Haggai

Preacher: Jeremiah Fyffe
Scripture: Haggai

1. SOWING TO ETERNAL JOY
2. CONSIDER YOUR WAYS: SOWN MUCH, HARVESTED LITTLE
3. CONSIDER YOUR WAYS: THE PLEASURE OF THE LORD

Matthew 6:30b–33 (ESV)
O you of little faith! Therefore do not be anxious, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ For the Gentiles seek after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all. But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Galatians 6:7–8 (ESV)
Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.

Proverbs 21:17 (ESV)
Whoever loves pleasure will be a poor man;
he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

1 Peter 1:3–4 (ESV)
According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance that is imperishable, undefiled, and unfading, kept in heaven for you,

1 Peter 1:6 (ESV)
In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials

Titus 3:3–5,7 (ESV)
For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures … But when the goodness and loving kindness of God our Savior appeared, he saved us … so that being justified by his grace we might become heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

Isaiah 65:17, 22 (ESV)
For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth, and the former things shall not be remembered or come into mind.
They shall not build and another inhabit; they shall not plant and another eat; for like the days of a tree shall the days of my people be, and my chosen shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

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Since [God] does not need [creation], its whole reason for being must lie in its own goodness; He has no use for it; only delight.

Tim Chester
The world is more delicious than it needs to be. We have a superabundance of divine goodness and generosity.

Ephesians 1:7–8 (ESV)
In him we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of his grace, which he lavished upon us, in all wisdom and insight

Psalm 147:10–11 (ESV)
His delight is not in the strength of the horse,
nor his pleasure in the legs of a man,
but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him,
in those who hope in his steadfast love.

Psalm 149:4 (ESV)
For the Lord takes pleasure in his people;
he adorns the humble with salvation.