All the wind instruments, string
instruments, all of that is orchestrated. Now, when we get to looking at
the providence of God, we get to looking at God as he's found
in the scriptures. Everything that happens is directed
or orchestrated for the salvation of his elect, for the glory of
God and for the glory of the church, everything. Now we can
say, well, people bring up this issue or that issue. I'm just
gonna say it again. Everything redounds for the glory of God
and is for the salvation of the elect. Now, we find in this chapter,
as just as well as we found in chapters one through eight, that
Zechariah shares with us that God is in charge. He's the Lord
of hosts. God is a savior. He's the only savior. Salvation
is of the Lord. Everything that happens redounds
to the glory of God. So we have a great God with great
salvation, saving great sinners. And we have the gospel. That's
the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. Now, we'll notice in
this chapter, chapter nine of Zechariah, that God may judge
nations, yet he will defend the church. Now we read over in the
book of Hebrews chapter 11. I like the first part of chapter
11, but we get towards the end of that chapter. It tells us
as God delivered, God raised, God did this, God did that. And
towards the end of that chapter, there were some of our brothers
and sisters in Christ that were really maltreated and God purposed
it and it was carried out for the salvation of the elect. Now,
Those folks that went through that horrific things that man
creates to punish the sheep of the Lord, they entered into glory,
their pain was over, their tears were over, their anguish is over,
their sin was over. So everything redounds for the
glory of God and is for the purpose of the elect. So we're gonna
find in verses one through eight of this, that God is going to
do some judgment upon certain groups. but he's always gonna
be protecting his church. If he delivers us from a problem,
that's protecting the church. If he has us pass through the
valley of the shadow of death, he's protecting his church, we're
in glory. So we're just not gonna find fault with what God does.
And in verses nine, 10, and 11, we have here a wonderful passage
of scripture that is brought out in the New Testament about
the Lord Jesus riding upon a foal of an ass And those people throwing
down those palm fronds and those clothes in front of him, crying
hail to this one, the Lord. Well, here we have the prophecy
of that. And what glory it was to these people, these same people
in the times of Zechariah, that the Lord would bring up the promise
of the coming Messiah. Well, it's just like today, when
we preach the gospel, we're preaching that the Lord is coming back.
We have that same promise exercised to us. He came for us and died
on the cross, but he's coming back for us to take us to glory.
So we're just looking at that so pleasantly. He is coming.
He is a king. He did come in that great fashion
and went to the cross, but he is coming back as he promised.
Someone's coming back. And in the last few verses of
this chapter, God has promised victory and the defense of the
church. He has promised victory. This
is the only God, this is the only God that can speak and has
power to take care of it and make it come to pass. All others
are such falsehoods, such fakes, such liars. But this God, this
God of the Bible, this Jehovah God, this great God, this mighty
God, when he speaks, He speaks his word and he has promised
to bring it to pass. And we take great delight in
that. And before we're converted, before we're given the new birth,
we're just mammy-pammy about that. But now we delight in this
great God that is able to take care of his people because he
has the power to do that. He has power beyond power. He is all powerful. I just can't
get my head around all in that passage of scripture, that thought.
The Lord uses Zachariah to declare through figure, figurative language,
his glorious end in this chapter nine, as he did through the previous
chapters and through the five chapters that are ahead of us.
So let's go back here to verse one of chapter nine. Well, in
fact, let's back up one verse. As Brother Bill mentioned last
week when he was bringing the lesson, these chapter headings
are inserted. Now I'm thankful, I'm thankful,
I'm thankful that they're there. We can find our place in the
Bible. And when the preacher says we're gonna go to Romans
chapter nine and verse 22, we can find it easily. But sometimes
I find myself thinking there's a complete change of thought,
but I want to go back to the last verse of the eighth chapter
and incorporate it in our reading tonight. So, thus saith the Lord
of hosts, chapter eight, verse 23, thus saith the Lord of hosts,
in those days it shall come to pass that 10 men shall take hold
of one out of all languages This is what the gospel is going to
do for people. The gospel is gonna go out, it's
gonna be preached, and God is gonna bring his people out of
all languages, out of all peoples, they're gonna assemble at the
feet of Christ. Even shall take hold of the skirt
of him that is a Jew. And we realize that there is
only one true one that can fit that position, and that's our
Savior, the Lord Jesus. He's the only one. And then,
we will go with you, they say, for we have heard that God is
with you. We're gonna travel with you because we've been told,
the gospel tells us, God is with you. In fact, it is so stated
in the scriptures that they shall call his name Emmanuel, which
being interpreted as God with us. What a delight, what a thought,
what a pleasantry that God gives the church to let us know that
God is with us. And he left his spirit with us.
