ZECHARIAH
1:1-2:13 - God
promises to bless His faithful people: ‘I will return to Jerusalem with
mercy, and there My House will be rebuilt’ (16). God looks upon His
House, and He sees His glory - ‘I will be the glory within it’ (2:5). He
sees the glory of His presence - ‘I will live among you’ (2:10). We
read here about the Temple at Jerusalem. We read about its glory. God’s
Word speaks about another ‘temple’ and another ‘glory’. Through ‘faith’
in ‘Christ’, we have become ‘a holy temple in the Lord’ - ‘a dwelling in
which God lives by His Spirit’ (Ephesians 2:21-22; 3:16-17). To every believer, God says, ‘Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you... Glorify God in your body’ (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
3:1-4:14
- “Not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit”, says the Lord
Almighty’ (4:6). There is only one Power by which the work of the Lord
can be done. It is the power of the Holy Spirit. We must not try to do
God’s work in our own strength. We must exchange our weakness for His
strength. We must ‘wait for the promise of the Father’ - ‘You shall
receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you’. Great things
happen when God’s people are ‘filled with the Holy Spirit’ - ‘About
three thousand were added to their number that day... The Lord added to
their number daily those who were being saved’! Let us pray that God
will ‘pour out’ His Spirit upon us (Acts 1:4,8; 2:4,17-18,41,47).
5:1-6:15
- ‘Here is the Man whose Name is the Branch... It is He who will build
the Temple of the Lord...’ (12-13). These words point us to our Lord
Jesus Christ: ‘I will build My Church and the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it’ (Matthew 16:18).
How does Christ build His Church? He sends His blessing when His people
are obedient to Him: ‘Those who are far away will come and help to
build the Temple of the Lord... This will happen if you diligently obey
the Lord your God’(15). Christ is ‘building a people of power’. He calls
us to ‘move through this land by His Spirit and glorify His precious
Name’. Let us pray, ‘Here I am, wholly available - as for me, I will
serve the Lord’ (Mission Praise, 151,229).
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