00:00 Introduction and Weekend Plans

00:23 Preaching and Sermon Topics

01:23 Men's Bible Study and Sunday Sermon

02:44 Worship Team Appreciation

03:40 Striving for Excellence

05:37 Daily Bible Reading: Zechariah 1-4

16:21 Encouragement and Resources

16:55 Closing Prayer and Farewell

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Hey everybody.

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Welcome back to yet another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Hello.

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Happy Saturday.

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In fact, it is Men's Bible Study Saturday

and Pastor PJ Departs for AV Saturday.

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Saturday.

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That's right, yes.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I'll be out.

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In California tonight and

surfing tomorrow morning.

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Yep.

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That's why I'm going surfing.

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Eat Chinese food, golf.

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Yeah.

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All the San Diego.

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Yeah.

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Just fun stuff.

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Mexican foods.

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No, I'm I'm preaching for our sending

church, so I'll be preaching tonight.

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That is Saturday night at their

night service and then twice tomorrow

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morning and then I'm getting back

on a plane and coming back home.

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What are preaching?

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I'm preaching message.

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Word.

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Word around the block.

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Is that your preaching song of Solomon?

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That's not accurate.

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That's what people are saying.

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Strange enough.

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I know.

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Shocking.

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So people are saying, bro, shocking.

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There's a principle in ministry that

if you're an invited guest in somebody

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else's pulpit, you don't preach anything

that would be, heavily controversial or

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could cause a stir or create questions

for that person when they come back.

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And I just feel like Song of Solomon

might do that if I were to go that route.

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So I respect Pastor Mike enough

to just say, Hey, let me, lemme

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just keep it within balance here.

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So think it should be bold, bro.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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Just go for it.

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I think I'll take that

under consideration.

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Let 'em know I encouraged you.

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No, but I'm preaching the message

that I preached here a few weeks

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ago on family resemblance on the

call to be holy as God is holy.

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So that's a good one.

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The means, the method, the motivation

for our pursuit of godliness.

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Alright.

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Yeah.

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Sounds pretty good.

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But you're gonna be here

and you're preaching.

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I will be here.

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One of two messages,

two different messages.

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That's true this weekend, both of them.

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So talk to us about your

Men's Bible study sermon.

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You're gonna wanna come to listen

to our Men's Bible study sermon.

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If you're a man, if you're a

man, if you're a woman, you

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can listen to the podcast.

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That would be okay.

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We do have a podcast for our men's

Bible study, in case you didn't know

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that you should subscribe to that.

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We're gonna be kicking off with

the book of Daniel chapter one.

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This is when Daniel and his

friends are taken to Babylon.

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We're gonna look at how Daniel

interacts with this new culture.

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He's immersed in a culture that is

antagonistic toward Yahweh and is not

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too different from our culture too.

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So we're gonna learn

some lessons from him.

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Hopefully take a couple cues

that are helpful as we think

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about what it looks like to be a

resolved man in a contrary culture.

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And then on Sunday, I'm picking up the

book of one Peter, where you left off PPJ.

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So we're gonna look at one Peter 1

22 through the beginning of chapter

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two, verse one, and we're looking at

the hallmark of love and how love is

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to function in the body of Christ.

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This is one of the natural or supernatural

fruit that Peter expects to happen from.

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The Christian converted heart,

those who have been regenerated,

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those who know the salvation that

has been foretold produce love.

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And if there's no love, then there

is no fruit and there is no salvation

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essentially, I think is his point.

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So we're gonna look at that and see how

that applies to our ongoing interactions

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as Christians in the family of God.

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That's awesome.

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Should be good.

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Should be really good.

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I'm pumps.

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Yeah.

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Please don't let me be there by myself.

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No show up.

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I'd love for you all to be there.

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Be present.

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Yeah.

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And be president.

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Listen, take notes.

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Sing loudly, all the things.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Is David leading worship for you?

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Yes, he is.

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Thank you, David.

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By the way, David and all the team

the team is always so great, man.

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They come early, they set up,

they stay late to tear down.

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They just do all the things.

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I'm so grateful for the

worship team that we have.

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In fact, if you see anyone

from the worship team.

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Give 'em a high five every now and then.

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Tell 'em they're doing a good

job and let them know that

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you're thankful for their work.

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'cause I sure am.

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Yes.

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Yeah, a hundred percent.

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They are, yeah.

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Not paid.

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They're volunteers and they give their

time, not just on Sunday mornings.

