1 00:00:00,800 --> 00:00:04,300 Well Emanuel, it is good to be back with you. 2 00:00:05,600 --> 00:00:10,300 Sharing God's word. I am very very thankful that you 3 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:13,200 guys did partner with us for lessons and carols. 4 00:00:15,400 --> 00:00:20,200 One of the challenges that we've had is that we've had some, 5 00:00:20,300 --> 00:00:25,900 some, some funding for our, for our school program, kind of that 6 00:00:25,900 --> 00:00:29,700 funding had dried up. So to receive your gift was such 7 00:00:29,700 --> 00:00:34,900 a blessing, it was refreshing or us very, very helpful, 8 00:00:34,900 --> 00:00:39,000 significant and important. So thank you for your gifts for 9 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:43,100 believing in work or CPL. Helping us love those who are 10 00:00:43,100 --> 00:00:48,200 sometimes, a lovable and That was showing Mercy to those who 11 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:51,800 often don't get Mercy shown to them. 12 00:00:51,800 --> 00:00:55,800 I am so thankful for your pastor, he's a friend. 13 00:00:56,100 --> 00:00:58,200 I want you guys to know he loves y'all. 14 00:00:58,500 --> 00:01:01,700 He prays for y'all help me celebrate, father, Aaron. 15 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:11,100 I'm excited to get into the word of God. 16 00:01:11,100 --> 00:01:17,200 My prayer is that I'm not too long today but if I am this 17 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:20,500 passage was given to me. So it's not my fault. 18 00:01:24,400 --> 00:01:28,900 What a wonderful reading we heard from Zechariah 7. 19 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:31,000 But I invite you, if you have your Bibles or whatever 20 00:01:31,000 --> 00:01:34,100 electronic device you use, I won't invite you to open it up 21 00:01:34,100 --> 00:01:41,100 to Zacharias 7. Let's talk to father. 22 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:50,100 Lord, you told us to be still and know that you are God. 23 00:01:53,700 --> 00:01:57,200 Goddess. Nice Sunday, Gatherings As We 24 00:01:57,200 --> 00:02:02,600 Gather, mr. People of God. what a time it is 25 00:02:02,600 --> 00:02:09,400 for us to be still and to remember that you are God, that 26 00:02:09,400 --> 00:02:14,900 you are sovereign. that you are in control of all things and you 27 00:02:14,900 --> 00:02:21,600 are God and we are not And God is come before you today. 28 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:28,100 We, we don't come as those. Who have it all together, but we 29 00:02:28,100 --> 00:02:33,300 come is those who are poor in spirit and our hands and our 30 00:02:33,300 --> 00:02:38,000 hearts are outstretched asking, Lord, that that you father, 31 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:44,300 would feed us that you would nourish us from your word. 32 00:02:45,100 --> 00:02:47,900 We ask God that you would meet us in a unique way through the 33 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:52,400 preaching and the proclamation of your word, and I pray father 34 00:02:52,400 --> 00:02:55,200 than you would free us from distractions. 35 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,600 If you would give us ears to hear what the spirit is saying 36 00:03:00,900 --> 00:03:04,800 to the church, And father, I pray that we would be drawn 37 00:03:04,800 --> 00:03:09,600 closer and closer to you. I pray that you would hide me. 38 00:03:09,600 --> 00:03:13,400 Father behind the cross. Help me to speak with Simplicity 39 00:03:13,800 --> 00:03:16,700 Clarity and power. I ask father that you were 40 00:03:16,700 --> 00:03:21,000 breathe on this meager manuscript and Lord that you 41 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:26,000 would be to all of our heart. We love you Lord and we pray 42 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:37,200 this all in Jesus name, amen. It can be somewhat annoying to 43 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:43,700 get the wrong message, it could be annoying to totally miss the 44 00:03:43,700 --> 00:03:50,500 message for instance. My office phone, we have a 45 00:03:50,500 --> 00:03:55,700 system where if you were to call me and leave a voice message, it 46 00:03:55,700 --> 00:03:59,200 would transcribe your voice message and it was send me an 47 00:03:59,200 --> 00:04:03,000 email, it would say something like Carrie. 48 00:04:04,400 --> 00:04:10,600 I'm just balling you today. Because we have a mutual friend. 49 00:04:11,900 --> 00:04:16,300 Name porch. And when you get an opportunity, 50 00:04:16,300 --> 00:04:24,500 can you ball me again? and then, when I call back, Last 51 00:04:24,500 --> 00:04:29,500 week, the forge. Who I'm sorry. 52 00:04:29,600 --> 00:04:35,200 Do you mean George? And it's sometimes when even 53 00:04:35,200 --> 00:04:38,400 when I'm out of town has just recently was on a cruise and the 54 00:04:38,400 --> 00:04:41,400 problem is, if you're in the middle of the ocean, you can't 55 00:04:41,400 --> 00:04:46,000 get phone calls and then people call you and you can't return 56 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,600 that call or you don't know that they're called in, they're all 57 00:04:48,600 --> 00:04:52,400 angry and upset either because they was annoying. 58 00:04:52,800 --> 00:04:58,100 If we don't get the message, it actually reminds me of a story 59 00:04:58,100 --> 00:05:01,400 that was Oklahoma couple and they decided that they wanted to 60 00:05:01,400 --> 00:05:04,200 take a look. Weekend away. 61 00:05:04,700 --> 00:05:08,800 They wanted to get away from the e Key weather and go to Florida 62 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:14,200 where it was nice and sunny. This couple worked rigorous 63 00:05:14,200 --> 00:05:18,900 hours so the wife she was unable to get off on the Thursday 64 00:05:18,900 --> 00:05:24,400 night, but the husband was so he left a day earlier and when he 65 00:05:24,400 --> 00:05:26,400 got there, he arrived at his hotel. 