Haggai 2:20-23: All in with the King

What has been shaken in your life?

God’s Shakedown

As we read through the whole book, make a note of the different things that are shaken in the lives of the Israelites:

God shakes their confidence in their
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The shaking isn’t a normal

; it is God’s full and final

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bringing about a kingdom of

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I am going to shake the heavens and the earth. I will overturn royal thrones and shatter the power of the foreign kingdoms. I will overthrow chariots and their drivers; horses and their riders will fall, each by the sword of his brother. —Haggai 2:21-22

These words echo the song of the

as they were rescued from the

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. Does that make it irrelevant?

“Yet once more I will shake not only the earth but also the heavens.” This phrase, “Yet once more,” indicates the removal of things that are shaken—that is, things that have been made—in order that the things that cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore let us be grateful for receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken, and thus let us offer to God acceptable worship, with reverence and awe, for our God is a consuming fire. —Hebrews 12:26-29

There are two types of things:

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. Shakeable things will not last and can’t be relied upon.

What are the shakeable things you tend to rely on?

The shaking we see in these things is just a pre-quake, it’s like a foreshadow of God’s great shakedown that he has promised will come. We all trust in something. And almost always that something can’t follow through on what we think it will deliver for us.

The Lord

invites us to be part of the only kingdom that will

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the quake.

God’s Signet

“I will make you like my signet ring, for I have chosen you,’ declares the Lord Almighty.” —Haggai 2:23

Why is this a promise of great hope for the Israelites?

(Jeremiah 22:24-5)

God’s Son

We don’t hear much more about Zerubbabel until…

After the exile to Babylon:
Jehoiachin was the father of Shealtiel,
Shealtiel the father of Zerubbabel,
…
and Jacob the father of Joseph, the husband of Mary, and Mary was the mother of Jesus who is called the Messiah. —Matthew 1:12 & 16

When did Jesus go to the temple?

All in with the King?

Haggai’s repeated call on our life is to give careful thought to our ways. (1:5, 7, 15). What he tells us should make us reflect.

As we seek to go all in for the King, we need to remember what God has done:
- I am

you
- I will

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you
- I have

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you (Jesus, extending to us)

UP: What does it look like to go ‘all in’ in your becoming more like Jesus?

IN: How could a wholehearted love and care look for the church family?

OUT: In what ways could you take more steps to BLESS those around you?