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Norm Wells

Hath Redeemed Us

Zechariah 14:10-11
Norm Wells January, 11 2023 Audio
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Study of Zechariah

In his sermon titled "Hath Redeemed Us," Norm Wells addresses the theological theme of redemption as depicted in Zechariah 14:10-11, emphasizing God's sovereign work in salvation. He argues that redemption is not merely making people savable, but consists of God's active engagement in actually saving His people, a point he highlights through the parallel with Revelation 5:9. Wells expands this theme by referencing Isaiah 40 and the assurance found in other Scriptures, underscoring that God's promises regarding salvation are fulfilled entirely in Christ. This redemption leads to a transformed community, a secured church that dwells safely in divine peace, signifying both practical comfort and doctrinal assurance for believers in the Reformed tradition.

Key Quotes

“He didn't make us savable... but a savior that actually saves his people and a redeemer that actually redeems his people is the best news I ever heard of.”

“The work of righteousness and the effect of righteousness... shall be peace. And the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.”

“Nothing can remove God's people from the position that they're in. Shall tribulation... Nope, nope, nope. Nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God.”

“Every spiritual blessing is yours. Everything. I've held back nothing.”

Sermon Transcript

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Join me tonight in the book of
Zechariah. Zechariah chapter 14, the last
chapter of the book of Zechariah. And we're going to be spending
some time on verses 10 and 11 tonight. And what a statement
about the spiritual work of God is mentioned in these two verses
of Scripture. It is the spiritual work of God. He's the only one that can accomplish
what we find in these verses of Scripture. In Zechariah chapter
14 and verse 10, the scriptures share with us, all the land shall
be turned as a plane from Gibeah to Rimen, south of Jerusalem. And it shall be lifted up and
inhabited in her place from Benjamin's gate and to the place of the
first gate and to the corner gate and from the tower of Hananiel
unto the king's wine presses. And verse 11, and men shall dwell
in it, and there shall be no more utter destruction, but Jerusalem
shall be safely inhabited. Well, in this verse 10, we have
a description of the largeness and the extensiveness of the
church. This measurement that is given
here is the land, all the land. And a dimension of Jerusalem
is mentioned in here, all the church, all of it is mentioned
in here. And it reminds me of a verse
of scripture in the book of Revelation chapter five and verse nine.
If you'd turn there with me, I'd like to read that verse of
scripture because it shares much about what we're going to be
reading here. In the book of Revelation chapter five and verse
nine, They sung a new song. Revelation chapter 5 verse 9.
And here we have the dimensions of the church mentioned again.
Because it shares with us, thou art worthy to take the book and
open the seals thereof, for thou wast slain and hast redeemed
us to God. Now today I had a conversation
with a young man and he wanted me to share with him the gospel.
And I said, that's what I've been doing. And he says, what
is the gospel? And I said, the gospel is sharing
the message, the good news about Christ who can actually save
his people. He didn't make us savable. That
is very difficult because it leaves it up to us. And what
happens if we make a mistake? but a savior that actually saves
his people and a redeemer that actually redeems his people is
the best news I ever heard of. And that's the message of Christ.
That's the gospel. It's good news that he had a
purpose in what he was doing and he went about fulfilling
that purpose. That's good news. Well, here we find in the book
of Revelation chapter five and verse nine, thou has redeemed
us. Didn't make us redeemable, but
redeemed us. He paid for us. He put himself
in our place, and he redeemed us by his own blood. What does
it say? He hath redeemed us by thy blood
out of every kindred, tongue, and people, and nation. Now,
if you draw that out on the earth, you've covered the earth. It's
a description like we have here in the book of Zechariah chapter
14 and verse 10. There is a description of all
the land that is there. Now in the book of Isaiah chapter
40, we have some wonderful information that goes right along with this
passage of scripture. And Isaiah is a prophet, Old
Testament prophet. He is a minister of the gospel.
