The Best Is Yet To Come (Haggai 2:6-9) | Pastor Kelvin Shaw (Sermon)

Are your best days behind you… or still ahead?

In this powerful message from New Life Pentecostal Church, Pastor Kelvin Shaw preaches from Haggai 2:6-9, reminding us that God is not finished with you and your greatest season may still be in front of you.

If you’ve been discouraged, stuck in the past, or wondering if God still has a plan, this message will renew your faith and challenge you to move forward.

🔹 Stop comparing today to the “good old days”
 🔹 God builds forward—not backward
 🔹 Strength comes before breakthrough
 🔹 Prayer must lead to obedience
 🔹 God’s presence remains in every season
 🔹 God owns every resource needed for your future
 🔹 The latter glory shall be greater than the former

✨ Sometimes what looks smaller can carry greater glory.

📖 Scripture: Haggai 2:6-9

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New King James Version as such. For thus says the Lord of hosts once more, it is a little while. I will shake heaven and earth, the sea and the dry land. Verse 7, and I will shake all nations. And they will come to the desire of all nations, and I will fill this temple with glory, says the Lord of hosts. The silver is mine, the gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts. The glory of this latter temple shall be greater than the former, says the Lord of hosts. And in this place I will give peace, says the Lord of hosts. He's notice that the Lord is saying a lot here. Keep saying, says the Lord, says the Lord, says the Lord. And uh this week in my spirit, I was trying to go a different direction, and uh I heard the says the Lord in my spirit. And uh this passage of scripture, it's almost a continuation of where we were a few weeks ago. But what he says here is everything is mine, and the latter shall be greater than the former. And with the help of the Lord, I just want to preach to somebody, somebody that's might be discouraged in your spirit, somebody that has been working for the Lord but not sure what the next step is, somebody that has been seeking where God is going in your life. I feel the Lord's calling you to let you know that the best is yet to come. Your best days are not behind you, but your best days are in front of you. And if you have ever been worrying and wondering what God you're gonna do for me next, the Lord wants to let you know that your best days are yet to come. Put your Bibles down and just with this prayer, why don't you open your heart, open your mind to what God has for us, and just ask the Lord to speak to your spirit in his name. Can somebody pray with me? Thank you, Heavenly Father, God, for this opportunity once again to be in your presence, God. Lord, I know that you have given me a word for somebody, Jesus. Might not be many, it might be many, but Lord, whoever it's for, God, I'm asking you, God, to open up, Lord, your word to our heart that we can be encouraged to know that God, that you're not finished with us yet, and the best is yet to come in somebody's life. Lord, the best prayers haven't been prayed, the best miracles haven't been seen. Lord, the callings that you have over people's lives today have not been reached full potential. And we know, God, by your word, that we will reach it because you are with us. Lord, speak to our mind and our heart, and let the word be planted in our spirit that it may grow much fruit and that your fruit would remain. In Jesus' name we pray. Look at your neighbor and tell them the your best days are ahead of you. You may be seated. Even in the presence of the Lord. When you read through this short book, Haggai, one of the minor prophets, and the reason why they call them minor prophets, not because they're less significant, but because their books are shorter. Haggai only has two books, two chapters, I should say. And really, what the essence of this book is, is they have been the people at that day, have been tasked with rebuilding the temple of God. And we notice that, like these people, there's always moments in history when we see that yesterday seems to shine brighter than our current day. We call them the good old days. Or we talk about the golden era. Debating with a friend of mine the other day, we were talking about the golden era of sports. And it seems like everybody always looks to the past to say that time was better. You say, Oh, Wilt Chamberlain was so good. You should have seen him. Well, I didn't see him. And then you say, some will say Michael Jordan was the best, and now all the young people say LeBron James. He got it. LeBron James, that's what they say. But we as humans tend to look at our yesterdays and see them as the greatest days. We look at our old pictures and we say, Oh, remember how cute I used to be. You couldn't see it now, but there was a time that I had S-Curl. And that's how I won my wife over. She just looked over and I told her, Can you see the waves? And now she has a creek. But oftentimes we look at former seasons. Seasons of health, when we were younger, stronger, seasons of abundance, seasons when our soul was caught on fire. Remember that when we said when we first came to the Lord, there was something in us, and we say, nobody could stop us now. And when we look at