Gracious God, we have sinned against You in what we have done, and in what we have failed to do. Cleanse us so that forgiven, we may fully love and magnify You.
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Introduction
Signs of spiritual stagnation …
We can move past stagnation by God’s help when …
A. WE TAKE STOCK OF OUR LIFE WITH GOD
B. WE TAKE UP OUR ASSIGNMENT FROM GOD
Conclusion
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Next Week’s Topic: Haggai 1:12-15
Next Week’s Speaker(s): Ps Lee Da Win (BPJ,) Rev Dr Chua Chung Kai (WDL) & Rev Matthew Lo (East)
Introduction
1. Famously unfinished buildings in the world
2. Historical context of Haggai: After 16 years, the altar is bare, the foundation is overgrown, the people are distracted and there is a mission drift.
3. “Consider your ways” (vv. 5,7) — “Look at what’s happening to you!” (NLT), “Take a good, hard look at your life. Think it over.” (MSG)
Two critical areas in discipleship to consider and take a hard look at:
A. ASSESS OUR ALIGNMENT WITH GOD (vv. 1-7)
1. “These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the LORD.” (v. 2)
B. ACCEPT OUR ASSIGNMENT FROM GOD (vv. 8-11)
1. “Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord.” (v. 8)
Conclusion
Let’s build God’s house together!
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Next Week’s Topic: Haggai 1:12-15
Next Week’s Speaker(s): Ps Lee Da Win (BPJ,) Rev Dr Chua Chung Kai (WDL) & Rev Matthew Lo (East)
Introduction
1. Prophets as covenant enforcement mediators
2. Prophetic disputations
3. “Set your heart upon your ways.”
A. CONSIDER YOUR WAYS — FOUR ROADBLOCKS TO SPIRITUAL FOCUS
1. Insecurity — Exilic context (v. 1)
2. Self-security — Much doing, small satisfaction (v. 6)
3. Spiritual complacency — “It is not the time” (v. 2)
4. Spiritual blindness — “Is it right for you (yourselves) to live in richly paneled houses …?” (vv. 4, 9-11)
Conclusion
1. Go up … and Build — Hebrew imperatives — that I may delight in it and I may be glorified.
2. Come, now is the time!
Sunday Worship Songs at cefc.ch/sws
Next Week’s Topic: Haggai 1:12-15
Next Week’s Speaker(s): Ps Lee Da Win (BPJ,) Rev Dr Chua Chung Kai (WDL) & Rev Matthew Lo (East)
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What is one thing I need to do in light of what God is saying?
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