"A Foundation for Glory"

Lets share Good News together. To partner with us financially visit www.gospelchurch.co/give or text the word "FRESH" to 94000. MESSAGE NOTES: 5 Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. 6 You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes. 7 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord. – Haggai 1v5-8 (ESV) How do people change? 17 Those people are zealous to win you over, but for no good. What they want is to alienate you from us, so that you may have zeal for them. 18 It is fine to be zealous, provided the purpose is good, and to be so always, not just when I am with you. 19 My dear children, for whom I am again in the pains of childbirth until Christ is formed in you, – Galatians 4v17-19 (NIV) 7 And I will shake all nations, so that the treasures of all nations shall come in, and I will fill this house with glory, says the Lord of hosts. 8 The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, declares the Lord of hosts. 9 The latter glory of this house shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, declares the Lord of hosts.’”– Haggai 2v7-9 (ESV) Overview: Haggai gives 4 separate prophetic messages: Haggai 1:1 – September 29, 520 BC Haggai 2:1 – October 17, 520 BC Haggai 2:10, 2:20 – December 18, 520 BC And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the directions of David king of Israel. – Ezra 3v10 (ESV) We desperately need seers who can see through the mist- Christian leaders with prophetic vision. Unless they come soon it will be too late for this generation. And if they do come we will no doubt crucify a few of them in the name of our worldly orthodoxy. — AW Tozer Before we get started… 1) Our motives are more important that our actions “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? – Haggai 1v4 (ESV) 23 Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, 24 since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. – Colossians 3v23-24 (NIV) 1 “And when all these things come upon you, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before you, and you call them to mind among all the nations where the Lord your God has driven you, 2 and return to the Lord your God, you and your children, and obey his voice in all that I command you today, with all your heart and with all your soul, 3 then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have mercy on you, and he will gather you again from all the peoples where the Lord your God has scattered you. – Deuteronomy 30v1-3 (ESV) 2) Humility will always fuel our self-examination Humility isn’t thinking less of yourself, its thinking of yourself less. Haggai 1v6-7 (ESV) Matthew 6v5-6 ESV Psalm 139v23-24 MSG 3) Part of how God works in the world is through His people’s obedience Haggai 1v9-10 (ESV) Especially in America, we have the option to become a “Christian” without ever becoming a disciple. Matthew 28v19-20 (NIV)