'RE RUNNING TO OUR HOUSES, OUR 37:49 PROBLEM HAS BEEN CALIFORNIA CODES AND RED TAPE IS JUST 37:53 AMAZING. IT'S LEGENDARY. BUT REALLY WHEN WE TALK ABOUT 37:57 BUILDING UP THE HOUSE, THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M THINKING OF. 37:59 THIS IS A GOOD SERMON FOR A CHURCH-BUILDING PROGRAM BUT WHAT 38:04 IS THE CHURCH - WHAT IS THE REAL CHURCH ON EARTH TODAY? 38:09 MATTHEW 24, VERSES 1 AND 2. 38:15 THE DISCIPLES TOOK JESUS AND THEY SHOWED HIM THE TEMPLE - 38:19 THIS WAS THE TEMPLE THAT HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH PROPHESIED ABOUT. 38:23 IT HAD BEEN GREATLY EMBELLISHED BY KING HEROD. 38:28 "THEN JESUS WENT OUT AND DEPARTED FROM THE TEMPLE, AND 38:30 HIS DISCIPLES CAME UP TO SHOW HIM THE BUILDINGS OF THE 38:33 TEMPLE." - IT HAD MASSIVE STONES. YOU KNOW, 38:35 THEY HAVE FOUND STONES IN HEROD'S TEMPLE - NOT SOLOMON'S 38:37 TEMPLE, HEROD'S TEMPLE - THAT ONE STONE WAS 50 TONS. JUST 38:42 ENORMOUS STONES, YOU KNOW, 20-FEET LONG. BIG, MASSIVE STONES. 38:47 "AND JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'DO YOU NOT SEE ALL THESE THINGS? 38:51 ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, NOT ONE STONE SHALL BE LEFT HERE UPON 38:54 ANOTHER, THAT SHALL NOT BE THROWN DOWN.'" 38:57 IS GOD'S PRIMARY INTEREST THE PHYSICAL CHURCH AND TEMPLE? 39:02 THE TABERNACLE THAT MOSES BUILT - WHERE IS IT TODAY? 39:06 WE DON'T KNOW WHERE A THREAD OF IT IS TODAY. 39:09 THE TEMPLE THAT SOLOMON BUILT - AS GREAT AS IT WAS, WHERE IS IT 39:12 TODAY? WELL, THERE'S A LITTLE SLIVER OF 39:15 IT LEFT OVER THERE CALLED THE WAILING WALL. 39:18 A FEW OF THE LOWER STONES MAY HAVE COME FROM SOLOMON'S TEMPLE 39:23 AND LATER STACKED UP BY HEROD. NOT MUCH LEFT. 39:28 AND HEROD'S TEMPLE - ALL THAT'S LEFT OF THAT IS, AGAIN, A FEW 39:31 STONES THAT MAY BE IN THE WAILING WALL. 39:35 SO WHAT IS THE TEMPLE THAT REALLY STILL EXISTS TODAY? 39:39 ALRIGHT GO AHEAD. ARE YOU READY MIKE? 39:41 READ JOHN FOR US, CHAPTER 2:19 AND 21. 39:44 >>JOHN 2:19 AND 21, "JESUS ANSWERED AND SAID TO THEM, 39:48 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE, AND IN THREE DAYS I WILL RAISE IT UP.' 39:53 THEN THE JEWS SAID, 'IT HAS TAKEN FORTY-SIX YEARS TO BUILD 39:57 THIS TEMPLE, AND WILL YOU RAISE IT UP IN THREE DAYS?' 40:00 BUT HE WAS SPEAKING OF THE TEMPLE OF HIS BODY." 40:03 >>ALRIGHT, VERY GOOD. WHO HAS MATTHEW 26:61? 40:07 WE GAVE OUT SOME VERSES. 40:10 SOMEONE - LOOK AROUND, YOU MIGHT HAVE THE - OVER HERE? 40:12 ALRIGHT, WE'LL GET YOU IN JUST A MINUTE JOHN. 40:13 THAT'LL BE MATTHEW 26:61 BUT BEFORE WE GET TO THAT. 40:16 WHEN JESUS MADE THAT CRYPTIC STATEMENT, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE 40:21 AND IN THREE DAYS I'LL RAISE IT UP.' AND THEY SAID, 'ARE YOU 40:23 MAD? IT TOOK 46 YEARS TO BUILD THIS TEMPLE?' 40:26 NOW WHY DID IT TAKE 46 YEARS TO BUILD THE TEMPLE? 