Sunday School Lesson
Sunday Morning Bible Class January 25, 2026
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Theme:
Minor Prophets
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Haggai
Haggai 1
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Introduction
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A Matter Of Time
. 1) In the second year of King Darius, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lod came by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbable the son of Shealitel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying, 2) "Thus speaks the Lord of hosts, saying: 'This people says, "The time has not come, the time that the Lords houseshould be built." ' " 3) Then the word of the Lord came by Haggai the prophet, saying, 4) "Is it time for you yourselves o dwell in your paneled houses, and this temple to lie in ruins? 5) Now therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: 'Consider your ways! 6) "You have sown much, and bring in little, You eat, but do not have enough; You drink, but you are not filled with drink; You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; And he who earns wqges, earns wages to put into a bag with holes."
Commentary
Haggai 1:1-6
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A Matter Of Failure
7) Thus says the Lord of hosts: "Consider your ways! 8) "Go up to the mountains and bring wood and build the temple. that i may take pleasure in it and be glorified," says the Lord. 9) "You looked for much, but indeed it came to little;and whn youbrought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says the Lord of hosts."Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house. 10) "Therefore the hevens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. 11) "For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wheat and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands."
Commentary
Haggai 1:7-11
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A Matter Of Spirit
12) Then Zerubbabel the son of Shealitel, and Joshua the son of Jehozadak, the high priest with all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the Lordtheir God, and the words of Haggai the prophet, as the Lord their God had sent him; and the people feared the presence of the Lord. 13) Then Haggai the Lord's messenger, spoke the Lord;s message to the people, saying, "I am with you says the Lord." 14) So the Lord stirred up the spirit of Zerubbabel the son of Shealitel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua the son of Jeozadak, the high priest, and the spirit of the remnant of the people; and they came and worked on the house of the Lord of hosts, their God, 15) on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month, in the second year of King Darius.
Commentary
Haggai 1:12-15
II Timothy 2:15: "Be dillgent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth."