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No, you do rehearsals Thursday nights.

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We have a rehearsal on Thursday nights

because we value, if they're good enough

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where I could probably be show up on

Sunday and just say, Hey, these are the

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songs we're doing, and they'd be okay.

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But we really wanted to bring excellence.

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In fact, one of our ongoing

sayings is that we want to have.

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Distracting excellence in

our worship leadership.

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And that's important.

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We wanna give God our best.

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But we also don't wanna be so

showboaty where it's like it was

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David's doing a solo every three

bars and everyone's looking at him.

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We wanna have distracting excellence.

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Yeah.

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So there's distracting excellence

and there's un distracting.

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We want the distracting kind.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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It's that mindset of getting

1% better every day, you know

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that always strive to excel.

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Still more I heard or I read, I guess

Erica Kirk posted something about a

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bracelet that Charlie used to wear and it

was this red bracelet and I think on it

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said something like, work hard is better.

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Oh, okay.

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And he used to wear that all throughout

college and then after they got married

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and everything else, and even into

some of his ministry with Turning

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Point or his work with Turning Point.

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And then he eventually gave it to

one of one of the people that asked

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him about it, but she said that was

his drive was, I always wanna be

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working harder and getting better.

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And I think that applies, whether that's

our worship team or somebody serving on

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Sunday morning or just life in general.

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I think it's such a good mentality

to say, Hey, we can always be.

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Be running harder after Christ.

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And I think that was Paul's mentality when

he said I'm forgetting what lies behind.

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I'm straining forward to what lies ahead.

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I'm agonizing to get better,

to become more like Christ.

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And we know that's a synergistic

work that's both us laboring

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and the spirit within us.

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But that's a good thing for us to

wanna be excellent at what we do.

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It's a godly thing to wanna

be excellent at what we do.

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I amen to that.

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He said to Timothy, do your best to

present yourself to God as one of prove.

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Now obviously, Timothy's preaching

and so there's a different

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kind of expectation that's.

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Put on him, but I think

the mentality is the same.

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Every Christian wants to grow, and

in fact, Peter says at the end of his

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letter, the second one, he says, but

grow in the grace and knowledge of our

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Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, you're

never gonna reach the end of that.

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Which is exciting for me because that

means there's endless possibilities for

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us to continue growing in our relationship

with God and our knowledge about God.

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I'm excited by that.

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In fact, this is what makes eternity

exciting because if God were anything less

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than eternal and infinite, then we would

get to the end of him and say oh, I guess

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there's nothing else to learn about you.

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But for God, there is no end.

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He has no beginning.

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He has no end.

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And therefore I will continually

exhaust, never exhaust.

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Rather I'll continually plumb

the depths of God and never

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exhaust the knowledge of God.

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That excites me.

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Yeah.

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I'm pumped about that.

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Yeah.

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You're never gonna,

let's go to heaven now.

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You're never gonna beat

the game in heaven.

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You're never gonna beat

God as the final boss.

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He's always gonna have more for us.

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That's right.

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Hey, let's jump into our DBR.

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We are in Zacharia one through four.

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We read Ha Guy yesterday, and so now we're

in Zacharia the counterpart to HA Guy.

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Counterpart, not in opposition,

but just balancing out.

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Ha guy's message here and Zechariah is

writing around five 20 BC is when he's

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gonna begin his prophetic ministry and

his focus again is gonna be more on the

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spiritual state of the people there.

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And he opens with this call to

repentance in the first six verses.

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And so he's identifying the fact that

just because they're back from exile

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does not mean everything is great,

everything is not going well currently.

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Come back and like we talked about

yesterday, they've grown complacent

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they're, we're gonna see later falling

even into some patterns of injustice

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again, and God is calling them to snap

out of it and repent and come back to him.

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And so that's these

opening six verses there.

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And then he transitions

into a series of visions.

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And that's so much of what the Book

of Zacharia involves is a lot of

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prophetic visions that Zacharia is gonna

describe for us, including in verse.

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They're weird.

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What?

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And they're weird.

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They are weird.

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Yeah, they are weird.

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The first.

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Vision that we see here in verses seven

through 17 are these four horses and

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they're riders and they patrol the earth

and report back to the angel of the Lord.

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That all were at ease

outside of Jerusalem.

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And this prompts God to

intercede for Israel.

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The angel of the Lord there

to intercede for Israel.

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And God responds that he was gonna judge

the nations, but he was gonna bless.

