Sunday, March 8th, 2020 - AM - The Lord Empowers by His Spirit (Zech. 4:1-7)

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Are you serving the Lord in your own strength, or in the power of the Spirit?

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Can you turn in your Bible the book of Zechariah Chapter number for Zechariah Chapter number for? Those who might be listening outside of these walls, you're listening to the services of the Broomfield Baptist Church Pastor bringing Sunday morning message inside of a boarding Powers by his Spirit Lord and Powers by his Spirit you found your place and Zechariah Chapter number for the Bible recorded Converse number one read carefully with me the angel that talk with me came again in way to me as a man that is waking out of the instead of to me what sea is now and I said, I would Candlestick all of those with a bowl on the top of it and his seven lamps are on in 7 pipe to the seven lamps with her, Poplar up. First $0.03 and two olive trees trees by one of on the right side of the bowl and the other on the left side there up. Answered in Space Needle the talk with me.

Talk with me answered and said unto me knows that are not looking feet. And I said no.

Liberty Insurance pay going to be saying this is the word of the Lord the Lord zaruba bell saying not by might nor by power, but by my spirit saith the Lord of hosts. Who art thou o great Mountain before zerubbabel become plain? And he shall bring forth The Headstone there was shouting turning onto it or do pray that you will help our time as we study your words together make the encouragement to the flock of God that is among today. Lord I Thank you for the privilege to feed the flock But ultimately our meat must come from you and I pray that you would give us meat to eat that we know not up yet that Lord we would be able to see your Eternal purposes through encouraged and stay focused on what you told us to do Lord. I pray that you would help me work today to be powerful in her heart and Life to mold us and conform Us in the image of Jesus Christ Our precious savior your beloved Son and I pray that you will help us to grow in Jesus name. I pray. Amen. Amen. We live in a day and time and which it seems very difficult for anybody to focus on anything for anyone to. Time condition for a second. I think that's my personal opinion because I just look at it at the television commercials those things. It seems like everything is rapidly in the images that come before I send the things that we may be a two-hour program of watching your favorite TV show or whatever the TV show my TV.

Do you need whatever it is to try to sell to you? Another 30 seconds comes and goes and then you have another presentation a little fun with that but there are there are children who struggle with the same as you want to try to help them and I don't mean that in any way. I'm just saying you're not making it any easier is it? So we want to help you want if you want to be a blessing if we can stop long enough to listen to the Lord we can hear what he would say to us and we have a very Spirit among our society today. You need to know what I mean by that. I mean in spirit of novelty everything must be new all the time has to be fresh as the message to get our brain going on things to do on these chemical reactions constantly going from one to the other and I'll tell you is good for me. Sometimes where we are here in Colorado to just unplug everything to go out here in creation and God's classroom and to turn the schedules off and turn the calendars off and turn this cell phones off and just get along. And take a breath and to reconnect and make sure that I'm staying on Target on where God wants me to be. It's far too easy to become transient in everything that we do with family or work school health resolutions, especially in the work of the Lord because we work for Eternal purses and Jesus Christ is the same yesterday today and forever. He says he changes not he's the Father of Lights. With whom is no variableness. Neither shadow of turning our God is, and he is our Rock. So we I want to encourage you today save face you been laboring for the Lord you been doing all you can to live for God don't give up stay faithful. Don't get distracted. You just know God will reward us time. How are you going to do that? I think are pasta to will help us know how to apply these works the same way will be challenged.

Oral-B is strapped over here over there. Can you stay focused on the light the Revelation the word of God. Can you keep that your primary focus focus on his life focus on the light of his word and it will help you to set your eyes on Jesus the author and finisher of our faith. He ran the race before us if we take a bar crawl from follow him, but there's many a little shiny things. The devil will have across our path. I think it's children's progress. What's yo City same time. But if we're not careful, we'll be swept to the side will be on the sidelines. And before we know it and we will not Avail because of the Devil by the way in Zechariah Chapter number.

The new garments that he would receive in chapter 3 that will be able to labor amid discouragements of every Cana. We trust no other power but the power on high from God. We are deceived true spiritual success. And God will uphold on Crossroads afforded definition of prosperity by the spirit Spirit is the one that empowers us to serve him. It's been since Jesus Christ promised it and it hasn't changed yet. He hasn't changed his program the holy spirit will still work in Minster. Even after we Believers in the church spirit will still have a Ministry on this Earth and our even with power today. We live in a special Because as Servants of God, we don't have to wait for the power of the spirit to come upon us if we're saved at the Spirit living in us always with us, so we don't have to wonder if I wake up in the morning with the spirit departed from me like a bowl with not board was not with it won't have that concern today, but we do need to be concerned about quenching him about the still small voice.

