The Sermon By My Spirit by David McGee
Jan 05, 2014
By My Spirit (37:24)
Referenced Scriptures: Zechariah 4:1-10; 2 Corinthians 5:17; Zechariah 9:9-10
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Zechariah 4:1-10
1) The angel who talked with me came again, and waked me, as a man who is wakened out of his sleep.
2) He said to me, What see you? I said, I have seen, and, behold, a lampstand all of gold, with its bowl on the top of it, and its seven lamps thereon; there are seven pipes to each of the lamps, which are on the top of it;
3) and two olive-trees by it, one on the right side of the bowl, and the other on the left side of it.
4) I answered and spoke to the angel who talked with me, saying, What are these, my lord?
5) Then the angel who talked with me answered me, Don‘t you know what these are? I said, No, my lord.
6) Then he answered and spoke to me, saying, This is the word of Yahweh to Zerubbabel, saying, Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, says Yahweh of Hosts.
7) Who are you, great mountain? before Zerubbabel [you shall become] a plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone with shouts of Grace, grace, to it.
8) Moreover the word of Yahweh came to me, saying,
9) The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house; his hands shall also finish it; and you shall know that Yahweh of Hosts has sent me to you.
10) For who has despised the day of small things? for these seven shall rejoice, and shall see the plummet in the hand of Zerubbabel; [these are] the eyes of Yahweh, which run back and forth through the whole earth.
2 Corinthians 5:17
17) Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old things have passed away. Behold, they have become new.
Zechariah 9:9-10
9) Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion; shout, daughter of Jerusalem: behold, your king comes to you; he is just, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt the foal of a donkey.
10) I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off; and he shall speak peace to the nations: and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.
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Were reading from the writings of Zach this morning Zachariah and I told Jack that we were going to read from his writings this morning and he was wondering what I was talking about so divided the book of Zechariah chapter four reading verses one through ten. And of course where much more familiar with verse six and the King James and I will read that in the after we finish this, but the message using the messenger angel the messenger angel again called me to attention. It was like being awakened out of a deep sleep. He said what do you see I answer. I see a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top seven lambs, each with seven spouts are set on the bowl and there are too all the trees, one on either side of the bowl. Then I asked the messenger angel. What does this mean* the message of a the messenger angel said, can't you tell no sir, I said. Then he said this is God 's message to his irreparable. You can't force these things, they always come about through my spirit says God of the Angel armies so big mountain could you think you are next to his irreparable. You're nothing but a molehill. He'll proceed to set the cornerstone in place, accompanied by cheers, yes, yes, do it. After that, the word of God came to me 's irreparable started Zerubbabel started rebuilding this temple, and he will complete it. That will be your confirmation that God of the Angel armies sent me to you, does it one. Der despise this day of small beginnings. No change there to when they see the removals setting the last stone in place and verse six in the King James is this is the word of the Lord unto the reparable, saying, not by my not by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts were very familiar with that one. And in that statement of Scripture was also, of course, that we sang years ago, not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord. Now, as we read that it's just kind I okay what's, what's going on in this context here was going on in the Scriptures. While today's message has kind in a in a being of two parts. The first of course is that what we've just read on how that God worked in the Old Testament to declare his word to his people and to declare how that he was going to work through his prophet and through the Zerubbabel to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem, and to rebuild Jerusalem and the second part of our message is about how God works in the New Testament to bring his word to his people on us and how they God is going to build his temple. You and I as we grow in our relationship with Christ. So Zachariah is a prophet to this time period and was his his message was to proclaim the message of God the Word of God to the people and end the message of the word of God and Young points out sin points out failures in people 's lives, but also there is a promise with that sin with that pointing out then and his ministry was to this reminiscent of people on Jerusalem that they had returned from Babylon. November they been taken about one minute because of their sins. The Babylonian Empire had conquered Jerusalem. They had been in battle, and for seventy years, and there were now returning, and while they've been back in Jerusalem. Now, maybe twenty years and the other was a time in which Daniel was in the line standing things like that in and in Babylon and in those books written at that time, but Zachariah is writing now to this small revenant. I'm not quite sure how many thousands of people have returned from Babylon, and they have returned to Jerusalem to rebuild know what happened was the people who had returned brought with them from the video brought the king of the Medes and the Persians King Cyrus had given permission for the people to leave bathroom and returned to Jerusalem to rebuild their temple and they brought wood and things like that for the Temple, and they were all gung ho. They're going back to Jerusalem and were going to rebuild the Temple rebuilt Jerusalem while when they got there got back to Jerusalem. It was bigger than there is a bigger task than what they'd ever imagined. There were no motels and hotels. No pounds, no places for them to live. So you've got to take care of yourself right out of your own house before you can build something else so they build Roundhouse, but they use the wooden stuff they were going to the Temple with the builder own house. So after they used up all the materials that they had brought back with them to build their own houses and everything else. Now they didn't have any other materials to build the Temple and now they were just kind of living in eighties the city of