1^st Message was about “Priorities” [Haggai 1:1-15]

God’s blessing comes when we place His priorities over our personal agendas.

2^nd Message was about “Perspective” [Haggai 2:1-9]

God’s blessing comes when we trust His perspective over our own.

3^rd Message is about “Purity” [Haggai 2:10-19]

God’s blessing comes when we are more concerned with the purity of our hearts than the performance of our hands.

God’s blessing comes when we are more concerned with the purity of our hearts than the performance of our hands.

¹⁰On the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, in the second year of Darius, the word of the LORD came by Haggai the prophet, ¹¹“Thus says the LORD of hosts: Ask the priests about the law: [Haggai 2:10-11 ESV]

¹²‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment and touches with his fold bread or stew or wine or oil or any kind of food, does it become holy?’” The priests answered and said, “No.” [Haggai 2:12 ESV]

¹³Then Haggai said, “If someone who is unclean by contact with a dead body touches any of these, does it become unclean?” The priests answered and said, “It does become unclean.” [Haggai 2:13 ESV]

Good things are no remedy for bad things.

¹⁴Then Haggai answered and said, “So is it with this people, and with this nation before me, declares the LORD, and so with every work of their hands. And what they offer there is unclean. [Haggai 2:14 ESV]

¹⁵Now then, consider from this day onward. Before stone was placed upon stone in the temple of the LORD, ¹⁶how did you fare? [Haggai 2:15-16a ESV]

And they came and worked on the house of the LORD of hosts, their God, ¹⁵on the twenty-fourth day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius the king. [Haggai 1:14b-15 ESV]

¹⁸Consider from this day onward, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month. Since the day that the foundation of the LORD'S temple was laid, consider: [Haggai 2:18 ESV]

But from this day on I will bless you.” [Haggai 2:19b ESV]

God’s blessing comes when we are more concerned with the purity of our hearts than the performance of our hands.

²³Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. ²⁴You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!

²⁵“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. ²⁶You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.

²⁷“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness. ²⁸So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. [Matthew 23:23-28 ESV]