Haggai 1:14-15 The stirring of the remnant

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songs.

I don't know if you noticed that or not, but the second hymn that we sung was actually psalm 3.

Like that's pretty cool to be able to sing the scripture.

That's what the whole book of psalms is for seeing scriptures.

Truly the blessing we're gonna go ahead and do our catechism right now.

So I would invite all the kids to come up here with me, please.

Come find a spot.

Right there, okay.

Well.

Back over here.

Well, it's a blessing to have you guys here today.

So we have a really really important question that we have to ask I think all the adults in here would need to be

reminded of this as well last week.

We asked the question of what is the seventh commandment you guys remember what that means to us?

Yeah.

That's right, that's absolutely right amen to that so I don't know if you heard what he just said.

This week's question is what is forbidden in the seventh commandment.

And a reminder that the seventh commandment is thou shall not commit adultery and what did you just say Henry?

Do you want to say it again?

So do you not have impure thoughts or unchaste actions?

That's what he just said that is amazing to hear that praise God for that amen to that.

And so the whole idea of that is that we need to try to be our.

To be obedient to God's law is to mean that we are being pure in our actions and

our thoughts.

Right, and so is it is it an okay thing to have mean or wrong thoughts or mean and wrong

actions?

Lydia's already shaking her head.

No, that's wrong, right?

That's why.

Okay, let's pray Lord.

God, I thank you Lord for Just these children today for the

opportunity to have that adventure club this morning or and I pray it I can do this week in and week out Lord that

you would be glorified by this Lord that the efforts of your people would not go in vain Lord and that

you would stir our hearts to be more deliberate raising these children up to your glory and that they might know who you are Lord we might

profess you as King Lord I do pray today and we would obey

your seventh commandment Church that we would not commit adultery that we do not have unclean

thoughts and that we would not look with lusts outside of our marriage.

God I thank you so much for who you are.

I say this in your name Jesus Christ.

Nice.

What a blessing that is.

I can't tell you enough how excited I am to have Opportunities and moments like that here at church.

What a blessing.

Well Before we read this text before we even pray I'll be honest with you.

He's okay up here.

I'll be honest with you.

This week I prepared for a message today and then as this week went on there were other things that came up.

I went to a conference this week.

And and so I don't know how the message is gonna go today.

That's what I'm trying to get it.

I don't know how much I will follow the notes because there was a lot of things that I think we can even apply to This text and some doctrine and

some some issues of the day that I think we need to take to heart.

But let us go ahead and pray right now.

We'll read the text and then we'll go ahead and pray again.

And we'll go through and kind of not kind of but I hope we will expositionally Dissect what is

going on here?

We're gonna be in Haggai chapter 1 verses 14 through 15.

Haggai chapter 1 verses 14 through 15.

Haggai chapter 1 verses 14 through 15.

Let us go ahead and pray to open things up.

Lord God, I I do pray again for this season that we are in Lord.

Whatever season that is as a church as a local body whatever season that might be as

Individuals Lord, I pray that you would be glorified in our actions and our words and our deeds.

In our worship Lord in our service Lord.

I pray that you would strengthen us in our Conversations and our difficulties and our trials and our pains and our

afflictions Lord.

And I pray that we would stand firm upon your rock Lord in which we just some being in Christ alone

Lord.

I pray again for the children here of Bali Baptist Church the parents and I just pray for our local body

Lord.

I just pray that you would be glorified in the day opening your word and in the worship that we have before you.

We just say this in your name Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Haggai chapter 1 verses 14 through 15 is where we'll be at for today let us go

ahead and read this text verses 14 and 15 so

the Lord Stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shatil

governor of Judah and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehoshaphat the high priest

and the spirit of the remnant of the people and they came and

worked on the house of the Lord of hosts their God

on The 24th day of the sixth month in the second year of

Darius the king.

This is our text for today.

Let us pray again over it Lord God I I pray today that as we look at the short

words here that we see that it is truly the Word of God before us and Lord though it

was written many many years ago Lord that we would understand its context that we can apply it

Properly that we would understand and be encouraged by this Lord and that you would stir

our very Spirits or today to do the work of your house

Lord, I pray that when we look around this room and we see one another that we would see fellow

Workers that we would see your church that we would see your bride and we would value Each

other as being covered by the perfect Lamb.

And God, I just lift these things up to you in the name of our King

Jesus Christ.