Jerusalem under November and the walls and they didn't have yelled the corner restore was an open and gone out of business, and they had to take care of their business to take care of their younger everyday needs and there were some people that had stayed in in the area and job that were not taken captive and while they would associate with them because they were considered in the New Testament we know them as Samaritans, the Samaritans were people they would go through some Americans were people Jewish people who that were taken captive to Babylon, and they had intermarried with the Gentiles and so they couldn't you will you couldn't touch those people, and so they had the people were just in the city of Jerusalem and they were trying to make a living in trying to get things going. And so there were very never entrepreneurs, and there are people who were just kind everyday people returning to Jerusalem and what happened was they didn't have a foodie so the people who had went to those who didn't, and those who couldn't repay. They took their families and sold them as slaves, and there was a whole. It didn't turn out very well and so this was all good intentions, and they come back to Jerusalem and everything 's a mess. Nothing was going as progress. Nothing had gotten nothing was going according to plan, because they had this high hopes of returning to Jerusalem to rebuild the city rebuild the Temple. What the glory of God flow and everything will be great. Well, it wasn't going on. So Zachariah God appoints him. Zach to be the profit and that's going to be the prophet of God and God has set him aside and he these visions he has these revelations, the cold to him about what's going to happen and this verse that we have here. This chapter that we read it right here in chapter four. Zachariah is telling about the messenger and who's he talking. I thought about Jesus. Really, the what to call with the call here. He is called the Angel messenger was worth it. What is the messenger angel again came to me call me to attention the messenger angel. So the messenger angel comes to Zachariah and begins tonight and there's a number of times that this angel messenger shows up Zachariah and give television and gives them a vision of what's going on, and Zachariah Van begins to minister to the people in Jerusalem, the people and return and everything wasn't going the way that they had planned and Zachariah is appointed by God and God shows up to tell Zachariah to tell the people tell the King what's going on. So he begins to minister to the small remnant of our GIs who have returned due to juried out to rebuild the Temple and the nation. But they were being successful. They had become complacent. They had become overwhelmed by the task. Okay, we're going to you. I'm sorry that I am not sorry that I think of David and El Salvador. Okay, here you go into a community and here is a community that there is no education very little education if there is education is only there because of the missionaries who gone there and started school we used to always still do we still support the Latin American childcare that of a man and then run that but that was started so that children can have education Walters education in the role community. It only came by through the through the missions and through the through the assemblies and maybe some other organizations. So you go into this world community. There's no education. There are no jobs and there's no organizations, except maybe a gang and maybe a church and people just exist. Okay, that's it. So let's call to this community and let's change the community. Let's make them help them so that they can help themselves. Where do you begin where you begin. How do you help people help themselves while wiggling with ideas. Guess what doesn't work because they are your ideas, not there, and people been trying to do this for a couple hundred years ago in help people by telling them what they need to do and guess and it didn't work. So what David is not in this group. Thankfully, they've lived there with these people for six months ago. Every week and live there. Some of this stayed there for a week at a time, six months of the time wasted time and every week they are there and they meet with these individuals in a meet with the church and what they do then is find out what the people feel is their needs. Then they began to tell them help them to meet that need all that they can help meet their own needs and how they can do that will Zachariah is doing this. He is there with the people, and God is helping him understand what the needs of the people are and how that they can accomplish this monumental task of rebuilding the city now here we are going into the city, going in the Jerusalem walls are all for now. The city then there are the temple has been totally destroyed, not one stone left upon another& magnificent magnum most beautiful temple gold lampstands and gold fixtures and the angel messenger says and gives the vision of a gold lampstands with olive trees and everything. It's talking about an endless supply of oil coming to the lampstand. They are having in this present Zachariah has this vision. This angel messenger gives this declaration and his message went far beyond just plug them meeting the building the Temple in Zechariah chapter nine. I I I'd I didn't give this to José to the reboot Zechariah chapter nine verses nine and ten on a lot of this sounds familiar. Rejoice greatly, O daughters of Zion shout daughters of Jerusalem, Senior King comes to you righteous, and having salvation gentle and whining on a donkey on a cold full of a donkey. I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the warhorses from Jerusalem and the battle bowl will be broken. The rough of playing pieces of the nations. His role will extend from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the year, Zechariah, and that vision sees the coming of Jesus riding in his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. And he also sees be on that to the new Jerusalem, in which Jesus is ruling over the entire Earth saccharide is a man who has has this relationship with God, in which the angel messenger proclaims a message to him to give to the people and the message that he gets to the people, give them hope to accomplish an impossible task. So this is Zachariah Hooper, this is the same Zechariah, who wrote about Jesus coming into Jerusalem on a donkey on the triumphal entry of Jesus, so Zachariah has a stirring message of hope their chain was coming. And so why, why do we need to build the temple. Why do we need to get all this ready your King is going to come and he's going to come riding a donkey that is going to come triumphantly riding into Jerusalem, you need to get the Temple built