And where two or three are gathered together in my name, there will
I be in the midst of them. You know, I didn't think much
about this kind of circumstance, but when I used to read that,
because this wasn't even a thought. I had no idea that this could
be a possibility. We use telephones and things
like that. But here, we're gathered together
around the throne of grace here in a Zoom meeting. It's amazing. And we can all say hallelujah.
to the Lord God and just be thankful that this is a possibility. And then verse one of chapter
nine, the burden of the word of the Lord. in the land of Hadritch,
the burden of the Word of the Lord. The Word of the Lord is
so valuable, so important, so important to us. That's why we
go over it and over and over, continue to go over the Word
of God. We're fickle creatures. We forget so easily. uh... the lord and his blessings we
forget the word we forget about what it says or just keep bringing
it up and bring it up and bring it up and then someday the lord's
gonna lock it into us when we see him in his glory and there'll
be no more discussion about where that is but it's the burden of
the word of the lord in the land of hedrek and Damascus shall
be the rest thereof, when the eyes of man, as of all the tribes
of Israel, shall be toward the Lord." Now, we're gonna spend
a little time on that in a little bit, but just look at that, what
took place. in order for the eyes of as of
the tribes of Israel shall be toward the Lord. What takes what
is required before we as born natural born citizens of this
world before that becomes a reality? We're gonna look at that in just
a minute. And then it tells us in verse two, and Hamath also shall border
thereby, Tyrus and Sidon, though it be very wise. Now, these are
actual places that were in Bible times, and some of them can still
be found, and some of them, they're obscure places that we don't
know where they are. And a lot of people have spent
a lot of time trying to find them, but you know what? It doesn't
matter. These were actual places, but
they also are symbolic. They are also typical of spiritual
matters, spiritual places, spiritual things. And we're gonna notice
that some of these places had no idea in the world about looking
unto the Lord Jesus, and there were some that did. Let's go
down here. And Tyrus did build herself a stronghold. Now that's
a very important thought there. They built themselves a stronghold. We're gonna look at that in a
moment. And this is just so common among religious people. It doesn't
matter what country we're from. Doesn't matter what language
we speak. Doesn't matter what thought we have about religion.
We are all interested in building our own stronghold. Well, the
Lord is going to come along and break that to pieces for every
one of his elect. He is going to break that thought
to pieces. And he is our stronghold in the day of trouble. He is
our stronghold. All right. And heaped up silver as the dust
and as fine gold as mire of the streets. There's so much of it. that is just so common in that
thought that is there. And then it goes on, so behold,
the Lord will cast her out and he will smite her power in the
sea and she shall be devoured with fire. So the Lord's gonna
speak out against this dependence upon these things in our life
before God taking them as the substitute for the blood of Christ
and the righteousness of Christ, taking them for a substitute.
And the Lord says, those are out. I'll have none of it. I'll
take none of that stuff. Well, let's go on. Ashkelon shall
be it, and fear Gaza also shall be it, and be very sorrowful,
and Ekron, for her expectations, shall be ashamed, and the king
shall perish from Gaza. And Ashkelon shall not be inhabited. And a bastard shall dwell in
Ashgab, and he shall cut off the pride of the Philistines.
And I will take away his blood out of his mouth, and his abominations
from between his teeth. But he that remaineth, even he
shall be for our God, and he shall be as a governor in Judah,
and Ekron as a Jebusite. And I will encamp about my house
because of the army. I will encamp about my house
That's a wonderful promise God gives to the church. I will encamp
about my house. And that's the promise that God
gives to us. He is encamped around the children of his children.
He's camped around every believer. And you know what? Those who
are his elect and have not come to Christ, have not been brought
to Christ, have not seen Christ, he still encamps around them.
