Go Get Wood

I. A relationship of serving, of working, of doing (even before saving) - Adam • Tend the Garden (Adam) • Build the Ark (Noah) • Leave your Home (Abraham) • Lead My People (Moses) • Leave Egypt (Exodus) • Love Your Neighbor (Leviticus) • Love Me (Deuteronomy) • Cross the Jordan (Joshua) • Rebuild My Temple (Go get wood) • Matthew 7:24-27; James 1:22-24 • Hebrews 11 • If you love Me then KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS • WHY DO YOU CALL ME LORD, LORD AND NOT DO THE THINGS THAT I SAY (Luke 6:46) - not talking to the Pharisees • God-honoring works not self-honoring works. • The Book of Romans begins and ends with the phrase “obedience of faith,” AND it is connected to reaching the nations (Haggai 2) • Romans 1:1-7; Romans 16:17-27 The Past Temple / The Present Temple / The Future Temples (Heb. 11) = Message One - God’s Judgment and the call to rebuild the Temple - chap. 1 = Message Two - God’s Prophetic Promise of the Future Glory of the Temple - 2:1-9 = Message Three - God’s Requirement of Priestly Purity - 2:10-19 = Message Four - God’s Re-establishing of the Messianic Line - 2:20-23 (Matthew 1:13) I. The Material (wood) - Ezra 5:8; Nehemiah 8:15 1. In the mountains of Jerusalem? 2. King of Tyre (Hiram)- I Kings 5:1-18 3. Cedars of Lebanon - Ezra 3:7 II. The Purposes - 1. That God be pleased - Scripture (John 8:29; Ephesians 5:10; Philippians 4:18; Colossians 1:9-10; 2. That God be glorified - I Kings 8 3. We are His Temple - I Cor 3:16; 6:18-20; I Thessalonians 4:1; I Timothy 2:3; 5:4; Titus 2:9; Hebrews 13:15-16; 20-21 (Is God pleased and glorified in us?)