WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.280 David is going to come and preach for us very shortly, but before that we're going to read the passage from which he's going to preach tonight. 00:00:07.860 --> 00:00:11.160 That's Haggai chapter 1, verses 1 to 15. 00:00:11.160 --> 00:00:15.160 If you've got a church Bible, it's on page 791. 00:00:16.719 --> 00:00:32.740 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua, son of Jehozadak, the high priest. 00:00:33.340 --> 00:00:34.799 Thus says the Lord of hosts. 00:00:34.799 --> 00:00:39.099 These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord. 00:00:39.979 --> 00:00:42.699 Then the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet. 00:00:43.699 --> 00:00:50.359 It is time for you yourselves to dwell in your panelled houses while this house lies in ruins. 00:00:51.179 --> 00:00:55.159 Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts, consider your ways. 00:00:55.659 --> 00:00:57.519 You've sown much and harvested little. 00:00:57.959 --> 00:00:59.500 You eat, but you never have enough. 00:00:59.700 --> 00:01:02.259 You drink, but you never have your fill. 00:01:02.259 --> 00:01:05.019 You clothe yourselves, but no one's warm. 00:01:05.399 --> 00:01:09.459 And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes. 00:01:10.480 --> 00:01:12.920 Thus says the Lord of hosts, consider your ways. 00:01:13.700 --> 00:01:20.700 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord. 00:01:21.219 --> 00:01:22.200 You looked for much. 00:01:22.200 --> 00:01:24.219 And behold, it came too little. 00:01:24.620 --> 00:01:25.820 It came too little. 00:01:26.200 --> 00:01:28.320 And when you brought it home, it blew away. 00:01:28.700 --> 00:01:37.200 Why, declares the Lord of hosts, because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. 00:01:37.200 --> 00:01:42.600 Therefore, the heavens above you have withheld the dew and the earth has withheld its produce. 00:01:43.000 --> 00:01:53.340 And I've called for a drought in the land and the hills on the grain, the new wine, the oil and what the ground brings forth on man and beast and on all their labors. 00:01:53.340 --> 00:02:10.379 Then Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lord their God and the words of Haggai the prophet as the Lord their God had sent him. 00:02:10.980 --> 00:02:12.340 And the people feared the Lord. 00:02:12.980 --> 00:02:16.420 Then Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, spoke to the people with the Lord's message. 00:02:16.419 --> 00:02:18.619 I am with you, declares the Lord. 00:02:19.139 --> 00:02:30.279 And the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of all the remnant of the people. 00:02:30.699 --> 00:02:40.899 And they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, on the 24th day of the month, in the sixth month, in the second year of Darius, the king. 00:02:41.500 --> 00:02:43.419 This is the word of the Lord. 00:02:43.419 --> 00:02:48.639 Well, we turn this evening to the book of Haggai in the Old Testament. 00:02:49.339 --> 00:02:51.039 We're looking at the first chapter. 00:02:51.739 --> 00:02:55.659 Well, we're hoping to look at the whole of the first chapter this evening. 00:02:56.659 --> 00:03:05.939 Restoration was the name of a BBC TV series, I think a number of years ago, maybe 20 years ago or so, hosted by Griff Riss-Jones. 00:03:05.939 --> 00:03:21.099 It involved viewers choosing a historically valuable but now neglected, dilapidated building so that it could be restored to something like its former glory. 00:03:22.479 --> 00:03:31.960 And restoring the appearance or the functionality of a building or another object is often a very costly and time-consuming business. 00:03:31.960 --> 00:03:45.840 We all know stories, perhaps we've had experience ourselves of restoring a house, a musical instrument, an item of clothing, even a car, a bike to its former glory. 00:03:46.439 --> 00:03:54.920 And such work is often a labor of love, often one that takes time, money, no small measure of patience. 00:03:54.919 --> 00:04:03.699 And there's a sense, I think, in which the gospel of Jesus Christ can be viewed as a great work of restoration. 00:04:04.459 --> 00:04:12.219 Through Jesus Christ, God is ushering in a new creation, a renewed cosmos. 00:04:13.259 --> 00:04:22.939 The whole arc of the Bible's storyline bends towards the restoration and renewal of all things in and through our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:04:22.939 --> 00:04:34.620 It's not just that God, it's not that God is kind of putting things back together again or just putting things back together again the way they once were. 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:39.959 The gospel of Jesus Christ is far more than a repair job. 00:04:40.600 --> 00:04:45.379 It is a work of restoration, renewal, and recreation. 00:04:45.379 --> 00:04:54.560 God remaking the cosmos, reshaping His people into the very image of our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:04:55.300 --> 00:05:05.879 And in our evening worship, on the next few weeks, God willing, we're going to be looking at this book of the Bible that I think is in part all about restoration. 00:05:05.879 --> 00:05:12.199 Not just about the restoration of a building, although that is certainly involved. 00:05:13.000 --> 00:05:16.560 It's more fundamentally about the restoration of a people. 00:05:17.279 --> 00:05:21.279 Because here in the book of Haggai, we meet the God who restores. 00:05:22.899 --> 00:05:29.819 In its historical context, God is restoring His people Israel to the land after a long period of exile. 