40:29 THE TEMPLE OF HAGGAI'S TIME THAT EZRA TALKS ABOUT, IT WAS FIVE 40:34 YEARS BEING BUILT. THE 46 YEARS THEY'RE TALKING 40:38 ABOUT IS A TEMPLE RESTORATION PROGRAM. 40:41 YOU KNOW, FROM THE TIME OF EZRA, NEHEMIAH, HAGGAI, ZECHARIAH - 40:45 WHEN THEY FINALLY REBUILT WHAT THEY CALLED THE THIRD TEMPLE, 40:48 THE TEMPLE JESUS CAME TO WAS THAT SAME THIRD TEMPLE. 40:51 IT WENT THROUGH A MAJOR RENOVATION THAT WAS STARTED EVEN 40:55 BEFORE THE TIME OF HEROD THE GREAT. 40:57 IT WAS STARTED, ACTUALLY, DURING THE TIME OF HEROD THE GREAT AND 41:00 COMPLETED - THEY WERE STILL WORKING ON IT EVEN AFTER HE WAS 41:02 DEAD BUT THEY GREATLY EMBELLISHED IT AND FIXED IT UP, 41:06 BUT IT WAS STILL CONSIDERED THE THIRD TEMPLE. 41:08 AND SO THEY SPENT - TALK ABOUT A 46-YEAR BUILDING PROGRAM. 41:12 OH YEAH, YOU WERE GOING TO READ JOHN, OVER HERE. 41:16 READ MATTHEW 26:61. >>MATTHEW 26:61, "AND SAID, 41:24 'THIS FELLOW SAID, 'I AM ABLE TO DESTROY THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND TO 41:28 BUILD IT IN THREE DAYS.''" >>NOW DID JESUS SAY THAT? 41:33 SOMETHING CLOSE TO THAT BUT WHAT WAS HE TALKING ABOUT? 41:36 IT SAYS HE SPOKE OF HIS BODY. ISN'T THAT WHAT JOHN SAID? 41:39 HIS BODY. WELL, WHAT IS THE CHURCH CALLED? 41:43 THE BODY OF CHRIST. HIS BODY ROSE UP IN THREE DAYS 41:46 BUT HE ALSO ROSE THE CHURCH UP IN THREE DAYS BECAUSE THE CHURCH 41:48 WAS REALLY BORN DURING THE RESURRECTION, RIGHT? 41:51 SAME EVENING OF THE RESURRECTION HE KIND OF INAUGURATED THE NEW 41:54 CHURCH AND, MORE OFFICIALLY, AT PENTECOST BUT HE'S ALSO TALKING 42:01 MORE ABOUT THAT. MARK - YOU KNOW, DURING THE 42:03 TRIAL OF CHRIST THEY TRIED TO GET TWO WITNESSES TO AGREE. 42:06 THE ONLY TWO WITNESSES THEY COULD GET TO SOMEWHAT AGREE YOU 42:09 FIND IN MARK 14:57. "THEN SOME ROSE UP AND BORE 42:14 FALSE WITNESS AGAINST HIM, SAYING, 'WE HEARD HIM SAY, 42:17 'I WILL DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS, AND WITHIN THREE 42:19 DAYS I WILL BUILD ANOTHER MADE WITHOUT HANDS.'' 42:21 BUT NOT EVEN THEN DID THEIR TESTIMONY AGREE." 42:24 TWO WITNESSES SAID SOMETHING SIMILAR. 42:26 MATTER OF FACT, ONE IS IN MARK AND ONE IS IN MATTHEW. 42:28 YOU FIND THAT THEIR WORDING IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. 42:30 BUT JESUS DID SAY SOMETHING LIKE THAT: 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE 42:34 WITH HANDS AND IN THREE DAYS I'LL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS.' 42:36 WHAT IS THAT TEMPLE? WHEN HE WAS ON THE CROSS THEY 42:39 THREW THAT BACK AT HIM, DIDN'T THEY? 42:41 'YOU WHO DESTROY THE TEMPLE AND BUILD IT UP IN THREE DAYS - IF 42:44 YOU'RE SO GREAT, COME DOWN FROM THE CROSS.' WHAT IS THE TEMPLE? 