yesterday and then see the current day, oftentimes we have a big sigh. Remember yesterday. Well, such was the hour with Haggai because they would have seen Solomon's temple. If you understand, in that day, this was the generation that saw the beauty and the greatness of Solomon's temple, and now they're looking at the house that they're building, and it's not as good. In that day, you can read it in 1 Kings, you can read it in Ezra. Silver flowed, gold was gleaning all over the place. The temple had an aroma of a Lebanon perfume cedar. The cedar was so good and so fresh and so new that the whole room smelt like a new construction. They had skilled hands that built beautiful columns into the temple. Every beam was perfect, every beam that you saw in the temple was itched out with greatness, and the walls had gold glimmering on them. Giant pillars stood as sentinels at the gates. 1 Kings 7:15, you can read it. Walls shining with gold. The courts were laid with majesty, and on the day that the temple, Solomon's temple, was dedicated, the Bible says that the presence of God moved into the sanctuary so much so that the priests couldn't were staggered. They couldn't stand up under the presence of God. It was so powerful that the queen of Sheba left Ethiopia just to come down to see how great Solomon's temple was. And 1 King 10 tells us that as she saw the glory of the temple, that her spirit or her breath came out of her. It wasn't just architecture, it was a memory that they had of Solomon's temple. It was a benchmark. They built Solomon's temple so great it took seven years to build it. In fact, if you read the story, David was the one that they thought was gonna, he thought initially he was gonna build it. And God said, because your hands were filled with war, you can't build this temple. So David went along his lifetime collecting all the best materials, all the gold, all the cedar wood, all the silver, and he stored it up all the way for Solomon to come and use the materials to build the greatest thing they have ever seen. But now in Haggai's day, the time had changed. The temple was burnt down by the Babylonian army. Once once, what once stood high and grand and mighty was now just rubbles that they couldn't even tell that there was a temple there. Exile. The people were kicked out of Jerusalem at that time. They were told, you gotta get out of here. And people put them into bondage and they were taken away. They were captive. And not only did they were worried in their spirit, they were bruised through their confidence. They saw the temple before. Everything that they built their life for was now in rubbles. And there was a depression over them. Later on, we see that there's a small remnant of people that are allowed to go back to Jerusalem and they're called to go and build the temple again. This is now the second temple that has to be built. The problem is they didn't have the same wealth that they had before. Problem is they didn't they didn't have the cedar wood from Lebanon. They didn't have David's throne. The king wasn't sitting on the throne. There was no treasure overflowing like before. There was no more army that was marked in strength, and the walls were broken, the economy was strained, and what they looked at while they were building was now looking pitiful. It was smaller. The temple didn't have gold like before. The temple didn't have a smell of the cedar wood, it would just have a smell of people working. And we see that they're discouraged because every time they put another block, they keep thinking, this is not what Solomon's temple looked like. It bothered them because they had the memory of their best days. And it was buried in their souls. Some of us, all of us, know what it's like to remember the best days. And what we do is often measure our best days with our current day. We stare at what used to be and and have a grievance in our heart. I remember when I was a hundred and seventy-five pounds. And now I grieve. Used to be, you know, slim, I can play basketball. I almost used to dunk Brother Davis. And now when I look at the basketball court, I does anybody know what I'm talking about? When I was younger, I had all the money in the world to spend. No bills, no responsibilities, just my car, my S curl, and my girlfriend. Sister Shaw. What has my life come to? They looked at the foundation and said, This is nothing. And God, but God was trying to talk to them. It's like, this is going to be greater than you've ever seen before. And this is the tension that I read in the text. How is it that the lesser can be greater? How is it that something smaller, something that is not as significant as before, can still be greater? I wonder how we get to a place talking to myself that we we we look and say, Oh, the best days are behind us. And can I tell you, even as believers, if we're not careful, we we can have this in our spirit. It was better when I was younger, it was better when I first came to God. Oh, if you only heard the songs that we used to sing, but now look at the song. If you only heard the preaching from yesterday, I do it too. Oh, if you only heard Brother Sammy Stewart. Ooh, yesterday was better. Pastor Shaw, you're good, but if you only heard Bishop, I think