66 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:30,300 He checked in got into his room. He said, I'm gonna send my wife 67 00:05:30,300 --> 00:05:32,700 and female I'ma let her know I'm checked in. 68 00:05:32,900 --> 00:05:35,200 I'm settled and I can't wait for her to get here. 69 00:05:35,800 --> 00:05:40,400 So he pulled together to email, he typed it, he sent it, but 70 00:05:40,400 --> 00:05:45,100 there was one problem. He left out a letter in her 71 00:05:45,100 --> 00:05:50,300 email address. that was another lady in Texas, this lady had 72 00:05:50,300 --> 00:06:00,400 just come from a funeral. Her husband was a pastor. 73 00:06:02,100 --> 00:06:04,600 And after coming back from the funeral, she decided I'll sit 74 00:06:04,600 --> 00:06:06,700 down. I'll read my email. 75 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:10,000 No, family. And friends they sent me knows 76 00:06:10,000 --> 00:06:14,400 to encourage me and the season. As she was sitting reading her 77 00:06:14,400 --> 00:06:19,400 emails that was a thought. She fainted her son rushed in. 78 00:06:19,500 --> 00:06:23,900 See his mom, fainted looked at the computer to see what was she 79 00:06:23,900 --> 00:06:27,900 reading? It was the email to my loving 80 00:06:27,900 --> 00:06:34,100 wife from your departed. Husband subject. 81 00:06:34,100 --> 00:06:41,900 I've arrived. Message. 82 00:06:43,200 --> 00:06:46,100 I just arrived. I'm checked in. 83 00:06:47,000 --> 00:06:50,400 I see that everything has been prepared for you arriving 84 00:06:50,400 --> 00:06:55,900 tomorrow. I'm looking forward to seeing 85 00:06:55,900 --> 00:06:58,300 you. I hope your journey is as 86 00:06:58,300 --> 00:07:02,300 uneventful as mine was. PS. 87 00:07:02,700 --> 00:07:12,800 It's hot down here. It can be frustrating. 88 00:07:15,400 --> 00:07:17,800 It can be frustrating not getting the message. 89 00:07:18,000 --> 00:07:21,800 It can be frustrating. This understanding the message, 90 00:07:22,100 --> 00:07:25,500 it can be frustrating. Receiving the wrong message. 91 00:07:25,500 --> 00:07:29,800 Matter of fact, it can be painful, it can be challenging. 92 00:07:29,900 --> 00:07:35,300 It could cause some major and minor problems in our lives. 93 00:07:35,900 --> 00:07:39,400 If we don't get the message, we misunderstand the message or we 94 00:07:39,400 --> 00:07:43,400 receive the wrong message. And you as I say that there are 95 00:07:43,400 --> 00:07:46,900 some of you you are already Thinking about communication 96 00:07:46,900 --> 00:07:50,200 breakdowns that you are experiencing your thinking at 97 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:53,600 work, you thinking about the communication breakdown between 98 00:07:53,700 --> 00:07:56,700 other employees, the communication breakdown, with 99 00:07:56,700 --> 00:07:59,200 your boss. Some are you thinking about your 100 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:02,700 argument, get your car, the communication breakdown with 101 00:08:02,700 --> 00:08:06,900 your husband, or with your wife, the communication breakdown with 102 00:08:06,900 --> 00:08:14,300 your children. We want to get the message the 103 00:08:14,300 --> 00:08:18,700 subject that is clear. In this text today. 104 00:08:20,000 --> 00:08:24,000 Is a question or a statement that we always say when there is 105 00:08:24,100 --> 00:08:27,700 communication breakdown, we often say when there's a 106 00:08:27,700 --> 00:08:33,400 communication breakdown, we say they are just not getting it. 107 00:08:36,200 --> 00:08:40,100 We think of our spouse, they're just not getting it. 108 00:08:40,100 --> 00:08:42,500 I co-worker, they are just not getting it. 109 00:08:42,500 --> 00:08:45,200 You're talking to the person on customer service. 110 00:08:45,900 --> 00:08:50,800 They are just not getting it. Sometimes we look in the mirror 111 00:08:51,700 --> 00:08:59,600 and we say, just not didn't use the case of Zechariah 17. 112 00:09:01,800 --> 00:09:06,400 And I getting it. That they are not getting it. 113 00:09:07,600 --> 00:09:13,700 And God has a word for them. Hopefully, this with this word, 114 00:09:13,700 --> 00:09:16,500 they will get it. But not only will they get it? 115 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:20,100 Hopefully we will get it. Hopefully we will get the 116 00:09:20,100 --> 00:09:25,300 message that God has for them as well as the message that God has 117 00:09:25,300 --> 00:09:27,500 for us. So, in the time that I have 118 00:09:27,700 --> 00:09:32,700 left, we want to talk about why they didn't get it. 119 00:09:33,200 --> 00:09:35,300 Oh, what was it? They didn't get. 120 00:09:35,300 --> 00:09:38,000 And hopefully, as we look at what they didn't get. 121 00:09:38,100 --> 00:09:41,400 Hopefully, we walk away and we get, but they didn't get. 122 00:09:42,100 --> 00:09:45,500 And then the first thing that we actually see that they didn't 123 00:09:45,500 --> 00:09:51,600 get was that they didn't get the lesson from the past, the first 124 00:09:51,600 --> 00:09:55,700 thing that they did not get, they did not get the lesson from 125 00:09:55,700 --> 00:09:58,100 the past. We see that in verse 7, we also 126 00:09:58,100 --> 00:10:01,000 see that in verses 11 through 14 18. 127 00:10:02,200 --> 00:10:07,800 King Darius, he is in his fourth year as King and King Darius in 128 00:10:07,800 --> 00:10:12,600 his first year, issued a decree that the Surrey build the 129 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:14,900 temple, the temple that was ruined. 