We say these things.

Amen.

So again as We went through verses 10 through 13 two

weeks ago as Rick led us through those texts.

Let me just read again this this context for us.

It says in verses 10 through 13 therefore because of you the sky has withheld its due and Their

earth has withheld its produce and I called for a drought on the land and on the mountains on the grain

and on the New wine on the new oil and on the what the ground produces on men on

Cattle and all the labor of your hands then Zerubbabel the son of Shattiel this and

Joshua the son of Jehozadek.

I'm sure when when Rick Rick read this text for us two weeks ago He was able to pronounce all those words

names far more precisely than myself but it goes on to say 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 them and the people showed reverence for the Lord

then Haggai the messenger of the Lord spoke by the commission of the Lord to the people saying I

am with you declares The Lord this is the

direct context as I said.

This was gone through by brother Rick of this church two weeks ago.

And as we do not have means to record sermon audio for our pulpit supply right now.

My wife made mention of how Rick beautifully went through this text and how he mentioned that we are.

This this is being spoken of in the Old Testament the Old Covenant and how he pointed us to how we are

Members of the New Covenant that is something that stuck with my wife from two weeks ago and I hope as we

continue on in these verses through verses 14 and 15 and Particularly today with the

baptism we can talk a little bit about what it means To be a member of the New Covenant.

I hope that this is going to be something that ties us to previous texts as well as ties us centrally to the New

Testament.

But this text again was written in the year roughly 520 BC

after Roughly 20 years have gone by that God had told them to go back and build a temple.

20 years have gone by and all that has been laid as the foundation.

This is a Slothful people.

This is the people that have not obeyed the Word of God it's a people that have not gone after what God has commanded

them and We need to understand that we need to not act like this.

We need to obey God's command and follow him today.

But we must not think of ourselves better than what they were as we have looked and we see.

How can we build the house of God today?

Well, we can go after the Great Commission, which we'll talk about here in a moment.

We can follow God and obey his laws and his commandments today.

But we often forsake those things so we cannot see ourselves better as the people in this

text.

We can't so when we come here to verse 14.

I want to make mention of one.

One little sentence here in verse 13, it's at the very end there.

It says that the Lord spoke by the commission of the Lord to the

people saying I am with you

declares the Lord declares Yahweh this name of God the

Self -existing one the one that Jesus Christ claims to be the same Yahweh the same

Lord.

And he says in here.

I am with you.

I Am with you.

God had not departed from his people.

God was there with them.

I am With you.

I am with you.

This is should be very very remarkable of a statement that is said here by God to the people of Israel in

this text.

I am with you.

It's not just Brayden is with you.

It is not just Nick is with you.

It's not just Chad is with you.

Yahweh himself is with you.

That is amazing.

Why do we why do I make mention of this text before we even get into verses 14 through 15 because God himself

has said this Very same thing to us the church.

Have you noticed that?

Matthew chapter 28 as I just made mention of in verses 17 through 20 says.

After the 11 disciples fall down and worship Jesus Christ as being God they

worship him God being the only proper subject of worship the 11 fall and worship Jesus and

Jesus says all authority has been given to me in under heaven and on earth.

Go therefore he gives him a command.

This should be almost identical to what's going on here in the book of Haggai.

He gives them a command go therefore.

Make disciples.

Baptizing them go unto the nation's baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and

the Holy Spirit teaching them all that I have taught you all that I've commanded you and

Lo I am with you even until the end of the age.

I Am with you.

God himself is with us.

He's given us the very means of having success because God himself is with us.

We have nothing to fear.

There is not a day in our lives that goes by that God is not with the Christian.

God is with us.

Just as Haggai and the people of Israel could say the Lord is on my side.

The Lord is with me.

We too get to say that same thing.

The Lord is with me.

The Lord is with us.

The Lord is with us.

This is going to be very very important here in a moment when we discuss this Great Commission

and baptism.

But let us continue on here in verse 14.

It says so the Yahweh the Lord Yahweh that self existing title that

God has the only name that God the only Person that could be the

only being that could be called the self existing one is God himself Yahweh.

So the Yahweh stirred up the spirit of the Zerubbabel the son of Shattel.

Now I want to first before we talk about stirring up of the heart I want to talk about this character of

Zerubbabel somebody from this church reminded me a couple weeks ago.

About who's Zerubbabel is.