42:49 EPHESIANS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 19, "NOW, THEREFORE, YOU ARE NO 42:54 LONGER STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS, BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE 42:59 SAINTS AND MEMBERS OF THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD, HAVING BEEN 43:02 BUILT ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, JESUS 43:06 CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE, IN WHOM THE WHOLE 43:10 BUILDING, BEING FITTED TOGETHER, GROWS INTO A HOLY TEMPLE IN THE 43:15 LORD, IN WHOM YOU ALSO ARE BEING BUILT TOGETHER FOR A DWELLING 43:18 PLACE OF GOD IN THE SPIRIT." IS THAT PRETTY CLEAR THAT GOD 43:22 STILL HAS A TEMPLE ON EARTH? CHRIST IS THE CORNERSTONE, YOU 43:26 AND I ARE LIVING STONES. WE'RE BRICKS IN THIS TEMPLE THAT IS 43:29 BEING - COMING TOGETHER. THE LORD WANTS TO DWELL IN US. 43:32 OUR BODIES ARE THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, BUT NOT JUST OUR 43:35 BODIES. YOU KNOW, ANOTHER TIME HE SAID, 'WHAT, DO YOU NOT KNOW 43:38 THAT YE COLLECTIVELY' - 1 CORINTHIANS - 'ARE THE TEMPLE 43:43 OF GOD?' NOT JUST YOUR BODY, YOU AND - COLLECTIVELY 43:47 AS A GROUP ARE THE TEMPLE. LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE. 43:50 1 PETER 2, VERSES 4 AND 5, "COMING TO HIM AS TO A LIVING 43:57 STONE, REJECTED INDEED BY MEN, BUT CHOSEN BY GOD AND PRECIOUS, 44:02 YOU ALSO, AS LIVING STONES, ARE BEING BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL 44:06 HOUSE, A HOLY PRIESTHOOD, TO OFFER UP SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES 44:10 ACCEPTABLE TO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST." 44:14 AND SO, DOES GOD STILL HAVE A TEMPLE TODAY? 44:18 WE'RE TO BE THAT LIVING TEMPLE. DOES HE STILL HAVE A PRIESTHOOD? 44:21 YEAH, HE'S GOT THIS SPIRITUAL PRIESTHOOD. MATTER OF FACT, EVEN 44:24 IN THE OLD TESTAMENT HE CALLED THEM A NATION OF PRIESTS. 44:27 THEY WERE TO BE PRIESTS TO THE WORLD AND HELP MAKE ATONEMENT TO 44:30 THE WORLD AND BRING THE GENTILE NATIONS TO GOD. 44:32 NOW, WITH THAT IN MIND, HOW DO WE APPLY HAGGAI'S MESSAGE TODAY? 44:37 WHAT DOES GOD SAY ABOUT TITHING? AND, BY THE WAY, THAT'S MALACHI 44:40 WHO'S ANOTHER MINOR PROPHET DURING THE SAME TIME PERIOD. 44:43 HE SAYS, IF YOU'RE FAITHFUL IN TITHE, WHAT WILL HE DO TO THE 44:46 PESTILENCE? 'I'LL REBUKE THE DEVOURER.' 44:49 THE THINGS THAT DEVOUR OUR INCREASE WILL BE REBUKED. 44:52 'I'LL BLESS THE OTHER 90 PERCENT YOU HAVE LEFT IF YOU'RE FAITHFUL 44:55 IN PAYING YOUR TITHE AND YOUR OFFERING. 44:57 SO THAT WOULD BE EVEN LESS THAN 90 PERCENT, BUT HE'LL BLESS THE 45:00 REMAINDER IF WE'RE FAITHFUL. IF WE DO NOT PUT GOD IN HIS 45:05 TEMPLE FIRST - NOW, WHAT IS THE TEMPLE? IT'S THE PEOPLE. 45:10 IT'S THE CHURCH. IT'S THE WORK OF GOD. 45:14 IF WE ARE THINKING ABOUT OUR HOUSE AND WE'RE NOT THINKING 45:17 ABOUT HIS HOUSE, OUR PRIORITIES ARE MESSED UP. 45:20 NOTICE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SOLOMON AND HEZEKIAH. 