Good evening, and would you turn
with me in your Bibles to the book of Zechariah? Zechariah
we're going to stop and read a verse in Zechariah chapter
1 and verse 16 and then we're going to be spending some time
in Zechariah chapter 2 In the close of this chapter chapter
1 Zechariah has seen Jerusalem's enemies baffled and broken So
that now he begins to to hope she shall not be ruined Jerusalem
will not be ruined What a great gospel message we have here as
Zachariah Led by the Holy Spirit to share with the Church of the
Living God that Jerusalem will be Recovered that Jerusalem will
not be ruined there in Zechariah chapter 1 in verse 16. It says
therefore thus saith the Lord I am returned to Jerusalem with
mercies What a blessed thought that is that God of heaven the
God of heaven through his son the Lord Jesus Christ is has
his eye on Jerusalem, and he will return to Jerusalem. Now,
we're not talking here, and Zachariah could have been using this as
a physical illustration as what was going on in physical Jerusalem,
but truly, we find that he is speaking of much greater thoughts
than that, spiritual thoughts, as the Holy Spirit brings them
to him, of spiritual Jerusalem. That's the true Jerusalem, that's
the Jerusalem that will endure, that God blessed in every spiritual
way So as it tells us here and he goes on it says my mercies
with the house of Israel and the my house shall be built in
it saith the Lord of hosts and a line shall be stretched forth
upon Jerusalem, so there's there is Every indication in this passage
of scripture that the Lord of Heaven has his eye upon spiritual
Jerusalem upon the church and it is so much so that he has
a line stretched a Builders line a carpenters line a surveyors
line has been sent out now Zechariah was ordered and we notice that
If we read all of the prophets of the Old Testament or any of
the works of the New Testament all these prophets and these
apostles these writers were effectually ordered God ordered them to do
that he did it effectually and They did it as God intended the
words were God's and they were not men's they were the not the
writings of any men but they were the writings of the Holy
Spirit and he used men to do it and Zechariah was ordered
in God's name to comfort the people in Jerusalem and the line
should be stretched forth upon Jerusalem and now here in Zechariah
chapter 2 We have some more with regard to this line that is stretched
out we have the promise illustrated and confirmed in this passage
of scripture and Now Zachariah is going to have some visions
and with regard to what the Lord has given him and There is one
place in one place only that I have any confidence in the
meaning of visions and dreams those found in the Bible and
all of them I cannot remember any of these visions that are
in the Bible that God gave to Joseph or to Daniel or to anyone
else that were to be taken literally. So we look at Joseph's dreams
there. There were seven cows that were
lean or well-fattened cows, which represented seven good years.
And then there were seven cows that were just skin and bones,
and they represented seven years of no harvest, so they were pictorial,
metaphorical. Zechariah has another vision
here in chapter 2, and a man with a measuring line in his
hand. What was he to measure? He's
to measure Jerusalem. Here in the book of Zechariah
chapter 2, I lifted up my eyes again and looked, and behold,
a man with a measuring line in his hand. Then said I, Whither
goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure
Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and the length
thereof. And behold the angel that talked
with me, went forth and another angel went out to meet him and
Said unto him run speak to this young man say in Jerusalem shall
be inhabited as towns without walls for the multitude of men
and cattle therein For I saith For I saith the Lord will be
unto her a wall of fire round about and will be the glory in
the midst of her and Well, these are wonderful statements and
pictures in what Zachariah saw of the church, of spiritual Jerusalem. A man with a measuring line in
his hand. As we look at this, we find that
this is a very special measuring line. It has some great statements
to be made about Jerusalem as this measuring line is used to
measure it. Well, this word measure, man
with a measuring line. This word measure has a characteristic
found in several other verses of scripture when we look at
them of exactness. This is an exact measure. So
would you look with me over in the book of Joshua, Joshua chapter
3. In the book of Joshua chapter
three we have the same word used but it has to do with the children
of Israel and their distance from the ark as it's being carried
across the Jordan River. In Joshua chapter three and verse
four this word is used. It says, Yet there shall be a
space between you and it about two thousand cubits by measure. So I can just see Joshua with
a line stretched out for 2,000 cubits and it's attached to the
this really didn't happen. I'm just saying Picture in my
head. It's attached to that arc to
those Priests as they carried it and then there is this line
stretched out that's 2,000 cubits long and this is where the people
could walk that's as close as they could get to it to approach
it. So Zechariah is using a word over in this book of Zechariah
as is used in the book of Joshua about a measuring line. This
measuring line has a specific measurement to it. This measure
has a characteristic of exactness. There are about 2,000 cubits
away from the arc as it's being carried across. Well let's go
just a little further here in the book of 1st Kings chapter
6. 1st Kings chapter 6 and verse 25 and we have this word used
again in another way that shows distinct and exact measurements. Over here in the book of 1st
Kings chapter 6 and verse 25 we have a measure of a cherub
that was going to be used in the temple. It says the other
cherub 1st Kings chapter 6 and verse 25 and the other cherub
was ten cubits. Both the cherubs, cherubims,
were of one measure and one size. So, if we looked at one of these
cherubs, it was going to look exactly as the other cherub because
they had used an exact measure to do this. The person who laid
out the form, laid one out and laid the other out exactly. So
this word measure has thought about it that it's an exactness.
