The overall tone of Haggai 1:2-11 is communicated via the first two words of God’s message: these people. They imply strain, tension, a fractured relationship. If the LORD so desired, He could have called them my people, as He often does through the Scriptures. Yet He distanced Himself instead, calling them these people. It reminds …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LxsTzmn-Us&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSQiPB_Mpiw-lAVgDG7ZQdXp&index=3 “Thus says the LORD of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.” Then the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in …
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving. At the same time, pray also for us, that God may open to us a door for the word, to declare the mystery of Christ, on account of which I am in prison—that I may make it clear, which is how I ought to speak. …
And the priest shall make atonement for him for the sin which he has committed, and he shall be forgiven. Leviticus 4:35 ESV Sin is violent. Sin is an act of treason against the Most High, and throughout the Bible, it is treated as the abomination that it is. Our sin is blatant opposition to …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_E6Z7KJk6c&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSQiPB_Mpiw-lAVgDG7ZQdXp&index=1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the LORD came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: Haggai 1:1 ESV …
Wives, submit to your husbands, as is fitting in the Lord. Husbands, love your wives, and do not be harsh with them. Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not provoke your children, lest they become discouraged. Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by …
Continue reading How We Live (part four) | Colossians 3:18-4:1
Author The oracles of the book are explicitly said to be “the word of the LORD… by the hand of Haggai the prophet” (1:1). We know almost nothing about who Haggai was, yet as with all Scripture, God is the true author. Haggai, a prophet, was a faithful messenger in the hand of the LORD. …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2gkBiLiFtssJECWlvO21xN?si=0bEPj9eDSBCV4wtnCl4mlg Our story begins in a garden, ends in a city, and centers around a cross. Yet this cross, this chopped up and planked together tree of torture and death, casts its shadow across every fiber of history. Two trees stood in the garden, one of life and the other of the knowledge of good …
Put on then, as God's chosen ones, holy and beloved, compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience, bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in …
Continue reading How We Live (part three) | Colossians 3:12-17
Seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.Matthew 6:33 Jesus notably proclaimed these words during His Sermon on the Mount, and even though Jesus lived more than 500 years after the prophet Haggai, this verse provides a fitting summary to the LORD's oracles through the …