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Jerusalem in the process.

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So we're, this is gonna have a

near term, but also more than

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that, a long term as we're looking

forward to the millennial kingdom.

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But what's interesting here, we talked

about the timing of the 70 years,

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and I think we see something that

helps inform our decision on that.

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In verse 12 says, then the angel of the

Lord said, oh Lord of host, how long

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will you have no mercy on Jerusalem

in the cities of Judah, against which

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you have been angry these 70 years?

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So it would seem that Zechariah or

the angel of the Lord there who.

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We believe to be the pre-incarnate

Christ is stating that the 70

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years are not yet completed.

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Perhaps because the completion

is the completion of the

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temple, which is 5 15, 5 16.

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And so if we're five 20, we're still

about five years out from that.

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I'm gonna have to think about that.

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That was something that I saw

this time reading through.

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I didn't see before.

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Yeah.

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Okay.

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So he says, how long will you have?

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Oh, you have no mercy against which

you have been angry these 70 years.

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So he's, you're in the 70

years is what we're saying.

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That's my read on it.

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Unless he's saying Interesting.

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The 70 years are completed.

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Like you were angry these 70 years.

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And so now I think you

could read that either way.

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You could.

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Yes.

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But that's a great insight.

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I hadn't noticed that.

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Yeah.

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So that's this first vision.

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The horses and they're horses of judgment.

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Now you're gonna read things in

the prophetic books that are gonna

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remind you of a lot of what we see

in Revelation, and that's on purpose.

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God is the same author, and that

is a reminder of those things.

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So when we see the eschatological

language here in Zacharia, we

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see some of the similar language

in the book of Revelation.

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That's why having a good Bible with some

good cross references is helpful because

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you're gonna see similar concepts here.

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The next vision that shows up

is in verses 18 through 21,

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and there's these four home.

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Horns and these four horns are going

to represent four different nations.

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And these four nations are nations

that opposed or oppressed Israel

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in my take specifically is that I

think these are given the context

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of when he is writing the nations of

Babylon, Persia, Greece, and Rome.

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So I think these are the main

four nations that are, that

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show up in, in Nebuchadnezzar

statue there with Rome being the.

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Two part, you've got Ancient Rome,

then you've got Neo Babylon or New

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Rome that's gonna come in the future.

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And then you've got the fifth

kingdom being the rock that was cut

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from the mountain as without hand.

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So I take these four horns to be the four

nations of the top of the statue that

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will ultimately be destroyed by Christ.

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And that is these horns there

are going to be judged and

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they're gonna be judged by these.

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For craftsmen that come along and

there's gonna be this progressive

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fall until the fifth kingdom finally

destroys the last and final horn.

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Can I ask a question that I'm betting at

least a few of our readers are asking.

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Okay.

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I can't promise I'll

have an answer, but sure.

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Yeah, sure.

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Yeah, of course.

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That's always the qualification.

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I don't expect it to be all knowing yet.

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Thanks man.

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I appreciate that.

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Next week, however, okay.

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Different story.

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Alright, homework.

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This is gonna sound totally irreverent,

but I'm gonna say it 'cause I

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think other people are thinking it.

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Who cares?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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So what, like how does this,

what does this have to do

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with the cas of tea in China?

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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I, I think it matters when we consider

again, that singular thread that's

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coursing from the beginning of the

Bible all the way through to its end.

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And I think as Christians, we

should care about what's hap,

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what's gonna come in the future.

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I think.

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Because we serve a sovereign God who's

declared the beginning from the end.

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I'm the alpha and the Omega.

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And because we're gonna be present in

the end, in the millennial kingdom, as

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we've talked about quite a lot recently,

I think we should care about these things.

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And when Zechariah is saying,

or the angel of the Lord to

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Zechariah, the angel revealing

these things to Zechariah is saying.

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This is what's coming in the future.

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And just know that these are the things

that's happening that, that man, that

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also gives me so much comfort when

I look around at the chaos of the

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world that we live in right now is

to think to myself, God's got a plan.

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Yeah.

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And the plan is on schedule and it's

never gonna be bumped off schedule.

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It's always on schedule.

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And things like this, passages like

this, give us a comfort towards that end.

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Yeah.

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Amen to that.

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I would also add sometimes we're not wise

enough to know what we should care about.

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And it's God saying to us,

this is worthy of my preserving

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for you to read millennia.

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After it's been written, I care enough

to preserve it, to protect it, to keep

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you in this to have you know this.

