Tonight, if you'd join me in
your Bibles in the book of Zechariah chapter 14, Zechariah chapter
14. And we're going to deal with
the last two verses of Zechariah chapter 14. This is our last planned message
from the book of Zechariah. We've been here almost two years
and we're at the last few verses of this book. But I have to say
a few things in remembrance and in preparatory for this night's
message, and that is the gospel of God's grace has been presented
throughout the book of Zechariah. Zechariah, like Noah was a preacher
of righteousness, and he preached the grace of God, and he preached
Christ and Him crucified, and he's going to go on and share
with us in this last section that the gospel of promise deliverance
Now, God's grace promised to deliver us from sin, but he's
also promised to deliver us from this body, this body of flesh
that we have, and the Lord is going to do that. He's going
to deliver us from the fall and the effects of the fall, and
all of this is effective due to the new birth. Now, we'd have
no way of having God ever do anything for us outside of the
new birth. That's the first thing God is
going to do for us. And from then on, multitudes
of blessings will be poured out upon us. And then too, we also
find out that multitudes of blessings have already been poured out
upon us before he even saved us by his grace. So keep your
place there in the book of Zechariah, but I'd like to have you turn
over to the book of Timothy, 2 Timothy if you would, as we
think about this whole book of Zechariah. And then we're going
to look at the last two verses as a concluding remark. We look
here in the book of 2 Timothy, 2 Timothy chapter 1. In 2 Timothy
1, we have some wonderful message here delivered to us by the Apostle
Paul. He was just simply the secretary
that left us the message, and the Holy Spirit has given it
to us here in 2 Timothy 1, verses 7, 8, 9, 10, and 11. We just
want to refresh ourselves that the gospel of God's grace, as
declared throughout the scriptures, is the gospel of promise deliverance. God has promised to deliver his
people. from sin and the consequences
of sin. He has promised also to take
away the effects of the fall and that for eternity, he'll
take away. We'll be able to meet God on
good terms. We'll be able to be there before the throne of
grace on good terms. So here in the book of 2 Timothy
1, verse seven says, for God hath not given us the spirit
of fear. but power and of love and of
a sound mind. So the scriptures are not intended
to produce fear in us. We have reverence for God, we
have respect for God, but by the grace of God, we're not going
to be afraid to meet him. And it goes on to tell us, Be
not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor
of me his prisoner, but be thou partaker of the afflictions of
the gospel according to the power of God, who has saved us and
called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, Now,
as Zachariah went through, he never brought up the subject
of works to anybody, that that's how we're going to approach God.
He's a preacher of righteousness. He's a preacher of the righteousness
of Christ. But according to his own purpose
and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world
began. So all of this great salvation
that he gives, the salvation that was presented by Zachariah
that message he gave to us through Zachariah about that pool open,
that pool open for sinners. And here we have the Apostle
Paul sharing us with these words, not according to our works, but
his own purpose of grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus
before the world began, but is now made manifest by the appearing
of our our Savior Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death and
hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel,
wherein too I am appointed a preacher and an apostle and a teacher
of the Gentiles." So the gospel minister has this responsibility
to share this great truth about our Savior, that he is in the
business of delivering us from the fall, the consequences of
the fall, sin of the fall, and also the soul that sinneth it
shall die. He's going to have to take care
of that issue so that we can be with him throughout eternity. Along the same line is brought
out in the book of Titus. The next book in line here, Titus
chapter one. Verses 1, 2, and 3, we have these
words again, as the Apostle Paul was led to write to a preacher
again, and he was, by example, he's the one that we could always
count on preaching Christ and Him crucified, just like we go
to the Old Testament, where the Old Testament is not a message
of works, it's not a message of law, it's a message that we
cannot keep it, and that we must have grace given to us by the
Lord. As Isaiah brought out, if it
were not for a very small remnant, we should all be as Sodom and
as Gomorrah. So he had a remnant there, he's
having a remnant throughout time. So here in Titus chapter one,
verse one through three, Paul, a servant of God and an apostle
of Jesus, Christ according to the faith of God's elect and
acknowledging of the truth, which is after godliness. Isn't that
interesting? By God creating faith in us and
we acknowledge that just as the apostle Paul did when he said,
Lord, what will you have me to do after the Lord came to him?
