The Lord is always at work in our lives, teaching, purging, guiding, and strengthening.

In the little book of Haggian, we learn great truth about his work in us and how we are to work with him.

Welcome to God's Construction Zone. Let's join Scott Pauley now as we studied together.

I have enjoyed so much our time in this little book of Hagiae. We've walked through these two chapters

and they're beautiful. I hope you'll read them and meditate on them and make them your own. It's a powerful

book to study. We've come today in our final session in this particular little book of the Bible to a powerful truth.

Haggat chapter 2 is all about not missing God. Remember they're rebuilding the temple. They

think that this temple is not nearly as spectacular as Solomon's temple and they missed the point.

They missed the point that this was God's temple and what makes it great is not the building,

it's the presence of God. It could be a tent in the wilderness, it could be a temple in Jerusalem,

it could be the most simple believer. But when God's presence comes, he's the one who sanctifies.

He's the one who makes it great. Don't miss God. And in that

passage, we've learned two powerful truths already. First, we learned not to miss the present by looking

at the past. So don't look at yesterday and the good old days. No, look at today. And say to

yourself, what does the Lord want to do in the

present tense? Then we learn not to miss who is for us by looking at who's against us.

They got so concerned about their enemies that they weren't consumed enough with the God who was

with them. So the Lord has to remind them, I'm with you. But now I give you a third and final

truth about not missing God.

And it is this, don't miss the spiritual by looking at the material. You know, we live in a very

materialistic world. Granted, we have to have things to live and God provides everything we need.

Aren't you grateful to God for that? But if you're not careful careful you can get so enamored with things with

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