They are protected. from death and any other of these
things that could happen, they're protected until the Lord saves
them by his grace. And then we could be like that
man that lifted up the Lord Jesus after he was born and say, now
let your servant depart in peace. I've seen thy salvation. So that
may happen the next second. Look at the thief on the cross.
It was just hours after the Lord saved him that he was taken out
of this world. So that's in the Lord's business,
that's taking care of him. And then it goes on to say, verse
eight, and I will encamp about mine house because of the army,
because of him that passeth by, and because of him that returneth.
Everybody that has an issue against the church, I will encamp against
them. "'I will protect the church from them.'" We have his word,
his counsel, his nurturing, his admonitions. We have all those
blessed things. And it goes on to say, "'And
no oppressor shall pass through them anymore, "'for now have
I seen with my eyes.'" Now notice verse nine, and this is as far
as we're going to go. "'Rejoice greatly.'" Don't just
rejoice, rejoice greatly. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, thy king cometh unto
thee. He is just and having salvation,
lowly and riding upon an ass, even the colt, the foal of an
ass. Well, we're going to stop right
there because we'll never get that far tonight. But we just
want to read that. This is what we're looking forward
to. And this is what God's people in the days of Zechariah, when
he brought this message to them and said here, as we read in
verse nine, look at all the things that are going on out here. But
rejoice greatly. The Messiah is coming. Rejoice
greatly. He will keep his word. He will
come at the right time. He will do all that he promised
in the covenant of grace. He will lay down his life, a
ransom for many. He will cause the church to rejoice
in his righteousness. Well, let's look at this. We
find that this chapter, like the other previous chapters and
the chapters to come, they could all be summed up. And the pastor
who brought me the gospel gave me this outline. And it is just
a phenomenal outline, because it's so simple. Number one, ruined
by the fall. Zechariah chapter one, Zechariah
chapter two, Zechariah chapter three, through the remainder
of this book, all through, excuse me, all through this book, all
through the book of Jeremiah, all through the book of Isaiah,
all through Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, through the book of
Revelation, we have this principle brought out that when Adam sinned,
it ruined his race, it ruined his family, it ruined everyone
that's gonna come along after him. And there's nothing in them
whatsoever, whether they're Jew or Gentile, all are sinners before
God. All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. So we're ruined by the fall.
And that principle is brought out throughout the scriptures.
That truth is brought out throughout the scriptures. But we also find,
as we found previous in this book, we find it in this chapter
and we'll find it later in the book, we find out that the Lord
has shared with us that his people will be redeemed by the Messiah.
they will be purchased by the Messiah. They are marked out
for purchase, and he has purchased them at the cross, and he will
declare to them he is the Redeemer that actually redeems. And then
we find that that's not left there. We find that the Holy
Spirit is going to be involved in this, and we're going to be
regenerated by the Holy Spirit. So we have the activity of the
Holy Spirit and it is symbolized to us in this chapter by allowing
us to see Christ. Allowing us to walk with him.
It is not our right. It is our privilege. And the
church bows before him and thanks him for every spiritual blessing
that he has towards us. And we just are thankful that
he would lift us out that such a horrible pit and set us upon
that solid rock. Now, the old church fathers,
they summed it up this way. There is total inability of man
to ever do anything that would be deserving of salvation, total
inability, total depravity, unconditional election. Now, I used to fuss
with that a little bit when I was in religion, but the truth of
the matter is there is no condition that we can perform that God
would recognize that he would come down and save us. It is
not by believing that he gives us the new birth. It is because
of the new birth we're permitted to believe. That is what we find
in the scripture. So it is a total inability. And then it's unconditional.
God had to do something before the foundation of the world to
save his people from their sins, and he did. He actually got involved
in it before the foundation of the world. He was greatly involved
in the covenant of grace. And there is a particular redemption.
Jesus Christ's death on the cross means something to the church.
It didn't make us savable, but it saves us. He acquaints us
with that in the regenerative act of the Holy Spirit. He acquaints
us with the fact that he intended to save us. He did not intend
to leave it up to us to choose because he already has written
in the scriptures for our edification, for our understanding, there's
nobody that would seek after him. So we need someone, someone,
and his name is Jesus Christ the righteous. We need someone
to redeem us. And he redeemed us at the cross. And he paid the whole bill of
our sin debt and set us free. And he took away our guilt. He
took away a sin and he established us in the church and gave us
all the rich promises of Christ. And then we have, there is effectual
calling. He fetches his people. It brings
them out of religion, fetches them. He gets involved in that.