That is after godliness. We have that great slate cleared
by faith in the Lord Jesus in hope of eternal life. which God,
that cannot lie, promised before the world began. God in the covenant
of grace promised us eternal life. And that's what we read
all the way through the book of Zechariah, all the way through
all the books of the Old Testament. It was Christ and him crucified.
Moses wrote of me, Moses spoke of me as he declared to his apostles
there just prior to his ascension. He shared in all the Old Testament,
in the Psalms, and in the prophets, and in the law, the things concerning
himself, and we rejoice in from time to time, getting to see
some of those things. And now verse three of Titus,
but hath in due times manifested his word through the preaching,
which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our
Savior. So God has ordained that preaching
is the means by which he declares this great truth. And this great
truth is that he has had something in mind, in purpose, from before
the foundation of the world, and we have hope of eternal life,
which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began. Job shares
with us so many years ago, I know my Redeemer liveth. Job said
that in Job 19 verse 25. I know my redeemer liveth. And
a redeemer is someone that bought someone else out of a problem.
We can redeem an item, but the Lord is in the business of redeeming
his sheep. He's redeeming his people out
of sin. So he's gonna take care of that
problem. In the book of Jeremiah, turn with me to the book of Jeremiah,
as we get a little bit closer to our friend Zachariah. In the
book of Jeremiah, these words are left for us to be comforted
by, Jeremiah chapter 31. Jeremiah chapter 31. The Lord
has promised comfort to his people. He has promised comfort to us
in our daily walk, comfort in trials and tribulations. He is
the one that is the comfort. His name shall be called Wonderful
Counselor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father. He's all
of those things to the church, to his people. And here in Jeremiah
31, verse 10 and 11, we have these words, Jeremiah, 31, verse 10 and 11, it says, hear
the word of the Lord, O ye nations, and declare it in the isles afar
off. Gentiles, Gentiles are gonna
be given this message. He that scattereth Israel will
gather him and keep him as a shepherd doth his flock. He's in the business
right now of going out and retrieving all his flock, all his lost sheep,
all those that he had, the names written in the Lamb's Book of
Life, all that the son said the father had given unto me, those
are gonna be brought in. And in verse 11, for the Lord
hath redeemed Jacob and ransomed him from the hand of him that
was stronger than he. Isn't that an interesting way
of words put together? He ransomed. from him that is,
was stronger than he. We're not able to overcome our
own burden. We're not able to overcome our
own sin, but we have one that does redeem and one that does
ransom us out of the problems that we fell in as a result of
the fall. You know, to keep us mindful
of this, we find that in the book of 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians,
excuse me, it says there in chapter four, we have this treasure. We have Christ. We have this
treasure, this glorious treasure of Christ. We have this treasure
in earthen vessels that the excellency of the power may be of God and
not of us. We have this treasure in earthen
vessels so that we are not bragging on what we've done. We're bragging
on him who has done it for us. So just to keep us in line with
what grace means, Keep us in line of what sovereign grace
means. That He is the one that deals
with it. In Isaiah 41, would you just
back up one book there? You were in Jeremiah. Back up
one book to the book of Isaiah chapter 41. In Isaiah chapter
41, we have this said about this great work of grace. Isaiah 41
verse 14. In Isaiah 41 and verse 14, fear
not thou worm Jacob. Fear not thou worm Jacob. What
a statement about the church. And ye men of Israel, I will
help thee, saith the Lord, and thy Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel. So we have a Redeemer, we have
a helper, and it is the Lord God Almighty. And he's dealing
with worms. And you know, only those that
have been saved can ever admit that about themselves. Nobody
outside of Christ will ever admit that kind of reliance. We're
just out able to do anything. We're just a worm. But you know,