He's a preacher of righteousness, just like we find Zechariah is. Here in the book of Isaiah, Isaiah
chapter 40. Now, we're familiar with the
first part of this verse, but we want to read why is this so
encouraging? Why? Isaiah chapter 40. Comfort ye, comfort ye my people. There in verse 1 it says, Comfort
ye, comfort ye my people, saith the Lord. speaking comfortably
to Jerusalem, and crying to her, that her warfare is accomplished,
that her iniquity is pardoned, for she hath received of the
Lord's hand double for all her sins." And that's the gospel.
That is good news. That's the good news about a
Redeemer that actually redeems His people from their sins. Now,
let's drop down to verse 3, "...the voice of him that crieth in the
wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in
the desert a highway for our God." Now, we go over to the
New Testament and we find out who this is that's saying that.
He is one that is testifying about the gospel, the good news,
Christ. Now notice verse 4, what's going
to happen when he preaches the gospel, or when Isaiah preaches
the gospel, or when Zechariah preaches the gospel? Every valley
shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low, And
the crooked shall be made straight, and rough places plain. What
does the gospel do for us? It takes care of all the imperfections,
and all the impurities, and all the problems that we have in
the fall. Everything is made right, just
like it was in the beginning. And the glory of the Lord shall
be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together, for the mouth
of the Lord hath spoken it. So we have the authority of the
Lord. that this is how it's going to happen. So every valley, now
in our verse of scripture there in Zechariah chapter 10, all
the land shall be turned as a plain. Now, if you look at Israel, the
nation of Israel on a map, on a map that shows the mountains,
that is a hilly country. And as Mike has been bringing
out during the Bible classes, down, up, down, up, getting to
Jerusalem. Well, here we have, in this passage
of scripture, in the book of Zechariah, chapter 14 and verse
10, that there's going to be a spiritual overdoing. There's going to be an overmaking.
There's going to be a making things right. And it's going
to be every valley shall be exalted and every mountain shall be brought
low. Here it says, and all the land shall be turned as a plane
from Gibeah to Rimmon, south of Jerusalem, and it shall be
lifted up. Jerusalem shall be lifted up
and inhabited in her place. Jerusalem shall be exalted. Jerusalem
shall be lifted up. The church shall be brought out
of this." And what a glorious statement. Now, in the book of
Luke, chapter 3, we have the fulfillment of this verse of
Scripture found in the book of Isaiah, chapter 40. every valley
shall be exalted." Now, there have been certain ones that have
looked at that and said, that's exactly what people were supposed
to do when it came to the cities of refuge. They were to make
it as level and straight as they could. Now, Given the landmass
that they were dealing with it was impossible for everything
to be exactly level and not exactly straight for everybody to get
there, but when it comes to Christ Everything is made level. Everything
is made straight and all the paths are of God's salvation
lead to the work and person of Jesus Christ. There is no roundabout
ways. There is one way, and that is
a very narrow way, and it's the way that Christ has said, I am
the way, the truth, and the life. So he has it purposed, and here
is the description of it. Isaiah has a description of it.
Zechariah has a description of it. And as we follow this out,
we find that this is just the plain Bible teaching about salvation. In verse 10, the seat of the
church of the living God shall be filled with the knowledge
of God. There's going to be, everybody in the church is going
to be, well, we read in the book of John, I believe it's chapter
five, taught of God. And if you're taught of God,
you will come to Christ. there's nowhere else to go if
we're taught of God. Now, if we're not taught of God,
we'll find any other place. But since God teaches His people
that He draws, He teaches us We're taught of Him and Christ
is the center. Last week we mentioned that there's
a lot of sign boards and I just, this last week I noticed one
different places here in town, you know, always away from that
post. Well, in Christ we find all of the prophets standing
on the outside pointing to one person. Isaiah pointed to the
same person that John did. Jeremiah pointed to the same
person that Titus did. Everybody is pointing in the
same direction, and they're not looking for their own following.