Or we call it effectual grace or or he calls his people and
they respond. God's never ever lost a battle. He's going to win and the church
thanks him. And then we find out as a result
of all of that, that we find he's going to protect the church.
He oversees the church. He imputes his righteousness
to the church. There's not one sin that can
be committed that would put us in a, in a bad place. We do that
by nature, we find the Apostle Paul, said, oh, wretched man
that I am, but he never, ever was concerned that his salvation
would be taken away from him because I am the Lord, I change
not, therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed. I'm not gonna
change on this. I'll never change on anything,
but I'm not gonna change on this. And the church says, thank you,
Lord. Thank you, Lord. The many messages of God through
the Many writers are filled with all this glorious message from
beginning to end Salvation is of the Lord and Zechariah is
no different on that Zechariah has promised to preach God called
him to preach the gospel and he's promised to preach because
of Christ working in him Salvation is of the Lord. We'll never leave
that point up. It's salvation is of the Lord.
It's not of us. It's not of Jews. It's not of
Gentiles. It's not because we had this
ordinance. It's not because we're born in that place or because
we're born to that parent or anything else. It is because
of God's marvelous sovereign grace that we have that. All
right, now let's look down here. We're going to look at verse
one again here in this passage of scripture, chapter nine. This
wonderful passage of scripture, it begins with the word burden.
And sometimes we think of a burden as something that is oppressive.
But I look at this in this particular context at least, that this is
a joyful burden. This is a burden of the Lord.
It's a joyful burden. He is glad to declare this burden
of the Lord. He's glad to declare salvation
is of the Lord. And he's glad to declare that
those with Christ will never be lost. He's glad to declare
it's his burden. And he also puts that burden
upon his preachers. We find that the Apostle Paul
woes me if I preach not the gospel. I told Brother Mahan one time
when I was visiting him in Kentucky, He asked me about that, and I
said, you know, it's labor, but it's not work. It is not work. It's just Lord working in his
preachers to do according to his eternal purpose. So they
rejoiced greatly. This burden from this is in such
a beautiful, positive sense throughout this chapter and throughout this
book. Now, this word is used eight times in that last book
of numbers that we just went, the last chapter of numbers that
we just went through. Eight times in there, and it's
talking about the burden of the Levites. They had this responsibility. I can just see them as they were
going through this, as God gave them the ability to rejoice in
what they were doing because he gave them enough people to
take care of the whole process. It wasn't an overburden. It was
a responsibility placed upon them joy was to be had as they
enjoyed it therein verse 1 it goes on to tell us and Damascus shall be the rest
thereof when the eyes of when the eyes, as of all the
tribes of Israel, shall be toward the Lord. Now, the converse of
that is by nature, we're opposed to the Lord. We're away from
the Lord. We're not looking at him. In
fact, we find over the book of Hebrews chapter 12 and verse
two, looking unto Jesus. Now, why do we look to him? He's
the author and the finisher of our faith. Now it goes on to
tell us, who for the joy that was set before him. Now that
was a burden that he was given, but he also tells us it was a
great joy to do it. Who for the joy that was set
before him endured the cross. This is our savior sharing with
us his burden, who for the joy that was set before him, looking
unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith, he is going to
give this information to his people. I am the one that gave
you your faith. It's not yours, it's mine, and
I gave it to you. And I have great joy in doing
what I must do in the covenant of grace, who for the joy that
was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame."
Now, that word shame is an interesting word because, you know, the Lord
should never, if he was just a whippin' boy, he would have
never understood that. Now there used to be such thing
as a whipping boy. A rich man could have a child who got into
trouble and he would get someone else to take out his anger on.
A whipping boy. But that whipping boy never understood
the shame. Now the person who committed
the sin can understand what shame is. But the Lord shares with
us that he was so infinitely involved in redeeming us that
he could understand our shame, enduring the shame. who for the
joy that was set before us endured the shame, despising the shame,
and is now set down at the right hand of the Father." So he was
so involved in redeeming us that our sin was imputed to him and
he could understand or feel the shame of our sin. Well, when
he saves us, he's taken away the guilt of our sin. Doesn't mean that we're gonna
be given the license to sin, and if a person says, if I believe
that, I would go out and do this, they just don't understand grace.