he's better too. I listen to his stuff. But we were conditioned to think that yesterday is better than today. But God was trying to teach them something in that day. And I think he's trying to teach somebody here this morning. That glory is not measured by what's glittering. Greatness cannot be measured by size. And our future can be limited if we only are looking backwards. Look at your neighbor. Tell them the best is yet to come. I'm gonna preach it until somebody believes me this morning. There's something super powerful in this text that before God talks about glory and he talks about shaking the nations, the first before he talks about the gold and the silver being his, he speaks to the people's discouragement. Haggai chapter 2 and verse 3, it says, Who is left among you who saw the temple in its former glory? And who do you see now in comparison with it? Is this not in your eyes as nothing? God is looking at them and he's seeing, he's saying, Look, and the ones that are left, and he says, Look, look around you. Is there anything like it was before? And why do you look at it like it's nothing? Many people in church physically are stuck somewhere mentally. Does anybody remember Orland Camp? Is anybody, Sister Marero? I know you remember because I saw I used to watch you. You didn't know when I was 13. I said, Oh, that's a woman of God. Sister Andrea, there's your man in the back. So Brother Jeffrey, I saw you. I saw you there playing the bass. You made me want to play the bass when I saw you. And you had a bigger mustache back there. It was black. I remember you. But we often measure things by what was good yesterday. And doesn't mean that yesterday wasn't good. And I I sometimes even do this. I say, can't if you would have only seen camp in the back in the day. I don't know if it was the dust from the ground or a Shekinah glory, but when people began to worship, there was a dust in the place. And I limit my today based on what I'm looking at yesterday. And many of us sometimes we can come in physically but still be stuck somewhere emotionally, saying, Oh, if it wasn't the like the good old days, I don't know if I can really have church. I don't know if I can really serve God like I used to. I don't have the same zeal and passion that I had yesterday. Only if my my my knees weren't better. And then I can dance a little bit more. And only if my my hands weren't weren't seizing up every time I clap them too hard. Last summer, last summer I went, Brother Davis, I went for a walk, and then I said, Sister Sharp, let's go for a walk. And I don't know what's happening to me. I just a walk, not a run, and I had ended up having sciatica. I was walking like this. I said, I'm only 40 in my 40s. How is it? I used to run down the stairs and now I'm holding on to the side. If it only was like yesterday, God started encouraging them and letting them know don't fantasize about yesterday replacing your current moment. You see, there's a danger of idolizing yesterday. It's a danger in saying the better days were behind us. Because sometimes we remember the highlights, but we forget the battles that we had to get through to go and get the highlights. Sometimes we remember those seasons and forgetting that we had to walk through the valley of the shadow of death to get the wind. We have selective memory. We celebrate the victories, but we ignore the battles that led to the victory. We remember the glory, but we forget the process. Oh, I miss the old days, but I forget how I used to have to cry all the time. I miss that old relationship, but I forget the pain they put me through. I miss yesterday, and God gives a warning and he gives an encouraging in Ecclesiastes 7 and 10. He says, Do not say, Why were the former days better than these? For you do not inquire wisely concerning this. In other words, he's saying, it's foolish to think yesterday is better than today. It's foolish to think it was better cooking over fire than it was cooking over a stove. And there's a principle here that God wants to let his people know this morning and let me know that God always builds forward and never builds backwards. Hear me. God never asks Israel to build Solomon's temple again. He just said, build this temple going forward. Why does that matter? He's saying, take what you learned from yesterday and build on tomorrow. He said, Take the pain that we suffered yesterday and turn it into wisdom. Take our victories and build our faith. You know why we used to have testimony service? It's because if I realize what God did for me yesterday, it's only a sign He has something better for me tomorrow. Come on, somebody. We serve a God that does it better. We serve a God that gets greater to us. We serve a God that our yesterdays can't hold a candlestick to because greater is He that is in me than He that is in the world. Someone say greater. I need to talk about this until we believe it. Can I remind somebody, encourage somebody? No matter what you're seeing today, God has something better for you tomorrow. Does anybody believe that? You say, Well, Pastor Shaw, my body is breaking down. Well, if your body is breaking down, that there's something greater in your spirit that he's rising up that you never knew before. God is greater.