And when we apply this to the church, we find that it is truly
a statement about the church that it has an exact measure,
that there's an exactness about it. There's an exactness about
its breadth, an exactness about its length. There's an exact
number. in the church. There's an exact
height in the church and the depth in the church. There's
an exact foundation in the church as it's measured out. Over in
the book of 1 Kings chapter 7 and verse 9, we have this word used
again. 1 Kings chapter 7 and verse 9. And it tells us here, all these
were of costly stones according to the measures of hewn stones. Though, as a foundation is prepared,
these foundation stones were to be all of the same exact measure. One was to be replicated by another. There was to be an exactness
about it. When you looked across the floor of this great foundation,
these stones put together for the foundation, you were to see
one plane and not lots of small planes. It was to be fitted exactly. They were to be cut out exactly.
They were to be measured exactly. And these, they were hewn stones,
sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation. Unto
the coping and so was the outside toward the great court So these
there was an exactness when it came to the lay in the foundation
of the temple There was an exactness in the walls There was an exactness
in the coping the roof and everything else because there was a measure
given We realize with regard to the temple or the tabernacle
in the Old Testament that it was built according to the pattern
that Moses saw on the mount. And we read with regard to the
temple that it was built to the exactness or to the pattern that
David was given. And here we have the measure
of that. And when Zachariah saw this person with a measuring
line in his hand, this measuring line, it was to be measuring
exactness. It was not Approximate it was
not maybe it could be this size It was an exact measure and another
place in the Old Testament that we have this word used is used
in the book of the Psalms if you turn with me to the book
of the Psalms chapter 39 Psalms chapter 39 and there in verse
4 this word measure is again Lord I make me to know my end
and the measure of my days, what it is that I may know how frail
I am. This psalm in this verse four
has this word measure one more time and there's an exactness
now the scriptures tell us that there's a day to be born and
a day to die and that day that is our birthday the day that
our mother gave birth to us is written down in the In heaven,
in a sense, because it's recorded there, the length of every person
that has ever lived upon the face of the earth was written
down, in a sense, in the mind of God. This is the day that
that person will come into the world, and this is the day when
that person shall leave the world. It was no mistake that Abel died
on the day that he did, because that was the day appointed by
the Lord, and that means was appointed by the Lord. I remember
reading about a message that an old preacher preached, and
he said, no believer, no believer Afraid of dying now the thing
that concerns us at times is how the Lord is going to do that
Well in the case of Abel we find that it was it was a murder His
brother murdered him, but it was still appointed by the Lord
Teach us to measure our days. Let's And the measure of my days
let me know that in the sense of how frail I am that that time
is coming We're approaching it every day. That time is coming.
So this measure is an exact measure. God doesn't say, well, within
a 10 year period, or a five year period, or a year period, or
a month period, will you pass away? Depends on how well the
doctors are and so forth. No, it's an exact measure that
he has given us, the number of our days. Well, when we go back
to the book of Ezra, we also find that there's another word
that comes along with that word, measure. It's a measuring. Here in the book of Ezra, chapter
two, once again, we have a man. I behold a man with a measuring
line, a measuring line. Now this word line, as it's used
in this verse, is often used, that Hebrew word is often used
in other places in the Old Testament to give to us a distinct area. Measuring line with its exactness
and a distinct area that's going to be measured So turn with me
to the book of Deuteronomy in three places in the same chapter
Do we have the same word used here in the book of Deuteronomy?