the Lord has promised to those worms that there will be a day
when they'll be like unto Him. They'll be in his presence. They'll have a body like unto
his body. So this is what we're going to be looking at in just
a moment there in the last two verses of the book of Zechariah. In Isaiah 59, we have this said
about this wonderful subject that we're looking at for just
a moment. Here in Isaiah chapter 59 and verse 20, it says, and
the Redeemer shall come to Zion. Now, it's wonderful there in
the book of Hebrews. You've not come, is it Hebrews
or Galatians? Galatians. You've not come to
Mount Sinai, but you've come to Mount Zion. Sinai is... law, death. You've come to Mount
Zion. What a blessed place. It says
here, the Redeemer has come to Zion, and unto them that turn
from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. For as for me,
this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord. My spirit that
is upon thee and my words which I put in thy mouth shall not
depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed,
nor out of the mouth of thy seed-seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth
and forevermore. What is that word? Christ is
all. Christ is our hope. That word
will not depart. When it's revealed to us, it
will not depart. We'll never lose, with our right
mind, we'll never lose the very blessing that we have in that.
In the book of Galatians, I want to go over there two more verses,
I think, and then we'll be going to Zechariah. Galatians chapter
4. The book of Galatians chapter
4, as we see this glorious purpose of grace that God from the very
beginning intended to come down and deliver a people He came
down to redeem a people. He came down to ransom a people. They were already in his mind.
He already had their names written down. He came to be with them
and for them. And he has purpose to do that.
And he is about the business of doing that in this present
time. Somewhere along life's highway,
God is going to meet every one of his lost sheep. Some he's
already gathered in, some are being prepared to be gathered
in, and some may not even be born yet, but he is intending
to gather every one of those lost sheep into the fold. And
this is the promise he has made. I will redeem them. I will ransom
them. It is not, if they go along with
me, I'll do it. No, he says, I will do it. God
alone knows the real problem that we're in. We still don't
know the real problem we're in. We still have not come to the
conclusion of the fall that Adam did, but God knows the problem
we're in and he has the solution of the problem and his name is
Jesus. The darling son of God is the
only solution for all the problem that came upon us in the fall.
Only solution. We'll have no other solution.
And that solution is the Lamb of God, and that solution is
given to us by grace when we're dead in trespasses and sin, and
He raises us from the spiritual dead, and we can acknowledge
Him that raised us now. Now, I've never seen His face,
but I've heard His word. It's right here in the book.
And he's going to raise his people from their spiritual dead. Just
as he walked up to the tomb of our friend there and said, Lazarus,
come forth. Somewhere along the line, he's
going to raise every one of his lost sheep. All right, here in
the book of Galatians, chapter four, Galatians chapter four
and verse five, the word says this, to redeem them that were
under the law in the fullness of time. Verse four, and when
the fullness of time was come, God sent forth his son, made
of a woman, made under the law to redeem them that were under
the law that we might receive the adoption of sons. So God
in his wonderful purpose has taken care of that. He took care
of that for Zachariah, took care of that for Jeremiah, took care
of that for Isaiah. Pray that he's taken care of
that for you. It says in Titus, who gave himself for us, that
he might redeem us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar
people, zealous of good works. Titus chapter two and verse 14.
He has redeemed a people and they're a peculiar people. And
that word peculiar means they're owned by somebody. They were
owned by somebody before they acknowledge it and they don't
mind the ownership now. The Lord is my savior. All right. That's what he's done
for us. That's what Zechariah brought
out throughout that passage of scripture. And now let's go over
here to Zechariah chapter 14, last two verses of this book.
