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Haggai 1:11 “In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 2  “Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying: ‘This people says, “The time has not come, the time that the Lord’s house should be built.”’” 3  Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4  “ Is it time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins?” 5  Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways! 6  “You have sown much, and bring in little; 
You eat, but do not have enough; 
You drink, but you are not filled with drink; 
You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm;
 And he who earns wages, 
Earns wages to put into a bag with holes.” 7  Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways! 8  Go up to the...

How can we talk on morality? It is not possible for us to set the standards for what is right and what is wrong, yet that is what we try to do every day. If one was to see into another's thoughts he would be disgusted with what he found. He would probably call that person every name under the sun, in his mind if not out loud. He would quickly conclude that this person is a hypocrite, depraved, maybe even perverted. Yet for those same private thoughts that flow through his own head he would say that they were 'understandable' or a 'mistake on his part' or because of 'human weakness'. He would easily justify his own thoughts because in himself he believes he is a decent fellow, whilst condemning somebody else for having the exact same thoughts. Here lies our conundrum. How could we, who have such a lack of morality in our own private mind possibly be a judge on what is right and what is wrong? We need to understand that the only way for morality to exist i...

The Lord commands us to evangelise, but we must make sure that we don't go out and preach the Word to try to earn God's favour, for there is only one way we can earn God's favour and that is through our faith in Him (Hebrews 11:6). We shouldn't go out because we feel like we have to in order to upkeep our relationship with God, or grow in Him, or earn rewards or brownie points or become a better Christian. We should go out and preach the Word because we want to. God looks at our motives (1 Samuel 16:7). If we don't want to spread the Word to others then there is a problem and we must look at our relationship with God and the love we possess to see how deep our love for the Lord really is, whether it is a self-centered kind of love or whether is is true selfless love.

The best thing a person can do when studying God is to step outside of oneself, to think outside of ones mind and to not interpret God through their own experiences or opinions. The biggest vice to the work of the Lord is our human emotions, for they blind us to the truth and convince us of what is incorrect. We must remember that God is an objective being. God does not alter in accordance with our mind set. People today interpret God in a subjective way. They allow their own experience of life to determine who God is. The more advance in life the person becomes the more experiences they encounter that further alter their perception of God, until there comes a point when their God is exactly that; he is their God, a figment of the imagination, something which they have sub-consciously created. They may have good-intentions and be wholly unaware of what they have done, but the god which they follow has in fact become themselves. They have begun to worship the creature rather than the c...

Jonah 1:17 – 2:10 After being thrown into the sea, Jonah is swallowed by a big fish (verse 17). Three days he resides in the belly of the fish before being vomited back up onto dry land (Jonah 2:10). This is a picture of the Lord Jesus who after being crucified descended into the depths of the earth in Sheol to preach to those in the grave and to retrieve the keys to death before rising up again on the third day. Matthew 27:50-52 “And Jesus cried out again with a loud voice, and yielded up His Spirit. Then behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom; and the earth quaked, and the rocks were split, and the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raise.” Ephesians 4:9 “Now this ‘He ascended’ – what does it mean but that He also descended into the lower parts of the earth?” Revelation 1:18 “I am He who lives, and was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore. Amen. And I have the keys of Hades and of dea...

Jonah 1:10-16 10  Then the men were exceedingly afraid, and said to him, “Why have you done this?” For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the  Lord , because he had told them.  11  Then they said to him, “What shall we do to you that the sea may be calm for us?”—for the sea was growing more tempestuous.  12  And he said to them, “Pick me up and throw me into the sea; then the sea will become calm for you. For I know that this great tempest  is  because of me.”  13  Nevertheless the men rowed hard to return to land, but they could not, for the sea continued to grow more tempestuous against them.  14  Therefore they cried out to the  Lord  and said, “We pray, O  Lord , please do not let us perish for this man’s life, and do not charge us with innocent blood; for You, O  Lord , have done as it pleased You.”  15  So they picked up Jonah and threw him into the sea, and ...

Jonah who gets eaten by a whale and vomited onto the beach after 3 days inside the fishes belly before going to preach to the city of Ninevah. From reading the well-known four-chapters long book, we can see the Lord Jesus portrayed through the character of Jonah and an illustration of God’s plan for salvation that He was to put in place through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Storm Read Jonah 1:3-9 and also the accounts of the storm in Matthew 8:23-27 & Luke 8:22-25. Jonah 1:3-9, Matthew 8:23-27, Luke 8:22-25 As we read, Jonah is on a boat going to Tarshish. A great storm comes. Jonah 1:4 states, “there was a mighty tempest on the sea.” In the same way Matthew 8:24 tells us how when the Lord Jesus and His disciples were crossing over the lake “a great tempest arose on the sea.” In both accounts Jonah and the Lord Jesus fall asleep during the storm whilst the other men onboard are incredibly afraid. ( Jonah 1:5 & Matthew 8:24 ) Both men are content d...