Monday, September 17, 2007

'Nearest and dearest'

Haggai 1:2-11

1. What was the evidence of people's wrong priorities?

The Lord said “Consider your ways! You have sown much, and bring in little; You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wages, Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.”

The Lord said “You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?” says the LORD of hosts. “Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house. Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.”

Malachi 1:6-8; Malachi 3:6-10

2. How may we despise and rob God?

We may despise God by not honouring him, not reverending him, by defiling food on His altar and gone away from His ordinances.

We may rob God in tithes and offerings. And thus God will not pour out His blessings.

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