The book of Zechariah chapter 14, verses 20 and 21. Verses 20 and 21. Now, in this
passage of scripture, we read these words, in that day shall
there be unto the bells of the horses, excuse me, upon the bells
of the horses, holiness unto the Lord. And the pots in the
Lord's house shall be like the bowls before the altar. Yea,
every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto
the Lord of hosts. And all they that sacrifice shall
come and take of them and see therein And in that day there
shall be no more Canaanite in the house of the Lord of hosts.
What promises that God gives to His church that He has promised
them eternal life before the world began and in that He has
promised that He'll take care of them whether He comes and
changes us like unto His glorious body or whether we die and He
changes us like unto His glorious body. It's not going to matter.
that promise that God gave. Now it tells us in there, and
if you remember correctly, a horse did not chew its cut and it did
not have a cloven hoof, which makes it a what? An unclean beast. It is an unclean beast. It was
not to be eaten. By the Jews, it was an unclean
beast. It was put into a category of
its own. Now we find out here that in
this, the kingdom of God, that there is nothing that is common
or unclean. He saves all nations, peoples,
kindreds, and tongues. At one time, they may have been
the most unclean beast in the world, but when God comes, He
takes care of that uncleanliness and causes them to be holy. Holy, just as He is holy. The
Song of Moses, there in the Book of Exodus, after the Red Sea,
he said, Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods? Who is
like thee, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? Who is like thee? Now, holiness,
God's holiness, it's much different than any holiness that we've
ever witnessed in church. Holiness movement? whatever you
want to call it. is much different. God's holiness
is Christ in us. It is His holiness in us. He's the one that makes us holy.
We cannot produce that. We cannot. And yet we are called
on, be ye holy as I am holy. Well, we find that we're just
unable to do that. Who is able to do that? Lord
God Almighty is able to do that. Just like He was able to raise
us from the spiritual dead, He can make us holy in the sight
of God. Turn with me back to the book
of Exodus. As we think about holiness, much of it is brought
out here in the Old Testament in a declaration. And those,
in the book of Exodus, those who come to the question, how
can I do this? You know, that's a good place
to be. Now, the Pharisee said, I've already got it. The works-oriented
people, I've already got that. I'm working on it. It's getting
better every day. Every day I'm getting more holy
and more holy and more holy. And in fact, the book of Isaiah
talks about those who are holier than thou. That's a biblical
term. That's not something some human
being come up with. People that are holier than you.
Well, we find out that holiness is a gift of God. Holiness is
God's gift to us. So here in the book of Exodus
chapter 15, Excuse me, Exodus chapter 28, Exodus chapter 28. And there in verse 36, Exodus
chapter 28 in verse 36, in preparation for dressing Aaron,
the high priest, when we went through the book of Leviticus,
we went through the dress and everything had meaning in the
dress of Aaron and his sons. And we notice right here that
as they were preparing for the hat that he wore, there was to
be a gold plate put on it. And this gold plate, it says,
and thou shall make a plate of pure gold and grave upon it like
the engravings of a signet or a ring, holiness to the Lord. Now that was put on Aaron's hat.
Now Aaron couldn't attain that, not even with that hat on. He
could never attain that position. But he is declaring the Great
High Priest, our Savior, the Lord Jesus, our Great High Priest,
is holiness. He is holy, holy, holy. That's
what they said there in the book of Isaiah chapter 6. The seraphims
cried out that holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty. In
the book of Isaiah, after that, in Isaiah chapter 35, we have
this said about God's holiness and how it is appropriated to
his people, given to his people to be holy. Those horses, and
I was reminded, I believe it was last Wednesday when we mentioned
this, there's an eight-up team, four teams, that are hooked to
a wagon, I'm not going to tell you the product that they sell, but on those horses. that advertise
this product on their hames are these bells. And every time they
walk, it's cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling, cling. My
grandfather had a set of bells that went onto the hames of his
horses during the winter when they were on the sleds. You heard
that chime, and it is a pleasant chime. Well, there's an illusion
here about this, as in Zachariah, that the horses, Even the bells
of the horses, these unclean beasts, are given bells that
say, holiness unto the Lord. Everything that God does is holy,
and everyone he deals with is made holy, and we're made the
holiness of God. And here in the book of Isaiah
chapter, let me get there, Isaiah chapter 35, Isaiah chapter 35. Isaiah chapter 35, verse 1. In Isaiah chapter 35, you know,
the Lord's walk was an absolute perfect walk. His talk was absolutely
a perfect talk. There was not an ill word, not
a sinful thought. I just think about the Lord getting
ready for Sunday. He didn't ever have a pimple.