00:05:29.819 --> 00:05:37.579 He's restoring His temple in Jerusalem, reestablishing the priority of worship amongst His people. 00:05:37.699 --> 00:05:42.100 He is restoring the honor of His name among the nations. 00:05:44.319 --> 00:05:51.240 Eighteen years previous to the messages contained in this book, around 538 BC, 00:05:52.079 --> 00:05:59.539 a large contingent of God's people had returned to Judah after captivity and exile. 00:05:59.540 --> 00:06:06.420 And we read of Cyrus' decree in the opening verse, really, verses of the book of Ezra. 00:06:07.080 --> 00:06:08.379 Cyrus, king of Persia, 00:06:09.020 --> 00:06:12.780 The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth. 00:06:13.140 --> 00:06:16.980 Charge me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 00:06:17.420 --> 00:06:22.000 Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, 00:06:22.040 --> 00:06:25.060 and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, 00:06:25.060 --> 00:06:28.439 and rebuild the house of the Lord. 00:06:28.439 --> 00:06:32.680 The God of Israel, He is the God who is in Jerusalem. 00:06:33.420 --> 00:06:40.660 And as you might imagine, those first faithful pioneering believers had traveled back to Judah 00:06:40.660 --> 00:06:44.060 with great enthusiasm, immense hope for the future. 00:06:44.240 --> 00:06:49.120 They were being restored, a new start, a new beginning, beckoned. 00:06:49.120 --> 00:06:54.600 Here were a people committed to rebuilding the house of the Lord in Jerusalem. 00:06:56.660 --> 00:07:01.480 But by Haggai's day, that's about 18 years later, 00:07:02.459 --> 00:07:06.420 the temple work had fallen into abeyance. 00:07:06.860 --> 00:07:10.840 That great work of restoration appeared to have stalled. 00:07:11.780 --> 00:07:16.319 A general air of apathy, lethargy, had settled over the land. 00:07:16.420 --> 00:07:17.120 Life was hard. 00:07:17.120 --> 00:07:18.560 Times were tough. 00:07:18.840 --> 00:07:23.079 Things were far from easy for the people as they sought to eke out a living. 00:07:24.379 --> 00:07:30.639 And it was into this situation that the prophet Haggai came bringing God's Word, 00:07:30.819 --> 00:07:36.100 who had somewhat beleaguered, distracted, and harassed people. 00:07:36.100 --> 00:07:42.260 In the second year of Darius the king in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, 00:07:42.360 --> 00:07:46.020 the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet, 00:07:46.700 --> 00:07:49.760 to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, 00:07:50.260 --> 00:07:54.640 and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak the high priest. 00:07:55.600 --> 00:07:59.439 Haggai is himself someone we know very little about. 00:07:59.920 --> 00:08:03.480 Brief mentions elsewhere in Scripture, notably in the book of Ezra. 00:08:03.480 --> 00:08:10.980 And there we learn that Haggai and Zechariah, his contemporary, were prophets together, 00:08:11.660 --> 00:08:17.560 involved in stirring up the people to rebuild the temple after their return from exile. 00:08:17.700 --> 00:08:20.560 So we read in Ezra 5 verse 1, 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:27.060 Now the prophets Haggai and Zechariah the son of Edo prophesied to the Jews who were in Judah and Jerusalem 00:08:27.060 --> 00:08:29.920 in the name of the God of Israel who was over them. 00:08:31.040 --> 00:08:32.360 Ezra 6 verse 14, 00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:40.399 The elders of the Jews built and prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Edo. 00:08:40.399 --> 00:08:45.220 In other words, Haggai didn't minister on his own. 00:08:46.480 --> 00:08:49.679 Zechariah preached and prophesied alongside him. 00:08:50.480 --> 00:08:56.559 And it's actually difficult to know what kind of interaction or engagement these two prophets had with one another. 00:08:57.120 --> 00:09:02.519 But it's clear that they're very different styles and they're very distinctive messages. 00:09:02.519 --> 00:09:08.139 We're both used to further God's purposes in the land and amongst His people. 00:09:09.259 --> 00:09:17.360 And I think that is simply a reminder to us that God often calls and uses very different personalities and voices 00:09:17.360 --> 00:09:20.240 to advance His kingdom war. 00:09:21.480 --> 00:09:26.980 You'll notice here in chapter 1 that Haggai is described as a prophet. 00:09:26.980 --> 00:09:31.580 Also in verse 13, he's described as a messenger of the Lord. 00:09:31.779 --> 00:09:36.980 In chapter 2 verse 1 and chapter 2 verse 10, again, he's described as a prophet. 00:09:37.519 --> 00:09:41.180 And this is the thing that really stands out about this man. 00:09:41.539 --> 00:09:44.940 His family connections, his age, his education, 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:51.320 they're of no consequence compared to this fact. 00:09:51.659 --> 00:09:52.879 They're not even mentioned. 00:09:52.879 --> 00:10:01.100 The word he bears, the message he brings to the people and their leaders is what is of significance. 00:10:01.779 --> 00:10:06.100 The word of God takes center stage in this book. 00:10:07.519 --> 00:10:10.500 Haggai is not someone giving his own ideas, 00:10:11.200 --> 00:10:14.439 proffering his own analysis of the people's situation. 00:10:14.980 --> 00:10:18.700 He speaks the word that he has been given, 00:10:18.919 --> 00:10:20.740 the word of the Lord of hosts. 00:10:20.740 --> 00:10:24.139 Haggai, we read in verse 13 of chapter 1, 00:10:24.419 --> 00:10:30.200 the messenger of the Lord spoke to the people with the Lord's message. 