They're looking to point people to Christ. And when they go to
Him, they say, hallelujah. And they don't say, oh, look
what I'm losing. Hallelujah. Go to Christ. So every signboard,
every prophet, every passage is pointing us to the Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ. We notice the boundaries here.
The scriptures teach us that every, and we're gonna read a
few verses, every bit of the property that God promised national
Israel, they got. Now that's a picture to us. It's
a statement for us. God is going to give everyone
in the church, everyone he ever saved, the same exact proportions. And that's all of Christ. Can
you imagine? You get all, I get all, you get
all, you get all. We all get the same amount. We get all of Christ and everybody
gets every spiritual blessing in Christ Jesus. And there's
no fear in coming to Christ because He has taken upon Him the punishment
that we were due. So now we come and we're on good
terms. We're friendly. We have this
friendly relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ. What a blessing it is to know
that this God that is taught in the book of Jeremiah, taught
in the book of Isaiah, taught in the book of Zechariah, has
all power because it takes a great deal of power to do what was
mentioned. From a physical standpoint, I mean, we say that's impossible. But from a spiritual standpoint,
it takes all power to raise us out of the dust and resurrect
us as Christ was raised from the dead. It tells us the same
power it took to raise Christ is what it takes to raise us
from the spiritual dead. In the book of 1 Corinthians
chapter 2, would you join me there? 1 Corinthians chapter
2. Now the problem that we face,
1 Corinthians chapter 2, verse 14. This is the problem
that we face. This is the problem I faced this
morning. This is the problem we face when
we're talking to our family, our children, our grandchildren,
our family, our aunts, our uncles, our brothers, our sisters. When
we come to them with the gospel, the good news about Christ who
actually will save his people from their sins, whose name means
He shall save His people from their sins, is this very verse
of scripture in 1 Corinthians 2 and verse 14. This is why they
cannot understand. This is why I couldn't understand.
When I was being given the gospel, I could not understand it. I
thought the gospel was brought out clearly in 1 Corinthians
15, where it says in verses 1 through 3, This is the gospel. How that Christ died for our
sins according to the scripture, was buried and rose again the
third day. I thought that's what it is. Well, when Brother Henry
said that he didn't know the gospel, and then the Lord revealed
the gospel to him, he's talking completely out of my league.
because the gospel to be seen spiritually has to be revealed
to us. And it says, but the natural man receiveth not the things
of the Spirit of God here in 1 Corinthians 2 and verse 14,
for they are foolishness unto him. And there is no greater
truth about that. That's the best way we could
possibly say it. That's the way the Bible says it. It's foolishness. The truth of the gospel is foolishness
unto natural man. Because they neither can they
know them because they are spiritually discerned now when God reveals
himself to his people and He teaches us and he brings us to
Christ Then we have teachable spirits and when the Bible is
brought to our attention. We say there it is That's what
it's teaching. Well, let's go on here. I Without
the new birth, we cannot see and we cannot enter the kingdom
of God. In the book of Joshua chapter
23, would you join me over there? As we think about the size of
the city, the size of that, verse 10 shared with us the largeness
and the extensiveness of the church of Christ. measured from south to north, east to west.
Here it is, all of it. And in the book of Joshua, chapter
23, we find that Joshua, again, a preacher of righteousness,
is sharing with us how much God gave to us. It's wonderful when
we read it here in the book of Joshua chapter 23 and verse 14. This is how much God gives to
His children, how much He gives to every individual member of
His body. Joshua chapter 23, verse 14,
the scriptures say this, And behold, this day I am going the
way of all the earth, and you know in all your hearts and in
your souls that not one thing hath failed of all the good things
which the Lord your God spake concerning you. Now just apply
that from a spiritual context. You know in your hearts that
everything that God said he's gonna give us is ours. Now we
may not have discovered all that he's given us, but everything
that he has given is ours. As we found over there, the size
of that, the measurement of that, the largeness of that is to express
to us the greatness of our God and his ability to do what he
said he would do there in the land. Make everything flat, smooth,
and approachable, and then exalt the church. All right, it goes
on to tell us here, hath not failed of the good things which
the Lord your God spake concerning you, all are come to pass unto
you, and not one thing hath failed thereof." So everything from
a physical standpoint, Joshua says, you got. And Joshua is
saying to the church, everything that God promised from a spiritual
standpoint is yours. He has promised it. It is yours.