130 00:10:15,200 --> 00:10:18,500 And we know that the June that the walls of Jerusalem were also 131 00:10:18,500 --> 00:10:23,400 ruined and these physical ruins was symbolic of the ruin that 132 00:10:23,400 --> 00:10:26,900 the children of Israel that they felt within their soul. 133 00:10:26,900 --> 00:10:30,800 See, their lives had fallen apart and the nation of Israel. 134 00:10:30,800 --> 00:10:34,100 They were Like Humpty Dumpty that had been sitting on the 135 00:10:34,100 --> 00:10:37,900 wall and Humpty Dumpty, that had a great fall, they had been 136 00:10:37,900 --> 00:10:43,000 broken and Scattered apart, they had dealt with so much pain and 137 00:10:43,000 --> 00:10:46,000 so much lost. But watch this their pain and 138 00:10:46,000 --> 00:10:50,300 their loss was not a result of evil people that paid and lost 139 00:10:50,300 --> 00:10:54,500 was a result of their rebellion. And their sin is there, it was a 140 00:10:54,508 --> 00:10:59,700 result of their love for idolatry and self-gratification 141 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:02,600 they were intoxicated. Skated with their own 142 00:11:02,600 --> 00:11:05,300 independence and they acted as if they had him. 143 00:11:05,300 --> 00:11:09,700 Nisha told us the god of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, The 144 00:11:09,700 --> 00:11:14,100 God Who had promised them in Deuteronomy 8, T that if you 145 00:11:14,100 --> 00:11:17,900 keep all of my Commandments, you will be blessed in the city and 146 00:11:17,900 --> 00:11:20,900 you be blessed in the field. But if you fail to obey my 147 00:11:20,900 --> 00:11:23,700 commands, you going to be cursed in his City and you're going to 148 00:11:23,700 --> 00:11:28,200 be cursed in the field. Look at worth what verse 11 says 149 00:11:28,400 --> 00:11:33,900 hearing the passage. But they refused to pay 150 00:11:33,900 --> 00:11:40,700 attention, and turn and turned a stubborn shoulder and stop their 151 00:11:40,700 --> 00:11:47,900 here that they may not here. The people have become stubborn. 152 00:11:48,300 --> 00:11:51,200 They refuse to listen to God's commands. 153 00:11:51,200 --> 00:11:56,300 They were no longer interested in God's wisdom and his counsel. 154 00:11:56,500 --> 00:12:01,300 They only desire to pursue the lust of their flesh and the 155 00:12:01,300 --> 00:12:04,900 pride of life. Their ears were stopped and now 156 00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:10,200 hard were hard. The Bible teaches us that God's 157 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:16,200 anger was kindled. He punished he scattered them, 158 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:21,000 he stripped them. They were sent into exile. 159 00:12:22,700 --> 00:12:26,400 To be in Exile, e, it means that you were taken away taken 160 00:12:26,400 --> 00:12:30,200 captive forced to live under the rule and authority of another 161 00:12:30,200 --> 00:12:34,100 system when the children of Israel when they were taken 162 00:12:34,200 --> 00:12:38,100 captive. It was all because they failed 163 00:12:38,100 --> 00:12:42,300 to obey God's command. They didn't get it. 164 00:12:43,600 --> 00:12:46,500 And it blows my mind that they didn't get it. 165 00:12:47,200 --> 00:12:51,200 And I after seeing all that God had done, they still didn't get 166 00:12:51,200 --> 00:12:53,700 it. When God shows up in each of 167 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:57,300 their and he proposed all of these claims to show that he is, 168 00:12:57,300 --> 00:13:00,400 greater than the gods of Egypt, they still didn't get it. 169 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:04,200 Wait, won't God, delivers them and they walk across the red Co 170 00:13:04,300 --> 00:13:06,500 dry ground. They feel didn't get it. 171 00:13:06,500 --> 00:13:10,200 When the armies of federal drowning, they still didn't get 172 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:11,800 it. When God, let them in the 173 00:13:11,800 --> 00:13:15,000 wilderness by a pillow. A fire and the cloud, they they 174 00:13:15,000 --> 00:13:19,000 still didn't get it where God calls us, isn't it? 175 00:13:19,000 --> 00:13:22,800 So rain down and hasn't it water to come figures out. 176 00:13:22,800 --> 00:13:27,400 That they steal, they get it, God sets them up as a nation. 177 00:13:29,200 --> 00:13:30,800 You would think they would get it. 178 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:40,300 They never got it. You find the nature of this 179 00:13:40,600 --> 00:13:46,300 text? It's what God tells them after 180 00:13:46,300 --> 00:13:53,000 they are coming out of Exile. You're still not getting it. 181 00:13:54,000 --> 00:14:00,100 You still haven't learned the lessons of the past, and we know 182 00:14:00,600 --> 00:14:04,100 that if we don't learn the lessons of our past, then we 183 00:14:04,100 --> 00:14:08,300 will repeat the prayer. I love what I ver arnstein says 184 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:11,400 he says, you can't solve a problem with the same thinking 185 00:14:11,400 --> 00:14:13,900 that caused the problem. That's so good. 186 00:14:13,900 --> 00:14:16,800 I'm gonna say it again. Let's hey, Albert Einstein said 187 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:20,200 that you can't solve a problem with the same thinking that 188 00:14:20,200 --> 00:14:24,800 caused the problem. It could be natural for us to 189 00:14:24,800 --> 00:14:27,500 find ourselves getting Circle or life. 190 00:14:28,500 --> 00:14:30,900 To find ourselves, not going anywhere. 191 00:14:31,000 --> 00:14:35,600 Repeating the same mistake, it repeating the same offices, and 192 00:14:35,600 --> 00:14:41,500 we keep getting the same results because we haven't learned from 193 00:14:41,500 --> 00:14:47,100 the lesson of our past. If you are frequent flyer. 