00:10:30.940 --> 00:10:34.279 And that is, I think, the essence of all preaching ministry, 00:10:34.460 --> 00:10:39.139 to preach the word we have received, we have been given, 00:10:39.799 --> 00:10:43.419 not our own ideas or blessed thoughts. 00:10:44.460 --> 00:10:49.440 Haggai's message to the people and to us is one of divine authority. 00:10:49.440 --> 00:10:53.760 It's a revelation of the will of God for the people of God. 00:10:54.740 --> 00:10:57.360 And so for a short period, just a few months actually, 00:10:57.820 --> 00:11:01.620 between August and December, 520 BC, 00:11:02.360 --> 00:11:06.320 God's Spirit comes upon Haggai and uses him 00:11:06.320 --> 00:11:11.620 in a remarkable spiritual awakening amongst the people. 00:11:12.060 --> 00:11:15.060 For these brief months, four months, 00:11:15.540 --> 00:11:18.120 he becomes the very mouthpiece of God. 00:11:18.120 --> 00:11:22.779 And his book consists of a series of different oracles, 00:11:23.019 --> 00:11:27.960 sermons, if you like, pronounced by the prophet during this period. 00:11:28.580 --> 00:11:32.320 The power of God rests upon his ministry, 00:11:32.659 --> 00:11:34.299 really to an unusual degree. 00:11:35.320 --> 00:11:39.899 And during that period, Jerusalem and Judah are transformed. 00:11:40.519 --> 00:11:42.120 The house of God rebuilt, 00:11:42.500 --> 00:11:45.539 the glory of the Lord seen once more. 00:11:45.539 --> 00:11:50.559 Many years ago, the National Bible Society here in Scotland 00:11:50.559 --> 00:11:55.539 had a strap line that was used on much of their publicity materials. 00:11:56.919 --> 00:11:57.319 It read, 00:11:57.860 --> 00:11:59.959 the word at work. 00:12:00.639 --> 00:12:02.000 The word at work. 00:12:02.159 --> 00:12:05.879 And that's what we see here in Haggai chapter 1. 00:12:06.139 --> 00:12:07.939 The word at work. 00:12:07.940 --> 00:12:13.340 So let's look at three aspects of the word at work that we see here. 00:12:14.000 --> 00:12:16.600 As time, I notice, is disappearing fast. 00:12:16.700 --> 00:12:18.820 I haven't even got to my first point. 00:12:19.840 --> 00:12:22.520 I've actually got to, I wonder if we could be here for a while. 00:12:22.620 --> 00:12:22.860 Anyway, 00:12:22.860 --> 00:12:27.440 I just really encourage you. 00:12:30.139 --> 00:12:34.000 Chapter 1, verse 2 through verse 6. 00:12:34.360 --> 00:12:35.720 Thus says the Lord of hosts, 00:12:35.720 --> 00:12:40.120 These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord. 00:12:40.740 --> 00:12:43.540 Then the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet. 00:12:44.440 --> 00:12:51.259 Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies in ruins? 00:12:52.040 --> 00:12:55.399 Now, therefore, says the Lord of hosts, consider your ways. 00:12:55.759 --> 00:12:57.519 You've sown much, harvested little. 00:12:57.740 --> 00:12:58.920 You eat, you never have enough. 00:12:59.040 --> 00:13:00.560 You drink, you never have your fill. 00:13:00.779 --> 00:13:02.940 You clothe yourselves, but you're not warm. 00:13:02.940 --> 00:13:09.120 The one who earns wages does so only to put them into a bag with holes. 00:13:09.680 --> 00:13:14.720 So Haggai really begins his message, if you like, by focusing on the conditions, 00:13:15.200 --> 00:13:19.560 the circumstances that people now find themselves in. 00:13:19.640 --> 00:13:21.360 And in short, things are not going well. 00:13:22.280 --> 00:13:24.920 There's high inflation, prices rocketing. 00:13:25.400 --> 00:13:27.960 Crops had failed to produce a good harvest. 00:13:28.520 --> 00:13:32.000 They were experiencing a time of economic hardship. 00:13:32.000 --> 00:13:35.539 And Haggai uses this to try and grab their attention. 00:13:35.840 --> 00:13:40.179 He wants them to see that they've got all their priorities all wrong. 00:13:41.879 --> 00:13:42.919 No enjoyment. 00:13:43.059 --> 00:13:47.840 They had no pleasure, no delight in God or in God's good gifts to them. 00:13:49.039 --> 00:13:50.179 He says in verse 9, 00:13:50.240 --> 00:13:52.620 You looked for much, it came to little. 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:54.720 When you brought it home, it blew away. 00:13:54.879 --> 00:13:55.299 Why? 00:13:55.600 --> 00:13:56.639 Declares the Lord of hosts. 00:13:56.879 --> 00:13:59.639 Because of my house that lies in ruins. 00:13:59.639 --> 00:14:02.620 While each of you busies himself with his own house. 00:14:03.659 --> 00:14:09.299 Therefore, the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. 00:14:09.980 --> 00:14:13.879 And I've called for drought on the land and the hills and the grain, the new wine, the oil, 00:14:14.199 --> 00:14:18.600 on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors. 00:14:18.600 --> 00:14:27.560 So what Haggai is saying here is that what they're experiencing is a sign really of God's displeasure. 00:14:28.279 --> 00:14:32.180 God is withholding his blessing from them. 00:14:33.040 --> 00:14:34.460 We have to be very careful. 00:14:34.920 --> 00:14:42.779 I think Corey made this point a couple of weeks ago in the morning service to make judgments about God's providences. 00:14:42.779 --> 00:14:45.279 So we have to be very careful. 00:14:46.220 --> 00:14:52.600 But here, Haggai is simply applying the teaching of God's Word. 00:14:53.439 --> 00:14:56.199 Particularly, Deuteronomy 28. 00:14:56.620 --> 00:15:04.240 And in that passage, God declares to his people that if they are faithless to him, they will experience his discipline. 