We talked to the 5th Vision in the book of Zechariah the golden lampstand in the two olive trees and there is there is so much we can learn from this excerpt above what was in the Tabernacle to give life to the Tabernacle. And this goes down through the 14th would be a symbol of God's people. Here in this day will be is Rydel.

And so you have God's people and they are to be holding High by the world. There was a lampstand in the Tabernacle in the days of Moses and there were 10 lampstands in the temple of Solomon. The rebuilt Temple of Zechariah say there will be only one Lansing. in the refurbished Zechariah he sees that the lampstand he needs fuel and what fuels this lamp. Is oil from two olive trees one on each side of this lamp thing. God is supplying power without the help or manufacture. He's getting power for this like Zechariah is it is to encourage scrubbable. Don't stop what you're doing for God to work in Whitehall the discouragement your face, when you look around you see the circumstances are like a mountain the face you want a real I ever get to Houston to ever climb to the people ever get over this huge hurdle and Zacharias charge from The Lord of year to go to the rubble bowling safe won't stop serving don't stop building. You keep doing what God told him to do and God will be with you. So he needs to complete the rebuilding of the temple in the work has fallen by the wayside because of the discouragement the challenges that they face upon their return. So if he's going to continue this word sakurai's message to him, you're not going to be able to do this without the help of God. Not going to do it in your own strength, so it will not be.

but by my spirit saith the Lord Do the two trees there symbol you have Joshua the high-priest on one hand and you have to ruble. governor on the earth these two bring up a witness to him.

Together in their various respect about serving God because the goal is to get his life out to the world. So these are the two who are anointed in together there a sign of the Messiah. They are a picture of the coming one who will be the king of kings and Lord of lords and a picture for work today when

Persona 5 Messiah he will one day and be introduced as the Supreme priest king. So that's a little bit of a synopsis a background. We need to understand before we get to chapter 4 in Zechariah. As I mentioned. There were great great difficulties that God's people faces. They returned to rebuild the word of God. Prior to this Israel had many years Prosperity but they went astray from God and just like God promised would come they wound up in judgment first by Assyria in taking the northern tribes captive. And then in the southern Kingdom, Nebuchadnezzar King was Babylon and took Judah and Benjamin Catholic. We still waiting on that 70s weeks for filming by the way, but they were they were in captivity up to the allotted time and Isaiah prophesied hundreds of years before this man a man that is named instructions.

Only Daniel was able to turn the Scrolls of Isaiah and show this this ruler show. This King that his name was prophesied to acknowledge the most high God to God that God's people would be able to return from Babylon for between the rivers of Euphrates and Tigris over in the over in the region of Middle East. They would be able to return has been wasted all those decades before they come back City and lays in Ruins and foreigners have come in and taken over the air. Miserable has a decree and I sure will return and to rub a balloon return in the first half. They said they're human too and they come back and read the book. They came back with just the remnant you talk about people in Persia at the time of their return. Maybe we can count 4950 thousand. A Remnant will come back to Jerusalem in the very first task at hand. What do they do?

It's so Abner blue in the older they get so far along and dedication breathe in elderly people that are there because they remember something was different about the old Solomon's Temple had something different job was there in a powerful powerful way but something happened when it real straight from God that the spirit of God the presence of God Shekinah Glory of God left in The Departed before Jerusalem was destroyed and they were taking the temple special it wasn't the bricks wasn't all the beauty of Destruction Universe. Well with mankind is present to save file. And that presents the pardon from between the cherubim on the Ark of the Covenant the holy place and waited at the courtyard of the Tabernacle and then chapters later is Ezekiel tell assistant that it went from the yard up to this the wall of the city. What was the city of Mount of Olives?

and it will be gone the presence of God would be gone from this Earth until

Many many many many years later and I will show up. end of reconstruction simple another Zakaria

But this day is going to be different because there's going to be an angel.

When you get in the prophecy about a son that he and his Barren wife and their elderly years we'll have another name.

God's anointed lamp

You know the rest the Christmas story Mary with bring forth and son her firstborn recommend swaddling clothes in a Manger. Suppose name Jesus glory of God the presence of God will once again well with man because of that and they will begin to rebuild a return to rebuild Jerusalem, but they're going to get discouraged in the way and God will have to raise up to property and Zechariah. And how deep is going to be like the way old neighbor described his feet on the ground and that's a good way to describe because you studied and he brings the refugee message to them willing in all of these houses with all these fine furnishings in the house of God lies waste Zechariah. However is going to give us the vision.

And as we approach chapter number for I want you to notice first off this morning the Revelation given to Zechariah. This will take a verses 1 through 3. We will consider sprinkling here with the time that remains in the second aspect if we can make it that far this morning after the revelation of the vision is the illumination. Revelation and illumination and I use those two terms because that's exactly how God works today in a hard life. He has revealed himself the spirit of God.

