TH E K I N G ’ S B U S I N E S S
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We will build the house on this board. (The flannel on the back of the pictures will stick to the flannel on the board, holding the pieces in place.) This is a beautiful house. Each one of us would be glad to live in such a home. I told you a moment ago that the people in Haggai’s day built and furnished their homes beautifully, be fore they attended, to the needs of God’s house. The Lord punished them for this sin, by giving them poor har vests. See this basket with withered vegetables in it. It reminds us of the words of Haggai, “Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat; but ye have not enough” (Hag. 1:8). “Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the Lord of Ijosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house” (Hag. 1:9). We will now take down the house and build God’s house first. This is God's order. It is now proper to build the house, after God’s house is com pleted. When the children of Israel obeyed God, they had plenty of food to eat, just as this basket is filled with food. If we seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, all neces sary things will be given us. 18 Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not. LESSON T E X T : Mai. 3:7-18; GOLDEN T E X T : «Hiring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be m eat in m ine house, and prove me now herew ith, saith the Lord o f hosts, if I w ill not open you the w indow s o f heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive itw (Mai. 3:10). DEVOTIONAL READ ING : Matt. 6:10-24. Outline and Exposition I. T h e L ord ' s C om p la in t s (7-15) ® HE Book of Malachi should be the people, Nehemiah returned to Baby lon. Then the people soon settled into dead, cold ceremonialism,, which led to the necessity for the solemn charges given through Malachi. The people had departed from God’s ordinances and from God Himself (v. 7). So far had they departed that they did not recognize that they were astray at all, hence the question, “Wherein shall we return?” (v. 7). They were in the terrible condition of being unafraid before the holy God (cf. Matt. 15:8; Tit. 1:16; 2 Tim. 3:5). But even then, the Lord gave them a gracious promise that He would re-
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Object Lesson Two B u ildings a n d T w o B askets OBJECTS: A picture of a dwelling house, a picture of a church, two shop ping baskets, various vegetables, a yard of outing flannel dyed black, and a piece of veneer or cardboard a yard square. (Cover one side of the veneer with flan nel. Paste flannel on the back of the two pictures, and cut them in sections. Put a few withered vegetables in one basket, and fill the other, with fresh vegetables.) LESSON: How would you like to help me build a couple of buildings? I have materials with which to build a house and a church. Which shall we build first? “Build the house.” That is what the people did in the days of the prophet Haggai. They built and furnished their fine houses before they worked at building God’s house. Malachi 3:7 ETen from the days o f your fathers y e hre gone aw ay from m ine ordinances» and have, not kept them. R e turn unto me, ftyid I w ill return unto ¿you, saith the Lord o f hosts. But ye said, W herein shall w e return? 8 W ill a hian rob G od? Y et ye have robbed me. *Jut ye say, W herein have w e robl^ 1SKmeet In tithes and offerin gs. 9 Y e « r e cursed w ith a curse: fo r ye have robbed me, even this w h ole nation. 10 -Bring y e all the tithes into the storehouse, that there m ay b e ' meat in m ine house, and prove me n o w .herewith, saith the L ord"óf hosts, if I w ill not open you^the w indow s o f heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it .' 11 And I w ill rebuke the devourer fo r your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits o f your ground} neither shall your vine cast her fru it before the time in thè field, saith the Lord o f hosts. 12 And all nation^ shall call you blessed: fo r ye \ shall be a delightsom e land, saith. the L ord o f hosts. 13 Y our w ords have been stout against me, saith the Lord. Y et y e say, W hat have w e spoken so much against thee? 14 Y e have said, It is vain to serve God; and w hat p rofit is it that w e have kept this ordinance, and that w e have w alked m ournfully before the L ord o f hosts? " 15 And now w e call the proud happy; yea, they that w o rk w ickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered. 16 Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book o f rem em brance w as w ritten before him fo r them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name. 17 And they shall be m ine, saith the L ord o f hosts,, in that day when I make up m y jew els; and I w ill spare them , as a man spareth his ow n son that serveth him. *
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