chapter 3 and verse 4 Deuteronomy chapter 3 and verse 4 we have
the same word that's found here in the book of Zechariah Hebrew
word I can't pronounce it but I can look up and find out where
that word is used in other places, and that adds to me a dimension
of understanding that God has left us these different words
in different places, maybe translated differently, but we have them
there, and we can go and see what is indicated or what has
the meaning of it. Well, here in the book of Deuteronomy
chapter three and verse four, we have a description of a place. It's called the region of Argob. The word region, all the region,
that's the word that's used over here in the book of Zechariah,
chapter 2, where it talks about a line. Here in the book of Deuteronomy,
chapter 3, verse 4, it says, and we took all his cities at
that time. There was not a city which we
took not from them, three score cities. and all the region of
Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan, all the region of Argob. Now,
you and I may not be able to go over there and measure that
or survey that out, but in the days of Deuteronomy, they knew
what that was. In the days that Og the king
of Bashan was killed by the Israelites. They knew that area and it was
a distinct area It was a area that you could go to you could
look around and see this region So this word measuring line,
not only does it carry with it the thought of an exact measure
but it also has an exact measure of a specific place and that
is the measure of the church and In that same chapter, chapter
3 of Deuteronomy, in verse 13 and 14, we have this too. And the rest of Gilead and all
Bashan, being the kingdom of Og, gave eye unto half the tribe
of Manasseh, all the region of Argab. Once again, this thought
is coming up about a region, an area, a place. Where I grew
up in extreme northern California, in Monarch County, California,
my dad, his farm was on an old platted city. It was marked off as city lots
and advertised all over the United States. This was about the turn
of the century, the 1900s. And they sold this property,
false advertised. They sent out pictures of orange
trees and grapefruit trees. You couldn't grow grapefruit
there or oranges there or lemons there. It's 4,800 feet and it's
cold in the winter. But they lied about it. But there
was a platted place here. It's lots that were drawn out,
maps and recorded, and I could say the region of Fairport. Well, on the map I could show
you exactly what size that region was, the region of Fairport.
Titles to the deeds. It's still lot X number three
of the city of Fairport Well, it's all farmland again. How
you to most people I said, well, that's that's just a field there
Well on the map, it's a region of Fairport. So we have that
used here in the book of Deuteronomy Deuteronomy chapter 3 and verse
14 Jay are the son of Manasseh took all the country of Argob
and under the coasts of Gesheri and Meketai and called them,
after his own name, Bashan-Jeverar unto this day, all the country. So there was a known area that
this person claimed for his own. He knew what the boundaries were.
He knew where the title deed was. We may not be able to distinguish
it today. and the same thing is true of
the church. You and I do not and do not have
the ability of knowing who is going to be in the church but
God does because he has already measured it out exactly and he
already knows the region that it will be or who will be in
it. Moving along we find in the book of Deuteronomy chapter 39
Deuteronomy chapter 39. Would you turn there with me?
The same word is used over here in the book of Excuse me chapter
32 Deuteronomy chapter 32 and verse 9 For the Lord's portion is his
people, Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. That word lot, Jacob
is the lot of his inheritance. Now God knew exactly who he's
talking about. We don't. We deal with Jacob's
and Esau's but God deals with Jacob's Jacob is his lot of his
inheritance what a what a picture here what what a View what a
thought about the church as the Lord speaks about his Jehovah's
portion is his people Jacob is the lot of his inheritance. And
that word lot is the same word we find over there in the book
of Zechariah when it talks about a measuring line. There's an
exactness about it, but it also is used to measure out an exact
piece of property, if you please. An exact piece of property that
belongs to the Lord. and he knows the exact size of
it, he knows who's going to be in it, he knows where they are,
he knows where they were, and he's brought them to hear the
gospel, and has saved every one of them that he intended to save
up to this day, and he will save everyone he intends to save from
this day forward. Jesus said that he came to give
his life a ransom for many, a ransom for many. If there's ever an
opportunity that the Lord had to tell us that he was going,
intending to die for everyone, why didn't he use it there? Because
he never intended to do that. He intended to ransom many, and
he knows the exact number of that many. the book of the psalm
psalm 16 would you turn there with me psalm 16 in psalm 16
We have this word used again psalm 16 and there in verse 6
and Lines are fallen unto me in pleasant
places the lines have fallen the line Same word are fallen
unto me in pleasant places. Yay. I have goodly inheritance
as this reflects a verse 5 the Lord is the portion of my inheritance
and of my cup and Thou maintainest my lot the lines are falling
into me in pleasant places The Lord knows exactly what his inheritance
is the Lord knows exactly what he is going to give to the church
The Lord knows exactly he knows the size. It's an exactness about
it and he knows the place. It's an exact region It's an
exact place. The lines have fallen into pleasant
places. That's where it is and What a blessing the Lord gives
us throughout the scriptures that he has an exact number and
he has an exact church in Down in Southern Oregon, there's a
town of Jacksonville and it has in its city limits a very famous
house and The fame of this house is found in the fact that it
was a mail order house. Each part was numbered and the
plan showed where each numbered part would be placed. Every place
would be filled with a numbered piece. It's a complete building
now. They sent it out from back east. It came in boxes, crates, or
whatever. The carpenters that put it together,
every piece was numbered. Every piece had a place that
would go in that house. When it was finished, it was
complete. The roof was on it, the shingles
were on it, the old wooden shingles, cedar shingles, and everything
about it. But it was not just built out
there by happenstance, it was built according to plan. The
Lord had this plan before the foundation of the world. Each
piece of the church was named, recorded, and in time placed
exactly where it was purposed. He had a measuring line for it.