He never had a cold. He never had an ingrown toenail.
He never had any of the illnesses that we're so prone to have.
And He is saying that by His very being, that He is holy. Without sin, why do we have illness? It's part of the fall. Why do
we have pimples? Why do we have frailty? Why do
we have these things that come along? Because of sin. It was
brought through the fall and we have it. Oftentimes God deals
with it in a miraculous way. Sometimes he doesn't. But here
in the book of Isaiah chapter 35, the wilderness and a solitary
place shall be glad for them and the desert shall rejoice
and blossom as the rose. It shall blossom abundantly and
rejoice, even with joy and singing. The glory of Lebanon shall be
given unto it. The excellency of Carmel and
Sharon shall see the glory of the Lord and the excellency of
our God. What metaphors are used here
for us to just get a glimpse of this glorious person, our
Savior, the Lord? Strengthen ye the weak hands
and confirm the feeble knees. Say to them that are of a fearful
heart, be strong, fear not, behold your God will come with vengeance,
even God with recompense, and he will come and save you. Then
the eyes of the blind shall be open, the ears of the deaf shall
be unstopped. That's exactly what the Lord
said to John. Take this message to John. He's
in prison, take this message to John. Those who are blind
are see, those who are leprous have it removed, those who are
in jail are out. Then shall the lame man leap as a heart and
the tongue of the dumb sing. He's using these illustrations
to point to what great spiritual blessings we have in salvation
in Christ Jesus. We were lame and we're able to
leap as a heart. Our tongue is tied. We cannot
sing praises to the Lord. Now we can sing. For in the wilderness
shall waters break out and streams in the desert. What a glorious
picture he gives to us of the great work that God performs
when he saves his people from their sins. And that's what Zechariah
is writing about at the conclusion of this great book. The parched
ground shall become a pool. My goodness, in religion we're
just parched out all the time and there was never any water
put on us. And yet, when God saves us, we
have the water of life in our bellies, springing up to everlasting
life. And a highway shall there be
a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness. No, the
way that God leads the church is the way of holiness, because
he is holy. And unclean shall not pass over,
but it shall be for those, the wayfaring men, Though fools should
err therein, no lion shall be there, nor any ravenous beast
shall go up thereon. It shall not be found there,
but the redeemed shall walk there." That's the place that God allows
us to walk, is in the way of holiness. It's not our holiness,
but it's His holiness given to us. We're placed in the person
Christ Jesus, and He is absolutely, in fact, thrice holy. Holy, holy,
holy is Him. And the ransomed of the Lord
shall return and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy
upon their heads, and they shall obtain joy, and gladness, and
sorrow, and sighing shall flee away. We read over there in the
book of Zechariah chapter 14, it says there'll be no more Canaanite
there. There's not going to be anything
that would bring imperfection into the presence of the Lord.
Those he saves, he will save and make them holy. And those
he does not save will not enter in. And in fact, they wouldn't
want to be there. All right. As we travel down
this road, we find in the book of Romans chapter 14, Romans
chapter 14. Here we find in this about the
kingdom of God. The Apostle Paul, again, was
led to write about this very thing, Romans chapter 14, verse
17. A lot of discussion about the kingdom of God and the kingdom
of heaven, how they're different and how this applies to that
and this applies to that. Well, the Bible is the best commentary
on the Bible that there is. And it says here, for the kingdom
of God is not meat and drink. It's not a physical kingdom.