00:15:04.240 --> 00:15:08.180 So in Deuteronomy 28.30, 00:15:08.560 --> 00:15:11.899 You shall betroth a wife, but another man shall ravish her. 00:15:11.960 --> 00:15:14.419 You shall build a house, but you shall not dwell in it. 00:15:14.539 --> 00:15:17.639 You shall plant a vineyard, but you shall not enjoy its fruit. 00:15:18.519 --> 00:15:25.899 And so Haggai is pointing out to the people that what was happening to them was really a fulfillment of God's Word. 00:15:26.840 --> 00:15:28.940 Look at the challenge he gives them in verse 4. 00:15:29.360 --> 00:15:32.620 Then the word of the Lord came by the hand of Haggai the prophet. 00:15:32.620 --> 00:15:39.279 Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses while this house lies in ruins? 00:15:39.940 --> 00:15:46.139 So God's Word is exposing the reality of the people's hearts. 00:15:47.000 --> 00:15:50.000 Haggai is saying your focus, your priorities are all wrong. 00:15:50.259 --> 00:15:54.840 You're worshiping really yourselves first and the Lord only a distant second. 00:15:55.560 --> 00:15:57.080 They should have been rebuilding the temple. 00:15:57.320 --> 00:15:59.000 They should have been putting God first. 00:15:59.259 --> 00:16:00.879 They should have been focused on worship. 00:16:00.879 --> 00:16:02.939 They should have been looking to Him. 00:16:03.899 --> 00:16:05.439 But their eyes were elsewhere. 00:16:06.460 --> 00:16:09.700 And so they languished in spiritual indifference and apathy. 00:16:11.939 --> 00:16:20.360 Now we need to be clear that it's not that the Lord is against them building their houses or even building them first. 00:16:21.019 --> 00:16:24.100 He's not against them roofing their houses and completing them. 00:16:24.340 --> 00:16:29.220 He's not even against them making their houses comfortable with beautiful wooden paneling. 00:16:29.220 --> 00:16:39.680 The real problem is this, that they've done all of these things, but they haven't really started to work on the house of the Lord. 00:16:40.100 --> 00:16:43.899 They haven't really begun to restore the Lord's house. 00:16:44.920 --> 00:16:46.340 And so Haggai says to them, 00:16:46.820 --> 00:16:49.160 Is it not time? 00:16:49.159 --> 00:16:55.199 Maybe that's God's message to someone here this evening. 00:16:56.579 --> 00:16:59.539 Is it not time? 00:17:00.480 --> 00:17:04.399 Is it not time to get serious about your faith? 00:17:04.559 --> 00:17:07.740 Is it not time to speak to others of Jesus? 00:17:08.599 --> 00:17:12.139 Is it not time to heed God's call upon your life? 00:17:12.140 --> 00:17:14.980 Is it not time to profess faith? 00:17:15.080 --> 00:17:17.920 Is it not time to come to the Lord's table? 00:17:19.759 --> 00:17:24.120 How do we understand and apply what Haggai says here? 00:17:24.840 --> 00:17:29.780 What does the temple of the Lord's house stand for in our own context? 00:17:31.140 --> 00:17:34.980 Let me say that it's not an analogy with our buildings. 00:17:34.980 --> 00:17:37.880 Our physical buildings are not temples. 00:17:38.740 --> 00:17:46.980 In the New Testament, of course, Paul likens the church to a temple, a community of worship, as we were hearing about this morning, 00:17:47.299 --> 00:17:50.680 where God dwells in and with His people. 00:17:51.980 --> 00:17:56.220 Who is the one that stands at the center of the church as a temple? 00:17:56.819 --> 00:17:59.059 Who is its king and head? 00:17:59.059 --> 00:18:06.740 Jesus Christ is the true temple, the meeting place of heaven and earth, truly divine, truly human. 00:18:07.619 --> 00:18:11.740 Christ is Himself the fulfillment of all that the temple represented. 00:18:13.639 --> 00:18:20.179 He claimed of Himself that something greater than the temple was here in Matthew 12. 00:18:21.240 --> 00:18:25.119 And for Israel, of course, the temple was where God's people met for worship. 00:18:25.119 --> 00:18:31.299 A place of, again, we were hearing this this morning, of atonement being made for sin. 00:18:31.859 --> 00:18:36.979 It was a place that God had given to His people as a gift to maintain fellowship and communion. 00:18:39.239 --> 00:18:46.599 What I think Haggai is driving at here is the primacy of the public worship of Almighty God. 00:18:47.399 --> 00:18:54.319 He wants them to see that the public worship of God is always to be a priority for God's people. 00:18:55.119 --> 00:19:01.019 God is looking for those whose attitude reflects that of the psalm that we sung. 00:19:01.699 --> 00:19:06.079 How lovely is your dwelling place, O Lord of hosts, to me. 00:19:07.500 --> 00:19:09.179 What about us this evening? 00:19:10.739 --> 00:19:14.539 Does worship have a grip or a pull on your heart? 00:19:16.239 --> 00:19:20.399 It's worship that engages with the presence of a holy God. 00:19:20.400 --> 00:19:26.560 It's worship with sacrifice at its center, where the shedding of blood is witnessed. 00:19:27.660 --> 00:19:29.720 Worship where atonement is made. 00:19:29.980 --> 00:19:36.540 And that worship here in Haggai is, as again we were hearing this morning, a foreshadowing 00:19:36.540 --> 00:19:42.400 of our Lord Jesus Christ and His death on the cross. 00:19:42.400 --> 00:19:47.060 At the center of our worship is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. 00:19:47.940 --> 00:19:53.880 Because it's only in Him and through Him that any of us can draw near to God. 00:19:56.019 --> 00:20:03.120 Beware any form of worship, certainly any form of Christian worship, that doesn't have the 00:20:03.120 --> 00:20:04.340 cross at its center. 00:20:04.339 --> 00:20:11.259 We preach Jesus Christ and Him crucified, the crucified and risen Jesus. 00:20:12.339 --> 00:20:17.679 And if we would be healthy Christians and healthy churches, we need to have the word of the cross 00:20:17.679 --> 00:20:19.819 injected into our veins. 