It is given to you. Now, let's travel back just a
little bit into the book of Joshua chapter 21. Joshua chapter 21,
and we have these words recorded for us. Joshua chapter 21, verse
43. And the Lord gave unto Israel
all the land which he swore to give unto their fathers, and
they possessed it and dwelt therein. One more time, Joshua's reminding
the children of Israel. And they could say, we didn't
get everything. And Joshua said, the Lord promised it and he gave
it to you. Now, from a spiritual standpoint, he's saying the same
thing. Every spiritual blessing is yours. everything. I ve held back nothing. There
is no secrets in this Christianity. We don t have to get in and then
someone comes along and teaches us the deeper things. Everything
is given to the church. And he goes on and says, And
the Lord gave them rest round about. What s that? The Lord
is our Sabbath? The Lord is our rest. You know,
it struck me today. I was driving and that verse
of scripture came up, and I probably can't quote it right, but the
Lord told a bunch of Pharisees, I am the Lord. The Lord is the
Lord of the Sabbath. What's he saying? I'm in charge
of peace. I'm in charge of rest. You're not going to get it yourself,
but I'm in charge of it. I give it. Well, that's what we're given,
rest. You're given righteousness, giving sanctification, given
holiness, given all the spiritual blessings. And some of them I'm
yet to discover as I go through the word, but they're mine. It
goes on to say, the Lord gave them rest round about according
to all that he swear unto their fathers. And there stood not
a man of all their enemies before them. The Lord delivered all
their enemies into their hand. What a wonderful statement that
Joshua brings up to the children of Israel, and what a wonderful
statement the preacher of righteousness brings up to the church. God
took care of every enemy of the church. There's none dragging
along yet. They're taken care of. And then
he says, there fail not ought of any good thing which the Lord
had spoken unto the house of Israel all came to pass. And
Joshua, The preacher of righteousness is telling the church everything
God ever promised he has power to give and he has given. What
a glorious thing, as the size of the church is from nation,
kindred, people, and tongue. from Alaska to the former Soviet
Union, excuse me, from the islands of the Pacific until Finland.
All over there are God's people that he has pulled out of that
place in every generation and drawn them to himself out of
every kindred, nation, people, and tongue. Hath redeemed us
by thy blood. Well, wonderful, Solomon in the
book of 1 Kings 8. 1 Kings 8. 1 Kings 8. Verse 56.
Now this hole whole chapter is his prayer.
It's wonderful to read because Solomon is really sharing with
us the goodness of God as a preacher of righteousness. Now he's speaking
to the national Israel standing in front of him, but he's also
speaking to the church who is, well, I like what Paul had to
say. Solomon could have said it, not all of you are Israel. Joshua could have said the same
thing, not all of you are Israel. Moses could have said the same
thing in his day. Not all of you are Israel. 12
of you came back with an evil report and they've been destroyed.
Isn't that much longer? Not all of you are Israel. Korah
goes down into the pit and 250 people are consumed. Well, here
we have blessed, 1 Kings 8, verse 56, blessed be the Lord that
hath given rest unto his people Israel according to all that
he promised. Now, he made the purpose and
the promise before he carried it out. But he said, Blessed
be the Lord that hath given rest unto all his people Israel according
to all that he promised. There hath not failed one word
of all the good promise which he promised by the hand of Moses
his servant. Not one promise failed. Boy, I wish I could do that in
one day. But God does it all the time. Every good promise that He has
ever promised, He will keep. He has the power to do that.