I didn't even realize that this is a very significant character for us.

Not only in the Old Testament, but in the New Testament.

It's one that we can quickly and easily miss if we are not paying attention to Matthew.

Matthew chapter 1.

Matthew chapter 1 verses 5 and 12 through 13 says this Matthew

chapter 1.

Verse 5 says this and I want to read verse 5 here to remind us of something.

This is the genealogy of Jesus Christ.

In fact verse 1 says this the book of the genealogy of Jesus Christ.

The son of David and the son of Abraham.

Verse 5 says this and to Solomon was born Boaz which I bring

this up because where did we just come from before the book of Haggai the book of Ruth, right?

We have Boaz.

So Boaz by Rahab and to Boaz was born Obed and by root by

Obed was born by Ruth and Obed Jesse and so we see the lineage is going through

Ruth and Boaz this family.

And then when we come to verse 12 to 13, it says this and after

the deportation to Babylon do Jack this is gonna kill

me guys.

I'm sorry.

Jaconia was born Shatiel and to Shatiel was born Zerubbabel.

It's the name that we're talking about here in the book of Haggai we're reading right now out of the book of Haggai a

Descendant of where we were reading out of the book of Ruth.

So why is this important?

Why is it important for us to see this here this genealogy of Jesus Christ?

Zerubbabel is going to be a type and we'll see this as the book Haggai carries on is going to be a type

a Shadow a forerunner a pointer to Jesus Christ himself.

He's going to be a man that points us to Jesus Christ as being a great -great -great -great -great Grandfather, I don't know

how many greats I need to throw in there, but he's a descendant.

Jesus is a descendant of him.

He's of the line of Zerubbabel.

Now when we think about this.

This is going to play into how we understand covenants.

There's a lot of Speculation and thinking on how covenants

were.

Covenants is an agreement between two or more parties.

Did you know that most of us in here have entered a covenant in our life?

Probably all of us have in one way or another if you are a new covenant member, then you absolutely have.

How many of us are wearing our wedding ring today?

Okay, I see a couple hands raising right there.

Did you know that this is a covenant?

Sign of a covenant we made with our spouse.

We made a covenant with our spouse that we would love them whatever your your your Marriage

ceremony that you said that was your promise to them.

And this is the sign to the world that you are married to that person.

It's a sign.

That's a covenant.

It's an agreement between two parties.

And often in covenants, there's punishments for when the covenant is broken.

Okay, and we can see that throughout the if we live in an apartment and we've

signed a contract we've entered a covenant.

With that apartment leasing and if we violate the terms and the agreement in that covenant.

We can lose that apartment, right?

We can be kicked out.

We can be told to leave and pack our stuff and move that is entering a covenant.

We've all entered covenants our own lives whether you like it or not.

The world works by covenants often agreements.

Two or more parties and so what do we have in the Old Testament?

The reason I bring this up is that yesterday in a conference.

I Was mostly Presbyterians that were teaching there and I I love our Presbyterian brothers.

But they said something that really kind of brought a lot of attention to my mind and he said that we were

in the Abrahamic Covenant and this is going to be a great distinction that we can have between

Baptists and Presbyterians on the way we view covenants.

So the Presbyterian and their thinking is that we are under the same covenant as that being in the Old

Testament.

We are a part of the same Abrahamic Davidic Adamic no way a covenant.

We're under that same covenant, but under different administrations.

This is the wording that they would use as a Baptist.

We have a different understanding and this is important for us to understand.

Is that we are not in the Abrahamic Covenant.

We are not in that way.

We are a member of the New Covenant and as we've talked about in the book of Hebrews.

What is that word that we keep on seeing that is used?

Better.

Better better better better.

And why do I bring this up?

Let me read real fast out of Hebrews chapter 8.

This is so so important because I think this is fundamental to the way that we understand what the new

covenant is.

Hebrews chapter 8 verse 6 says this but now he has obtained a more excellent ministry.

By as much he is the also the mediator of a better covenant.

Which has been enacted on better promises.

For if that first covenant had been faultless There would have been no occasion sought for a second and then it

tells us what the new covenant is here in verses 8 Through 12, I would encourage you to read that later.

And so what is the Old Covenant for?

Why is Zerubbabel important?

Why is this lineage of Jesus Christ important?

What was the Old Covenant even for if we're not a part of it?

