Cornerstone Church Kingston Podcast

In our latest in the series on Haggai, Ben takes us through Haggai 2: 10-19. In this passage the prophet Haggai, through a parable, discusses how the Lord will deal with the people's defilement. I wonder whether you are familiar with the situation where you have spent a whole day not realising something embarrassing about your appearance, such as a piece of salad stuck in your teeth, or a piece of hair sticking up at the back of your head. Only those closest to you would point it out, as an act of kindness. In the book of Haggai, God demonstrates such kindness to the Israelites who are blindly unaware of the mistakes they are making, but seriously need to be made aware of them. As we have learned from recent sermons the Israelites have returned from exile in Babylon to Jerusalem which is in ruins. As God’s people, privileged with his presence, their first priority should have been to rebuild the temple, but they were distra...