Consider Your Ways: The Temple God Wants to Build

Consider Your Ways: The Temple God Wants to Build is a timely sermon from Chris Pollard that calls the church to wake up, examine our priorities, and return to what God has asked us to build.

Teaching from Haggai 1, this message challenges every believer to ask a serious question: Have I focused more on building my own life than on honoring the Lord with the life He gave me? In Haggai’s day, the people said it was not time to rebuild the Lord’s house. However, they continued living in their own paneled houses while God’s house remained unfinished. Through the prophet Haggai, the Lord spoke directly to their priorities and said, “Consider your ways.”

A Call to Examine Our Priorities

The phrase Consider Your Ways is more than a sermon title. Instead, it is an invitation from the Lord to stop, look honestly, and allow Him to search our hearts. Today, God still calls His people to examine what receives their time, attention, energy, affection, and obedience.

Because of that, this sermon challenges believers to move beyond religious activity and ask honest questions. Is my life a place where God is honored? Have I delayed obedience? Have I allowed comfort or compromise to weaken my response to God? Also, have I become more concerned with outward appearance than inward surrender?

God Is Building People

Chris Pollard reminds the church that God cares about more than buildings, platforms, performance, or external success. Most importantly, God is building people. Scripture teaches that believers are the temple of the Holy Spirit, which means our lives belong to Him.

As a result, Consider Your Ways becomes a personal call. God wants to build something in us that can carry His presence, reflect His character, and bring Him glory. He wants hearts that respond quickly, minds renewed by truth, and lives led by the Holy Spirit.

Awake in the Late Hour

This message also carries urgency. Chris emphasizes that the church is not in the early hours, but in the late hour. Since Jesus is coming again, the people of God cannot afford to live spiritually asleep.

Therefore, this is not the time for comfort, compromise, distraction, deception, or delay. The hour requires surrender. It also requires obedience. More than ever, it requires believers who will stop postponing what God has already spoken.

Reject Distraction, Deception, and Delay

In addition, Consider Your Ways exposes the patterns that pull believers away from obedience. Distraction divides our focus. Deception distorts the truth. Then, delay postpones obedience until it becomes disobedience.

Culture constantly competes for our attention. Yet God calls His people to live by a different pattern. Truth enters the heart, the mind gets renewed, the Spirit leads, and the life becomes transformed.

Respond to What God Is Building

Ultimately, this sermon is a call to stop drifting and start building. It challenges every believer to Consider Your Ways before the Lord and respond with fresh surrender.

God is still building His people. He has not finished the work He started. So now is the time to wake up, obey His Word, and become the temple He is pleased to dwell in.

Key Scriptures

Haggai 1:2–8, Philippians 1:6, 1 Corinthians 6:19–20, Romans 12:1–2, Galatians 5:7–8