fellows, you need to build the city follows because our King is coming, and this was some five hundred years of seven hundred years five hundred years before the coming of Christ and Zachariah is writing about it. The Soviets. His vision here in chapter four concerning the rebuilding of Jerusalem. He has a message of hope. And he brings it to the people in a disparaging time in which they are not capable or do not feel capable of building were doing the task that is before them, but remember God has a plan God has a purpose and Zachariah is delivering the message studies. He talked about this lampstand is called lampstand. While they did have a golden enemy well and David trees the coming voice was smooth as the olive trees all that they were basically destroying our under somebody else's rule because what happened in Jerusalem. It was a city without walls sold in neighboring Samaritans and others. They were just made their command and there they would raid the city they would take people captive, they would take whatever wealth they had and they would yell steel of my off so the people were just kind of felt taken advantage of. They were openly say so violated soon as I got started. Somebody came and destroyed no matter what they did wouldn't work, so they were at a frustrated, discouraged and not only were they discouraged what they had. They use upon themselves. They can send it, and then nothing left. It's almost like the poor but in Africa on the places where they would send an grain to plant in the fields while they were so hungry that they ate the brain. You're supposed to play what's use of planting crops were not alive to eat them so they would eat the grain and when we would send rain to these United States would send rain to these countries, we would treat the seeds so that they would be resistant to blah thing drops in your things like that. Well I'm a room while we were plants easier corners of like that would always have like a pink coating or red coating on it and that it was it was you was indeed was the plant will these people didn't know that they just needed and I got sick and die from the seed that they were supposed to plan and they couldn't. The current planet as they were starving, where he worked as a cycle stop CR lives. Where does the site. Where is the site. Of the things that we feel like we should do should become and don't do, and we get frustrated in the whole concept of what's going on and beyond. We come to church if you get the value of coming here and the value of the word of God is to encourage us and to find that God is going to go work in our life, and it's going to be greater and so at the angel messenger, the word of God that comes into our life that gives us a different perspective because of me. I have a different perspective. Where did that come from and I come from our government is going to come from some inspired leader and places. Inspiration is the word of God is not our inspiration. Where do we become inspired, what is to come from is itself needs now is God. We must be inspired by the word of God. Verse six. Not by might not by my own strength, power and understanding Zachariah tells the people you can't look at this is if you're going to do it alone. You can't look at rebuilding the Temple and rebuilding the city is if you're going to do it alone, but perhaps it's not my Smart my power is by my spirit says the Lord, and that verse six and read on. What are you, Almighty Mountain. What is the mighty mountain. The mountain of inspiring and and in accomplishing this. This feeds of of building the temple in building the wall. This mighty mountain before is irreparable. You will become level ground. This task. That is, be on your ability that seems like a mighty mountain will become a molehill why God is going to bring his spirit and help you see, discover ways to make this mountain the molehill how the God by his Spirit is going to make this happen than the word of the Lord came to me that the Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple is has will also complete it. Your hands and started at and your hands will complete it and that is going to prove to you that I am the author of inspiration to this project and we find that God is saying to us that is not by might nor by power, so the world sees accomplishments as coming about through top strong unbending harsh judge mental get it done. That's where the world sees leadership that God says you got to have your talents. You've got to have your abilities and your strength. But that's not all that you depend upon. You've got to have no Zach the author often ask you then put an exact on the spot. Today, why do you go to school get rescue momentum that is why I have to go to school now and all this stuff for it. It is Janice Everest, then why don't have to go to school now and you get the same answer I got as you need to accept and your child because you have to and you know and I go to college alerts, worse yet you spent two or three years, taking classes that shall never use that until you get to the point where you declare your major, and then you'll get into the work that you want to have a double will be there for you and I'll pick on David again, David, did the four-year program in six years feed into a six-year program in four years big enough for your program is six years now, and an end. I had gotten out, like David, you have to do you have to finish by on ice for you, David, Solomon, Colorado. We don't ask in social classes. All you have it, it's okay dad, I know it is now finally got to the point, you have to declare major. I don't know what I want to do is pick your two best classes technically the best classes so biblical studies and art. Now what in our theater to do with that major biblical studies in part double major when he made up his mind found Jenny, his wife, soon to be wife. He did his classes and professors were going to non- maybe I'm for some award and then the professor says. I checked into your studies. You can show up until this last year and a half, but exactly what he needed to be a missionary in El Salvador to work with in law say was art photography in biblical studies, writing about God making the application. God has a way of bringing us to a point that he has a plan. Now our plans often find ways of whiners am I doing this why my doing. You've got to have something here in our head something in our heart something to do with our hands would not have ability, God will inspire those abilities God will inspire what you taking in college, you may never use it, but it's you have to go through this, to get to where you need to be and you don't need to go to college to do this, eating whatever it is that God has led you there God will provide for you, whether it's in college