Trust God’s Promises
Haggai
1:12-2:9
International Sunday School Lesson
June 8, 2014
Commentary
By
Jed Greenough
Please note the date
of this commentary as I needed to post early in the day. This is for the 6-8 lesson. You will find the 6-1 lesson posted below
this one. Jed
This week’s lesson for most is entitled, “Trust God’s
Promises”. It could just as easily of
course be, “Trust God”.
It is very important to go back to last week and review what
we studied to keep the continuity, and my guess is each week, that we are in
this book of Haggai.
Last week I was very impressed with the loving patience of
God toward the Jews who had been sent back from exile to rebuild God’s temple.
Though He had provided for them on their return, they had
not accomplished what they had been sent back to do. As a result though they had enough to get by
they never had enough to get ahead. This
was God’s effort to get their attention and ultimately it had to be pointed out
through the prophet Haggai.
Likewise, last week I had to equate it to ourselves
today. If we asked the question why we
have droughts of sorts in our lives, what might God be waiting on in our lives?
This week we see what we can expect, if we like those people,
hear and react to this message. By
reacting, by acknowledging the validity of what they were being told they were
immediately obeying. God seeing what is in their heart and therefore in ourselves
had an equally immediate response by saying in verse 13, “I am with you”!
I love what comes next in verse 14, God stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel and the spirit of
Joshua and the spirit of all the people. If you reacted in like fashion last week what
was God’s immediate response for you?
Like today’s title in part says, “trust God” because it will happen.
The thing to not forget though is the results might not be
what you expect. In the verses that
remain this week God warned these Jews of that.
He said in verse 2:3, “Who of you is left who saw this house in its
former glory? How does it look to you
now? Does it not seem to you like
nothing?”
Don’t miss the key “Does
it not seem to you like nothing?”
But this is what God wanted, this union with them, and what He wants
from us too. This is Jed Greenough
talking but just as He said “the glory of
this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house” so
will the glory of the temple that is within us be greater than what went
before. I promise, but more importantly
God promises.
For Discussion:
1. Discuss
the immediate response by all involved.
2. Discuss
the stirring up of the spirit.
3. Discuss
how we might not realize what it is God is looking for.
4. Discuss
the prophecy found in 2:6-9.
5. Discuss
the promise God kept.
Upcoming Lessons
June 15 Live Pure Lives,
Haggai 2:10-19
June 22 Hope for a New Day, Haggai 2:20-23 or
Haggai 2:23, Zechariah 4:1-3, 6-14
June 29 A Call to Unity or Pursue Unity in Christ,
1 Corinthians 1:10-17 or 1 Corinthians 1:10-17; 3:4-9
July 6 Glorify God with Your Body, 1 Corinthians
6:12-20
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