These verses in Zechariah share with us the fulfillment of the
purpose of God. The Church had ever been in the
mind of God. All was directed towards the
Church's redemption. Though all of the Church members
would suffer the worst event the world has ever witnessed,
the Fall, our Lord was already prepared. The Ark of Safety was
already prepared, the Redeemer already holding the redemption
prize. He knew the size of the church,
the breadth of the church, the length of the church, the size
of the allotment was purposed, the manner of its building was
purposed. The building materials was all
purposed ahead of the building. Every name was written down in
the Lamb's Book of Life. And at the same time, every time
when that person would hear the gospel and God would bless the
gospel with the new birth. This is all appointed by the
Lord. Nothing is happening by chance. Nothing is happening by any of
man's purpose at all. It's all purpose by the Lord
Jesus Christ himself. In fact, it tells us with regard
to this great building, the church, as Zachariah was privileged to
witness it in type and shadow and pictures and this vision
about it being built and a man with a measuring line. It tells
us there in the book of Matthew chapter 16 and verse 18, The
Lord Jesus shares with us with regard to the church. He says
and I say also unto thee that thou art Peter You're a little
rock. You're a piece of rock. You're
a pebble of a rock and that's the way we all are But when we
look at that in in the book of first Peter lively stones That's
what he makes out of his people They're resurrected from the
spiritual dead, and they made lively stones. And it says, upon
this rock, I will build my church. And that rock is Christ. That's
a large rock. That's a Gibraltar stone. That
gives us some comparison. We are nothing. He is everything.
We're a pebble. He is a giant monolith. here and I'll build my church.
He said, I will build my church. He's doing that with a measuring
line. It's an exact measure and it's
an exact region. I'll build my church and the
gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Over there in the
book of Zechariah, we have in chapter 2 and verse 5, I'll be
the wall of fire about it. The Lord Jesus shares with us
that he came not to minister, he came not to be ministered
unto, but to minister and give his life a ransom for many. That's the redemptive price of
the church. And in Isaiah chapter 53 and
verse six, would you go back there with me? What a blessing
this Isaiah chapter 53 is. Well, the book of Isaiah, well,
in fact, the Old Testament. All such a blessing for the church
as we go through here and read how the Old Testament Declares
the same truth that's found in the New Testament. It's all one
book Genesis to Revelation we don't want us to create a thought
in our head that the Old Testament is just history and we want to
stick to the New Testament the Old Testament is what all of
the prophets used to preach from And the Old Testament is what
the apostles used, and Jesus Christ used, and what Paul used
was the Old Testament. Here in the book of Isaiah, chapter
53 and verse 6, it says, and we, like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned everyone to his
own way. the Lord Jehovah hath laid on
him the Lord the iniquity of us all the Lord has laid on him
the the ransom price Jesus Christ took upon him was laid upon him
all our iniquities and he paid for it to the very last sin took
away our sin as far as the East is from the West this is what
was required so that the exact number could be put into the
exact place in the church. The Lord Jesus Christ had to
be their surety, had to stand in their place. He had to be
their righteousness. There's no other righteousness.
It is His blood and righteousness that we depend on completely
for all our salvation. The Apostle Paul was used in
the New Testament in the book of Ephesians chapter 1. Would
you turn there with me? Ephesians chapter 1 and there
in verse 7 Ephesians chapter 1 verse 7 says in whom we have
redemption through his blood and The forgiveness of sins according
to the riches of his grace in him we have redemption This is
an exact redemption. It's exact in its offering. It
is it's exact in its Accomplishment there will be not one extra chair
or one two chair that's empty or one chair that needs to be
filled, there's an exact number of the church and it is an exact
region. It is in the person of our Savior,
the Lord Jesus Christ. In Titus, this is also brought
up, the exactness of the church. In Titus chapter 2 and verse
14, Titus chapter 2 and verse 14, for he is our peace who hath
made both one and hath broken down the middle wall of partition. Excuse me, that's Ephesians 2.14. I need to go to the book of Titus.