And so, as we read there in the book of Zechariah, as you look
at the extent of the land, at the reaches of it, the dimensions
of it, and then He said, out of the middle of it, Jerusalem
shall be exalted. Jerusalem shall be raised. What
a blessing that we are raised out of that. Now, turn with me,
if you would, to the book of Mark. Israel shall be raised
out of the dust. We were raised out of the dust
of the fall. We're just raised up. And it
tells us here in the book of Mark, Mark chapter 9, Mark chapter
9. Mark 9, verse 25. When Jesus saw that the people
came running together, he rebuked the foul spirit, saying, Thou
dumb and deaf spirit, I charge thee, come out of him and enter
him no more. And the spirit cried, and rent
him sore, and came out of him, and he was as one dead, insomuch
that many said, he is dead. But Jesus took him by the hand
and lifted him up and he arose. Now, isn't that a description
of what God does for us? What we had in the fall? I'll
never forget Brother Rupert mentioning in a message here about the maniac
of Gadara. cast out those demons out of
him. And he says, you know, we were
filled with demons, our own. And it is he that cast them out. And he mentioned that to a preacher's
wife one time. She said, I never had that. I
never had that. Well, If you've ever been saved,
do you know what part of it it is, at least, what He saved us
from? And it was all that demon, ourself. Well, He raised Him
up. We are dead and we must be raised.
Matthew 11. Matthew 11 and verse 5, the resurrection
Jesus provides. It's interesting that the Lord
told a group of people, it said, you know, I have, someone died
in my family, I need to go bury them. You know what he said to
them? Let the dead bury the dead. How do you sort that out? Let
the dead, well, the dead in sin bury the dead physically. He's
just saying, by nature, there's where we are. Dead. Dead. And we may be animated. We may
have a physical heart beating. We may have brain power. We may
have all that stuff. But when it comes to spiritual
things, we are graveyard dead. Here in the book of Mark, excuse
me, Matthew chapter 11, Matthew chapter 11 and verse 5, as it
tells us about Jerusalem, we're going to be raised up. What a
blessing that God would provide our resurrection, along with
every other spiritual blessing. What did Jesus tell these people
that came from John? John was in prison just before
he is sentenced to death, and he sends a delegation to Jesus
and has some questions. I've had people say, see, he
doubted his salvation. Oh my goodness. It's not what
happened. This is the reason he sent the
delegation is so we get to read this. It says here, Jesus answered
and said unto them, verse four, go and show John again those
things which you do hear and see. The blind receive sight. And some people say, yeah, I
was over there when he healed that blind man. They missed the
point. And then he says, and the lame
walk. Yeah, I was over there that time
when he made that lame man walk. And the lepers are cleansed.
Oh, I remember that guy. There were 10 of them. And one
came back. They all were healed, but he
came back. All kinds of people are going
to point out the physical things that Jesus did. And he's a good
man, and he's doing good. But the Lord is speaking about
a much greater thing than that. He goes on to tell us, oh, the
dead are raised up. the poor have the gospel preached
to them. Every one of these things are to be taken from a spiritual
context because the gospel preached unto them is a spiritual thing.
All right, it tells us in there, the dead are raised up. Peter, was educated in the Jews'
religion, and there for a little while, even after he was saved,
he went off there just a little bit, and Paul had come along
and says, uh-oh, no, no, no, no, no. Don't fall into that
trap again. And Peter understood what he
was talking about. You know, that's one thing about
God's people, they're teachable spirits. They're teachable. Peter was teachable. I want to be teachable. Well,
here it says, the dead are raised up. And so we have that beautiful
picture over there in the book of Zechariah, all the good work
of God. I gave you the measurements.