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So even if you had no idea, ah, I know.

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I don't know.

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God wants us to know this.

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There's horses and there's horns,

and there's women in baskets.

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Who knows?

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God knows.

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Yeah.

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And I think that's the comfort

that you can take if you're reading

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this and you're just scratching

your head and saying, ah, okay.

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PPJ.

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Yeah, I get it.

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This is.

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Here's this image and this image, and it's

Zechariah and it's post exilic prophecy.

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I think you just need to trust that God

has his reasons, and even if you don't

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know what those reasons are, trust Him

enough to say, I'm gonna submit to your

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wisdom and giving me this information

to learn to know, and hopefully to learn

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as much as I can about it, to understand

it, and then let him tell you later

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if necessary, why he has you memorize

it, why he has you understand this.

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I promise you it does fit

within the grand narrative.

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Yeah.

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At the very least we can

say this fits into it.

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Israel's history, which is a shared

history that we have with them.

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And God's gonna complete

the story that he begun.

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That's why it's important, at

least in the interim for now.

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But there's probably lots more that we

could say that God has in store for us.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Chapter two, we get into the third vision.

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The third vision is gonna be of a

man who shows up with a measuring

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line and this section depicts

the future millennial kingdom.

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And you say how do we know

it predicts the future?

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Because how do we know

it predicts the future.

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Thanks, man.

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Because it hasn't happened yet.

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What we're reading about here, God

dwelling in their midst, many nations

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joining themselves to the Lord in

that day, as he says in verse 11

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there and he's saying, I will dwell

in your midst and you shall know that

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the Lord of hostess sent me to you.

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This is the angel of the Lord

speaking and we know this is the pre

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incarnate Christ, because this is the

Messiah that he's talking about here.

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Towards the end here in verse 11.

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So this is in verse in

chapter two, really, a, a, a.

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Forecasting of the millennial kingdom

and the reign of the Messiah, and we

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know that the Messiah is going to be

the representative of God's presence

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because of what he says right there

in verse 11 when he says, many nations

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shall join themselves to the Lord

in that day and shall be my people,

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and I will dwell in your midst.

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You shall know that the Lord of Host

has sent me to you, so the Lord is gonna

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dwell on their miss, and the Lord is gonna

dwell on their miss through the presence

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of this Messiah that's gonna be there.

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Hence Jesus Christ.

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This should get you excited.

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It should.

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I think this is worth saying, man.

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That's an exciting future

that I look forward to.

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One of the most obvious things

about our culture right now is that

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we are very divided not just in

America, but also across the globe.

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We're divided for a lot of

different reasons and not the

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least of which, because we have

religions that are fundamentally.

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Opposed to one another.

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The future that we're promised is that

there's going to be a reunification.

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God's gonna bring his people together.

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There's gonna be all kinds of people,

every tribe, tongue, and nation.

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This is the beginning of that endpoint.

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That's an exciting future

to look forward to.

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Only God can do this.

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We've tried to use human means

and mechanisms, but God says

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this is ultimately of me.

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I have to do it and he's gonna do

it, and I look forward to that day.

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Yeah.

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Yeah the third chapter here, we

get a fourth vision, and this is

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gonna be of Joshua, the high priest.

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And this is a scene where he's

standing and Satan is standing next

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to him, accusing him before the Lord.

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And Joshua is depicted here as

being dressed in filthy garments.

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And that filthy garments dis.

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They symbolize rather the corruption and

defilement of Israel's priestly system.

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And what happens is God gives a

command and his filthy garments are

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gonna be changed out for clean ones.

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And so Zechariah chapter three,

even though it's about Israel,

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we see the gospel all over this.

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And Zechariah is gonna talk a lot about.

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Israel's future national repentance

and what that's gonna look like.

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We'll get there towards the end of the

book, but it is going to be through the

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same means that you and I first came to

Christ through repenting and trusting in

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Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of sins.

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So in Zechariah chapter three, we even

get a glimpse into the fact that this

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is gonna be necessary, that he doesn't.

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Say, Satan you're wrong in accusing him.

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But rather he makes a way for the

filth, the defilement of Israel

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to be made new, to be cleansed.

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And that's only gonna come as they look on

him, whom may have pierced and they mourn.

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And we're gonna read about that

later in Zechariah chapter 12.

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Yeah, this is one of the

coolest parts of the book.

