Sermon Tone Analysis

In That Day

The Day of the Lord

The beginning of chapter 12 we see The Lord returning at the end of the tribulation

We see Jesus rescuing Jerusalem and all of Israel

from all of the nations who were trying to destroy it

When Jesus will begin His rule and administer justice

When Jesus returns the nation of Israel will turn to Him and be saved

They have been blinded up to this point

because when Jesus came the first time they condemned Him to be crucified

so God blinded them so they would not accept Him as their Messiah

Even today they are looking desperately for their Messiah

But God the Holy Spirit is going to change that in an instant

Read zechariah 12 10 - 13 6

Pray

Regeneration

Regeneration may be defined as the change wrought by the Spirit of God, by the use of truth as a means, in which the moral disposition of the soul is renewed in the image of Christ Mullins, E. Y. (1917).

The Christian Religion in Its Doctrinal Expression (p.

378).

Roger Williams Press.

The concept is of God renovating the heart, the core of a person’s being, by implanting a new principle of desire, purpose, and action, a dispositional dynamic that finds expression in positive response to the gospel and its Christ.

What Jesus meant when he told Nicodemus “ye must be born again”

like Lazarus was dead in the grave and Jesus gave him a new life

we also are dead in our trespasses and sins and need to be infused with new life from the Holy Spirit

at this time we see our sin the same way God sees it and we will mourn over our sin

we cannot be saved unless our blinders are taken off and are given an infusion of new life

then we are given the faith to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved

Ephesians 2:8–9 (LEB)

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God; it is not from works, so that no one can boast.

we are celebrating today the risen Savior

without Jesus rising from the dead we would have no hope

without Jesus dying for our sins we would have to go to Hell

there would be no one ever who is able to go to Heaven

and without Regeneration by the Holy Spirit in our lives

no one would be saved

Salvation of Israel

the nation of Israel will finally see Jesus as their messiah

because the Holy Spirit regenerates them

Zechariah 12:10 (LEB)

“ ‘I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, and they will look to me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn over him, as one wails over an only child, and they will grieve bitterly over him as one grieves bitterly over a firstborn.

a spirit of Grace - for by grace we are saved

The Spirit will give to them a new heart

this is a supernatural event that we as humans cannot conger up on our own

God will give them the eyes to see their Messiah

lets look at what happened in Jerusalem when the church was born on Pentecost

Peter preaching to the people who were gathered

and at the end of the sermon

they understood because the Holy Spirit made them alive to the Gospel

Acts 16:14 (LEB)

And a certain woman named Lydia from the city of Thyatira, a merchant dealing in purple cloth who showed reverence for God, was listening.

The Lord opened her heart to pay attention to what was being said by Paul.

this is what is going to happen in to the nation Israel

Zechariah 12:10 (LEB)

“ ‘I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, and they will look to me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn over him, as one wails over an only child, and they will grieve bitterly over him as one grieves bitterly over a firstborn.

prayer of repentance and faith

a turn from their way to Jesus

Zechariah 12:10 (LEB)

“ ‘I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, and they will look to me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn over him, as one wails over an only child, and they will grieve bitterly over him as one grieves bitterly over a firstborn.

they will finally see Jesus as the one they rejected

they will see Him as the one they crucified

but they refused to acknowledge Him as their messiah

they will turn to Jesus and be saved

the same as you and me our sin put Jesus on the cross and we need to turn to Jesus

and away from our sin

put your trust in Jesus

The Spirit caused them to grieve and mourn bitterly over their sin

Zechariah 12:10 (LEB)

“ ‘I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, and they will look to me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn over him, as one wails over an only child, and they will grieve bitterly over him as one grieves bitterly over a firstborn.

The spirit caused them to grieve as if their first born child has died

the nation as a whole is going to be saved but...

all of the people individually

Zechariah 12:12–14 (LEB)

And the land shall mourn, each clan by itself; the clan of the house of David by itself, and their wives by themselves; the clan of the house of Nathan by itself, and their wives by themselves;

the clan of the house of Levi by itself, and their wives by themselves; the clan of the Shimeites by itself, and their wives by themselves; and all those clans remaining, each clan by itself, and their wives by themselves.’

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this is representing the king line

priest line

and all of the people

Paul in Romans 11 says

Romans 11:26–27 (LEB)

and so all Israel will be saved, just as it is written, “The deliverer will come out of Zion; he will turn away ungodliness from Jacob.

And this is the covenant from me with them when I take away their sins.”

God will do this through the Spirits regeneration of each and every individual

The Final Regeneration

Jesus was resurrected from the grave

given a new body

and because He is the first fruits of the rest of His bride

we can have assurance that we also will be resurrected from the grave

or raptured

1 Corinthians 15:50–52 (LEB)

But I say this, brothers, that flesh and blood is not able to inherit the kingdom of God, nor can corruption inherit incorruptibility.

Behold, I tell you a mystery: we will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,

in a moment, in the blink of an eye, at the last trumpet.

For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed.

Jesus will change us from a corruptible body

to a glorified spiritual body

to all who turn to Jesus and put their trust in Him