Study on the first chapter of the Book of Haggai to learn how God works in & through, 1. Discouraged People 2. Dreadful People 3. Delay & Depletion of Resources 4. Defiled Work & Defiled People 5. Disadvantaged People

1. Building the
Kingdom of God
Haggai
Chapter 2
Mariyosh Joseph, GEMS
(Bihar, India)

2. Nothing!
Haggai 2:3 & 19
When we are faced with the
challenge of ‘nothing’ we need to
trust that God is doing ‘something’.

3. DISCOURAGED
PEOPLE
Haggai 2:3,4
27 days later into work…
 Encouragement of God

4. DREADFUL
PEOPLE
Haggai 2:5
 Promise & Presence of God
“Go therefore and make disciples of all nations….
remember, I am with you always, to the end of
the age” (Matthew 28:19,20)

5. DELAY & DEPLETION
OF RESOURCES
Haggai 2:6-8
 Provisions of God
“Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will
never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to
frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He
can just as easily supply them ahead of time as
afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.” –
Missionary Hudson Taylor

6. DEPARTED GLORY
Haggai 2:9
 Peace of God

7. DEFILED WORK &
DEFILED PEOPLE
Haggai 2:14,17,19
Two months later…. (2:17-19)
 Purity of God

8. DISADVANTAGED
PERSON
Haggai 2:21-23
 Picked (Chosen) by God

9. Charles Spurgeon
Whatever call a man may
pretend to have, if he has
not been called to
holiness, he certainly has
not been called to the
ministry.

10. Chosen & Cleansed
• Zerubbabel – Haggai 2:21-23
• Joshua – Zechariah 3:3-5

11. John Wesley’s Mother’s Letter… What’s Sin?
Whatever weakens your reason,
Whatever increases the authority of your body over your mind,
Whatever impairs the tenderness of your conscience,
Whatever takes away your relish for things spiritual,
Whatever obscures your sense of God,
That is sin to you, no matter how innocent it may seem in itself.

12. Haggai = “festal”
Luke 15:7,10
“there is joy in the presence of the angels of
God over one sinner who repents”
1. Seek God & His Kingdom First
2. Set right your life

13. Want to Get Involved in God’s Kingdom
Building?
• PROFIT – PROfessionals Fellowship of International Talents is a network of
Christians who intentionally & actively use their professional identity to
witness at the workplace. (http://profitconnect.net / profit@gemsbihar.org)
• MPTC – Missionary Preparatory Training Course trains marketplace people
in missional discipleship & equips for God’s glocal mission.
(http://gemsmptc.org / mptc@gemsbihar.org)

14. GEMS – Gospel Echoing Missionary Society
GEMS serves the mandate of God in North India through
Spiritual, Educational, Medical and Humanitarian Services.
(http://gemsbihar.org / gems@gemsbihar.org)
Mariyosh Joseph
mariyosh@gemsbihar.org
+91 9801285284