1. The Time has Come Haggai 1:1-11

2. History of Israel: Return from Exile
Destruction
Return
Foundation laid
Prophets
Fear and apathy
Work resumes
Temple completed
586
536
520
515
538
(16 years)

3. Consider Your Ways Misplaced priorities… Are obvious Lack of urgency
Time is lent to us to be laid out in God’s service, and we cannot be too diligent in it if we consider that time is precious, short, passing, uncertain, irrevocable when gone and that for which we must be accountable. Abraham Cowley

4. Consider Your Ways Misplaced priorities… Are obvious Lack of urgency
Lord, make me to know my end And what is the extent of my days; Let me know how transient I am. Behold, You have made my days as handbreadths, And my lifetime as nothing in Your sight; Surely every man at his best is a mere breath. Psalm 39:4-5

5. Consider Your Ways Misplaced priorities… Are obvious Lack of urgency
Love of comfort

6. Consider Your Ways Misplaced priorities… Are obvious Lack of urgency
Love of comfort
Surely I will not enter my house, nor lie on my bed; I will not give sleep to my eyes, or slumber to my eyelids; Until I find a place for the LORD, a dwelling place for the Mighty One of Jacob. Psalm 132:3-5

7. Consider Your Ways Misplaced priorities… Are obvious Have consequences
Delayed worship
Futility and frustration
Divine opposition

8. Consider Your Ways Misplaced priorities… Are obvious Have consequences
Can be corrected
Consider
Obey