or whether it's in your workforce. Whether it's dealing with a helmet auto industry are delivering our teaching, nor you're working in the hospital are working in a doctor 's office. Our work whatever it is you are looking at this we say this is the task in. Let's just now. It's now the soul to it anymore. There's no John said the open. This is an in and now the Scriptures. Here, enabling within them, King James version says don't despise small beginnings don't despise small beginnings don't despise the ordinary. The average hey, the things that are just hung housewife mother they will despise the small things that you would consider small because we're doing it. We sometimes think of a small white because I do it. It has to be small. It doesn't matter what it is the Bible says it's not by might, gunmakers, I'm going to make it, and it takes determination, but it also takes an inspiration. There's a reason behind this it out if we don't feel that there is a reason it becomes a turmoil, it becomes labor, it becomes ordinary and you know the ordinary is only made extraordinary by the extra ordinary becomes extra ordinary with the extra, not by my nor by power, by my spirit, that's the extra that works in the ordinary and this is what we look at here in the second part of the other message lies in second Corinthians chapter five verse seventeen if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come that we are a new creation in Christ Jesus. Yes, there is a struggle. There is a struggle. I miss the creation, but guess what, I still struggle with what the old nature, we might wonder why we so often do not live in the manner described by this particular verse, we have yet our lives to Christ. We are sure or I'm our salvation. When there is a new nature, and it is residing in an old flashy body where there is a war between the new and you'll and until you die till we die, that wars going to go on, but the all fleshy nature. This part of us. It's a it's an old nature. The wars with the new nature and the old nature is. I've done this a thousand times before and hasn't been a good sense of why might I do it again. Do it again to get right. I don't want to do right. I want to quit. I don't want to I don't want to build this temple I don't want to build this wall. It is an impossible task. Every time I get started, these people from the outside. Come rating and they take and tear down everything that we build everlasting ruin. I've done it a hundred times what's going to change, not by might nor by power, by my spirit, and it was the spirit that brings in the difference that brings in the hope that tells us there is something to list there is a purpose that is, you can't see it yet. Yeah, let's do some preacher talking up there, but there's some old person trying to get us inspired to go to school right back at them all person is bald and well beyond his years trying to tell me how to live my life and go to school and in learned something from people who don't know what they're talking about and always stay the same thing every week and tired of it. What good is it to you know they will need not by my normal high-power, but by my spirit says the Lord God has a way of speaking to our heart, and that's the spirit, the spirit gives life, the spirit gives life. The law restricts you can do this and you may have. I'm going to do it. I wouldn't do it again, keep building until I build it until I can't refill can be broken down and you see what happened in Jerusalem was there was this guy called Jeremiah who comes along with Zachariah and it sure them. Jeremiah shows up when he says you know what you people everywhere that you live your guard build the wall by your house because when you build the wall by your house if you don't build a strong enough, it will be the weak part of the wall and the Raiders are to commit an aggregate your family first. So everybody's going to build the wall and Jeremiah ended up building the wall in an unremarkable short period of time they had worked at it and failed Edinburgh that invalidated and worked at it and found that it end in Zechariah comes allowance is not by might nor by power, but by my spirit spirits, but inspire you would have the right leadership. Leadership is inspirational. We have the right direction. Inspirational would have hoped inspirational God is going to inspire our hearts, our actions are actions are going to take on a new direction and may be the same old action that is going to have a different result. And what did they do to the spirit and truth of God this doing the double wall. They built a Temple. They built the city and some five hundred years later, Jesus wrote in on a dunk. These people didn't see it the only heard this guy talk about it with the same guy spoke about something in our future. When Jesus is going to come again and it wasn't but did you ever see two mountains, you know, the first and the second one, and we are often a distance, and you see them. They look like they're together, but when you get the one you find out there's among the other one is way off. That's what happened with Zachariah when he sees Jesus riding on a donkey and Jesus ruling over the entire to Zachariah and that vision. They were both almost the same but they are separated by time at the birth and death of Christ and thirty A.D., and in our future, were Jesus will rule and reign forever, Zacharias saw them both. He spoke of them both the same spirit that spoke to Zachariah is the same spirit that came on Pentecost is the same spirit that inspires us as we take communion, not by might not by power our own mental genius. God uses them, but he inspires them. That makes a difference. So as you face your difficulties, whether it's in school how is a difficult user weather tonight. I didn't know certain things I was very smart of the things I won't talk about their certain tasks. Last farm. When I lived on the farm. There were never enough hours in the day, there was always more jobs to do that we had time to do in the EU could work in sunup to sundown and still not be done because it was still more and you know sometimes we work and work and work and we don't get anywhere. I might not by power spy, my spirit God has a way of taking inspiring teaching reading. Whatever your obstacle is pray about it. We're not telling God about something he doesn't know were speaking to God about what is in the heart and then were allowing him to inspire us on how to do it the God of the Angel Army spoke to Zachariah, the same God, not by Mike, not by power by my spirit stick. We thank you father for inspiring our hearts and for the inspiration of your word that the inspiration of your spirit that gives us life. Whatever our tasks. Whatever we do for a living. Whatever we do in service