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Haggai 2:10-19

Blessings for a Defiled People

[10] On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the Lord came to the prophet Haggai: [11] “This is what the Lord Almighty says: ‘Ask the priests what the law says: [12] If someone carries consecrated meat in the fold of their garment, and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, olive oil or other food, does it become consecrated?’ ”

The priests answered, “No.”

[13] Then Haggai said, “If a person defiled by contact with a dead body touches one of these things, does it become defiled?”

“Yes,” the priests replied, “it becomes defiled.”

[14] Then Haggai said, “ ‘So it is with this people and this nation in my sight,’ declares the Lord. ‘Whatever they do and whatever they offer there is defiled.

[15] “ ‘Now give careful thought to this from this day on—consider how things were before one stone was laid on another in the Lord’s temple. [16] When anyone came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When anyone went to a wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were only twenty. [17] I struck all the work of your hands with blight, mildew and hail, yet you did not return to me,’ declares the Lord. [18] ‘From this day on, from this twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, give careful thought to the day when the foundation of the Lord’s temple was laid. Give careful thought: [19] Is there yet any seed left in the barn? Until now, the vine and the fig tree, the pomegranate and the olive tree have not borne fruit.

“ ‘From this day on I will bless you.’ ”

Notes :: Information from Sunday’s slides

• We want to let scripture (which is the divine mirror of truth) show us the true condition of our heart.

• The 2 Pointed Questions

  • God is going to show them that external religious activities in the name of God do not earn them God’s righteousness or God’s blessing. They only come by grace through a transformed heart.

  • Haggai 2:11-14

  • Titus 2:11-14

  • There is nothing you can do to make God love you more and there is nothing you can do that will make God love you less.

• God’s Encouraging Answer

  • Haggai 2:15-19