Consider Your Ways
from Grace Baptist Church Sermon Audio Hosted by Jimmy Gilbert
Laying the Foundation: Around 50,000 remnants returned to Jerusalem. They successfully rebuilt the altar and laid the temple's foundation, a momentous event marked by shouting and music from the young, while the ancient men who remembered the original temple wept aloud. 14 Years of Idleness: Following this, adversaries arose who "weakened their hands," troubled them, and hired counselors to frustrate their purpose. Out of fear and discouragement, the people stopped working on the temple for approximately 14 years. Excuses and Emptiness: During these wasted years, the people made excuses, claiming it "was just not the right time" to build the Lord's house. Haggai points out that this spiritual idleness resulted in a life of emptiness—they sowed much but brought in little, ate but were not full, and put their earnings into bags with holes.
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