to use others and to you and to ourselves. God, I pray your spirit will inspire us empower us, give us life that is not just the drugs are you the same old thing. It doesn't seem to go anywhere like building a wall and people come in and knock it down, but that God that you will inspire us that we will build according to your divine plan and Lord you will work in us by your divine plan, you will inspire our hearts, but your divine plan in God we have hope it is beyond the hope that we see in our minds and our own understanding is a hope of eternity. It is the Spirit of God who speaks these truths into our hearts and we will forever be changed in our future will be changed. Our future is preparing we are preparing our future today by your spirits. Thank you, God, for giving us the strength of wisdom in the understanding. The go forward to do the task at hand, not by might nor by power, but by your spirits all believe the same in that wasn't very louder. It is a lesson that was, like I built the walls will be torn down again and you believe the same in an SovietWere reading from the writings of Zach this morning Zachariah and I told Jack that we were going to read from his writings this morning and he was wondering what I was talking about so divided the book of Zechariah chapter four reading verses one through ten. And of course where much more familiar with verse six and the King James and I will read that in the after we finish this, but the message using the messenger angel the messenger angel again called me to attention. It was like being awakened out of a deep sleep. He said what do you see I answer. I see a lampstand of solid gold with a bowl on top seven lambs, each with seven spouts are set on the bowl and there are too all the trees, one on either side of the bowl. Then I asked the messenger angel. What does this mean* the message of a the messenger angel said, can't you tell no sir, I said. Then he said this is God 's message to his irreparable. You can't force these things, they always come about through my spirit says God of the Angel armies so big mountain could you think you are next to his irreparable. You're nothing but a molehill. He'll proceed to set the cornerstone in place, accompanied by cheers, yes, yes, do it. After that, the word of God came to me 's irreparable started Zerubbabel started rebuilding this temple, and he will complete it. That will be your confirmation that God of the Angel armies sent me to you, does it one. Der despise this day of small beginnings. No change there to when they see the removals setting the last stone in place and verse six in the King James is this is the word of the Lord unto the reparable, saying, not by my not by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord of hosts were very familiar with that one. And in that statement of Scripture was also, of course, that we sang years ago, not by might nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the Lord. Now, as we read that it's just kind I okay what's, what's going on in this context here was going on in the Scriptures. While today's message has kind in a in a being of two parts. The first of course is that what we've just read on how that God worked in the Old Testament to declare his word to his people and to declare how that he was going to work through his prophet and through the Zerubbabel to rebuild the Temple in Jerusalem, and to rebuild Jerusalem and the second part of our message is about how God works in the New Testament to bring his word to his people on us and how they God is going to build his temple. You and I as we grow in our relationship with Christ. So Zachariah is a prophet to this time period and was his his message was to proclaim the message of God the Word of God to the people and end the message of the word of God and Young points out sin points out failures in people 's lives, but also there is a promise with that sin with that pointing out then and his ministry was to this reminiscent of people on Jerusalem that they had returned from Babylon. November they been taken about one minute because of their sins. The Babylonian Empire had conquered Jerusalem. They had been in battle, and for seventy years, and there were now returning, and while they've been back in Jerusalem. Now, maybe twenty years and the other was a time in which Daniel was in the line standing things like that in and in Babylon and in those books written at that time, but Zachariah is writing now to this small revenant. I'm not quite sure how many thousands of people have returned from Babylon, and they have returned to Jerusalem to rebuild know what happened was the people who had returned brought with them from the video brought the king of the Medes and the Persians King Cyrus had given permission for the people to leave bathroom and returned to Jerusalem to rebuild their temple and they brought wood and things like that for the Temple, and they were all gung ho. They're going back to Jerusalem and were going to rebuild the Temple rebuilt Jerusalem while when they got there got back to Jerusalem. It was bigger than there is a bigger task than what they'd ever imagined. There were no motels and hotels. No pounds, no places for them to live. So you've got to take care of yourself right out of your own house before you can build something else so they build Roundhouse, but they use the wooden stuff they were going to the Temple with the builder own house. So after they used up all the materials that they had brought back with them to build their own houses and everything else. Now they didn't have any other materials to build the Temple and now they were just kind of living in eighties the city of Jerusalem under November and the walls and they didn't have yelled the corner restore was an open and gone out of business, and they had to take care of their business to take care of their younger everyday needs and there were some people that had stayed in in the area and job that were not taken captive and while they would associate with them because they were considered in the New Testament we know them as Samaritans, the Samaritans were people they would go through some Americans were people Jewish people who that were taken captive to Babylon, and they had intermarried with the Gentiles and so they couldn't you will you couldn't touch those people, and so they had the people were just in the city of Jerusalem and they were trying to make a living in trying to get things going. And so there were very never entrepreneurs, and there are people who were just kind everyday people returning to Jerusalem and what happened was they didn't have a foodie so the people who had went to those who didn't, and those who couldn't repay. They took their families and sold them as slaves, and there was a whole. It