Grace does not put that in our hearts, in our minds. We will
be sinners, but it isn't just because we want grace to abound.
That's what the Apostle Paul said. So, these guys' eyes. Well, turn with me, if you would,
back to the book of Isaiah chapter 17. Isaiah chapter 17. In Isaiah chapter 17, as we talk
about these eyes that were turned to the Lord, now, some of the
oddest people that you can imagine, the oddest nations, the oddest
places, the oddest languages, you know, we may just think that
there's There's just no hope for those folks. Well, that's
not what the Lord said when he said, I have some in that odd
nation, that odd group over there, and I'm going to pull them out
of that place. Well, here in the book of Isaiah,
chapter 17, verses seven and eight. Isaiah chapter 17, verses seven
and eight, it says, at that day shall a man look to his maker,
and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel. That's
our day of regeneration and the growth that we're given, growing
in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus
Christ. We look to his maker. Well, before
that, we never put much thought into that. The whole scheme of
the theory of evolution is not to have to answer to a God. And
you know, people who even believed in Creationism, when you get
down to it, those folks don't want to be answering to God either.
You know what that means? We didn't have a substitute.
And we need a substitute. Goes on to tell us here, shall
a man look to his maker and his eye shall have respect to the
Holy One of Israel. He's not just a helping Savior,
he is the Savior. And he shall not look to the
altars, his works, his sacrifices, the work of his hands, neither
shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the
groves or the images." When God saves us, these things are taken
away. They're no longer something that
we enter into. We're not going to be half for
the Lord Jesus and half for our old religion. Now, religion oftentimes
incorporated old myths and and idolatry into it and make it
more palatable. Well, the gospel never does that.
Gospel, to our natural state, is not palatable. It is not something
we want, and we have to be made to desire it. And that is happening
when we're regenerated by the Spirit of God. After we've heard
the gospel, God does a work of grace. And here it says there
in Isaiah 17, in verse seven, Seven there, that day shall a
man look to his maker and his eyes shall have respect to the
Holy One of Israel. Well, religion has no respect
for God and no respect for Christ and no respect for salvation
as it's declared in the scriptures. But here, the church has this
respect. And it goes on to tell us there,
okay, the altars are gone. We're not gonna be looking to
them. We look to Christ. He is all our salvation, all our hope. And neither shall respect that
which his fingers have made. Those things are done away with.
We never find the apostle Paul ever wanting to go back under
his old religion. And in the book of Isaiah chapter
45, would you turn there with me? Isaiah chapter 45 and verse
20. The word of God says, assemble
yourselves and come. Isaiah chapter 45 verse 20. Assemble
yourselves and come. Draw near together, ye that are
escaped of the nations. They have no knowledge that set
up the wood of their graven image and pray unto a God that cannot
save. Tell me and bring them near,
yea, let them make counsel together. who has declared this from ancient
times, who has told it from that time. Have not I, the Lord, and
there is no God else besides me, a just God and a Savior? There is none beside me. All
these other things are just garbage. Just garbage. So the Lord takes
care of that. The Lord is the only one that
can take care of that. The only one that can give us
all of this salvation and do something with all the trash
that we're carrying along with us. Unburden us of it. Take it away from us. Cause us
to understand that there's nothing in that. Well, also in the book
of Isaiah chapter 52, Isaiah chapter 52. In Isaiah chapter
52 in verse 10, The Lord hath made bare his holy
arm in the eyes of all nations, and all the ends of the earth
shall see the salvation of our God. Salvation is of the Lord. His holy arm. He bare his holy
arm. What a statement it is. He did
exactly what he promised he would do before the foundation of the
earth. The covenant of grace was fulfilled when Christ came
to this earth and went through that 33 and a half years of life,
all of the activities he went through, all the people he met,
all the messages he preached, all the words he did, all the
miracles he performed. He went to the cross and laid
down his life, a ransom for many. Well, in this, going back to
the book of Zechariah for just a moment here, the book of Zechariah
chapter nine, It tells us there in chapter nine, verse two, it
says, and Hamath also shall border thereby Tyrus and Sidon, though
it be very wise, and Tyrus did build herself a stronghold, and
heaped up silver as the dust, and fine gold as the mire of
the streets. How prolific was this picture
of this gold and silver, and yet we find out that this This
gold and silver is typical of our own redemption. Silver is
a picture of redemption, and we just heap it up to ourselves.