194 00:14:48,300 --> 00:14:52,700 You may have. Been on the plane in the air. 195 00:14:54,700 --> 00:15:00,700 When word, from the Watchtower gets to the plane plane is 196 00:15:00,800 --> 00:15:07,600 flying with passengers. And the message to the pilot is 197 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:10,600 that you are in a holding pattern. 198 00:15:12,300 --> 00:15:16,800 And and the plane is in the holding pattern, there in this 199 00:15:16,800 --> 00:15:21,500 holding pattern simply because there's an issues on the ground. 200 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:27,500 And unless the issues on the ground are resolved, then you go 201 00:15:27,500 --> 00:15:31,500 have to stay in this holding pattern until things on the 202 00:15:31,500 --> 00:15:35,500 ground, get fixed, and the people that's in the air, they 203 00:15:35,500 --> 00:15:39,400 keep seeing the same landmarks, they keep seeing the same old 204 00:15:39,400 --> 00:15:44,000 things that and it feels like that that point is circles and 205 00:15:44,000 --> 00:15:46,100 it's not only that they feel like they're going to circles, 206 00:15:46,100 --> 00:15:49,700 they are going in circles because they are you not holding 207 00:15:49,700 --> 00:15:52,300 pattern and they go to remain in his hold. 208 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,600 Her pattern until the proceedings on the ground are 209 00:15:55,600 --> 00:15:58,300 fixed. It sort of things on the ground 210 00:15:58,500 --> 00:16:02,900 resolved and I believe that that could be the case for us, even 211 00:16:02,900 --> 00:16:06,900 as Believers that we may find ourselves in a holding pattern, 212 00:16:06,900 --> 00:16:11,200 we may find ourselves going on in this circle of life and not 213 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:14,000 moving forward. In the way, God would have us to 214 00:16:14,000 --> 00:16:17,900 move forward because we still got issues on the ground. 215 00:16:18,300 --> 00:16:21,400 We still got lessons that we haven't learned. 216 00:16:21,500 --> 00:16:25,500 We keep making a Same mistakes. We keep doing the same offenses 217 00:16:25,700 --> 00:16:31,200 and I lines continue to go about in a circle because we haven't 218 00:16:31,700 --> 00:16:38,000 the lessons from our You know what's so beautiful about the 219 00:16:38,000 --> 00:16:42,300 church? It's that is that in the church. 220 00:16:43,100 --> 00:16:45,900 There are other people who had who had to learn the same 221 00:16:45,900 --> 00:16:48,600 lessons that we need to learn right now. 222 00:16:49,600 --> 00:16:53,800 And we can lean all them and say, how did you learn? 223 00:16:53,800 --> 00:16:57,000 What did you do? What were the steps that you 224 00:16:57,000 --> 00:17:00,000 took? And you know what else is 225 00:17:00,000 --> 00:17:02,900 beautiful? Is that you don't have to make 226 00:17:02,900 --> 00:17:06,000 the same mistakes that somebody else may because I can sit with 227 00:17:06,000 --> 00:17:08,500 them, and I can hear that I'm going to steaks, and I can say, 228 00:17:08,599 --> 00:17:11,200 thank you for telling me that because I was just about to do 229 00:17:11,200 --> 00:17:13,599 the same thing. Not only do I need to learn the 230 00:17:13,599 --> 00:17:17,300 lessons from my own path, but I can learn lessons from your past 231 00:17:17,300 --> 00:17:21,400 that will help benefit me and benefit the kingdom of God. 232 00:17:21,500 --> 00:17:27,500 They didn't get it. I didn't get the lessons from 233 00:17:27,500 --> 00:17:31,100 the pack. The second thing that they 234 00:17:31,100 --> 00:17:36,700 didn't get is that they didn't get the true meaning or 235 00:17:36,700 --> 00:17:42,300 motivation for fast. They didn't get the true meaning 236 00:17:42,300 --> 00:17:46,700 or motivation for fasting. We see that clearly in verses 2 237 00:17:46,700 --> 00:17:54,900 through 6. At the end of Zachariah, six we 238 00:17:54,900 --> 00:18:00,500 say, people are coming from afar to finish the rebuilding of the 239 00:18:00,500 --> 00:18:04,000 temple. We know that the temple is close 240 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:08,200 to being rebuilt because as a retains us, that the temple is 241 00:18:08,200 --> 00:18:12,300 completed by the six year of the reign of Darius. 242 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:16,700 And here, we also see this delegation from some faint 243 00:18:16,700 --> 00:18:20,700 Bethel, that shows up, and he needs to end. 244 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:22,400 Dividuals. They that they are 245 00:18:22,400 --> 00:18:27,700 Representatives transcend death. Oh but what if we watch what 246 00:18:27,700 --> 00:18:31,900 they ask and what they suggest as they want to entreat the 247 00:18:31,900 --> 00:18:34,300 favor of the Lord, look what it says. 248 00:18:34,300 --> 00:18:38,200 In verse 3, they saying to the priest of the house of the Lord 249 00:18:38,200 --> 00:18:41,000 of hosts. And the prophetess, should I 250 00:18:41,000 --> 00:18:46,600 weep and I'm staying in the fifth month as I have done. 251 00:18:47,500 --> 00:18:52,900 For so many years. It's almost as if they want some 252 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:56,300 kind of affirmation. It's almost as if they are 253 00:18:56,300 --> 00:19:00,200 looking to to be celebrated because they have been keeping 254 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:02,800 up with the fast foot so many years. 255 00:19:04,900 --> 00:19:09,800 However the words of the Prophet does not seem to break 256 00:19:09,800 --> 00:19:14,100 confirmation or celebration. Actually the worst of the 257 00:19:14,100 --> 00:19:19,600 prophets they seem to be bubble busted jaw dropping. 