That's a good passage of scripture, but in Titus chapter 2 and verse
14. Titus chapter 2 verse 14, who
gave himself for us that he might redeem us from all iniquity and
purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of good works. This measuring line is so pictorial
of what Christ has done for the church. It's an exact measure,
and it's an exact region, and we have this brought together
in a thought that the Lord Jesus says, the narrow way. Broad is the way that leads to
destruction. Narrow is the way that leads
to life everlasting. It's an exact way. It is an exact
place. The exact way is Jesus Christ. The exact place is Jesus Christ. Any variation from that in the
smallest amount will not lead to eternal life. We must be depending
upon him and him alone. Abraham believed God and it was
counted unto him for righteousness. He believed his word and only
in the new birth are we given the blessed privilege of believing
God. It is a fruit of regeneration. Believing God is a fruit. In 1 Peter 3, verse 18, for Christ
also hath once suffered for us. This is an exactness. This is
an exactness. He has suffered for his people.
He gave himself for his people. He had our sins, our iniquities
laid upon him. He's doing the building. He knows
the measurement. It's an exact measure. He has
a number that no man can number, but He knows the number. He knows
all that belong to Him, and He knows the exact region where
this will be built, and that will be built in Christ. Going
back to the book of Zechariah, let's look over there in Zechariah
again in chapter 2. As we enter that chapter two,
verse two, it says, then said I, whither goest thou? He's this
man with an exact line, an exact measuring line for an exact region,
exact place. Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure
Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof and the length
thereof." Now, the person that has the measuring line tells
Zechariah that there is an exactness about this. He's not hoping there
will be a church. He's telling us that there is
a church and he's going to give us the breadth and the width
of that church, the measurement of it. And in verse 3, And behold,
the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel
went out to meet him, and said unto him, Run, speak to this
young man, speak to Zechariah, inform Zechariah, the message
for Zechariah, words of great encouragement. The subject is
Jerusalem. The subject of the message is
Jerusalem. The church, the church, the church,
the world and all of God's purposes are for the church. The continents,
the islands, the open places, the hidden places, the wet and
dry places, all the seas, roads, mountain passes, every nation,
every tongue, Every government, every city, every open place,
every person ever born is either a member of the church or a servant
made for the church, but everything is for the church. I was listening
to a couple of a gentleman discussing that person that was found some
years ago, 20 years ago up in, I believe it was in the Alps,
and a perfect preserved person. They took him out of there. He
was found as the ice had receded. He was found and scientists had
been looking for him. Well, it's turned out, as that's
receded more, that that place, he was not up there just in a
solitary place. He was up there in a pass between
one valley and another valley, and lots of other artifacts have
been found in that very area. Well, that pass there was for
the church, so that someone could carry the gospel from one valley
to another valley. That's what God does for his
people. He gave places so that people
could travel. The seas have been used by God's
people to carry the gospel to God's people. The lost sheep
of the house of Israel. There was ships taken around
the world with the gospel message known by someone on that ship.
The church shall be inhabited. In verse 4, it tells us here,
Run and speak unto the young man, saying, Jerusalem shall
be inhabited. This is going to be a reality.
From the very onset, in eternity past, the church would be a reality. The building would be a reality.