00:20:21.339 --> 00:20:24.000 And God says to us through the prophet Haggai, 00:20:24.119 --> 00:20:27.019 My worship, my adoration must come first. 00:20:27.659 --> 00:20:29.039 I must be at the center. 00:20:29.039 --> 00:20:33.759 That's, I think, what public worship is intended to do. 00:20:34.700 --> 00:20:36.940 Designed to fuel our love for God. 00:20:37.539 --> 00:20:41.000 The God who redeems and saves a people. 00:20:41.759 --> 00:20:44.680 The God who is beautiful beyond compare. 00:20:44.799 --> 00:20:47.559 The God who has made us for Himself. 00:20:49.460 --> 00:20:53.059 And how easy it is, friends, for us to mess up our priorities. 00:20:53.299 --> 00:20:54.539 To get them all wrong. 00:20:55.200 --> 00:20:56.619 Suddenly, you know, it's making a living. 00:20:56.619 --> 00:20:58.779 That's the supreme goal of our life. 00:20:58.819 --> 00:20:59.659 Or it's our family. 00:20:59.839 --> 00:21:00.819 Or it's our hobby. 00:21:00.959 --> 00:21:01.799 Or our pastime. 00:21:01.859 --> 00:21:02.639 Or our health. 00:21:03.139 --> 00:21:05.119 We obsess about these things. 00:21:06.339 --> 00:21:10.759 And our supreme desire is not for the living God. 00:21:12.000 --> 00:21:15.659 Remember, Jesus' words, seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness. 00:21:16.759 --> 00:21:19.019 And all these things will be added to you. 00:21:20.539 --> 00:21:22.719 Worshiping the living God is to be a priority. 00:21:22.720 --> 00:21:26.620 Does His love and grace captivate us? 00:21:27.000 --> 00:21:29.680 Are we hungering and thirsting after Him? 00:21:30.680 --> 00:21:32.680 Are we seeking first the kingdom? 00:21:34.539 --> 00:21:41.960 Jesus reminds us it's when we get our priorities straight that everything else follows. 00:21:41.960 --> 00:21:46.420 The word of God is at work. 00:21:47.620 --> 00:21:52.620 Uncovering, exposing the people's wrong priorities, their sins. 00:21:53.660 --> 00:21:54.440 Second thing. 00:21:55.279 --> 00:21:56.160 I'll go quicker. 00:21:57.420 --> 00:22:01.640 Secondly, the word is at work challenging the people's ways in verses 7 and 8. 00:22:02.100 --> 00:22:03.059 So we read there, 00:22:03.059 --> 00:22:15.220 Thus says the Lord of hosts, consider your ways, go up to the hills, bring wood, build a house, that I may take pleasure in it, and that I may be glorified, says the Lord. 00:22:16.079 --> 00:22:23.019 So Haggai's challenging the people to stop and think about the way that they were living their lives. 00:22:23.019 --> 00:22:27.059 He wants them really to change direction. 00:22:28.460 --> 00:22:30.720 And you see here what He commands them to do. 00:22:30.799 --> 00:22:34.440 Go to the hills, get the raw materials, build the house of the Lord. 00:22:35.019 --> 00:22:36.900 And He tells them why they are to do this. 00:22:37.180 --> 00:22:41.180 All this is to be done so that God Himself will be glorified. 00:22:41.299 --> 00:22:43.299 It's to be done for God's good pleasure. 00:22:44.359 --> 00:22:45.599 They're to put God first. 00:22:45.700 --> 00:22:47.079 They're to put worship first. 00:22:47.440 --> 00:22:50.440 Not for their own pleasure and glory, but really for the Lord's. 00:22:50.440 --> 00:22:55.059 The primacy, the primary business of God's church. 00:22:55.500 --> 00:22:58.240 We're redeemed to worship Him. 00:22:59.700 --> 00:23:05.480 And that's to influence, it's to affect the way we think about worship. 00:23:06.840 --> 00:23:10.460 It's not about really what pleases us, it's about what pleases Him. 00:23:11.360 --> 00:23:13.220 Our aim is to give God pleasure. 00:23:14.180 --> 00:23:17.019 Beware in the business of giving Him the glory, aren't we? 00:23:17.340 --> 00:23:19.519 To God be the glory. 00:23:19.519 --> 00:23:21.519 Great things He has done. 00:23:22.900 --> 00:23:25.440 We're to be taken up with Him. 00:23:27.400 --> 00:23:32.700 Often in Christian church, there's lots of muddled thinking about worship. 00:23:33.460 --> 00:23:35.119 So for some, it's kind of going to a show. 00:23:36.400 --> 00:23:38.200 We want to be entertained. 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:43.139 For some, it's all about their needs being met. 00:23:43.559 --> 00:23:45.099 And of course, we all have needs. 00:23:45.099 --> 00:23:48.659 But they're not to overshadow and dominate. 00:23:49.319 --> 00:23:52.500 First and foremost, we come to worship saying, 00:23:53.079 --> 00:23:55.399 You, O Lord, are worthy. 00:23:56.079 --> 00:23:57.639 Not, I am needy. 00:23:58.399 --> 00:24:00.079 Because it's not about us. 00:24:00.240 --> 00:24:02.159 It's primarily about Him. 00:24:02.160 --> 00:24:08.759 And yes, of course, in some circles, we have great emphasis on preaching and teaching. 00:24:09.759 --> 00:24:13.580 But there's a danger that we have such an emphasis on that, everything else gets pushed out. 00:24:14.600 --> 00:24:17.759 Worship becomes more than, little more than a lecture about the Bible. 00:24:18.000 --> 00:24:19.740 And of course, preaching is primary. 00:24:19.740 --> 00:24:26.140 But not to the exclusion of prayer, or praise, or the sacraments, or the confessing of our faith. 00:24:26.480 --> 00:24:32.079 All of these elements are important because they stress the importance of the gospel story itself. 00:24:33.900 --> 00:24:39.440 And here, Haggai reminds us that we're to set our hearts on pleasing God. 00:24:42.319 --> 00:24:44.620 He is to take pleasure in our worship. 00:24:44.619 --> 00:24:49.759 He, if I can put it this way, the audience that really matters. 00:24:50.759 --> 00:24:54.179 There was a book a number of years ago entitled, Up With Worship. 