258 00:19:21,300 --> 00:19:24,400 Surprisingly, they are words of conviction. 259 00:19:25,900 --> 00:19:29,000 Seeing fasting. What was the time in? 260 00:19:29,000 --> 00:19:31,100 Which people will humble themselves? 261 00:19:31,100 --> 00:19:32,900 Sometimes, they will lie on the ground. 262 00:19:32,900 --> 00:19:35,800 They will cover themselves with we're ashes. 263 00:19:35,800 --> 00:19:40,600 They were refrain from food and maybe some social activities and 264 00:19:40,600 --> 00:19:44,300 even relationship. And it was believed that that if 265 00:19:44,300 --> 00:19:48,000 you was too fast at this will be a way that you would capture 266 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:52,500 God's attention, so that he will give you what your heart's 267 00:19:52,500 --> 00:19:55,500 desire. And it was the thinking that, 268 00:19:55,500 --> 00:19:58,700 that surely God would see my sacrifice. 269 00:19:58,800 --> 00:20:01,900 And he would be moved. Grant me my request. 270 00:20:02,900 --> 00:20:06,300 But but, but listen, listen to what God's word says, in verse 271 00:20:06,300 --> 00:20:11,800 5, say to all the people of the land and the priest, when you 272 00:20:11,800 --> 00:20:15,200 fasted and more than the fifth lat. 273 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:23,000 And in the seventh for these 70 years, I said, four Chief. 274 00:20:28,300 --> 00:20:32,800 These words are not words of Celebration, kind of Pierce at 275 00:20:33,700 --> 00:20:35,400 Yucca. God is saying that that 276 00:20:35,400 --> 00:20:42,900 sacrifice was selfish. That that sacrifice was more 277 00:20:42,900 --> 00:20:48,500 like a cincher and sacher focusing more on themselves 278 00:20:48,500 --> 00:20:52,300 instead of focusing on the god that they were sacrificing for, 279 00:20:53,000 --> 00:20:58,200 I didn't get it but they didn't get the real motivation for 280 00:20:58,200 --> 00:21:00,400 fasting. That's this. 281 00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,400 Shouldn't be about receiving a building. 282 00:21:02,400 --> 00:21:06,900 It should be about receiving new walls restoring dignity when you 283 00:21:06,908 --> 00:21:12,500 know Wayne wealth The fast should be mostly people as 284 00:21:12,500 --> 00:21:15,800 motivation. The motivation 54s should be 285 00:21:15,800 --> 00:21:19,400 that we will draw nearer and closer to God. 286 00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:25,800 See, they wanted to get stuff. But they wasn't focus on the 287 00:21:25,800 --> 00:21:31,800 stuff for her. If you get the stuff fire, do 288 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:36,200 you get all of the stuff? See, they were doing a good 289 00:21:36,200 --> 00:21:39,800 thing, a righteous thing, but they were doing it with the Wang 290 00:21:39,900 --> 00:21:44,900 Motors and attention attention. And it was still difficult for 291 00:21:44,900 --> 00:21:49,100 them to understand the problem of their path. 292 00:21:50,000 --> 00:21:53,100 Was it the matter of them losing thing? 293 00:21:54,100 --> 00:21:58,400 The problem of their past was that their relationship with God 294 00:21:58,500 --> 00:22:03,600 was Staffing. The Jews had gotten so entangled 295 00:22:04,000 --> 00:22:08,800 in the blessings of God that they have forgotten The God Who 296 00:22:08,800 --> 00:22:12,400 bless them. They were so entangled and stuff 297 00:22:12,500 --> 00:22:16,100 that they were fasting for stuff, instead of fasting for 298 00:22:16,100 --> 00:22:19,700 God. Their priorities had gotten this 299 00:22:19,700 --> 00:22:25,600 Alliance and if you and I, if we are not careful, there are 300 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,400 priorities will get out of whack that we achieve. 301 00:22:28,400 --> 00:22:31,300 We found ourselves in tank need with the blessing. 302 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:34,100 Feed at night with the questioner that we'll find 303 00:22:34,100 --> 00:22:38,300 ourselves seeking a surgery for stuff and not the stuff fire, 304 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:42,500 that will be fasting for things and not fasting to draw closer 305 00:22:42,500 --> 00:22:45,500 to God. That priorities had got 306 00:22:45,500 --> 00:22:52,900 misaligned. I was a husband and wife that it 307 00:22:52,900 --> 00:22:56,100 went to the county fair. While they were there, they 308 00:22:56,100 --> 00:22:59,600 encountered a pilot who had a small plane that was offering 309 00:22:59,900 --> 00:23:04,600 rods $20 a piece. The couple thought, how can we? 310 00:23:05,600 --> 00:23:08,700 But that's the situation, the price a little lower. 311 00:23:10,000 --> 00:23:13,100 They said listen why don't you try just twenty dollars for the 312 00:23:13,100 --> 00:23:17,700 both of us since we have to cram into this small plane pilot said 313 00:23:17,700 --> 00:23:21,100 I'm sorry I'm unable to do that but I'll make you a deal. 314 00:23:22,500 --> 00:23:26,300 If we go up in the air and you don't say a word, I will refund. 315 00:23:26,300 --> 00:23:29,800 You, your money back, husband and wife with that, they each 316 00:23:29,800 --> 00:23:35,300 other, they said deal. The pilot took off, he re tricky 317 00:23:35,300 --> 00:23:40,500 new in the book he world. He Liu, he flew the plane upside 318 00:23:40,500 --> 00:23:46,100 down, he did many other thing. When he landed. 319 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,400 He turned around, look back at the husband. 320 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:54,100 Ted, congratulations, here's some money. 321 00:23:54,800 --> 00:23:59,000 You didn't say a single word. Husband reply. 322 00:23:59,200 --> 00:24:02,900 Nope, but you almost got me when my wife fell out. 323 00:24:12,200 --> 00:24:14,100 I priorities can get a little skin. 324 00:24:15,900 --> 00:24:18,800 I have flowered is kick ticket misaligned. 