I have the plans here. I have the number of names. I have the parts of the church
are laid down in the Lamb's Book of Life. the church shall be
inhabited, and having no visible means of support, no visible
defenses, no visible temple, no visible worship, no visible
prayers, no visible alms, no visible fastings, as the Lord
shares with us in Matthew chapter 6, that when you do these things,
don't do it as the Pharisees do, as the religious people do. Don't do your alms before a man. It's invisible. Don't let your
right hand know what your left hand is doing. When you do your
prayers, don't do it as the religious people do. Go down to the temple
to pray. Go into your closet. It's invisible. When you do your fasting, don't
do it as the religious people do and have to tell everybody
that they're fasting. Don't paint your face. Don't
let people know. Don't talk about it. It's between
you and God. This is invisible, the service
of God. The Lord shares with us that
he, who is as Solomon in his great prayer at the completion
of the temple, who is able to build him a house. See in the heaven, and the heavens
of the heavens cannot contain him save only this this temple
is being built save only to burn sacrifices before him who is
able heaven is my throne and the earth is my footstool that's
what the scriptures say about this god cannot be worshipped
in a building I'm so thankful for our building here. God has
blessed us with a place that we can worship. We have heating
and air conditioning, but it's not my sanctuary. It's an auditorium. My sanctuary is the Lord Jesus
Christ. This is where we can meet comfortably
from the elements. We can meet comfortably here
year-round, and we're thankful for it. But it is not the church. This is a building. People. There's an invisible blessing
that God gives, and that's the new birth. And it is evidenced
by people in their worship of God, their worship of the Lord,
their attitude towards God. But it is an invisible thing
that God does. It's in the heart. It's not in
communion, it's not in sacrifices, it's not in things done. We don't
come to Mount Sinai where it's all physical. We come to Mount
Zion where it's invisible. God is a spirit and they that
worship him must worship him in spirit and truth is what we
read in the book of John. the book of 2nd Corinthians would
you turn there with me 2nd Corinthians chapter 3 and verse 17 2nd Corinthians
chapter 3 and verse 17 we have this given to us now the Lord
now the Lord is that spirit we can only worship him in spirit
and truth the flesh profiteth nothing Anything that we do in
this body is not worship. Worship is from the heart. Our
prayers, we can't even pray right. We know not how to pray as we
should, but the Holy Spirit, nobody's seen the Spirit. We've
seen, as it's mentioned in the book of John chapter 3, Like
the wind we can see where the wind came from we can see where
the wind is going Well, we can't see the wind and we can see the
effects of it sometimes but we can't see that when we don't
have any idea what it is and yet here we have this beautiful
picture the Holy Spirit is a spirit and They that worship God must
worship him in spirit and in truth. God is a spirit. He's
not like we are. So this causes problems with
religion. Gotta see it. Gotta see it. That's why we have these idols.
That's why we have these things. That's why we have these great
monstrosities of churches as their sanctuary. It's not the
sanctuary. That might be to them, but it's
not to the people of God, not to the church of the living God.
in 2nd Corinthians chapter 3 now the Lord is that spirit and where
the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty Physical religion
is only bondage You're not doing enough, you're not giving enough,
you're not knocking on enough doors, you're not going out enough,
you're not doing this, you're not doing enough study at home,
you're not reading your Bible enough, enough, enough. But,
in Christ there's liberty. In Christ, there's liberty. We're
set free from all that bondage. We're set free from all those
works. Now, God's people are going to
read his word. God's people are going to pray.
God's people are going to give. God's people are going to wait
on the Lord. They're going to have a spiritual
fast. They're going to close their mouth and listen to the
Lord. That's what that really means. It tells us in 1 Timothy
1, verse 17, now unto the king eternal in immortal, invisible. We're worshiping an invisible
God and that can only be done by an invisible transaction done
in the heart called regeneration. First Samuel chapter 16 and verse
7 when Samuel was looking at all those brawny young men For
a king God said man looketh on the outward appearance God looketh
on the heart Going back to the book of Zechariah chapter 2 let's
let's just Conclude this evening by looking at this this thought
here in the book of Zechariah chapter 2 and let's drop down
there to verse 5 Zechariah chapter 2 verse 5 Let's back up to verse four and
said unto him run speak to this young man saying Jerusalem shall
be inhabited as towns without walls For multitude of men and
cattle therein multitude of men, but did you notice that it won't
have any walls and In the time of Zachariah, it was very important
to have a city wall for protection. Well, the church does not have
a physical protection. The church has spiritual protection. And it goes on to tell us here
in verse 5, For I saith the Lord will be unto her a wall of fire
round about. and will be the glory in the
midst of her." Well, we're going to pick this up next time for
our Wednesday night service. We're going to look at that verse
of scripture, the protection of the church. The Lord Jesus
Christ's protection of the church. He summed it up there in Matthew
chapter 16 and verse 18. It says, where the gates of hell
will not prevail against it. The gates of hell will not prevail
against it. So we're so thankful as the Lord
gives the gospel to Zechariah The church shall be built. God
will be satisfied. The cross will be satisfied They
shall be he shall look upon him whom he bruised and be satisfied. The church will be brought together
It has an exact measure and that is measured by the blood and
righteousness of the Lord Jesus Christ It has an exact place
in Christ. That's where the church is being
built in Christ Well, thank you for your time and your attention
tonight. May God bless you as we go on and look some more here
next time in the book of Zechariah.