Benjamin Murphy
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Benjamin Murphy
Sermon Series Highlights
Sermon Series Highlights

Restoring My Priorities

The Priority of Trust

What does it mean to trust God?

  • Are you a trusting person?
It means I trust that God has a PLAN !
  • God is sovereign!

  • God is infinite in wisdom!

  • God is perfect in love!

  1. I will trust God's TIMING in His plans. (Hg 2:21)

  2. I will trust God's ABILITY to carry out His plans. (Hg 2:22)

  3. I will trust how God will USE ME in His plans. (Hg 2:23)

Jeremiah 22:24-25 - "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 and give you into the hand of those who seek your life, into the hand of those of whom you are afraid, even into the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and into the hand of the Chaldeans."

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Haggai 2:20-23

  1. The Bible teaches that God chooses people­ for salvation (John 6:37) and for their
    good works (Ephesians 2:10). Does this comfort or confuse you? Why?
     
  2. How do we know God’s promises are true? What is your assurance that God will fulfill
    His plans for you?

Breakout Questions:

Pray for one another!

The Priority of Holiness

Holiness:

Defined:

Aspects of:

Why I Must Make Holiness a Priority:


  1. Holiness isn't CONTAGIOUS . (Hg 2:10-13)

  2. Holiness is a HEART issue. (Hg 2:14)

  3. Holiness is God's AGENDA. (Hg 2:15-17)

  4. Holiness sees God at WORK. (Hg 2:18-19)

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Parents! Encourage your children to take some notes on the sermon and discuss these questions this week. Make the concepts age appropriate for your children:
Read Haggai 2:10-19

  1. Why do parents discipline their children? Why does God discipline us? How does God discipline us?
     
  2. In Haggai 2:13-13, God warns that you can’t catch holiness but you can catch unholiness (explain that it is like a disease: you can catch a disease, but you can’t “catch” health). How can being around the wrong people affect us? (1 Corinthians 15:33)

The Priority of Relationship

Your WALK with God Motivates
Your WORK for God.

  1. Haggai 1:12-15

    2. When we say: I'm not FEELING it.
    Then God says: You will after you OBEY.

  2. Haggai 2:1-3,9

    3. When we say: I miss the GOOD old days.
    Then God says: Your BEST days are ahead

  3. Haggai 2:4-5

    4. When we say: I'm not sure God is WITH ME on this.
    Then God says: I AM and ALWAYS have been.

  4. Haggai 2:6-8

    5. When we say: I'm in over my HEAD .
    Then God says: I'm NOT .

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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Haggai 1:12-2:9

Breakout Questions:
Pray for one another.

The Priority of Worship

Priority Test: Is God first in my life?

  1. Do I make EXCUSES not to serve God? (Hg 1:2)


  2. Do I have TIME for me but not God? (Hg 1:4)


  3. Do I feel UNSATISTFIED in my walk with God? (Hg 1:6)


  4. What would God want me to DO? (Hg 1:8)


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Small Group Questions (Whole Group):
Read Haggai 1:1-11

Breakout Questions:
Pray for one another.