Sowing to the flesh brings destruction but sowing to the Spirit makes us the home of the Holy Spirit. 

Haggai 1:7-11

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“Thus says the Lord of hosts: “Consider your ways! 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.” Haggai 1:7-8

Tp “consider your ways” refers to acknowledging that we were living a life with a broken relationship with God and refusing to receive Jesus Christ for the remission of sin so that we can be the temple of the Holy Spirit. Once we acknowledge our sin against God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit, then we can start gathering the supplies to build our body up as the house of the Holy Spirit. Those supplies include the Holy Bible and the Holy Spirit so that the Light of Jesus shines through us for the sake of the Gospel of Christ. God has pleasure and delights in those who have made the Lord Jesus the chief cornerstone of our soul, spirit, and mind. “…he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life.” Galatians 6:8b

 “You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought 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. Therefore the heavens above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit. For I called for a drought on the land and the mountains, on the grain and the new wine and the oil, on whatever the ground brings forth, on men and livestock, and on all the labor of your hands.” Haggai 1:9-11

When a person is built up by the thing which forms thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors, it empties the soul and spirit of the Holy Spirit. They make a mockery of God, discard any need for the remission of sin through Jesus, and ridicules the presence of the Holy Spirit. They detest the people walking in Holiness. The thing forming thoughts and feelings enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people and the house meant to be the place of the Holy Spirit comes to very little. The Lord God blows the masses of people of the global culture of the beast away, like chaff in the wind. That is what the Seven Trumpets (Trumpets 1-4, Trumpet 5-6, Trumpet 7) and Seven Plagues (global warming is the Fourth Plague) are all about. “For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption…” Galatians 8:8a

“Because of My house that is in ruins, while every one of you runs to his own house” refers to our body as the house of the Holy Spirit being in ruins because people are focused on their own concerns. They are focused on their own needs, the needs of creation such as the planet and global culture, etc. They reject God the Creator. The book of the Revelation talks about the measurement of the Seven Churches which leads to the opening of the Seven Seals, the sounding of the Seven Trumpets, and the unleashing of the Seven Plagues. That is spoken about in Revelation 4. Today, the churches are not a light to the world because the Gospel of Jesus Christ is no longer there. They no longer ask people to consider their ways and to build up their body as the home of the Holy Spirit.

The “heaven above you withhold the dew, and the earth withholds its fruit” refers to the Spirit not living in us and the fruit of the Holy Spirit not growing within our spirit. That is what happens when we choose to make our body the home of the thing forming thoughts, feelings, words, and behaviors instead of dedicating ourselves as the home of the Holy Spirit.

“A drought on the land and on the mountains” refers to the whole world living without the Holy Spirit and rejecting the life of Holiness. Holiness comes by living for Jesus Christ. The land is living for the global culture of the United Nations through the thing which has power over physiology to give people what to think, feel, do, and say. “All who dwell on the earth will worship him, whose names have not been written in the Book of Life of the Lamb…” Revelation 13:8 The “him” in the verse above refers to the beast which is the power behind the government of the beast and its global culture. The names written in the Lamb’s Book of Life are those who live for God through Jesus Christ.

The drought is also “…on the grain and the new wine and the oil” referring to the absence of the testimony of Jesus Christ and the absence of the oil of the Holy Spirit in the world. The Lord Jesus is the “new wine” which is described like this, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 Belief in God through Jesus Christ brings the Holy Spirit into our life. There is a drought of that message in the world today.

There is also a drought on the “labor of your hands” referring to the prohibition of spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ. Our Lord Jesus told us those days would come when He said, “I must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; the night is coming when no one can work.” John 9:4

We can assess that God takes pleasure in a body which sows to the Spirit. The diagnosis is that sowing to the carnal flesh corrupts the Spirit and brings drought and destruction. We plan to build our body through the Spirit while minimizing the seed which feeds into a carnal and fleshly lifestyle. We put that plan into practice by living for God through Jesus Christ and giving the Holy Spirit a place within our heart, mind, and soul. We know the plan is successful when we focus on a life of Holiness and put aside the offerings of the non-spiritual fleshly and carnal world.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,“
‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:11