I would like you to think of the Old Covenants.

This is the way I've always viewed it and I think it's a way that we ought to view it.

Is that we.

There's an importance in the Old Covenants.

Because the Old Covenants was the pregnant woman carrying the seed of Christ and that is the new covenant.

Do we have place in the Old Covenants through the seed?

Yes through the.

The through the child that the woman is bearing we have place.

But today We don't need to circumcise our male children on the eighth day to be

a part of the land.

We don't need to do that.

That's part of what the Old Covenant was.

So the Old Covenant had what was the requirement?

I would like you to think about this for a moment but the Old Covenant especially with the Abrahamic Covenant was that

the Abraham would have children and his prosperity his prosperity would have to be

circumcised on the eighth day so there was the natural birth and Then what

was the sign of being in that covenant just as you have the wedding ring on?

What was the sign of that?

Was the circumcision?

You were born naturally and then you were circumcised and that's how you participated in the

Old Covenant the Abrahamic Covenant.

How do you participate in the new covenant today?

This is a very important question very very important question.

We don't Participate in it by anything that you and I have done.

We are made participators of it in John chapter 3.

It says you must be born again.

So the first covenant was one of natural birth.

The second one was spiritual birth being born from above and

After you were born from above is then when you receive the signs.

What are the two main signs that we have in the New Covenant Church?

Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

When we do those things we are showing the world.

That we have made a covenant that we are a part of a covenant we are a part of this new

better covenant.

So when we talk about Zerubbabel in this genealogy of Christ I would say and ask you to be thinking

this Old Covenant was the pregnant woman that was carrying about Jesus

Christ in this new covenant.

It was the means and the method that God was bringing this sovereign road to be to the

cross.

We are saved under the new covenant.

I Would ask you to read later today all of Hebrews chapter 8 all the way to the end of chapter 13 if you would like To know more

about that.

So when we come here to verse 4 to 14 of he Haggai chapter 1

excuse me Haggai chapter 1 verse 14.

It says that the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shattiel.

And the governor of Judah and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jehoshaphat and the high priest and

the sons.

And the spirit of all the remnant of the people now I would like you to take notice of this the

stirring up of these different individuals this remnant.

The stirring up what is that getting out of here?

It's through the conviction of what Haggai is talking about what Haggai is giving as a message to the people of Israel.

That the people of Israel are being convicted in what in their wrong?

Doing and they're violating of God's command and in obedience to

rebuilding the temple.

They're violating this and so they are convicted they are pierced they are cut to the

quick they are Captive by their conscience.

They're held captive in this way.

Now the question must be asked if the Lord had not stirred up the spirit of the Old Testament

People here in this text would they have built the temple?

Lydia just said it.

No, they wanted of how do we know?

Because 20 years had passed and they had not done it.

Who were the ones that built the temple?

What was these people here, but who was the one that had convicted them and had stirred their hearts to do it?

It was the Lord himself.

It was the Lord that was doing these things.

Now there's two things that should be said here.

And I think the first one is obvious for us today being these new covenant members.

And us building the house of God us going out Evangelizing us telling

people to be baptized and repent and believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.

Us doing these things should you ever

ignore a conviction to say something.

A Conviction to go and do something.

You shouldn't absolutely not if the Lord has put something on your heart today, whatever it might be.

You ought to probably do it if the Lord has done this if the Lord is stirring you today.

To tell your neighbor if the Lord is still stirring you today to tell your brother if the Lord is stirring you today to go

To the world and tell them about Jesus Christ.

You better do it because it's the Lord who's stirring you.

The second thing which is the danger of this is we cannot use feelings.

To justify the breaking of God's Word.

If you feel like today you have been stirred to go and cheat on your wife.

That is not a stirring from the Lord.

And so there's a balance there we have to we have to Manage and navigate what is a conviction from

God?

Versus what is a feeling of pleasure and what we want we have to be.

We have to be careful in these things.

We have to be careful in these things.

There's caution in these things.

We can let our tongue run too fast and we can say things that God was not wanting us to say.

Going outside of his command.

We need to be careful in this.

But we need to obey those convictions when God has told us to do something and we are convicted to do it.

You need to do it today.

Don't wait any longer.

So the Lord God himself has stirred the spirit of these different individuals.

Zerubbabel.

We have in here that he is stirred Joshua and also the remnant of the people now.

What is this the remnant of the people?

