Title: Rejected (11)
Series: The Best is Yet to Come
Text: Zechariah 11:1-17
Author: Jeff Schreve
If you have your Bible, turn to the Book of Zechariah chapter 11. I was listening to a sermon yesterday on Zechariah chapter 11, and the preacher said, "Nobody preaches on Zechariah chapter 11 unless they're assigned it in a seminary preaching class." It's a very, very difficult passage of Scripture. When David Allen was here today and he was on the radio program with me, and he's one of the candidates for the Presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention, I told him I was doing Zechariah on Wednesday nights. He goes, "Oooh, that's a hard book." I said, 'Yes, it is, and I wish I had studied it more before I said I'd do it." Today we want to talk about chapter 11, which is a great chapter of Scripture; a very ominous chapter of Scripture, and it's a chapter of Scripture that talks about the consequences of unbelief.
Now, many of you will remember a television show that debuted in the early days of television. It was a radio program, and then it transferred to television in the 50's, and it ran for many, many years. Bob Barker was the host from 1956 to 1975. It was called "Truth or Consequences." I was watching an old clip of that program and how they used to do things back in the day before technology and all that. And they would ask questions, and then he had a chalkboard, and he'd write their answers on chalk.
And I was like, "Wow! Things have really changed." But, in Truth or Consequences, if you didn't get the question right, then you had to face the consequences. And the consequences typically were some kind of a crazy little stunt that you had to perform that would be kind of embarrassing. And they said, you know, the contestants were always good sports. But there's truth. And if you don't hit the truth, if you don't get the truth right, then there are consequences. I thought about that today, and I was thinking, you know, that is really what is ...
Series: The Best is Yet to Come
Text: Zechariah 11:1-17
Author: Jeff Schreve
If you have your Bible, turn to the Book of Zechariah chapter 11. I was listening to a sermon yesterday on Zechariah chapter 11, and the preacher said, "Nobody preaches on Zechariah chapter 11 unless they're assigned it in a seminary preaching class." It's a very, very difficult passage of Scripture. When David Allen was here today and he was on the radio program with me, and he's one of the candidates for the Presidency of the Southern Baptist Convention, I told him I was doing Zechariah on Wednesday nights. He goes, "Oooh, that's a hard book." I said, 'Yes, it is, and I wish I had studied it more before I said I'd do it." Today we want to talk about chapter 11, which is a great chapter of Scripture; a very ominous chapter of Scripture, and it's a chapter of Scripture that talks about the consequences of unbelief.
Now, many of you will remember a television show that debuted in the early days of television. It was a radio program, and then it transferred to television in the 50's, and it ran for many, many years. Bob Barker was the host from 1956 to 1975. It was called "Truth or Consequences." I was watching an old clip of that program and how they used to do things back in the day before technology and all that. And they would ask questions, and then he had a chalkboard, and he'd write their answers on chalk.
And I was like, "Wow! Things have really changed." But, in Truth or Consequences, if you didn't get the question right, then you had to face the consequences. And the consequences typically were some kind of a crazy little stunt that you had to perform that would be kind of embarrassing. And they said, you know, the contestants were always good sports. But there's truth. And if you don't hit the truth, if you don't get the truth right, then there are consequences. I thought about that today, and I was thinking, you know, that is really what is ...
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