325 00:24:20,500 --> 00:24:23,100 C4. His fasting is not about losing 326 00:24:23,100 --> 00:24:30,700 weight. If you just refrain from him. 327 00:24:32,400 --> 00:24:35,500 But you are not spending time with God. 328 00:24:36,200 --> 00:24:39,300 That's a diet. That's not fast. 329 00:24:41,900 --> 00:24:47,200 Our goal is Christians and are fasting is to get closer to God. 330 00:24:47,300 --> 00:24:51,800 I go as Christians, it should be to be performed to to the image 331 00:24:51,800 --> 00:24:57,200 and likeness of Jesus and maybe in this Lenten season your 332 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,200 fasting, it you're giving up something you are refraining for 333 00:25:01,300 --> 00:25:05,900 from food, or from some activity, or some lifestyle. 334 00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:09,900 Make sure that you are spending time with. 335 00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:15,600 Make my face, sure that, that, that the true Devotion to God 336 00:25:15,600 --> 00:25:18,500 increases. And as we spend time with God, 337 00:25:18,500 --> 00:25:24,200 and as I Devotion to God increases, Hopefully, God will 338 00:25:24,600 --> 00:25:32,200 change us and they'll be transformation in US. how goal 339 00:25:32,200 --> 00:25:41,300 is not to know more but to know him more See, I did not get the 340 00:25:41,300 --> 00:25:46,800 lessons from their back, they didn't get the real meaning and 341 00:25:46,800 --> 00:25:54,000 motivation for fasting. but lastly, they didn't get the God 342 00:25:54,000 --> 00:26:02,200 had a greater expectation. We re verses 8 and 10, we read 343 00:26:02,200 --> 00:26:06,000 God's expectation says, in the word of the Lord, came to 344 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:09,100 Zechariah saying thus says the Lord of hosts. 345 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:16,900 Render true, judgments show, kindness and mercy to one 346 00:26:16,900 --> 00:26:20,900 another. Do not oppress, the Widow, the 347 00:26:20,900 --> 00:26:26,700 fatherless, The Surge owner. Well, the poor and let none of 348 00:26:26,700 --> 00:26:31,400 you devise evil against another in your heart. 349 00:26:34,100 --> 00:26:37,600 The Lord has expectation. I got many friends who are 350 00:26:37,600 --> 00:26:43,300 farmers. and and my friend to a farmers, they spend an insane 351 00:26:43,300 --> 00:26:47,200 amount of time working on their equipment, preparing their 352 00:26:47,200 --> 00:26:52,800 ground and planting seeds, simply because they are expect 353 00:26:53,700 --> 00:26:59,500 Free from their hard work, they are expecting to reap a harvest 354 00:26:59,500 --> 00:27:02,200 and I believe what we read in verses eight through ten, these 355 00:27:02,200 --> 00:27:05,000 are the fruits that come from a devoted life. 356 00:27:05,000 --> 00:27:08,100 These are the fruits that come from spending time with God. 357 00:27:08,100 --> 00:27:12,000 These are fruits that come from real sincere fasting. 358 00:27:14,900 --> 00:27:20,400 It says, fasting, draws us closer to God that, that, that 359 00:27:20,400 --> 00:27:23,200 we should have desires after God. 360 00:27:23,700 --> 00:27:26,300 It says fasting, draws us closer to God. 361 00:27:26,400 --> 00:27:30,800 That means that we should look more like God in our action. 362 00:27:32,200 --> 00:27:36,700 It means that we should care about the things that God cares 363 00:27:36,700 --> 00:27:40,600 about and what the Lord gives us in this in these verses if he 364 00:27:40,600 --> 00:27:43,600 gives us these that these categories and means list of 365 00:27:43,600 --> 00:27:46,200 things that that we should care about that, that should be 366 00:27:46,200 --> 00:27:51,700 active and visible in our lives. It used to be a public display 367 00:27:51,800 --> 00:27:59,900 but finding yelling He says one real true judgment a real true 368 00:28:00,000 --> 00:28:03,400 Justice. The word for justice. 369 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:06,000 Here's one that is somewhat complex. 370 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,900 It is a word that is related to righteousness. 371 00:28:09,900 --> 00:28:13,600 Wait for us to think about this concept of Justice here. 372 00:28:13,600 --> 00:28:18,200 It is simply to make all things right in the Bible days. 373 00:28:18,200 --> 00:28:20,900 They had judges. But judges were not only 374 00:28:20,900 --> 00:28:24,900 assigned to have Minister raft to criminals, who have 375 00:28:24,900 --> 00:28:28,400 committed, some kind of crime. But ultimately judges had the 376 00:28:28,400 --> 00:28:33,200 responsibility to ensure that the voiceless had Voice that the 377 00:28:33,200 --> 00:28:37,800 powerless has support that. The poor was care for that. 378 00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:42,600 Nobody was kicked down and pressed out the idea of Justice 379 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:46,700 here. It speaks to Bringing Shalom and 380 00:28:46,700 --> 00:28:50,400 orderliness to humans and creation. 381 00:28:51,400 --> 00:28:56,500 This was also the work of Jesus. We see that in the prophecy in 382 00:28:56,500 --> 00:28:59,400 Isaiah 52 and 53. We see this. 383 00:28:59,400 --> 00:29:03,500 When Jesus stands up in the temple, and he reads from the 384 00:29:03,500 --> 00:29:07,800 book of Isaiah, and he says, the spirit of the Lord is upon me 385 00:29:08,200 --> 00:29:11,700 because he has anointed me to Proclaim good news to the poor. 386 00:29:12,200 --> 00:29:15,000 He has sent me to Proclaim Liberty to the captives. 387 00:29:15,300 --> 00:29:19,300 The recovery of sight to the blind to set at Liberty, those 388 00:29:19,300 --> 00:29:24,300 who are oppressed to proclaim the year of the Lord's favor. 