45:25 FIRST OF ALL, WAS HEZEKIAH A GOOD KING OR A BAD KING? 45:28 GOOD KING. SOLOMON - AT LEAST AT THE BEGINNING - 45:32 GOOD KING OR BAD KING? GOOD KING. 45:35 YOU NOTICE WHEN SOLOMON - YOU LOOK IN 1 KINGS CHAPTER 3, 45:38 'SOLOMON LOVED THE LORD WALKING IN ALL THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE 45:40 LORD.' AND THEN GOD APPEARS TO SOLOMON 45:42 AND HE SAYS, 'ASK WHAT I'LL DO FOR YOU.' 45:44 AND HE WAS SO HUMBLE HE SAID, 'LORD, YOUR KINGDOM. 45:46 IT'S YOUR KINGDOM. YOUR KINGDOM - WHAT CAN I - I NEED WISDOM.' 45:49 GOD GAVE HIM WISDOM. WHAT'S THE FIRST THING 45:51 SOLOMON DID? BUILT THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD. 45:54 GOD WORKS A MIRACLE FOR HEZEKIAH, MAKES THE SUN GO 45:58 BACKWARDS - EVEN AMBASSADORS FROM BABYLON COME TO FIND OUT 46:01 ABOUT GOD. 'TELL US ABOUT YOUR GOD. 46:03 SHOW US YOUR TEMPLE.' AND INSTEAD OF SHOWING THE 46:05 TEMPLE, WHERE DOES HEZEKIAH TAKE HIM? TO HIS HOUSE. 46:09 HE SAID, 'DO YOU WANT TO SEE MY HOUSE? LOOK AT MY VERANDA. 46:12 LOOK AT MY BALCONY. LOOK AT MY OINTMENTS. 46:15 LOOK AT MY ARMORY - MY SECURITY SYSTEM. LOOK AT MY STUFF.' 46:19 AND ISAIAH SAID, 'WHAT DID THEY SEE?' 46:20 'I SHOWED THEM EVERYTHING IN MY HOUSE.' MY HOUSE. 46:23 HE SAID, 'YOU'RE GOING TO LOSE EVERYTHING. 46:26 IT'S ALL GOING TO GET CARRIED TO BABYLON BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T SEEK 46:28 FIRST GOD'S KINGDOM.' THAT TWO - THOSE TWO PRINCIPLES, 46:32 WE ALL HAVE IN OUR HEARTS. KAREN AND I SOMETIMES ENJOY 46:37 WATCHING A PROGRAM WHERE THEY SHOW PEOPLE RENOVATING THEIR 46:40 HOUSES AND THEN THEY'VE GOT THIS OTHER PROGRAM - I'M EMBARRASSED 46:43 TO TELL YOU THIS BUT I'M JUST BARING MY SOUL. 46:47 THEY'VE GOT THIS PROGRAM - THEY GO AROUND THE WORLD AND LOOK AT 46:49 THESE BEAUTIFUL HOMES AND THESE BEAUTIFUL BEACHES AND ISLANDS 46:52 AND STUFF. AND I'VE GOT TO TELL YOU, 46:53 FRIENDS, I COVET A LITTLE BIT WHEN I LOOK AT ALL OF THAT. 46:56 I THINK, 'WELL, I WOULDN'T MIND LIVING IN THAT HOUSE. 46:59 THAT'D BE PRETTY NICE. AND IT'S SO EASY FOR US TO THINK 47:03 ABOUT WHAT KIND OF RETIREMENT HOUSE WOULD I HAVE AND - WE ALL 47:06 WANT TO BE COMFORTABLE. RIGHT NOW, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT 47:09 YOU BUT WE'VE BEEN DOING A LITTLE SPRING CLEANING AND YOU 47:11 WANT TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR HOUSE. BUT WE CAN GET SO PREOCCUPIED 47:14 WITH OUR HOUSES WE FORGET ABOUT GOD'S HOUSE. AND THAT'S JUST - 47:19 NOT JUST THE BUILDING. WE HAD A WORK BEE HERE NOT TOO 47:22 LONG AGO. IT'S GOOD TO DO SPRING CLEANING AND TAKE CARE OF 47:24 THE CHURCH, BUT IT'S THE WORK OF GOD. 47:27 GOD HAS A HOUSE NOT JUST IN SACRAMENTO OR WHATEVER TOWN 47:30 YOU'RE WATCHING FROM, BUT IT'S ALL OVER THE WORLD. 47:32 AND WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT HIS CHURCH AND THE MISSION OF 47:37 HIS CHURCH AND BUILDING UP THE CHURCH. 