I flattened it out. I raised up Jerusalem out of
the mess. And then he goes on to tell us
in verse 11, verse 11, This is the result. Zechariah
chapter 14, verse 11. I'm doing all of this that's
mentioned in verse 11. The size of the church, you know,
the Lord says it's a remnant according to the election of
grace. And yet we also find out that it's a number that no man
can number. Verse 10, all the land shall
be turned as a plain. And then it gives us the reference
points. And we look at that and say,
well, I've never been over there. Well, he's just sharing what
we read in the book of Isaiah. Every valley shall be exalted,
every hill shall be made low, the crooked shall be made straight.
That's my business. That's how I do my business.
That's how I save my people. I do it. And then he says in
verse 11, and men shall dwell in it. What? Jerusalem. Jerusalem
shall be lifted up, says in verse 10. And men shall dwell in it,
and there shall be no more utter destruction Now notice the last
phrase, but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. Nothing can remove God's people
from the position that they're in. Shall tribulation, Romans
chapter eight, the last few verses, what is able to separate us from
the love of God? Shall this, shall that, shall
this, shall that. Nope, nope, nope. Nothing shall
be able to separate us from the love of God. Nothing can take
us out of the church. Nothing can remove us from God's
love. Nothing can remove. Sin cannot
do anything. You know, I think of this and
I don't want to be sacrilegious, but what does God do when his
people sin? Nothing. If they did, Jesus didn't pay
for that sin. And if he did pay for that sin,
I would that you'd sin not. I would that you'd sin not. But
we have an advocate. When you sin, we have an advocate
with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous. I would that you'd
sin not. But Jesus Christ does not react
to our sin. God reacted to our sin in His
Son on the cross, and it was completely and totally taken
care of. And we get to hear the Lord say
on that day, welcome thou good and faithful servant, and we'll
be like the rest of them and say, when were we that? When
were we that? Well, in Christ. All right. The
men shall dwell in it and There shall be no more utter
destruction, but Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited. Jerusalem shall be safely inhabited
is properly, this word means a place
of refuge. Now I was hoping that this word
is the same word for city of refuge, but it wasn't quite.
But it is, Jerusalem is a place of refuge. The church is a place
of refuge. In the book of Isaiah again,
the gospel according to Isaiah, going back here, Isaiah has to
say this about the work of righteousness. In Isaiah chapter 32, the work
of righteousness. This is God's work in us. This
is the work of the righteous one. What is that? how often we've heard, as Peter
did, Paul did, what must I do to be saved? And that is a statement
right out of the fall. Because there's, God never asked
us to do anything in our salvation. He has taken care of it all.
Salvation is of the Lord. Now, let us read this. The work
of righteousness The work of righteousness, the work of Christ,
the work of salvation, the work in us shall be peace. And the effect of righteousness,
quietness and assurance forever. Now, that's a wonderful statement.
That's almost what we read over there in the book of Zechariah.
that dwell safely. It's going to be a place of peace.
The church, our relationship with God is for once and forever
on good terms. We are accepted in the beloved.
We can come boldly before his throne of grace. We have this
given to us that we have this access by faith unto the Lord. The work of righteousness and
the effect of righteousness want peace, effect, quietness, and
assurance forever. To be settled on this. You know,
I've heard Mike say about up there, people are, it seemed
like every other Sunday that people were getting saved or
wanted to know what, you know, that was over for me one time. Heard the gospel, it took care