389 00:29:24,400 --> 00:29:28,000 Her family. It is the work in the call of 390 00:29:28,000 --> 00:29:34,000 all believers to bring order to chaos to bring right, where 391 00:29:34,000 --> 00:29:39,000 there is wrong. To pre-salt where there's 392 00:29:39,000 --> 00:29:44,500 bitterness to bring light. Where there is Darkness I call 393 00:29:44,500 --> 00:29:46,900 things. Get what you're saying. 394 00:29:47,500 --> 00:29:50,100 Stir that is 2 over. Wow. 395 00:29:51,600 --> 00:29:59,000 Yes, it is overwhelming. And we should feel that kind of 396 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:02,200 bird. We wish you feel that that kind 397 00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:08,500 of overwhelmingness, the world of his broken and it's a calls 398 00:30:08,500 --> 00:30:11,200 us for more. It's a call this soup. 399 00:30:14,200 --> 00:30:19,500 It's to be a reason why we fast. Do you think Jesus felt? 400 00:30:21,800 --> 00:30:27,600 When he was there outside of Lazarus tomb, people were crying 401 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:32,100 and weeping. And the manifestation of death 402 00:30:32,100 --> 00:30:39,500 was on display. And the shortest first, in all 403 00:30:39,500 --> 00:30:46,400 of the Bible shows, our Lord, whose overwhelmed problem, okay? 404 00:30:48,100 --> 00:30:55,000 Weights. Do we cry? 405 00:30:56,900 --> 00:31:03,700 Do we shed tears for Injustice, or do we somehow dismiss it? 406 00:31:04,600 --> 00:31:09,000 Because it feels like it's too much to bear. 407 00:31:12,500 --> 00:31:16,900 God, always wants to do a supernatural exchange an hour. 408 00:31:18,200 --> 00:31:25,500 He wants us to give him a bird. He wants to give us his Burger. 409 00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:31,200 It's burden is that we would make all things right. 410 00:31:31,200 --> 00:31:36,300 Second thing he shows us here is that we should have mercy toward 411 00:31:36,700 --> 00:31:39,300 one another, in Hebrew, this word. 412 00:31:39,300 --> 00:31:44,200 Mercy is God's. Covenant of faithful love. 413 00:31:45,500 --> 00:31:49,200 Its faithful love. It is a loyal love. 414 00:31:49,700 --> 00:31:53,800 He's saying that we have this faithful loyal, unconditional 415 00:31:53,800 --> 00:31:59,400 kind of love for each other. So often we may be guilty of 416 00:31:59,400 --> 00:32:03,300 lusting each other and not loving each other, and let me 417 00:32:03,300 --> 00:32:06,300 give you this acronym. For lust, it is low of under 418 00:32:06,300 --> 00:32:10,900 selfish terms. That doesn't wind up week that I 419 00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:13,900 can love you as long as you do for me as long as you don't 420 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,100 upset me as long as you don't harm me. 421 00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:20,500 But I plugged used to be loyal to one another like God's love 422 00:32:20,500 --> 00:32:25,400 his loyal to us. He says kind of have mercy for 423 00:32:25,400 --> 00:32:28,600 teacher. Number three, your shoulders 424 00:32:28,600 --> 00:32:33,200 here in this list. He says we should not oppress 425 00:32:33,400 --> 00:32:41,000 push down squash the Widow, the fatherless, the refugee, or the 426 00:32:41,000 --> 00:32:45,000 poor. These are all individuals that 427 00:32:45,000 --> 00:32:46,800 were marginalized in their society. 428 00:32:46,900 --> 00:32:49,100 They are marginalized in our society. 429 00:32:50,500 --> 00:32:54,700 The reason why these individuals can be pushed down and squash 430 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:58,500 and oppressed. Because we can't have a 431 00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:05,500 transactional relationship with them. this is what James talks 432 00:33:05,500 --> 00:33:13,300 about, any talks about the sin of favoritism, We give attention 433 00:33:13,800 --> 00:33:16,700 to those. We assume we will receive a 434 00:33:16,700 --> 00:33:21,500 return on our relationship investment and we ignore those 435 00:33:21,500 --> 00:33:27,300 who appear to only be takers and not givers or participated in 436 00:33:27,300 --> 00:33:29,800 this relationship. That's why the see enough 437 00:33:29,900 --> 00:33:33,100 favoritism is such a horrible sin. 438 00:33:34,800 --> 00:33:36,500 The reason why the central Hall will see. 439 00:33:36,500 --> 00:33:43,400 It is because it ignores the gospel. when we, as Believers 440 00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:47,500 commit, the sin of favoritism, we are forgetting that we have, 441 00:33:47,500 --> 00:33:55,900 nothing nothing to offer, God, That there's no one that's good, 442 00:33:56,200 --> 00:34:02,100 they're all have turned away. And we, we have nothing to offer 443 00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:07,800 him and he has absolutely everything to offer us also 444 00:34:07,800 --> 00:34:15,300 book, totally depraved wretch. It You got the God of Justice. 445 00:34:17,000 --> 00:34:21,100 He comes into our life. It makes everything. 446 00:34:21,900 --> 00:34:26,000 All right. This God who is faithful in 447 00:34:26,000 --> 00:34:28,699 love? He has this loyal love, he loves 448 00:34:28,699 --> 00:34:33,900 us. The poor wretch. 449 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:39,500 The oppressed he expects for us. Tomorrow. 450 00:34:41,900 --> 00:34:46,699 Actual press at the build-up. Lastly, he shares that we should 451 00:34:46,699 --> 00:34:49,199 not devise evil against one another. 452 00:34:50,100 --> 00:34:52,300 It is not our responsibility to fight. 