"Aligning Our Priorities"

Haggai 2:10-19
Speaker: Jasmine Poon
Tertiary Service: 25th October 2008, Saturday

Haggai 2:10-19 (New International Version)

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 a person carries consecrated meat in the fold of his garment, and that fold touches some bread or stew, some wine, 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 [a] —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 turn 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.' "


1. Evaluate according to the word of God (v10 –14)

2 Timothy 1:9 1 Peter 2:9

- Evaluate our relationship with God (v12)

Leviticus 20:7

- Evaluate our motives (v13)

Leviticus 22:4 Proverbs 16:2 1 Corinthians 4:5 John 8:28-29


2. Evaluate according to the outcome (v15-19)

- Constant lack when we don't live for God

Deuteronomy 28:38-41

- Guaranteed blessings when we live for God

Deuteronomy 8:6-9 Matthew 6:32-33 Joel 2:13

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