Illuminate the truth is God's work. And so as we read scripture passage in illumination about the vision, so join me and considering first off the revelation of this Vision as it's revealed to Zachariah a man out of his sleep for the prophet seems to be in the condition.

Gabriel was sent to Daniel to make known to him. What should be in the end. Last time does the Indy make turn over to Daniel 7 number 5. Daniel chapter number five must read verse 15 Daniel chapter number 5 and verse number 15

That's wrong chapters Nina late, then you'll have a good one, too, but we want to go to the light.

Daniel chapter 8 verse number 15. Here we go. That's as we parents of a man. Which called and said Gabriel make this man understand when I was afraid and fell upon my face, but he said unto me understand or son of man at the Shelby division. Now is he was speaking with me? I was in a deep sleep on my face for the ground, but he touched me and set me up right and he said I will make me know what you'll be in the area of the indignation for at the time appointed the end shall be revealed break things that his people must go through spring time of Jacob's trouble in the end. There will be a time like it's never been on this Earth as he continues to purge. This old world through his rat in his judgment. And that's 70s week of Daniel still Lots in the future for Israel. They must go through that time of purchase. If you look at chapter 10 of Daniel, we're Indies versus Sin verses 8 through 10. Just reading along here. It says and behold and hand touched me which sent me upon my knees up on the phone with my hands and he said unto me when he's spoken word of the me. I stood trembling. I stood trembling. What is Zacharias concern fill problem for the past couple years. I've traveled in about 36 hours travel time from where I was in again today somewhere along the line this morning and got a long ways to go cuz I'm still alive. Nonexistent right now. I don't know which way is up as a waking from sleep.

Play some in between sleep and waking he has his vision give it to him. I think I would be concerned what is going on. What is about to happen? And I'm asked to Envision. A vision is something that is seen, since it's so bright. What do you start a dream is something that or cows and then the mother in the bank and pay attention too late tonight before and now he's saying these weird things in his sleep know. This is a vision.

I want to turn over to the New Testament see another illustration of this in Luke chapter 9. Luke chapter number 9 I see a similar description. State of in between when secharia is going to be waiting and seeing the pictures. And Luke chapter number 903 / 32 we know when Jesus was up on the Mount of transfiguration. He was transfigured before their eyes noticed Luke description and detail by detail. He says of that occurrence in the Mount of transfiguration with our savior the Inner Circle Peter James and John were there watch Loops words of 32 Peter and they were with him were heavy with sleep. and when they were what's net worth? Awake when they were dreaming when they were awake. They saw his glory and the two men that stood with him. When the Lord wakes you up in the night, there's no mistaking. I have had time for sleep. And then for whatever reason I'm fully awake and aware of what's going on around me. It's in some of those times where I've had the most sweet communion with my work to use the intimacy. That's their commune with him and talk with him and to share my heart with him and meditate on his word. It was one of those instances. Where are surrendering to preach the gospel to the Transfiguration.

I need the Lord was with it and I was not dreaming I was fully awake. And what does he hold first species back in our passage? What's a is now he's at and I said I was on top of it was designated to life. And if you were with me through my study of the Tabernacle, I show you some pictures of the Golden lampstand that I saw when I was there in the model of the of the Tabernacle in the wilderness, you can see their lamps and now this would be lamps they would have pipes to them vision of God. The Lord did you read Exodus chapter 25 and taking notes. Down versus 3138. I won't read it for second time. But that's where you get the description that Moses was given the golden lampstand.

It Ever Was to be the symbol of the light of God the Perfection of testimony that wasn't in the power of the Holy Spirit First Church, you see the spirit of God give me oil in my lamp keep me burning you have the oil the Holy Spirit you see me as the Disciples of Jesus Christ today bear his wife in a in a lost and Dying World just as Israel once was commissioned to do in a come and see our Lord has go and tell The end of the Earth in the house let your light so shine before men that they may see Father which is in heaven. So like it here with old failed to be that with me. So I see many ways to church today. It's failing to be the song line that they need to be. SATA Barber Society demonstrate that you saw many many many many hungry in some places. It is a third world country. Some of those streets are walkthrough wouldn't even dare set foot in because it is a volcanic eruption in the government says here you can come squat on this land and they're called squatter. And they get the People Get Smart.

So that they can't be misplaced very easily have to do the same.

I need Christ. Just like here maybe We Takin turning on the light switch.

That's one thing that I personally like. Thank you more gladly back in the good old USA. Bailey White

John talks about candlesticks as well. As soon as I turned to see the boys that stayed with me being turned. I saw seven golden candlesticks.

The Mystery of the Seven Stars for sale start seven churches, who do you see where Don operates today? It's no longer in Israel in the light of the Candlestick. Where is the candlesticks?