453 00:34:52,300 --> 00:34:54,900 Hey, we'll hey, but we fight hate with love. 454 00:34:55,500 --> 00:35:02,400 We don't seek Vengeance. We, we seek blessings Pray for 455 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,200 my enemies for those who persecute us. 456 00:35:07,000 --> 00:35:09,200 He called God's let things for them. 457 00:35:10,300 --> 00:35:16,300 We look at Zechariah 7. The word of the Lord through the 458 00:35:16,300 --> 00:35:20,400 mouth of the prophet. Simply they didn't get. 459 00:35:21,900 --> 00:35:26,300 And then get the lesson from the past and you get the real 460 00:35:26,300 --> 00:35:30,700 meaning that the motivation asking and they didn't get that 461 00:35:30,700 --> 00:35:34,900 that God has a greater expectation that they will be 462 00:35:34,900 --> 00:35:38,700 the light of the world that they that they won't be. 463 00:35:38,700 --> 00:35:45,600 That be the image bearers of God for people they did and if we 464 00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:53,600 are honest, it's hard to get it. It seems as if the Jews struggle 465 00:35:54,400 --> 00:35:58,700 with being stuck. I think this is the beauty of 466 00:35:58,700 --> 00:36:02,900 the Gospel. Is that Jesus came to set us 467 00:36:02,900 --> 00:36:07,900 free to ensure that we have Supernatural help that we are 468 00:36:07,900 --> 00:36:14,800 not stuck. It was downtown a large 469 00:36:14,800 --> 00:36:20,300 high-rise building. And they were stuck in elevator. 470 00:36:22,100 --> 00:36:26,700 People will cry. Hail hell. 471 00:36:28,700 --> 00:36:31,000 They were quiet but no one could hear that Christ. 472 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:32,200 They were people that were banking. 473 00:36:32,300 --> 00:36:35,100 Bam. Bam, bam. 474 00:36:35,100 --> 00:36:38,700 That was no calm person in the elevator. 475 00:36:39,800 --> 00:36:42,900 They were desperate and desperate people, do desperate 476 00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:46,600 things. And one guy. 477 00:36:47,700 --> 00:36:54,400 Is that he only had an idea? He walked over lifted the latch 478 00:36:55,400 --> 00:36:58,700 grab the phone. Held into his ear. 479 00:37:00,800 --> 00:37:04,800 It was a voice that came on other line, hello may? 480 00:37:04,800 --> 00:37:09,200 I help you. It says we're in the elevator. 481 00:37:10,400 --> 00:37:13,000 We're stuck between this floor and that floor. 482 00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:17,800 Can't you send help? Person on other date, elephant, 483 00:37:17,900 --> 00:37:23,500 personal other line said we'll be there by the way, everybody 484 00:37:23,500 --> 00:37:27,100 on the elevated. A they were so focused on Beast. 485 00:37:28,500 --> 00:37:32,600 But they were, you was using all of that, human energy have human 486 00:37:32,700 --> 00:37:37,400 effort to get out of the situation where all the time, 487 00:37:37,400 --> 00:37:42,100 there was a system mechanism that was right there in place. 488 00:37:42,600 --> 00:37:46,000 And all they had to do was to pick up the phone and talk to 489 00:37:46,000 --> 00:37:48,900 the person who can actually help them. 490 00:37:50,700 --> 00:37:55,000 As sometimes as Believers, we find ourselves stuck between 491 00:37:55,000 --> 00:38:00,500 this place and that place and we are trying every human effort 492 00:38:00,500 --> 00:38:07,000 that we can to get ourselves free to move all to go forward. 493 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:10,800 But can I tell you that God has a sister. 494 00:38:12,300 --> 00:38:17,700 That that God has a system where we can contact him when we can 495 00:38:17,700 --> 00:38:21,700 connect with him, where we can get trial closer to where we 496 00:38:21,700 --> 00:38:24,600 could get super natural. Hello. 497 00:38:27,700 --> 00:38:33,200 Maybe in this Lenten season, you also feel like you iced up and 498 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:34,500 you're tired of being stuck here. 499 00:38:34,600 --> 00:38:37,500 You're tired of being in this miss holding pattern, you 500 00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:40,200 realize too that your priorities have been out of line. 501 00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:48,200 And you don't seem like you've learned the lessons of the You 502 00:38:48,200 --> 00:38:49,600 pack up. The Holly Farm. 503 00:38:51,900 --> 00:38:57,900 He's speaking to the holy God. He said, I need you. 504 00:38:59,700 --> 00:39:07,900 I need to get closer to you. This is the season. 505 00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:14,300 I've looked worried and Dally. I get closer to Apple. 506 00:39:15,800 --> 00:39:16,400 The Dua. God. 507 00:39:17,800 --> 00:39:35,400 Amen. Lord. we give us because at 508 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:41,100 times, we Bill is if we're stuck, we feel like we're all by 509 00:39:41,100 --> 00:39:45,300 myself. But God, you are just all away. 510 00:39:48,500 --> 00:39:55,200 Help us God to press in to you. Help us to learn the lessons 511 00:39:55,900 --> 00:40:01,000 that we need to learn. Help us to do the disciplines 512 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:05,800 that you've given us to do. Help us understand that you've 513 00:40:05,800 --> 00:40:12,300 given us credible opportunity. A wonderful privilege to know 514 00:40:12,300 --> 00:40:18,300 you to be drawn closer to you. To be conformed into the image 515 00:40:19,100 --> 00:40:25,200 and likeness of Jesus. And that we met her view that we 516 00:40:25,200 --> 00:40:28,800 may live out the expectations that you have for us, your 517 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:35,600 servant. Or help us to get we pray this 518 00:40:35,900 --> 00:40:35,600 in Jesus name. Or help us to get we pray this 519 00:40:35,900 --> 00:40:36,700 in Jesus name.