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Thank you, Jesus.

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And God is letting us know in this text. I don't want you to build Solomon's temple. But I want you to build a new thing. Isaiah 43, 18 and 19 will let us know. Do not remember the former things. Now look what it says, nor consider the things of that means don't even put it into the equation. Yesterday is gone. I only got today and tomorrow. God willing. So God speaks directly to the broken spirit in Haggai 2 and 4. And he before he talks about building, he's trying to build their spirit. He said, yet now be strong. Be strong. Be strong. He's letting them know before you work, be strong. Before you go, be strong. And be and I realized some something here. And if you'd help me, I'm going to teach just for a moment. God gave a formula. Before you move forward, you first gotta strengthen yourself. So there's three things I want to teach. Strength first. Action next. Presence always. Say it with me. Strength first. Action next. Presence always. I want to help somebody this morning to let you know that there's different stages in the process with God. And hopefully today we can identify the three stages that I'm speaking about. And wherever you find yourself, you're going to be in one of these stages, one of these places. The understanding will help your growth. He says, strength first. Some people are in the season when God is not trying to change everything around you, but He's trying to change you. We often say, God, give me an open door, but some doors don't open until you're ready to go through it. We complain about not seeing an open door, but God is trying to strengthen us before we do what He's asking us to do. So strength first. I thought about a few examples. Some of us we prayed for a new relationship, but God is first has to heal our trust issues. Many of us and some of us, we want our ministry to expand. But God is saying, strengthen your prayer life first. Is this too practical for you? Or God, give me a financial blessing. And He He's saying, strengthen your stewardship first. I'm gonna preach it until somebody gets it. Oh God, give me peace. And he's first saying, strengthen your surrender. God, I want clarity for the next step. And he's saying, I want you to get patience. Strengthen yourself in the Lord. I know it feels slow, but slowness does not mean delay. Slow actually means development. You see, when you grow in God, don't look for the microwave growth in God. God, I just want to wait two minutes with you, beep, beep, beep, and my meal is cooked. My prayer life is cooked. Beep, beep, beep, beep. Some of us we we look at the elders and say, Oh, I want a prayer life like Sister Baker and Sister Black and Sister Smith. I want their prayer life. Well, it doesn't work that way. In fact, the best things that are cooked are cooked slow. Can I tell you the best walk with God is done one step at a time? It means I don't even know where I'm going next, but I know that if I'm walking with Jesus, that's gonna be good enough. Come on, somebody. I'm talking about somebody that gets shaped in the Lord. Oh, I don't worship like how everybody worships, but just raise your hand, just tap your feet, just just start somewhere because if you get an appreciation for the slow things, God will then open up things so that you can run with him. Sometimes God has us waving so that he can strengthen us. Sometimes God has us sitting in the same position so that he can build us. Sometimes God holds us down! Sometimes he can live. Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, come on, this in the Holy Ghost. Sometimes God does things slow so that he can anchor you to himself. So when you're anchored, when the winds and the waves come by, you say and see the salvation of the Lord. Oh, I feel this in the hole because somebody needs to stand in the spirit, stand in your soul, not fighting, not do anything else to stand until God works it out in your life. Somebody say, strength! Strength in my discipline, God, strength in my consistency, God, strength in my endurance, God, strengthen my mind, God, strength in my emotions, Jesus, I'm not feeling it, I come out in my soul. Strength in my worship, strength in my submission, strength in my prayer, strength in my oh come on, somebody, strength. And he told his people on that day, before you do the next action, you gotta get strength. So don't despise the season that you're in. God might be trying to strengthen you before he takes you to another place in him. Then says, Action first, say it with me, action first next. Not action first, strength first, action next. You see, there will always come a time after we're strengthened enough that God will now say it's time to move, it's time to build, it's time to apply, it's even time to forgive, it's time to step out, or it's time to start again. And many times if we don't understand the door that God is working in us, when he's strengthened us enough to move, we'll still sit saying, God, help me with this, and he's saying, I