SERMONS ON ZECHARIAH
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Book of Zechariah (51 of 54)
by Stan Coffey
JERUSALEM: JESUS AND THE MIDDLE EAST AUTHORSHIP: The name Zechariah, a very prevalent one in the Old Testament means ''the Lord remembers''. Zechariah's prophetic ministry began some two months after that of his older contemporary Haggai. (Chapter 1:1) Zechariah was one of the leading priests who returned to Jerusalem with Zerubbabel. (Nehemiah 12:1-4) DATE: 520-480 BC THEME: Zechariah was unusually blessed by God's spirit and his messianic prophecies are among the greatest and most comprehensive of all the minor prophets. There is more in Zechariah about Jerusalem and Jesus than in...
Zechariah: The Visionary Prophet
by Jerry Vines
''Our Heavenly Father we are so thankful we could study your word tonight. We pray oh,God that you will make it real to our hearts and our lives. We thank it as we read the word there is a message that is pertinent and applicable to our lives. I pray oh, God that you will lead us from the word. And may this word of God be precious to us. And may it be real in our hearts and our lives''. In Jesus Name and for his sake we pray. Amen. As I said to you when we looked at the book of Haggai the last three of the minor prophets have to do with the children of Israel in the period of time just after the captivity. God had punished his...
The Scars of Jesus
by Adrian Rogers
Take your bible's and turn with me to the next to the last book in the old testament. The book of Zechariah. If you come to Malachi, just turn left a few verses, a few chapters and find chapter 13. Zechariah chapter 13 and in a moment, we're going to share one of the most interesting verses I in all of the bible; that's Zechariah chapter 13, and verse Zechariah chapter 13 and verse 6, ''and one shall say unto him, what are these wounds in thy hands and he shall answer, those with which I was wounded in the house of my '' what do these words and when will they be spoken. Zechariah chapter 13 is a prophecy of the of the...
A Church without Walls
by Rex Yancey
Zechariah received some visions from God about Jerusalem. These visions occurred after the 70 years of Babylonian captivity. A man with a measuring line was about to measure Jerusalem to see what she was made of. God promised the inhabitants that he would enlarge their city to the extent it would be without walls. He also promised to be a wall of protection around them. I want to use this text as a springboard to our thinking this morning. What if our church had no walls? What would be the significance of that for us? 1. A CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS SEES. I think we allow these walls to become a barrier for...
Zechariah: God Rules (19 of 20)
by Roger Thomas
Introduction: Zechariah, our next last to last stop in our journey through the books of the Old Testament, is perhaps one of the least read, least appreciated, and least understood books of the Bible. But Jesus and his apostles knew it, even if we don't. The New Testament quotes or refers to it forty-one times. Some call it the most Messianic book of the entire Hebrew Bible. Zechariah the prophet lived during the days of Judah's restoration following the return from seventy years in captivity. Many Jews returned to rebuild their homes, their land, their capital Jerusalem, and the temple to their God. But things didn't go well. Many...
Renewing the Vows (14 of 17)
by Chris Brown
Two prophets, one audience: Zechariah 1, Ezra 5:1-2, 6:14, James 4:7-10, Romans 10:16-21 Haggai: God's concern for his house. Zechariah: God's concern for our hearts. - We can't know the will of God, without knowing the Word of God. - We can't be in the will of God, without obeying the Word of God. A picture that's worth a thousand words: Zechariah 3, Ephesians 6:10-18, Exodus 28:36-38, Hebrews 4:16, John 15:1-17 - Satan sees our sin and accuses us. - God sees our sin and chooses us. - It is only grace and mercy that gives us access to God. God's thoughts on religion: Zechariah 7:1-10, Mark 12:28-31, 1 Samuel...
A Sinner in God's Courtroom
by James Merritt
1. Hebrews 9:27 states, ''And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.'' Every person who walks the face of the earth has two dates with destiny. First, you have a DATE WITH DEATH, ''And as it is appointed for men to die once,'' (v.27) You are going to keep this date with your body. 2. But you also have an APPOINTMENT WITH THE ALMIGHTY, ''but after this the judgment.'' (v.27) You are going to keep this appointment with your soul. 3. One of these days you are going to be standing in the True Supreme Court. It is truly the court of no appeal. 4. This court is different than any other court in history...
The Parable of the Golden Candlestick (10 of 15)
by Clarence E. Macartney
The golden candlestick with its seven lamps was a part of the furniture of the tabernacle and the temple of Solomon. It appears here in this vision of the prophet Zechariah, and again in the vision of St. John in the isle ''which is called Patmos,'' where the seven golden candlesticks are the seven churches. It must have been regarded with peculiar reverence by the Jews as one of the sacred glories of the temple, for to this day, on the arch of Titus at Rome, where are depicted incidents in the siege of Jerusalem, one can see the great candlestick born aloft in triumphal procession by the victorious soldiers of Titus. From what...
The Second Vision
by George H. Morrison
The first thing to arrest us in this text is how a second vision followed on the first. Then-when he had had one glorious vision-the prophet lifted up his eyes again. Zechariah, despondent, sick at heart, had gone out one evening from the ruined city. He had gone out to pray in some secluded glen where in the hollows the myrtle bushes grew. And there, as he wrestled with heaven in the darkness, God flashed a glory of light upon his soul, such light as never was on sea or land. Zechariah had a glorious vision such as might have contented any man. He saw squadrons of angelic horses; he heard the voice of the...
The Bitterness of the Cross
by Charles H. Spurgeon
They... shall be in bitterness for him (Zechariah 12:10). You know, dear friends, that this text primarily refers to the Jewish nation. They will not always be blinded, as they are at present. The veil will ultimately be taken away from their eyes and their heart; and when it is taken away, it will not be by the enlightenment of mere reason, or through the cogency of argument by itself, but it will be through the outpouring of the Spirit of our God. The verse from which our text is taken makes this quite clear: ''I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications.'' Our Lord Jesus Christ can...