00:24:55.059 --> 00:24:59.539 And in the book, the author describes a proper attitude to worship in these terms. 00:24:59.719 --> 00:25:04.079 Lord, this church service is for you. 00:25:04.799 --> 00:25:07.619 I am here to give you pleasure. 00:25:09.579 --> 00:25:12.759 Is that why we gather on the Lord's Day? 00:25:12.759 --> 00:25:15.480 To give Him pleasure. 00:25:16.599 --> 00:25:19.099 Is that the way that we think? 00:25:20.480 --> 00:25:25.720 Who is it we sing for and to whom do we want to hear our prayers and confessions? 00:25:26.379 --> 00:25:27.779 It is God Himself. 00:25:28.879 --> 00:25:32.019 Are not our gifts for His work? 00:25:32.420 --> 00:25:37.440 It's not the sermon designed to help direct our attention to who He is and what He's done. 00:25:38.240 --> 00:25:41.819 Surely our aim must always be to please Him. 00:25:42.759 --> 00:25:49.359 Martin Lloyd-Jones once wrote, 00:25:49.599 --> 00:25:54.920 Put at the center the only one who has a right to be there, the Lord of glory, 00:25:55.379 --> 00:26:04.599 who so loved you that He went to the cross and bore the punishment and the shame of your sins and died for you. 00:26:04.599 --> 00:26:07.439 I think that's very good advice. 00:26:07.439 --> 00:26:10.259 Put Him at the center. 00:26:10.939 --> 00:26:15.899 Because the Christian life is not about adhering to a moral code, trying our best to be good. 00:26:16.119 --> 00:26:18.159 It's all about knowing and loving God. 00:26:18.379 --> 00:26:20.679 The God who has revealed Himself in Scripture. 00:26:21.959 --> 00:26:25.399 Who God is drives everything in the Christian life. 00:26:25.400 --> 00:26:27.480 He's at the very center of it all. 00:26:31.519 --> 00:26:35.460 You shall have no other gods before me. 00:26:35.460 --> 00:26:42.160 So here we have a people feeling, I think, the rebuke of God's Word. 00:26:43.059 --> 00:26:45.100 They didn't have their priorities straight. 00:26:45.220 --> 00:26:46.840 They'd neglected divine worship. 00:26:46.839 --> 00:26:52.539 And so God sends His messenger with His Word to expose their sin. 00:26:53.379 --> 00:26:55.220 To challenge the way that they were living. 00:26:56.279 --> 00:27:00.879 And that really brings us to the third and the final thing here in just a few minutes. 00:27:02.079 --> 00:27:03.240 The Word at work. 00:27:03.679 --> 00:27:05.819 Not just exposing and challenging, 00:27:05.819 --> 00:27:09.039 but the Word at work transforming the people's lives. 00:27:09.079 --> 00:27:16.139 And we have that response in verses 12 through 15 to Haggai's words. 00:27:17.339 --> 00:27:21.079 Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, and Joshua, the son of Jehoshadak, the high priest, 00:27:21.159 --> 00:27:23.000 with all the remnant of the people, 00:27:23.460 --> 00:27:26.399 obeyed the voice of the Lord their God. 00:27:26.519 --> 00:27:28.259 And the words of Haggai the prophet, 00:27:28.379 --> 00:27:30.299 as the Lord their God had sent him. 00:27:30.619 --> 00:27:33.159 And the people feared the Lord. 00:27:33.160 --> 00:27:35.100 Then Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, 00:27:35.200 --> 00:27:37.380 spoke to the people with the Lord's message. 00:27:37.620 --> 00:27:40.720 I am with you, declares the Lord. 00:27:41.900 --> 00:27:45.860 This is a very unusual passage in the Old Testament. 00:27:46.000 --> 00:27:46.720 Why do I say that? 00:27:46.779 --> 00:27:49.860 Because we hardly ever read of this happening. 00:27:50.700 --> 00:27:54.519 The response to the prophetic ministry of God's Word, 00:27:55.180 --> 00:27:58.380 we're used to hearing as one of disobedience, unfaithfulness, 00:27:58.779 --> 00:28:00.340 idolatry, apathy. 00:28:00.339 --> 00:28:06.519 But here, the good news is that the people listened, 00:28:07.559 --> 00:28:10.159 and they took God's Word to heart. 00:28:10.500 --> 00:28:11.459 They were humbled. 00:28:11.599 --> 00:28:12.379 They repented. 00:28:12.659 --> 00:28:14.079 They changed their ways. 00:28:15.359 --> 00:28:19.919 Under Haggai's preaching, they received the Word of God with faith. 00:28:22.179 --> 00:28:24.220 They feared the Lord. 00:28:24.659 --> 00:28:26.919 Literally, they feared from before Yahweh. 00:28:26.920 --> 00:28:31.100 They start to show God the honor and respect that He's due. 00:28:31.900 --> 00:28:33.680 And that fear of God isn't terror. 00:28:34.279 --> 00:28:38.060 If the people had only felt terror, they would have run away. 00:28:38.820 --> 00:28:40.940 But you notice here, they run towards Him. 00:28:41.019 --> 00:28:41.740 They obey Him. 00:28:41.920 --> 00:28:42.700 They trust Him. 00:28:42.880 --> 00:28:43.880 They worship Him. 00:28:44.380 --> 00:28:46.600 A transformation has taken place. 00:28:46.700 --> 00:28:49.279 They are drawn to His beauty and glory. 00:28:49.279 --> 00:28:56.039 To fear the Lord involves us seeing something of God's majesty and glory. 00:28:56.539 --> 00:28:59.119 And this is what lay behind the people's obedience. 00:28:59.660 --> 00:29:02.700 It was the obedience, not simply of fear, but of faith. 00:29:04.000 --> 00:29:08.279 A sense of God's character weighed and pressed down upon them. 00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:11.000 They trembled before the Word of God. 00:29:12.420 --> 00:29:15.740 Remember Isaiah's words, Isaiah 66 too. 00:29:15.879 --> 00:29:17.579 This is the one to whom I will look. 00:29:17.899 --> 00:29:23.559 He who is humble and contrite in spirit and trembles at my Word. 00:29:24.079 --> 00:29:28.079 And so the impact of God's Word upon them was to draw them back, 00:29:28.180 --> 00:29:30.779 to know Him and love Him and obey Him. 00:29:32.460 --> 00:29:37.000 Now, of course, what we read about here is a remarkable transformation. 