can't help you anymore. Time to go. Instead of participating, we say, Well, I'm just gonna pray and wait. God's saying prayer is powerful, but when I'm asking you to move, obedience is better. Seeking God eventually will move to action. James would tell us be ye doers of the word and not hearers only. There comes a time when the strength, we've got all the strength we need, and now God is asking us to take the next step. So, Pastor Shaw, what does that look like? Sometimes we need to stop asking God for deeper faith and just believe him. You know what's so funny? We pray when God is asking us to move. We pray the funniest things. God, give me a better prayer life. God, I need a prayer life. God, I want a strong prayer life. And God's saying, pray. Just pray. God, I need to know your word. Give me revelation of your word. Lord, I need a strong word from you. I need a word. Let the pastor preach a word. And he's saying, Open the word. God, I need friends. I'm amongst many people, but God, give me a friend. And he's saying, if you want friends, be friendly. I need a friend, God. I don't like nobody, but give me a friend. He said, if you want friends, join something. God, I want to be mature in you. Grow me, Jesus. Lord, give me all the tools so that I can know your word. And he's saying, why don't you just obey the word that you heard? God, I want change. But I'm not willing to change my habits. Take action means I'm gonna move forward. I'm gonna step out. God, I want to know you more. And He's saying, just walk with me a little bit. Stop standing still. I've strengthened you enough. Now it's time to move. Can I tell you sometimes we're we're one thing away from our next step. One phone call, one act of apology. Uh-oh. One surrender. One routine, one decision away from moving forward, but it just takes one step. James would also tell us, faith without works is dead. I got all the faith in the world. But I don't do anything. The faith is nothing. God will not build us without building us internally to move. I saw a quote that says, Sometimes we want God to move the mountain, but we refuse to move the pedal the pebbles. Sometimes we want God to do the big stuff. And he's asking us, just do the small things. Take action with what you can do, and then I'll do the big things. Sometimes God has given us instructions for a miracle. But it won't happen until we follow the instructions. Did I ever tell you, Sister Shaw, can I tell a story? How much time do I have? Did I ever tell you the time? I probably did. I I'm known to repeat myself a lot. Just bear with me. I was in a church service. I won't give you the whole full rendition, but there was a young boy that had a hearing aid and uh he couldn't hear. And uh in this service, uh he came up to the altar and I knew I needed to pray with him. Brother Lee, I knew I needed to pray with him. He's he's he was he was Malachi at his age. Around your age. He was standing right in the front, and he was asking. I felt to go and pray before I knew to pray for healing over his ear. And I heard the instruction, but I didn't want to do it. Has anybody ever felt that? God impresses on you to go and pray for somebody or do something, and you're like, is that God? Has it happened to you? And I was hearing it in my spirit. Go and pray for this boy. And I walked over into him and I knew what was wrong with him. And I still asked the silly question, what's wrong with you? And he was just looking at me. I said, Is something wrong with you? And he was just looking at me. And the Lord's like he can't hear. He said, Stop asking questions. I told you to pray for the boy, and I realized I'm not the miracle worker. We just have to follow instructions. So I went to the boy and I felt to put my hands over his ears. And I said, In the name of Jesus, be ye healed. And I heard the instructions, I did the instructions, but my problem was I didn't believe the instructions. And God said, Pray again. This time, tell the people beside you what he needs. I said, Lord, you're gonna embarrass me. I went to the I said, this boy needs a healing, and I put my hands over him and I prayed in Jesus' name. And all of a sudden, the boy looked at me and I said, Can you did God do something for you? And he said, I can hear. I can hear, I can hear, and his mom ran over, pushed me out of the way, and said, What? Can you hear? He said, I can hear, can you hear? I can hear. And I said, I can hear. And I realized that some miracles, some things only happen just because we follow instructions. Can I tell somebody what is God whispering to your spirit for you to do that seems out of the ordinary? Maybe if you just followed and believed it would come to pass. Some of you don't believe the story. Well, I'll send you the text later. A week later, I got the text from the pastor, and he said, This is the text from the doctor's report. They said he had a hole in his eardrum, and they went back two weeks later and checked and said, though there was no more hole. The hole got filled up. They don't know how it's filled up, but I know how it's filled up. If I