It's a spiritual kingdom. Let's not get it mixed up. Holiness
is not physical. It's not outward show. It's holiness
that God gives us. Now, it's so true that God's
restraining power keeps us from doing a lot of the stupid things
that we might have done. But holiness is not something
that we produced. Holiness is something that is
given to us and we must have it or we'll not see God. It's
going to go on and tell us in another book, for the kingdom
of God is not meat and drink, but righteousness. Who's that? And peace. Who's that? And joy. Who's that? And it's all in the
Holy Spirit. It's revealed to us by the Spirit
of God. So we have this righteousness of Christ. He is our righteousness,
He is our peace, and He is our joy. So we have all of this contained
and in the person of Christ Jesus. And then, as we've already read,
we find out that there's not going to be anything that would
harm there. There's not going to be anything that would prevent.
There's not anything that would hold back. All of this is given
to us by the Lord and in the Lord. In the book of 1 Peter
1, 1 Peter 1, In 1 Peter 1, we find, and I
wrestled with this in religion. I cannot tell you how much I
wrestled with this in religion. 1 Peter 1, verse 16. 1 Peter 1, verse 16. Now, the Old Testament is full
of places. It says, you shall be holy for
I'm holy. And there are probably quite a number that said, I've
already got it. Don't have to worry about it. And there were
a remnant according to the election of grace that realized that they
had nothing of that on their own. They were gonna have to
depend holy, holy, holy, with a W, on someone else for that
holiness. All right, here it says, because
it is written, be holy for I am holy. There is no way that we'll
ever approach God without holiness, and that is Christ. We'll never
approach Him without holiness. This is so, and it permeates
the kingdom. It permeates the kingdom of God.
It permeates the kingdom of heaven. It permeates God's holiness,
permeates, and that's why we can read there in the book of
Zechariah, even the horses have it. Every pot has it. Every bowl has it. Everything
that was pictured around the tabernacle and the temple in
the Old Testament was contained under the subject of holiness.
Here it is, Zacharias writing a New Testament concept in the
Old Testament. Well, I'm being facetious there.
Old Testament, those who were saved were saved because of the
everlasting covenant or the new covenant. So it is written, be
holy as I am holy. And in Leviticus, a number of
places it tells us, be holy as I am holy. This is a requirement. Keep the law is a requirement. Impossibility, not going to be
accomplished by us. In fact, after the Lord saves
us, we find out just Oh, wretched man that I am. There's not an
ounce of holiness in me. There's not an ounce that I can
brag on. And then we find out we can brag
on Christ's holiness. We can brag on God's holiness.
Be holy. You shall be holy for I am the
Lord your God am holy. You be like me. Well, we find
out that he's the only one that can give us that. All right.
Turn with me, if you would, over in the book of Revelation. The
book of Revelation chapter four. Revelation chapter four. Revelation chapter four verse
eight. And the four beasts had each
of them six wings about him and they were full of eyes within
and they rest not day and night saying, exactly what the seraphim
said in the book of Isaiah. Holy, holy, holy. Now notice this name that is
mentioned here. Lord God Almighty. Now I'm thankful We shouldn't
have to have such a redundancy of names, because every one of
those names, Lord, God, and Almighty, all mean Lord, God, and Almighty. But the Lord is gracious to us
to repeat over and over and over again, the glory of God, He is
the Lord, He is God, and He is the Almighty One. which was and is and is to come. And when those beasts or living
creatures give glory and honor and thanks to him that sat on
the throne, who liveth forever and ever. Now that is the conclusion
that we find over in the book of Zechariah. In this place,
there will be no Canaanite. there will be no one that doesn't
know the Lord. There's going to be a separation.