47:44 WAS THE OLD TESTAMENT THE ONLY TIME THE WALLS OF GOD HAD BEEN 47:47 BROKEN DOWN? COULD IT BE THAT EVEN TODAY 47:51 THERE ARE BREACHES IN THE WALLS? WHAT MADE NEHEMIAH SO SAD? HE 47:56 WEPT BEFORE THE KING BECAUSE, HE SAID, 'THE CITY'S BROKEN DOWN. 48:01 STILL GOT A CITY, BUT THERE ARE BREACHES IN THE WALLS.' 48:04 WILL WE - WILL WE MEET WITH OPPOSITION FROM THE ENEMY WHEN 48:08 WE TRY TO BUILD UP THE CITY AND THE TEMPLE OF GOD? 48:11 DID THEY MEET WITH OPPOSITION? EVEN IN THE PROPHECY ABOUT JESUS 48:15 IT SAID, 'THE STREET AND THE WALL WILL BE BUILT AGAIN IN 48:17 TROUBLOUS TIMES.' WHENEVER YOU'RE BUILDING UP THE 48:21 TEMPLE OF GOD IT'S GOING TO BE TROUBLOUS TIMES BECAUSE THE 48:23 DEVIL'S NOT GOING TO STAND BACK AND SAY - APPLAUD - 'HERE'S SOME 48:26 MONEY, GO AHEAD AND BUILD.' IT'S ALWAYS WITH OPPOSITION YOU 48:30 TRY TO BUILD UP THE CHURCH OF GOD. IT'S ALWAYS WITH OPPOSITION 48:33 YOU TRY TO BUILD UP THE TEMPLE OF GOD IN YOUR BODY. 48:36 WHENEVER YOU TRY AND HAVE REFORM AND YOU TRY AND BUILD THINGS UP 48:39 AND TAKE CARE OF YOUR BODY PHYSICALLY AND SPIRITUALLY, 48:41 YOU'RE GOING TO FIND ALL KINDS OF TEMPTATION AND OPPOSITION 48:44 FROM THE DEVIL AND CIRCUMSTANCES AND THE DEVIL JUST DOESN'T WANT 48:48 TO SEE THE TEMPLE BUILT UP. AND GOD THEN SAYS - WE'RE UNDER 48:53 THIS NEXT SECTION - 'DO NOT FEAR' DO NOT BE AFRAID BECAUSE 48:58 HE WILL SUPPORT. I'M GOING TO JUMP AHEAD. 49:01 'GOD'S GREATEST PROMISE'. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME, PLEASE, 49:04 ISAIAH 41:10. WHO HAS THAT? WE'VE GOT A HAND BACK HERE. 49:09 I THINK, VIRGINIA? LET'S GET HER A MICROPHONE. 49:11 HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO THEY SEE IT, OKAY? 49:14 AND WHILE - YEAH, WHILE YOU'RE TAKING THE MIC BACK THERE, LET'S 49:17 TALK ABOUT GOD'S GREATEST PROMISE. GENESIS 28:15-18. 49:21 FOUR WORDS, 'I AM WITH YOU.' THAT'S THE GREATEST PROMISE. 49:30 'I AM' - WHAT HAPPENED TO ADAM AND EVE AFTER SIN? 49:33 THEY WERE SEPARATED FROM GOD. THEY RAN FROM GOD, HE DIDN'T RUN 49:37 FROM THEM. BUT THEY WERE SEPARATED. 49:38 YOUR SINS HAVE SEPARATED YOU FROM GOD. 49:40 WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF THE PLAN OF SALVATION? 49:43 BRING US BACK TOGETHER AGAIN. ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 49:46 TO BE RECONCILED WITH GOD. SO WHEN GOD SAID IN GENESIS 28, 49:51 TO JACOB, 'I AM WITH YOU. BEHOLD, I AM WITH YOU AND WILL 49:54 KEEP YOU WHEREVER YOU GO, AND WILL BRING YOU BACK TO THIS 49:56 LAND; FOR I WILL NOT LEAVE YOU UNTIL I HAVE DONE WHAT I HAVE 49:58 SPOKEN TO YOU.'" I LIKE WHAT HE SAID TO GIDEON. 50:03 SOMETIMES IT DOESN'T FEEL LIKE GOD'S WITH US AND THAT'S HOW 50:05 GIDEON RESPONDED. JUDGES 6:12, "AND THE ANGEL OF 50:08 THE LORD APPEARED TO HIM, AND SAID TO HIM, 'THE LORD IS WITH 50:10 YOU, YOU MIGHTY MAN OF VALOR!'" AND GIDEON SAID, 'O, IF THE 50:13 LORD IS WITH US THEN WHY ARE WE HAVING SO MUCH TROUBLE?' 50:16 COULD THE LORD STILL BE WITH YOU AND YOU HAVING TROUBLE? 