Built to Last
Built to Last
Sermon Synopsis
Jesus is busy building. By the Spirit, He is active establishing a dwelling for Himself. At the center of it all, He is seated upon the Throne. What it is has not been fully realized. It is a coming Kingdom that cannot be thwarted, a dwelling of God in the midst of His people.
As in the days of Haggai, the need today to recognize, humbly re-commit, and practically dedicate ourselves to His building is paramount (Psalm 132). Haggai and his people were commissioned to rebuild a Temple once destroyed. We have been commissioned to be built together in love to become a House of living stones ready to offer spiritual sacrifices to God the Father through Jesus (1 Peter 2:5). The building is in us and through us, together.
As we unite our hearts with that of the Great Master Builder, we become the hands and feet walking out His eternal, master plan to bring His Kingdom come on earth as it is in Heaven.
Jesus is coming soon. Are you down for what He is building up?
Haggai 2:20-23
20 The word of the Lord came a second time to Haggai on the twenty-fourth day of the month, 21 “Speak to Zerubbabel, governor of Judah, saying, I am about to shake the heavens and the earth, 22 and to overthrow the throne of kingdoms. I am about to destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations, and overthrow the chariots and their riders. And the horses and their riders shall go down, every one by the sword of his brother. 23 On that day, declares the Lord of hosts, I will take you, O Zerubbabel my servant, the son of Shealtiel, declares the Lord, and make you like a signet ring, for I have chosen you, declares the Lord of hosts.”
Matthew 24:21
21 For then there will be great tribulation, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, and never will be.
Jeremiah 22:24
24 “As I live, declares the Lord, though Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, were the signet ring on my right hand, yet I would tear you off
Luke 3:15-17
15 As the people were in expectation, and all were questioning in their hearts concerning John, whether he might be the Christ, 16 John answered them all, saying, “I baptize you with water, but he who is mightier than I is coming, the strap of whose sandals I am not worthy to untie. He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire. 17 His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.”
Ephesians 1:3-5
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places, 4 even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before him. In love 5 he predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will,