Momentum: Maintaining Momentum
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The Law of Momentum is that "an object in motion will stay in motion until it meets a resisting force." In order to maintain momentum, we need to recognize and deal with "momentum busters." This sermon will explore the stalled efforts at rebuilding the Second Temple. We will look at the three momentum busters that resulted in a 16 year parenthesis in the important work God had called them to do and learn some lessons on how to maintain momentum in our spiritual lives.
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Momentum: Maintaining Momentum
- 2. Series Outline • Gaining Momentum • Maintaining Momentum • Directing Momentum
- 3. The Law of Momentum An object in motion will stay in motion until it meets a resisting force.
- 4. Big Idea We need to recognize and deal with “Momentum Busters” in order to maintain momentum.
- 5. The Cyrus Cylinder – Ezra 1:1-4
- 6. 538 BC Edict of Cyrus 537 BC Rebuilding Begins 516 BC Rebuilding Completed 520 BC Rebuilding Resumes
- 7. 1st Momentum Buster •Opposition – Ezra 4:4-6
- 9. Acts 4 18 So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, 20 for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”
- 10. 2nd Momentum Buster • Opposition – Ezra 4:4-6 • Wrong Priorities – Haggai 1:1-11
- 12. Giving by Generations 65+ 55-64 45-54 35-44 under 35 65+ 46% 55-64 22% Under 35 4%
- 13. 1. Handling Opposition 1. He sought the Father. 2. He embraced outcasts. 3. He restored broken lives. 4. He confronted hypocrisy. 5. He taught God’s Word. 6. He served. 7. He equipped leaders. 7 Priorities that Guided Jesus’ Decisions
- 14. 3rd Momentum Buster • Opposition – Ezra 4:4-6 • Wrong Priorities – Haggai 1:1-11 • Perfectionism – Zech. 4:6-10
- 15. Zechariah 4:10 (NLT) 10 Do not despise these small beginnings, for the LORD rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand.”
- 16. 538 BC Edict of Cyrus 537 BC Rebuilding Begins 516 BC Rebuilding Completed 520 BC Rebuilding Resumes
- 17. The Law of Momentum An object in motion will stay in motion until it meets a resisting force. Keep pushing forward!
Editor's Notes
- Series Outline Gaining Momentum Maintaining Momentum Directing Momentum
- Big Idea We need to recognize and deal with “Momentum Busters” in order to maintain momentum.
- Cyrus Cylinder Ezra 1:1-4 In the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put it in writing: 2 “Thus says Cyrus king of Persia: The Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah. 3 Whoever is among you of all his people, may his God be with him, and let him go up to Jerusalem, which is in Judah, and rebuild the house of the Lord, the God of Israel—he is the God who is in Jerusalem. 4 And let each survivor, in whatever place he sojourns, be assisted by the men of his place with silver and gold, with goods and with beasts, besides freewill offerings for the house of God that is in Jerusalem.”
- First Momentum Buster Opposition: Ezra 4:4-6 4 Then the people of the land discouraged the people of Judah and made them afraid to build 5 and bribed counselors against them to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia. 6 And in the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, they wrote an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem. Eleanor Roosevelt: “I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role” Opposition vs. Obstruction
- Handling Opposition: Face the Storm -- An old cowboy once told a story of how he had worked all his life on ranches where each year winter storms took heavy tolls among the cattle. Temperatures often dipped quickly below zero and freezing rains whipped across the prairies, driving flying ice cutting into the flesh. Howling, bitter winds piled swirling snow into enormous drifts so that any error in a person's step could send him plunging into a mountain of freezing white powder. -- In this maelstrom of nature's violence, most cattle would turn their backs to the ice blasts and slowly drift downwind until, intercepted by a boundary fence, they would huddle together against the snow-covered barrier. Standing motionless and helpless against nature's fury, the herd would slowly become covered by blowing snow and cattle would die by the scores. -- But the Hereford breed reacted much differently. These cattle would instinctively head toward the windward end of the range where they would stand shoulder to shoulder with bowed heads, facing the storm's icy onslaught. -- "You almost always found the Herefords alive and well," the old cowboy said. "I guess that's the greatest lesson I ever learned on the prairie -- just to meet adversity head-on and face life's storms.“
- Acts 4 18 So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge, 20 for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard.”
- 2nd Momentum Buster Wrong Priorities: Haggai 1:1-11: 1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lordcame by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: 2 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.” 3 Then the word of the Lordcame by the hand of Haggai the prophet, 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? 5 Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. 6 You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes. 7 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord. 9 You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. 10 Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. 11 And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.” My order of priorities reflects the level of my commitment to Christ. Whoever or whatever is in first place, if it isn't the Lord Jesus, is in the wrong place. – Chuck Swindoll Eleanor Roosevelt: “I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role” Opposition vs. Obstruction
- 7 Priorities that Guided Jesus’ Decisions - Mike Fleischmann He sought the Father. He embraced outcasts. He restored broken lives. He confronted hypocrisy. He taught God’s Word. He served. He equipped leaders.
- 3rd Momentum Buster: Perfectionism Zechariah 4:6-10 6 Then he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the Lord of hosts. 7 Who are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you shall become a plain. And he shall bring forward the top stone amid shouts of ‘Grace, grace to it!’” 8 Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, 9 “The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also complete it. Then you will know that the Lord of hosts has sent me to you. 10 For whoever has despised the day of small things shall rejoice, and shall see the plumb line in the hand of Zerubbabel. Haggai 1:1-11: 1 In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lordcame by the hand of Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest: 2 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: These people say the time has not yet come to rebuild the house of the Lord.” 3 Then the word of the Lordcame by the hand of Haggai the prophet, 4 “Is it a time for you yourselves to dwell in your paneled houses, while this house lies in ruins? 5 Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. 6 You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes. 7 “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. 8 Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord. 9 You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house. 10 Therefore the heavens above you have withheld the dew, and the earth has withheld its produce. 11 And I have called for a drought on the land and the hills, on the grain, the new wine, the oil, on what the ground brings forth, on man and beast, and on all their labors.” My order of priorities reflects the level of my commitment to Christ. Whoever or whatever is in first place, if it isn't the Lord Jesus, is in the wrong place. – Chuck Swindoll Eleanor Roosevelt: “I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role” Opposition vs. Obstruction
- 10 Do not despise these small beginnings, for the Lord rejoices to see the work begin, to see the plumb line in Zerubbabel’s hand.” Ezra 3:12 But many of the priests and Levites and heads of fathers’ houses, old men who had seen the first house, wept with a loud voice when they saw the foundation of this house being laid, though many shouted aloud for joy,
- The Law of Momentum An object in motion will stay in motion until it meets a resisting force. Keep pushing forward.