The Bible uses this term often in the Old Testament the remnant of the people

the remnant the remnant.

Let's go ahead and just turn real fast here to Romans chapter 9.

This remnant is spoken of often as I just said often it is used

revel or Romans chapter 9 verses 24 through 27.

Romans chapter 9 verses 24 through 27.

Romans 9 verses 24 through 27 says this even us whom he also

called not from among the Jews only.

But also from among the Gentiles as he says also in Hosea.

I will call those people who were not my people my people and who were not beloved.

Beloved and it shall be that in the place where it was said to them.

You are not my people.

They there they shall be called the sons of the Living God.

And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel.

Though the number of the sons of Israel be as the sands of the sea it is the remnant

That will be saved for the Lord will execute his word upon the earth thoroughly

and quickly.

Again verse 27 it is the remnant that will be saved.

If you just slip a few pages over to chapter 11 verses 5

Through 7 we'll also read verse 1 in here.

Romans chapter 11 verse 1.

It says I say then God has not rejected his people.

Has he may I never be.

For I too am an Israelite a descendant of Abraham of the tribe of Benjamin.

Verse 5 in the same way then there was also come to be at the present time a

remnant.

According to God's gracious choice.

But if it is by grace is no longer on the basis of works.

Otherwise grace is no longer grace.

What then not which Israel is seeking for it has not obtained.

But those who were chosen obtained it and the rest were hardened.

Ron.

As we read this our ears should perk up as Ron reminds us on every Bible study the chosen in that

text right there a remnant according to God's gracious Choice.

So what is a remnant of Israel that is speaking of here in the book of Haggai?

It's the few that still believe in Yahweh.

It's a few that are not just physically born of Abraham

so therefore they're not just of the flesh, but they are also true believers in Yahweh.

And How do we know that they're true believers of Yahweh that they they actually?

Believe in God the one that has released him from captivity from Babylon.

What does it say that this remnant does here in Haggai it says and

they came and they worked on the house of the Lord of hosts

their God.

See we you and I can walk out into this world and we talked about this on Bible study.

We can go and we can meet thousands upon thousands upon thousands of

professing Christians.

Ones that say yep, I believe in Jesus Christ.

Well someone says they believe in Jesus Christ, but they do not bear the fruit of a Christian.

That should be alarming to us.

That's what we have in this day.

We would see many would say I am of the tribe of Benjamin a descendant of Abraham.

Well, why aren't you working on the temple then?

Because the rest the remnant the rest of Israel has gone out to work on the temple.

Think there's a lot of application that you and I can make in here that we as our Satisfaction of salvation goes

is not the works of our hands, but as the works of Christ's on The cross and it is there that we

have salvation is there that we look to to have Assurance of what has been done for us.

But as we are looking there our fellow brothers and sisters should be able to look at us.

And they should be able to see the fruit that is stemming from us because we have partaken in the vine.

That is Jesus Christ.

The fruit is an assurance to our brothers and sisters that we are truly saved our

Knowing of our salvation is in Jesus Christ alone.

And so how do these remnant of Israel the remnant of the people?

How do they know that they have been saved.

It is because the Lord has stirred them to go and do this work.

How do the rest of the Israelites know that they are the true Israel part of this remnant people?

It's because they see them doing the work of their God on the house of the Lord of hosts.

Which by the way is the fourth time that we have seen this phrase used?

Lord of hosts.

Yahweh of hosts their God.

And here in verse 15 We have something particular that is said on the 24th day of the sixth

month in the second year of Darius the king.

This is a hard thing for us to understand in this calendar way of speaking here in this text.

But what should work for us to build a timeline of events here is look at verse 1 of this chapter.

It says in the second year of Darius the king on the first day of the sixth month.

The word of the Lord came by the prophet of Haggai to Zerubbabel the son of Shattigal.

Now if you look here at verse 15, it says the 24th day versus the first day.

So we can start to build a timeline how long did it take for the message of Haggai to go out to the people?

And for the Lord to stir the hearts of those individuals 23 days.

23 days work continues on the house of the Lord.

That's remarkable to think about.

How many of us in this room and try to get in a lazy group of people to do anything?

Takes a lot longer than 23 days.

Does it not?

How many times do we have to tell our kids to go clean their rooms a lot?

Sometimes it takes far more than 23 days let alone trying to encourage them to go build a temple.