didn't turn out very well and so this was all good intentions, and they come back to Jerusalem and everything 's a mess. Nothing was going as progress. Nothing had gotten nothing was going according to plan, because they had this high hopes of returning to Jerusalem to rebuild the city rebuild the Temple. What the glory of God flow and everything will be great. Well, it wasn't going on. So Zachariah God appoints him. Zach to be the profit and that's going to be the prophet of God and God has set him aside and he these visions he has these revelations, the cold to him about what's going to happen and this verse that we have here. This chapter that we read it right here in chapter four. Zachariah is telling about the messenger and who's he talking. I thought about Jesus. Really, the what to call with the call here. He is called the Angel messenger was worth it. What is the messenger angel again came to me call me to attention the messenger angel. So the messenger angel comes to Zachariah and begins tonight and there's a number of times that this angel messenger shows up Zachariah and give television and gives them a vision of what's going on, and Zachariah Van begins to minister to the people in Jerusalem, the people and return and everything wasn't going the way that they had planned and Zachariah is appointed by God and God shows up to tell Zachariah to tell the people tell the King what's going on. So he begins to minister to the small remnant of our GIs who have returned due to juried out to rebuild the Temple and the nation. But they were being successful. They had become complacent. They had become overwhelmed by the task. Okay, we're going to you. I'm sorry that I am not sorry that I think of David and El Salvador. Okay, here you go into a community and here is a community that there is no education very little education if there is education is only there because of the missionaries who gone there and started school we used to always still do we still support the Latin American childcare that of a man and then run that but that was started so that children can have education Walters education in the role community. It only came by through the through the missions and through the through the assemblies and maybe some other organizations. So you go into this world community. There's no education. There are no jobs and there's no organizations, except maybe a gang and maybe a church and people just exist. Okay, that's it. So let's call to this community and let's change the community. Let's make them help them so that they can help themselves. Where do you begin where you begin. How do you help people help themselves while wiggling with ideas. Guess what doesn't work because they are your ideas, not there, and people been trying to do this for a couple hundred years ago in help people by telling them what they need to do and guess and it didn't work. So what David is not in this group. Thankfully, they've lived there with these people for six months ago. Every week and live there. Some of this stayed there for a week at a time, six months of the time wasted time and every week they are there and they meet with these individuals in a meet with the church and what they do then is find out what the people feel is their needs. Then they began to tell them help them to meet that need all that they can help meet their own needs and how they can do that will Zachariah is doing this. He is there with the people, and God is helping him understand what the needs of the people are and how that they can accomplish this monumental task of rebuilding the city now here we are going into the city, going in the Jerusalem walls are all for now. The city then there are the temple has been totally destroyed, not one stone left upon another& magnificent magnum most beautiful temple gold lampstands and gold fixtures and the angel messenger says and gives the vision of a gold lampstands with olive trees and everything. It's talking about an endless supply of oil coming to the lampstand. They are having in this present Zachariah has this vision. This angel messenger gives this declaration and his message went far beyond just plug them meeting the building the Temple in Zechariah chapter nine. I I I'd I didn't give this to José to the reboot Zechariah chapter nine verses nine and ten on a lot of this sounds familiar. Rejoice greatly, O daughters of Zion shout daughters of Jerusalem, Senior King comes to you righteous, and having salvation gentle and whining on a donkey on a cold full of a donkey. I will take away the chariots from Ephraim and the warhorses from Jerusalem and the battle bowl will be broken. The rough of playing pieces of the nations. His role will extend from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the year, Zechariah, and that vision sees the coming of Jesus riding in his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. And he also sees be on that to the new Jerusalem, in which Jesus is ruling over the entire Earth saccharide is a man who has has this relationship with God, in which the angel messenger proclaims a message to him to give to the people and the message that he gets to the people, give them hope to accomplish an impossible task. So this is Zachariah Hooper, this is the same Zechariah, who wrote about Jesus coming into Jerusalem on a donkey on the triumphal entry of Jesus, so Zachariah has a stirring message of hope their chain was coming. And so why, why do we need to build the temple. Why do we need to get all this ready your King is going to come and he's going to come riding a donkey that is going to come triumphantly riding into Jerusalem, you need to get the Temple built fellows, you need to build the city follows because our King is coming, and this was some five hundred years of seven hundred years five hundred years before the coming of Christ and Zachariah is writing about it. The Soviets. His vision here in chapter four concerning the rebuilding of Jerusalem. He has a message of hope. And he brings it to the people in a disparaging time in which they are not capable or do not feel capable of building were doing the task that is before them, but remember God has a plan God has a purpose and Zachariah is delivering the message studies. He talked about this lampstand is called lampstand. While they did have a golden enemy well and David trees the coming voice was smooth as the olive trees all that they were basically destroying our under somebody else's rule because what happened in Jerusalem. It was a city without walls sold in neighboring Samaritans and others. They were just made their command and there they would raid the city they would take people captive, they would take whatever wealth they had and they would yell steel of my off so the people were just kind