just take a step, God will do a miracle in my life. Then there's presence always. Somebody say it with me. Strength first, action next, and presence always. Presence always is the last stage of the season. This is where you've already heard, you've been strengthened, you've obeyed, and now God is just letting you know I am with you. But see, this is where many quit. Because presence always doesn't mean that he's doing something, it just means that he's there with you. But sometimes we miss it, and we're thinking that we're in the step stage and we're in the present state, and then we wonder, God, are you still there? And he said, I'm with you always. All through Haggai 2 and 4, he kept on saying, I am with you. I am with you. I am with you. Yo, you've been grieving in your spirit, but I am with you. You say life is hard. I am with you. You say, God, you're leading me, but I'm wearing. I am with you. Do not be weary in well doing, for in due season, you will reap if you faint not. Some of you have been battling anxiety. You say, I've done everything, but I still have anxiety in my life. I am with you. Being with us means he's faithful even in the hidden places. Even when we don't think he's around, he's strengthened us enough. He's asked us to move. But sometimes he's saying, I am with you. And can I ask you a question? Is God being with you good enough for you? A peace that we can't explain. A joy that we have in our spirit. We don't know where it came from. A light in our heart that's just brighter than everything else. I am with you. Hebrews would tell us, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. So some of us are in the strength first stage and God is preparing you, and others are in the action stage. God is pushing you. And some are in the presence always stage, and God is actually carrying you. So what stage are you in? Whatever it is, can I tell you you're not behind, you're not forgotten, you're not disqualified, you're not out of the process. God is with you. And let me just say it this way: the best is yet to come. Walk with me through the last two scriptures. The Bible says, after he strengthens them, gives them the action steps, and lets them know that he's with them. He he says something interesting that I really want to hone in on. He then declares when they look around and see that their resources aren't enough. The Bible says, God says in verse 8, the silver is mine. You're saying, God, I don't have enough resources. The silver is mine. God, I don't have what it takes to really walk with you. The gold is mine, says the Lord of hosts. You see, in the middle of this statement, He wants to turn around and let you know it's not about us. Anymore, but it's about him. He's saying, Don't you know that I have every resource, I have every provision, I have everything that you need. So don't be worried. The best is yet to come because I am in control. So whatever the vision is, I've given the budget for the vision. What I often say is his, what do I say, Sister Shaw? Oh, yes, it just slipped my mind. God's will, God's bill. If God told that to me, He's responsible for the resources that I can take me through. I'm here to let somebody know if God is speaking to you, He's telling you through this scripture, the silver is mine, the gold is mine. I have everything you need to accomplish the work that I have for your life. Don't rely on your own self. Don't rely on your own resources. Don't rely on your own strength. Don't rely on your own wisdom. Don't rely on your own intellect. Don't rely on your own self, but rely on me. He said, Oh, God, I remember that the cedar wood was so great. I remember the gold was so great. I remember that Solomon's sample was so great. And he's saying, Don't you know that I have something better and greater than what you could ever do on your own? Sometimes God is trying to correct resource scarcity mindset. What we measure ourselves by ourselves, what the Bible says is holy. God is trying to say, stop focusing on what you don't have. And focus on what you do have. Let me say it this way. If you have Jesus, you don't need anything else. Let me say it until somebody catches what I'm trying to say. When I got Jesus, I got everything. He's the one that owns the cattle on the thousand hills. And I think it's time for our barbecue. Jesus, give me something. You say, I don't have enough. Greater is he? You say, I don't know if I can make it. If God is for me, who can be against me? Does anybody have Jesus in this house? Oh, I felt something, I felt something move in the spirit. Let me say it again. Does anybody have Jesus with you? Come on, somebody. If you have Jesus with you, you need to start moving your feet a little bit different. You need to put a smile on your face. You need to have a praise in your mouth. Let everything that have praise. I don't have enough strength. I don't have enough opportunity. I don't have this, that, and the other. And God said, The earth is mine. And the fool is God. Everything belongs to him. The silver is his. The gold is his. His presence is his. The peace