God has stirred his people in this text to do that.

Which he has commanded them to do and all praise and glory should be to him now as we build out this

Timeline a little bit more we'll see here in verse 1 of chapter 2 on the 21st day of the 7th month.

So here it's about a month later here that we have and so that's gonna lead us into the next text as we look here In

chapter 2, but I hope that in this we can see a multitude of things that is going on

in here.

Is that God has a sovereign plan?

For his people to obey his commands so that it would bring about the Christ.

What is the temple pointing us to Jesus himself?

It says that the word became flesh and tabernacled amongst us and Jesus says that

you destroy this temple and I will raise it up again in three days and the Jewish Pharisees say What are you

talking about?

It took our forefathers 42 years to build the temple and he said and it says in there that they did

not Understand that he was speaking about his body.

You see the old temples Was not the substance.

It was not the better new temple that we have in Jesus.

The old covenants that brings about just as the old temples brought about Jesus Christ and

pointing us forward to him.

The old covenants is not the same as the new covenant that we have in Jesus

Christ.

You are made members of this new covenant.

He is the mediator of this new better covenant.

He is that's what we see over and over and over again here in the book of Hebrews as we go through for our Bible.

Which if you're going to be here on Tuesday, I would encourage you to please come and participate in these Bible studies with us.

So, how do we then today?

Let's go ahead and read Matthew 28 for us because this is the explicit command church to you

as the Christian.

This is often known as called the Great Commission in here Matthew 28.

We have read it several times and we'll continue to read it.

It says in Jesus came up and spoke to them saying all authority Has been given to me in

heaven and on earth.

Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations.

Baptizing them in the name of the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit.

Teaching them to observe all that I command you and lo I am with you who is with

us Church Yahweh himself God himself Jesus the Christ.

He is with us.

I am with you even until when does it say even until next week?

Even until Bad things happen even until good things happen.

No, he says even until the end of the age Christ is with us.

We need to obey his command and go and go.

If you Have ever seen this remarkable thing take place of

Regeneration.

I'm gonna turn to Acts chapter 2 here for us just shortly and just read this real fast after Paul

or after Peter has given a Beautiful sermon to the very people that were there

probably saying crucify crucify to Jesus Christ.

After Peter preaches a message to them about repentance and belief in Jesus Christ about the

About the crucifixion of Jesus himself.

It says here in verse 36 of Acts 2 therefore let all the house of Israel know that for

certain that God has made him both Lord and Christ this Jesus whom you

crucified and What does Acts 2 37 says it says now they were pierced

to the heart when they had heard this and Said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles brethren

What shall we do what shall we do

and what does Peter then tell them to do.

Take the signs of the New Covenant baptism, he tells them and

Peter said to them repent and let each one of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of

your Sins, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit for the promise.

The promise that speaking of the Old Testament Old Covenant the promise Is for

you and your children and for all who are far off as many as the Lord our God shall call

to himself.

So let us consider these things.

Let us consider our own baptism.

If you haven't been baptized a day and you say I am a member of the New Covenant I have been

saved through the cross of Christ.

You better be having a stirring of your heart saying what shall I do?

And the answer is be baptized.

Participate in the Lord's Supper go and make disciples do that which is the New Covenant

members do.

Let us go ahead and pray Lord God, I thank you again For this

text here in the book of Haggai that we have studied and we have looked at Lord God, I pray that in

any way that each in us Individually are being stirred to go out and tell

people of who you are Lord.

I pray that we would be obedient to those things.

That we would not ignore these types of stirrings these convictions these grippings of our minds and of our

hearts Lord God.

But I pray that you would intimately write the letter of your law upon our hearts that we would be obedient to them and

That you would cause our feet to go in joyful cheer to wherever those convictions are leading us to Lord

God.

I pray today that we would glorify you in the means of our Service through the

means of our worship through the means of our fellowship Lord and God that we would build your house

Lord Lord.

I pray That you would help us be these priests in your temple as we see in the New

Testament Lord.

And we thank you for the better New Testament New Covenant that we are a part of Lord, I just say these

things in your holy name Jesus Christ.

Amen.

So what we'll do now is I would invite you to please stand as we sing our final song today We'll have the children come

back in here and I get to ask the great privilege of Don some wonderful

questions and brothers and sisters I can't express how much Don has been a blessing to me in this last year and a half that

I've known him.