Let's go back over there to the book of Zechariah. Zechariah. In Zechariah chapter 14, verse
21, we find that in verse 20, everything, that day shall there
be upon the bells of the horses holiness unto the Lord. They even will redound to the
glory and holiness of God. Every unclean. You know, I hear
the words of the leper, the required words of the leper. Unclean,
unclean, unclean. Required to cry it out so nobody
else would touch them or step into their shadow, in fact. And
here we find that the Lord speaks of an unclean beast as holiness
unto the Lord. The house shall be and the Lord's
house shall be like the bowls there before the altar. Yea,
every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto
the Lord. Everything, everyone, every being,
everything is holiness unto the Lord in his kingdom. It's not
meat or drink, it's a spiritual kingdom and we have the best
possible, we have Christ's holiness, we have Christ's righteousness
and we have Christ's joy. I really get trouble when people
come up and tell me that in the very near future we're going
to start offering animal sacrifices again. That troubles me. It tells
me a lot about the person. Number one, they don't know the
first thing about the gospel. Gospel believers are never going
to be looking for animal sacrifices again. There was one sacrifice
that put sin away forever. And we trust in Him. We're not
trusting in some future sacrifice. And the sacrifices that we are
privileged to offer today is the sacrifice of thanksgiving,
sacrifice of praise. It shouldn't have to be a sacrifice.
It should be an enjoyable thing to do, but that's the sacrifices
that we offer today. And God moves in us. Now, I've
used the illustration recently. My dad had given me a $100 bill.
It was his $100 bill till he gave it to me. And the guy today
tell me, well, what if you refuse it? And I says, are you going
to refuse a $100 bill? I'll have to try it next time. He gave it to me, it's mine now. Now I know where it came from,
but it is mine. He gave me his holiness. Now
I have holiness, but it is his, but it's now mine. He gave me
peace. It is his peace, but he gave
it to me. Now it's mine, but I know it's his. You know, we
just look at all of those spiritual blessings and we find out every
one of them were dependent upon the Lord to give them to us.
They are ours now. We have them for time and for
eternity, but we know where they came from. They're not something
that we produce. And then in that last verse of
that last chapter of the book of Zechariah, and in that day, Now, the Lord is not going to
ever accept a Canaanite, a spiritual Canaanite. Now, he's
accepted Moabites, he's accepted Jerichoites, he's accepted all
kinds of people of all kinds of races and all kinds of places. That's not the issue. The issue
here is Everybody that God saves is going to believe the same
thing about God. He's not going to have someone
coming in and say, well, I believe that God He did as much as he
could, but now I had to take over from that point. A Canaanite,
he's not gonna have that in his kingdom. There will be no Canaanites. And in eternal life, in eternal
heaven, there will be nothing that will mar, nothing that is
sinful, nothing that will do that. So the Canaanites are gonna
be kept out. There shall be no more Canaanite
in the house of the Lord of hosts. Isn't it interesting that the
name that Zechariah is so famous for using throughout this Fourteen
chapters of the book of Zechariah, Lord of Hosts, is the one that
closes out here. Lord of Hosts. He's the Lord
of the armies of heaven, the inhabitants of the earth. None
can stay his hand or say, what doest thou? And Zechariah said,
yea and amen. Here it is. The Holy Spirit has
given me this message. There will be those that will
understand and believe. God will give them that. And
there will be those who walk away and say, Zachariah is a
crackpot. I'm going to keep my Canaanite
beliefs. A bunch of Jews were Canaanites.
They believed their works were going to get them to heaven.
Jesus dealt with them during his own personal ministry. The
Pharisee believed that he was already okay. The publican knew
he wasn't. And God saved him, and he went
down to his house justified. So, Zechariah opened the book,
went through the book, he preached the gospel to everyone that came
in contact with him, and he left the results to God. But he also
understood that when God did a work, they would be holy. They would love God because He
first loved them. They would choose God because
He first chose them. And they would be part of the
church that in time, God's people will all meet, gather together,
and delight in His sovereign grace. With this, we'll close
the book of Zechariah. We're not quite sure where we're
going to go next time, but read the book of Esther.