of felt taken advantage of. They were openly say so violated soon as I got started. Somebody came and destroyed no matter what they did wouldn't work, so they were at a frustrated, discouraged and not only were they discouraged what they had. They use upon themselves. They can send it, and then nothing left. It's almost like the poor but in Africa on the places where they would send an grain to plant in the fields while they were so hungry that they ate the brain. You're supposed to play what's use of planting crops were not alive to eat them so they would eat the grain and when we would send rain to these United States would send rain to these countries, we would treat the seeds so that they would be resistant to blah thing drops in your things like that. Well I'm a room while we were plants easier corners of like that would always have like a pink coating or red coating on it and that it was it was you was indeed was the plant will these people didn't know that they just needed and I got sick and die from the seed that they were supposed to plan and they couldn't. The current planet as they were starving, where he worked as a cycle stop CR lives. Where does the site. Where is the site. Of the things that we feel like we should do should become and don't do, and we get frustrated in the whole concept of what's going on and beyond. We come to church if you get the value of coming here and the value of the word of God is to encourage us and to find that God is going to go work in our life, and it's going to be greater and so at the angel messenger, the word of God that comes into our life that gives us a different perspective because of me. I have a different perspective. Where did that come from and I come from our government is going to come from some inspired leader and places. Inspiration is the word of God is not our inspiration. Where do we become inspired, what is to come from is itself needs now is God. We must be inspired by the word of God. Verse six. Not by might not by my own strength, power and understanding Zachariah tells the people you can't look at this is if you're going to do it alone. You can't look at rebuilding the Temple and rebuilding the city is if you're going to do it alone, but perhaps it's not my Smart my power is by my spirit says the Lord, and that verse six and read on. What are you, Almighty Mountain. What is the mighty mountain. The mountain of inspiring and and in accomplishing this. This feeds of of building the temple in building the wall. This mighty mountain before is irreparable. You will become level ground. This task. That is, be on your ability that seems like a mighty mountain will become a molehill why God is going to bring his spirit and help you see, discover ways to make this mountain the molehill how the God by his Spirit is going to make this happen than the word of the Lord came to me that the Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this temple is has will also complete it. Your hands and started at and your hands will complete it and that is going to prove to you that I am the author of inspiration to this project and we find that God is saying to us that is not by might nor by power, so the world sees accomplishments as coming about through top strong unbending harsh judge mental get it done. That's where the world sees leadership that God says you got to have your talents. You've got to have your abilities and your strength. But that's not all that you depend upon. You've got to have no Zach the author often ask you then put an exact on the spot. Today, why do you go to school get rescue momentum that is why I have to go to school now and all this stuff for it. It is Janice Everest, then why don't have to go to school now and you get the same answer I got as you need to accept and your child because you have to and you know and I go to college alerts, worse yet you spent two or three years, taking classes that shall never use that until you get to the point where you declare your major, and then you'll get into the work that you want to have a double will be there for you and I'll pick on David again, David, did the four-year program in six years feed into a six-year program in four years big enough for your program is six years now, and an end. I had gotten out, like David, you have to do you have to finish by on ice for you, David, Solomon, Colorado. We don't ask in social classes. All you have it, it's okay dad, I know it is now finally got to the point, you have to declare major. I don't know what I want to do is pick your two best classes technically the best classes so biblical studies and art. Now what in our theater to do with that major biblical studies in part double major when he made up his mind found Jenny, his wife, soon to be wife. He did his classes and professors were going to non- maybe I'm for some award and then the professor says. I checked into your studies. You can show up until this last year and a half, but exactly what he needed to be a missionary in El Salvador to work with in law say was art photography in biblical studies, writing about God making the application. God has a way of bringing us to a point that he has a plan. Now our plans often find ways of whiners am I doing this why my doing. You've got to have something here in our head something in our heart something to do with our hands would not have ability, God will inspire those abilities God will inspire what you taking in college, you may never use it, but it's you have to go through this, to get to where you need to be and you don't need to go to college to do this, eating whatever it is that God has led you there God will provide for you, whether it's in college or whether it's in your workforce. Whether it's dealing with a helmet auto industry are delivering our teaching, nor you're working in the hospital are working in a doctor 's office. Our work whatever it is you are looking at this we say this is the task in. Let's just now. It's now the soul to it anymore. There's no John said the open. This is an in and now the Scriptures. Here, enabling within them, King James version says don't despise small beginnings don't despise small beginnings don't despise the ordinary. The average hey, the things that are just hung housewife mother they will despise the small things that you would consider small because we're doing it. We sometimes think of a small white because I do it. It has to be small. It doesn't matter what it is the Bible says it's not by might, gunmakers, I'm going to make it, and it takes determination, but it also takes an inspiration. There's a reason behind this it out if we don't feel that there is a reason it becomes a turmoil, it becomes labor, it becomes ordinary and you know the ordinary is only made extraordinary by the extra ordinary