of it. Just took care of it. I don't have to go fishing, and
it's, Lord, if I catch a fish, then that means I'm saved. No,
it's all foolishness. Well, as we look here in Jeremiah
23. Let's move another book here.
In the book of Jeremiah 23, as we read about this peace and
safety that we have in Jerusalem, in the church, to be settled,
to have peace, to rest under our own vine. The way the Bible
describes it is so many ways to be at rest in Christ, to have
Him as our peace, to have Him as our Sabbath. And here in the
book of Jeremiah chapter 23, Jeremiah chapter 23, we have
this wonderful statement made again. Verse six says, and in
his days, Judah shall be saved and Israel shall dwell safely. Now notice this, and this is
his name whereby he shall be called. How do we dwell safely? How do we dwell safe? The Lord
our righteousness. That's who it is. That's what
it's all about. It's, well, I think of the Lord
telling his disciples to launch out into the deep. You can't
get any deeper than the Lord our righteousness. Alright, let's
look again here in the book of Jeremiah, chapter 32. Jeremiah chapter 32. Jeremiah
chapter 32 and verse 17, as we think of the church, Jerusalem
dwelling safely, certainly isn't going on now. And it never will in this world.
Jerusalem, well, I like what the writer of Hebrews said. He
said, you have not come to Mount Sinai, but you are come to Mount
Zion. Mount Sinai is judgment. Never
a good word given to us in the law, but in the gospel, everything
is a good word. All right, let's notice here
in Jeremiah 32 verse 70. All Lord God behold thou hast
made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and stretched
out stretched out arm, and there
is nothing too hard for thee. Thou showest loving kindness
unto thousands and recompense the iniquities of the fathers
into the bosom of their children after them. The great and mighty
God, the Lord of hosts is his name. And then let's just jump
over to chapter 33 and verse 16. Chapter 33 of the book of
Jeremiah and verse 16. And here we have the name of
the church. This is the name of Jerusalem.
This is the name of New Jerusalem. In those days shall Judah be
saved and Jerusalem shall dwell safely. And this is the name
wherewith she shall be called. Oh, we have a new name. The Lord our righteousness. You
know, it's so wonderful in when we fell in Adam, that word Adam
means man, and we carry that to the grave. We're just flesh. But spiritually, the Lord has
taken us out of that family and given us a new name. And this
new name is the same name as our Savior's name, the Lord,
our righteousness. Judah and Israel dwelt safely
under Solomon's reign all the days. They didn't have to worry
about the enemy. I was driving down the I-5 down
through Medford. You know what's interesting?
The Dalles has four exits and it's 12,500 and Medford has 90,000
and they have two exits. politics. Anyway, I was driving
from one exit to the other exit, and I'm going along there after
the Lord saved me. I says, you know what? I'd been taught that he was the
problem all along. He was my worst problem, and
the worst problem was this. That's my worst problem. So I
don't do a lot of talking about him because he's been taken care
of. The Lord took care of him at the cross. Now, if he does,
he's by permission, and he is the Lord Satan. created by Him. Anyway, the Lord
our Righteousness there shall be dwelling safely. Let's go back there to the book
of Zechariah one more time. Chapter 14 of the book of Zechariah,
chapter 14 and verse 10 and 11. Notice the dimension of the land.
Notice the size. Now, I've never been over there.
I've never drawn a map over there. I don't think you could find
these places on a map. Some of them are so hidden that
they're just not recognizable anymore. So I'm going to quit
worrying about that. I'm going to look at this and
say, this is God's description. of His world for us. And in the middle of that, He's
going to raise up Jerusalem out of the mess, and there's going
to be peace in Jerusalem, peace in the church. He is our peace. He is our righteousness. Now,
before we close, I want to read verse 12. And this is what God's
going to do to those who oppose the church. These are the left-hand
people, folks, the left-hand people. And this shall be the
plague wherewith the Lord shall smite all the people that have
fought against Jerusalem. Their flesh shall consume away
while they stand upon their feet, their eyes shall consume away
in their holes, and their tongue shall consume away in their mouth.
Now there's three things that we're gonna look at next time.
Is there their flesh? What is natural man's flesh?
Their eyes and their tongue. And the Lord says, I'm gonna
judge every one of those. And that's what he did and left
them on the left hand side. All right, we're gonna stop there.
Thank you for your kind attention. Is there any other prayer requests
before we have a word of prayer?

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