Sermon Outline 8.23.2026

Title: The God Who Stirs What He Commands
Text: Haggai 1:12–15
Sermon Series: Consider Your Ways: The House God Builds, Week 2 of 4
Big Idea: God commands the obedience He Himself stirs — and stays with those He stirs. He reminds us that He is with us so that we can go, bring, and build.

I. The Assumption (v. 12)

II. The Stirring: Wake Up (vv. 13–14a)

III. The Doctrine Named (Phil. 2:12–13)
“Effectual calling is the work of God’s Spirit, whereby, convincing us of our sin and misery, enlightening our minds in the knowledge of Christ, and renewing our wills, He doth persuade and enable us to embrace Jesus Christ, freely offered to us in the gospel.”

IV. Stirred People Sweat (v. 14b)
“How is the Word made effectual to salvation?” “The Spirit of God maketh the reading, but especially the preaching of the Word, an effectual means of convincing and converting sinners, and of building them up in holiness and comfort, through faith, unto salvation.”

V. The God Who Still Stirs (Rom 13:14)