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And in fact, I think it might be one of my

favorites, if not my favorite, in Zacharia

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Zacharias a struggle for a lot of people.

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Present company notwithstanding,

and I love this imagery.

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This is a really cool image of being

clothed in the righteousness of God.

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And of course, we are clothed in

the righteousness of Christ, and

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so this is a really cool image.

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I love it.

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Enjoy it.

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Savor it.

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Yeah.

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Chapter four then one thing

about Zechariah, you'll know

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it, it moves pretty quickly.

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And so we're into chapter four.

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Most of these chapters are

maybe 10 to 15 verses at most.

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And so already Zechariah chapter

four here, a fifth Vision shows up.

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And this time it's a lampstand with

seven lamps on it and two olive trees,

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one on either side of the lamp stand.

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The lamp stand is gonna be similar in

appearance to what's found in the temple.

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The bowl that we see with the

lampstand represents an unending

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supply of oil to keep the lamps lit.

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This abundant supply of oil is from

the Lord and included his spirit.

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We see in Zechariah four, six, he said to

me, this is the word of the Lord is Abel.

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Not by my not nor by

power, but by my spirit.

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But by my spirit says that Ron

Cannoli, you know that song I

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might a version of that song.

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Oh, that's such a good song.

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I dunno about that.

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Melody.

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Such a good song.

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You guys should listen to that song.

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Go to your Spotify, Ron Cannoli.

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Not by might, I think

it's not called cannoli.

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Canlis, not like the dessert.

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Yeah.

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K-E-N-O-L-Y.

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Oh, okay.

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I was gonna say cannolis

are good, not cannoli.

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Okay.

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Yeah.

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Not that kinda cannoli anyway, anyways,

but the spirit's gonna be there to

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enable the work That's to be done.

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The, there's these two olive trees and

the two olive trees stand for the two

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anointed offices in Israel, which is

that of priest represented by Joshua.

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And King, again, represented by Zabel.

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Even though he wasn't the king,

he was the descendant of David.

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He's the ruler During this time,

the governor, in the future, in the

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millennial kingdom, that's gonna be

a role that is a singular role, and

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that is gonna be held by the Messiah.

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Jesus is gonna be the priest king for

us, and he's gonna unite those two

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offices that were intended by God from

the beginning as far as Israel was

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concerned to be kept in separation.

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All right, keep going.

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Keep reading, keep tracking with us.

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I know Zacharia can be a lot because

again, we've got a lot of these visions.

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Remember the resources that

we've committed to you the Bible

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Knowledge commentary is helpful.

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The bi, the MacArthur Study

Bible is gonna be helpful.

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These are our good resources for you.

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Also, don't forget, you can always

write in questions, so you can

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write to podcasts@compassntx.org

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and you can ask us questions

and if we know the answers.

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We'll get 'em to you.

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If we don't know the answers,

we'll try to find 'em.

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But keep with this.

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This is good.

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This is, this does matter.

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Pastor Rod was saying, it does matter.

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This is our future as

well as Israel's future.

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It's gonna look different for us,

but it's still part of what God

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has in store for us as the church.

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Alright, let's pray and then

we'll be done with this episode.

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God, thanks for your word and thanks

for the reality that, we get to wear the

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righteousness of Christ because of faith

and repentance in Christ, in the trusting

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in Him for the forgiveness of our sins.

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That's what Israel is

gonna need in the future.

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That's what Israel needs right now.

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That's what all lost people right

now, is to repent and believe in

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Jesus for the forgiveness of sins.

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And so we thank you that if we've done

that, then we are no longer clothed

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in the filthy garments of our sin,

but we have the righteousness of

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Christ and so we praise you for that.

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And we look forward to gathering

together even today for men's

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Bible study, tomorrow for church.

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And would you pray that you'd have

a, that we would have a weekend

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where Christ is exalted in our midst?

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We pray in Jesus' name.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Keep in your Bibles.

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Tune in again tomorrow for another

edition of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Bye y'all.

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Bye.

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Bernard: Well, thank you for

listening to another episode of

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the Daily Bible Podcast, folks!

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We're honored to have you join us.

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This is a ministry of Compass

Bible Church in north Texas.

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You can find out more information

about our Church at compassntx.org.

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We would love for you to leave a

review, to rate, or to share this

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podcast on whatever platform you're

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you again tomorrow for another

episode of the Daily Bible Podcast.

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Ya'll come back now, ya hear?

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PJ: Yeah.

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I would agree with

everything that you said