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The priority of their worship of God and the rebuilding specifically of the temple.

Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in these nice paneled houses?

While this house, the house of God, the place of worship among God's people lies in ruins.

And the issue is clearly about the priority among God's people.

They have prioritized themselves and their preferences and their comfort

over the worship of God.

And it's a pretty penetrating couple of verses to cause all of us to ask today,

what are we prioritizing in our lives?

And not just what would we say we're prioritizing.

But to look at the evidence of our lives, look at how we spend our time,

how we spend our money, what our affections and our emotions are most excited by what we think

about what we dwell on and just to ask is God at the center, the supreme center of it all.

Does the way we spend our time show that God is the center around which our lives revolve?

Does the way we spend our money show that God and His purposes and His priorities are what are

most important to us? Does the way we speak the conversations we have?

Is the way we live, the decisions we make, do we show on a daily basis?

Are we showing today that God is the supreme center, the supreme priority in our lives,

that we want His worship, His glory, the spread of His name and His fame more than anything else?

Is that what our lives are showing?

Or are our lives showing a priority on ourselves and our preferences and a million other things

in this world?

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