00:29:37.000 --> 00:29:40.299 It is essentially a revival. 00:29:41.500 --> 00:29:44.079 Sometimes that is how the Word of God works. 00:29:44.720 --> 00:29:46.480 A revolution takes place. 00:29:47.660 --> 00:29:51.220 A situation is turned around in dramatic fashion. 00:29:51.940 --> 00:29:57.200 Now, we were hearing from Kelly Capic yesterday how God often takes His time. 00:29:57.640 --> 00:29:58.759 And that is very true. 00:29:59.500 --> 00:30:05.740 But there are occasions when He works very speedily and quickly. 00:30:05.740 --> 00:30:09.759 And that is what happens at a time of revival and renewal. 00:30:10.099 --> 00:30:15.620 The normal operations of the Holy Spirit are greatly intensified and accelerated. 00:30:16.200 --> 00:30:18.140 The work of the Spirit is magnified. 00:30:18.259 --> 00:30:19.200 It's speeded up. 00:30:19.880 --> 00:30:22.980 The work of God is not carried out in a different way. 00:30:23.380 --> 00:30:29.920 It is merely accomplished more powerfully and dramatically and suddenly than normal. 00:30:29.920 --> 00:30:33.320 And such times are extraordinary. 00:30:34.279 --> 00:30:36.279 They're not normative for the church. 00:30:37.440 --> 00:30:42.720 For more often than not, the change God's Word brings is less dramatic and sudden. 00:30:43.120 --> 00:30:45.160 But for all that, it's no less real. 00:30:46.779 --> 00:30:48.160 Paul tells the Thessalonians, 00:30:48.160 --> 00:30:51.040 We also thank God constantly for this, 00:30:51.120 --> 00:30:54.540 That when you received the Word of God which you heard from us, 00:30:54.800 --> 00:30:58.580 You accepted it not as the Word of men, 00:30:59.160 --> 00:31:02.440 But as what it really is, the Word of God, 00:31:02.840 --> 00:31:05.920 Which is at work in you believers. 00:31:06.500 --> 00:31:07.600 1 Thessalonians 2. 00:31:08.660 --> 00:31:13.180 God's Word is always at work in the lives of God's people 00:31:13.180 --> 00:31:15.560 To bring transformation and change. 00:31:15.660 --> 00:31:19.560 To conform us to the pattern and image of the Lord Jesus. 00:31:22.220 --> 00:31:26.039 I can never remember what stories I've told and whenever I've told them. 00:31:26.180 --> 00:31:30.100 So, there is a story that I think I've probably told it before. 00:31:30.259 --> 00:31:35.120 The man watching a sculptor chiseling away at a block of marble, 00:31:35.440 --> 00:31:36.019 Asking him, 00:31:36.200 --> 00:31:36.900 What are you doing? 00:31:36.940 --> 00:31:37.500 What are you making? 00:31:38.460 --> 00:31:42.440 The sculptor replied he was making a statue of a horse. 00:31:43.180 --> 00:31:45.360 And the man was amazed. 00:31:45.460 --> 00:31:45.900 He commented, 00:31:46.120 --> 00:31:47.880 That must be a very difficult thing to do. 00:31:48.600 --> 00:31:49.600 The sculptor said, 00:31:49.660 --> 00:31:50.080 No, no, no. 00:31:50.140 --> 00:31:50.940 It's very, very simple. 00:31:51.820 --> 00:31:55.200 I just chip away everything that doesn't look like a horse. 00:31:57.519 --> 00:32:01.860 And God's Word is the chisel that He uses to chip away at our lives 00:32:01.860 --> 00:32:04.980 Everything that doesn't look like Jesus. 00:32:05.920 --> 00:32:08.620 He is at work within us to change us, 00:32:08.720 --> 00:32:11.080 To make us more like Him. 00:32:11.079 --> 00:32:14.799 He is restoring His image in our lives. 00:32:16.359 --> 00:32:20.079 How is the Word of God at work in your life today? 00:32:20.159 --> 00:32:22.279 What is He chipping away at? 00:32:22.359 --> 00:32:24.199 What is He getting rid of? 00:32:24.399 --> 00:32:25.019 Your pride, 00:32:25.139 --> 00:32:25.960 Your selfishness, 00:32:26.240 --> 00:32:26.839 Your apathy, 00:32:26.980 --> 00:32:27.839 Your indifference. 00:32:30.079 --> 00:32:34.240 And notice here that this obedience on behalf of God's people 00:32:34.240 --> 00:32:38.599 Is encouraged and stimulated by God's promise. 00:32:38.599 --> 00:32:40.539 We will read in verse 13. 00:32:41.659 --> 00:32:43.159 Haggai, the messenger of the Lord, 00:32:43.279 --> 00:32:45.339 Spoke to the people with the Lord's message. 00:32:45.859 --> 00:32:47.419 I am with you, 00:32:47.799 --> 00:32:48.819 Declares the Lord. 00:32:49.519 --> 00:32:50.159 So yes, 00:32:50.219 --> 00:32:52.919 There's rebuke and there's challenge in the Word of God, 00:32:53.000 --> 00:32:55.240 But there's also encouragement and comfort. 00:32:55.879 --> 00:32:58.639 God stirs up His people to work on the temple, 00:32:58.759 --> 00:33:00.959 To reinstate public worship, 00:33:01.159 --> 00:33:02.819 By declaring to them, 00:33:03.459 --> 00:33:04.759 I am with you. 00:33:05.480 --> 00:33:07.019 That's the great promise of the covenant. 00:33:08.279 --> 00:33:11.480 Here is the God who has promised to be with His people always. 00:33:12.680 --> 00:33:15.619 This work shall not be undertaken on their own. 00:33:16.059 --> 00:33:16.859 He will be with them. 00:33:16.940 --> 00:33:17.660 He will help them. 00:33:17.799 --> 00:33:18.579 He will bless them. 00:33:18.740 --> 00:33:19.879 He will sustain them. 00:33:20.819 --> 00:33:22.680 The Lord of hosts is with His people. 00:33:23.799 --> 00:33:25.759 And to stimulate their faith and confidence, 00:33:26.519 --> 00:33:28.920 He reminds them of that great, wonderful truth. 00:33:29.099 --> 00:33:30.440 I am with you. 00:33:30.859 --> 00:33:31.920 Great refrain, isn't it? 00:33:31.920 --> 00:33:33.720 We find right throughout the Scriptures. 