becomes extra ordinary with the extra, not by my nor by power, by my spirit, that's the extra that works in the ordinary and this is what we look at here in the second part of the other message lies in second Corinthians chapter five verse seventeen if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation. The old has gone, the new has come that we are a new creation in Christ Jesus. Yes, there is a struggle. There is a struggle. I miss the creation, but guess what, I still struggle with what the old nature, we might wonder why we so often do not live in the manner described by this particular verse, we have yet our lives to Christ. We are sure or I'm our salvation. When there is a new nature, and it is residing in an old flashy body where there is a war between the new and you'll and until you die till we die, that wars going to go on, but the all fleshy nature. This part of us. It's a it's an old nature. The wars with the new nature and the old nature is. I've done this a thousand times before and hasn't been a good sense of why might I do it again. Do it again to get right. I don't want to do right. I want to quit. I don't want to I don't want to build this temple I don't want to build this wall. It is an impossible task. Every time I get started, these people from the outside. Come rating and they take and tear down everything that we build everlasting ruin. I've done it a hundred times what's going to change, not by might nor by power, by my spirit, and it was the spirit that brings in the difference that brings in the hope that tells us there is something to list there is a purpose that is, you can't see it yet. Yeah, let's do some preacher talking up there, but there's some old person trying to get us inspired to go to school right back at them all person is bald and well beyond his years trying to tell me how to live my life and go to school and in learned something from people who don't know what they're talking about and always stay the same thing every week and tired of it. What good is it to you know they will need not by my normal high-power, but by my spirit says the Lord God has a way of speaking to our heart, and that's the spirit, the spirit gives life, the spirit gives life. The law restricts you can do this and you may have. I'm going to do it. I wouldn't do it again, keep building until I build it until I can't refill can be broken down and you see what happened in Jerusalem was there was this guy called Jeremiah who comes along with Zachariah and it sure them. Jeremiah shows up when he says you know what you people everywhere that you live your guard build the wall by your house because when you build the wall by your house if you don't build a strong enough, it will be the weak part of the wall and the Raiders are to commit an aggregate your family first. So everybody's going to build the wall and Jeremiah ended up building the wall in an unremarkable short period of time they had worked at it and failed Edinburgh that invalidated and worked at it and found that it end in Zechariah comes allowance is not by might nor by power, but by my spirit spirits, but inspire you would have the right leadership. Leadership is inspirational. We have the right direction. Inspirational would have hoped inspirational God is going to inspire our hearts, our actions are actions are going to take on a new direction and may be the same old action that is going to have a different result. And what did they do to the spirit and truth of God this doing the double wall. They built a Temple. They built the city and some five hundred years later, Jesus wrote in on a dunk. These people didn't see it the only heard this guy talk about it with the same guy spoke about something in our future. When Jesus is going to come again and it wasn't but did you ever see two mountains, you know, the first and the second one, and we are often a distance, and you see them. They look like they're together, but when you get the one you find out there's among the other one is way off. That's what happened with Zachariah when he sees Jesus riding on a donkey and Jesus ruling over the entire to Zachariah and that vision. They were both almost the same but they are separated by time at the birth and death of Christ and thirty A.D., and in our future, were Jesus will rule and reign forever, Zacharias saw them both. He spoke of them both the same spirit that spoke to Zachariah is the same spirit that came on Pentecost is the same spirit that inspires us as we take communion, not by might not by power our own mental genius. God uses them, but he inspires them. That makes a difference. So as you face your difficulties, whether it's in school how is a difficult user weather tonight. I didn't know certain things I was very smart of the things I won't talk about their certain tasks. Last farm. When I lived on the farm. There were never enough hours in the day, there was always more jobs to do that we had time to do in the EU could work in sunup to sundown and still not be done because it was still more and you know sometimes we work and work and work and we don't get anywhere. I might not by power spy, my spirit God has a way of taking inspiring teaching reading. Whatever your obstacle is pray about it. We're not telling God about something he doesn't know were speaking to God about what is in the heart and then were allowing him to inspire us on how to do it the God of the Angel Army spoke to Zachariah, the same God, not by Mike, not by power by my spirit stick. We thank you father for inspiring our hearts and for the inspiration of your word that the inspiration of your spirit that gives us life. Whatever our tasks. Whatever we do for a living. Whatever we do in service to use others and to you and to ourselves. God, I pray your spirit will inspire us empower us, give us life that is not just the drugs are you the same old thing. It doesn't seem to go anywhere like building a wall and people come in and knock it down, but that God that you will inspire us that we will build according to your divine plan and Lord you will work in us by your divine plan, you will inspire our hearts, but your divine plan in God we have hope it is beyond the hope that we see in our minds and our own understanding is a hope of eternity. It is the Spirit of God who speaks these truths into our hearts and we will forever be changed in our future will be changed. Our future is preparing we are preparing our future today by your spirits. Thank you, God, for giving us the strength of wisdom in the understanding. The go forward to do the task at hand, not by might nor by power, but by your spirits all believe the same in that wasn't very louder. It is a lesson that was, like I built the walls will be torn down again and you believe the same in an Soviet