rebuilding the temple of god
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HAGGAI 1:1-15TRANSCRIPT
Hag 1:1 On the first day of the sixth month of the second year of the reign of King Darius, this message from the LORD came by Haggai the prophet to Shealtiel's son Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, and to Jehozadak's son Joshua, the high priest:
Hag 1:2 "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: 'These people keep saying, "No, the right time for rebuilding the LORD's Temple has not yet come."'"
Hag 1:3 Then this message from the LORD came by Haggai the prophet:
Hag 1:4 "Is it the right time for all of you to live in your own paneled houses while this house remains in ruins?"
Hag 1:5 "Now this is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies, says: 'Carefully consider your ways:
Hag 1:6 You have sowed much but have reaped little. You have eaten but don't have enough to become satisfied. You have drunk but don't have enough to become intoxicated. You have clothed yourself but don't have enough to keep warm. And the hired laborer deposits his salary in a bag full of holes!'"
Hag 1:7 "This is what the LORD of the Heavenly Armies says: 'Carefully consider your ways:
Hag 1:8 Go up into the mountains, bring timber, and reconstruct my house. Then I will be pleased with it and I will be honored,' says the LORD.
Hag 1:9 'You turned away in pursuit of abundance, but look at how little you found! What you did manage to bring home, I blew away! And why?' declares the LORD of the Heavenly Armies. 'It's because of my house! It lies in ruins while each of you runs off to his own house!
Hag 1:10 That is why the heavens keep withholding dew from you, and the earth withholds her fruit.
Hag 1:11 I sent a drought on the land, on the mountains, on your grain, on your new wines, on your oil—on everything the ground produces—on men, on livestock, and on everything you do!'"
Hag 1:12 Then Shealtiel's son Zerubbabel, Jehozadak's son Joshua the high priest, and all the rest of the people obeyed the LORD their God and the words of Haggai the prophet, because the LORD their God had sent him. And the people feared the LORD.
Hag 1:13 Haggai, the messenger of the LORD, spoke to the people with a special commission from the LORD: "'I am with you,' declares the LORD."
Hag 1:14 Then the LORD revitalized the spirit of Shealtiel's son Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, the spirit of Jehozadak's son Joshua the high priest, and the spirit of all the rest of the people, so they came and began to work on the house of their God, the LORD of the Heavenly Armies.
Hag 1:15 This took place on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month of the second year of the reign of King Darius.
WE NEED TO BUILD UP GOD’S TEMPLE PHYSICALLY
1 CORINTHIANS 6:19-20, “DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOUR BODY IS THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WHO IS IN YOU, WHOM YOU HAVE FROM GOD, AND YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN? FOR YOU WERE BOUGHT AT A PRICE; THEREFORE GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY AND IN YOUR SPIRIT WHICH ARE GOD’S.”
WE NEED TO BUILD UP GOD’S TEMPLE PHYSICALLY
WE NEED TO BUILD UP GOD’S TEMPLE MENTALLY
The Law of Concentration. The Law of Substitution.
The Law of Concentration states that whatever we dwell upon grows in our life experience. Whatever we think about on a continual basis becomes a part of us. Yes, we become what we think, and the more we dwell on something, the more we have of it in our lives.
The Law of Substitution states that our conscience mind can only hold one thought at a time. It makes no difference to our mind whether the thought is "negative" or "positive," it can only hold one at a time.
Proverbs 23:7a, "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he.“
Isaiah 26:3, "Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee."
Rom 12:2 Do not be conformed to this world, but continually be transformed by the renewing of your minds so that you may be able to determine what God's will is—what is proper, pleasing, and perfect.
Php 4:8 Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is fair, whatever is pure, whatever is acceptable, whatever is commendable, if there is anything of excellence and if there is anything praiseworthy—keep thinking about these things.
Php 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus:
Php 2:6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:
Php 2:7 But made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the likeness of men:
Php 2:8 And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
WE NEED TO BUILD UP GOD’S TEMPLE PHYSICALLY
WE NEED TO BUILD UP GOD’S TEMPLE MENTALLY
WE NEED TO BUILD UP GOD’S TEMPLE SPIRITUALLY
HEBREWS 10:25, TO “NOT NEGLECT OUR MEETING TOGETHER.”