50:20 MATTER OF FACT, SOMETIMES THAT'S WHAT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL 50:22 SAID, 'GOD WENT TO PHARAOH AND SAID, 'LET MY PEOPLE GO' AND 50:24 THINGS GOT WORSE. 50:26 THEN THEY WOULDN'T EVEN GIVE THEM STRAW TO MAKE BRICK AND 50:29 THEN THEY CHASED AFTER THEM AND THEY SAID, 'OH, IT WOULD HAVE 50:32 BEEN BETTER TO DIE IN EGYPT.' AND SO, WHENEVER YOU'RE TRYING 50:35 TO DO GOD'S WILL AND FOLLOW GOD, YOU'RE GOING TO SAY, 'IF GOD'S 50:38 WITH US, WHY ARE WE HAVING ALL THESE PROBLEMS?' 50:41 LOOK AT THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL GOING THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. 50:44 DID THEY HAVE PROBLEMS? WAS GOD WITH THEM? YEAH. 50:48 HE'S STILL WITH HIS PEOPLE. ALRIGHT, READ FOR US PLEASE 50:51 ISAIAH 41:10. >>ISAIAH 41:10, "FEAR NOT, FOR 50:56 I AM WITH YOU; BE NOT DISMAYED, FOR I AM YOUR GOD. 51:01 I WILL STRENGTHEN YOU, YES, I WILL HELP YOU, I WILL UPHOLD YOU 51:06 WITH MY RIGHTEOUS RIGHT HAND." 51:09 >>THAT'S THE GREATEST PROMISE OF ALL, 'I AM WITH YOU.' 51:13 MATTHEW 28, JESUS SAID, 'LO I AM WITH YOU ALWAYS.' 51:16 AT THE END OF HIS LIFE HE SAYS, 'I AM WITH YOU.' 51:18 AND WHAT'S THE PROMISE ABOUT CHRIST WHEN HE FIRST CAME? 51:21 HIS NAME WILL BE CALLED IMMANUEL, WHICH MEANS 51:23 'GOD WITH US'. THEN YOU GET TO REVELATION - 51:26 WHAT'S THE ULTIMATE PROMISE IN REVELATION? 51:29 "I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING" - 21:3 - REVELATION 21:3 51:33 - "BEHOLD THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, AND HE WILL DWELL 51:37 WITH THEM, AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE. 51:40 GOD HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM AND BE THEIR GOD." 51:43 WOW, ISN'T THAT THE BEST THING ABOUT HEAVEN? 51:46 EXCEPT WE WON'T HAVE ANY OPPOSITION THEN. 51:48 NOW, I TOLD YOU I WAS SAVING THE BEST FOR LAST. 51:50 WHY WAS THIS TEMPLE, THIS SECOND TEMPLE THAT HAGGAI PROPHESIED 51:54 ABOUT, GOING TO BE GREATER THAN THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON? 51:59 DO YOU REALIZE WHEN MOSES DEDICATED THE TEMPLE IN THE 52:02 WILDERNESS THE GLORY CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN? 52:04 FIRE CAME FROM HEAVEN DOWN ON THE SACRIFICE. 52:07 FIRE FELL FROM HEAVEN TO SHOW HIS APPROVAL OF THIS TEMPLE. 52:10 WHEN SOLOMON BUILT HIS TEMPLE THE SAME THING HAPPENED. 52:13 THAT WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST MIRACLES OF SOLOMON'S LIFE - A 52:15 VISUAL - LIKE ELIJAH - FIRE CAME DOWN, CONSUMED THE SACRIFICE, 52:20 FILLED THE TEMPLE WITH GLORY. THE PRIESTS COULDN'T EVEN GO IN 52:22 TO SOLOMON'S TEMPLE BECAUSE OF THE GLORY IN THE TEMPLE. 52:25 AND NOW THEY'VE BUILT THIS COMPARATIVELY SMALL SHED THEY'RE 52:30 CALLING A TEMPLE. I MEAN, IT WAS PRETTY MAJESTIC 52:31 BUT COMPARED TO THE OTHERS IT WASN'T ANYTHING. 52:34 AND GOD SAID, 'DON'T YOU FEAR.' HE SAYS IN HAGGAI 2, VERSE 3, 52:41 "WHO IS LEFT AMONG YOU WHO SAW THIS TEMPLE IN ITS FORMER GLORY? 