is his. The body is his. They're oh come on, somebody worship his. And if I got Jesus, I got it all. Devil move out of my way. You can't stop me because I got Jesus. You're saying I'm too old. I'm too late. I'm too broke. I'm too young. I'm too damaged. No, no, no. You got God on your side. And I'm closing with this. After he tells them that the resources are mine, he's saying what essentially what he's saying, don't build on your own resources. My will, my bill. Come on, say that with me. My will. Or let's switch it around. Say his will. His bill. His will. His bill. God, if you say that you can do it, I'm just gonna wait and strengthen myself, or I'm gonna move forward. I'm just gonna see the salvation of the Lord. Come on, somebody. It's his bill. He then goes on to say, I'm gonna be done in a moment. He then goes and says, What I'm preaching today. The latter house shall be greater than the former house. Don't miss it. He says, The latter is gonna be greater than the former. They say, How is it gonna be greater, God? We don't have Solomon's temple. And he said, Solomon's temple because it was it was great because it had gold and had all the other things in it. But you know why the ladder is gonna be greater? Even when the second temple is not as looks as good on the outside? Because the second temple was the only temple that Jesus walked into. Oh, you didn't get that. You see, Solomon's temple was great, so great that the presence of God moved in and it staggered the priest. And it's good one way because his presence walked in. But the second temple was better because God manifested in the flesh was the one that was standing in the temple. Why is the latter greater? Because Jesus was in the second temple, and he wasn't in the first temple. God manifested in the flesh, revealed to all humanity, walked into the second temple, and that made it greater. Luke 2, 27 to 32. God was present in the temple. John 2, 13 to 17. John Jesus walked in the temple and cleansed it. Matthew 21, 14. The blind and the lame came to him in the temple and they were healed. What Solomon had in the foreshadow, we have in the physical. What Solomon only heard about. We have in a spirit. Come on, somebody. Why is the temple now greater? Because he walks with me and he talks with me. Why is this better? Because I can get Jesus more. I can get Jesus in my life now. Come on, somebody shout me, yes! Shout me out! Why is it better? Because Jesus gets sweeter and sweeter as the days go by. Why is it better? Because he knows my name! So the ladder has to be greater. Not because of me, and not because of you, but because of him. Why is it greater now than ever before? Because he's trying to reveal himself now more than he revealed himself yesterday. If you knew him a lot then, oh my goodness, you're gonna know him more now. If you had a miracle back then, oh my goodness, what kind of miracles are coming now? If you had salvation and on fire with God back then, how much more is God trying to put your soul on fire? Why?

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Because the presence stand to your feet.

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Hear me. The first temple was measured by treasure, but the second measure temple is measured by Christ being in it. Oh yes, the first temple had its riches, but the second temple had the redeemer. The first temple had a cloud of glory, but the second temple had God wrapped in flesh walking in it. And that's what makes the difference. Why is the latter greater than the former? Because Jesus is trying to make himself bigger in our lives now than he's ever been before. He tells me if I've had greatness yesterday, old greatness move over. Because a new grace, a new greatness is coming. I feel somebody just need to get their breakthrough this morning. Why? Because there's a new a new blessing that God is trying to give to you. Stop looking at yesterday's, stop looking at your walk yesterday. Look forward for the best. This morning. If you believe that God has more for your life, music if you can come, singers if you can come. I want you to step out of this seat. If you believe that God has more for you, if you believe that your past is not your peak, I ask you to come praising him. If you believe peace is coming to your house, if you believe greatness is coming to you, come worshiping, come praising, come celebrating. Because the best is yet to come. Can I tell somebody your joy is coming is greater than the joy of yesterday? Your testimony is gonna be greater today than it is yesterday. And the latter house is greater than it is before. Lift your hands in this house. The latter is greater. The best is yet to come. And if you see it and if you believe it, I want you just to begin to praise God for it. The best God. My best days are ahead. My best days are in front. My best moments are here, God. My best prayer time with you is in front of me. I guess worship time is here for you. Somebody lift your voice as the singers, you can sing a song. Hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah, hallelujah.