2013 haggai 2 consecration and blessing
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"Consescration & Blessings" (Haggai 2) Sermon Slides by Robin Liew from Sunday Sermon on 23 June 2013 @ SSMCTRANSCRIPT
Consecration
and Blessing
2:10-19
Haggai 2:10-19
Holiness and Defilement (v.10-14)
Consequence - Cause and Effect
(v.15-17)
The Turning Point - I will bless you
(v. 18-19)
Haggai 2:10-14 HOLINESS And DEFILEMENT
10 On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year
of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Haggai: 11
"This is what the Lord Almighty says: 'Ask the priests what the law
says: 12 If a person carries consecrated meat in the fold of his
garment, and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, oil
or other food, does it become consecrated?'“ The priests answered,
"No."
13 Then Haggai said, "If a person defiled by contact with a dead
body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?“ "Yes,"
the priests replied, "it becomes defiled."
14 Then Haggai said, "'So it is with this people and this
nation in my sight,' declares the Lord. 'Whatever they do
and whatever they offer there is defiled.
Lesson 1 - God’s People Must Be Pure
Holiness is not infectious or easily
transmitted
Unholiness is infectious. We can easily be
defiled.
14 Then Haggai said, "'So it is with this people and
this nation in my sight,' declares the Lord.
'Whatever they do and whatever they offer there is
defiled.
Do not be presumptuous
2 Kings 23:26-27
26 Nevertheless, the Lord did not turn away from
the heat of his fierce anger, which burned against
Judah because of all that Manasseh had done to
provoke him to anger. 27 So the Lord said, "I will
remove Judah also from my presence as I removed
Israel, and I will reject Jerusalem, the city I chose,
and this temple, about which I said, 'There shall my
Name be.'"
Lesson 1 - God’s People Must Be Pure
God is holy. So it must be with His people.
1Peter 1:15
But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in
all you do.
1 Peter 2:9
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a
holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you
may declare the praises of him who called you out
of darkness into his wonderful light.
Lesson 1 - God’s People Must Be Pure
The Father, Son and Holy Spirit at work
2 Peter 1:3-4
3 His divine power has given us everything we need
for life and godliness through our knowledge of him
who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4
Through these he has given us his very great and
precious promises, so that through them you may
participate in the divine nature and escape the
corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
We are to be consecrated unto God
Lesson 1 - God’s People Must Be Pure
Lesson 1 - God’s People Must Be Pure
“ME”
Secret
Inner- most
being
Personal
Public
Prov 4:23
Above all else, guard your
heart, for it is the
wellspring of life.
Matt 15:1-20
For out of the heart …. these
are what makes a man
“unclean”.
15 "'Now give careful thought to this from this day on
consider how things were before one stone was laid on
another in the Lord's temple. 16 When anyone came to a
heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When
anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, there
were only twenty. 17 I struck all the work of your
hands with blight, mildew and hail, yet you did not
turn to me,' declares the Lord.
God withheld His blessings from the
people. In fact, He worked against
them.
Haggai 2:15-17 CAUSE and EFFECT
Lesson 2 Consequence – Cause and Effect
“We can ignore even pleasure. But pain
insists upon being attended to. God
whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks
in our conscience, but shouts in our
pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a
deaf world.” C. S. Lewis
Is God Speaking To You Today ?
Is He Trying to GET YOUR
ATTENTION ?
Haggai 2:18-19 The Turning Point
18 'From this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the
ninth month, give careful thought to the day when the
foundation of the Lord's temple was laid. Give careful
thought: 19 Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now,
the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive
tree have not borne fruit.
"'From this day on I will bless you.'"
What TRIGGERED the TURNING
POINT ?
Zech 1:1-6
1 In the eighth month of the second year of Darius, the
word of the Lord came to the prophet Zechariah son of
Berekiah, the son of Iddo: 2 "The Lord was very angry
with your forefathers. 3 Therefore tell the people: This is
what the Lord Almighty says: 'Return to me,' declares
the Lord Almighty, 'and I will return to you,' says the
Lord Almighty. 4 Do not be like your forefathers, to
whom the earlier prophets proclaimed: This is what the
Lord Almighty says: 'Turn from your evil ways and your
evil practices.' But they would not listen or pay
attention to me, declares the Lord. 5 Where are your
forefathers now? And the prophets, do they live forever?
6 But did not my words and my decrees, which I
commanded my servants the prophets, overtake your
forefathers? "Then they repented and said, 'The Lord
Almighty has done to us what our ways and practices
deserve, just as he determined to do.'"
Lesson 3 The Key Is “Surrendedness”
Repentance
not Regret Humility
Honesty Obedience
Deny Self Abide in Christ
Walk in the Spirit
TRUE REPENTANCE OCCURS
WHEN WE BEGIN TO SEE SIN
FROM GOD’S POINT OF VIEW
WHEN WE SEE THE WAY OUR SIN
HAS BROKEN HIS HEART
~ Floyd McClung
LET MY HEART BE
BROKEN
FOR THE THINGS
THAT
BREAK GOD’S HEART
Lesson 3 The Key Is “Surrendedness”
Repentance
not Regret Humility
Honesty Obedience
Deny Self Abide in Christ
Walk in the Spirit
The Result
BLESSINGS AND BREAKTHROUGHS
Applications :
The work of God must have priority
The people of God must be consecrated.
The principle of Cause and Effect - What
is God saying to you today ? Does He have
Your attention ?
Surrendedness is the KEY to consecration
and blessings.
Matt 6:33-34
But seek first his kingdom
and his righteousness, and
all these things will be
given to you as well.