Where does God dwell today between the chair beans on top of the arc? He dwells where two or three are gathered together in the name of the Lord. So is she in a bit? Are we letting the glory of God is seen in in free? Watch Lord, Jesus Christ is our Hartford Joshua the high-priest with picture him. The church is a light in a dark world. So I struggle would be given a Plumb line. Ursidae angels of those Church messenger Lansing today who work in disarray because they're not measuring with the standard of the plum line. In building according to the instructions given These Blueprints. That's the church should look like they're coming out all because they're busting your own desire to get things out of proportion to get the cart before the horse, you know it as well as I do assure testimonies about how we've been hurt by what was supposed to be at church presenting the Holiness of God. Are we making sure that we stayed faithful to the Plumb line? We measure true that the Lord can be pleased that he can continue to give his spirit and power. And so, how are we going to do that? If we failed how we going to do that? We constantly move the line of compromise and say what we want to try to reach but it's not sure. How are we going to stay?

There's the golden lampstand are we functioning tonight way today? And then there's the two olive trees. I mentioned interpretation of Zechariah says that this is Joshua and we understand what God is doing needed proof the people that return but the two olive trees automatically my mind goes to the church. Israel was broken off and a new Branch was Brett to come to their Messiah to receive Christ. The anointed one of God. So did that Zachariah is getting here will come in the king.

Route to draw your attention to the Book of Revelation against acronym for 11 cuz I believe that one day when the church is raptured out of here. God will return through Israel and you will have these two witnesses that stand up in the middle of the tribulation. Can I see maybe it Forward pointing? Is his witness in this day in Arden and in the coming days, he will have his to turn the world upside down for Jesus Christ in the time of the tribulation, but these two witnesses.

So we see the revelation we must consider the illumination.

Where are they? I don't know.

See what I'm saying? The word of God come to think that was encounter do with a question when I was on the trip that I had to do some extra digging but I'm thankful that before the night was over and I was able to share with this other Pastor that had a very good question. I was on the right track in Humble ourselves before he he will give us this is an underlying principle received the light he will continue to give more life. But if you reject the life, you will continue to wander away from him in Darlings. like in chapter 12 verse 8

not we do the same like the disciples in Matthew 13 verse he went to the house and his disciples came on in st. Clair. If you have the Holy Spirit in you keep illuminate the truth of God's word to you just like you did for Zachariah lights on the Revelator. He was a snow in chapter 7 verse 1314. What are you sending me these are they which came out of?

My immediate answer to that pasta when you asked me that question from the book of Acts concerning an apparent discrepancy was will I know the discrepancy? There's no understanding. I need to make sure that I'm on the right track and I'll get I'll get back to you. Once I have confirmation that we don't stand in Judgment of this book unlock you open Luminate and open my eyes that I may behold wondrous thing. Notice it is the word and the spirit of God verse 4 in our passages says so I answered and stay to the end of the talk with me saying what are these my Lord not what these B and I said No by the work going to be saying what is this word of the Lord?

And it's fun to Rubble. So here you have you have this presentation of the word and the spirit working together to demonstrate to the rubbish. Keep going keep doing the work on the closet into the spirit The Remnant armed militia. That's Rebel in the string. No doubt waning with all of the circumstances that they say it don't be discouraged. The anchor if we're going to see God do anything in Broomfield anything in our surrounding area Interstate anything happen state troopers. Hold your head up and know that you can trust God through his word of God is how the will of God gets scared of God all working together in harmony. and then it's pointless to the works of the son of God who are the member number 7 when we can stand before the fate of a grain of mustard seed and say it video cast

see that's the power of Jesus working in through his people What a privilege to be used with god with man. These things are impossible. But With God all things are possible. Is there anything too hard for the Lord? Let's not be discouraged. There are ways that we can attempt to do the work of God deconstruction Our Own Strength. We can depend on the power bill. I don't know about you, but that's my decision and it has been from day one and let me not be able to straighten that let me not be set aside. Let me continue the truck work. One day we'll sing and rejoice for all that came to Christ through a share of him being musical. Are you saving today? much like the rubberband OG. Whatever that maintenance maybe you would say Lord. You don't have to move it. Just tell me. BOK Center Whatever that mountain is here to tell you the Lord can give you strength through his Spirit. Are you saying you know Jesus if so, then don't be discouraged. What is Spirit Revival revive the work of your hands and know that you don't have to trust and share it you don't have to trust them the strength of of the things that we see around us. You just become a Channel of blessing and humbly serve God and let his oil flow through you at the same one by one why we might not change the title wave of the direction of the society around us. We can one by one will somebody else out of the fire. We can one by one make a difference to someone having compassion. What would be the only difference of Eternity for you by yourself and continue living in the power of his work?

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