The Best Is Yet to Come | Let's Build a Church, Part 3

A people came home from exile to rebuild the house of God — and a month into the work, the older ones stood on the job site and wept. They remembered Solomon's Temple. They looked at the rough stone in front of them. And the memory of the former glory began to poison their joy in the present.

Into that discouragement, God spoke a third word through the prophet Haggai: the best is yet to come.

In part three of Let's Build a Church, Pastor Shears preaches Haggai 2:1–9 and traces three words for anyone building something that looks smaller than they hoped — be engaged, be encouraged, be excited. God meets engaged people in the middle of the work, while the scaffolding is still standing. He hands a trembling people a working courage that runs from the heart, down the arm, into the hand. And He makes a promise that settles every weeping saint: the latter glory will be greater than the former.

Why greater? When Solomon finished the first house, the glory of God filled it like a cloud. When the second house was finished, the glory of God put on flesh and walked through the door. Those tired hands were stacking the very stones where Jesus would one day stand and teach.

Once more is still coming. God is still shaking, still filling, still building.