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*From Intent To Reality – Part I*
*(Zechariah 13:1-6)*
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*Introduction:*
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As we look at this passage of scripture, I want to talk with you as an individual
But I also want to talk with you collectively.
And I want to challenge us a person~/church to reaffirm our commitment to the Lord
I just want to attempt to get our expectations and our reality in close proximity
*Explain:* Expectations ~/Reality (Disappointment)
*Illustrations:* (Married with one expectation… ~/ Far from reality) ~/ New Job
So, I don’t want you to have the wrong expectations about this passage
Nor the purpose of my preaching.
This is designed to help us appreciate that
By the grace of God you are where you are.
By the grace of God you are who you are
And every now and then we need to reevaluate our walk with the Lord
To see if we have kept the commitment that we made through our obedience.
Having said that, we now have our expectations in close proximity with our reality
*Point:*
Now, we are probably going to be in the book of Zechariah for the next couple of weeks, because when you address a passage (expositionally ~/ textually)
It takes some time to make the passage make sense and help us apply the text
*Read:* Zechariah 13:1-6
V1 (In that day a fountain.
Typically a fountain has to do with a cleansing affect)
In the Hebrew bible, God is referred as the fountain of living water
So, when they talk about a fountain, they are referring to a cleansing of something
*Reference:* (Hymn: There is a fountain filled with blood, drawn from Emmanuel’s veins
And sinners plunge beneath that flood loose all their guilty stains)
So what he is saying is in that day a fountain shall be open (V1)
And that fountain is going to be for the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
And the purpose of that fountain is for the cleansing (sin and impurity)
(V2) That I am going to do three things
1) Cut off the names of the idols from the land (I am going to deal with idolatry)
2) I will also remove the prophets and
3) Unclean spirit (notice he does not say unclean spirits)
There is an unclean spirit that is restricting this vision from being completed
And when we talk about this, we are going to deal with the names of the idols
We are going to address idolatry.
Then we will deal with the false prophets
And finally we will deal with the unclean spirit
*Point:*
We will name him.
We will identify him.
And we will deal with him.
*Read:* Zechariah 13:3-4 (V4- They will not even wear the clothes of a prophet)
*Read:* Zechariah 13:5-6
*Body:*
Let me help you with appreciating chapter 13 by putting it in its context of the book of Zechariah.
And what Zechariah is really writing about.
The book of the Zechariah is one of the ancient prophets and his name is a very interesting name.
(Zechariah) – Yahweh remembers (Ze char weh) – The Lord remembers
The Lord is a Lord that does not forgets.
He remembers.
Zechariah was a prophet along with another prophet by the name of Haggai.
Haggai’s book is just in front of Zechariah and it is only a couple of chapters
But Haggai and Zechariah were contemporaries
They were commissioned by Zerubbabel who was in the lineage of king David
And ultimately in the genealogy of Jesus the Christ
*Point:*
These two prophets were commissioned to go back to Jerusalem
And their mission was to stir up the Israelites who had returned to Jerusalem after it was destroyed.
*Reference:* (King of Babylon -Nebuchadnezzar)
(Burned the walls of Jerusalem ~/ Tore down the gates ~/ Ultimately destroyed the temple)
And the city laid in ruins, but in that desolate condition they took captive some people from Jerusalem.
(Babylonian captivity)
*Reference:* (David – lion’s den) ~/ (Three Hebrew boys)
Chronologically, there was a prophet by the name of Nehemiah.
And it came to a point where Nehemiah had asked the king for permission
To go back and begin the process of restoring the city.
And the prophets involved in that process were Nehemiah and Ezra.
And they begin to rebuild the walls.
They restored the gates
And laid the foundation for the restoration of the temple.
But they had not completed the work.
They had not finished the job
And the people got distracted.
*Point:*
The walls were up.
The gates were restored.
\\ And the people celebrated, but they over a work that was still to be completed.
They got distracted, because ultimately they were to restore the temple.
But, in comparison to so many works, we start something but we don’t finish it.
*Point:*
So, by the time you get to the time of Zerubbabel, and he commissions to come with him, Zechariah and Haggai, and their mission is to
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Remind the people
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Rekindle their spirits
In completing what they started.
*Point:*
The reason that’s important is even in our own lives we will start something, get distracted along the way but not finish it.
The message I want to share with you is (“Let’s bring intent into reality”)
Let’s finish what we started
*Illustration:*
(Married) – Finish what you started ~/
Too many marriages breaking up.
Too many people that will make a vow
But later in that marriage you get distracted.
You incur problems
(No relationship is perfect.
You are going to have some problems)
But you ought bring your intent into reality ~/ Finish what you started
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