52:44 AND HOW DO YOU SEE IT NOW? 52:46 IN COMPARISON WITH IT, IS THIS NOT IN YOUR EYES AS NOTHING?" 52:50 BUT THEN HE SAYS - GO TO VERSE 6 - HAGGAI 2:6 - "FOR THUS SAYS 52:54 THE LORD OF HOSTS: 'ONCE MORE (IT IS A LITTLE WHILE) I 52:57 WILL SHAKE HEAVEN AND EARTH, THE SEA AND DRY LAND; AND I WILL 53:00 SHAKE ALL NATIONS, AND THEY SHALL COME TO THE DESIRE OF ALL 53:04 NATIONS,'" - YOU EVER READ THAT BOOK 'DESIRE OF AGES'? 53:07 IT'S BASED ON THIS VERSE - "'THE DESIRE OF ALL NATIONS, AND I 53:11 WILL FILL THIS TEMPLE WITH GLORY,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS." 53:17 AND THEN YOU GO TO VERSE 9, "THE GLORY OF THIS LATTER TEMPLE 53:21 SHALL BE GREATER THAN THE FORMER,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS. 53:25 'AND IN THIS PLACE I WILL GIVE PEACE,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS." 53:28 WHY COULD HE SAY THAT THE GLORY OF THIS TEMPLE WOULD BE GREATER? 53:31 LUKE 2, VERSE 46, "NOW SO IT WAS THAT AFTER THREE DAYS" - JESUS 53:41 IS 12 YEARS OLD, HE GOES TO JERUSALEM WITH HIS PARENTS FOR 53:45 THE FEAST, THEY LOSE TRACK OF HIM AND THEY SEARCH EVERYWHERE 53:49 AND FINALLY THEY BACKTRACK. IT SAYS, "I WAS THAT AFTER THREE 53:52 DAYS THEY FOUND HIM IN THE TEMPLE." 53:55 WHO ACTUALLY CAME TO THAT TEMPLE? JESUS. 54:03 GOD, THE MESSIAH HIMSELF, WOULD COME TO THIS THIRD TEMPLE. 54:08 THAT'S WHY THE GLORY OF THIS TEMPLE WOULD BE GREATER. 54:10 JESUS SAID IN MATTHEW 21, VERSE 13, HE SAID, "'IT IS WRITTEN, 54:15 'MY HOUSE SHALL BE CALLED A HOUSE OF PRAYER,' BUT YOU HAVE 54:18 MADE IT A 'DEN OF THIEVES.'" WHEN JESUS - IF YOU COULD SEE 54:20 A VIDEO OF THAT DAY WHEN JESUS WAS IN THE COURTYARD AND THEY 54:23 WERE SELLING ALL THE GOATS AND THE DOVES AND THE SHEEP AND HE 54:26 CHASED THEM OUT, DIVINITY FLASHED THROUGH HIM THAT DAY IN 54:31 THE TEMPLE AND IT SENT THEM ALL SCURRYING OUT OF THERE TAKING 54:34 THEIR FLEA MARKET APPARATUS WITH THEM. 54:36 THE GLORY - IT SAYS, 'THE ZEAL OF THINE HOUSE HAS EATEN ME UP.' 54:39 THE GLORY OF GOD DID APPEAR IN THAT TEMPLE. JESUS CAME. 54:44 YOU REMEMBER WHEN MARY MAGDALENE WAS CAUGHT IN ADULTERY IN THAT 54:46 TEMPLE AND HE SPOKE THERE AND HE SENT ALL OF HER ACCUSERS OUT. 54:51 HE FORGAVE HER THERE IN THAT TEMPLE AND THEN ALL THE CHILDREN 54:53 CAME INTO THE TEMPLE AND THEY WERE SINGING, 'HOSANNA TO THE 54:56 SON OF DAVID' IN THAT TEMPLE. AND SO, HE SPENT A LOT OF TIME 54:59 TEACHING IN THE TEMPLE. IT SAYS, 'DAILY HE WAS IN THE 55:01 TEMPLE'. AND SO THE GLORY OF THE THIRD 55:04 TEMPLE IS BECAUSE THE MESSIAH WAS IN THAT TEMPLE. 55:08 FINALLY, LAST - LAST PART OF HAGGAI - I'VE GOT JUST A MOMENT 55:12 OR TWO - IT SAYS, 'THE LORD'S SIGNET RING' - YOU CAN READ IN 55:16 HAGGAI WHERE IT TELLS ABOUT ZERUBBABEL WOULD BE LIKE THE 55:19 LORD'S SIGNET RING. NOW WHAT'S INTERESTING ABOUT 55:22 ZERUBBABEL IS, FOR ONE THING, HIS NAME IS FUN TO SAY, RIGHT? 