00:33:35.380 --> 00:33:38.160 Here are words that have stirred up believers to work, 00:33:38.460 --> 00:33:39.860 And serve and persevere, 00:33:40.100 --> 00:33:42.279 Even in the most challenging of circumstances. 00:33:43.080 --> 00:33:46.860 Words that have strengthened the resolve of those facing temptations. 00:33:47.600 --> 00:33:50.180 Consoled those enduring painful trials. 00:33:50.360 --> 00:33:52.620 Comforted those traveling through dark valleys. 00:33:54.700 --> 00:33:58.000 Maybe that's what someone needs to hear this evening. 00:33:58.000 --> 00:34:00.880 The Lord speaking into your life, 00:34:01.039 --> 00:34:02.420 Into your situation, 00:34:02.799 --> 00:34:04.220 Into your circumstances, 00:34:04.480 --> 00:34:04.980 And saying, 00:34:05.640 --> 00:34:08.239 I am with you. 00:34:09.960 --> 00:34:11.300 What does the old hymn say? 00:34:12.300 --> 00:34:15.420 The storm may roar about without me, 00:34:15.719 --> 00:34:17.619 My heart may low be laid, 00:34:18.380 --> 00:34:20.260 But God is round about me, 00:34:20.539 --> 00:34:22.639 And can I be dismayed? 00:34:22.639 --> 00:34:25.879 Friends, our God does not keep His distance. 00:34:26.859 --> 00:34:28.879 He doesn't keep us at arm's length. 00:34:29.699 --> 00:34:31.059 He stands with His people. 00:34:31.179 --> 00:34:32.579 He suffers with His people. 00:34:33.819 --> 00:34:34.239 He doesn't, 00:34:35.259 --> 00:34:36.960 He's not standing outside looking in. 00:34:38.079 --> 00:34:40.019 He doesn't leave us to ourselves. 00:34:40.420 --> 00:34:41.059 He draws near. 00:34:41.139 --> 00:34:41.980 He comes close. 00:34:43.199 --> 00:34:46.179 It's not without reason that Jesus has that title, 00:34:46.239 --> 00:34:46.539 Isn't it? 00:34:46.539 --> 00:34:48.079 Emmanuel, God with us. 00:34:48.219 --> 00:34:49.679 He is in it with us. 00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:53.119 He has joined Himself to us. 00:34:53.659 --> 00:34:54.460 Isn't that incredible? 00:34:55.440 --> 00:34:57.159 He is with us in our struggles, 00:34:57.480 --> 00:34:58.480 And our trials, 00:34:58.619 --> 00:34:59.839 And our temptations. 00:35:00.079 --> 00:35:01.839 He is with us in the work of the gospel. 00:35:02.219 --> 00:35:04.039 He is with us in the work of mission. 00:35:05.039 --> 00:35:06.819 He is with us in our weakness, 00:35:06.960 --> 00:35:08.019 To carry us forward. 00:35:08.339 --> 00:35:09.879 He is with us in our folly, 00:35:09.980 --> 00:35:11.079 To bring us hope. 00:35:12.899 --> 00:35:14.039 So take heart, 00:35:14.259 --> 00:35:16.579 Christian brother or sister, 00:35:16.699 --> 00:35:17.279 This evening. 00:35:17.280 --> 00:35:20.560 He is with you tonight. 00:35:22.480 --> 00:35:24.519 For here is the God who restores, 00:35:25.540 --> 00:35:26.340 Restores people, 00:35:26.519 --> 00:35:27.140 Communities, 00:35:27.580 --> 00:35:27.880 Worship, 00:35:28.100 --> 00:35:28.740 Churches. 00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:32.440 And He carries out this work through His Word, 00:35:33.140 --> 00:35:34.320 By His Spirit. 00:35:35.260 --> 00:35:37.460 The Word of God that exposes, 00:35:37.860 --> 00:35:38.560 That challenges, 00:35:39.420 --> 00:35:41.640 And by God's grace transforms. 00:35:41.639 --> 00:35:45.239 And how we need in our own day, 00:35:46.019 --> 00:35:47.480 A renewed confidence, 00:35:47.480 --> 00:35:49.500 In the living and enduring Word of God. 00:35:50.759 --> 00:35:52.440 May His powerful Word, 00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:54.420 Continue to do its work, 00:35:54.819 --> 00:35:56.739 In our lives and in our hearts. 00:35:57.699 --> 00:36:00.039 May it continue to restore us, 00:36:00.900 --> 00:36:02.400 And to transform us, 00:36:02.900 --> 00:36:04.599 Into the very image, 00:36:05.599 --> 00:36:06.980 Of our Lord Jesus Christ. 00:36:08.139 --> 00:36:09.139 Let's pray together. 00:36:09.139 --> 00:36:11.799 Lord, 00:36:11.819 --> 00:36:13.319 We pray that we might know, 00:36:13.539 --> 00:36:14.519 The power of Your Word, 00:36:14.619 --> 00:36:15.619 Working in us, 00:36:15.659 --> 00:36:16.440 And through us. 00:36:17.519 --> 00:36:19.279 We pray that we might, 00:36:19.279 --> 00:36:20.339 Take heart, 00:36:20.920 --> 00:36:21.460 From, 00:36:22.400 --> 00:36:23.819 Your Word, 00:36:23.960 --> 00:36:24.960 That encourages us, 00:36:25.019 --> 00:36:26.079 And reminds us, 00:36:26.719 --> 00:36:27.940 That we are not alone, 00:36:28.099 --> 00:36:28.779 As your people. 00:36:29.579 --> 00:36:31.519 That you are with us, 00:36:31.839 --> 00:36:33.659 And you will never leave us, 00:36:33.940 --> 00:36:35.099 Nor forsake us. 00:36:35.219 --> 00:36:35.440 Lord, 00:36:35.440 --> 00:36:38.119 We all get our priorities, 00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:38.900 Mixed up. 00:36:39.460 --> 00:36:40.260 We all, 00:36:40.260 --> 00:36:42.340 Deviate. 00:36:42.519 --> 00:36:43.039 We all, 00:36:44.139 --> 00:36:44.840 Are tempted. 00:36:46.099 --> 00:36:46.579 Lord, 00:36:46.619 --> 00:36:47.679 How we need Your strength. 00:36:48.320 --> 00:36:49.539 How we need Your Word, 00:36:49.679 --> 00:36:50.840 To expose our sin. 00:36:51.320 --> 00:36:52.619 To bring us to, 00:36:52.940 --> 00:36:53.900 Repentance and faith. 00:36:54.720 --> 00:36:55.659 And to lead us forward. 00:36:56.720 --> 00:36:56.980 Lord, 00:36:57.039 --> 00:36:57.840 Be pleased to do that, 00:36:57.920 --> 00:36:58.519 In our lives, 00:36:58.599 --> 00:36:59.400 And in our church. 00:36:59.840 --> 00:37:00.800 And all for Your glory. 00:37:01.360 --> 00:37:01.740 Amen. 00:37:01.740 --> 00:37:01.920 Amen. 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:01.920 00:37:01.920 --> 00:37:01.920