We have this whole mess of our own redemption by nature, and
gold, our own glory. We're the one that's gonna get
the glory in this, not God. So this is typical of a place,
a people, a person that takes care of all of their own work
by themselves to influence God. And it's not gonna be what God's
gonna do is tear it down. Now we notice in that verse,
it says, she shall build herself a stronghold, a stronghold, a place of security. a place to go hide when the enemy
comes. This is what she said. She would
build herself, and that's so typical of us by nature. We're going to have our own stronghold. What are we dependent upon? Well,
my grandparents were this religion. Oh, I've walked the aisle. I've
done this. Or the religions of the world. I've went through catechism.
I've gone down to this temple over in this country and I've
gone over here. All of those things that we find that natural
man will do. And yet the Lord says, these
strongholds are going to be torn down and they, he tears them
down for all of those that he loved from before the foundation
of the world. You'll turn with me to the book of Micah, Micah
chapter five, Micah chapter five. Micah, chapter five, Jonah, Micah,
chapter five, verse 11. And I will cut off the cities
of thy land and throw down all thy strongholds. You know, that's
what God has to do for us, has to throw down all our strongholds,
all our righteousness. He takes care of that. He's promised
to do that. He'll not leave us in that condition
of hanging on to part and then having him. That's not going
to happen. He just does not leave us in that lurch. He doesn't
leave us in that position. He is going to tear down all
those strongholds. He told in this figurative language
about this place, It's a place, but it's also speaking about
a people that are depending upon building their own strongholds.
And, you know, you just get around people. What's important? What
is important to you? And we find out all sorts of
things that are important to people. And almost always, there's
not a thing about Christ, there's not a thing about the gospel,
there's not a thing about it. It's just something that I feel
as very important to my position before God. I pray, I pay tithes,
I, and on and on it goes. Well, let's look at another passage
here in the book of Nahum. Nahum chapter one. Nahum chapter
one. Right after the book of Micah,
the book of Nahum, chapter 1, verse 7 says, the Lord is good, a stronghold
in the day of trouble, and he knoweth them that trust in him. The Lord is good, a stronghold. He gives us himself as our stronghold. That's where our security is.
He's going to go on here in the book of Zechariah chapter nine
and share with us that he is going to protect the church.
He's going to protect his people. He's a stronghold. Nobody can
get to him. I and my father, one, my father,
which gave them to me, they're in his hand. They're in my hand.
Nobody can take them out. Romans chapter eight, last few
verses. All that the Lord does on the behalf of the church,
nothing can be backed off, nothing can be taken away. And it finishes
there and glorified. The promise is glorified. So we have all of these actions
by God on the behalf of the church. Not one thing that we do, we
have nothing. There's not one thing that we
have that God expects us to use toward our own salvation. Nothing,
just absolutely nothing. not any silver, our own redemption,
and not any gold, our own glory. He's not going to use that. Now
he's going to use his redemption, he's going to use his glory,
but he will not have any of ours whatsoever involved in this.
So the book of Zechariah, Zechariah again is going to be preaching
the gospel, ruined by the fall, redeemed by Christ, and regenerated
by the Holy Spirit, just like all the Bible declares. And in
that There is a people that he loved with an everlasting love. And that love is not, we don't
reciprocate that love until he gives us a new birth. We don't
even know what love is. And he loved us with an everlasting
love. We couldn't even spell our own
name. And he wrote our names in the Lamb's book of life. We
don't know the alpha and omega. We don't know his language, but
he wrote our names in the Lamb's book of life. And then the Lord,
when he came, He had all of his people graven on the palms of
his hand. Why? They were written there. And
he knew exactly what he was doing. So he is a stronghold in the
day of trouble. He is a stronghold. And as it
told us there, he is the one that takes care of all our problems. He's the one that takes care
of all issues where salvation is of the Lord. But I want to
thank you for joining us tonight and those who join us through
Sermon audio. God bless you. And next time
we want to look at Zechariah chapter 9 some more, see if we
can't find something else in this passage that shares with
us the glory of Christ and the glory that he gives to the Church.