55:27 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE THAT ON YOUR LIST OF BABY NAMES FOR YOUR 55:30 CHILDREN OR GRANDCHILDREN? ZERUBBABEL - THEY'D HAVE A HARD 55:35 TIME AT SCHOOL, WOULDN'T THEY? YOU KNOW WHAT'S INTERESTING 55:37 ABOUT THAT GUY WITH THE INTERESTING NAME? 55:40 YOU TRACE THE GENEALOGY OF MARY AND THEN YOU TRACE THE GENEALOGY 55:44 OF DAVID - OF JESUS - THROUGH JOSEPH AND THEY'RE A LITTLE 55:48 PARALLEL BUT THEY'RE SEPARATE. YOU KNOW WHERE THEY CROSS OVER? 55:51 A GUY NAMED ZERUBBABEL. ZERUBBABEL WAS A DESCENDENT OF 55:55 DAVID AND BOTH THE GENEALOGY OF DAVID TRACKS BACK TO ZERUBBABEL 56:00 AND THE GENEALOGY OF JOSEPH - MARY, RATHER, AND JOSEPH BOTH 56:05 TRACK BACK TO HIM BECAUSE HE WAS A DESCENDENT OF KING DAVID. 56:08 FURTHERMORE, DURING THE TIME OF ZERUBBABEL, HE WAS A GOVERNOR 56:12 WHO OVERSAW THE BUILDING OF THE HOUSE. 56:15 HE IS ANOTHER TYPE OF CHRIST. HE IS A SON OF DAVID. 56:18 HE BROUGHT THEM FROM CAPTIVITY OF BABYLON TO THE PROMISED LAND. 56:21 DOESN'T JESUS BRING US FROM CAPTIVITY TO THE PROMISED LAND? 56:24 NO - WAIT, WAIT - I KNOW I'M OUT OF TIME, BUT JUST LISTEN. 56:27 THIS IS IMPORTANT. WHY DOES HE SAY 'SIGNET RING'? 56:30 IT IS A REVERSAL OF WHAT HE SAID ABOUT THE SIGNET RING BEFORE 56:34 THEY WENT TO BABYLON. 56:35 THE SON OF DAVID, JECONIAH, HE WAS AN EVIL KING. 56:40 HE WAS THE SON OF JOSIAH WHO WAS GOOD, BUT JECONIAH WAS BAD. 56:43 AND IT SAID IN JEREMIAH 22:24, 'THOUGH HE WERE THIS SIGNET ON 56:47 MY RIGHT HAND, YET I WOULD PLUCK HIM OUT; AND GIVE HIM INTO THE 56:50 HAND OF THOSE THAT SEEK HIS LIFE.' 56:52 A SIGNET WAS THE CLOSEST THING YOU HAD - IT WAS YOUR SEAL, IT 56:55 WAS YOUR AUTHORITY, IT WAS YOUR PIN NUMBER. 56:57 AND IT SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH IF HE WAS A SIGNET ON MY 57:01 HAND, BECAUSE YOU'VE TURNED FROM ME I GIVE HIM TO THE ENEMY. 57:04 NOW, THE ANCESTOR OF DAVID, AFTER THE CAPTIVITY, COMES BACK 57:10 AND GOD SAYS, 'HE WILL BE MY SIGNET ON MY HAND. 57:13 I'M GOING TO RESTORE MY SUPPORT FOR HIM.' 57:16 AND SO HE WAS A TYPE OF CHRIST AND HE HELPED BUILD UP THE 57:18 TEMPLE LIKE JESUS. HE BROUGHT THEM OUT OF CAPTIVITY 57:21 LIKE JESUS, AND HE DEFENDED THEM FROM THEIR ENEMIES, LIKE JESUS. 57:25 AND SO, THERE'S A LOT MORE THERE. 57:26 SIGNET RING, WHAT DID GOD - WHAT DID THE KING GIVE TO ESTHER TO 57:32 SAVE THEM FROM THE PLOT TO DESTROY THEM? 57:35 HE SAID, 'HERE'S MY RING. I'LL LET YOU MAKE A LAW THAT 57:38 WILL DELIVER YOU.' WHAT DID THE FATHER GIVE THE 57:40 PRODIGAL SON WHEN HE CAME HOME AS A SIGN THAT HE WAS BACK AS 57:44 PART OF THE FAMILY? IT WAS THE SIGNET RING - 57:46 FAMILY SEAL. IT WAS THE KEY TO THE SAFETY 57:49 DEPOSIT BOX SO TO SPEAK. SO ANYWAY, WE'VE RUN OUT OF 57:52 TIME. A LOT YOU CAN LEARN FROM HAGGAI. 57:54 YOU COULD READ IT IN JUST 20 MINUTES. 57:56 IT'S PRETTY EASY. (MUSIC) |
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