For Lack of a Shepherd (Zechariah 10:1-4; 2 Timothy 4:1-4)
/God promises to judge false leaders within his household and to lead his people through the wilderness of this world on their way to the Kingdom of Heaven.
God promises to judge false leaders within his household and to lead his people through the wilderness of this world on their way to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Zechariah 9 declares that the coming of Jesus, as king, and the building of his kingdom will be marked out by the drawing of Gentiles to himself for salvation.
Zechariah foretells the coming victory of the Messianic-King, which will be won through humiliation and weakness.
Grace replaces wrath as God promises to bless his people despite their failures.
The Jews totally missed the point of the fasts, thinking they were for God’s benefit and not theirs, and in-so-doing missed the very thing they were meant to learn (namely that pridefully rejecting God leads to destruction).
Between his first and second coming, Jesus is active in the building of his church as his temple and his kingdom and he employs us as helpers in building it through the work of evangelism.
Today I want to show that the kingdom of God is a reward given by the Father to the Son for keeping all the terms of the Counsel of Peace – the covenant that was made between the members of the Trinity.
God will, on the Last Day, achieve a perfect and universal rest, by conquering his (and our) enemies as they assemble themselves in an attempt to capture heaven.
The woman Wickedness is the false church that honors God with her lips, but pursues an earthly religion of self-righteousness and will meet with judgment on the Last Day as she is expelled from the Promised Land and cast into the abyss.
Those who seek to establish their inheritance in the things of this world will find those possessions destroyed in wrath of God.
The Lord uses his church to build his church by the power of the Holy Spirit, through the ministry of the word (of the cross).
Vision five presents a picture of the Messiah building the house of God by the Spirit of God.
Joshua, the high priest, serves as a sign that God will come and suffer in order to establish his kingdom and bless his people.
Christ redeems a people to himself by taking their iniquity upon himself and by renewing them in his own image.
Officers are given to the church by God and must therefore serve him in their oversight and the congregation must render submission unto their officers as unto the Lord.
aptism signifies the death and resurrection of Christ, through which our salvation is accomplished, and, as such, reminds us of our sinfulness and calls us to trust in Christ alone for our salvation.
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