Sermon Tone Analysis

Zechariah 6:12-13

Promise to David ultimately fulfilled in Christ

12 When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from your body, and I will establish his kingdom.

13 He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.

I. New Creation

a.

b.

Eden was the original “temple” for God and man to dwell together

c.

Temple was abandoned because of sin.

d.

God promised to restore his dwelling place with mankind.

II.

New House for God

a.

b.

—angels ascending and descending—meeting place for God and man

—angels ascending and descending—meeting place for God and man (temple)—Nathanael would see Jesus and the church—the new temple

—Bethel was something of the Jerusalem before Jerusalem—It was the place where Isaac said, “this is the house of God”—Jesus is the house/temple of God—the link between God and man

III.

New Temple

b.

IV.

New Water

b. —water springs up until it fills the land

—water springs up until it fills the land

—water springs up until it fills the land

Zechariah 14:8-9 On that day living waters shall flow out from Jerusalem, half of them to the eastern sea and half of them to the western sea.

It shall continue in summer as in winter.

And the LORD will be king over all the earth.

On that day the LORD will be one and his name one.

c.

9 And the LORD will be king over all the earth.

On that day the LORD will be one and his name one.

d.

V. Culmination of New “Church-Temple” in

a. —Jesus Enters Jerusalem

b. —Jesus Cleanses the Temple

c. —Jesus invites his disciples into “His Father’s House” (see —the temple)

d. —Jesus is the vinedresser—(Garden image from the Eden)

e. —Jesus promises God the Holy Spirit will come to his “church temple”

i. —Holy Spirit fills the upper room just as God filled the Temple after Solomon’s prayer.

VI.

The 6 long days which have dominated come to an end

a.

modeling the six days of creation

b. on the 7th day (1st day of the week) Jesus is raised to the Father’s Heavenly Temple

c. finds Jesus bringing the disciples out of the water, providing food for them, and commissioning them to “feed my sheep”

VII.

Jesus is coming again!

He will bring his people to the heavenly Temple

a. New heaven and new earth—

i. Present earth destroyed—

But by the same word the heavens and earth that now exist are stored up for fire, being kept until the day of judgment and destruction of the ungodly.

8 But do not overlook this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

9 The Lord is not slow to fulfill his promise as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should reach repentance.

10 But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, and then the heavens will pass away with a roar, and the heavenly bodies will be burned up and dissolved, and the earth and the works that are done on it will be exposed.

11 Since all these things are thus to be dissolved, what sort of people ought you to be in lives of holiness and godliness, 12 waiting for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be set on fire and dissolved, and the heavenly bodies will melt as they burn!

13 But according to his promise we are waiting for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.

ii.

Then God dwells with man

b.

New Jerusalem—

c.

New River of life—

i. ()

d.

New Tree of Life—

e. New Place for God’s throne—

f.

New Light—